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Tonight, our topic will be murder
as a growth industry.
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Murder has become
an epidemic in America.
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In the last ten years, the homicide rate
has increased by leaps and bounds.
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My God, somebody fired a shot!
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These tragedies keep getting
closer and closer to home.
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I'm afraid to
let my kids walk out the door.
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Each urban crime wave will touch off
a new round of gun buying.
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- Step out, Mr. Bundy.
- I'll plead not guilty right now.
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There has been a disturbing growth
in cult phenomenon in this country.
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I shall be God.
There shall be no other.
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Sync, corrected by icephoenix
www.addic7ed.com
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All the elements are present for one of the most
sensational murder trials in American history.
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Seven people brutally murdered
in the glare of Hollywood publicity.
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Young girls supposedly
under the spell of a bearded Svengali
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who allegedly masterminded
the seven murders.
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The '70s was a decade
of just brutal violence
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on every front and anywhere
that you look in America.
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At the time of a mass murder,
there is a lot of media coverage,
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but usually after
a brief period of time,
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the identity of the perpetrator tends to
fade from the public's consciousness.
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But not so with the Manson case.
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It was the biggest publicity case
the DA's office had ever had.
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The Manson trial begins the 1970s
on such an evil sadistic note.
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Seven innocent people died.
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Steve Parent, a teenager.
Abigail Folger, Folger Coffee.
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Jay Sebring.
Wojciech Frykowski.
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The LaBiancas and Sharon Tate.
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All of you know
how beautiful she was,
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but only few of you know
how good she was.
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And you had Charles Manson himself,
the charismatic leader of the family
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who didn't show any remorse
or any respect for the system.
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- Are you all happy with your court?
- Yeah.
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- Good. It's funny.
- Are you happy with it?
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Am I happy? It's your court.
I wouldn't accept it.
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The problem was that he did not
physically participate in these murders.
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But only Manson had a motive
to commit these murders,
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and that motive was Helter Skelter.
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Manson envisioned that white people
would turn against the black man
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if they thought the black man
had committed these seven murders.
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And ultimately there would be
a civil war between blacks and whites.
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Manson foresaw that
the black man would win this war,
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But later on he said the black man,
because of inexperience,
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would simply not be able to
handle the reins of power,
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so he would have to look around
at those white people who had survived,
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who had escaped from Helter Skelter.
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In other words, turn over the reins of power
to Charles Manson and his family.
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When the words "Helter Skelter"
were found printed in blood,
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I argued to the jury
this was tantamount
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to Manson's fingerprints
being found at the murder scene.
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Manson sat through all this
saying nothing.
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But today he had an "X"
scratched in his forehead.
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It is his way of saying that he has
exed himself out of society.
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Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel,
and Leslie Van Houten
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sang as the went
to and from court today,
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as if to show they are with Manson
and he is with them.
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The three women were coached
by Charlie every morning.
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"Here's things I want you to do."
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So they would do everything
from sing mocking songs to the judge
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to when Charlie is making
one of his impassioned speeches,
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mouthing the words
along with him.
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I don't have any guilt.
I know what I've done.
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And no man can judge me.
I judge me.
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- Are you bitter?
- Bitter? No. No.
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You've paid some price so far.
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Price? You have eyes?
Open them.
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Charlie Manson is a great presenter.
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But Vincent Bugliosi was better.
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And when you put
these two antagonists into a courtroom,
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America thought
this is entertainment.
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People who are curious
about the Tate murders
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go to the Los Angeles Hall of Justice,
where they wait in long lines.
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Some people are so interested that
they get to the courthouse at 4:00 AM.
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Something else this trial has done
is gather together again
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those members of Manson's family
who are not in jail.
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The world is getting crazy.
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One read part of a letter
that Manson wrote to the District Attorney.
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I am writing to you because
I don't think I am getting a fair trial.
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I am an individual.
One man standing alone, defending myself.
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Contrast this with the facilities
you have available to you.
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I noted, for example,
the coverage of the Charles Manson case.
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Here was a man who was guilty,
directly or indirectly,
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of eight murders without reason.
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Here was a man yet,
who as far as the coverage is concerned,
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who appeared to be
rather a glamorous figure.
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The LA Times next morning,
"Manson guilty, Nixon declares."
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Manson got a hold of the paper,
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stands up in front of the jury
with a silly little smile on his face,
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and he shows the jury the headline.
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A tight ring of security
surrounds the Hall of Justice today
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as the Manson jury deliberates.
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Meanwhile,
members of the Manson clan
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continue their vigil
outside the Hall of Justice.
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They've been there
since the start of the trial.
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If Charlie were
convicted of these charges,
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what happens to the rest
of the members of the family?
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There's no "if."
Charlie will get out.
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All the people in jail will get out
and we'll all go to the desert together.
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The jury hearing the charges
against Charles Manson
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and three girl members
of his so-called "family"
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brought in its verdict
this afternoon.
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And outside the court,
Manson's girl followers got the news by radio.
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Uh, they've convicted these people
and you are next, all of you.
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There's a revolution coming very soon.
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Today the judge formally passed sentence
of Charles Manson and his girls.
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The death penalty he said,
"for seven senseless murders."
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He said not only was the sentence appropriate,
but almost compelled in this case.
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So death in the gas chamber, he said.
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The very name Manson
has become a metaphor for evil,
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catapulting him to almost
mythological proportions.
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And there's a side to human nature,
for whatever reason,
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that is fascinated
by pure unalloyed evil.
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But if the death penalty is to
mean anything in the state of California,
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other than two empty words,
this unquestionably was a proper case
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for the imposition of the death penalty.
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The California Supreme Court ruled today
that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
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That will save five women
and 102 men,
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including Charles Manson,
from the gas chamber.
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Should there be a supreme penalty
for committing a crime?
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What do you think?
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I'm the one who's asking you.
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Yeah, but if I don't give you
the answer that you want...
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- Doesn't matter to me.
- Doesn't matter.
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- It's your opinion.
- Well, uh...
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I don't have the authority
to say anything like that.
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You have the authority to believe.
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I believe what I'm told to believe.
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Don't you?
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The boy was shot
right at the side of the car.
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The girl apparently tried to run.
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She was shot
and found 28 feet further on.
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Do you have any idea what the possible
motive might be for this killing?
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We have no motive at this time.
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The Zodiac Killer,
this unknown person,
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committed dozens of murders
in the 1960s and the 1970s.
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We really don't know
the full dimensions of the case.
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But we know he's the Zodiac
because he started writing to the police,
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claiming credit in great detail,
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articulating and explaining
what he did to these victims.
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The Chronicle received two letters.
They notified us immediately.
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The criminologist was sent over to
the newspaper, as were inspectors,
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and the two letters
were examined and opened.
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The Zodiac's reaching out to the police,
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repeatedly, and in great length,
was something new.
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The psychotic killer
has already murdered five.
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One at a lovers' lane near a lake
just north of San Francisco.
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Three others in nearby Vallejo.
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The latest,
a taxi driver in San Francisco.
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The Zodiac Killer
seems to crave publicity.
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He's sent letters and cryptograms
to newspapers and the police,
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recounting his crimes,
threatening more murders,
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and making Bay Area residents
very edgy.
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In the '70s
there was a certain kind of killer
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who had the skill
to get away with murder
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long enough to
assemble a body count
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where they would
be classified a serial killer.
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In Los Angeles, a killer the police
are calling the Hillside Strangler
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has murdered ten young women
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and left their bodies on the hillsides
along the highways.
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Today the police found another.
Number eleven, they think.
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Two young paper boys discovered
what appeared to be the latest victim.
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The body had been dumped 15 feet down
an embankment in a residential neighborhood.
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The victim was a woman about 20 years old,
and the body was nude.
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This series of murders has had a chilling
effect among the people in the city.
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In Los Angeles, more women than ever before
are learning how to defend themselves.
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Susan Ball skipped night school for a week.
She says she can't sleep because of the murders.
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I guess I just want to learn how to maybe
give myself a few seconds so I can live.
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There have been enough bodies
found over a wide enough area
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to strongly suggest
more than one killer.
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But police say they really don't know.
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Today the Los Angeles Police
say they have a suspect.
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A man in jail in another state.
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Los Angeles Police say
they have enough evidence
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to charge 27-year-old Kenneth Bianchi
with ten of the hillside stranglings.
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Police focused on Bianchi only after
he was arrested last January
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for the murder of two college students
in Washington state.
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What the police did not know was that
there was not one Strangler, but two.
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Today in a Bellingham, Washington courtroom
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Kenneth Bianchi,
in the hope of avoiding a death sentence,
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confessed to participation in
the Los Angeles hillside stranglings
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and went on to accuse his cousin,
Angelo Buono, of being his accomplice.
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Kenneth Bianchi told us
that he was motivated
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because he was trying
to show his older cousin,
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who he revered,
that he was tough.
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And for Angelo Buono,
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he enjoyed the fact that he had
his younger cousin listening to him.
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He saw him as a mentee.
And we saw this time and time again.
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Pairs of killers who urge each other on.
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And together they are
extremely vicious and violent.
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Is there any doubt that
this is a body?
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No doubt. There's a skull
and tailbone and everything.
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When did you first get word that
there might be some bodies buried here?
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This morning.
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Had you had any indication before?
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The man behind the killings was Dean Corll.
He's 33 years old.
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Or was. He was shot and killed
Wednesday evening
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by Wayne Henley, 17 years old.
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Henley was one of two teenagers
who lured young boys to Corll's home.
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Dean Corll would pick up kids
and once he had them in his house,
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he would incapacitate them and put them
on what he called his "death board,"
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and rape and kill them.
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The Texas sex and torture killings
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now have become the worst mass murders
in American history.
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Four more bodies of young boys
were dug up today.
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That brings to 27 the number
of bodies discovered so far.
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Some people trying to make
it appear that the police department
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has not done all that it could or
should have done in these cases.
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This police department feels that
these parents
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are not exactly discharging
their own responsibility,
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so far as raising
and disciplining their children.
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These shocking murders finally focus
national attention on a major problem,
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that of runaway children
and what can happen to them.
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The children who
run away from home today
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are not the children that we had
running away in the '60s.
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In the '60s we had
what we called then "flower children,"
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and they ran away basically
for sociopolitical reasons.
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Today children are running from a
situation rather than to a situation.
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Kids were disappearing and the police would
say, "well, they probably ran away."
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It was to the demise of many
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who in fact were picked up
by sexual sadists like John Wayne Gacy.
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In Des Plains, Illinois,
near Chicago,
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a man who served time in prison
for sex crimes was let out.
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Today they found the bodies
of at least three young boys
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buried under his house.
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Police today found six more bodies
under the John Gacy house.
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Illinois authorities today
made their first positive identification
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of the 28 bodies
unearthed so far.
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This grisly search ended tonight
and will be resumed after Christmas.
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Prior to his arrest,
Gacy was well known in the community.
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He frequently dressed in a clown outfit
for the benefit of youngsters.
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He was generally seen as a man
young people liked.
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The coroner of this county
has seen nothing like it.
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It's frightening.
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That's the only word I can use.
Frightening, frightening.
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From New York, this is ABC News.
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Good evening.
The Supreme Court ruled today
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that there is nothing unconstitutional
in the death penalty.
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The court says the death penalty
is an expression
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of society's moral outrage
at particular crimes.
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In the 1970s, we had a four-year
moratorium on the death penalty.
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The U.S. Supreme Court
ruled the death penalty unconstitutional.
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Eventually in 1976,
with new statutes,
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the U.S. Supreme Court
said it's constitutional,
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and then we started seeing
the death penalty back in place.
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Death row was repopulated
with new criminals like Gary Gilmore.
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It seems that the people of Utah,
they want the death penalty,
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but they don't want executions.
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Well I took it literal and serious
when they sentenced me to death.
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His crimes were not especially extreme.
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It was two robbery-murders.
But when he was convicted, he wanted to die.
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He wanted to go out
in a blaze of glory.
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So two years later,
he was put to death by a firing squad,
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and became the very first
person in America
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in this new era, to be executed.
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And his words were,
"let's do it."
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The order of the 4th Judicial District
Court of the State of Utah has been carried out.
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Gary Mark Gilmore is dead.
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Tonight, our topic will be murder
as a growth industry.
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These are the national homicide figures.
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For the past ten years,
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every year has set a new high
for murder in America.
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The statistics were stupendous.
Violent crime of all kinds were soaring.
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The spectacles that people
were seeing on their TV screen
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were unlike anything
they'd had to absorb before.
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A small grocery store has been robbed.
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The owner of the grocery store,
Nathan Kurt,
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has been shot and killed.
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What happened yesterday?
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As I understand,
a man came into the store,
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and had a gun,
and asked for the money.
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And my grandfather reached for
a gun that he had,
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and grabbed the man's gun
and it went off.
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He shot him twice
and my grandfather fell to the floor.
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Why did he feel
he had to have a gun?
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Because there were
so many robberies in this area.
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And he just thought
he needed it for protection.
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Today, ordinary citizens who would not
otherwise dream of having a gun
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are buying one because
they are scared out of their wits.
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William Rubiak is a Ukrainian immigrant
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who owns a store outside Washington, D.C.
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He has been robbed at gunpoint
four times in the past two years.
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Now William Rubiak has bought a gun,
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and he says next time,
he will use it.
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I will shoot,
and I will shoot to kill.
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Fear is the biggest seller of guns.
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Studies has shown each urban crime wave
has touched off a new round of gun buying.
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He have German Lugers, derringers,
small revolvers, Magnums,
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Some of these Saturday night specials are small.
They can be palmed in your hand.
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It was shortly after 10:00
California time
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when the President
left his hotel.
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Not seen by the following cameras,
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but spotted by
Secret Service Agent Larry Buendorf
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was a hand with a gun in it
coming through the crowd.
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The commotion erupted.
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Secret Service agents forced the assailant
to the ground and then handcuffed her.
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She was identified as 27-year-old
Lynette Alice Fromme,
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one of the earliest followers
of Charles Manson
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who was involved in the Tate/LaBianca
murders of 1969.
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About the same time
Gerald Ford becomes President,
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Charlie, in prison,
writes to Squeaky that he's got new rules.
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They want to do one big thing that's going to
get the nation's attention back on Charlie.
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So Squeaky, wearing a red robe,
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comes up to the President of the
United States with a big gun,
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points the gun in his face. The Secret
Service men wrestle her to the ground,
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and Squeaky's first words were,
"can you believe the gun didn't go off?"
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Following your own close brush with death
in Sacramento a couple of weeks ago,
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I wonder if this
has convinced you at all
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that we need tough gun control
legislation in this country?
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I prefer to go after the person who uses the
gun for an illegal or criminal purpose.
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That, to me, is a far better approach
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than the one where you require
registration of the individual or the gun.
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Just minutes after making those statements,
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Gerald Ford walked into the street
and heard the sound of gunfire.
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My God! My God,
there's been a shot.
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There's been a shot!
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We're being pushed back
by the police.
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Somebody has fired a shot here.
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We don't know if anybody's been hit.
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My God.
Somebody fired a shot!
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The President was not hit.
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Witnesses heard the sound
and saw a puff of smoke.
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The woman,
identified by police as Sara Jane Moore,
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was immediately seized.
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Sara Jane Moore jumped out of the crowd,
fired off a weapon,
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and was tackled by another citizen.
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Her background, it turned out, was as a sort
of eccentric lower-rung political figure.
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She was kind of an odd duck.
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When Gerald Ford became President,
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within the space of one month
were two attempts on his life.
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Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore
both tried to shoot him.
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It's like, "what's going on?
Why can't this be stopped?"
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So once again this nation has narrowly
escaped the tragedy, the trauma,
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of assassination of our President.
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Above all else, this points out
the need for some additional measures,
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some additional precautions
to protect the life
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of the highest elected official
in the country.
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Will it take another assassination in our
lifetime to finally force some action?
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In the '70s,
New York was really in danger.
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The whole social fabric
seemed to have been torn in half
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and crime was just one of the many
indications that we were lost.
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I would say in the last ten years, the homicide
rate has increased by leaps and bounds.
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We hit our peak probably in 1972,
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when the Bronx had 430 homicides.
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In the '70s the Bronx looked
like Berlin after World War II.
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Literally looked like Berlin.
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1.5 million people live in this borough.
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Once that smoke on the horizon
signified industry, progress, jobs.
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Now it means someone is
burning down a building.
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It has become
the arson capitol of the world.
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It happens 30 times a day,
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and the flames are the signal
of a national disaster.
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Is there anything
that can change the situation?
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The Bronx, in my own estimation,
is doomed with a capital D.
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A lot of gritty stuff
went down in New York.
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And when you think of New York in the '70s,
you of course think of the Son of Sam murders.
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Christine Freund, 26 years old,
soon to be married, is dead today.
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Dead in a shooting
that has no apparent motive.
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In the end of 1976,
they transfer me to Queens homicide.
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And the first victim that I came across
was a woman named Christine Freund,
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who was sitting in a parked car with her
boyfriend after coming from a movie.
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She got her head blown off.
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There was a series of
these random shootings,
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and the ballistics comparison
determined that there was indeed
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the same killer using the same gun,
a 0.44 caliber weapon, on these homicides.
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Therefore the police nicknamed it
the 0.44 Caliber Killer.
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He struck again on April 17th
at 3:00 in the morning,
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killing 18-year-old Valentina Suriani
and her fiance, 20-year-old Alexander Esau,
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as they sat in a parked car
in the Baychester section of the Bronx.
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We get the shooting back in the Bronx.
A girl named Valentina Suriani.
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But at that scene where that shooting occurred
left a note addressed to my supervisor.
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And he called himself
the Son of Sam.
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Well he talked about being possessed
by a man he refers to as Sam,
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the man he refers to as his father.
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And he says that
his father requires blood.
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This got people's attention. I think it
was just the sheer randomness of it.
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The fact that you could be doing something as
simple as sitting in a car talking to a friend
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and someone would come behind you
and open fire.
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00:23:06,362 --> 00:23:09,983
It was pretty terrifying.
It was frightening.
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I was in charge of the
nighttime operations.
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I was one of the task force
that wanted to shoot him on sight.
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That was our job,
take him out on the street.
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We flooded the streets of New York.
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All these people are dying
and we're trying to stop it.
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It's everybody. It's not you, it's everybody.
That's all we're trying to do.
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In terms of the victim count,
that doesn't place him at the top of the list,
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in terms of the most deadly serial killers.
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But it was New York City,
and what happens in New York City,
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well, that's international news.
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Good evening. Harry is on vacation.
Here are our top stories.
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100 more police join the hunt
for the Son of Sam killer in New York.
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The search continues
for the 0.44 Caliber Killer
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who has come to be known
as the Son of Sam.
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He warned in one of his sick and threatening
letters to the press and to the police,
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"Sam's a thirsty lad
and he won't let me stop killing
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until he's had his fill of blood."
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00:24:15,995 --> 00:24:19,153
It was a really
miserably hot summer in New York.
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And everything went dark.
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I heard someone on the street go,
"oh, it's a blackout!"
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The looters were out
almost instantly.
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And it felt apocalyptic.
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00:24:33,171 --> 00:24:36,109
I remember going to bed that night
thinking it was the end of the world.
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New York City in the early morning
after a night of no electric power.
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What it did have in the dark streets
was a wild outburst of crime.
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When the greatest city in the world goes black,
it showed a crumbling America.
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Then you have the Son of Sam
on the loose.
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00:24:54,956 --> 00:24:57,507
We always look
for patterns in victims,
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00:24:57,533 --> 00:25:02,933
and there was this belief that he was
only killing women with long dark hair.
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00:25:02,969 --> 00:25:05,877
I know the 0.44 Killer's
after girls with long brown hair,
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00:25:05,912 --> 00:25:09,871
so when me and my friends go out at night,
we put our hair up.
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00:25:09,897 --> 00:25:12,308
My hair was about down to my shoulder.
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00:25:12,334 --> 00:25:16,578
It was about this length. I cut it short
because of the 0.44 Caliber Killer.
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Well, his last victim
was actually a blonde.
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A 20-year-old New York City girl
died this evening
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a day and a half after she and her
companion were shot by the Son of Sam.
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He's a nighttime killer who has stalked
New York residential boroughs for a year.
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A postal worker walked out of
his Yonkers apartment last night,
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turned the ignition key in his car,
and found himself surrounded by police.
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00:25:46,216 --> 00:25:48,345
"Well," he said, "you got me."
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Police say those words ended the biggest
manhunt in New York City history
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with the capture of Son of Sam.
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And this is what they say
tripped up the 0.44 Caliber Killer.
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A parking ticket.
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David Berkowitz drove
this cream-colored Ford Galaxy
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from his home in Yonkers
to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
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Then police say he went
to stalk his 12th and 13th victims.
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But in the place he parked
was this fire hydrant,
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00:26:11,261 --> 00:26:13,513
and police had the lead they needed.
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00:26:13,548 --> 00:26:16,131
Well, we get him,
and I interrogate him.
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00:26:16,166 --> 00:26:20,290
My attitude at this time... I want to
take him and throw him out the window.
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00:26:20,325 --> 00:26:24,342
This guy was so pathetic.
It was like talking to a zucchini.
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00:26:24,386 --> 00:26:27,008
Never blinked.
Constant smile on his face.
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00:26:27,043 --> 00:26:29,727
So after a while,
I start to feel sorry for the guy.
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You know he's gone, right?
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00:26:33,038 --> 00:26:38,107
I feel great. I think the people
of our city will feel great relief.
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00:26:38,123 --> 00:26:40,581
Praise the Lord, it's over.
435
00:26:40,616 --> 00:26:43,721
We're very, very happy. That was the
first thing I heard this morning.
436
00:26:43,757 --> 00:26:46,661
It was fantastic.
It was great.
437
00:26:46,696 --> 00:26:50,911
Serial killers tend to be cunning.
That allows them to stay at large.
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00:26:50,941 --> 00:26:53,211
And when they get caught,
it's usually because of luck.
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00:26:53,246 --> 00:26:55,983
Good luck for us. Bad luck for them.
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00:26:56,006 --> 00:26:58,416
When we caught him,
we searched his car.
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00:26:58,434 --> 00:27:01,891
In the bag on the seat is the 0.44
caliber gun that did all the shootings.
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00:27:01,915 --> 00:27:03,024
What more do you need?
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00:27:03,068 --> 00:27:06,205
Then we found a machine gun,
fully loaded, in the back seat.
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00:27:06,232 --> 00:27:09,923
And the night of the interrogation
that I directed
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I said, "well what were you
going to do with the machine gun?"
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00:27:12,884 --> 00:27:15,992
He says,
"I was on my way to the Hamptons,
447
00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:20,767
and I was going to spray the place
and kill as many people as I could."
448
00:27:30,904 --> 00:27:33,213
There are so many
miracles in this church
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00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,318
that it's hard to tell about one
without telling about two or three
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00:27:36,345 --> 00:27:39,372
because they blend together.
They make a beautiful flow of miracles.
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00:27:39,389 --> 00:27:43,154
And you know,
for 30 years I prayed to the sky God
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and I got nothing but
disappointment and heartache.
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00:27:46,049 --> 00:27:49,977
And now we have a father
who loves each one of us so much.
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How thankful we are for him.
Thank you.
455
00:28:00,653 --> 00:28:05,457
The '70s were a very fertile period
for these new religious movements.
456
00:28:05,492 --> 00:28:09,373
What was so interesting about
the rise of cults in our country
457
00:28:09,408 --> 00:28:12,390
is how many people
wanted to align themselves
458
00:28:12,434 --> 00:28:16,736
with these stigmatized
and fanatical organizations.
459
00:28:16,765 --> 00:28:19,983
And I must say it is
a great effort to be God.
460
00:28:20,001 --> 00:28:23,617
I'd wish it upon another,
but no one else has the faculty that I do.
461
00:28:23,652 --> 00:28:27,690
When they do, I will be glad to hold their coat.
In the meantime, I shall be God.
462
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:31,072
And this I be.
There shall be no other.
463
00:28:31,592 --> 00:28:34,336
Jim Jones was an extraordinary figure.
464
00:28:34,372 --> 00:28:38,370
He was a community leader,
a social worker, and then a minister.
465
00:28:38,438 --> 00:28:41,779
He carried his ministry to California.
466
00:28:41,803 --> 00:28:46,692
♪ Walk with me, walk with me... ♪
467
00:28:46,710 --> 00:28:49,965
What was particularly distinctive
about him at that time
468
00:28:49,991 --> 00:28:55,334
is that he created a community
that was united between whites and blacks.
469
00:28:55,351 --> 00:28:59,477
And this came at a time when
the country was still very racially divided
470
00:28:59,504 --> 00:29:02,002
and churches were not integrated.
471
00:29:02,037 --> 00:29:05,243
Some leading scientists say
we have to have euthanasia.
472
00:29:05,270 --> 00:29:08,164
Oh, no. Oh, no.
473
00:29:08,201 --> 00:29:12,072
Who is going to decide who and when
a person is going to die?
474
00:29:12,116 --> 00:29:13,679
We must never allow that,
475
00:29:13,705 --> 00:29:17,875
because this is the kind of thing that
ushers in the terror of a Hitler's Germany.
476
00:29:17,893 --> 00:29:20,784
We must not allow these kind of things
to enter our consciousness.
477
00:29:22,869 --> 00:29:27,281
I wanted to write a story very much about
this guy and his power and the reach he had.
478
00:29:27,308 --> 00:29:29,938
So I began to contact ex-members,
479
00:29:29,956 --> 00:29:32,463
and they said that all was
not so good inside,
480
00:29:32,490 --> 00:29:36,389
that there were beatings if you got out
of line. There was a lot of sex abuse.
481
00:29:36,424 --> 00:29:39,187
And the story took on a new life
at that point.
482
00:29:39,222 --> 00:29:40,452
Very soon afterward,
483
00:29:40,479 --> 00:29:44,297
the church members began
leaving San Francisco for Guyana.
484
00:29:49,892 --> 00:29:52,014
He figures if I'm in Guyana,
485
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,732
it really doesn't matter
what's said or written.
486
00:29:55,067 --> 00:29:56,651
Nobody is going to get me here.
487
00:29:56,686 --> 00:30:02,638
♪ We're a happy family.
We're a happy family, yes we are... ♪
488
00:30:06,838 --> 00:30:09,981
It was an escapade
that's almost unparalleled
489
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:12,154
in the history of religious movements.
490
00:30:12,189 --> 00:30:15,517
They had very little communication
with their loved ones at home,
491
00:30:15,543 --> 00:30:17,594
and naturally there was concern
492
00:30:17,629 --> 00:30:21,994
about where they had gone and what was
happening out there in the jungle.
493
00:30:22,038 --> 00:30:25,054
I think that Jim Jones
took his group down there
494
00:30:25,098 --> 00:30:28,626
because he was afraid to face publicity
and answer the questions
495
00:30:28,652 --> 00:30:30,311
that are here in this country.
496
00:30:30,329 --> 00:30:32,845
He was talking integration.
He was talking helping people.
497
00:30:32,871 --> 00:30:36,100
He was talking better this
and better that.
498
00:30:36,118 --> 00:30:38,977
What about now?
What's your impression now?
499
00:30:39,012 --> 00:30:43,925
My impression now is that
those are fronts for him.
500
00:30:43,969 --> 00:30:45,799
I think he's gone crazy.
501
00:30:45,817 --> 00:30:51,477
Congressman Leo Ryan started hearing
the name Jim Jones more regularly.
502
00:30:51,521 --> 00:30:54,368
And he wanted to expose
503
00:30:54,412 --> 00:30:58,813
what he believed was going on down there
that was wrong.
504
00:30:58,830 --> 00:31:03,443
And he thought it was certainly worth
inviting members of the press to join him.
505
00:31:06,963 --> 00:31:09,770
Very glad to be here.
This is a Congressional inquiry.
506
00:31:09,805 --> 00:31:12,523
I can tell you right now that
whatever the comments are
507
00:31:12,541 --> 00:31:16,661
there's some people here who believe that this is the
best thing that ever happened in their whole life.
508
00:31:18,103 --> 00:31:20,135
So it's towards the end of the evening.
509
00:31:20,170 --> 00:31:24,805
Don Harris, who was the NBC reporter,
had been walking around the pavilion.
510
00:31:24,832 --> 00:31:27,093
And two people slipped him a note.
511
00:31:27,137 --> 00:31:31,097
And he hands the notes over
to Congressman Ryan who opens them
512
00:31:31,124 --> 00:31:36,499
and says, "oh my God, it's true.
Everything we've been told is true."
513
00:31:50,803 --> 00:31:54,043
And then the word spread
and more and more people wanted to leave.
514
00:32:02,700 --> 00:32:07,354
And then I remember seeing this couple
with a child between them.
515
00:32:07,390 --> 00:32:10,130
Don't break us! Get back here!
516
00:32:10,161 --> 00:32:12,713
You bring him back!
517
00:32:12,739 --> 00:32:15,158
Don't you take my kid!
518
00:32:15,193 --> 00:32:17,305
You could feel the tension.
519
00:32:17,331 --> 00:32:21,010
Last night, someone came
and passed me this note.
520
00:32:22,488 --> 00:32:25,157
People play games, friend.
521
00:32:25,193 --> 00:32:27,955
They lie. They lie.
What can I do about liars?
522
00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:32,662
And you people going to...
Leave us. I just can't. Please leave us.
523
00:32:34,340 --> 00:32:38,942
Instead of just letting that plane take off
with minimal damage to his movement,
524
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:40,813
Jones snapped.
525
00:32:41,644 --> 00:32:44,195
Good evening.
For about the last 30 hours
526
00:32:44,213 --> 00:32:47,213
we here at NBC News
have been trying to establish
527
00:32:47,239 --> 00:32:51,656
what happened last night at the airstrip
at a place called Port Kaituma.
528
00:32:51,724 --> 00:32:56,385
We do have a particular interest in the two
NBC newsmen who were shot to death there.
529
00:32:57,063 --> 00:33:00,256
Don Harris was killed.
Bob Brown was killed.
530
00:33:00,295 --> 00:33:03,234
Congressman Ryan was shot 45 times.
531
00:33:03,251 --> 00:33:06,666
Every time somebody would
fall down wounded,
532
00:33:09,094 --> 00:33:14,345
they would walk over
and shoot them in the head with a shotgun.
533
00:33:14,785 --> 00:33:16,957
I was shot five times.
534
00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:21,209
I was lying on my side with my head down
pretending I was dead.
535
00:33:22,977 --> 00:33:30,977
And then all of a sudden
they just came
536
00:33:32,153 --> 00:33:34,722
and shot me at point blank range.
537
00:33:35,109 --> 00:33:38,286
They're shooting.
People die, including Leo Ryan.
538
00:33:38,322 --> 00:33:44,128
And back in Jonestown, Jim Jones is
calling for a revolutionary suicide,
539
00:33:44,163 --> 00:33:48,479
where we're all going to kill ourselves
and make a statement to the world.
540
00:33:58,882 --> 00:34:02,454
I first went to Jonestown
last evening around sunset.
541
00:34:02,489 --> 00:34:05,830
There was absolute silence.
Nothing living was around.
542
00:34:05,898 --> 00:34:08,895
Jonestown last evening
was the city of the dead.
543
00:34:08,921 --> 00:34:13,079
They found tremendous quantities
of potassium cyanide poison.
544
00:34:13,123 --> 00:34:15,166
It had been mixed with Kool-Aid.
545
00:34:15,184 --> 00:34:18,395
It killed quickly,
within five minutes.
546
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:24,325
We will never know how many people
voluntarily drank the poison.
547
00:34:24,352 --> 00:34:30,003
But other people were either coerced,
brainwashed or took it against their will.
548
00:34:30,029 --> 00:34:32,405
They were murdered.
549
00:34:32,431 --> 00:34:35,748
I was lifted into this Medevac plane
550
00:34:35,792 --> 00:34:39,094
and I was so grateful.
551
00:34:39,129 --> 00:34:45,531
Good evening. The searching American soldiers have
finished counting the bodies in Jonestown, Guyana.
552
00:34:45,557 --> 00:34:50,474
910 died in the poison ritual
of the Peoples Temple last week.
553
00:34:50,509 --> 00:34:54,317
This was Americans
killing other Americans and themselves.
554
00:34:54,343 --> 00:34:57,048
In its own interest,
for its own well-being,
555
00:34:57,066 --> 00:34:59,184
this nation will have to find out why.
556
00:35:09,966 --> 00:35:15,690
There were a lot of strange people who committed
a lot of strange crimes in the 1970s.
557
00:35:15,717 --> 00:35:20,655
But none of them was as
mediagenic as Ted Bundy.
558
00:35:20,775 --> 00:35:23,815
- You said you were surprised to be going to jail.
- Surprised? I don't know.
559
00:35:23,819 --> 00:35:27,074
I didn't know what to expect. Never been to
jail before. Never been arrested before.
560
00:35:27,118 --> 00:35:29,655
Theodore Bundy was a
prolific serial killer.
561
00:35:29,690 --> 00:35:32,847
We don't know exactly how many he killed.
We know it's dozens.
562
00:35:32,882 --> 00:35:37,266
He was handsome, very involved with
politics, he was in law school.
563
00:35:37,284 --> 00:35:44,009
He didn't seem like the glassy-eyed lunatic that
many Americans believed a serial killer would be.
564
00:35:44,027 --> 00:35:47,229
We still don't believe it.
This can't be.
565
00:35:47,247 --> 00:35:51,126
I keep shaking my head day after day
saying, "how can this be?"
566
00:35:51,153 --> 00:35:54,884
Our son is the best son in the world.
567
00:35:54,928 --> 00:35:58,340
What the press wrote about
Bundy and his crimes
568
00:35:58,384 --> 00:36:02,109
wasn't the full details,
the full extent of the barbarism...
569
00:36:02,136 --> 00:36:06,332
The fact that he would have sex with
their corpses, mutilate the victims...
570
00:36:06,345 --> 00:36:10,382
That didn't quite fit with his
image of this boy next door.
571
00:36:10,408 --> 00:36:14,684
You issued a statement saying you feel
that everything will turn out all right.
572
00:36:14,701 --> 00:36:17,332
That you are innocent.
Do you still feel that?
573
00:36:17,358 --> 00:36:19,756
Yeah. Yeah. More than ever.
574
00:36:19,791 --> 00:36:21,823
Do you think about getting out of here?
575
00:36:22,298 --> 00:36:25,929
Well, legally, sure.
576
00:36:26,782 --> 00:36:30,617
Bundy was to stand trial on the charge
of murdering a young woman in Aspen.
577
00:36:30,644 --> 00:36:32,370
That trial never completed.
578
00:36:32,388 --> 00:36:35,757
During a court hearing break,
he was left alone in a law library.
579
00:36:35,804 --> 00:36:39,148
Bundy bailed out of a second
floor window and escaped.
580
00:36:39,174 --> 00:36:43,054
He high-tailed it up into the hills where
they chased him around for nearly a week.
581
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:47,620
He got lost out there and he probably would have
died of exposure if they hadn't have arrested him.
582
00:36:47,655 --> 00:36:51,228
So they caught him
and he was put back in jail.
583
00:36:51,254 --> 00:36:55,495
And in Christmastime 1977,
he escaped again.
584
00:36:55,539 --> 00:36:58,721
Bundy, starved down to
less than 140 pounds,
585
00:36:58,756 --> 00:37:02,432
slipped through a hole in the ceiling
of his cell and was free again.
586
00:37:02,458 --> 00:37:06,306
The FBI responded by putting Bundy
on its Ten Most Wanted list.
587
00:37:06,325 --> 00:37:10,847
Posters with the picture of Ted Bundy
were circulated throughout the nation.
588
00:37:10,875 --> 00:37:14,460
Ted did not have a plan
when he escaped.
589
00:37:14,504 --> 00:37:18,427
He just wanted to get as far away from
where he might be identified as he could.
590
00:37:18,471 --> 00:37:21,066
So he stole a car and went to Florida.
591
00:37:21,796 --> 00:37:24,808
His new quarters are cramped.
He is under 24-hour guard
592
00:37:24,835 --> 00:37:27,342
and he faces intense questioning.
593
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,043
He is Theodore Bundy and
he's jailed in Florida.
594
00:37:30,087 --> 00:37:31,913
Bundy was living in Tallahassee
595
00:37:31,939 --> 00:37:37,789
at the time when five Florida State University
co-eds were attacked on or near the campus.
596
00:37:37,825 --> 00:37:41,213
Two of the young women died
as a result of the attacks.
597
00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:45,533
The police in Pensacola, Florida
stopped a man driving a stolen car
598
00:37:45,559 --> 00:37:48,917
and found to their surprise and
perhaps pleasure, it was Bundy.
599
00:37:48,943 --> 00:37:50,759
Step out, Mr. Bundy.
600
00:37:53,372 --> 00:37:56,492
What do we have here?
Let's see. Oh, it's an indictment.
601
00:37:56,528 --> 00:37:58,629
All right.
Why don't you read it to me?
602
00:37:58,655 --> 00:38:00,899
You're about due for election,
aren't you?
603
00:38:00,925 --> 00:38:02,742
Mr. Bundy?
604
00:38:02,777 --> 00:38:05,346
You told me that you were going to get me.
605
00:38:05,390 --> 00:38:08,091
He said he was going to get me.
Okay, you've got the indictment.
606
00:38:08,117 --> 00:38:09,780
It's all you're going to get.
607
00:38:09,806 --> 00:38:14,194
Bundy, having had some law training
and a great deal of arrogance,
608
00:38:14,229 --> 00:38:15,834
decided to represent himself.
609
00:38:15,869 --> 00:38:18,220
For him, he was the star in the courtroom.
610
00:38:18,287 --> 00:38:21,397
As I am living in Dade County...
611
00:38:22,981 --> 00:38:26,042
Don't shake your finger at me, young man.
612
00:38:26,068 --> 00:38:28,400
Inside the courtroom,
the trial will be covered
613
00:38:28,427 --> 00:38:31,462
by a still photographer
and one television camera.
614
00:38:31,506 --> 00:38:36,945
Upstairs there are some 250 reporters and
television technicians from around the country.
615
00:38:36,989 --> 00:38:39,989
Bundy's personality is
fascinating to a lot of people.
616
00:38:40,033 --> 00:38:42,666
He doesn't fit the usual
profile of a criminal.
617
00:38:42,692 --> 00:38:46,334
When he defends himself in court it's
fascinating for people to watch.
618
00:38:46,361 --> 00:38:48,845
Each day the courtroom is
filled with spectators
619
00:38:48,871 --> 00:38:51,528
drawn by a fascination with
Theodore Bundy himself,
620
00:38:51,546 --> 00:38:54,167
or by the gruesome details of the crimes.
621
00:38:54,211 --> 00:38:58,124
What is unusual to see is that many of
the onlookers are women. Young women.
622
00:38:58,151 --> 00:39:00,825
- You're fascinated by him?
- Very.
623
00:39:00,860 --> 00:39:03,503
I'm not afraid of him. He just doesn't
look like the type to kill somebody.
624
00:39:03,538 --> 00:39:08,020
You try to imagine yourself in his place,
see how he's feeling.
625
00:39:08,064 --> 00:39:11,352
The bizarre spectacle of
Ted Bundy as a sex symbol
626
00:39:11,378 --> 00:39:15,161
really bummed out feminists,
as you can imagine.
627
00:39:15,187 --> 00:39:19,786
I mean, he became folk hero.
There were t-shirts because he was handsome.
628
00:39:19,809 --> 00:39:25,264
But on the other hand, his violence
was so incredibly woman-hating.
629
00:39:25,298 --> 00:39:31,347
And his enthusiasm about that...
We wound up being pretty depressed.
630
00:39:31,375 --> 00:39:36,943
I had broken facial bones.
I had a broken arm and a crushed finger.
631
00:39:36,969 --> 00:39:41,217
I had five skull fractures and
multiple contusions in my head.
632
00:39:41,243 --> 00:39:43,717
Is that man in the courtroom today?
633
00:39:43,752 --> 00:39:46,842
- Yes he is.
- Would you point him out for us, please?
634
00:39:50,081 --> 00:39:52,568
Are you prepared for a guilty verdict?
635
00:39:52,612 --> 00:39:54,802
I think so, but you never know.
636
00:39:54,838 --> 00:39:57,622
I've never had to go through this before.
637
00:39:57,648 --> 00:40:01,229
After 6 1/2 hours of deliberation,
the jury had a verdict.
638
00:40:01,256 --> 00:40:05,068
32-year-old Theodore Bundy
remained composed as he listened.
639
00:40:05,086 --> 00:40:11,755
Guilty of first degree murder in the strangling deaths of two
Florida State University sorority sisters 19 months ago.
640
00:40:13,532 --> 00:40:19,559
It is therefore the sentence of this court that you
be sentenced to death by a current of electricity,
641
00:40:19,585 --> 00:40:25,080
and such current of electricity shall continue
to pass through your body until you are dead.
642
00:40:27,053 --> 00:40:31,188
In some ways Ted Bundy
is an icon of the '70s.
643
00:40:31,206 --> 00:40:35,363
He mixed kind of showbiz and violence
644
00:40:35,389 --> 00:40:39,550
in a way that had never been done before.
645
00:40:40,545 --> 00:40:44,599
At the end of the '70s,
we'd had a destruction of our innocence
646
00:40:44,667 --> 00:40:47,685
that we had at the beginning of the '70s.
647
00:40:47,729 --> 00:40:52,600
It became an era when Americans
began to expect the worst.
648
00:40:52,626 --> 00:40:55,424
America certainly had lost is way.
649
00:40:55,441 --> 00:41:00,368
Criminals were lauded and
killers were romanticized.
650
00:41:00,403 --> 00:41:04,817
It was the news media that helped carry this
message that America was a dangerous place.
651
00:41:04,852 --> 00:41:06,693
Americans had a love affair
with violence.
652
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:08,814
Actually it was much more like a marriage.
653
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,868
And that marriage, for some people,
was till death do they part.
654
00:41:11,912 --> 00:41:17,142
For a time social scientists described the
wave of violence that struck our cities
655
00:41:17,184 --> 00:41:19,049
as an epidemic.
656
00:41:19,084 --> 00:41:21,623
And they identified some of the causes.
657
00:41:21,667 --> 00:41:23,724
Poverty, broken homes.
658
00:41:23,750 --> 00:41:27,912
For some violence has become a
permanent part of the fabric of life.
659
00:41:27,930 --> 00:41:31,554
Sociologists call it a
subculture of violence.
660
00:41:31,598 --> 00:41:36,342
The current wave of violent crime
is well into its second decade.
661
00:41:36,368 --> 00:41:38,637
While we have deplored violence,
662
00:41:38,664 --> 00:41:40,678
we've not done much about it.
663
00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:42,481
Perhaps this is because
664
00:41:42,508 --> 00:41:45,943
confronting the problem of violence
665
00:41:45,969 --> 00:41:49,031
forces us to confront the most
serious defects in our society.
666
00:41:49,058 --> 00:41:52,058
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