Ruthless Killers and Hostage-Takers (True Crime Documentary Triple-Bill) | Real Stories

[Music] at First Sight they are respectable citizens but in reality people with dark impulses and Savage killers they live apparently normal lives in the U.S the Milwaukee monster puts his victims in the freezer and submerges them in acid the manager says hey what stinks in your property so while my fish died in Russia investigators find 70 bodies in a river and don't know who is behind it if you don't have the identities of the victims there's no place to start in Germany a daughter discovers after her father's death he was a serial killer you almost have to narrow your focuses and try not to torture yourself over the things that you'll probably never get answers to how are Psychopathic serial killers hunted down investigators are put to the ultimate test for these are among the most ruthless criminals in the world [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] Russia visefsky park on the south side of Moscow 22 square kilometers in area intended at a place for people to relax they come here to play chess to picnic or simply to enjoy a walk but a killer is on the loose Park is his place to commit crimes and his Refuge earlier he had always played chess there with his grandfather it was a source of positive energy and where he started to kill people it became a place where he was the master a frightening development between 2005 and 2007 people regularly find dead bodies in bitzevsky park around 40 all male almost all homeless alcoholics socially deprived the police aren't doing the best of their job at least in the beginning phases before they realize it's a Serial you find that the crimes aren't really properly done because of who the victim is these were people maybe that Society didn't consider very worthwhile in October of 2005 another murder is committed in bitsevsky park the police finally have to react a special homicide unit is formed at the crime scene detective Andres supronenko finds hidden in the bushes a dead man Nikolai varrobiev brutally murdered [Music] no one who saw him will ever forget how he looked like a schnitzel beaten with a hammer we imagined several possibilities someone must have been very angry a psychotic man or a woman we also discovered that the killer had been very careful he left no evidence he took everything with him that he touched at the crime scene the autopsy reveals the man was most likely hit with a hammer supranenko searches for the weapon in the park to no avail hammers are rarely used in homicide cases it's a very up close and personal weapon in a way he tells me he wants us to be over very rather quickly so it's not about the killing it is perhaps just literally about the number the investigator's first destination psychiatric sanatorium near the park perhaps one of its patients is the killer they're searching for ever we checked out the people being treated for psychiatric problems in this hospital we looked at what kind of patients were here what diagnosis and what profiles they had we checked if they could leave the hospital property if they could disappear for a night or longer we found no evidence of that so we closed this Avenue of the investigation the investigation hits a dead end no evidence of the crime scene no motive no weapon supronenko takes action and combs the entire park with 200 police officers they question all passes by in the process supranenko discovers a suspicious person he seems nervous perhaps in part because police are there [Music] while searching the area we discovered a man wearing women's clothing he ran from the police which immediately made him suspicious he was in the part of the woods where the killer had last struck we even found a hammer in his bag naturally we checked him out right away but he had an alibi so we had to let him go the real killer continues to creep around the park and even feels provoked by the false arrest [Music] he says well I'm gonna show you that the guy you have in custody is not your guy he was Furious he was outraged he these were his killings and he wanted the credit and as a result he redoubled his efforts he killed more people and kept on killing to show the police that they were wrong in April of 2006 he strikes again inspector supranenko heads to the crime scene the victim lies hidden in the bushes among the trees this time it's a woman branches are stuck in her head insertion of objects into the body May well suggest to some a sexual component it's typical that as a serial killer goes on that the crimes increase in severity so there is maybe more sadism and so you do see an escalation of severity of crimes over time as we see in this case but this time the detective makes a crucial Discovery in the pocket of the victim's pants when searching her clothes we found a Subway ticket that showed us which subway station she had used and the precise time of her arrival the subway ticket is the long-awaited clue will it actually lead to the perpetrator the ticket tells investigators at which station the victim entered and exited the subway reviews the security camera videos from the day of the murder and gets lucky the woman appears accompanied by a man is he her killer the day after we found the body her son contacted the police and reported his mother missing at the same time we were reviewing the security camera videos and saw Mrs muscaliova leave the station with a man they went in the direction of bitzevsky Park the mother had left her son a message with a number and the name of the man with whom she intended to go for a walk but who is this man pichushkin was born on April the 9th 1974. he grows up with his mother and sister on Harrison skyer Street in a typical Soviet era apartment block nearby sevsky park [Music] his childhood is marked by poverty his father rarely home as a small child pichushkin has a bad fall with serious consequences that he had an accent in his childhood when he fell off a swing and it's believed that that gave him some brain damage and to the front of his head and these are the part of the brain that control emotions and aggression and behavior eighty to ninety percent of serial killers and about the same rate of General murderers had some sort of brain trauma and so there's a huge correlation between brain chairman or brain damage to some extent and going on to later kill people in adulthood petrushkin's grandfather takes care of him and teaches him to play chess his grandpa taught him chess he was good at it so picture skin nearly always won each Victory helped him overcome his inner aggression as long as his grandpa was alive and regularly played chess with him his aggressive outbursts were almost neutralized but then his grandfather dies and prichushkin's outbursts intensify in June of 2006 investigators discover his address they place his apartment under observation and ultimately arrest him inspector supranenko interrogates him but the suspect keeps silent at first at night we got a call that petrushkin wanted to talk now and would confess to muskanyova's murder once he admitted it we knew that we had to get him to talk more initially I acted skeptical in order to provoke him to convince me as he told us more and more details we understood his character he wanted us to recognize his achievements so we started to treat him with respect as if he were a hero we did that to keep him talking they hadn't caught them in all these years with all these killings and it's so good to boast to the police that you are better than them investigators make an incredible Discovery when searching his apartment during the search we found a chess board in his apartment almost all the squares had numbers stuck on them that he had cut out of the newspaper [Music] after each murder he stuck a number on the board assigning each murder victim a square on the chessboard he wanted to kill 64 victims the number of squares on the chessboard but what supranenko still lacks the murder weapon the hammer investigators take the accused back to the scenes of his crimes the idea is for him to show them how he killed his victims supronenko also hopes that he will tell them where the weapon is at the crime scenes pichushkin comes out of his shell he shows everything precisely [Music] he gives the impression of reliving the crimeskin could recall every small detail that interested him the time down to the minute the date the murder took place that was important to him what didn't interest him were the clothes the victims wore he couldn't remember that well when we interrogated him in the office he was dull and bored but when we went to the crime scene to check the details he was Lively he enjoyed it this was his real life the strategy of bringing put your skin back to the crime scene to talk works he even leads investigators to the murder weapons Hiding Place divers recover it from a small pond in bitsesky park it was important to find the murder weapon so that we could prove the killer had used it when we found the hammer in this Pond and examined it we discovered that a small piece of it was missing and one of the victims had precisely this piece lodged in his head that made us 100 certain he was the Killer investigators now have the killer the confession and the murder weapon is indicted on September the 13th 2007 for the murder of 48 people pichushkin keeps silent the first couple of days but as he notices how much attention the trial generates he begins to talk shows No Remorse he testifies that he would have continued killing he says 20 of you are judging me but during the murders I was alone and decided myself who should live and who should die I was like God but I showed him that he was no God my job was to put him in jail and what he felt about it does not interest me the person is an object for him on which he can demonstrate his greatness and power I'm sure he was thinking I'm very intelligent although everyone completely underestimates me the trial lasts six weeks on October the 29th 2007 the court sentences petrushkin to life in prison he's still serving time people in Moscow can breathe easy again but other killers are even more ruthless [Music] their crime scenes terrific site I don't think you can ever prepare yourself for that type of scene that you're coming across their crime shock investigators gruesome puzzles for them to solve [Music] as in this case the killer has sex with dead bodies Jeffrey Dahmer the Milwaukee monster puts bits of dead bodies in his freezer Jeffrey Dahmer is one of the most prolific and most renowned serial killers in the world the worst case in the career of detective Dennis Murphy it's our job to remain cool Duties are to convict the guy and make sure he's found guilty Dharma kills at least 19 people in a way never before seen Milwaukee on the night of July the 22nd 1991. a man discovers an acid drum with body parts in the apartment of his friend Jeffrey Dahmer what officers find in the apartment is sheer horror the freezer full of body parts detective Dennis Murphy doesn't yet suspect that they're arresting one of the most ruthless killers in American history at three o'clock I get a call from Lieutenant Vaughn he says you got to get in here we got a guy that's got 10 or 11 skulls in his apartment and of course I said yeah you're you're pulling my leg but I had other words for that but I I didn't believe him and he said I'll get back and I hung up then he called me back he's I'm serious get in here so then I went into work right away while his colleagues collect evidence back at the station Murphy proceeds with hardened concentration he must get Dharma to confess I spoke with him for 17 hours the first day over 17 hours and then the next day I believe it was 16. and by that time we had the full confession from him before his attorney could come in and say Hey I want to talk to him and when he did Dahmer didn't want to talk to him he signed a release saying I don't want to talk after three days Dennis Murphy breaks the Killer Dharma begins to confess and what he says sounds unbelievable in the Ambassador Hotel the Milwaukee Monster's first crime scene here Jeffrey Dahmer kills his first victim a sexual partner Stephen tawali and then he had a problem to get rid of the body so he went to the surplus store down on Wisconsin Avenue picked up a used suitcase brought it back put Tomei in a suitcase he was a strong individual and he could lift it with no problem so he'd handle it himself Dharma has incredible luck neither employees nor guests notice anything detective Murphy can barely believe it [Music] not much unless there was a complaint or blood was dripping out of a suitcase and someone saw it but there's no complaint in the rooms next to him if there were people in the rooms at that time so if there's no complaint there's nothing to stop them Dharma takes a taxi from in front of the hotel and rides home with a body stowed in the trunk on the side of domit must have given him a great sense of satisfaction that he was able to get away with it at the time Dharma is still living in a suburb of Milwaukee with his grandmother he dismembers to omi's body and stows it in the basement detective Murphy can hardly comprehend what he's hearing I spoke with the grandmother herself and she said she had hearing problems and she kind of had a suspicion that Jeff like boys but she wasn't sure Jeffrey Dahmer is a homosexual two months after his first murder he lures two more young men to his house and kills them then he has sex with their dead bodies so drugging them or killing them first and then having sexual behaviors probably just made him feel more comfortable because he didn't really have that ability to interact with people people can reject you they can leave you Etc I don't like him moving I don't like him talking I just want them laying there well that's what you get with the dead body detective Murphy discovers that Dharma nonchalantly throws the body parts out with the household garbage the Milwaukee monster leaves the garbage can at the curbside he showed no outward features like many serial killers they live apparently normal lives they get on with their life they are polite so for the police until they get a clue until they get a lead it's very difficult dharma's Story begins in the small city of bath Ohio population 10 000. as a young boy he tortures animals in Jeffrey Dahmer's case his early interest in injuring animals and to examining Road kills is clearly a pointer to where he was going to get to in his life this low empathy probably continued into adulthood and the target simply changed Dharma kills his first victim when he's just 18 years old he takes hitchhiker Stephen Hicks home with him and beats him to death with the body in the trunk of his car Dharma is stopped by police but he talks his way out of it and in fact they were really close at the very beginning of his murderous career probably was a big confidence booster for him that he was able to manipulate the police and act calm under those circumstances he begins his career as a murderer in May of 1990 dharma's grandmother kicked him out of the house the Milwaukee monster moves out into the Oxford Apartments now he can kill as he pleases in the summer of 1990 four more murders Dharma begins to eat pieces of his victims you could say in sex in general there's a desire to have a piece of someone else inside of you I think you could say that there it may have been an overflow of that a manifestation of that desire to feel his lovers inside him uh by eating them more and more men die in dharma's apartment what detective Dennis Murphy still does not understand why no one on the property reports a smell of the decomposing bodies foreign well they did smell something but when he went to Dahmer's apartment the manager says hey I thought what stinks in your apartment he said well my fish died corpse is in his room for two or three days before he disposed of them and cut them up he'd put them in acid and flush it down the toilet and break the bones and throw them in the garbage when the garbage man came the detective discovers the police actually could have arrested Dharma much sooner on May the 27 1991 the police received a call from a young man in dama's apartment he's afraid of the Killer and begs for help the police believe it's just a fight between two gay men now one might say but how could that have happened but at the time in Milwaukee the police had a lot of criticism for how they dealt with the gay community and as a result of this they were very hesitant to get involved in any sort of gay dispute between possibly potentially Between Two Lovers it's very frustrating I think for law enforcement to recognize especially in Jeffrey Dahmer's case that they were really really close a couple of times the police leave the young man in the apartment a fatal mistake [Music] after they departed Dahmer murdered this 14 year old boy detective Dennis Murphy finds out Dharma often picks up his victims in nightclubs in his apartment he injects acid into the men's Brains somebody that wouldn't interact with them or wouldn't talk but would be alive and available for him to have sex with I mean that's that kind of magical thinking that you think that only a crazy person would think like that or somebody who was psychotic thus ends an unbelievable confession detective Murphy squeezed everything out of Dharma during the interrogation but in court the Milwaukee Monster's defense attorney pleads insanity psychologists attest to dharma's various psychological disturbances including schizophrenia the ongoing trial is in danger well it's our job to remain cool and come confident and comfortable because if you show any distress they're going to jump on you if you get everything screwed up you're going to lose your testimony we had to prove sanity and I think we did in the end the court rejects The Plea and sentences Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison this has never been a case of trying to get free I didn't ever want freedom frankly I wanted death for myself one year later Dennis Murphy visits Dharma in prison and at that time of year went from 190 pounds of muscle to 215 pounds of kind of flab he didn't have the grippy had before he told me he was he found God he was good with it and then he was going to be dead in six months and he wanted to die it takes longer two years after the verdict another prisoner beats Dharma to death in his cell to this day Dennis Murphy still has a strange feeling somewhere between satisfaction and fear that there might be more people like Dharma I'd go home and I'd tell my wife about it but I wouldn't go into all of what he did I just said he cut up the body parts and dispose of them and my children even heard it but I said this is one in a million I don't want you to think people are all like this but there are more of them ruthless Killers who know no sympathy for their victims they kill for years unnoticed their victims men women and even children didn't care if lived or died and didn't care if he hurt them also in Russia shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union chaos and poverty reign poverty that one man takes advantage of Alexander specifics if traps his victims with the help of his own mother I don't think you can ever prepare yourself for that type of scene that you're coming across for investigators unbelievable such people shouldn't be allowed to live [Music] how and after how many murders do they stop the man who is perhaps the most ruthless killer of all time Russia more precisely deeper Siberia novel Cutz a city of half a million inhabitants the anonymity of the big city helps one man to kill unnoticed but not just anyone he kills children investigators chase him for seven months the head of the team Alexander or Rishi I had often been to crime scenes but serial killers specific was my first as a matter of fact the first for the whole city in June of 1996 people out for a walk find strange things in the Abba River [Music] is one of the first at the scene his team searches the riverbank for five days they find feet hands human bones if you don't have the identities of the victims there's no place to start with who are these girls when did they disappear where were they taken from all you've got is a body that has no identification after finding the body parts origin is certain very very many people have been killed in novakuznetsk all of them children when we found the body parts it was a horrible sight the whole team immediately developed ideas for how we could catch the Killer suspicions range from trade in organs to child prostitution to a psychopathic serial killer the last conjecture is correct but inspector oreshin still has no leads and investigating is difficult in that period at the beginning of the 1990s Russia is in upheaval massive poverty Reigns if you look at Russia at this time the USSR is breaking down uh there's a very poor economics people are starving men got drunk or left their families mothers fought for every job and drank too children were no use to anyone this was the population the victims came from no one was looking for them one man takes advantage of precisely this his name Alexander species but inspector orishin does not yet have any leads where and for whom should he even look naturally we took as many children off the streets as possible and returned them to their parents but starving children go back out on the street after a short time and never come back home in the next five months over 70 children disappear none older than 13. police comb the area around novocuts nietzke the whole city every suspicious apartment it seems unfathomable that an individual could be capable of abusing children in this way and the question of course is where where does it come from how does a human being turn into a Savage child killer the killer grows up in a family plagued by domestic violence his father rapes drinks and abandons a family when specif is 13. you see a very dominant father who's abusive to the family but he's abusive to the son to the mother probably emotionally abusive sexually abusive physically abusive as Alexander grows up without a father he takes on the role his father had once occupied species the new head of the family is always an outsider early on he shows signs of psychological disturbances he gets married kills his wife during a fight and is put in a mental institution the methods of the Soviet psychiatric ward were based on beatings and injections after three years released as a psychological wreck four months after the bodies are discovered on the riverbank three girls disappear from a bus stop a woman lures them to her house everyone is Under Suspicion but not specific everyone thinks he's still in the institution in reality had been out for a while only we didn't know despite having asked that was a big bureaucratic mistake a mistake that cost many innocent children's lives [Music] as so often happens a coincidence brings about the crucial shift and sets inspector orishin on the right Trail after a pipe burst plumbers try to check the apartment where specif and his mother lewd Miller live and no one lets them in the workmen inform the police inspector or Russian will never forget what he finds here [Music] we came into the apartment and what we saw was horrifying there were children's clothes scattered everywhere there were body parts in the bathtub and Olga was lying in the living room severely injured I don't think you can ever prepare yourself for that type of um scene that you're coming across or Russian steps onto a Savage Battlefield [Music] even as an expert it's hard for me to understand how someone can be capable of committing this level of brutality over such a long period of time with such a vulnerable population in the apartment a severely injured and traumatized girl how should you feel when you see dead children and an injured 13 year old girl whose eyes register only but there is no trace of specific he escapes from the roof the same day the girl provides the missing information [Music] who brought you to the apartment a granny how did she do it did she ask you for help she couldn't open the door no that's why she took you upstairs yeah turns out the Killer's mother lures the victims into the Trap the home she shares with her son she was basically his his lucky to do whatever he wanted the same day inspector oreshin arrests the mother Lord Miller specif in addition the police find photos of children and countless articles of children's clothing or rashin is certain the child killer of novocodnetsk lives here the mother Lord Miller finally confesses and admits to having trapped the children horashian keeps the apartment under observation and hopes that the sun will come back [Music] for guys like this this is the only life they have ever known this is where he lives where is he gonna go and in fact the killer does come home and he's arrested during the interrogation mother and son quarrel what kind of sun are you for months I dispose of your bodies just yesterday it was again four trash cans and now you say it's my fault because they want to know where the bodies are say where they are how are you not ashamed why are you so mad at me such an ingrate I'm not angry the mother probably was not necessarily A willing accomplice if she was on her own she probably would not have got up to this type of behavior the true nature of the strange relationship between mother and son is never clear the court sentences Lord Miller to 13 years in prison her son Alexander is judged insane since then he has lived in a psychiatric ward inspector oreshin believes the killer has more than 80 children on his conscience [Applause] to be honest I feel only discussed now everything having to do with specif it cost us so much energy solve this case but there is no justification for such people being allowed to live among us inspector Alexander orashin will never forget the so-called Siberian tiger he hopes the killer will never be released from the psychiatric ward day he's under lock and key others however have found only after they die Germany Frankfurt for 30 years The Killing Zone of Manfred Zale known as a German Jack the Ripper the shocking thing he not only kills his victims he dismembers them within care if they lived or died he didn't care if he hurt them no one suspects anything about Mumford Zale's Dark Side he's considered a friendly family man but in reality he keeps body parts as trophies that's perfect perfectly dismembering a body is the high point of sadismus but how can a dead serial killer be brought to Justice a small City near the Metropolis Frankfurt are mine on September the 10th 2014 a young woman is cleaning out the garage of a recently deceased father Manfred zir beloved by all a seemingly kind-hearted man and husband but behind this garage door looks a dark secret you have you know the two sides of seal that were so well concealed to everybody around them that they're not even discovered until after his death when Zale's daughter opens two plastic barrels she can't believe her eyes they contain body parts it's the remains of a prostitute named Brita Diallo a woman killer did he mutilate the victim so savagely forensic psychiatrist Manuela Dudek also wonders about one question in particular was it him and if yes why there were many individual body parts many body parts make it possible to create a new person the second idea is related to cannibalism the muscles can be removed and the meat actually eaten a dismembered body highly unusual and normally not an isolated instance police from the so-called Alaska unit and investigate the deceased Zeal a search of his house turns up over 30 000 pieces of violent pornography pornography while not inherently bad can provide inspiration if you will for later sexual crimes that he was essentially acting out some of the scenarios that he had in this uh pornographic films or pornographic photographs of these victims he's essentially reproducing the same dynamic in his murders an image in sales pornography collection resembles the wounds of the dead bodies in the barrel is there another side to Zeal a dark side that no one knows mentioned the people who exhibit sexual sadism often have fractured pasts their childhood was not necessarily the kind one imagines is proper it was marked by neglect and very possibly by physical assault as well but in Manfred Zales past everything is entirely normal he graduates high school gets married plays in a jazz band his job he runs a household clearance business on the surface or was the friendly neighbor [Music] a very frustrating case because you don't have an offender that can give you answers and give you pointers Etc so there's a lot of speculations to the wise why did this happen why did he do certain things were there more victims detectors Focus their investigation on the Frankfurt Street walking scene in the city's barnhorse field law Brazil's victim is a prostitute officers question numerous people in the red light district and learn that Zeal was a regular customer every Saturday he looked for women engaging in Sado masochism so we're making the linkage in cases we're saying okay these cases are in these cases are out but now who's the offender so we move from victims to linkage to offender here we've got offender and no victims so now we're trying to work back like where where do these people come from so you have to look more the behavioral the victimology how the person was murdered where they were found Etc and do what we call a behavioral linkage to see which cases can be included the Alaska unit reopens all missing persons and unsolved homicide cases in the Frankfurt area they investigate whether there are similarities with the victim Britta Diallo hope to find further Evidence regarding Manfred zir well like a lot of serial killers seal is selecting victims that are basically available and vulnerable police looked specifically at mutilated victims the severed body parts in Manfred ziel's Barrow suggest that you like to keep souvenirs psychologists call this trophy lust could Zeal have hidden it from his family Psychopaths live out their perversions with prostitutes rather than at home because they learn early on to wall off their aggressions and then let them out in a controlled way they leave their families unharmed because their social sense works well after two years and over 230 pieces of information from the city's inhabitants the Alaska unit is certain Manfred Zeal is the Killer and he was responsible for even more deaths here in the bushes of highway a661 is where he probably killed a prostitute named Dominic Monroe's in December of 1993 to this day her head is still missing gizler Singh Abel all will probably also left mutilated by Manfred zeal he always keeps her body part with him a trophy is a fantastic stimulus it reminds you it can give you a smell a sight a taste and it can bring back to you all of those fantasies and realities and you can relive the crime the climax a child murder in 1998 it shocks the entire country even if it's still not entirely certain investigators believe that Zeal was behind it too the killer cuts the boy's throat and cuts off his testicles and a piece of his thigh the injuries also fit the 13 year old boy we saw that he was strangled that he was mutilated and that there were also injuries to the genital area whether Tristan indeed died at Manfred zeal's hand has not been proven but lots of evidence support the theory the investigation is still open for the detectives a burden you almost have to narrow your focuses and try not to torture yourself over the things that you'll probably never get answers to Because unless he left a detailed Diary of what he's done we're not going to have insight into his mind it's uncertain how many people Zeal really killed the dead man lies silent in his grave his wife is no longer alive other inquiries Peter out mentioned people like Manfred Zeal are able to live as social beings and hide their dark side and they only take action when a victim comes along nevertheless even after Manfred zeal's death the Alaska unit is able to prove he committed five murders they are still investigating five other murders [Music] to this day no one knows why he did it the killer has taken his dark secret to his grave Manuela Dudek and the Alaska unit still believe seal committed many more murders but no matter what he is going down in history as the hessen Ripper as one of the worst criminals in Germany and he takes his place among people who manage to kill unnoticed [Music] but in the end investigators find them all whether before or after their death the most ruthless killers of all time [Music] innocent victims in the hands of Ruthless criminals [Music] hostage takings they are among the most difficult police situations and they often end fatally the hostage taker kill one hostage in 1976 an airplane hijacking turns into a Race Against Time you feel like you want to cover your head with a blanket and call mommy or my God 1988 after three days the hostage takers Odyssey ends in tragedy [Music] having it in that way is a punch in the gut Moscow 2002 800 theater goers in the hands of chicken terrorists when the armed men appeared people first thought it was part of the play hostage taking it's one of the worst crimes in the world [Music] all right [Music] foreign [Music] in the north Caucasus here like everywhere across Russia September the 1st 2004 is the first day of school first graders and their parents Russian families celebrate the first day of the first school year as a holiday [Music] then around 9 30 a.m an armed Terror Squad storms a school building taking a Passages is about leverage if you ever demand your your hostages become the way that you get your demand but also as a secondary function of hopefully protecting you while you are trying to get your demands fulfilled the terrorists are from chechnya a region that has been fighting for its independence for years the hostage takers demand the release of all check-in Prisoners the withdrawal of Russian troops and President Putin's resignation the Russians have almost always gone for a tactical solution to the problem it might have been that hoping that because it's children it's going to keep the Russians delay the Russians from going to a tactical option because of the loss of life of children specifically in light of the smoldering conflict a team of the Russian Special Forces Alpha group is stationed in the region around Westland they are elite soldiers named spitznas immediately after receiving the distress call Lieutenant Colonel Victor stipulovich sets off for the school I thought this is terrible for these children I was concerned that the children come to no harm they must be freed you go to the scene knowing that the situation can't be resolved in one day agents GPS also knows that President Putin will not submit to extortion and that he himself must find a solution here on site I don't believe the terrorists believe their demands would be met despite their intimidation tactics no political power would say yes to terrorists in such a global political context [Music] arrives at the school with his Alpha unit the hopelessness of the situation becomes clear 1 200 children teachers and family members surrounded by bombs and booby traps [Music] the local police are completely overwhelmed by the situation the first problem that stipulovich must deal with family members are still gathered in front of the school the biggest challenge was that the locals had weapons and were boiling with rage most had children or grandchildren inside they wanted Revenge to kill the terrorists in any horses scenario you want to control everything that's as far as possible that's taking place the last thing you want is family members approaching the venue because that can definitely trigger off an event that you have no control over the situation is extremely tense agents cheap elevich must quickly get an overview of where exactly the terrorists have holed up on the school grounds so he has his Sharpshooters take up positions in the adjacent buildings the sharpshooter's main job is to study the enemy collect information and Report where the terrorists and the hostages are they also make sure the area is secure no provocation takes place and no more terrorists come out of the school his sniper teams identify 32 terrorists including so-called black widows with explosive belts women do it because they are dependent on men in their patriarchy losing their husband means losing their life's one goal the 1200 hostages are now in the power of the chicken terrorists for more than 24 hours no end is in sight after negotiating with the mayor on the second day the terrorists slit mothers with babies free this deal plays into the agent's hand [Music] negotiations by time and the terrorists get tired no matter how often they change positions their fatigue increases our chances of concluding the operation successfully the point is to avoid any innocent victims and above all having to storm the building an assault can only be the last resort while agents Chief hillovich plays for time the situation inside the school escalates one of the Black Widow Widow blows herself up killing several prisoners they are all prepared to to die a lot of hostas takings that people want to live thereafter so that's also a good negotiation piece for the police knowing that these individuals on the inside want to survive this but in this scenario we know that these these types of offenders are all prepared to die and that really changes the Dynamics of how you should be dealing with these type of scenarios the terrorists bring 16 hostages to the Upper Floor and execute them then they throw the bodies thoughtlessly out of the window hostage takers treated the children incredibly poorly they watched as children died of starvation and thirst this showed the lack of empathy in the situation and the lack of regret shortly thereafter explosions can be heard the roof of the gymnasium collapses killing countless people even the experienced Soldier stupialovich is shocked by the scene uh this is a new experience I'd never dealt with children before throughout my service I have never seen a dead child and then so many at once [Music] this is what hell must be like panicking shoes hostages flee from the gymnasium parents attempt to free their children the terrorists open fire around 2 30 p.m it's cheapenovich receives the order to storm the school and free the hostages the Russians opted for a technical solution to the problem which means going into the venue to try and kill the terrorists and free the hostages and under the best of circumstances that is always a very risky option through an adjacent Garden stipulovich's group makes its way to the rear building and uses a blind spot to enter the cafeteria unseen through a window you're full of adrenaline at the start you must do everything so fast save hostages protect comrades so you forget everything there comes a point when you forget that you could die here and now [Music] the alpha unit risks its life to save the children from the hostage takers the majority of the terrorists have holed up in the cafeteria the firefight lasts several hours ten thousand bullets are fired stupidovich and his team save hostage upon hostage from the hail of bullets but their success comes at a price not only Innocents die so do three of his comrades you can't consider yourself lucky to have witnessed bezlan that I stayed alive you always hope to stay alive during an operation that's a natural human reaction even for an elite soldier and his unit killed 27 of the 32 suspected terrorists the majority of the hostages are freed but the situation is not yet under control some terrorists are still holed up in a basement room and shooting at everything that moves thus impeding the rescue of the remaining children in this situation the agent opts for a drastic solution there were four terrorists left and we could not reach them with our weapons we decided to get a tank with a sharpshooter inside the tank shot three times from different directions of course tank fire leaves no chance of survival the operation was over shortly before midnight at first the alpha unit believes that they've killed all the terrorists but one hostage taker nor pashi kulaiif tries to escape and is taken alive three days the hostage crisis ends with a woeful result 331 children and adults have died there are situations that have only a bad outcome or an even worse one no doubt some people died because the operation was poorly LED but it is highly unlikely that the government will ever admit it to this day Islam and its inhabitants remain traumatized by the hostage crisis nor will stupialovich ever forget the mission [Music] the government takes care of the victims but it does the bare minimum to use a metaphor if Russia Awards you the hero medal you get a monthly government check if not you get almost nothing in April 2016 the European Court of Human Rights ruled against Russia for the hostage drama's bloody ending the government is supposed to pay Fair compensation into the surviving relatives hostage takings almost always end fatally the threatened place at the wrong time when I heard about the hijacking my first thought was about the hostages it could have been me it could have been my family gladbeck 1988 the bank robbery escalates the robbers Escape becomes a media circus 72 hours long the perpetrators even give interviews I will hit the first one who gets in my way after three days the blood pressure escalates and and one police officer died having it in that way is a punch in the gut could quicker intervention have prevented the death of three innocent people gladbeck North rhine-westphalia August the 16th 1988 will change Germany one of the most spectacular hostage dramas in Germany's history begins in this Bank suddenly they find themselves in a situation where they have to take hostages just to merely get away and that can be quite a a difficult situation to manage Michelle Herring at that moment is a short team leader in Bremen he knows how a hostage situation must be dealt with yeah the hostages lives are the first priority of course then bystanders police injuries all that should be ruled out at this point Herring does not yet know that all this cannot be avoided in this hostage crisis officials accede to the demands of the two bank robbers Dieter degoski and Hans Jurgen Rosner and give them a car that lets them escape from the bank they take two hostages with them so you lose control if it becomes a dynamic rolling situation they can go anywhere they can get more hostages so you really have no control over what happens once they leave the premises in the middle of the night the hostage takers flee in the direction of Bremen there they pick up rosner's girlfriend Marion lublish the police are close behind they've bugged the car the police also discover that the criminals plan to free the hostages the next day yeah if I'm told that someone is traveling north then I have time to prepare to do something there was no rushing around no need for spontaneous action until they got to Bremen however investigators experienced their first setback during the night the criminals stop at a gas station they realize that their car is bugged therefore they steal another car the police lose control of the hostage takers there'll always be certain things you can't necessarily control but the the broader scenario you want to be the one in charge of and in this scenario there was absolutely no control from the police's side the next morning the police have lost the criminal's trail digosky and Rosner still have two hostages in their power and they're in downtown Bremen their whereabouts unknown until Michelle Herring is called to a bus stop in the city they're the criminals hijacker bus and take 30 more innocent people hostage so it is definitely an action of you've got more cards to play it's higher risk for the police if they want to try something of a tactical nature I will get on the bus and discuss everything with my buddy and girlfriend and then I will hit the first one who gets in my way [Music] the media were all over this they were interviewing the suspects as this was live and happening and it probably had a massive morbid Fascination for for people in Germany and probably outside of the country as this was happening in real time Mikhail here ring and his team are fewer than 10 meters away and must stand by powerless as journalists mobbed the bus 13 million viewers follow the events at the bus station on television Stitch taking a live event the Press was already here when the bus was hijacked this whole area was nowhere near cordenov it could not be clear they did what they wanted around the bus and we couldn't get close enough to remove these people journalists get involved in negotiating with the criminals okay what makes this case special is that the media went from observing the scene to actually becoming active agents within it this time the police do not agree and the negotiations fail their tactic play for time Powers go by but rusner doesn't give up instead he reacts more aggressively the hostage takers continue their flight without a plan Mikhail Gering and his team follow them to the grundberg Sea rest area there the criminals unexpectedly released the two Bank employees from gladbeck and then officials make another serious mistake they arrest rosner's girlfriend on her way to the bathroom we were told over the radio that Miss lubric could be arrested who gave the order is still unclear this decision enraged the criminals foreign and that could have perhaps influenced them to take a decision that wasn't the best planned decision or perhaps in that point of the process wasn't necessarily appropriate to where they were in the in the process of the negotiations Rosner goes crazy he gives the police an ultimatum either his girlfriend is back in five minutes or the first hostage dies seconds before Marion lurglish comes back Dieter degoski kills 15 year old Emmanuela de giorgi foreign the worst part for me was when we got the boy on the ground that was the worst hearing brings the boy inside the rest area but he can no longer be helped August the 18th 1988 the third day of the hostage crisis their Odyssey continues the two criminals are still traveling with the bus the Police Stopped the bus near aldensar the criminals finally negotiate success the hostages are let free all except silke Bischoff and Enos foytler provided with a new car they move on to Cologne in journalists harass the criminal Jewel although Rosner pistol in his hand is unpredictable we know that violence often breeds violence and in this case resna had a violent Father which may have influenced his own propensity for violence civil policemen mingle with the crowd but Rosner detects them and drives on followed by police and journalists Showdown on the A3 after three days the public pressure escalates and the police have to act team decides to take action an armored vehicle Rams the getaway car [Music] dies in the rescue operation a catastrophe for Michelle hearing and his team to this day a memorial commemorates the tragedy foreign you wish for a happy ending a positive finish having it end this way is a punch in the guts on March the 22nd 1991 both hostage takers are sentenced to life imprisonment [Applause] these are always a Race Against Time the hostage takers were unscrupulous and willing to kill to achieve their goals special forces units do everything to save the lives of hostages they're prepared to sacrifice their lives if necessary that's their job flight 139 from Tel Aviv hijacked by cold-blooded terrorists they order the captain to fly to a new destination Uganda central Africa it's one of the most dangerous rescue missions of all time every single piece of the plan is risky this is definitely without a doubt regard as one of the great success stories of any questions [Music] he holds the fate of 270 hostages in his hands [Music] then why I'm going to kill I'm going to be killed [Music] the 27th 1976. the Air Force flight from Tel Aviv to Paris takes off on time there are many Jewish passengers on board after a stopover in Greece four hijackers take over the plane two German RAF terrorists and two terrorists of the popular front for The Liberation the kidnappers were Palestinian kidnappers and also kidnappers from Germany so it was a collaboration between two different terrorist organizations that had a common theme in their dislike for Israel the terrorists gives the pilot a new destination Uganda in central Africa 11 hours later the hijacked plane lands at entebbe airport four further Palestinian terrorists are waiting for it there together they can find the hostages to the terminal then they inform the Ugandan president Idi Amin [Music] he is said to have killed over 300 000 people in his rise to power he's considered one of the worst dictators in the world and he is an enemy of Israel Idi Amin is one of the most notorious dictators in the world he is vengeful he's impulsive he's power hungry and this is what makes him so dangerous which is really not the kind of regime that um you could you could appeal to the common sense for support in in dealing with this issue without diplomatic talks with Israel Idi Amin decides to support the terrorists with his army in Kampala uganda's Capital no one yet knows what is going on at the airport he is one of the first to learn of the hostage crisis the commander of the Israelis Special Forces Unit Khan is trained for Dangerous missions when I heard about the hijacking my first thought was about the hostages it could have been me it could be in my family two days long no one knows what's going on in the airport terminal what the hostage takers want absolute silence Reigns returning to the scene of the crime 40 years later brings the past back to life for the 66 year old I remember when we were coming it was in the middle of the night but they knew nothing of what is going to happen and it seems to me like the same again you know we are driving in this car and we look outside they don't see us we see them it's kind of an operation an operation in an environment totally unfamiliar to Israeli forces the elite soldier atir lacks essential information where exactly have the terrorists hold up how are the hostages faring they received no information from the Ugandan authorities how heavily armed are the terrorists on the third day Idi Amin visits the hostages and announces the terrorists demands 5 million US Dollars 53 terrorists are to be set through within 48 hours otherwise the hostages die Idi Amin is particularly famous for his rational Behavior the hostages don't matter to him it's about showing off his power so he didn't really have any particular support for the beliefs of these two terrorist organizations that actually kidnapped the plane the Israelis have two days to free their countrymen we started collecting the information about the airport about the terminal about the situation in the with the hostages themselves and then we found out that they separated between the Jews and the non-jews which is a very emotional thing for Israelis of everybody remembered the Holocaust the selection the mere thought of a second Holocaust leads to an outcry in Israel hostile negotiations are aimed usually at six peaceful solution of the problem and release of the hostages without loss of life but we do know that you always have to have your Tactical option at the back of your mind Israel pretends to give in to negotiations but what they're really doing is trying to distract the hostage takers one day before the deadline Israel makes a decision it apparently acts seeds to the hijackers demands the terrorists free over a hundred non-israelis they are picked up on the fourth day by releasing hostages you demonstrate Goodwill and also if you're very focused your whole point is Israel you don't want to start to offend other countries capitalizes on the release of the mostly French hostages for his operation we sent a small mission to France and earned them and experts someone from our unit who knew what questions to ask such as well the hand of the of the door is either on the left side or on the right side there are all the hijackers all the time is any bomb planted Israel receives Another 48 hours to meet the demands but in reality it uses the time to implement a secret plan known only to Israel's Elite unit and his team [Music] their idea is to distract the terrorists the soldiers were Ugandan uniforms and arrive in the same Mercedes as president Idi Amin successfully do this operation would also show that they have the capability the small country that they are a striking wherever far away from the base and that really would tell a lot of other hostage takers you're gonna have to go very far to be very safe from us the elite soldiers fly over three hostile Nations to stay under the radar they fly the entire 4 000 kilometers at only 30 meters above sea level after more than six hours in tebi airport appears three planes stay behind hovering over Lake Victoria only Hercules number one prepares to land with iftar khatia on board when the plan landed yeah it was frightening after the airplane stopped and took the door down and the engine stopped it was a silence a very noisy silence day it was frightening you know you feel like you want to cover your head with a blanket and call mommy or my God but that was only for a split of a second 12 on July the 4th 1976. Hercules one manages to land unnoticed on the furthest Runway is the commander of the assault team his mission stormed the terminal shoot the terrorists and free the hostages [Music] there were three cars I was in the second car we looked around to see if we can recognize any any enemy and we looked forward to see the control tower and I knew that within one or two minutes I am going to kill I'm going to be killed I was ready just in front of the terminal the column encounters two Ugandan soldiers they see through the Israeli plan and shoot the Israelis hit them first but the element of surprise is lost the commander said go go go go so I run into the hall I saw a Ugandan Soldier I shot him I run up the stairs I saw another two guns and soldiers I killed them too and then I searched the roof and in less than one minute it was all over meanwhile the other three planes have landed and take the freed hostages on board after 53 minutes the rescue operation is over 99 freed Israeli citizens leave Uganda making their way back home the miracle of entebbe becomes world famous even today the operation performed by iftah and his team is considered the most spectacular rescue mission of all time it really was a display of Israel's dominance with such a tiny Nation to have such a massive success against two political two terrorist organizations and a foreign country four hostages die in the firefight during the rescue operation the top Commander also pays with his life I had mixed feelings because our commander was killed the only netanau and their friend very sorry for that on the other hand I was very satisfied because I took part in the most well-known operation ever operation Thunderbolt today it's still considered the most successful rescue operation around the world Moscow the capital of Russia on October 23 2002 chicken terrorists transform an evening at the theater into pure hell the terrorists take more than 800 theater goers hostage and attempt to extort the Russian government when the armed men appeared people first thought it was part of the place [Music] journal in the Russian Special Forces Unit Alpha group it was his worst Mission we knew the situation was Dire when we discovered the terrorists with Chechen the Russian government opts for a military solution the hostage crisis ends in tragedy Moscow the evening of October the 23 2002. around 9pm during the second act of a musical in dubrovca theater the bus with heavily armed men and women drives up to the building the musical Nord OST was always a big success playing to packed houses a large number of people was guaranteed a large room with few entrances and exits is the terrorists were guaranteed a large number of victims and they had the opportunity to launch a successful operation with minimal Force all of Moscow is on Red Alert in addition to the police and emergency Personnel the Special Forces Unit Alpha heads immediately to the scene Alpha is the Spetsnaz Elite this is a select educated and trained group that is very fit and not merely physically whoever joins is prepared from day one not to come back from a mission they're prepared to sacrifice their lives if necessary that's their job prepares himself mentally for An Extremely Dangerous Mission of course I was nervous on the way I thought of my family my children my parents you're going into an unpredictable situation I was scared is an experienced elite soldier who has often risked his own life in order to free hostages situation of the theater is chaotic 90 people managed to flee the building the doors have now been locked more and more elite units Gather in front of the theater when Vitali demitkin arrives at the building the first hostages already did we heard over the radio that there were hostages and that the terrorists had serious weapons and bombs there was a woman who ran into the building and was shot by a terrorists at this point dimitkin does not yet know who exactly the terrorists are or what they want the Special Forces set up their commands and trial in the hospital across the street from the theater the operations leader makes contact with the terrorists using walkie-talkies and mobile phones we knew the situation was Dire when we discovered the terrorists were Chechen they have thorough training and never give up also they have black widows with them ready to blow themselves up the chicken terrorists have traveled about 2 000 kilometers to fight for the independence in Moscow for Russia this hostage crisis was unique for its length misery and aftermath the conflict between Russia and chechnya began back in 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union Russia did not accept chechnya's Independence war broke out in 1994 and 1999. with their assault on the Moscow theater the hostage takers demand the fresh withdrawal of all Russian troops the terrorists allow the visitors to call their relatives I can't imagine what the family members felt when they got those panicky calls it was surely a dreadful experience that no one should go through to increase the pressure the terrorists also have black widows with them with the suicide Bells have lost their husbands in the struggle against Russia and are therefore prepared to do anything the black widows are prepared to sacrifice their lives they've often lost their husbands or children in the war and they're looking for Revenge features try to enter into negotiation with the terrorists the situation is extremely intense the midkin and the alpha unit placed their Sharpshooters in the adjacent buildings Sharpshooters monitor the entire area and make sure that no terrorists come out or get help from outside [Music] that they get no signals from outside but there is no one in the nearby buildings telling them how many of us there are or uh what we're doing during the night dimitkin still does not know how many hostage takers there are the next morning the terrorists allow two doctors to take the body of the woman who'd been shot Olga Romanova out of the building the hostage takers were unscrupulous and willing to kill to achieve their goals vitality midkin and the Alpha Team need every detail from the theater and they immediately question the doctors the information wasn't too precise rough number of terrorists type of weapons what's on the stage that there were women with suicide belts we knew this information wasn't enough as the doctors could only observe from one position which room the terrorists had and which not we would have liked to know that in order to get more information from the inside the Alpha Team looks for a way to enter the theater unnoticed on the rear side of the building they discover a ladder by which the soldiers can get onto the theater's roof as we were looking around the roof a TV crew appeared on the roof of the building across the street transmitting live footage of us all of Russia could see the Alpha Team the terrorists also saw it they gave us an ultimatum leave the roof immediately or we shoot every 10th hostage Alpha Team leaves a roof [Music] on the third day of the hostage crisis negotiations come to a halt the hostage takers threaten to kill one hostage every hour this increases the pressure on the officials and they're required to act quickly the leader of the terrorists has the Russian government informed that there is no going back that they have nothing to lose and that they are prepared to Die the pressure on the government and the Special Forces Unit mounts the peaceful solution seems increasingly unlikely you have to now make a decision if you believe that the threat is valid you have to decide how many potential hostages are we willing to risk before we can take action but at the same time if you're not prepared and ready for to take action you could have more damage by engaging in a tactical option too soon and his Alpha units react immediately they make their way to another theater in Moscow and practice the assault there we chose this building because it is structurally identical to the other theater we trained with the special units there in case we had to storm the occupied theater some of the people who work with us are scared and emotional to make the whole operation more predictable we train for the operation in identical spaces the soldiers of the Special Forces Unit know that an assault will take place back at dubrovca theater they gain access to the building through a club on its rear side dimitkin wants to get as close as possible to the stage because that is where the terrorists are holding the hostages prisoner this time the terrorists must not notice anything lights are strictly forbidden the person running ahead becomes a bundle of nerves reacting to every noise every movement every draft of air normally you go from the outside in first you stay close to the wall in a circle you secure one room at a time moving toward the center uh while the Alpha Team soldiers are in the building there is a serious incident outside the terrorists fire a grenade from the building seriously injuring two alpha group members the Special Forces Unit returns fire immediately Colonel Victor dimitkin is informed about a new government tactic it leaks information that an assault on the theater is planned for the next morning in reality the domestic spy agency fsp pumps an unidentified gas into the theater drugging the terrorists and hostages it was already the third day the people inside had no water and could not move a decision had to be made each second could mean an even bigger tragedy the terrorists armed with bombs have slowly lost their heads the decision to use gas was made in order to keep the whole theater from being blown up and turning into a giant Cemetery when elite soldiers stormed the building in the early morning they are met with a horrifying scene in itself the idea of using gas to disable everyone and enter the occupied Building without Bloodshed is good but in this case it was like trying to shoot a fly on a person's forehead the danger to those they wanted to rescue was much greater than the result they had hoped to affect an overdose of the gas has caused hostages on terrorists to suffocate didn't know what to do as they didn't know what the gas was or how it worked on the morning of October the 26th the hostage crisis is over and this is the deadly result 100 109 hostages have died and all 41 terrorists too most of them died from the gas for Vitaly de mitkin it is the worst mission of his career as an elite soldier I have served in the alpha special unit for 25 years and grown accustomed to the sight of death when everything was over at dawn I first thanked God that I was still alive then I called my mother I told her I'm alive foreign on December the 20th 2011 the European Court of Human Rights partially agrees with the relative's complaints they claim that the risky operation caused a high number of victims there is no winner in a hostage situation the victims usually continue to suffer from the experience for many years afterwards special police units have learned from the past and have developed new strategies for dealing with hostage takers then is now the protection and rescue of the victims is the highest priority at first glance they lead entirely normal lives but in reality they are women Killers men who murder women in the United States Ted Bundy a Charming single man who buries his victims in the woods I'll plead not guilty right now in South Africa Moses sitole promises women jobs and success or kills them this whole area here we scattered with bodies and in Canada Robert Picton at his farm he throws wild parties with a deadly climax they found thousands and thousands of DNA human DNA and there are still more women Killers their deeds are among the greatest crimes of all time [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] questions the Green River in the Northwestern United States a beloved vacation destination for families from nearby Seattle but in the summer of 1982 the idyllic River transforms into a grave while on a bicycle ride two children find a strangled girl under the bridge she is just 16 years old Sue Peters is one of the lead detectives on the Green River case she realizes rather quickly that all this is just the beginning of something bigger as my partner and I were walking along the shoreline heading down towards the river along this bank we discovered another female's body deep in the brush again 16 year old girl she's been missing for three days and then detective Peters finds even more female Corpses finding three bodies in one day made us realize that we had a very serious problem and probably a serial killer on our hands in our local area the bodies all are of runaways or prostitutes no one suspects that a seemingly harmless family man is behind the murders his name Gary Ridgeway and he has a signature all his own the murders of a serial killer will often get special components to them that are unique to that case in his victims Ridgeway put rocks into their vaginas presumably in a way to sort of keep someone else out for his later desires his later attempts his later commissions of necrophilia [Music] Sue Peters still suspects none of this first search parties comb the entire River basin they discover the blouse of one of the victims and sperm residue which they freeze today helpful pieces of evidence but in the mid-1980s the police have no chance of catching the culprit this way the police in those Early Times didn't have a technique for linking individuals so certainly remember going back to that time frame our ability of actually collecting and analyzing Trace Amounts of evidence was um you know didn't really exist a half year and seven female quarters later the inhabitants in and around Seattle are frightened who will be the next victim for the time being there's only one thing Sue Peters and her colleagues can do keep a broad area along the river's course under surveillance but the killer reacts and chooses a new scene for his crimes the detectives find their next body 20 kilometers away from the river the new strategy was that he drove out to the outskirts of King County and dumped the bodies of the victims in the forested area like this the murderer is careful in choosing the locations where he leaves the bodies the corpses are supposed to remain undiscovered for several days only this way can he indulge his sick impulses crime scenes just to go back and have sex with his victims again it could have been for different reasons on the one hand it could have been because he doesn't want to yet go out and find a new victim so it's a second choice substitute to relive the event or he could have had some general sexual preference for engaging with sexual behavior with with deceased people the Killer is willing to drive further and further the chance of catching him in the ACT fades just about all the victims were prostitutes so detective Sue Peters and her team search for suspects along Pacific Highway South Seattle's Street walking scene in the 80s they are very easy to be targeted because of that lifestyle that they're involved in they were available on the highway that he went up and down in his truck he would see them there he knew they were there and once they were off the streets he knew that he had them secure the number of victims continues to rise pressure on the detective's mounts but ridgeway's cover is good [Music] so often like many serial killers the reason that they're successful is that they blend into society much like Gary Ridgway did he was a man who was a church going family man who had some difficulties in his private life but held down a job and was to all intents and purposes quite normal after a few months the police work with the streetwalkers pays off pimp reports The Prostitute Mali malvar missing she's 18 years old she had gotten in a pickup truck and was never seen again the owner of the truck Gary Ridgeway For the First Time The Green River Killer comes to the attention of Sue Peters Mr Ridgeway told the police that he was uninvolved in the incident and did not pick up any girl on the highway remember the officer knew Gary Ridgeway from School so didn't do much shortly thereafter the police formed the Green River task force they discover a shoe print size 11 and another remote crime scene the killer must know the area a few months later Ridgeway again comes to the attention of police he offers an undercover policewoman money for sex there's no evidence that he's also the killer that the Noose is tightening around his neck Gary Ridgway ended up picking up another girl that he was going to date and they went to a wooded area the girl ended up biting his privates and they got into a scuffle and she was able to get away detectives question Ridgeway but he stays as cool as ice and even insists on taking a lie detector test a polygraph test is a test for certain physiological reactions if you don't have any guilt you're not going to get the increase in your heart rate or your breathing that would be associated with normal guilt Sue Peter's task force puts Ridgeway at the top of their list of suspects but she can't prove anything this was Gary ridgway's house back in the 1980s time period and he would actually bring women back here that he was dating and ended up murdering them there then two years and about 30 bodies later the smarter seems to stop Sue Peters and her team find a few more dead women but none who have been killed recently police search ridgeway's house in 1987. they even call in the FBI but the killer leads an inconspicuous life he was in our radar several times but there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him the following years detectives find 10 more bodies but no evidence until a brand new method of Investigation changes everything DNA analysis the analysis of DNA is now an incredibly powerful tool for the police not just for modern cases but for cold cases for cases where there is materials still left in unsolved crimes this gives investigators a new chance they compare ridgeway's saliva sample with old pieces of evidence match they arrest him in the parking lot where he works but first Ridgeway seems to admit to the murders [Music] are you presently under the influence of any drugs alcohol or medication no how do you plead to the charge of aggravated murder for the death of Alma A Smith guilty but he only admits to six murders Ridgeway wants to avoid the death penalty only when the police guarantee this does he speak the killer shows No Remorse whatsoever for the women he has killed when you have so many victims like Ridgeway I think it's impossible not to argue that there was a level of objectification going on here where he was seeing the woman the victims as objects as objects specifically for his sexual desire for sexual purposes and nothing else he might even enjoy the fact that he gets the attention from a trial because now he's again the center stage he gets to see the pictures of what he's done he gets to hear about the suffering of his victims and that again might be a secondary pleasure for him to go through that process also investigators accept the deal and Gary Ridgway admits to more murders once he refers to 48 victims once to 71. I believe most definitely there still are some bodies in the forest there have been a lot of women that are still missing in King County and their remains have never been recovered ultimately the court convicts Gary which way for the murder of 49 women thanks to his deal the killer has managed to avoid the death penalty but the Green River Killer will remain behind bars for the rest of his life for Sue Peters this sentence is the end of a 20-year Chase it was a relief to me and knowing that Gary Ridgway would never hurt any of the ladies in our community again for people around Seattle a new chapter in life begins a life without fear of Gary Ridgeway [Music] but there are more of them women Killers generally they cause widespread fear and panic for years and their acts are among the worst crimes of all time my name is [Music] South Africa Johannesburg 1995 people are in an uproar the reason 40 rapes and 38 murders in only one year this whole area here was scattered with bodies and it's the place you won't forget to know the victims all young women what some victims you would do is allow them to pass out and then stop straining them so they would revive by themselves and then continue to strangle them their killer Moses sit taller I just like that [ __ ] how do investigators catch the brutal woman killer battery drill the township north of Johannesburg the inhabitants are largely black African and poor in July 1994 Captain vinal vinhula is called to a nearby Field what he sees here is truly shocking even for an experienced investigator we found a female deceased dead by manual strangulation we also saw that pants were taken off thinking that much probably she was raped as well it saddens one a person when you find a body uh not knowing why that person was killed the young woman is the first victim of the 30 year old killer Moses sittola and he's just begun from now on investigators find a new victim every month all of them female black African and between 19 and 30 years of age strangulation is essentially the most common method at least in South Africa it's a very personal and very up-close way of killing the victims the overarching goal for most of these guys is the issue of controlling and and power for them controlling their victims controlling their lives controlling their Destinies and I think that was the case with Satori because what some victims he would do is allow them to pass out and then stop strangling them so they would revive by themselves and then continue to strangle them each woman dies according to the exact same pattern that indicated to us that a serial killer was busy in this area and we had to get hold of him and apprehend him as quick as possible before more victims was part of his crime investigators have an initial profile they know that the killer strangles the women and his victims are poor they search for more evidence in the victim's milieu but no one has noticed anything for the police investigation it must be very frustrating to know there is a killer to have so much information but not to be able to identify the one person and a fresh victim sad as it may be can often give you that little piece of information that's going to lead you to actually solving the case but the police do not want it to come to that the mid-1990s are a boom period in South Africa many unemployed women move from the town into the city in order to earn money [Music] from family members Captain vinhula knows that the women always go missing during the day mostly in busy places investigators suspect that the killer offers the women a job thus luring them into his trap he was very Charming he was a very good smooth talker very believable quite a good looking guy so most people that he approached didn't sense him as a threat the women never come back they believed in him because of the Innocence and that's the reason why they followed him and they got killed it's terrible it's it's gruesome it's not the way that anybody wants to die a little later more murdered women in nearby Cleveland first it was one body every month now the killer strikes more often first every two weeks and every week and soon two times a week all serial killers fantasize about the perfect murder the murder that fulfills all of their fantasies but if you don't achieve your perfect murder then there's a desire to do it again by July 1995 one year after the first murder Moses hitola has strangled 18 young women to death police decide to go public with this story and indeed shortly thereafter comes a crucial call after the murders in outrageville and Cleveland a civilian reports several bodies in boksburg Seto gets the name the ABC killer in September 1995 Captain vinhula arrives at the worst crime scene of the investigation so far only 20 kilometers away from Johannesburg this whole area here was scattered with bodies and it's a place you won't forget in your life [Music] it lets you feel like cry for somebody that lost the the lives in believing in other people in a person for giving a job or promising a job to assist to get a job and then end up dead then hula finds the bodies of 14 women all strangled so it is very very difficult a lot of pressure was on and Nelson Mandela himself came to one of the townships to ask the people in the township to help the police to solve the crime the black African Community stages increasingly frequent protests demands that the murders get finally solved Captain vinhula wants Justice for the people and indeed he finds a crucial piece of evidence when researching one of the victims trifina is a social worker in the kids Haven youth center and mentions a job offer the day before a friend of one of the deceased ladies were found here we interviewed the lady and she provided us with the name of Moses itoli we managed to get a photo of him and through his records we to identify him the photo of Moses situli appears in the Press Nationwide the police search intensively and try to find out more about the alleged killer [Music] Moses sitole grew up the fourth child in a poor family as a young boy he is abused by his mother and his stepsister traumatizing experiences which the woman killer never forgets as he himself later says [Music] what she's doing she's making me crazy when his father dies Moses sithole is sent to a juvenile home twice he runs away and goes back to his own house but no one wants him there anymore for Moses atoli he had a very uh difficult childhood he had a very domineering mother he felt that woman from literally from birth had rejected him punished him here he says there was a false allegation and conviction for rape and was then that he decided I'm going to go out and rape and murder woman the young man must make it on his own in a time in which violence Reigns on the streets [Applause] citole quickly notices that many women find him attractive summer 1995 after over a year of killing sitolo gets overconfident he calls a newspaper and brags about the murders I think clearly for Moses satoli that the issue of being known for these crimes it increases his self-worth in his own eyes but tequila makes a crucial mistake it gives away information about his location during the telephone call some of my black members were placed at a factory to have observation for him we as whites were further away because if you see us as wives he would have been suspicious he did [ __ ] uh my members did approach him when he saw them he started running away they followed him uh he turned around took out the machete and started asking to them then he got shot in the stomach arrested and then transported to hospital it was the best day of Our Lives satisfactory we know we have it no more murders can take place anymore he was inside Ori is finally in custody he is indicted five days after his arrest the trial lasts one year little by little peace is restored to the population even though no one knows how many women the killer truly has on his conscience I would say the total lot is accounted it's a good lesson for ladies very good on October the 21st 1996 the court finds Moses sitola guilty of 38 murders and 40 rapes sentencing him to 2410 years in prison the captain vinhula it is the end of a chase that lasted much too long but was ultimately successful and gives the relatives at least some satisfaction but there are also women Killers who are active over a period of many years their deeds are among the worst crimes of all time I'm staying with the man I know best right now and that's me [Music] dozens of it's the largest criminal investigation in Canada's history Robert Picton The Butcher of Canada the farm becomes a horror show they found thousands and thousands of DNA human DNA detective Laura marchen her devotes his entire career to hunting the killer my first concern was you know did we have was he digging you know underground bunkers was he keeping women alive down there the case that rocks Canada to the core and even today has not lost its grip how could it all happen Vancouver 1998. detective Laurie machinho has only recently begun working in the homicide division his assignment is to find women who have been reported missing so it was my second day on the job investigating Vancouver's missing women and I got a tip which was a call to Crime Stoppers and it said that a man named Robert Picton who lived on a farm could be responsible for the missing women so right away I was excited and I thought this this is the kind of tip that I'm looking for the name Robert Picton the first lead but there are hundreds of pictons around Vancouver so detective Laurie machinho tries to find out more about the victims I wanted to find out first of all how many women we were actually dealing with and were we were there women missing that we weren't aware of and I also made contact with all of the um the family members on on each file who were who had reported them missing what shinho discovers is striking 17 of the missing women come from the city's red light district and drunk neighborhood the first lead while detective shenhur searches for Clues more and more women fall into the hands of Robert Picton the farmer regularly engages prostitutes his tastes are extreme and he knows that prostitutes are easy prey they weren't really concerned with this group of the population they may have noticed it but it was another prostitute she probably wasn't murdered she's just moved on to some other place the detective Laurie Machin here believes that there is more behind the disappearances you know it was really difficult to get people to believe that something sinister might have happened to them I suspected strongly it was a serial killer for the for the number one reason we weren't finding any bodies we were not finding bodies tries to prove that a woman killer is at work but even detective Shin here doesn't really know what Picton does exactly on a regular basis the farmer takes the prostitutes home with him throws wild parties at his pig farm that go to Dawn hardly any of the girls leave the place alive meanwhile detective Lori machine here searches for evidence to support his theory he wants to locate the anonymous caller manages to trace the number after weeks of convincing the man who caught himself Bill his Cox agrees to meet at a Starbucks we take him to a Starbucks uh went in I went in and got a coffee and we sat in the car uh and talked he didn't want to be seen with the police and he told that he had a friend who'd seen uh bloody clothing in bags in the Pickton trailer and women's ID and that this woman thought that this this stuff belonged to potentially some of the missing women from Vancouver the informant is scared and disappears again right away but his information leads Shin here to a pig farm in Port Coquitlam it belongs to the biggest and richest Farmer in the region Robert Picton a man with powerful friends [Music] I drove around the property on the outside to have a look around and uh was really obvious to me that that it was not a very welcoming place you know and I have expected some guy to come out with a with a shotgun and racked the shotgun at me or something and it was really inhospitable chenhur quickly discovers that picton's home is more than your average Farm once a week the farmer throws very special parties so-called piggy Palace Good Times parties he was able to buy friendship with drugs and with alcohol and all of the these things combined together to make him feel a much better person the picton's farm government officials party together with Hell's Angels and prostitutes I think there were two types of parties there were the sort of above board Community parties where you would see local politicians police officers other people in government but there were also sex parties and a lot of drugs a lot of alcohol and you know it's I think a lot of times the things that happened at those parties weren't necessarily things that everybody was consenting too Shin hair is certain the powerful party guests are the reason that no one is talking even his requests for a search warrant are rejected again and again trying to find somebody who is willing to talk and go on the record you know there are even people who worked for the RCMP who knew various people who were coming to these parties but they didn't want to talk about it the detective tries to find out more about the mysterious farmer seems to be protected from on high Barbara Picton is the kind of person who you would describe as a social outcast he was made fun of at school and he lived on a farm with with pegs and his best friends were alleged to be the animals the farm has been in the Picton family for Generations as a child Robert picked an already slaughtered and butchered pigs regularly his one real skill the thing that he actually excelled in was butchering animals early on the future killer learns from his mother human beings are only animals his mother was a very dominant tyrannical lady who clearly was the Prime Force in his childhood when picton's mother dies the Butcher of Canada gives free reign to his impulses the satisfaction and the sense of control that he was missing he was getting this from his interaction with prostitutes and his his killing of prostitutes it was really a win-win situation one he gets these victims he gets to enjoy them kill them rape them engage with them and then when he's done he doesn't have to worry about okay now what do I do with the body I have to transport it someplace and dump it right here he had a ready-made way to get rid of the victims Picton feeds the bodies to his pigs stories so incredible that no one is willing to believe it meanwhile 30 women from around Vancouver have gone missing detective shangher despairs has nightmares can't let go then the case is taken away from him when my superiors made the decision to pass the file on I really felt two different ways I felt on the one hand I felt like a failure because I was so burnt out and I've been wearing so many hats I felt there was a possibility I'd made mistakes and that I've missed things and I felt maybe somebody who came in with fresh eyes would might see something that I didn't see but little happens for a whole year women continue to go missing until a civilian reports something suspicious encounters a policeman who knows nothing at all about picton's Connections a guy driving a truck had been up to his farm had seen many weapons at the farm and mentioned this to the police and the police then decided that they would go and have a look and see what was going on at the farm when they finally do focus on them the the farm becomes a horror show police find not only non-registered weapons but also an asthma inhaler bearing the name of one of the missing women the decisive term for an entire year officials searched the property dig the whole thing up you know in this dirty sloppy messy stinky pig farm you're now trying to find literally a hundred plus victims within that very very difficult task they found thousands and thousands of DNA human DNA the Laurie machine here this is ultimately a kind of success but mostly it is just a punch in the gut if we could have searched this area when we first got the Lynn Ellingson tip uh there's no question in my mind we would have saved between 13 and 17 women even today it's not entirely clear how many women Robert Pickton lured to his farm and killed he himself said that his goal was the big 5-0 50 murders the sentence comes five years later life in prison for only six proven murders the detective Shin here a frustrating sentence that has come far too late what small bit of vindication I felt uh you know was in in being right because I was right and I knew all along that it was him it was completely overshadowed by by that sense of Devastation and uh you know it's hard to explain I feel what it feels like to say I was in shock for something that I expected every day was going to happen Picton is finally behind bars but after this case detective Shen here loses his faith in Justice and he quits in the United States arguably the worst woman killer of all commits his monstrous Deeds Ted Bundy I'll plead not guilty right now for a long time even one of America's top investigators cannot stop him I believe he didn't have a conscience about what he was doing a Charming killer who slays his victims and buries them in the woods Bundy's smile means death for more than 30 women my name is how do investigators manage to catch this woman killer summer 1974. at Sammamish lake near Seattle people are enjoying the weekend one of them an attractive friendly man with his arm in a sling Ted Bundy a classic psychopath is someone who is quite intelligent who is charming who has easy access to victims blurring the unsuspecting victim is just as much about power and control as is your physical domination while your busy assaulting and killing that person Ted Bundy asks young women for help with his boat and lures them to the riverbank and he beats the girls to death detective Robert keppel is one of the most famous investigators in the U.S the hunt for Ted Bundy marks his life to this day he appeared to be the good-looking guy that everybody's girlfriend would want to date and some of the women that he chose were just outstanding Bundy strikes twice on this day first he carries off 23 year old Janice amwatt but then he flirts with 19 year old Denise Marie nosland then boom he would change that personality like a chameleon he would be the very nice accommodating friendly good-looking guy and then all of a sudden he would turn into this monster for Bundy it's about more than just killing was a man who like to have sex with dead bodies so he was always talking about that when I met with him the three times that I've interviewed him he was very comfortable in talking about necrophilia it could be a way that he doesn't have to go out and get a new victim yet he still prolongs the pleasure from that particular victim although in a very gruesome manner these are all indicative of a person who does not feel at all for what this person or what used to be a person might have might have gone through families are desperate both girls missing two months later a hunter finds human bones in the mountains only a few kilometers away from Sammamish Lake [Music] Robert keppel's hunt for Ted Bundy begins here we were there for approximately a week collecting bones that we found throughout the hillside well we expanded our team from two of us to seven we had one skull that we found where there were skull fractures so we knew what happened to that lady people immediately thinks of the missing girls ought the nosland but the bones alone don't bring him any further this was in the 70s we we weren't really engaged in that kind of forensic analysis there wasn't any type of DNA analysis we weren't even aware of DNA analysis after days of searching a first success keppel's team finds Tufts of hair the one with the head damage had black hair and they were blonde hair there along an animal Trail and what we did was get samples of their hair from their room from their hair brushes from their bathrooms and the blonde hair belonged to genocide who is the killer clue leads detective keppel to Seattle University female students have been disappearing here recently almost all of them long-haired and attractive a lot of the victims that he selected later on matched but basically physically the description of this girlfriend that dumped him he was trying to live out this interaction between him and his ex-girlfriend but in a way where he was in charge he decided when it ended and he decided the ultimate outcome initially the investigation comes to nothing then Robert keppel and his team find the remains of 18 year old Susan Ram Court Friends of the University till of a young man on campus with his arm in a sling who approaches women Panic quickly grips college campuses security staff guard the students and then the nightmare appears to be over no more mysterious man with his arm in a sling no more missing women Seattle seems safe again Ted Bundy doesn't stop he chooses a new hunting ground soon there are murders in the states of Oregon Idaho Utah and Colorado he moved State he moved to a place where he was unknown and began again in the same manner really his victim selection type should have been something that jurisdictions keyed in on but agencies in Washington didn't know what agencies in Utah were doing 24 murders later Bundy finally gets tripped up in a vehicle inspection the policeman knows his description and arrests him Ted bunny you know he studied at University for a period he was very good looking very well spoken people just didn't expect that this could be the guy committing his very brutal acts and the evidence is thin no clues either at the University or in its former student residence nevertheless the court indicts Bundy for murder he decides to represent himself he was not a lawyer he had not graduated from University in law school at all he took law classes that's all Bundy flees before the verdict is rendered then quickly caught and breaks out again for detective Robert keppel it's a bitter setback I was just amazed that they would allow him to escape twice first time was one thing the second time no excuse for but that was Colorado authorities they weren't that smart woman killer makes it to Florida there he kills the students Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman and attacks five girls with a wooden bludgeon he needed to kill someone but he didn't have the time to plan his route and so it had to be a blitz attack to achieve what he wanted in Seattle Robert keppel reads in the newspaper about the murders in Florida and he's sure it must be Bundy I did call him and reminded them of who he was but the problem was they didn't care thanks for the information and hung up the phone two weeks later Bundy kills a child for the first time a 12 year old girl I think for him was was at a point when his world essentially was falling apart he wasn't the Ted Bundy the offending Ted Bundy from earlier in his career Bundy gets sloppy again he's stopped by police and is arrested represent yourself you're going to get another attorney I'm Stanwood the man I know best right now and that's me but there's still no solid evidence the case is entirely circumstantial killer is self-assured told me that you told me he said he was going to get it okay you've got the indictment it's all you're going to get let's read it let's go Theodore Robert Bundy you are charged indictment two counts burglary in this uh two counts murder in the first degree three counts attempted murder in the first degree I'll plead not guilty right now the law student believes he can overwhelm the court and the jury with his charm ington to commit a crime and then to believe that you're the best person you're the most qualified person to defend yourself that's a level of arrogance that goes far beyond what most people would be willing to accept but for a psychopathic narcissist of course you are your first choice it's Bundy's final decision the court sentences him to death by electric chair before his execution Bundy tries to stall by promising to confess more murders detective Robert keppel sets off immediately for Florida well he wasn't in very good shape he was sweating he was out of breath he had a lot of worry in his mind he did not want to talk about anything other than what he wanted to talk about he was always playing a game he was always fishing and wanting to get some advantage and the decision was that this is Ted Bundy playing games and so they said no thank you you're to be executed ultimately Bundy confesses to 30 murders investigators believe it was twice as many after nine years on death row the sentences finally carried out Terror that Bundy spread is definitely over and women are once again safe from the man who was arguably the USA's worst killer women Killers they've all murdered dozens of women brutally paid for it three of them are now spending Life Behind Bars and Ted Bundy is finally a history [Music]

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Published: Tue Aug 08 2023