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SAMANTHA HARRIS: THE SENSATIONAL STORY MADE NATIONAL HEADLINES, BUT THE NEWS HIT HARDEST HERE IN A WEALTHY SUBURB NORTH OF DETROIT .
(VO): THREE DECADES EARLIER, SOMEONE KIDNAPPED AND MURDERED FOUR KIDS. AND THE KILLER IS STILL ON THE LOOSE.
MURRAY FELDMAN:
(FOX 2 DETROIT NEWS ANCHOR)
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE BTK KILLER, AND THE FACT THAT THREE DECADES WENT BY AND THEY WERE ABLE TO CRACK THAT CASE, THERE IS HOPE IN MANY MINDS THAT THIS ONE WILL BE CRACKED TOO.
(VO): FLASHBACK TO FEBRUARY 1976, WHEN THE KILLINGS BEGAN IN MICHIGAN .
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THE FIRST VICTIM THAT WAS ABDUCTED, UH, WAS MARK STEBBINS. HE WAS AT THE AMERICAN LEGION HALL, NEAR NINE MILE AND FERNDALE . HE LEFT IN THE EARLY AFTERNOON TO GO BACK HOME TO WATCH A MOVIE. HE SPOKE TO HIS MOTHER ON THE PHONE AND EVERYTHING WAS FINE. AND, UH, NEVER, NEVER MADE IT HOME. UH, 11:00 O CLOCK THAT NIGHT HIS MOTHER FILED A MISSING PERSON REPORT.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) HE DISAPPEARED FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND THEN HIS BODY WAS FOUND.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) HE WAS FULLY CLOTHED. HE HAD HIS, UH, JACKET ON, HIS HOOD WAS ON. THE AUTOPSY CONFIRMED THAT HIS CAUSE OF DEATH WAS ACTUALLY STRANGULATION, HE WAS STRANGLED.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) THE AUTOPSY SHOWED HE WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
(VO): VIOLENT CRIMES, ESPECIALLY THOSE INVOLVING KIDS, WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN PLACES LIKE THIS.
L. BROOKS PATTERSON:
(FORMER PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
OAKLAND COUNTY ) NOW THIS IS A SUBURBAN COUNTY TO THE CITY OF DETROIT . IT'S VERY AFFLUENT, IT'S THE THIRD WEALTHIEST COUNTY IN AMERICA . IT'S A PRETTY PEACEFUL COUNTY. AND SO AS, AS PROSECUTOR. IT WASN'T FILING MURDER CHARGES EVERY WEEK LIKE YOU SOME MAYBE URBAN PROSECUTORS MIGHT BE FACING. IT’S A SAFE COMMUNITY.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) BIRMINGHAM AND THE OTHER COMMUNITIES ARE THE TYPE OF COMMUNITIES THAT PEOPLE FELT COMFORTABLE WITH THEIR KIDS GOING OUT TO THE PARKS, OUT TO PLAYGROUNDS, WALKING TO SCHOOL.
MURRAY FELDMAN:
(FOX 2 DETROIT NEWS ANCHOR)
IF IT COULD HAPPEN HERE PEOPLE THOUGHT IT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE AND NOBODY IS REALLY SAFE. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE KIDS THAT CAN PLAY IN THE YARD AND CAN GO TO THE STORE DOWN THE STREET AND CAN BE OUTSIDE WITHOUT HAVING SOMEBODY WATCH THEM. AND WE WEREN'T ABLE TO DO THAT HERE. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT REALLY FRIGHTENED PEOPLE.
MOTHER: I’M SHOCKED AND TERRIFIED. IT’S A TERRIBLE WAY TO LIVE, I THINK. I’M VERY SADDENED BECAUSE CHILDREN JUST AFRAID TO LET THEM HAVE ANY FREEDOM ANYMORE. AND MOST OF ALL I’M UPSET BECAUSE MY CHILDREN ARE VERY FRIGHTENED AND DON’T WANT TO BE OUTSIDE ALONE ANYMORE AND WON’T COME TO SCHOOL ALONE. AND I THINK THAT’S THE WORST THING TO GROW UP BEING DISTRUSTING.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) PEOPLE KEPT THEIR KIDS AT HOME. UM, PARENTS WALKED WITH THEM TO STORES, TO NEIGHBOR'S HOUSES. THEY DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE THEIR KIDS ALONE.
(VO): DESPITE PRECAUTIONS, TEN MONTHS AFTER MARK STEBBINS’ MURDER, JILL ROBINSON DISAPPEARED. LIKE MARK, JILL WAS ONLY 12.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) JILL WAS TAKEN APPROXIMATELY, UM, 7:30 P.M. ON A WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. SHE WAS AT THE TINY TIM HOBBY CENTER , LOCATED ON WOODARD AVENUE IN ROYAL OAK.
(VO): FOUR DAYS LATER, HOPE TURNED TO GRIEF.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) SHE WAS FOUND LAYING IN THE SNOW ALONG I-75 IN THE CITY OF TROY BRUTALLY MURDERED WITH A SHOT GUN BLAST TO THE FACE.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) POLICE THEORIZED THAT PERHAPS SHE WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY.
MAN: WE DON’T HAVE ANY INFORMATION AS TO WHO DID IT AT ALL. WE HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO COME UP WITH ANY LEADS AS TO HER WHEREABOUTS EVEN FOR ONE MINUTE OF THE TIME WHEN SHE WAS GONE FROM HOME.
L. BROOKS PATTERSON:
(FORMER PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
OAKLAND COUNTY ) EVERY CHILD IN THIS COUNTY CERTAINLY AFTER THE FIRST TWO WENT MISSING, UM, EVERY PARENT INSTRUCTED THEIR CHILDREN WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DAY. NAY, NAY RUN AWAY, ALL THAT THING WE TEACH OUR KIDS, TO AVOID STRANGERS.
(VO): BUT EVEN THE SMARTEST AND TOUGHEST KIDS ARE NO MATCH FOR A PREDATOR. TWO WEEKS AFTER JILL’S BODY WAS DISCOVERED, THE KILLER STRUCK AGAIN.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THE THIRD ONE WAS KRISTINE MIHELICH. AT APPROXIMATELY 3:00 P.M. ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 2, SHE LEFT HER HOME IN THE CITY OF BERKELEY TO WALK DOWN TO THE 7-11 STORE I BELIEVE IT WAS TO GRAB A FASHION MAGAZINE. MOM KNEW ABOUT IT. OFF SHE WENT AND, UM, NEVER RETURNED.
(VO): EIGHTEEN DAYS LATER, THE BODY OF 10-YEAR-OLD KRISTINE WAS FOUND ON A RURAL ROAD IN AN AREA KNOWN AS FRANKLIN VILLAGE . SHE WAS FULLY CLOTHED AND HAD BEEN SMOTHERED TO DEATH. BY LATE JANUARY 1977, THE INVESTIGATION INCLUDED HUNDREDS OF LOCAL COPS, STATE TROOPERS AND FBI AGENTS. THERE WERE FEW GOOD CLUES AND NO SUSPECTS. BUT ALL THREE MURDERS DID HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON.
MAN: CERTAINLY THERE’S EVIDENCE THAT SHE WAS KEPT CLEAN DURING THAT TIME. THE MEDICAL EXAMINER SAID HER BODY WAS EXCEPTIONALLY CLEAN.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THE PERPETRATOR OR PERPETRATORS CLEANED THE BODIES NOT BECAUSE THEY WERE SOME CLEAN FREAK. THEY JUST, YOU GET RID OF EVIDENCE. FINGERNAILS WERE SCRAPED. IF YOU WERE TO SCRATCH SOMEBODY YOU'D HAVE THAT PERSON'S TISSUE UNDER YOUR NAILS. THEY WERE SCRAPED, THE BODIES WERE CLEANED. AND ALSO WE HAVE THE COMMONALITIES THAT THESE YOUNGSTERS WERE WELL FED. AND THEY WERE ALL TAKEN CARE OF. UM, OTHER THAN THAT THEY WERE MURDERED AT THE END OF THEIR STAY.
L. BROOKS PATTERSON:
(FORMER PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
OAKLAND COUNTY) CHILDREN WERE YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY, UM, DUPED, INTO SOME SORT OF A SITUATION WHETHER HE WAS DISGUISED AS A POLICEMAN, DISGUISED AS A PRIEST. HE GAINED THE CONFIDENCE OF THESE KIDS. BUT THEN THESE KIDS WEREN'T KILLED INSTANTLY BUT HELD A COUPLE OF DAYS SO WE HAD TO DECIDE WELL WHERE, WHERE DID HE HAVE THAT KIND OF ACCESS TO IMPRISON THESE CHILDREN.
MAN: HE HAS THE CAPACITY TO STORE OR KEEP HIS VICTIMS FOR A NUMBER OF DAYS WITHOUT BEING DETECTED.
MAN: IT CAN BE ANYONE. AND I THINK WE ALL THINK, AND I’VE SAID THIS IN MANY OF THE PRESS CONFERENCES, IT’S SOME DIRTY OLD MAN HANDY CANDY TO A CHILD. THAT'S NOT THE CASE IN THIS INCIDENT. THIS PERSON IS A TRUSTED INDIVIDUAL. IT COULD BE A PUBLIC OFFICIAL, IT COULD BE A PEOPLE OF THE CLERGY, COULD BE A DOCTOR, COULD EVEN BE POLICE PEOPLE.
(VO): PRESSURE TO CATCH THE KILLER INTENSIFIED. THE EVIDENCE SUGGESTED THE SAME PERSON COMMITTED ALL THREE CRIMES.
MAN: WE’RE DOING A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE CAN’T RELEASE RIGHT AT THIS TIME. I STILL FEEL THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE INVESTIGATION AND GET THIS ANIMAL OFF THE STREET.
STEVE MARDIGIAN:
(FORMER FBI PROFILER
THE ACADEMY GROUP) SERIAL KILLING IN ITSELF IS TRAUMATIC ON ANY COMMUNITY. A CHILD SERIAL KILLER CERTAINLY THE MORE VULNERABLE THE VICTIM REALLY TOUCHES SOCIETY IN A STRONG WAY. A DEFENSELESS CHILD WHO CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OR THE DANGER THEY MAY BE IN, UH, CAN’T PROTECT THEMSELVES.
JOHN SANDFORD:
(BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PREY SERIES)
IN MY HISTORY AS A NEWSPAPER REPORTER, THE ONLY KILLINGS I’VE EVER SEEN THAT I THOUGHT MIGHT INSPIRE A LYNCH MOB OR SOMETHING LIKE IT, HAVE BEEN THE MURDERS OF CHILDREN. PEOPLE LOOK UPON CHILDREN AS BEING ABSOLUTELY INNOCENT, THEY LOOK UPON THE PEOPLE THAT KILL THEM OR PREY UPON THEM AS ABSOLUTELY EVIL. AND THERE JUST IS NO, UH, EITHER PITY OR EXCUSE FOR KILLING A CHILD.
(VO): IN MARCH 1977, PANIC TURNED TO NEAR HYSTERIA. A FOURTH CHILD WAS ABDUCTED FROM A SUPERMARKET PARKING LOT. AUTHORITIES KNEW THERE WASN'T MUCH TIME. 11-YEAR-OLD TIMMY KING HAD ONLY DAYS TO LIVE.
L. BROOKS PATTERSON:
(FORMER PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
OAKLAND COUNTY ) WE PUSHED THE LIMITS OF, UM, THE CONSTITUTION WHEN IT CAME TO SEARCH AND SEIZURE.
SAMANTHA HARRIS: WHEN “THS: INVESTIGATES” RETURNS, A FATHER TALKS PUBLICLY FOR THE FIRST TIME ABOUT AN UNIMAGINABLE ORDEAL.
BARRY KING:
(TIMOTHY KING’S FATHER) BUT I DO REMEMBER TELLING TIM IF ANYBODY APPROACHED HIM TO DROP EVERYTHING HE HAD AND RUN AND SCREAM.
(VO): IN FEBRUARY 2005, COPS AND FBI AGENTS IN OAKLAND COUNTY , MICHIGAN , PORED OVER POLICE REPORTS AND THOUSANDS OF TIPS TRYING TO SOLVE A 30-YEAR-OLD MURDER MYSTERY.
SAMANTHA HARRIS: CRACKING ANY COLD CASE IS A CHALLENGE, AND THIS ONE TOOK INVESTIGATORS BACK TO THE MID-‘70S. THREE KIDS WERE ABDUCTED AND BRUTALLY MURDERED OVER THE SPAN OF JUST A YEAR. BY MARCH 1977, A FOURTH CHILD WAS MISSING.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) AT APPROXIMATELY 8:30 P.M., WEDNESDAY MARCH 16, TIMOTHY KING LEFT HIS HOME IN BIRMINGHAM TO WALK TO A STORE.
(VO): TIMMY'S FATHER, BARRY KING, HAS NEVER SPOKEN PUBLICLY ABOUT THAT TERRIBLE DAY.
BARRY KING:
(TIMOTHY KING’S FATHER) WHEN TIMMY WAS SNATCHED, UM HE WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE. HE HAD A BROTHER IN THE NINTH GRADE, A BROTHER IN THE TENTH GRADE AND MY DAUGHTER IN THE TWELFTH GRADE. THEY WERE ALL ABLE TO WALK TO SCHOOL.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) HIS FATHER WAS AN ATTORNEY AND HE WAS LEAVING HIS HOUSE JUST TO WALK UP TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD DRUG STORE, ABOUT PROBABLY TWO AND A HALF BLOCKS. TIMMY HAD BEEN WARNED REPEATEDLY ABOUT GOING WITH STRANGERS.
BARRY KING:
(TIMOTHY KING’S FATHER) I DO REMEMBER TELLING TIM IF ANYBODY APPROACHED HIM TO DROP EVERYTHING HE HAD AND RUN AND SCREAM.
(VO): IT WAS GOOD ADVICE. BUT TIMMY PROBABLY DIDN'T GET THE CHANCE TO RUN. AND THE CLOCK WAS TICKING. THE KILLER'S FIRST THREE VICTIMS WERE SNATCHED OFF THE STREET AND HELD FOR SEVERAL DAYS. THEN THEY WERE MURDERED.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) THE OAKLAND COUNTY PROSECUTOR , L. BROOKS PATTERSON, TYPED UP A LETTER. THEY BROUGHT IN POLICE FROM ALL OVER THE STATE, SO THEY HAD HUNDREDS OF THEM IN, IN OAKLAND COUNTY AND THEY LITERALLY STOPPED EVERY CAR ON THE ROAD THAT WAS OUT THERE AFTER 1:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING. AND THEY READ THIS LETTER, WHICH SAID, WE WANT TO LOOK INTO YOUR TRUNK FOR TIMMY KING. IF WE FIND ANYTHING ELSE, YOU CAN JUST GO AWAY YOU CAN JUST KEEP GOING. BUT WE WON'T HOLD THAT AGAINST YOU. BUT WE'RE LOOKING FOR TIMMY KING.
OFFICER: IT’S JUST PART OF THE INVESTIGATION. WE’RE CHECKING THE CARS THAT ARE GOING THROUGH TO SEE WHO IS IN THE AREA.
L. BROOKS PATTERSON:
(FORMER PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
OAKLAND COUNTY ) WE PUSHED THE LIMITS OF, UM, THE CONSTITUTION WHEN IT CAME TO SEARCH AND SEIZURE. WE WERE STOPPING CARS, WE WERE TAKING LIBERTIES THAT I THINK EVERYBODY UNDERSTOOD WHY WE WERE. THEY KNEW THAT WE WERE TRYING TO FIND, HOPEFULLY TIMMY ALIVE. AND WE MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE OPEN THEIR TRUNKS WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE BUT CITIZENS WHO HAD NOTHING TO FEAR, WERE MORE THAN WILLING TO DO SO. AND I MAKE NO APOLOGIES FOR THAT.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) THEY OPENED DOZENS AND DOZENS OF TRUNKS THAT NIGHT. NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON OBJECTED, BUT THEY DID NOT FIND TIMMY KING.
BARRY KING:
(TIMOTHY KING’S FATHER) WE WERE ADVISED THAT IF IT WAS THE SAME PERPETRATOR THAT THERE WAS A TIME PERIOD INVOLVED. AS A LAWYER, I KNOW THAT SOME OF THE STUFF THEY DID IS PROBABLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BUT YOU WANT YOUR KID BACK. WE VERY MUCH WANT TIM TO COME HOME. WE LOVE HIM VERY MUCH. WHEREVER HE IS AND WHOEVER HE IS WITH, WE WANT HIM BACK HOME. HE’S GOT A BASKETBALL GAME ON SATURDAY. WHEREVER YOU ARE, TIM, WE LOVE YA AND WE WANT YA BACK HOME.
(VO): THE GRIEF-STRICKEN FAMILY APPEALED TO A LOCAL NEWSPAPER FOR HELP.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) TIMMY KING'S MOTHER HAD GIVEN “THE DETROIT NEWS” A LETTER TO PUBLISH. WE PUBLISHED IT ACROSS THE FRONT PAGE OF THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER, AND IT WAS A PLEA, TO THE KIDNAPPER, TO RETURN HER SON. SHE DESCRIBED TIMMY, WHAT A GREAT STUDENT HE WAS, AN ATHLETE, AND THEY SAID IF HE WERE HOME TODAY HE'D BE HAVING HIS FAVORITE MEAL OF KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN.
(VO): BUT AS HOURS TURNED TO DAYS, HOPE FADED. ON DAY SIX, THE FRANTIC SEARCH ENDED.
MAN: THESE TWO YOUNG FELLAS CAME A POUNDIN’ ON THE DOOR AND SAID THAT THERE IS A DEAD BOY IN THE DITCH. AND THEY WERE ALL SHOOK UP AND THEN I BEGAN TO GET SHOOK UP. LET’S PUT IT THIS WAY I CALLED THE POLICE RIGHT AWAY.
JOEL SMITH:
( DETROIT NEWS REPORTER) IT WAS AT NIGHT. AND THE BODY WAS STILL WARM ENOUGH THAT, THEY BROUGHT PARAMEDICS WHO TRIED TO REVIVE HIM AT THE SCENE BUT THEY NEVER COULD. TIMMY WAS SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, BUT HE WAS FULLY CLOTHED, VERY CLEAN. WHEN THEY DID THE AUTOPSY ON HIS BODY, HIS LAST MEAL WAS KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN.
(VO): THE NEWS OF TIMMY'S MURDER STUNNED A COMMUNITY ALREADY REELING FROM THE LOSS OF THREE OTHER KIDS. THE TASK FORCE REDOUBLED EFFORTS TO FIND THE KILLER.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THERE'S APPROXIMATELY NINE AGENCIES THAT HAVE BEEN INVOLVED WITH THE OAKLAND COUNTY CHILD KILLING CASE. DURING THE TASK FORCE DAYS, WE HAD APPROXIMATELY 300 OFFICERS ASSIGNED TO THE INVESTIGATION. WE RECEIVED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF TIPS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF NAMES. THE PUBLIC WAS GREAT. I MEAN, THEY WERE TRULY TRYING TO HELP.
BARRY KING:
(TIMOTHY KING’S FATHER) THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AND THE AMOUNT OF TIME AND THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO WORKED ON FINDING TIM IS JUST AMAZING AND I HAVE NOTHING BUT ADMIRATION FOR THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THAT.
(VO): POLICE FOLLOWED UP ON HUNDREDS OF LEADS, BUT THE KILLER WAS NEVER CAUGHT.
MAN: THE FOLLOWING UP ON TIPS, IT’S JUST A TERRIBLY MONOTONOUS JOB AS FAR AS OFFICERS ARE CONCERNED.
REPORTER: RIGHT NOW YOU DON’T HAVE ANYTHING TO CHARGE FORTH ON?
MAN: NO. NOT ONE OF THOSE CLICHÉS THAT WE’LL MAKE AN ARREST IN 24 HOURS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THE TASK FORCE DAYS OF COURSE STOPPED. THE INVESTIGATION WASN'T SOLVED. BUT IT WASN'T FORGOTTEN.
(VO): NEARLY 30 YEARS PASSED. THEN CAME THE BTK ARREST IN WICHITA . THAT TURNED THE HEAT BACK ON THE MICHIGAN CASE.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THAT GAVE US SOME NEW LIGHT. IT GAVE US, UM, SOME MORE PUBLICITY. MY RECENT ACTIVATION OF THE CASE, WE HAD ABOUT 250 NEW TIPS COME IN. IT WAS DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD IN THE LATE '70S. BTK WENT UNSOLVED. HOWEVER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT CASE AND THE OAKLAND COUNTY CHILD KILLING CASE IS THAT THE BTK KILLER TAUNTED THE POLICE, LET US KNOW THAT HE WAS STILL OUT THERE. THIS IS A COLD CASE, HOPEFULLY IT CAN BE SOLVED. I FIRMLY BELIEVE IT CAN BE. BUT I HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY, I HAVE TO GIVE THESE FAMILIES SOME CLOSURE TO SOME EXTENT. WE HAVE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FILES IN THIS PARTICULAR FILE CABINET WERE TIPS NUMBER 17,200 TO 17,224. THIS ROOM, WE HAVE COMPOSITE DRAWINGS ON THE WALL OF SOME OF THE CHARACTERISTICS AS ONE OF THE SUSPECT COMPOSITES THAT WE'VE PUT VARIOUS APPEARANCES, GLASSES.
(VO): SERGEANT GRAY WORKS CLOSELY WITH FBI AGENTS AND DETECTIVE SERGEANT DAVID ROBERTSON. FOR ROBERTSON, THE CASE HITS ESPECIALLY CLOSE TO HOME.
DAVID ROBERTSON:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) MY FATHER WAS ASSISTANT DISTRICT COMMANDER IN CHARGE OF THE DETECTIVE BUREAU FOR THE STATE POLICE. I SAW A LOT OF NOTES IN FAMILIAR HANDWRITING WHICH WAS MY FATHER'S HANDWRITING SO I WAS, IT WAS INTERESTING TO SEE A LOT OF THIS, UH, INFORMATION AND THINGS THAT I KNOW MY FATHER HAD LOOKED THROUGH. I THINK IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF WE COULD SAY WE SOLVED THIS CASE AND, UH, I THINK MY FATHER WOULD JUST BE ECSTATIC TO KNOW THAT THE CASE WAS FINALLY SOLVED.
MURRAY FELDMAN:
(FOX 2 DETROIT NEWS ANCHOR)
I CAN TELL YOU THAT EVERY TIME I PASS BY ONE OF THE SPOTS WHERE ONE OF THOSE YOUNG CHILDREN WAS FOUND DEAD, CHRISTINE MIHELICH, ON BRUCE LANE . I LOOK AT THAT SPOT AND I REMEMBER STANDING THERE AND COVERING THE STORY AND HOW I FELT BACK THEN. AND I NEVER TAKE MY EYES OFF THAT ONE SPOT AND IT'S STILL THERE. THERE'S A LOT OF GROWTH AROUND, THERE'S LIFE AROUND. THERE'S A SUB-DIVISION AROUND, IT'S BEEN OVER TWO DECADES. BUT THAT ONE SPOT STILL REMAINS THERE IN MY EYES AS UNTOUCHED AND I CAN VISUALIZE THOSE STORIES. WE WERE AFFECTED BY IT. EVERYBODY WAS AFFECTED BY IT, INCLUDING THE POLICE OFFICERS.
BARRY KING:
(TIMOTHY KING’S FATHER) HE WAS INTERESTED IN EVERYTHING. HE, UM, WAS AN ALL-STAR. AND HE WAS A SWEET KID. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHO DID THIS TO TIM BEFORE I DIE.
(VO): BUT JUSTICE ISN’T THE ONLY THING ON THE LINE IN OAKLAND COUNTY.
GARRY GRAY:
(DETECTIVE SERGEANT
MICHIGAN STATE POLICE) THERE MAY BE MORE THAT, UH, THAN WE INITIALLY THOUGHT IN OUR ORIGINAL TASK FORCE DAYS. THERE WERE SEVERAL OTHER CHILDREN DURING THAT TIME PERIOD THAT WERE ABDUCTED.
SAMANTHA HARRIS: IT'S A TERRIFYING THOUGHT, A MONSTER WHO PREYS ON CHILDREN STILL ON THE LOOSE AFTER 30 YEARS. UP NEXT, A LOOK AT TWO OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLERS OF ALL TIME. MAYBE THEY HOLD A CLUE TO SOLVING THE MICHIGAN MURDERS.
DR. HELEN MORRISON:
(FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST) I SPENT OVER 600 HOURS WITH JOHN GACY. I SAW HIM ON DEATH ROW. I WAS THERE THE NIGHT HE WAS EXECUTED AND I HELPED ASSIST IN HIS AUTOPSY.
(VO): AND STILL TO COME, NEVER BEFORE TELEVISED JEFFREY DAHMER.
MAN: WHY YOU ACTUALLY TOOK THE LIVES OF YOUR VICTIMS.
JEFFREY DAHMER: I’D LIKE TO KNOW THE REASON FOR THAT TOO. I DON’T KNOW.
SAMANTHA HARRIS: THE STRING OF MURDERS IN KANSAS AND MICHIGAN ARE GRIM REMINDERS THAT SERIAL KILLERS CAN STRIKE ANY TIME, ANY PLACE. YET FOR MANY PEOPLE, THERE’S A STRANGE FASCINATION ATTACHED TO THESE OUTCASTS. THAT WAS CERTAINLY TRUE WITH ED GEIN, AN UNASSUMING WISCONSIN FARMER WHO TURNED OUT TO BE THE ORIGINAL PSYCHO.
