The Serial Killers Who Targeted Women (True Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] 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 sitola he promises women jobs and success and kills them this whole area here was catched with bodies and in Canada Robert pton 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 [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Green River in the Northwestern United States a beloved vacation destination for families from nearby Seattle [Music] but in the summer of 1982 the idilic 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 a 16-year-old girl she's been missing for 3 days and then detective Peters finds even more female corpses finding three bodies in one day made us realize Iz 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 necrofilia su Peter 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 corpses later the inhabitants in and around Seattle are frightened who will be the next victim for the time being there's only one thing Su 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 the next body 20 kilm 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 he would revisit 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 fa needs just about all the victims were prostitutes so detective Su Peters and her team search for suspects along Pacific Highway South Seattle's Street walking scene in the80s they are very easy to be targeted because of that lifestyle that they were involved in they were available on the highway that he went up on down in his truck he would see them there he knew they were there and and once they were off the street he knew that he had them secure the number of victims continues to rise pressure on the detective's mouths but ridgeway's cover is good so often like many serial killers the reason that they're successful is that they blend into society much like Gary Ridgeway did he was a man who was a churchgoing family man who had some difficult I is 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 street Walkers pays off a pimp reports The Prostitute Marley Marva 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 uh knew Gary Ridgeway from school so didn't do much shortly thereafter the police form 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 but the Noose is tightening around his neck Gary Ridgeway 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 detect is 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 Su Peter's task force puts Ridgeway at the top of their list of suspects but she can't prove anything this was Gary ridgeway'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 2 years and about 30 bodies later the series of murders seems to stop Su Peters and her team find a few more dead women but none who have being killed recently the 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 in 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 material still left in unsolved crimes this gives investigators a new chance they compare ridgeway's saliva sample with old pieces of evidence a match they arrest him in the parking lot where he works at first Ridgeway seems to admit to the murders are you presently under the influence of any drugs alcohol or medications 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 Ru 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 his 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 Ridgeway 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 witway for the murder of 49 women thanks to his deal the killer has mared managed to avoid the death penalty but the Green River Killer will remain behind bars for the rest of his life for Su Peters this sentence is the end of a 20year chase it was a relief to me and knowing that Gary Ridgeway 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 I think that's an interesting thing this one piece will make 52 layers watch on mobile devices or the big screen all for free no subscription [Applause] requ 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 [Music] is 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 catched with bodies and it's the place you won't forgetting your life the victims all young women what some victims you 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 their killer Moses siter I just that [ __ ] how do investigators catch the brutal woman killer atteridgeville a Township north of Johannesburg the inhabitants are largely black African and poor in July 1994 Captain venol vinula is called to a nearby Field what he sees here is truly shocking even for an experienced investigator we found a female deceased uh dead by by manual strangulation uh we also saw that her pants were taken off uh thinking that most 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 CA and he's just begun from now on investig ators find a new victim every month all of them female black African and between 19 and 30 years of age strangulation is is seemed to be 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 sat 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 mure 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 [Music] money from family members Captain Vin hula knows that the women always 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 um very believable quite a good-look 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 their 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 [Music] 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 then 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 year after the first murder Moses sitola has strangled 18 young women to death the police decide to go public with this story and indeed shortly thereafter Comes The crucial call after the murders in alter richeville and Cleveland a civilian reports several bodies in bburg sitol gets the name the ABC killer in September 1995 Captain Vin huler arrives at the worst crime scene of the investigation so far only 20 kilomet away from Johannesburg this whole area here was sketched with bodies and it's a place you won't forget in your [Music] life it l you feel like crying for some of it like lost the their lives and 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 Vin hola finds the bodies of 14 women all strangled so it was 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 and demands that the murders get finally solved Captain vinula wants Justice for the people and indeed he finds a crucial piece of evidence when researching one of the victims Trina 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 uh were found here we interviewed the lady and she provided us with a name of Moses H uh we managed to get a photo of him and through his records we to identify him the photo of Moses Sito appears in the Press Nationwide the police search intensively and try to find out more about the alleged killer Moses Sito grew up the fourth child in a poor family as a young boy he is abused by his mother and his steps sister traumatizing experiences which the woman killer never forgets as he himself later says and I thought to myself [ __ ] does this woman know what she's doing in my heart about with my mind she's making me crazy when his father dies Moses Sito is sent to a juvenile home twice he runs away and goes back to his own house but no one wants him there anymore when a man is head true head they can't do anything for Moses to toi he had a very uh difficult childhood he had a very domineering mother he felt that woman from literally from birth had rejected and punished him he 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 sitto quickly notices that many women find him attractive when I talk to you she must think I'm Qui I'm okay I'm handside I was I'll show summer 1995 after over a year of killing Sito gets overconfident he calls a newspaper and brags about the murders I think clearly for Moses satoi that the issue of being known for these crimes it increases his selfworth in his own eyes but the killer makes a crucial mistake he gives away information about his location during the telephone call some of my black members were placed at a factory to have UPS observation for him uh we as whites were further away because if you see us as whes he would have been suspicious he did Pitch uh my members did approach him when he saw them he started Ed running away they followed him uh he turned around took out a machete and started uh aing to them uh then he got shot in the stomach uh arrested and then transported to hospital it was the best day of Our Lives uh satisfactory we know we have him uh no more murders can take place anymore he was inside CI is finally in custody he is indicted 5 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 counted at a present moment of 38 you understand it's not the right it's a good lesson stand for ladies around this country to Africa and take note and be serious with life good on October the 21st 1996 the court finds Moses Sato guilty of 38 murders and 40 rapes sentencing him to 2,410 years in prison the captain in hoola 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 stand with the man I know best right now and that's me Vancouver a man kills dozens of women over 6 years it's the largest criminal investigation in Canada's history Robert Pickton The Butcher of Canada the farm becomes a horror show they found thousands and thousands of DNA human DNA detective laor M shener 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 a case that rocks Canada to the core and even today has not lost its grip how could it all [Music] happen Vancouver 1998 Detective Laur maen her 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 um investigating Vancouver's missing women and I got a tip which was a call to crimes Stoppers and it said that a man named Robert pikon 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 pikon the first lead but there are hundreds of pikon around Vancouver so detective laori maen 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 what Shin her discovers is striking 17 of the missing women come from the city's red light district and Drug neighborhood a first lead while detective shenhu searches for Clues more and more women fall into the hands of Robert pikon 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 but detective laori maen 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 the detective tries to prove that a woman killer is at work but even detective shenir doesn't really know what pton does EX exactly on a regular basis the farmer takes the prostitutes home with him he throws wild parties at his pig farm that go to Dawn hardly any of the girls leave the place alive meanwhile detective Laura maen here searches for evidence to support his theory he wants to locate the the anonymous corner and he's successful shenir manages to trace the number after weeks of convincing the man who calls himself Bill hiscox agrees to meet at a Starbucks we took him to a Starbucks uh went in I went in and got him 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 pikon trailer and women's ID uh and that this woman thought that this uh 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 shenir to a pig farm in Port citam it belongs to the biggest and richest Farmer in the region Robert Pickton a man with powerful [Music] friends I drove around the property on the outside to have a look around and uh it was really obvious to me that that it was not a very welcoming place you know I half expected some guy to come out with a with a shotgun and rack the shotgun at me or something uh it was really inhospitable Shen her quickly discovers that pickton's home is more than your average Farm once a week the farmer throws very special parties socalled 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 at picton's Farm government officials party together with Hell's Angels and prostitutes think there were two types of parties there were the sort of aboveboard community parties where you would see local politicians police officers other people in government uh but there were also sex parties and uh a lot of drugs lot of alcohol and um you know it's I think a lot of times the things that happened at those parties weren't necessarily things that uh that everybody was consenting to shenir is certain the power ful 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 was willing to talk and go on the record you know there were 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 who seems to be protected from on high Robert pikon is the kind of person who you would describe as a social outcast he was uh made fun of its school and he lived on a farm with with pigs and his best friends were alleged to be the animals the farm has been in the pikon family for Generations as a child Robert pikon already slaughtered and butchered pigs regularly his one real skill 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 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 in the sense of control that he was missing he was getting this from his interaction with prostitutes and his his killing of prostitut 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 readymade way to get rid of the victims pikon feeds the bodies to his pigs the story is so incredible that no one is willing to believe it meanwhile 30 women from around Vancouver have gone missing detective shenir 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 um I really felt two different ways I felt on the one hand um 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'd 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 and encounters a policeman who knows nothing at all about picton's Connections a guy driving a truck had been out 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 Asma inhaler bearing the name of one of the missing women the decisive turn for an entire year officials search the property dig the whole thing up you know in this dirty sloppy messy stinky pig farm you're now trying to find literally 100 plus victims within that very very difficult task they found thousands and thousands of DNA human DNA for Laura maen 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 Lin 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 picked and lured to his farm and killed he himself said that his goal was the Big 5 50 murders the sentence comes 5 years later life in prison for only six proven murders for detective shenir 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 um it was completely overshadowed by by that sense of Devastation and uh you know it's hard to explain a feel what it feels like to say I was in shock for something that I expected every day was going to happen kton is finally behind bars but after this case detective shenir 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 conscious 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 Rob my name ised how do investigators manage to catch this woman killer summer 1974 at samamish 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 luring the unsuspecting victim is just as much about power and control as is your physical domination while you're busy assaulting and killing that person Ted Bundy asks young women for help with his boat boat and lures them to the river bank and he beats the girls to death detective Robert kepple is one of the most famous investigators in the US the hunt for Ted Bundy marks his life to this day he appeared to be the good-look guy that everybody's girlfriend would want a date and some of the women that he chose were just outstanding Bundy strikes twice on this day first he carries off 23y old Janice an and then he flirts with 19-year-old Denise Marie nazlund and 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 bndi it's about more than just killing was a man who lik 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 necrofilia 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 the families are desperate and Report both girls missing 2 months later a hunter finds human bones in the mountains only a few kilometers away from samamish Lake [Music] Robert ke'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 ke immediately thinks of the missing girls OT and nazlund 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 ke's team finds toughs of hairir the one with the head damage had black hair and there was 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 blond hair belonged to jide who is the killer the clue leads detective Keel 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 B 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 Keele and his team find the remains of 18-year-old Susan rancour Friends of the University tell 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 but 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 that jurisdiction's 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 Bundy you know he would he studied at University for a period he was very good-look 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 UN University or in his 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 bndy flees before the verdict is rendered he's then quickly caught and breaks out again for detective Robert Keele it's a bitter setback I was just amazed that they would allow him to escape Twice first time was one thing but the second time no excuse for it but that was Colorado authorities they weren't that smart the woman killer makes it to florid 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 routs and so it had to be a blitz attack to achieve what he wanted in Seattle Robert kepple reads in the newspaper about the murders in Florida and he's sure it must be Bundy I did call him and remind Ed them of who he was but the problem was they didn't care thanks for the information and hung up the phone 2 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 staying with the man I know best right now and that's me but there's still no solid evidence the case is entirely circumstantial the Killer is self assured Mr BND you told me that you told him that you were going to get me he said he was going to get me 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 the 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 Robin my name is De 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 kepple 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 didn't 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 this was 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 9 years on death row the sentence is finally carried out the 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 and paid for it three of them are now spending Life Behind Bars and Ted Bundy is finally a [Music] 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Channel: Real Stories

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Keywords: true crime, crime documentary, Gary Ridgway; Moses Sithole; Robert Pickton; Ted Bundy

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Length: 49min 5sec (2945 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 15 2023