When Women Kill: Understanding Their Approach to Murder (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

[Music] women kill less often than men but once they have decided upon their devilish plan they kill tactically deliberately and from behind poisoning is always said to be the woman's murdering process in England a female killer dupes police for weeks but nobody thought a woman could be behind it in Germany a loving wife mixes hydrocyanic acid in with her husband's pudding for years have this kind of nice little old lady and you they they don't want to believe it in the United States a housewife replaces headache tablets with potassium cyanide they detected what they said was a faint smell of omond coldblooded female Killers their Deeds are among the worst crimes of all time but why do women become [Music] [Applause] [Music] Killers Orange Springs Florida on July the 4th 1990 Brian Jarvis is called to an abandoned vehicle near Okana National Forest the driver Peter Zs has been missing for days when we recovered this car we were only looking at it as a missing person hopefully he was still alive we didn't know there was a couple things that struck us as unusual the license plate from the car and some of the the paperwork from inside the car had been discarded where it was initially wrecked and then the car was driven away so we searched this area extensively looking for Mr Sim's body just in case he hadd been killed but we didn't find anything what was difficult for the police was there was nothing to find at the crime scene where the cars were dumped not even 4 Weeks Later the detective makes his way once more to a crime scene in the woods a family on a picnic near a lake makes a horrific find detective Brian Jaris immediately has a bad feeling when we got out here to the Okala National Forest we found there was a very very bad stench in the air and it smelled horrible it it was something once you leave the scene it doesn't leave you for a while the odor of Decay we started looking around the area we saw a badly decomposing body in the weeds we realized it was Troy burus he was still wearing his shirt from work that had his name Troy on the pocket the body of the 50-year-old sausage salesman from Okala Florida Bears two deep gunshot wounds the man has also been missing for days murders are no Rarity in this area Maran county is considered a very vient place there was no connection at this point as far as a seral Killer goes it was just another one of those uh killings that we had hoping to get a lead in the murder of Troy Baris Brian Jarvis drives the sausage salesman's delivery route stop for stop searching for possible Witnesses on our way back we stopped at a convenience store in Seville Florida about midway between Daytona and Okala and when we went in there theer clerk told us that he had been there at his normal time around 2: or 2:30 in the afternoon when we went to his next stop the clerk said he never arrived and that's how we narrowed down the location that he disappeared at in the still unresolved case of Peter seams disappearance detective Brian Jarvis gets an important lead not far from where he had found the abandoned car huge break in the case came at this remote fire station in the Al National Forest there were a couple of girls that had come to the fire station and started using the faucet Outdoors outside somebody inside the building heard the water running and they were wondering why so they came out and they saw two girls outside of the building washing blood off they decided to call an ambulance but when the ambulance arrived the girls were nowhere to be found the firemen are able to give the police a detailed description of the two women the composite artist uses it to create to likeness at this point it's still unclear if the women have anything to do with the men's disappearance still in the dark investigators organize a meeting with the police departments of the surrounding counties and indeed there are similar cases in Marian's neighboring counties three more bodies are found that all appear to have been murdered according to the same patternn a short time later in Marian County victim number six police review the results of the various investigations and discover important [Music] similarities there were a couple things that stood out the first thing was the fact that it was a 22 caliber weapon that's a smaller weapon something much lighter easier to use not as much Kickback the second thing that really stood out was that when the vehicles were recovered the driver's side seat was always in always in the forward most position so we put those two things together and when we first realized what we had it was very intimidating it was something we hadn't dealt with before is it possible we're looking for women so far Brian Jarvis has assumed the Killer is male a mistake he decides to question Witnesses at the rest areas again if you look statistically women are a very small percentage of violent crime offenders about 7% you first default would be probably male and maybe if you looked at it closer you might start to consider that actual suspect could could be a female and in fact he finds a witness at this gas station on Interstate 75 she saw the victim together with the two women it was when we got to this location here that we got our break we showed the clerk inside a photograph of Mr Humphrey's and she recognized him as having been in here that day the next thing we did is we showed her two composits of the girls that may be involved in other cases such as the Peter Sims case and she was able to say that yes there were two girls in here that resembled those composits and it was about the same time as Mr humph was in here we decided to go and get the help from the media so we released the composits to the media in hopes that that would develop some leads for us in identifying who these girls could be and so they appealed to the public and this is a part of common police practice when they know it's going to be really difficult they decide to publicize the case through the Nationwide press even though they have neither names nor real photos only composite sketches so usually you would want to do that only when you don't have any other immediate ways of identifying where that particular person is at that point in time the police's strategy bears fruit a crucial tip comes in both women have stopped in D Tona beach at the Fair View Motel detective Jarvis drives there immediately but too late the two women are gone when we checked with the owners of the fair viiew sure enough Aileen had been staying here under an assumed name and we started getting more and more leads with her aliases her names so we were building a list of names at that point we took all these different aliases that we got and went to the porn shops and started looking that's what led us to the fingerprint with which gave us our identification of aen the women take their victim's valuables to porn shops in the US this means they have to leave their fingerprints on file not only did she have to leave a signature she had to leave a fingerprint and once they had that fingerprint of course they could search the police records in which her fingerprints were already available and then they had the name of the person who'd handled that property the question was where was Eileen waros Eileen waros has previous convictions for armed robbery and assault but is she also a killer Brian Jarvis gets a tip the two women have been seen in a biker bar in Daytona Beach we didn't have enough information enough evidence to convict her yet and our prosecutor told us we didn't have enough evidence our problem was we didn't want to take a chance on her killing somebody else we knew there'd be a huge party at the last resort coming up very shortly and we thought if she got on the back of a motorcycle or in a car and took off we might not locate her again so police offer tyia Moore a deal they promis her immunity from prosecution so the investigators approached took go friend and asked her to make telonic contact with Eileen to try and get her to conest and tell more of what had happened once Eileen found out that her lover had actually done this with the police it completely destroyed her this was Eileen's closest dearest friend the only person in her life that mattered had basically betrayed her e waros is taken into custody and Brian Jarvis gathers evidence for an indictment for Multiple homicide main thing here was now we had to build our case because we had very little to start with when we interviewed her so now with her statement she told us where the gun was and where some of the evidence was and that allowed us to put things together to where we could prosecute her so ultimate it was good old fashioned police work that led and cooperation the community that led to them being identified as the suspects in these Murders At first waros is indicted in Valia County for only one murder she doesn't respond to any of the other allegations only when her friend tyia Moore testifies against her in court does she fold and a few days later that's exactly what Eileen did she confessed to the police all of the murders the world must have just crumbled in front of her eyes and you could see that she changes her strategy in court where she now says I'm going to confess and you may as well give me the death penalty [Music] all at once she starts to speak I robbed him and I killed him as cold as ice and I do it again too I know I'd kill another person cuz I've hated humans for a long time throughout the entire trial Eileen waros shows neither compassion nor remorse warn of the governor of the state of Florida you Eileen Carol warn us be electrocuted until you are dead the judge sentences her for six murders y'all going to sentence me to death row probably three more times how many times you people want to kill me anyway 10 years later hen waros dies by lethal injection for detective Brian Jarvis the fitting punishment if I had to describe aen in one word it would be evil she didn't stand a chance growing up she had a bad childhood a bad adulthood and she just cared about herself having fun and partying and living whatever life she enjoyed she never cared about the other people she never cared about her victims their families she was just pure evil female serial killers like Eileen waros often fall through the cracks at the beginning of Investigations for society thinks women less capable able of murder they artfully hide their cold blooded nature behind a mask we don't see that darkness in them women's horrifying crimes show us anyone can become a [Music] killer peterb a small town north of London brutal murder shock the contemplative idel when we saw the scene it became clear it was not a normal murder but nobody thought a woman could be behind it Joan Deni is a mother of two children beloved in her hometown but the young woman has a bloody hobby she kills men apparently at random Good Friday March the 29th 2013 the Peterborough police receive a report of a burnt out car 1 hour later Kevin Lee a building manager and father of two children has not come home his wife reports him missing the next morning Steven Briggs the journalist for the the peterb telegraph is listening to the police radio someone out for a walk has found a male corpse along a dirt road outside Peterboro so when we arrived at the scene the police had already started their investigation here um a dog walker had found the body of of Kevin Lee in this ditch and there was police taping Cordon um cing off the area the body had been found in a black sequin dress this suggested to us it wasn't going to be a normal murder case it was something something much bigger than that the area where Lee's body was found is too remote to yield any leads no Witnesses no security cameras so the investigation starts off a farmer finds a body in a ditch wearing a sequin dress multiple stab bounds but nothing that points in the direction of a particular suspect just like the police Steven Briggs begins investigating the same day the first lead takes him to one of the apartment buildings managed by Kevin Lee neighbors there report a rumor that Lee is having an affair with Joan [Music] Deni Briggs drives to the social housing District where Deni lives in the Rouses near riston G he investigates who the woman is Joan Deni is a single mother of two children and is said to have a violent boyfriend Gary stretch did he commit the murder out of jealousy Gary stretch was a well-known criminal in in peterb he'd been in out of prison a number of times for burglaries he'd even been found not guilty of a murder charge at one point it made sense that police were linking to it but he was 7t tall he's got the physical k ability to carry out a crime like this and his his history suggests that he could have been involved at this point No One Believes that dinner here is behind the brutal killing women tend to use less violent methods poisoning is always said to be the woman's murdering process Steven Briggs wants to interview the pair but neither he nor the police can find them that makes them suspicious at this point there was no evidence that Den or stretch were involved in the murder of Kevin Lee but police did want to trace them and they didn't know where they were so they put out a public appeal to try and find them when you know that the person that you're looking for but you're not sure where they are of course you start to go around to friends and family ask if they've seen this individual if they have a vehicle you put in a bulletin out saying please if anybody sees this vehicle reported to the investigating officers the couple has long since left Peterborough but they're not keeping a low profile for long they commit a small robbery at a gas station North of the city eventually the car would have been found but the clue that made it quicker was the robbery at the petrol station with the CCTV and the car recognition numbers that gave the police the Clue the police are hot on Deni and stretch his heels but the pair apparently feels safe and is not afraid to attract attention while on the run on the contrary when she discovered that the police have put an appeal out to try and find her she celebrated and she also posed in a series of biz are photographs including one with a deadly looking knife denner he consciously adopts the Persona of a bad girl once again the young woman is recorded by a security camera at a gas station but by the time the police show up the couple are gone her big role model was Bonnie and Clyde and that she was going to kill nine people just like Bonnie and Clyde it done 2 days after the discovery of Kevin D's body herid 120 km to the West becomes a focus of the investigation that is where Deni strikes again the couple drive through the small Town's quiet side streets in search of their next [Music] victim so there was no real strategy behind the violence it just seemed it was violence for the sake of violence just simp simply wanting to kill some men it didn't matter who let's just find some men I can you know entice into the car and let me see if I can kill them by stabbing them on April the 2nd 2013 a call comes into the police Robin barza a retired man has been stabbed almost 40 times and is in critical condition neither Steven Briggs nor the police recognize in this Behavior the typical criminal profile of a woman only 10 minutes later the next attack 56-year-old John Rogers on a walk with his dog is suddenly stabbed to death she left him for Dead with one final ice cold Act of stealing his dog before walking off shortly after the second attack officers discover the get away car with Joanne Dene in it but Gary stretch the prime suspect is not with her stretch fleas so of course they think here's the guy we're looking for he's fleeing the seam because he doesn't want to be arrested clearly they're thinking stretch is the killer police take Joan Deni back to the station for questioning this is the crucial turning point in the case it was at this point that police started to realize that it could be Den that was behind this and not stretch Den he puts on a big show enjoying the attention of the police officers it's so bizarre and so far from the realm of what we typically see with um females who are violent if you look statistically the vast majority of violent crime is committed by men I think her callous Behavior immediately after her crimes was perhaps reflective of the idea that she enjoyed killing these people that she took pleasure out of the situation she took pleasure out of the consequences Den he brags about being a murderer it was just the latest in in a long string of things that she'd done throughout the throughout the entire investigation it made me realize that she didn't care about anything else she just wanted to kill and she wanted to be known for killing 2 hours later stretch is caught by police during questioning he also says that Deni is behind the murders not him enjoying other people's pain and violent behavior in general goes against our notion of what a woman is supposed to like and so this is atypical not just in terms of what Society sees but it's also atypical actually for specifically for female Sierra Killers who are already very rare but on top of that this hus level this almost manly level of violence uh sets her apart from other seral Killers but at this point in time neither the police nor Briggs knows that there are more victims in [Music] Peterborough one day after the arrest in Harford walkers in a remote Forest named thorny Dyke find two more male bodies in a [Music] ditch Lucas SCH slabi and John Chapman both stabbed to death several days before to start with the police wouldn't confirm that these two deaths were part of the same investigation and linking it to to Kevin Lee and Joe Den but looking at all the all the factors the location and other things it seemed clear to us that it could have been part of that of that same inquiry and investigation into into Joe Deni traces of DNA on the murder weapon quickly provide certainty Deni used the same knife for all three murders but why does a young woman kill all these men before she engaged in in these killings she was actually already diagnosed with something called antisocial personality disorder now antisocial personality disorder or APD is different from psychopathy because it's based on a history of violent and deviant behavior schlosky is Den's first victim she pretends to be in love with with him lures him into her apartment on March the 19th 2013 and stabs him to death initially she hides the body in a garbage can 10 days later she kills her neighbor Chapman her boyfriend's stretch helps her dispose of the bodies the same evening she kills Kevin Lee then she proceeded to have some fun she proceeded to dress him in a black SE quinnn dress to pose him in a way and to enjoy the aftermath of the killing and that is showing that her killing pattern is developing over the time Gary stretch also helps her with Lee's body together they drive it to a nearby patch of forest the more we spoke to people who knew Deni the more we discovered she had a a certain Charisma about her something that enabled her to get on with people to make people do pretty much whatever she wanted but on the on the other hand she also had a much darker side to her which was capable of doing absolutely horrific things but not only that capable of doing those things and having no sympathy or empathy with the victims No Remorse and not thinking about the consequences of what she had done Joanna wanted the violence she wanted that close contact I think think she wanted to see the blood and to see the people die Steven Briggs also attends the trial so when then he was in the courtroom she definitely knew she was she was the focal point she was the uh the center of attention and that's the position that she craved throughout the rest of the hearing she she show showed bizarre behavior as well at one point even dancing and joking while in the courtroom um one of the bizarrest things that I've ever seen in in my career in in what was the biggest story that I've ever covered in 2014 the 31-year-old is given a life sentence in prison she becomes pen pals with a construction worker from Sussex and they get engaged Joanna Deni is one of the few female serial killers who kill for the pure joy of it for women tend to kill out of greed and use poison difficult to prove and easy to administer the victims suffer an agonizing death death by cyanide is quite painful because the individual knows that although they're breathing they're getting no [Music] oxygen kempen Germany Maria Felton comes to the attention of the homicide division over a period of 20 years she murders one husband after another another we don't see individuals um you know we don't see that darkness in them but she has a dark side shocking even to experienced investigators life shows you anyone can become a killer but why does a mother of six children kill her husbands kimpen a tranquil small town near dorf until April the 27th 198 23 the homicide division receives an unusual complaint detective Chief superintendent Helmut Schmidt works the case I was surprised because I had never heard of a 63-year-old woman that's how old she was then killing three men or three people without anyone finding out about it Mar Felton's own daughter-in-law files a complaint against her allegedly Felton confessed to her to having poisoned three husbands helmot Schmid begins investigating this doesn't make sense to them yeah this kind of nice little old lady and you know they they don't want to believe it it doesn't really you know doesn't fit in with the scenario that they're thinking of plus they've had doctors you know medical doctors signing off on the natural deaths are the accusations true Schmidt must find out more about the accused and her family so we drove to kempen and checked out Mrs Felton the Felton family and the Felton children to see if the family had any criminal past the detective speaks with Maria Felton's immediate family other relatives and Neighbors does the friendly mother and grandmother have two faces Schmidt learns that Maria Felton benefited financially from each of her husband's deaths but is that a motive for murder Maria actually hated men but she also wanted money this is the house where Maria Felton once lived with her husband number two Peter oen PES [Music] they marry in 1959 after a few years he files for divorce and dies shortly thereafter detective Schmidt finds out that oiland pesh decided to get a divorce after his wife forged his signature on a loan application the forged signature was a clear signal for us time to take action forged loan application and the daughter-in-law statement call Schmidt to do something drastic he has Maria Felton's last husband exhumed ultimately you're a good Christian and you know what it means to disturb a body that should be resting in peace it's not easy to dig up someone like that but the detective has no choice it's the only way to prove one murder and and prevent another we knew that Mrs Felton had a new boyfriend we knew she wanted to take a trip with him and I don't think we were sleeping peacefully at the time we were concerned and we were scared that the next man would have to die when anything happened that she didn't like according to her daughter-in-law's statement Maria Felton poisoned her husband s Schmidt sends the exume body to the forensics lab in [Music] Aken what will the autopsy reveal not every poison leaves traces over a long period of time what then Schmidt waits for the results for 2 weeks then comes a call from the lab they have indeed found Hydro IC acid in the corpse her method was to use a poison e605 which is a pesticide it's a tri floro acid and it has a blue color in it to demonstrate that this is dangerous so now they have uh the motive the money that she's getting from the account and then they have the method by which he has been killed do detective Helmut Schmidt is now able to clearly prove the murder of husband number three he arrests Maria Felton at home and interrogates her but the old woman says nothing in response to the charges at first Maria Felton wouldn't talk to us one bit when we told her the allegations no response at all except I didn't do anything her words were self assured but she's behaving like someone like someone who is subservient head down tense fidgety hands no eye contact you could feel her insecurity is f Schmid puts pressure on Maria Felton threatening to exume her other two husbands as well using that leverage would help get it to come to a point of a confession of course whether she agreed or not they might still have gone and exume those bodies but Maria Felton doggedly persists in her [Music] silence when you find a successful motus op renai typically you will keep with that modus operandi uh if it works for you so she's having great success using this poison detective Schmidt has no option but to have her two other husbands Peter o Andes and hinish uker dug up from their graves then she confesses to everything yeah yes I did it what you did it yes I killed my husband I poisoned him and then he died and you can feel yourself freeze up these are the high points in a detective's career to get a confession for which you know you have worked long and hard but it was worth the effort and it is fulfilling no doubt at all Schmidt's Instinct was right forensic experts find traces of hydrocyanic acid in the two other bodies as well the County Court of celd gives Felton three life sentences for 20 years Maria Felton managed to commit murders in Germany undetected during the trial she also admits to having murdered two other people her father and her Aunt Maria Felton a seemingly loving wife mixed the poison in with her husband's blueberry pudding now I think that's what's disturbing to most of us we don't see individuals um you know we don't see that darkness in them to this day the case continues to preoccupy Schmid Mrs Felton made me reflect who can become a killer can anyone become a killer Yes life shows you anyone can become a killer even seemingly harmless women one would never think capable of love it like in Seattle Washington 1986 an entire state is in panic the reason poisoned headache tablets we are talking literally millions of bottles of Excedrin special agent Patrick Ross is investigating in the first poisoning case in US history the trail takes him to an inconspicuous War isn't it odd that Stella Nichols would provide two bottles of extra strength cedin both laced with cyanide is Stella nickel and an assuming housewife behind the poisonings is she the one keeping all of Seattle on tenter hooks Orban a bluecolor suburb of Seattle in the western us a sleepy town until June the 11th 1986 that morning Susan Snow takes two exod tablets a half hour later her daughter calls an ambulance her mother is unconscious and dies a short time later while the autopsy is being carried out FBI special agent Patrick Ross takes over the investigation he doesn't suspect that the death of this one young woman is only the tip of the iceberg when the coroner was performing the autopsy on Su snow they detected what they said was a faint smell of almonds that faint smell of almonds is often associated with cyanide poisoning further tests revealed that she had in fact been poisoned with potassium cyanide investigation then concluded after looking examining the pills she had taken that morning that they had been tainted with cyanide cyanide or hydrocyanic acid is highly toxic Patrick Ross is thus certain that someone wanted to poison Susan's [Music] snow so cyanide is a reasonably accessible type of poison it's probably one of the first two that people think of death by cyanide is quite painful because the individual knows that although they're breathing they're getting no oxygen and it's a very hard death for the individual who suffers it terrifying news for Seattle death caused by headache tablets manufactured by the company Bristal Meer squib they're available in every American drugstore the manufacturer of the medication had to withdraw countless thousands of bottles of of this headache tablet which had a massive Financial impact on the company of course the initial thought was that this was done to damage the reputation of Bristol Meers squib nobody was thinking really on small scale Patrick Ross belongs to a team of 40 special agents they must find the culprit as quickly as possible and prevent further poisonings uh we search numerous grocery stores pharmacies this is a very common product it was something I would have at home in my own medicine cabinet and knowing that the possibly there were more bottles out there people's lives would be risk Patrick Ross continues to question all drugstore employees in the region and the victim's family without success at the same time Ross has thousands of bottles of exidine tested for tainted tablets across the entire state of Washington what they find out is that there are only five bottles five bottles of eedan that have the poison in them all five come from the arons of one particular City Auburn investigators are now certain no one wants to extort a pharmaceutical company the motive must be personal but 8 days have already gone by the poisoner is still on the loose are there more victims have all the poison tablets been taken out of circulation this is why today we see so much tamperproof packaging and almost all medications you buy all vitamins you buy everything has a lid a sealed lid on it that if it had been tampered with you would be able to determine that and that comes from cases like this Patrick Ross still has no suspects he's already beginning to consider taking the case National he searches intensively but he has no leads at all until he receives a call on June the 19th we heard about the uh second victim because uh the second victim uh's wife Stella nickel uh alerted law enforcement authorities that her husband had also o taken Excedrin and perhaps he was also a victim of uh cyanine poisoning so she in fact brought attention on herself the caller is named Stella nickel a second death by cyanide again in Orban investigators see no coincidence Patrick Ross immediately drives to The Address given by the caller a trailer park on the outskirts of the city Stella nickel declares that her husband also took a headache tablet and he died a short time later she gives the officers the remaining tablets in Bruce nich's body they found traces of potassium cine poisoning and uh isn't it odd that Stella nichels would provide two bottles of extra strength cedin both laced with cyanide that she claimed she got from two different stores in the Alburn area of thousands of bottles of the medication in circulation Stella nickel ends up with two tainted ones bad luck or is something more going on if you're looking at it statistically the likelihood of one person buying two bottles of aedin that were both Poisoned With cyanide out of literally a million bottles of exedran across the United States is exceptionally rare and that really brought the focus of attention on to Stella who is this woman who seems to have such bad luck born in Oregon in 1943 she grows up very poor her father is an alcohol I and beats her she grows up with with drug issues with alcohol issues surrounded by violence surrounded by poverty this is fertile ground for nickel to become ultimately a disturbed young woman life had not been good to Stella Stella nickel gets pregnant at the age of 16 travels through the country on her own and survives on theft and deception in 1974 she meets her future husband Bruce they're brought together by their common love of alcohol he saw the problems that it caused him and he became dry and as a result she began to hate him because they couldn't go to the bars anymore together a devilish plan forms in her mind she will poison her husband and cash in on his life insurance policy to get the money his death must be an accident tainted medicine is an accident for Patrick Ross the various pieces of the investigation's puzzle finally make sense for her husband's death to look like an accident other people must also die from the same poison but how can Ross prove it they find something interesting with within the cyanide laced capsules they find these tiny microscopic green flecks and those are in all of the poison capsules and they discovered that it was a material used to clean aquariums Ross knows that Stella nickel has an aquarium at home if someone testified that she used the same aliside product that had been identified Ross would have his first piece of evidence he takes Nichols photograph to over 60 stores in this store agents were able to determine that Stella nickel was one of the customers here and she had in fact purchased the algicide that was mixed in with the cyanide this was a key piece of evidence because this linked her to the deaths of the two individuals Patrick Ross is certain Stella nickel crushes the poison in the same dish she uses for the algicide product for her fish but how does someone like still a nickel know about cyanide her daughter tells Ross that nickel has recently spent a conspicuous amount of time in the local library half a year after the first murder this Library becomes a focus of the investigation some of the agents went into the library and uh took several of the books that talked about potassium cyanide sent them back to the FBI laboratory for fingerprint analysis and wouldn't you know it three or four of those books contain Stella Nichols fingerprints on the pages that talked about potassium cyanide now there is enough evidence for an arrest Ross's model investigation brings the jury to a unanimous decision 90 years in prison for murder and product tampering in the end we as an investigative team were related that all our effort had paid off and we had enough evidence to not only charge Stella nickel but convict her and put her in prison Stella nickel is still in prison [Music] today because of her greed and her perfidious plan an innocent mother had to die not even her husband suspected anything [Music] thanks only to Patrick Ross's outstanding investigative work more poisoning deaths managed to be averted women who become Killers often exercise a certain Fascination their acts are artfully planned and carried out in Cold Blood women kill less often out of pure desire and more out of greed or Revenge 2/3 of their murder victims are men there is a way to make an is my destiny it was now a conspiracy of witches download V [Music] today they hunt their victims all over the world kill specific Targets in Cold Blood and without regret I aimed right for their heads men it's just money and doing a job in Colombia popey the killer tyrannizes the country for drug lord Pablo Escobar papy was one of Columbia's most dangerous Killers ever in Russia Alexander salonic The Hitman simply kills anyone for the highest bidder salonic was without any particular morality and in Italy joavan brusa he kills for the Sicilian Mafia eliminating everyone who stands in his way so his preferred method seemed to be using a a wire to strangle and kill his victims Hitmen are masters of covering their tracks but even they make mistakes and investigators hunt them [Music] down [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hamburg Germany's second largest city detective valdemar poon is on his way to a crime scene on the city's north side the victim a known pimp shot at the wheel of his car Peter F made enemies by being erratic whenever cocaine deals were made he always took the largest share of the profet for himself Peter FM is properly executed from behind with a precise shot to the Head so was victim was shot execution style at the back of the head and now that's usually quite a clear indicator that this was not a standard kind of argument that got out of hand a domestic violence scenario it was clearly with the atttention of just killing this particular individual at the time valemar palson and his partner are the only detectives in the red light district they know from experience sank PO is a rough neighborhood it's a tough area things like this happen repeatedly so you make a note of it and move on to the next order of business palson quickly realizes that a Hitman must be behind this murder for he finds projectiles from a weapon that was recently used to shoot another pimp the forensics Team figures out that the bullets are from a 38 caliber arm minous revolver the goal of the assassin is the death of the individual the weapon is very often a small caliber handgun and often the head is targeted so here the goal is do the homicide get out after their first kill murder can almost feel like a routine part of the job is a Hitman really behind the murders the search for the killer begins it leads detective palson to the S poy District and thus deep into hamburg's prostitution scene he makes inquiries looks for Witnesses palson has good contacts in the red light district but this time no one wants to talk and in in the days after the murder the neighborhood was relatively subdued rumors were rampant everyone was in shock in the first several days after the killing we had no good leads at all palson senses that the neighborhood is nervous everywhere the detective turns he finds a wall of Silence everyone fears being the next victim so whenever a crime is investigated in a redik district you've got major challenges firstly you have witness wies who could be sex workers themselves abusing drugs um who don't want to come forward and get involved for various reasons you've got the clientele or in the area who also perhaps don't want to get involved in an investigation and of course you've got the high up people who are involved in drug trafficking etc for weeks palson and his team are in the dark then the ice cold killer strikes again the victim another pimp deed Mar TR also killed with a Precision shot to the Head the contract killer is different from the serial or the Spree killer in that there's no emotional involvement for both the serial killer and the Spree killer there's a huge personal component in why they do it the pleasure that they get and the gain that they get for the contract killer there is no such emotional involvement palson realizes that it must be connected to a power struggle in the red light district pimping in s is experiencing a period of Crisis the sudden AIDS epidemic was keeping the John's away money from prostitution decreased so people got deeply involved in the drug trade for that reason the red light district could barely be kept under control it was crazy is one of the bosses using a Hitman to get his rival pimps out of the way palson wants to know who is profiting from the murders and again questions everyone he knows in s poi meanwhile the killer strikes again on Easter Sunday 1985 he shoots Bordello owner valdemar dama and his business partner Ralph kuner now palson has a hunch nusa stood to profit most I'd known nusa since his first day in St PO he was too slimy for my taste YF noser has been running a Empire since the 1980s and he profits from the killings as he inherits the victim's share of the prostitution business he's now the most influential pimp in sank po after months of investigating poon finally has a solid lead he became a focus of the investigation after undercover agents were placed in the red light district concrete information about the murder was obtained from one of the neighborhood alphas and two prostitutes also gave solid evidence that was the first indication that n might have something to do with this murder but the bosses don't get their own hands dirty in connection with nusa one name keeps cropping up Vana Pinner known as Muki he has a reputation for being erratic and ruthless palen suspects he is nsa's executioner so he makes more inquiries Vanna Pinner grows up in the bramfeld quarter of Hamburg he quits school and goes to Sea for 2 years the Army rejects him because of his many previous convictions Pinner struggles along as a scaffolder and tile Setter then his life goes off the rails Pinner must spend 10 years behind bars for a Robbery Homicide in Fool's brutal prison he becomes friends with a few big shots from the red light scene he's fascinated by their power and decides to enter the scene [Music] himself so it seems that with one of the things that attracted him to this lifestyle would he he admired The Pimps that were in the red light district the money they had the access to women and this was perhaps his way to try and get into that environment and perhaps get to the attention of people who were the big shots in that environment Pinner envies the Pimp's money status and power would he kill for [Music] it hon checks piner's Alibi and in fact on the day of the first murder mooki was out of prison is he the Hitman they're looking for investigators decide to arrest [Music] Pinna and in this scenario you're going after a coldblooded Hitman so you definitely want to make sure that surprise is on your side and that you're going to have the best Advantage whenever you do actually go and affect the arrest cuz this is a clearly a very dangerous person palson and his colleagues keep piner's apartment under 24-hour surveillance they wait for the perfect moment to go in nothing must go wrong our colleagues of the Special Forces entered the stairwell disguised his Workman and rang piner's doorbell at that specific moment he was taking a shower on April the 15th 1986 Special Forces sto form the apartment and overpower Pinner and he confesses the S po killer has finally being caught it was a great relief a jolt went through the entire Hamburg police and also the city government the serial killer The Hitman had finally been caught but the case doesn't end here Pinner becomes the most important Chief witness in a struggle with organized crime in Hamburg so Pinner comes forth after his arrest and he basically tells everything about the murders and even other murders that the police had not necessarily thought would be were linked to him Pinner enjoys the attention and brags during the interrogation that he has killed not only in Hamburg but also in Munich and his employers have been several red light big shots above all Bordello King y nser Pinner is cooperative in order to win the police's trust his plan works the police hope to get more information about the organization of the red light district Pinner is interrogated again and again but the killer only wants to testify in the presence of his wife she's already smuggled a gun into the interrogation room no one ever thought a massacre would take place like this at police headquarters in the high security wing of the organized crime division during the interrogation Pinner draws his gun kills his wife the attorney Vang bistri and finally himself for the investigators a [Music] catastrophe you've lost your key witness to bring those guys that ordered the hits down Pinner had planned the massacre in detail the Hamburg Police Department is under [Music] shock at least the hitman's testimony suffices to get the Mastermind YF n behind bars at first the alphas of the red light district were happy that Pinner was dead but soon they were alarmed as they didn't know if he had implicated any of them in his testimony so they began leaving the neighborhood and it returned to how it was when lust and vice reigned piner's information unleashes an avalanche from that point on a special commission is tasked with cleaning up S poi for detective palson a time of fear ends I must admit I was relieved that he was no longer on this Earth and could no longer do any harm it was the biggest case of detective poon's career since then there has been no hitman like Pinner in the neighborhood around the world however there are many who are much worse Hitman with a single Mission his decision was to to kill the prosecutors and the police officers that were investigating the mafia their job is to kill ice cold and ruthlessly popey turned out to be the best assassin of the law Mafia bosses they need hitmen for one thing above all to get their Rivals out of the way and he is considered Mafia killer number one jaavan brusa so his preferred method seemed to be using a a wire to strangle and kill his victims no one kills more brutally more coolly for the mafia he's willing to do anything and this man has declared war against him chief of police rato coresi our anger gave us tons of motivation we wanted to finally neutralize this person who had caused so much pain a dramatic struggle between police and the mafia but how can a mafia killer be stopped Italy poo the capital of Sicily but also a stronghold of the Sicilian m known as K Nostra for a good 30 years chief of police ronato coresi has devoted his life to fighting the mafia he remembers the period very well in which brusa known as a swine carried out his murders those were hard years the mafia organization took root with extreme violence there were many deaths and murders in mafia families dozens of deaths but not only in mafia families also representatives of the state and Among Us the magistrates it was a hard fight a war rages on the streets of palmo in the 1980s the mafia fights against everyone the state politicians the people it's declared goal to take take over the heroin trade and thereby control the economy money flows and Sicily's politics their most notorious killer is willing to eliminate anyone who gets in the mafia's way his name Giovanni brusa he was a very divisive figure because of course in his rise to power he killed a lot of many many many mafia members and he was very much at the Forefront of that war in 1989 at the age of 28 renado coresi joins a Special Forces Unit it's the anti-ia unit created expressly to eliminate the mafia and above all brusa it was very emotional for me and the whole unit he was not just any [Music] Hitman we were chasing one of the chiefs of the Corleone Mafia Clan but who is this brutal killer who is willing to dispose of every Mafia opponent joavan brusa grows up in Sleepy San josepe [Music] J he's born into a Mafia Family his fate is thus predetermined brusco's great grandfather was already a so-called made man so when you're made a man of Honor as the Sicilian Mafia call it or a made man as the American Italian mafia call it when you reach that stage it is a moment of tremendous affirmation of your chosen it's not just a career it's a lifestyle but it is a career as well Brusco wants to become a maid man himself to this end he commits his first murder in 1976 at the age of 19 Ator Arena the big mafia boss is personally in charge of Brook's first hit this seals their lifelong commitment usually in the mafia um to murder somebody is a way to prove yourself that you are reliable the uh Hitman actually has some very close loyalty in association to the mafia boss and I think that was the same in this situation with salvator Arena where he almost saw him as um a father figure of some sorts not just an employer but almost like a a close family member how is Mafia Hunter Renato coresi supposed to catch a Hitman who's personally protected by mafia boss Salvatore Arena the investigator's chances are slim what made the hunt for this kastra Capo truly difficult and complex is the environment nobody would talk it was complete silence there were plenty of go-betweens for the Mafia bosses who protected him this backing made it so difficult for the police to make any progress's biggest problem omera the mafia's unwritten law no one talks about the mafia no one betrays it everyone looks away it's a wall of Silence what is more many policemen are on the mafia payroll obviously in palmo there is a lot of police who are who have been at least in the past corrupt and not willing to do their job it's a battle waged on two fronts against the mafia and against public corruption it takes rata cores to his limits the most difficult moments were when it was impossible to find even the slightest trace of the killer there were many hopeless days or as we call it investigative depression investiga nevertheless Cortez and his unit turn the whole city upside down they monitor bank accounts and the mafia's cash flows deploy informers interrogate countless Suspects for months they have only one goal to track down brusa at any price so bruska had big Ambitions for ker he wanted to see them as the top in terms of an international organized crime syndicate the only way he could really play a role in that is helping for example been doing his Hitman duties in 1992 coresa gets support from an unexpected Source the other big mafia families have had enough of reena's brutal regime and his merciless killer in a sensational trial they testify against Reena and brusa in return the gang bosses receive lighter sentences and detective cortei has enough information to take brusa into custody to say I Was Not Afraid would simply not be true we were all afraid but our will was Stronger our enthusiasm to finally settle things with the criminals who bring death overo but bruska and his boss don't give up without a fight on the contrary his decision was to to kill the prosecutors and the police officers that were investigating the mafia a brutal assassination follows in downtown poo the bomb kills one of the biggest Mafia opponents of all Paulo borsellino and four of his bodyguards and brusa goes even further another hit follows that rocks Italy to the core I remember exactly where he was and what happened it is a day burned deep memory and it remains in our hearts at the behest of Mafia Boss Arena the swine places 400 kg of TNT under the highway between the airport and the city the goal to take revenge on the state and its Mafia Hunters the bomb kills the magistrate Giovanni Falcone his wife and their bodyguards Cortez loses one of his closest friends [Music] absurd this assassination changes everything the mood in the country shifts people fear the terrorism gripping their own country the church the people the Judiciary all are against the mafia so now I think the public is really turning against at least him if not the the mafia organizations and start to protest so in fact Reena was caught not very far from where he he comes from and he was caught in the center of the Court sentences the mafia boss to life in prison but his Hitman bruser the swine manages to escape and is now more dangerous than ever for thanks to reena's conviction he becomes the boss of kostra From This Moment On brusa has more power than ever before we knew he was a ferocious criminal he had already committed so many crimes and he is capable of committing more we all knew we were dealing with a ferocious criminal one at the highest level of kosa as with Reena before cesi and his team need the help of the people to track down brusa and bruska wants revenge on those who have betrayed kostra his first victim jpe an 11-year-old boy the swine kidnaps and tortures him thus taking revenge on the boy's father a principal witness in the fight against the mafia so hitman's victims are typically seen as casualties of war and to some degree people kind of accept that's going to happen but now he kidnaps 11-year-old boy keeps him for 2 years and eventually strangles him to death with his own hands and that's something that very few people can look past 18 months later investigators find young jep's body in the mountains strangled and dissolved in hydrochloric acid even mafos are shocked by brusco's cruelty an Informer from his own ranks talks and gives away where the swine is supposed to be hiding so the police are monitoring his his cell phone conversations they're able to identify where he is by listening to the background noises in may of 1996 police officers storm brusco's house and arrest Sicily's most brutal Hitman it was a historic moment for the first time we caught a truly important Hitman who had done so many bad things here how should I describe the feeling it was a crazy feeling a feeling of bliss when we were still so young then the final twist brusa himself becomes a snitch and testifies as a principal witness against the mafia his career as a killer is finished other Hitmen however remain true to themselves until death they kill brutally without conscience In Cold Blood I aimed right for their heads their motive blind loyalty revenge or simply lots of money popey turned out to be the best assassin of the lot Russia Moscow in the early 1990s criminal gangs are fighting for predominance Hitman terrorized the city one of the most ruthless Alexander salonic nicknamed the super killer no one knows who he is it's another category of person a kind of person who sells death salonic was without any particular morality at all Chief Inspector mik ignatov pursues the super killer halfway way across Europe he was a pig a horrific Bastard with no place in our normal society but how would you hunt down a [Music] phantom Moscow a war is Raging between Mafia Clans in 19 1993 the situation escalates A man hides in a dumpster gets ready and shoots one of the gang bosses the victim Valeri lugat known as Globus for inspector mik ignatov it's immediately clear that this is not the work of anomer either he was in a Special Forces Unit of the army or in other military units he was a trained shooter we had no doubt it was a contract killing even if investigators don't yet know for sure their theory is right the killer Alexander solonik former police Sharpshooter now a Hitman Sonic was to some extent trained by the Soviet military and by the police and so he used those skills to to to kill he saw that more money could be made on the other side so why stay where you earn less investigators want to find out who the Killer is but they're chasing a phantom there's no evidence leading to salonic and they aren't the only ones looking for him the mafia gang of the victim Wants Revenge a race with time the investigators have a plan they need information from Mafia circles so they contact their sources success in a Moscow Park inspector ignatov gets his first important clue we heard from several reliable sources that there was a guy or rather a Hitman in the K gang game with the nickname Sasha the Macedonian according to this Source he was able to shoot with both hands at the same time in the Macedonian style a short time later investigators profit from a coincidence at a lively Market Police Stopped two suspicious people one of them is salonic the officers take the two men to the station but once there the suspects immediately open fire killing three officers while the police manage to shoot one of the attackers salonic tries to escape he doesn't get far police arrest the wounded killer near the railroad tracks no yes we were surprised according to his ID we had caught a Mr popof but when we took his fingerprints and searched for them in the files it turned out that the man was Alexander salonic the investigators realize who is really sitting in front of them a killing machine perfectly trained by the military and the police let's talk about shooting are you experienced I was in the army with the Sharpshooters I learned to use a gun there but I've always shot even before so you can shoot yes Alexander salonic comes from Coan in Southwest Siberia there he spends time in prison for rape he escapes and makes his way to Moscow there he begins to kill for the mafia he was a Hired Gun although he had two or three colleagues who he was very close with and they were known collectively as the Kuran cleaners after killing the three police officers salonic is put in a Maximum Security Prison in Moscow in 1994 there he confesses to the murders I had to kill them I aimed right for their heads in 1995 he escapes again the official version is that he repelled from the prison roof an unlikely scenario when someone escapes from prison again and again he must have helped from inside inspector ignatov also knows that the official version is not the true story according to our information it went differently he was simply LED out through this door we heard that $500,000 were paid by the leaders of the K gang Clan ignatov is back to square one salonic has disappeared Without a Trace with the help of his employer so it's quite likely the mafia held him Escape um he's quite a valuable person to them he has of course very unique skills and um and to leave one one of your colleagues in prison is perhaps not a very good sign for the rest of the people in the mafia that you're not going to help them if they do get into trouble ignar of orders raids in moscow's Mafia scene police special units arrest dozens of gang members and confiscate loads of weapons drugs and cash but there is still no trace of the super killer investigators widen their search to all of Russia sonon is put on the list of the 10 most wanted criminals and then ignatov gets a tip we were informed that he had left the country where exactly we didn't know we were told he was in a European country with forged documents ignatov assumes that salonic is not coming back to Russia after all both the police and the mafia are looking for him but he is mistaken a few months after Sonic's disappearance a driveby murder is committed right in front of the police Ministry the victim mafia boss vasel naov ignatov has no doubt who committed this ruthless murder hardly anyone would dare to kill someone in the presence of heavily armed spns units only a few people could commit such crimes like salonic it was obvious it was so bold and professional it had salonic signature not one single bullet missed its Mar once again salonic escapes his hunters and leaves behind no clues for investigators in the 1990s and 2000s the police were too three steps behind the mafia technologically he had several forged passports he had a faster car than the police he had a clear Advantage but then ignatov gets another tip Sonic is supposedly working as a professional killer in Greece the investigators Bard a plane immediately but they arve too late invest tigators find a body north of Athens it's allegedly Alexander salonic if it really is him it remains unproven even [Music] today the precise circumstances of his death are also unclear the most likely Theory salonic came under the wheels of the KGB so that's why he went to Greece is because he was in the sights of the KGB who decided he was a disruptive force and eventually it is widely believed he was killed by the KGB in Athens but ignatov still doesn't have final certainty all he has is the hope that the killer will never Strike again you must admit he was good he remained phantom for years but he was only a common killer he can only be seen as a serial killer who murdered people as a human being he was a bastard a dreadful scumbag with no place in a normal society whether Dead or Alive one thing is certain salonic is in the same league as the most dangerous Hitmen in the world but there is another Hitman with more deaths on his conscience than all the others he lives in medin Colombia and terrorizes the entire country for years with his contract killings H hirro Velasquez Vasquez known as popey it's just money and doing a job his employer and Mentor Pablo Escobar Columbia's drug King papey was one of Colombia's most dangerous Killers ever for years investigators chase a killer who is so ruthless that he even kills his own girlfriend Colombia in 1979 mí is a stronghold of marijuana and cocaine smuggling a young man named popey wants to get into into the game his first job to kill a bus driver for $200 American dollar quite often The Contract Killer won't know the name they'll just know that this is the person they need to kill the employer Pablo Escobar head of the medine cartel and Columbia's number one drug Baron popey's new Idol popey turned out to be the best assassin of the lot that was one of the reasons why he was as close to Escobar as he was popy wins Escobar's favor the drug boss likes his style ruthless and ice cold medin was one of the most dangerous cities in the world being a policeman in medin was one of the quickest paths to suicide in the world Escobar controls large part of the city with the help of his new favorite killer his great adversary General Octavio Vargas Silva papy only carried out Escobar's orders but he is still responsible for the killings whether the targets are rival drug bosses or politicians whether the means are bombings shootings or brutal violence popey carries out every assignment with every successful crime and every murder undertaken in the service of the cartel papey won more trust from Escobar he rose higher and higher in the innermost circle of Escobar's Hitmen and got the most important assignments Vargas wants to stop the killing but he's powerless the reason Escobar uses his drug money in part to build hospitals and social housing the people support the drug lord and he protects popey so popy himself also benefits ited from the protection of the medin cartel of which he was an enforcer the Colombian State could not assert itself in medim nothing seems able to stop him popey is soon Colombia's most notorious Hitman he kills everyone who gets in the cartel's way and he becomes increasingly [Music] brutal he kidnapped women he raped them he disposed of them and Tra trash cans bombing shooting dismembering bodies and throwing them into the river popey will use any means to please Escobar Vargas wants to take poy and his boss out of the game but he finds hardly any allies for Escobar pays bonuses for police killings they emerged between popey and the other Saros work working for Escobar a type of competition as to who could demonstrate to Pablo who was the most ruthless amongst them popey beats them all vargas's troops trade fire with the drug gang on a daily basis often with deaths on both [Music] sides in Escobar's time around 2,500 Colombian policemen were shot and according to intelligence information from the time poey alone was responsible for 250 it's a bloody cat and mouse game drug boss Escobar wants sole control over the country he looks to the people for support and simultaneously fights Colombia's government with po Po's help they stop at nothing popey's newest assignment kill presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan an avowed enemy of the drug gang Vargas must watch while everything happens before his eyes and he reacts he forms a special unit search block search Block's goal was to First find out who was part of the medine cartel secondly disarm them and thirdly arrest their leaders and everyone else their chief goal to put Escobar and popey behind bars search blocks members are all people Vargas trusts Incorruptible and willing to protect their country with every available means Vargas wants to weaken and destabilize the cartel but then popey shows how far he will go for Escobar that he's loyal and will truly kill everyone who Escobar wants to see Dead Mafia killers are different from the ordinary Contract Killers because they're in a family group they have a powerful leader who they will respect and honor and obey the point of these organizations is that the allegiance to the organization should be higher and come before the allegiance to your family to your blood family to your relatives to your girlfriend to your wife popey's biggest proof of loyalty he sacrifices his own girlfriend Escobar thinks she is a spy poy invites her to a restaurant and has her shot there by his fellow killers in the meantime General vargas's Elite unit scores its first successes they dismantle drug labs and drive Escobar further into a corner the tide seems to be turning the result the mighty Escobar fears that he will be extradited to the US and goes to prison of his own free will but only to a very special one near medin and designed completely according to his own wishes Cathedral a luxury jail and his closest confident popey moves in with him Deluxe kitchen games of chance prostitutes and drug dealing and murders Escobar and poey simply continue to lead the cartel using the prison as a base that points to the very strong bond that he had with Escobar papy was devoted to Escobar he saw Escobar as a sort of Father Figure here he would have done anything for him for General Vargas La cedral remains a place of shame to this day although popey the Hitman is theoretically already in prison vargas's hands are tied he hopes to somehow sever the link between Escobar and his killer the Medan cartel's code of honor was very clear Escobar is the boss everything he ordered his Hitmen to do they had to carry out and poey held to that too one year later Vargas and his team convinced the government to storm the luxury prison poai and Escobar managed to escape but all this seems to demoralize the killer to question his loyalty to Escobar papy turned himself into the authorities about six months before Escobar's death for Vargas a Triumph after hunting him for more than 10 years he puts handcuffs on the killer his plan popy is to testify as a principal witness against Escobar a few months later Vargas finds Escobar and eliminates him now popey gives up for good the fact that poy testified against his own cartel shows us that perhaps he only ever had his own interests at heart Escobar Dead popy behind bars but one thing still bothers Vargas today if it were up to me he'd still be in prison but after 23 years in prison papay is released in 2014 and now lives in botar in continual fear of Escobar's faithful support Hit Men they have all killed dozens some even hundreds of people but whether in the form of suicide death or Life In Perpetual fear they all pay a high price for their crimes

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Published: Tue Mar 12 2024