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These killers were never caught.
They left behind bodies, cryptic

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notes, and a trail of terror, 
then simply vanished. 

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No cuffs, no closure, just a 
lingering question. 

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What if the monster is still out
there? 

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Tonight we're looking at 4 
killers who just evaporated 

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after murdering in cold blood. 
No wild theories, no campfire 

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rumors, just the unsettling 
facts that keep detectives awake

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and small towns locking their 
doors twice. 

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Let's start with the case that 
made every parent in Boulder, Co

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hug their kids a little tighter.
Jonbenet Ramsay 6 year old 

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Jonbenet Ramsay went to bed on 
Christmas night, 1996. 

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By sunrise she was found 
lifeless in her own basement, 

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skull fractured, hands tied with
a garage made from her mother's 

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paintbrush. 
A three page ransom note written

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on paper from the house demanded
$118,000, her father's exact 

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bonus that year. 
Police searched the home once, 

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completely missed the wine 
cellar door, and only found her 

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body 7 hours later. 
The DNA under her fingernails 

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didn't match anyone in the 
house, and a shoe print near her

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body was from a size 10 high 
tech boot no family member 

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owned. 28 years, 1500 
interviews, and one false 

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confession later, there's still 
no arrest. 

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The case file remains open, with
DNA constantly rerun as 

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technology improves. 
Somewhere, the person who did 

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this is living a normal life, 
maybe even watching videos like 

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this one. 
From a basement in Colorado, we 

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moved to a California coastline 
where a masked shooter turned 

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lover's lanes into crime scenes.
The Zodiac Killer. 

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Between December 1968 and 
October 1969, at least five 

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people were shot across Vallejo,
Napa and San Francisco. 

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After each attack, chilling 
letters arrived at Bay Area 

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newspapers, hand drawn ciphers, 
bloody swatches of shirt and 

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taunts like I will not give you 
my name because you will try to 

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slow or stop my collecting of 
slaves. 

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The final authenticated cipher 
mailed in 1974 boasted Me 37 

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SFPD 0. 
Detectives tallied hundreds of 

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suspects from escaped convicts 
to a house painter who owned the

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same wing Walker boot seen at 1 
scene. 

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In 2020, the FBI finally cracked
one cipher. 

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It was a sick joke, not a name. 
The killer's last confirmed 

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communication was 5 decades ago.
But without adna match, the case

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is technically still active. 
Vallejo police still hold on to 

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two envelopes and stamps, 
waiting for the day touch DNA 

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gets sharper. 
Until then, the Zodiac remains 

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the ultimate boogeyman, proving 
you could shoot strangers for 

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sport and outwit an entire task 
force. 

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Now let's jump the continent and
dial the clock back even further

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because the 1800s had their own 
vanishing act Lizzie Borden or 

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whoever it was. 
August 4th, 1892, Fall River, MA

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Andrew Borden was brutally 
hacked 11 times with a hatchet 

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while napping on the sofa. 90 
minutes later, his wife Abby was

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found upstairs, skull split so 
cleanly the cleaver was still 

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embedded. 
Daughter Lizzie claimed she was 

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in the barn looking for sinkers.
Police, however, noted the barn 

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floor was untouched. 
No footprints, no disturbed 

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dust. 
A week later, they arrested 

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Lizzie only to hit a wall. 
The murder weapons handle was 

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broken off and burned. 
There was no blood on Lizzie's 

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dress, and 19th century juries 
really struggled with the idea 

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of a woman wielding that much 
rage. 

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She walked free after just 68 
minutes of deliberation. 

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No other suspect was ever 
charged. 

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The house is now a museum. 
The guide might tell you the 

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killer probably hid in the 
basement coal chute and slipped 

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out while neighbors flocked to 
the crime scene. 

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True or not, the axe wielder 
never faced justice. 

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And the rhyme still ends with 
Lizzie Borden took an axe, even 

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though legally, nobody knows who
took anything. 

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Fast forward to the era of Cold 
War spies and zip up sports 

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bags. 
Gareth Williams the Spy in the 

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Bag August 23rd 2010 Pimlico, 
London Gareth Williams, a 31 

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year old MI 6 code breaker on 
loan from GCHQ, missed a 

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meeting. 
Concerned colleagues entered his

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top floor flat and found a red 
North Face duffel bag in the 

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bathtub, padlocked from the 
outside. 

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Inside was Williams naked, body 
curled in a fetal position, the 

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key placed beneath him. 
No fingerprints on the rim, no 

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DNA on the zipper, no signs of 
forced entry. 

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A toxicology screen found traces
of GHB, but not enough to knock 

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him out. 
Coroner Fiona Wilcox ruled it an

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unlawful killing, noting it 
would be extremely difficult for

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Williams to lock himself in. 
Yet no suspect has ever been 

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charged. 
Surveillance cameras on his 

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block were mysteriously turned 
off that week. 

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Scotland Yard later speculated 
Williams locked himself in as 

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part of a solo escapade gone 
wrong, an explanation his family

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flatly rejects. 10 years on, the
case sits with Counter Terror 

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Command, the bag held in an 
evidence freezer, waiting for 

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science or a conscience to 
finally close the loop. 4 

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crimes, 4 ghosts. 
Some left ransom notes, some 

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left ciphers. 
One left nothing but a locked 

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bag. 
All left the same chilling void.

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No trial, no conviction, no 
peace for the people who still 

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flinch at basement doors, lovers
lane shadows, or the creak of an

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old family staircase. 
If you know anything. 

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Ancestry DNAA stray comment from
a grandparent, a neighbor who 

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moved away too fast. 
Please call it in. 

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Cold case units really do answer
the phone. 

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