1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,720 The Jacksonville Strangler was a serial killer terrorizing young 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,000 women in the early 2000s, and the scariest part was police had 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,360 no idea for years. He was killing right under their 4 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:15,080 noses and getting away with it every single time. 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:22,120 Outlaw. So today's video is going to be 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,360 another solved true crime case. Today we're going to be talking 7 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:27,120 about the Jacksonville Strangler. 8 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,640 Now before we get into it, I do just want to give my usual 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:32,320 disclaimer that I mean absolutely no disrespect to 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,280 anyone that I talk about in this video. 11 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:37,280 This video is for educational purposes and everything that I'm 12 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,120 about to say is just information that I have found on the 13 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:42,600 Internet and I'm compiling into one video. 14 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:46,720 Today's case takes place in Jacksonville, FL of course, and 15 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,000 that is where 19 year old Nokia Chanel Kilpatrick Live. 16 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:53,320 Nokia was a single mother to two children. 17 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:55,040 And like I said, she was really, really young. 18 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:59,680 She was 19, but she had her life together like she was like super 19 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,960 mum. She had her own place, like she 20 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:04,760 lived with her two kids. She did everything for them. 21 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,080 She was an amazing mother. But on January 1st, New Year's 22 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,400 Day of 2003, Nokia's family realized that they hadn't heard 23 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,000 from her in a while, which was really unlike her. 24 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:17,520 She was the kind to stay in touch with her family, even if 25 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,160 it was just like a call or a text every day she she was 26 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:24,400 usually in contact. And it was even weirder as soon 27 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:27,800 as it hit New Year's Day and none of her family got like a 28 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,160 happy New year text from her. This just wasn't like her at 29 00:01:31,160 --> 00:01:33,000 all. So now they were worried. 30 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,280 This told them that something wasn't right with Nokia. 31 00:01:36,280 --> 00:01:39,640 And so that night at 10:00 PM they drove to her house to go 32 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:41,960 and check on her. Her house from the outside 33 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:45,800 seemed eerily quiet. There were no lights on, didn't 34 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:47,960 seem to be any movement or anything. 35 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:50,520 It was just lifeless. Her parents went over to the 36 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:54,160 front door. They knocked, waited, and no one 37 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,360 came. And they couldn't hear any noise 38 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,440 inside either. So they're knocking again. 39 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,320 They're waiting, still nothing. They knock on the windows, 40 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:03,640 they're knocking on the door. They're making a bit of racket 41 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,440 outside. And it alerts Nickia's neighbor, 42 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:08,680 who comes out to go and speak to the parents. 43 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,400 This neighbor was more like a best friend to Nickia. 44 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:13,360 She was a young woman around her age. 45 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:16,000 They got on really well, saw each of the most days. 46 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,960 And so when she heard her parents making this commotion 47 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,000 outside, this neighbor runs out and goes, I haven't heard from 48 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,840 her in days either. I'm worried too. 49 00:02:23,920 --> 00:02:26,640 So they're all stood talking outside, kind of like discussing 50 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:28,760 when they last saw her, when they last heard from her. 51 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,680 And all of a sudden, they hear a noise coming from the living 52 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,160 room. So they walk around to where the 53 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:38,880 living room window is and they see Nokia's oldest child, who is 54 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:41,240 still a toddler, banging on the window. 55 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:44,720 And he seems distressed. So they ran over to this window 56 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,360 and the blinds were actually pulled down, but there were a 57 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:49,480 few gaps between a couple of the blinds. 58 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:53,120 So this neighbor tries to like peer through the gaps and she 59 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:56,120 sees that the apartment is a total mess inside. 60 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,240 And this just confirmed their suspicions that something was 61 00:02:59,240 --> 00:03:01,760 amiss here. Something wasn't right, that 62 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:05,120 Nokia wasn't answering the door. The child was in there and the 63 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,680 whole place was a mess. They knew that they needed to 64 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:10,920 get inside that apartment now. So they did the only thing that 65 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:14,040 they could think to do and just kick the door in. 66 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,160 They just booted the door in. And as soon as they did, this 67 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,000 foul smell came out of the house. 68 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,800 The elder of the two kids came running over to his grandparents 69 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:24,240 as soon as they kicked in the door. 70 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,520 And shortly after the 11 month old baby, the other kid comes 71 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,600 crawling out of a room, like on its own. 72 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,600 It's just crawling around the house on its own. 73 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,760 And they're shouting for Nokia, but she's she's nowhere. 74 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:39,640 She's not responding to them. These two kids are just running 75 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,960 around the house alone. So her parents are running 76 00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:45,360 around the apartment, screaming her name, getting no response. 77 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,480 And then they get to the hallway, and there they found 78 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,720 exactly what they were fearing. That putrid smell in the 79 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,520 apartment was their daughter, Their daughter's dead 80 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:58,480 decomposing body laying in the hallway. 81 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:03,080 And what was even worse was that Nokia had been clearly violently 82 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:06,080 murdered. She still had a telephone cord 83 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,240 wrapped around her neck in a Slipknot. 84 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,720 Her ankles were bound. Her wrists were bound. 85 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,440 She had like, cuts and scrapes all over her. 86 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,320 It seemed she'd been involved in a struggle. 87 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:19,120 And, and she was six months pregnant at the time of her 88 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,360 murder. And sadly, the baby died along 89 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,040 with her. With the smell, it seemed that 90 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,720 Nokia had been dead for some time, at least a few days, and 91 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:34,840 her two children had been left locked in that house with their 92 00:04:34,840 --> 00:04:37,920 mother's dead body. Nokia's parents just grabbed the 93 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:41,320 two kids, ran outside with them and called the police. 94 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:43,920 And so a murder investigation began. 95 00:04:43,920 --> 00:04:46,800 When police arrived at the crime scene, one of the things that 96 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:49,960 they noticed in their initial searches was that the kitchen 97 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:53,040 was an absolute mess. And the whole apartment was, 98 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,960 like I said, but especially the kitchen, like, the kitchen was 99 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:57,840 next level. But it wasn't a mess in the way 100 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,040 that it had been, like, ransacked or anything like that. 101 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,640 It was literally just like, food on the floor, cereal boxes 102 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,440 knocked over, wrappers everywhere. 103 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:10,600 And it turns out that this was Nokia's children trying to feed 104 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,440 themselves, like scavenging for food in the kitchen because they 105 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:19,000 had been locked in that house alone with their mother's dead 106 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:21,640 body for a few days. They had been trying to feed 107 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:23,760 themselves. They'd been trying to survive. 108 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:28,800 It absolutely breaks my heart to think how scared and confused 109 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,320 those two children will have been, especially the older one 110 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,040 who kind of more so understood what was going on. 111 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:37,040 I don't know exactly how old he was, but he was a toddler. 112 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,520 He will have understood that his mother was laying lifeless on 113 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:42,560 the floor. It breaks my heart. 114 00:05:42,560 --> 00:05:45,440 Police genuinely believed that had they not got to this house 115 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,040 when they did, had they not found those kids when they did, 116 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,840 there was a good chance that those kids could have starved to 117 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:53,160 death in the house, especially the baby. 118 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,920 Luckily they were found before it got to that stage and they're 119 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:58,680 both alive and well now. But back to the search of the 120 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,440 crime scene. So police found it quite odd 121 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,680 because they couldn't find any signs of forced entry on the 122 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,680 House. And also remember, the door was 123 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:08,920 locked. Her family had to literally boot 124 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,720 it in to be able to get in there. 125 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:15,240 So did this mean that Nokia knew her attacker and had let them in 126 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:17,960 voluntarily? Had they stolen her house key 127 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,880 and locked the door on the way out like this? 128 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,040 This whole situation wasn't making much sense. 129 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:26,360 But other than that, there was like no other evidence at the 130 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,720 crime scene at all. The killer hadn't left anything 131 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:32,520 behind, hadn't dropped anything. So Nokia Kilpatrick's body was 132 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,920 sent for an autopsy where it was found that she'd actually been 133 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:40,200 raped as part of her murder. Because of this, they were able 134 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,960 to collect a DNA sample, a semen sample from her attacker, which 135 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,240 of course is great news because now if they have suspects, they 136 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:51,400 can test this DNA against the suspect to be able to find a 137 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:53,080 match. But what would be even better 138 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,200 news would be if they could run this sample on the system and 139 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,800 immediately find a match. So they tried to do that, but 140 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:00,080 there was no match on the system. 141 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:03,760 It seemed that this was a first time offender, or at the at 142 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:06,480 least they hadn't been caught for any other crimes in the 143 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:08,560 past, otherwise they would have had their DNA taken. 144 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:11,800 So this was quite frustrating because had the killer committed 145 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:14,280 a crime before, in the past, they would have come straight up 146 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:16,760 and they would have had their suspect and been able to arrest 147 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:19,560 and charge them the same day. But they can't do that. 148 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:23,360 That being said, this DNA sample was going to prove useful 149 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,480 hopefully at some point in the investigation because when they 150 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:28,600 have suspects, they can test it. But since they can't go that 151 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:31,680 route just yet, police decided to start interviewing, 152 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,120 interviewing anyone and everyone that they could, Nokia's 153 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,080 friends, family, neighbors, to see if anyone had seen or heard 154 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,920 or knew anything about this. But like, no one did. 155 00:07:40,160 --> 00:07:43,560 Absolutely no one, no one could give police any information. 156 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:46,440 It felt like within the first day of this investigation, 157 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,080 police had already reached a stand still. 158 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:52,720 They had no leads and they had no way of getting any leads 159 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:54,200 either. They just didn't know what to 160 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:56,200 do. But then about a week into the 161 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,520 investigation, police were shocked to be presented with 162 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:04,440 another murder case almost identical to Nokia's. 163 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,320 Another young woman had been found strangled to death in her 164 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,640 own apartment, the cord still tied around her neck when her 165 00:08:11,640 --> 00:08:14,200 body was found. The way that this second victim 166 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,000 was found, she was actually found by her own boyfriend. 167 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,160 His name was Rasheed. He'd been out that day. 168 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,000 And then he came back home, I think it was about midnight, and 169 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:24,600 he realized that he didn't have a key on him. 170 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,440 The door was locked. His girlfriend had locked it 171 00:08:26,440 --> 00:08:28,760 from the inside. And so he had no way of getting 172 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,320 in his own house. So he's, like, banging on the 173 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,919 door, trying to wake her up, but she's not coming to answer the 174 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:35,159 door. And so he thinks, well, what 175 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:38,039 else can I do? He decides to take one of the 176 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:41,360 windows, like, out of the frame, essentially, like, break into 177 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:44,000 his own house. And when he did, he found his 178 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,680 girlfriend inside, dead, murdered, with the cord still 179 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:52,680 wrapped around her neck, wrist tied, ankles tied, naked from 180 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:55,240 the waist down. This second victim's name was 181 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,920 Shawanda Denise McAllister. She was 20 years old, so just 182 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:02,760 one year older than Nokia. In fact, these two victims have 183 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,080 pretty much the exact same victim profile. 184 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,680 They were both young black women in Jacksonville with very 185 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,200 similar lifestyles. Actually, they only lived about 186 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,960 a mile away from each other, so really, really close 187 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:16,040 geographically. I don't know too much about the 188 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:18,840 second victim, Shawanda, but I do know that she was a medical 189 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:20,960 student and also a nursing assistant. 190 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,160 She was doing both at once. She was super, super 191 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:26,320 intelligent, super, super dedicated and she dreamed of 192 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:29,840 like making her way up in the medical industry career. 193 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:32,640 But sadly, that's all I really know about Shawanda. 194 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,120 So police start searching the crime scene and very quickly 195 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,720 they find a used condom laying just a few feet away from 196 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,360 Shawanda's body. So presumably this was what her 197 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:45,520 attacker used. And the only other clue that 198 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:48,360 they found in the whole house there was there was like nothing 199 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,920 else other than these two things. 200 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,000 And the second thing was an ATM receipt showing that Shawanda 201 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,360 had gone to an ATM and got some cash out, about $200 at 8:30 PM 202 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,400 that night, on the night of her murder. 203 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,120 That was the only evidence that they could get from this house. 204 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,040 And so Shawanda's body was sent off for an autopsy. 205 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,800 And the results again were almost identical to Nokia's. 206 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:13,120 She'd been bound. She'd been strangled to death 207 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,520 with a cord. She'd been raped before she was 208 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,120 killed. And what's even more 209 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:21,240 heartbreaking, Shawanda was also pregnant at the time of her 210 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,560 murder. And just like Nokia's baby, 211 00:10:23,560 --> 00:10:26,520 Shawanda's also died along with her. 212 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:29,800 So now police are thinking, well, does this mean something 213 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:31,920 that both of these victims were pregnant? 214 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,520 Was was that something to do with why they were specifically 215 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:37,800 targeted? But the biggest thing that told 216 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:40,600 police that these two murders were linked, other than the fact 217 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,360 that they were pretty much the same victim profile, feel pretty 218 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:46,040 much the same MO. There was one very, very 219 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:49,480 intricate detail about both of these cases that was the exact 220 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,960 same. And that was the Slipknot on the 221 00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:54,040 cord that was used to strangle these women. 222 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,920 It was a very specific type of Slipknot that's not very 223 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,440 commonly used. So these two cases are 224 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:03,200 practically identical. Police have connected them and 225 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,120 they think that they are looking for a double murderer. 226 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,280 Now, they managed to take adna swab from Shawanda's body and 227 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,680 they sent it for DNA testing. And again, no match came up on 228 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,400 the system, but you know what did a match to the sample found 229 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,680 in the Kia's body? So we know that it was the same 230 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:22,760 man that raped both of these women. 231 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:26,280 We don't know who that man was, not right now, but we know that 232 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,280 it was the same person. But this was a really scary 233 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,240 conclusion for police to come to because if they were looking for 234 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,800 a double murderer, what's to stop him becoming a triple 235 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,960 murderer, a serial killer? Police feared that this killer 236 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:41,400 was going to strike again if they didn't find him quick 237 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,520 enough, and so they threw everything they had at this 238 00:11:44,520 --> 00:11:46,760 case. Looking at Shawanda's murder 239 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,920 specifically, there was one obvious suspect in her case, 240 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,840 Rasheed, her boyfriend, that had had admitted to breaking in 241 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:59,400 their house and being the one to find Shawanda's dead body. 242 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,200 Police thought that maybe he somehow also knew Nokia. 243 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:06,840 Maybe he was cheating on Shawanda with Nokia and that's 244 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:11,120 why he had had sex with both of them because there's no way to 245 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,560 prove that the main DNA that was found inside these women was 246 00:12:15,560 --> 00:12:17,920 from rape. It could have been from 247 00:12:17,920 --> 00:12:20,440 consensual sex. Both of these women could have 248 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:23,520 had consensual sex with the same man, but then been murdered. 249 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:26,360 You know, it doesn't necessarily mean that the rape was connected 250 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,360 to the murder, which is very uncommon. 251 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,840 Like 99% of the time. If they find semen DNA inside a 252 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:36,040 female murder victim, that probably means that she was 253 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,640 raped as part of the attack. And that is what they assumed. 254 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:41,760 And, you know, Rashid was 20 years old, just one year older 255 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:44,920 than Nokia, and they lived about a mile apart from each other. 256 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,560 So it's quite likely that they could have known each other. 257 00:12:48,560 --> 00:12:49,960 They could have gone to the same school. 258 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,600 I don't know. Chances are they might have 259 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,240 crossed paths. So this seemed like quite a 260 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,720 believable theory, to be honest. So police start questioning 261 00:12:56,720 --> 00:13:00,000 Rasheed, and he had one hell of a story to tell. 262 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:03,480 As for the events leading up to Shawanda's murder. 263 00:13:03,480 --> 00:13:06,360 So Rasheed said that he had been out and about that day. 264 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:08,840 And then he came back home to the apartment. 265 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,880 And as he was approaching the door, he could hear music 266 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,560 blasting, like, blasting from inside their apartment, which 267 00:13:15,560 --> 00:13:18,040 was kind of unusual. Shawanda never really did this. 268 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,120 And so as Rashid's, like, making his way to the apartment, he's 269 00:13:21,120 --> 00:13:24,280 hearing this music. He also hears a man's voice 270 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,200 coming from inside the apartment. 271 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:28,640 So he knocks on the door. He didn't have his key to unlock 272 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:30,600 the door. What does this man even have a 273 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:32,000 key? He never seems to have his key 274 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,520 on it. So Shawanda comes and opens the 275 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,840 door, but she only opens it like this much. 276 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,600 She opens it a jar. It's kind of like she doesn't. 277 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,680 She doesn't want to let her own boyfriend into the apartment for 278 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,840 some reason. So she opens a little bit and 279 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:45,360 immediately Rashid starts shouting. 280 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:47,040 He's like, what's going on? Who's in there? 281 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:48,680 I can hear a man in there, what's going on? 282 00:13:48,680 --> 00:13:50,960 And Shawanda says to him, she's going, it's nothing, don't 283 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,800 worry, like just just leave and I'll explain everything later. 284 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:55,720 Just go, just go. She's really trying to get rid 285 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,320 of Rashid. She really doesn't want him in 286 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,360 the house. But he's saying like, no, I've 287 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,200 got work, I need my uniform, my uniform's in the house. 288 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:04,840 And so Shawanda goes, OK, I'll go get it for you and I'll leave 289 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,280 it outside the door. So she closes the door and locks 290 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,560 it again so Rashid can't get in his own apartment. 291 00:14:09,560 --> 00:14:12,640 Next thing he knows, she's dumped his clothes outside and 292 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:15,240 locked the door again, gone back in the apartment where the music 293 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,600 is blaring and where this mystery man is. 294 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,360 So Rasheed is, is heartbroken. He's so confused, but he's he's 295 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,360 heartbroken. He thinks he's just come home to 296 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:26,720 find his girlfriend cheating on him. 297 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,560 And so he's like shouting through the door to Shawanda 298 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,240 saying, like, how could you do this to me? 299 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:33,880 You're pregnant with my baby. Like we were a family. 300 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:37,800 How could you do this? In the end, Rasheed just went 301 00:14:37,800 --> 00:14:39,680 off to work. I mean, he was going to miss his 302 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,000 shift if he didn't. And it was clear that Shawanda 303 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,200 wasn't going to let him in. And so he just start to go to 304 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:48,200 work with the knowledge that his girlfriend is cheating on him. 305 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,320 And he had no idea who with either. 306 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:53,040 He had no idea who this guy was because he never saw him because 307 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:54,440 Shwanda didn't really open the door. 308 00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:58,480 All he heard was his voice. And Rashid told police it 309 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,360 sounded like an older black man. But that's all he could give. 310 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:03,280 Obviously that's all he could get from a voice. 311 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:07,520 So police are listening to Rashid's story thinking, oh, how 312 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,040 convenient. The day that Shwanda is found 313 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:14,000 murdered, she is in the company of another man. 314 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,440 I don't know if Rashid has just found his girlfriend cheating 315 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,720 and she's found murdered the same day and somehow it's 316 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:23,480 another man's fault. You know, it just seemed all too 317 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,920 convenient. It seemed like a potential cover 318 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:28,040 up. And so police asked Rashid if he 319 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:31,760 would take a polygraph test. He agreed and he passed. 320 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,160 It seemed that he was telling the truth, if you believe 321 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,080 polygraph tests, which I mean, we don't often, but he passed. 322 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,480 And obviously because polygraph tests are polygraph tests and 323 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:45,680 they're not always correct, Police decided to test Rasheedh 324 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:50,040 DNA against the DNA found at both crime scenes. 325 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,760 They were sent off for testing and the results came back. 326 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,200 And it wasn't a match. Rasheed wasn't the killer. 327 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:00,320 So now police are back to square one with no suspects. 328 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:03,040 They need to try and find a suspect or at least a lead or 329 00:16:03,040 --> 00:16:05,000 something. And so they decide to go in, 330 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,120 question the whole neighborhood where Shawanda lived. 331 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:11,160 A few neighbors told police that they'd spotted Shawanda getting 332 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:14,920 in and out of taxis that day. Shawanda didn't drive, so this 333 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,560 was like her main mode of transport. 334 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:18,800 Every time she left the house, she'd just, like, call a taxi to 335 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:20,280 take her wherever she needed to go. 336 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,200 So this was quite a common occurrence. 337 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,080 Neighbors would see her doing this quite often. 338 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,840 But then one of the neighbors told police that they'd seen a 339 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,360 man coming out of Shawanda's apartment and getting into a 340 00:16:30,360 --> 00:16:32,800 taxi. And this was at about 11:00 PM. 341 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,360 And the neighbor said that at the time, they just assumed it 342 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,000 was Rasheed, her boyfriend because, well, obviously. 343 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,120 But now that we know Rasheed wasn't there, and 11:00 PM would 344 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,040 have been around the time that Shawanda was killed, it seemed 345 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:48,800 that this witness had seen her killer leaving the crime scene. 346 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,680 So if it wasn't Rasheed, then who was it? 347 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,120 Right now, police had a double murderer on the loose. 348 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:58,240 Well, actually, what if it was more than just a double 349 00:16:58,240 --> 00:17:00,640 murderer? What if Nokia and Shawanda 350 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:03,280 weren't this killer's only two victims? 351 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:07,000 What if there were other victims out there, other bodies yet to 352 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,160 be discovered? What if this was already a 353 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,599 serial killer that they had on their hands? 354 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,800 They didn't know right now. So this LED police to pull up a 355 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:19,520 bunch of old unsolved disappearances, unsolved murders 356 00:17:19,599 --> 00:17:22,800 of young women kind of around the same age and description of 357 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,240 these two girls to see if any of them had any similarities to 358 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:30,720 Nokia and Shwanda's murders. Police very quickly came across 359 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,520 an unsolved murder case of an 18 year old girl named Nicole 360 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:38,040 Williams, and this immediately piqued their interest. 361 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,160 She'd only been found dead less than two weeks before Nokia had, 362 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:46,320 so the timeline is making sense. The way that Nicole was found, 363 00:17:46,360 --> 00:17:50,640 her body was wrapped up in a blue blanket and just ditched on 364 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,600 the side of the road somewhere. And this blue blanket that was 365 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,600 wrapped around her, it seemed to be, well, well, you know, those 366 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:59,760 blankets that like hotels put on the bottom of the bed, They're 367 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:02,280 not really supposed to be like comfy blankets that you use. 368 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,280 It's just kind of like a aesthetic blanket. 369 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,560 It was one of those. So this led to police theorizing 370 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,600 that maybe Nicole Williams had been murdered inside of a hotel 371 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,920 or a motel and then her body wrapped up in this blanket and 372 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,160 disposed of. But there was one thing that 373 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:23,600 helped police link Nicole's murder to the other two DNA. 374 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:27,400 Nicole had also been raped by her attacker and when they 375 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,720 tested the sample on the system, there was no match. 376 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:33,400 When they tested it against the crime scene samples, it was a 377 00:18:33,400 --> 00:18:36,120 match. So this confirmed to police that 378 00:18:36,120 --> 00:18:37,720 they were looking for a serial killer. 379 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,400 Nicole Williams was one of his victims. 380 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,040 They had at least three victims. God knows how many more they 381 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,080 were going to be. Well, actually if we count 382 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,560 Nokia's and Shawanda's unborn children in the death toll, 383 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:52,760 because both women were planning on having these children, they 384 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:55,560 were going to have them full term give birth to these babies. 385 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,640 They were supposed to live. So taking that into account, 386 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:02,840 that makes this serial killer's death toll 5 if you want to see 387 00:19:02,840 --> 00:19:04,520 it that way. And this was in the space of 388 00:19:04,520 --> 00:19:09,000 just over a month. Three women killed, 5 lives lost 389 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,800 in just over a month, all at the hands of this mystery man. 390 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:15,640 And it wouldn't be long until police were presented with 391 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:19,000 another victim. On February 5th, 2003, police 392 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,560 received a call from some construction workers. 393 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,600 They'd arrived at the site that morning and they could hear some 394 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:27,320 dogs barking in the distance. And they really didn't think 395 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,320 twice about it. But as they're working through 396 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,480 the day, these dogs are not shutting up. 397 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:33,440 And they're starting to think, well, what? 398 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,560 What are they barking at? What's going on? 399 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:38,440 And so one of the workers decides to go and investigate. 400 00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:41,400 He follows the barking until he finds the dogs. 401 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,200 They were all crowded round something on the floor, just 402 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,360 barking at it. And when this construction 403 00:19:46,360 --> 00:19:48,160 worker arrived, it kind of disturbed the dogs. 404 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,360 They ran away and and he saw that they'd been crowded around 405 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:53,680 a dead body, so he called the police. 406 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,400 They arrived as quickly as they can and they start searching the 407 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,120 area for clues, but what they didn't expect to find was a 408 00:20:00,120 --> 00:20:02,960 second body. The second victim was found 409 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,680 literally within a few feet of the 1st and it was a very 410 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,760 similar victim profile. Both of these victims were young 411 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:14,800 black women and both of them were found in very similar 412 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,120 circumstances. They'd both been strangled to 413 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:19,320 death. They'd both been raped, it 414 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,480 seemed. That both of their hands and 415 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:25,680 feet had been tied at points and immediately just looking at 416 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,480 these two girls on the ground, police knew that their serial 417 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:32,840 killer had struck again. These two victims were 17 year 418 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:37,040 old Jovanna Tyreeka Jefferson and 18 year old Sarita and 419 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,680 Cohen. Taking the death toll now from 420 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:44,360 3:00 to 5:00 or from 5:00 to 7:00 if you're including the 421 00:20:44,360 --> 00:20:46,640 unborn children. Following the discovery of these 422 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,840 latest 2 victims, police decided to issue a warning to to 423 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:55,200 everyone, to young women, but most specifically to young black 424 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,040 women. Basically telling them look 425 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:02,520 we've got a serial killer and you are the exact victim type so 426 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:06,120 please don't go anywhere alone, don't go out at night until we 427 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:09,520 have caught who was doing this. As police started digging into 428 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,440 these two cases, they found that the younger of the two, 429 00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,480 Giovanna, had actually been missing for quite some time, 430 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,080 like over 2 weeks. And they think, chances are she 431 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,040 had been said the whole time. They think that she was murdered 432 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,320 the night that she went missing on January 20th. 433 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:27,480 And then she was eventually found early February, February 434 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,480 5th. The last time that Giovanna was 435 00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:33,080 seen alive was on January 20th. She went to a party, she had a 436 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:34,560 great time, all her friends were there. 437 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,080 And then she called a taxi to go home. 438 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,560 And the last time she was seen was getting in that taxi. 439 00:21:40,880 --> 00:21:42,600 She never arrived home that night. 440 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,720 So something happened to her on the way home. 441 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,400 Of course, her family were at home waiting for her to come 442 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,320 back that night. And when she wasn't coming home, 443 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,400 her aunt got really worried and she called her phone. 444 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,680 But when it picked up, it wasn't Giovanna on the other end. 445 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,320 It was an older man. This older man just said that 446 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:03,920 Giovanna would be home soon. And so her aunt was saying, 447 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,760 well, who are you? And the only name that this man 448 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,680 gave was D, and then he put the phone down. 449 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:14,640 Her family then didn't hear anything else until now until 450 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,600 February 5th, when Giovanna's body was found. 451 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,480 And like I said, police believed that she was killed on the night 452 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:24,280 of the party and that her body had just laid decomposing in 453 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,480 this construction site for weeks. 454 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:29,360 It's believed that the second victim, Sarita, was killed about 455 00:22:29,360 --> 00:22:33,480 10 days after Giovanna. The two actual attacks were 456 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,600 separate, but they think that the killer decided to dispose of 457 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:40,280 their bodies in the same place because, well, Jovanas hadn't 458 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:42,560 been found yet. It seemed like this was quite a 459 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,160 good place to dispose of a body where no one's going to find it. 460 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,880 So now police are looking at all these different cases and 461 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,720 they're looking for different similarities. 462 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:51,720 And they notice one common theme. 463 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,960 There's more often than not a taxi involved somehow in these 464 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,560 stories. So they went to a few of the 465 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,440 witnesses that saw these girls, either like getting in and out 466 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:03,720 of taxis, and they asked if they knew what taxi company it was. 467 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,800 And every single witness give the same taxi company, Gator 468 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,560 City Taxi. So police went down to the taxi 469 00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:13,600 rank to try and gather some information about it. 470 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:16,720 They get talking to the staff and they realized that it's it's 471 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,720 quite a small taxi company. There's the same few guys 472 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:22,320 working pretty much every night. But they did discover that one 473 00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:24,760 of the drivers was very new to the job. 474 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,400 In fact, his first day working was actually the same day that 475 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,800 Shawanda was murdered. Interesting. 476 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:35,640 The nearest taxi driver at the company was 32 year old Paul 477 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,480 Derusa, which immediately as soon as police heard that name 478 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:45,640 Derusa D, you know the person on the phone have been Paul Derusa. 479 00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,320 So police start looking into this man and his history because 480 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,840 he is now a potential suspect. So he was originally born in 481 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,080 Texas on August 11th, 1970. He was raised by a single mother 482 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:00,800 because his father left pretty much as soon as he was born. 483 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,120 And from that point on he was never in Paul's life, not even 484 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:07,800 like financial support like that man was as good as dead to Paul. 485 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,760 After the split, Paul and his mother moved to LA, so he never 486 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:16,000 really grew up in Texas at all. Well, he never really grew up 487 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:20,400 grew up in LA either because him and his mum just moved all over 488 00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,400 California. He was never in the same place 489 00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:26,720 for well longer than a year, and this meant that Paul didn't have 490 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,400 much stability in his childhood. Like at all. 491 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,560 He was never at the same school for too long, never had a 492 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,280 hometown really, he never had a consistent group of friends. 493 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:39,640 Everything was just always getting shuffled and rearranged 494 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,880 in his life. The only thing that was ever 495 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:46,120 consistent was his mother, which would be fine, but because she 496 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:50,000 was a single mother, she used to work like insane hours to be 497 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:53,240 able to provide for the family. And so his mother wasn't around 498 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,560 and all that much and he didn't have anything else really. 499 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:01,640 Which meant that Paul Derusa had a quite lonely and isolated 500 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,520 childhood. When he grew up, he got his 501 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,680 first job age 18 as a security guard. 502 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,360 And he was quite well suited to this job because he was a really 503 00:25:09,360 --> 00:25:12,440 blooming massive guy. Well, he was tall. 504 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,560 He was 6 foot 6. In his later life, he got quite 505 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,440 skinny, but when he was younger, when he was like 18, he was 506 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,240 going to the gym quite a bit. And so he was quite muscular. 507 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,960 He wasn't like a massive guy, but like quite scary. 508 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,400 You know, if, if your security guard is 6 foot 6 and relatively 509 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,360 muscly, I'm I'm scared I'm running away. 510 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:34,480 Paul kind of liked this job, but it wasn't that exciting for him. 511 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:36,680 His whole life wasn't exciting for him. 512 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,440 He didn't really have friends, he didn't have a girlfriend. 513 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:43,920 And so to entertain himself, Paul de Russo starts committing 514 00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,440 crimes. He starts carrying around guns 515 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,960 everywhere he goes. And he got caught for this 516 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,800 because he weren't very discreet about it. 517 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,760 Not that I think you should carry guns anywhere, but he 518 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,600 wouldn't carry it in his hand. Police actually let him off with 519 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,000 a warning for this. I think they could have 520 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,880 confiscated the gun as well. But he didn't get any time or 521 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,440 anything, or even any charges, I don't think. 522 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,520 And then less than a month later, he was arrested for the 523 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,200 exact same thing, for concealment of a firearm. 524 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,200 Again, he was let off with a warning. 525 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,720 I don't know why they're not actually like doing all about 526 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:15,680 this guy, but he was let off with a warning again. 527 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:19,400 And I think these two cases kind of shook him up a bit, like kind 528 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,720 of scared him a little bit. And he decided to get his life 529 00:26:21,720 --> 00:26:23,840 in order. He decided he was going to join 530 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,280 the army. This was supposed to be like a 531 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:27,520 fresh start for him. He was going to move away with 532 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,040 the army. He was going to have a second 533 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,680 chance at life to be like a good, good citizen. 534 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:35,440 Uh, yeah. So he goes off to Germany. 535 00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,920 He's stationed in Germany, and everything's going really well. 536 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:39,680 He's actually really enjoying the Army. 537 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:43,800 And while he was there, he met a lady, this woman was named in a 538 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,280 Tucker span. And the two of them got on 539 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,640 really, really well, like a house on fire. 540 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:51,000 And within a couple of years, they were married. 541 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,640 Once the two of them got married, the Army people allowed 542 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:58,480 them to move to a bit more of a stable base. 543 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,480 They moved to Georgia together. They were given a house on the 544 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,240 base, and there they started a family together. 545 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,480 They had two daughters and everything was great. 546 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,480 Everyone was really, really happy. 547 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,040 This was exactly what they wanted. 548 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:16,720 Paul and his wife were in love like nothing was wrong at all. 549 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,280 Paul decided to make it wrong. He was getting bored, and so he 550 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,720 did the only thing that he could think to do when this man was 551 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:27,240 bored, commit some crimes. Only this time it was a million 552 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,200 times worse than what he'd previously been doing before. 553 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,320 It was just like guns. And I think it was just, it's 554 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:38,280 more like the rebellion factor for him before, whereas now he 555 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:42,400 was actually like sinister and like a cold blooded criminal. 556 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:47,080 In 1997, Paul Derusso committed his first violent crime. 557 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:50,360 As far as we're aware, this is the first one we know of when he 558 00:27:50,360 --> 00:27:53,120 kidnapped and raped a young girl. 559 00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:56,640 But Paul was actually never found guilty of this attack 560 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,400 because police just couldn't find enough evidence to actually 561 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:02,640 send it to trial. They were very, very sure that 562 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,880 he had had committed this crime, like there was no doubt in their 563 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,440 minds, but they just couldn't find the physical evidence. 564 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,240 So he was never actually charged with this. 565 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:15,600 It was never put on his record. But following the suspicion and 566 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,880 the accusations and, you know, the whole, the whole thing, he 567 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,400 was dishonorably discharged from the army. 568 00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,800 So now he's unemployed. He's just spending all his days 569 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,680 at home doing nothing. He's bored. 570 00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,000 You can see where this is going. Paul starts committing crimes 571 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:35,920 left, right and center, robbery, theft, burglary, sexual battery. 572 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,720 He's like talking to underage girls, like anything and 573 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:43,120 everything horrid that he could be doing, he's doing. 574 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:46,320 And every single time, every single one of these crimes that 575 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:48,360 he would commit, he would get away with. 576 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,480 Like sometimes he would be caught by police, sometimes he 577 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,000 wouldn't. And in the times when he would 578 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,280 get caught by police, somehow the charges would be dropped or 579 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,120 they just wouldn't find evidence against him. 580 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,560 Like, crime followed him everywhere he went, but he was 581 00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,080 never held accountable for any of it. 582 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:07,640 And because he was getting away with so much, his confidence was 583 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,760 growing, He was becoming arrogant. 584 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,320 He was committing worse and worse crimes. 585 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:16,400 And all of this was putting a huge, huge strain on his family 586 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,880 life because his wife obviously wanted to raise their two 587 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,240 daughters in a stable, happy, nice, safe environment. 588 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,320 And their father is making it the complete opposite. 589 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,920 There's police at that house like every other day. 590 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:32,920 Their dad's getting arrested. This is no environment for two 591 00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,760 kids to be raised in. And so, in an attempt to 592 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:39,200 stabilize their lives a bit more, Paul's wife suggested that 593 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:42,440 they may be moved back to her hometown in Jacksonville, FL. 594 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,840 They can live near her parents. They can have a fresh start. 595 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,120 It was supposed to be like a second chance for their 596 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:52,520 marriage, the family for everything, so Paul agreed. 597 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,400 The family upped and moved to Jacksonville, but nothing 598 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,520 changed. Paul was the exact same horrible 599 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,560 man, just in a different location. 600 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,960 Now he was still committing all these crimes and now he was 601 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:08,680 disrespecting his wife, abusing his wife verbally, emotionally. 602 00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:12,360 He would shout at her, scream at her, and occasionally he would 603 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,320 get violent. He was also very, very 604 00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,160 unfaithful. Like Paul Derusso had multiple 605 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,280 affairs. He would go out to bars and 606 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:22,680 cheat on his wife and and flirt with other women and everything. 607 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:26,000 And I think she knew. I think she knew that he was 608 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,400 doing this, but she was so determined to make their their 609 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,600 like family and home environment a happy and safe one for those 610 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,720 kids that she was kind of willing to stick by Paul Derusa 611 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,160 no matter how horrid he was. And he was only getting more and 612 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,080 more horrid by the month. Like he was doing worse and 613 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,800 worse things throughout this marriage. 614 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,960 In the beginning, as far as I could tell in my research, he 615 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,480 was genuinely a nice guy, or at least he was putting on this 616 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,000 facade for her. Like it wasn't like this in the 617 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:58,320 beginning. It just gradually got worse and 618 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,920 worse and worse and she was putting up with more and more 619 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:03,800 and more as time was going on because she didn't want to leave 620 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:05,720 him and for the kids to have no dad. 621 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,560 So yeah, he is cheating on his wife with loads of different 622 00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:10,240 women, flirting with loads of different women. 623 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,120 Some of them, some of them were girls, some of them weren't 624 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,760 women. Some of them were girls as young 625 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,240 as 13 and 14. This man had two daughters of 626 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:22,440 his own. And he is approaching 13 year 627 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,560 old girls in a sexual manner, that is, that is sick. 628 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,520 And he wasn't doing it very discreetly either, or 629 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:31,040 secretively. Paul de Russo was making a 630 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:34,920 reputation for himself in the area as a paedophile, as a 631 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,160 creep, as a predator. And because of that, people 632 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,000 wanted less and less to do with him. 633 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,280 People were avoiding him, people didn't want to be mates with 634 00:31:42,280 --> 00:31:44,680 him. And once again, Paul de Russo 635 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,560 found himself quite isolated from society, just like he was 636 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,000 when he was a kid. And with this increased 637 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,600 isolation from society, Paul starts taking out his 638 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,000 frustrations more and more on his wife. 639 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:59,000 The violence that she was experiencing at this point in 640 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,600 the case, I think it was like slapping her during an argument 641 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,720 or like pushing her away and stuff like that. 642 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,040 And over time, it was getting worse and worse until one day he 643 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,240 grabbed her by the throat and choked her against a wall. 644 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,040 This was the worst it had gotten so far, and she feared that it 645 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,120 would only get worse from this point if she didn't report this. 646 00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:24,280 And so in 2000, his wife got, she filed a court order against 647 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,320 him. And I think the involvement of 648 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,360 the court and the legal system really scared Paul. 649 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,160 Like up until now, he'd gotten away with everything. 650 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,240 He'd been able to abuse his wife however much he wanted. 651 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,520 But now she was actually like fighting back kind of. 652 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,840 So it scared him. It scared him into behaving 653 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,560 better and treating her better for a short while. 654 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:48,360 But over time, this started to drop and he became abusive 655 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:50,760 again. Not even a full year after the 656 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:55,080 court order was filed, Paul once again choked his wife, this time 657 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:58,600 with both hands up against the wall until she almost passed 658 00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:00,560 out. And this was in front of their 659 00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,600 two kids. The whole time that he had her 660 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,480 up against the wall, he was telling her he was going to kill 661 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:05,920 her. He was screaming at her. 662 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:07,880 The kids were hearing all of this. 663 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,480 They were screaming, they were crying. 664 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,600 And so again, following this incident, she files another 665 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,640 court order against him. I don't know why it wasn't more 666 00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:21,000 than just a court order against this man that literally just 667 00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,400 threatened to kill her, but she goes to file another court order 668 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:26,280 against him. But it turns out she wouldn't 669 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,920 actually need one because Paul Derusso was about to get locked 670 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,880 up for the first time in his life about a month or two after 671 00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,400 he assaulted his wife again. Paul Derusso was charged with 672 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:41,640 raping a young woman and for this he was sentenced to one 673 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:46,000 month in prison. One month, one month for rape. 674 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:49,560 This man is a seasoned criminal that is committing crimes, and 675 00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,600 every month yet he is given one month in prison for raping a 676 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:58,320 woman. So yeah, he's gone for 30 days. 677 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,080 And then when he returns, he moves back into the home with 678 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:04,880 his wife and two children, and they decide that they're going 679 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,880 to give it a fresh start for, what, the 100th time? 680 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,840 This just keeps happening and this man never changes. 681 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,199 But again they give it a fresh start. 682 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,360 Please by the way, never give anyone this many chances. 683 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,440 It's extremely unlikely that someone at this level of abuse 684 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,360 will ever change. Just just get out as soon as you 685 00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,239 can. You can't change anyone like 686 00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,880 this. But anyway, he is back and it 687 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,320 didn't take long for him to get abusive again. 688 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,440 This time his wife decided to go just straight to the police. 689 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,719 Skip the court order, straight to the police. 690 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,480 And she told them everything this man had ever done to her, 691 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,080 all the times he'd abused her. And he was charged with domestic 692 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,199 violence. He was sent back to prison for a 693 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:50,560 whopping 48 days, 48 days for abusing his wife like this, for 694 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,040 for choking her until she nearly passed out, for threatening to 695 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,280 kill her, for doing it all in front of the kids. 48 days in 696 00:34:57,280 --> 00:34:59,080 prison. And again, when he came out of 697 00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:01,440 prison, he moved right back in with his wife and kids. 698 00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,280 And this actually brings us up to date in the timeline of the 699 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:07,200 case because now it is January of 2003. 700 00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,960 Paul Derusso has just got a job at Gator City Taxi Company. 701 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,680 And this job really enabled his infidelity against his wife 702 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:19,320 because he was picking up new women every single day. 703 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:21,360 Every single time they would get in his car, he would try and 704 00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,680 flirt with them. Sometimes it would work because 705 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,160 these women said that Paul Derusso was really quite 706 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,000 charming. He knew how to like, he just 707 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:31,920 knew all the right things to say and so it would work. 708 00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,320 He started affairs and relationships and went on dates 709 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:39,160 with so many other women and eventually his wife found out. 710 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,200 When she found out just how much Paul Derusso was cheating on 711 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:47,840 her, she took the kids and left. So now Paul is all alone and 712 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,760 able to meet more women, I guess. 713 00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:51,320 So, yeah. Back to the timeline of the 714 00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,520 investigation. Police have gone down to the 715 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,680 taxi rank to get some more information, and they find that 716 00:35:56,680 --> 00:36:00,920 it was Paul Derusso that picked up both Jovanna Jefferson and 717 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,040 Sarita Cohen on the nights that they both disappeared. 718 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,520 So immediately they go and track down Paul Derusso and arrest 719 00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,040 him. They bring him into the police 720 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,200 station for questioning. But he he was cool as a 721 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:14,200 cucumber. He showed no emotion. 722 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,800 He was just no commenting his way through the whole interview. 723 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:21,360 But police were kind of like worried now because if he wasn't 724 00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,040 talking, how were they going to get any evidence against him? 725 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,880 Like, they really hoped that they would be able to, I don't 726 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:28,680 know, use his own words against him somehow. 727 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,640 But he's not using them. He's not using words. 728 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,080 So they were going to have to find some other methods to get 729 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,360 evidence against Paul de Russo. I mean, they knew that they had 730 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:41,440 the DNA sample and that would be a slam dunk piece of evidence if 731 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,760 they sent his DNA off to test against the DNA from the crime 732 00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:46,840 scenes. And it was a match perfect that 733 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,200 that would be the best kind of evidence they could get in this 734 00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:52,480 case. But this was 2003. 735 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:58,080 And the, the DNA test lab thing, the whole process took forever, 736 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,200 like ages, way longer than it takes now. 737 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,880 It would have taken months. I want to say back then, I don't 738 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,280 know. I wasn't a scientist in 2003, 739 00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,080 unfortunately, but it was going to take a long, long time. 740 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,120 And so in the meantime, police had to find some other pieces of 741 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,080 evidence, but they were hoping that that DNA was going to be a 742 00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:17,840 match. But, you know, they needed other 743 00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,160 evidence as well. So one of the things police did 744 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,200 was check both Giovanna and Sarita's phone records from the 745 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,040 Knights of their disappearances and compare them with Paul de 746 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,960 Russo's phone records, you know, where they can see, like the 747 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,800 location that the phone was at. And it turns out both women were 748 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,640 in the exact same location as Paul de Russo on the nights that 749 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:39,200 they were both murdered, respectively. 750 00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:43,040 That can't be a coincidence that he happens to be around when 751 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,720 both of these women were killed. Oh, and another piece of 752 00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:47,880 evidence. Remember how I said right in the 753 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:51,760 beginning of this investigation that the slipknots used to tie 754 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,360 the cords around these women's necks? 755 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,240 The Slipknot was a very specific kind of Slipknot. 756 00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:58,480 Quite uncommon. Well, it turns out that that 757 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,240 specific kind of Slipknot is one that they teach you to do in the 758 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:04,200 army. And who was in the army? 759 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,400 Paul de Russo. They also searched Paul's car 760 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,360 and in the boot of his car they found a load of tiny blue 761 00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:15,040 fibres, fibers that matched the blanket that Nicole Williams was 762 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,600 wrapped up in when her body was disposed on the side of the 763 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,200 road. So evidence is quickly 764 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,400 connecting this man to pretty much all of the murders. 765 00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:27,280 They found evidence to connect him to Shawanda Mcallister's 766 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,680 murder as well. Remember when they searched her 767 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:32,240 house and they found that ATM receipt that showed that she'd 768 00:38:32,240 --> 00:38:35,280 gone to an ATM, got some cash out about 8:30 that night. 769 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,400 So police went down to that ATM and they checked the security 770 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,040 footage on the cameras around there. 771 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:45,080 And sure enough, at 8:30 PM, Shawanda pulls up to the ATM in 772 00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,120 a Gator City taxi, gets out, gets the cash out, and then hops 773 00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:50,960 back in the taxi and it drives away. 774 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,240 And finally, after they'd collected all of that evidence, 775 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,120 the lab test results came back and the DNA was a match. 776 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:02,680 Paul Derusso. DNA was found at, I think every 777 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:07,040 single one of these crime scenes with every single victim. 778 00:39:07,520 --> 00:39:10,040 This confirmed he was their serial killer. 779 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,600 So in June of 2003, Paul de Russo was charged with five 780 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,680 counts of murder and two counts of child abuse for leaving 781 00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,720 Nokia's children locked inside the house with her dead body. 782 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,240 I have read some reports that say, fortunately these two 783 00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:26,560 children, now that they're all grown up, they don't remember 784 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,560 anything of that night, which is a silver lining I guess. 785 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,680 They were way too young to know what was going on. 786 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,760 Neither of them remember being left in the house. 787 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,880 Neither of them remember seeing their mother being killed, 788 00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,280 seeing her dead. So, so they had their killer. 789 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,880 But that doesn't mean it's the end of the investigation. 790 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,240 Because like I said, yes, he's currently a serial killer, but 791 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:49,280 how do they know they've found all his victims? 792 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,240 There could be other victims out there that they're yet to find. 793 00:39:52,240 --> 00:39:55,680 And their suspicions were correct because as they dug 794 00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:59,240 further and further, they found more and more murders that this 795 00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:02,800 man was responsible for, one of which he committed actually 796 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:06,520 while he was stationed over in Georgia with the Army when he 797 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,520 had just married. His wife, they just had two 798 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:14,280 beautiful baby girls and he's going out murdering people and 799 00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,000 his wife has no idea. This victim was 26 year old 800 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,920 Tracy Habersham. She was last seen leaving a 801 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:26,760 party in 1997 and her dead naked body was found two days later. 802 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:31,680 She'd been raped, bound and strangled to death, all the same 803 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,840 hallmarks of a Paul de Russo murder. 804 00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,200 DNA was retrieved from her body at the time it was tested on the 805 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:40,120 system and there was no match. But now that they had Paul de 806 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,840 Russo, they tested it against his DNA and it was a match. 807 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,840 So that is how they caught him for that one. 808 00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:49,360 But that's not all because there was a 6th murder as well. 809 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:54,800 Two years later in 199924 year old mother of three Teresa Mack 810 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,840 was found murdered in her own apartment again. 811 00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,080 She'd been raped, strangled to death. 812 00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,880 The phone cord that was used to strangle her was still found 813 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:04,960 around her neck when her body was found. 814 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,160 She even had marks on her wrists, like time marks on her 815 00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,400 wrists where it seemed that the phone cord had been tied around 816 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,800 her wrists and then moved to her neck. 817 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,160 She had marks all over her body. The the bedroom that she was 818 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:20,680 found in was completely trashed. Like it seemed like this had 819 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,760 been a violent struggle. She had really fought for her 820 00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,440 life. One of the worst like injuries 821 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:30,160 she had was an abrasion to her nose that had pretty much taken 822 00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:33,880 all the skin off. And Paul had actually robbed 823 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,160 this woman as part of the attack. 824 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:39,080 He hadn't done this. I as far as I'm aware with any 825 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:44,800 of the others, but this time he stole Tyrese's ring and the TV 826 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,560 from her living room. And actually at the time 827 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:52,680 neighbors had seen him carrying the TV out and into a taxi and 828 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:56,120 leaving but they I don't think anyone really thought anything 829 00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,040 of it at the time. And again, he was caught for 830 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,480 this murder in the exact same way that he was caught for the 831 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,960 last. The DNA evidence just came back 832 00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:05,120 to bite him. So now Paul de Russo is 833 00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,600 officially linked to 7 murders, 9 if you want to include the two 834 00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,520 unborn children. He was an incredibly dangerous 835 00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:16,360 and cold blooded man and for that reason the prosecution was 836 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,120 seeking the death penalty. Now for some reason, and this is 837 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,520 a part that I don't really understand, I'm going to be 838 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,600 honest, I'm going to be vulnerable with you guys. 839 00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:28,240 I don't get it. He was only tried for one murder 840 00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,520 and that was the murder of Tyrese and Mack. 841 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,880 Now, I thought that the evidence that they had for a lot of these 842 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,080 murders was pretty damn concrete, like the DNA evidence 843 00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,840 and the fibers and all that. But for some reason it wasn't. 844 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,480 Police were told that they were not allowed to take this man to 845 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,520 trial for all these murders. The only one that they could was 846 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:50,240 Theresa Mack. No idea, no idea why and I'm 847 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,400 really sorry. I think one of the reasons was 848 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:56,160 that the, the biggest piece of like evidence that police had 849 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,360 against this man was the DNA, the semen DNA. 850 00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,400 And like I said earlier on in the video, his defence team 851 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:05,960 could just argue that he had consensual sex with all of these 852 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,120 women. We know that that's very, very, 853 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,840 very unlikely. But they would be able to argue 854 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,280 that, you know, with like, reasonable doubt or whatever. 855 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:17,560 So I think that had a part in why he wasn't actually put on 856 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:18,920 trial for the rest of the murders. 857 00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:20,760 He was only put on trial for this one murder. 858 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,200 But obviously, they used all the other ones kind of as backup 859 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,600 evidence to say that they thought that this man was 860 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,600 responsible for Teresa Mack's murder. 861 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,360 So the jury and the whole court did still hear about all these 862 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,840 other murders, don't worry. But by the end of the trial, 863 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:39,920 Paul Derusso was found guilty for that one murder. 864 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:43,440 He was found guilty and he was to be sentenced to death by 865 00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:47,200 lethal injection, something that it never actually ended up 866 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:50,240 happening. In 2007, his death sentence was 867 00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:53,080 actually overturned. His sentence was changed to just 868 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,760 life in prison. And that's where he is right 869 00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,120 now. He is age 52 and he's going to 870 00:43:58,120 --> 00:43:59,440 be there for the rest of his life. 871 00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,600 In the aftermath of this case, a few of the victims families 872 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:07,480 actually filed lawsuits against Gator City Taxis for not 873 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:09,520 carrying out a good enough background check on Paul 874 00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,760 Derusso. I don't know how that lawsuit 875 00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:16,240 went, but I do know that Gator City Taxi Company shut down like 876 00:44:16,320 --> 00:44:18,720 immediately after this case. It doesn't exist anymore and 877 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:20,840 hasn't for a long, long time. And something I wanted to 878 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,600 mention at the very end of this case, it's kind of like a 879 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,560 conspiracy theory, which is why I just wanted to like, shove it 880 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,600 in at the end, but that's that. Paul de Russo is actually 881 00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,480 suspected of a bunch of other murders over in Germany. 882 00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,720 Remember, he was stationed over in Germany right when he first 883 00:44:36,720 --> 00:44:39,080 joined the Army. Well, around that same time, 884 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:43,200 there was a string of unsolved murders of young women being 885 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:46,520 strangled and raped. Same victim profile, same method 886 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:48,480 of killing. It was the exact time that he 887 00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:51,360 was in Germany. And when he left Germany, guess 888 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:52,880 what? The murders stopped. 889 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,960 No evidence has ever been found to tie Paul Derusa to these 890 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,680 murders, which is why I say it's like a conspiracy theory. 891 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,880 But it is something that people mention quite a bit because it 892 00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,880 hasn't really properly been looked into by police. 893 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:09,400 And a lot of people think that if it was, they would find 894 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,920 evidence. But as As for right now, there's 895 00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,520 no evidence. That is just a theory. 896 00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,920 And that is all I have on this case. 897 00:45:15,920 --> 00:45:18,880 Thank you so much for watching. I really appreciate you coming 898 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:19,880 along. OK, bye. 899 00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:21,920 I'll see you in the next one. Bye.