Catching Canada's Smartest Bank Robbers: The Stopwatch Gang | Exhibit A | Real Crime

They were the

stopwatch

gang

. They had great timing, brilliant planning, outrageous costumes, the FBI had no idea about their identity. They were either unstoppable or entered the world of forensic science, the science of

crime

where a suspect's guilt or innocence can persist. with a single test you can do a lot in 90 seconds you can listen to Walts minute with time to spare you can boil an egg or you can rob a

bank

that's exactly how three Canadian

bank

robbers

gained notoriety in the US In the 1990s 1980s they were known as the

stopwatch

gang

because they used one of these to time their robberies down to the second at the pinnacle of their success.

They hit a bank for a week without firing a single shot, but they were not always successful. always known as the stopwatch gang and they were not always bank

robbers

the gang first met in 1973 in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, a box of gold bullion en route from a mine in the north to the Royal Mint in Ottawa was stored overnight in a poorly guarded airport warehouse. Patty Mitchell, who had become the mastermind of the Stopwatch Gang, considered stealing the gold a personal challenge. Patty's infantryman was Lionel Wright. Lionel took care of the details, getaway cars, weapons, disguises, but for this job they needed a third guy, someone bold enough.

To do anything, that's when they recruited 22-year-old Steven Reed Patty, who had recently escaped from prison and whom I met in Ottawa. I had escaped from a place called Workw Worth in the fall of 1973 and he was kind of, you know, one of the kingpins in Ottawa, so a friend of mine that I had gone to in Ottawa to hide, you know, hide and you know , get some new clothes and you know, just let you lock yourself in for a while, uh, you say you know I have the guy for you and he brought Patty and we hit it off right away.

The future stopwatch gang needed just one more thing. An inside man, an airport worker who could tip them off to win the gold, was there, so Patty set up a card game with an airport where a worker named Gary Guton, the trio deliberately letting Guton win, seduced him into becoming their Insider. Man a few days later Patty received the signal from guton that the shipment of gold had arrived now came the hard part of getting the gold they had to get she entered the locked room with a guard who had strict orders not to let anyone in, so Patty, posing as an angry airport supervisor, demanded to speak to the maintenance man she had sent when the guard said no.

That man was there. Patty launched into a comment about how that damn maintenance man better call him the moment he showed up like he was in Q. There was a knock on the door assuming it was the errant maintenance worker, the guard told her that was in serious trouble, that's when the maintenance worker pulled out a gun and told the guard that he was the one in serious trouble, that it would be the biggest gold robbery in Canadian history, you know, the gold is, you know , I had such a fascination there and I understood why after handling it, you know, when you handle gold, it's quite the Seducer of Mankind, since the United States was about to allow private citizens to own gold bullion.

The gang plans to fence the loot in the United States, where it would net them a considerable $5 million, the best part they had obtained cleanly or so they thought, but the police had caught Guton and had struck a deal with him to turn him into Informer. wir Taps recorded Patty Mitchell recounting details of the airport gold heist, but detectives still need physical evidence linking the trio to the gold, although Patty had fenced the gold in the United States when police recaptured Steven Reed for being a prison escapee finds flakes of gold in his closet when the government mint gold bars they are 99.99% pure gold but the gold from the mines is never pure what the mines do is extract the gold and turn it into Dory bars Each one of which it has a different percentage of gold mixed with silver and basic medals such as bronze.

The mine in the north had records of the exact percentages of each of the gold bars stolen. When the gold flakes found in Steven's closet are analyzed, they are consistent with the percentages of one of Dory's bars stolen at the airport based on this and other evidence. Patty and Lionel were arrested and the trio was convicted of repeat offenses. Steven Reed had 10 years added to his previous sentence for participating in the gold heist. Patty Mitch and Lion Wright for their role in The Heist and other

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s received 20 years each for most of the thieves, the story would end here, but these three were not average criminals, since with a single mind they began to plan their separate leaks.

Lionel Wright was the first to escape, call it beginner's luck, he followed a group of fellow convicts through the prison fence to a waiting car. Steven Reed was next on an escorted visit to the community. Steven convinced an unsuspecting guard to stop and fish for Chip's lunch, but Steven had plans to skip dessert with these two friends, now free. Patty Mitchell

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ized that if she was going to escape she would have to come up with an extraordinary plan. She had heard from a lifer that drinking water mixed with tobacco made his heart race. Then he did push-ups until he fell, it looked like a heart attack, they called an ambulance to take Patty to the hospital, but two doctors who, if anyone had bothered to notice, looked an awful lot like Lionel and Steven intercepted the stretcher and escaped with Patty in the back of a van waiting for them It was 1980 and the trio was free and forced to flee Canada.

They sneaked into the United States. Americans were like Canadians with vibrant accents, too many guns, and a big problem with crime. The trio fit together perfectly. We knew we were in this. together and I think there was a

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ly defining moment when we became the stopwatch gang and we really got to work, the stopwatch gang was about to become Alle Legend. I think it's something interesting, this piece will make 52 layers viewable on mobile devices or the big screen all free no subscription required the stopwatch gang was about to go rob banks in the southern United States like never before had seen the first bank they attacked was in San Diego on April 15, 1980 their goal get in and out in 90 seconds, they approach, a single Canadian Mo, the takeover robbery, is going to take the bank instead of going in and, oh please can I have some money from the ATM?

You know he's going to come in and comfort you during bench placement. all down and knowing what you're going to do, the game hit four San Diego banks in quick succession. The precision of these robberies quickly captured the fascination of the American media and the attention of the FBI. Most bandits stay at the bank for I feel, um, it's just how long they feel like they've been there and what they need to do, but these guys actually timed it up to about 90 seconds with the use of a stopwatch so you knew you were Dealing with a group that, uh, acted together, this wasn't going to be an easy case.

He knew that from the beginning the gang made its way through the American Southwest doing jobs in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and along the California coast as far north as Seattle. and professional, they never fired a shot between me and Patty, figuring things out and doing the show of a score and Lionel doing the detailed work, we got pretty good, as good as you can get. I had one with a band. Tell me one time that bank robbery was the most powerful drug you had ever taken and that once you started that type of activity there was no turning back, that the excitement level and adrenaline rush was stronger than any drug you had ever taken.

I would have tried. taken, the FBI had no leads on the identities of the stopwatch gang. We can usually identify and track bandit groups like the Stopwatch Gang from one area to another because they do the same thing over and over again, which has been successful for them in the past. Of course, they will do it again. We were able to track them to a certain extent, but they were very good. They are planning in particular. I noticed and they were a cut above the normal Bandit I had. I encountered earlier, the FBI turned up the heat and Steven Reed felt it because they didn't stop working just because I did.

I mean, they just worked during the Bank Roby era, this was the day of the stopwatch gang, but any careless word, contradictory story rejected. acquaintance and the whole deck of cards could collapse people are pretty smart you know you can't just show up out of nowhere with a bunch of money of course Patty and I were our worst enemies we got drunk and started telling lies and our lies they would all be crossed and that's why I would be very worried if people started to raise suspicions about us in our circles of friends the gang had another problem the more they stole the more they spent their Solution A fabulous dream big enough to retire forever in September 1980 Steven checked a bank or every Tuesday a security guard carried a fortune stuffed in three bags of money from the bank's safe to an armored truck waiting outside to snatch the money.

The gang would have to totally change their modus operandi without a stopwatch instead of running into the bank and seizing the money it had to be intercepted between the safe and the armored truck which meant sitting in the bank and waiting instead of wearing gloves they would have They had to bandage their fingers with plasters to avoid leaving fingerprints and instead of masks they would have to resort to other disguises to get Fox out of the security camera, it was much riskier, they took their positions to wait for the guard to arrive, but this Once the clock was against them, the stopwatch gang was used to being in and out of a bank in 90 seconds, this time they would be at the mercy of someone else's punctuality and as fate would have it, Brinks' truck was late that day.

They took a little longer than they should to arrive and our investigation. they showed that they should have done it anyway, it was difficult because we were, I had makeup, um, oddly enough, and there was never the feeling that anyone was paying much attention to us and you know, I mean, here they are, you know, two idiots in a bench, one with you, you know, complete. beard and sweat, you know, he looks like a, you know, an Arab terrorist, the other guy looks like, you know, me, I look like Van Dyke's little beard and everything, you look like Colonel Sanders or something.

I don't know, you know, weird, you know, the blonde he was. really weird and we both look weird we're just walking around walking around the guard finally appeared as the guard started taking the bags of money out of the safe to the armored truck waiting outside his conversation with the bank teller was about to be abruptly interrupted. Steven told the guard, don't try to be a hero, the job made a quarter of a million, the biggest bank robbery in San Diego history, once they threw up anything that connected them to the heist, they would be free afterward. of the San Diego score.

Everyone back at the apartment started throwing things out of the apartment again, we have garbage bags full of things and I don't know what happened. There are some that we fell off and fell off the game plan. In this one we put the wigs. the bank bags in garbage bags Lionel usually burned those things, put them on an outdoor barbecue or just took them home to where we lived at the time and we slowly disposed of them, you know? things that put you in jail due to the audacity of the robbery and its meticulous planning. The FBI suspected that the robbery was the work of the Chronometer gang, but they still had no idea of ​​the identity of the gang.

The first break with the FBI came from the surveillance of the bank. system that had been taking photographs at 302 intervals, the photograph will certainly give you a lot to go on, even if they may be fully clothed and have a mask because at least you know what kind of evidence you are looking for because we are looking at it well and certainly, Now if we can get those clothes back, it will be of great value to you while Steven and Patty left with stolen money. Lionel had to get rid of the incriminating trash that he took out and threw the stuff in the dumpster, you know, and he just thought, well, I'll put it in there, I'll sit here until Stu leaves and then two cops pulled up and he went into panic with the two police officers there.

Lionel knew that if he was caught with things from the robbery, he could also plead guilty on the spot, that's when he decided to risk the garbage truck picking her up as scheduled. It was going to be the costliest mistake of his life. An old man who found the bag minutes before the garbage truck arrived and thought. could be of interest to the police, he was right, the police handed it over to the FBI. A green garbage bag. The FBIHe now had the clothing used by the thieves in the surveillance photos and an enlargement of one of the surveillance photos revealed that the dark-bearded thief had lost a Band-Aid from his left thumb when the trash bag and its contents were dusted for of footprints.

The lab found a latent thumbprint on the trash bag itself. Well, fingerprints don't lie and they certainly, um. fingerprint is worth a thousand words so to speak, the FBI still needs to compare it to a known fingerprint to get a name, but when they compare the fingerprint to known criminals they come up empty handed, it means none of the members of the stopwatch ever a gang has been arrested in the US the FBI is perplexed by ignoring FBI evidence that the gang had been in contact with a big criminal who promised that for a good amount of money he would introduce them to a surgeon that he could alter his fingerprints, but when the criminal was arrested for drugs, he ratted out the gang in exchange for his freedom, giving the FBI their names and a copy of his fingerprints.

Now they could connect Steven Reed to the San Diego robbery. Meanwhile, the stopwatch band had been caught by the fingertips. Little did the stopwatch gang know that this would be the last time the three of them would be together. The FBI had solved the case. Lionel was arrested while he was still in bed. Steven was pulled over for a minor traffic violation and found himself surrounded by armed FBI agents but they couldn't find Patty. The FBI expected Steven or Lionel to rat out Patty for a deal. They were wrong, according to Steven Reed. Canadians there was honor among thieves.

Canadians know it, I mean, even you know it, the FBI and different people who were arrested, would you have talked about it? you know we're known for putting up with the mud you know you get caught you get up and take you know you get one on the chin Patty Mitchell put on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list was captured in 1983 and then escaped in 1995. FBI Agent Steve Chenowith He created a profile of Patty and asked for public help through a television show. The Move paid off. Someone gave the FBI an address. Time had run out on the stopwatch band.

Patty Mitchell was sentenced. to 68 years in prison he will have more than 80 years before he is eligible for parole Lionel Wright was finally released from prison in 1994. He had managed the prison canteen with such meticulousness that he was subsequently hired by Corrections Canada in 1985. Steven Reed wrote a novel. Jack Rabbit parole that caught the attention of the poet Susan Musgrave they married in prison and a year later Steven was released on parole but in 1999 Steven Reed was accused of committing a new bank robbery our interview with him took place in prison is Well they romanticize about guys like the Stopwatch Gang and think that their actions only hurt the big bad banks, on the other hand, maybe the only reason no one was seriously hurt was simply because they were never challenged during one of their robberies.

We could debate this for hours, but it's important to know. When a mother's only son was killed by a shotgun blast, her best friend swore it was suicide but she knew it was murder, bad science, letting a murderer go free, could good science fix him again, enter the world of science? forensics the science of crime where the guilt or innocence of a suspect can depend on a single piece of evidence for a single mother who loses her only child through violent means is absolutely devastating, what is even worse is seeing the person responsible for his death leaving free at 2:40 on a February morning.

The police receive a 911 call. The caller frantically says that her best friend just shot herself in her parents' basement. The police find the body of Adam Matthews lying dead on the floor in a pool of blood, according to Greg Connor, they had been drinking when Adam. He took Greg's shotgun to the shop and committed suicide, but Greg Connors is acting so erratically that the police have no choice but to handcuff him and take him to the station coroner, Jim Karn, who would then review the case. The scene was secured by the police and several photographs. They were removed from the scene before the body was moved, but that was the opening scene: a hoax flying across the ground with a shotgun in his hand.

It was reasonably concluded from the beginning that this was a suicide at the station. Greg Connors tells the police that he and Adam had been drinking and watching a video in the rec room while Greg's parents were sleeping upstairs. Adam wanted to see Greg's shotgun. He left it with Adam when he felt sick and went to vomit, which is when Adam entered the adjacent work room. and shooting himself may just be a detective's instinct, but there's something about Greg Connor's response to the tragic loss of a close friend that just doesn't ring true, plus it's rare for a suicide victim to impulsively shoot himself with a gun. of another person in another person's house.

Hoping to get more evidence, the detective sends a new ID person to videotape Greg Connor's basement. Then comes one of the most difficult parts of a detective's job and he breaks the tragic news of a son's death to his mother. Linda Matthews is devastated and refuses to believe that her her son committed suicide she knows her son he lived at home it's impossible if something bothered him enough to commit suicide she would have known Adam was a well adjusted young man it doesn't make any sense why Of course it is not the first time. The detective has seen a father who is not willing to accept his son's suicide at the station.

He studies the pathologist's report in a basic summary. The conclusions reached by the pathologist up to that point were that it was a contact wound to the neck of the deceased, so the end of the barrel was against the neck of the deceased when the trigger was pulled, that is when the Detective searches for the new identification video tape of what may now be the crime scene and discovers, to his dismay, that the basement has been completely cleaned and the blood-soaked carpet is missing and the blood has been cleaned from the wall. From the workroom, the detective now has a serious problem: He will have to rely solely on the original crime scene photographs taken in the first hour after police arrived at the scene of what was ruled a suicide.

As the detective studies the photos, something bothers him: the shotgun in Adam's hand. He doesn't remember ever hearing about a shotgun suicide in which, given the force of the recoil, the victim caught the gun in a grip similar to that of a shotgun. of a handgun, the preliminary ballistics report states that Considering the length of Adam's arm and the length of the shotgun barrel, Adam could barely have reached the trigger to shoot himself, but if this is a homicide, why would a friend Would you kill a friend? Linda Matthews is tortured by the same question, she has been reconsidering everything.

That happened the day Adam died. She remembers coming home from work and seeing her son outside talking to her friend Rick about her. Something seemed to be bothering Adam. She had also received four phone calls from Greg Connor that day, the last one just as he was walking down the street. door and then immediately left for Greggs. She didn't like it. Greg didn't like the way he treated Adam. She didn't like the fact that Greg had run-ins with the police. She is convinced that Greg had more to do with Adam's death than he did. she told the police when she contacted Rick what he told her and the detective adds a crucial piece to the puzzle the month before Adam and Greg went driving in Greg's truck and Greg smashed his truck into a tree.

Greg got Adam to accompany a man. He made up that the truck had been stolen and the thieves had crashed it so Greg could collect the $223,000 from insurance, but Adam told Rick that he had decided he wasn't going to lie anymore for Greg and that he was going to confess to the insurance. company that was the day Adam died the detective now has a motive Greg Connors is arrested and charged with criminal negligence causing death because he was intoxicated at the time of the shooting but despite the arrest nothing lessens Linda Matthews' unbearable pain as she wait for the trial.

She sinks into a deep depression. His only hope is that justice will be served somehow because blood tests indicate that Greg Connor was drunk when he supposedly shot Adam Matthews. He had not been charged with murder but with criminal negligence causing death as Linda Matthews prepares. At the trial he has every reason to believe that Greg Connors will be convicted of killing his son, but the alleged motive is discarded and the science he relies on turns out to be his worst enemy. The original firearms expert shocked everyone by claiming that Adam Matthews could have shot himself.

A second firearms expert who reviewed the case years later was stunned by this claim, the only way he could have shot himself is to slide it to along his arm, lustfully held the barrel up to his throat and squeezed the trigger with his finger and incredibly uncomfortable way to commit suicide with a firearm. incredibly I had never seen anything like it before, but at Greg Connor's trial he believed by the original firearms expert, the firearms examiner's additional opinion was that this was possible and that once he pulled the trigger, he was somehow able to grab the gun and fall with the gun in his hand. way he was found at the scene with a pistol grip on the shotgun, the judge agreed that the charges against Greg Connor were reduced. to give a loaded shotgun to an intoxicated person and at the same time the judge ruled that the deceased had died as a result of his own action, so the deceased had actually committed suicide.

Adam's mother was outraged, it was hard to tell. What hurt her the most was that the courts officially ruled that her son had committed suicide, which was impossible, or that her murderer was allowed to go free. She swore to Greg Connors that he wouldn't get away with murdering her son, but what could she do as a first timer? First step to reopening the case, she obtains the crime scene photographs through the Freedom of Information Act, if she wants others to one day believe that Adam never committed suicide, she must first be willing to face the evidence herself in order to build a case for an appeal.

She sends copies of crime scene photographs to leading US forensic experts to obtain their independent opinions. She organizes a new women's campaign to clear her son's name for the first time since her son's death. Linda Matthews feels alive, the results begin to come back and you are sure, according to these experts, she is right, her son's death is not a suicide, it is a homicide armed with these reports, she goes to the detective to try to reopen the case , that's when two words knock her down, two words that will haunt her. Double Jeopardy under the law, no one can be tried for the same crime twice.

It would be easy for her to give up and sink back into depression blaming the system for the rest of her life, but deep down, Adam's mother is a fighter. He's come too far to give up now it's not just about his son's death it's about the truth itself there has to be another way for him to send his findings to the only person who could help his assistant coroner Jim Kens , although Double Jeopardy protects Greg Connor from ever being retried an investigation can at least establish a public truth Jim Kars is impressed, has done his homework and is willing to let science speak for him you're looking for a scientific truth and uh , it's important, it's just as important to correct bad science as it is to have good science Jim Karn decides to call an inquest, a jury of five will now decide whether or not they agree with the original findings that the first trial was correct and that Adam Matthew's death was a suicide or the first trial was botched and his death was a homicide and a killer walked free the system failed Matthews for the second time it would all come down to

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ing the original crime scene photographs Linda Matthews needs know and needs the public to know what happened to his son in that basement workshop 6 years ago an investigation will ultimately determine whether his son committed suicide or was murdered a second group of experts will have to reexamine what had been presented as a forensic fact by the first group of experts all the experts have are these

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s to the original crime scene photographs taken in the first hour after the police arrived at the scene of what was considered a suicide, the investigation returns to the story presented in the original trial that Adam Matthews shot himself in the neck and somehow managed to hold on. over the shotgun as he falls to the ground, the first witness Jim calls is firearms expert Jim MCA.

The recoil of this shotgun is quite severe and the tests I didfrom a table with this shotgun and the same type of ammo that was released. 23 to 11 on the table, how could he hold that gun? The original firearms expert had testified that the shotgun had somehow ended up in the victim's hand. What are the chances that it will bounce and land in his hand? Well, the odds are as remote as it being totally unthinkable uh bouncing off the ceiling, the wall, the floor and then it just comes back and lands in your hand so that your finger goes over the trigger and your other fingers wrap around the grip. , it is beyond my understanding that this could happen, I would have to believe the Tooth Fairy working with the same photos.

Bloodstain analyst Vince Hawks agrees with MCA and disagrees with the original pathologist report that the shotgun had been against Adam's neck. It's physically impossible for that end of that gun. having been pressed against the individual's neck and leaving the amount of splatter that was left on that wall is physically impossible as we make that scenario change a little bit and move the gun further away from the source of blood the further we move the gun away from the blood. The larger the impact area and therefore the more projected stains can come into contact with the blood on the various surfaces and that is what we have in this case, but proving where the shotgun was not is one thing and proving where was really is another, so determine this.

Test firing at various distances using the same shotgun, the same type of ammunition and measuring the spread of the shot. I can say with some degree of certainty that the shot was fired between these two distances, between 3 and 5 feet, someone else must have been holding that gun from this distance by analyzing the photographs of the blood stains on the victim's left hand , Vince Hawks can determine something even more remarkable: this individual's hand must be in an orientation that is in front of his face like this with his index finger. finger extended and thumb extended, so it can't be in the extended outward position by pressing the trigger, it has to be in a position like this physically impossible to be in any other position according to the blood stains.

Now we have the scenario of the individual standing against the work table we have the scenario of the right hand without projected stains associated with holding the weapon and we have the left hand in a position like this to me which is a defensive position at the moment of impact by what the victim was trying to defend himself from something or someone. I was able to calculate the height of the wound in the deceased's throat. If he was standing. I was able to correlate the center of the pattern with the wound on his throat. I was able to determine that the shotgun was at shoulder height when it was fired, this particular shotgun was up here and this is the position a shotgun should be fired.

The jury has three options: suicide, homicide or accidental death. It takes him exactly 2 hours to decide and when they return. They consider Adam's death a homicide. This is the scenario they now believe took place that February morning 6 years ago. They had been drinking and watching television. Maybe Adam told Greg that he was going to confess to Greg's false insurance claim. Maybe what we do know is that somehow Adam was lured or forced into the work room and then, while trying to defend himself, he was shot by someone holding the shotgun in the aiming position at a distance of 3 to 5 feet. and placed a shotgun in his hand to make it look like a self-suicide. testimony the only other person in the basement at the time was Greg Connors the world would now know what Linda Matthews had never doubted that her son had been murdered is very powerful when you think about how one woman's desire to know the truth caused everything This will end.

It happens and ends up the way it is, it's pretty important, I think for her to have sat in the corner investigation and seen what she really believed come true based on physical evidence, not what people think happened based on the truth. true physical evidence, this certainly was a case where an individual was initially set free due to science and at least to the extent that the true facts could be corrected once again by science, then there was some validation. of science, but it did involve breaking down the previous scientific conclusions that were reached, the world would now know what Linda Matthews never doubted that her son had not committed suicide, he had been murdered, she had her verdict, but justice was finally served Despite 6 years of trial and an inquest Greg Connor could not be tried again for the same crime, that would be double jeopardy a murderer walked free 2 years after the inquest verdict Linda Matthews died of cancer she is buried next to her son Adam the police confront the Being a rapist is a hateful criminal and one of the hardest to catch, but can a tenacious investigator using a new forensic tool create geographic profiles to determine where the rapist lives and NAB enter the world of crime? forensic science, the science of crime where the guilt or innocence of the suspect is determined?

We can rely on a single test, we tend to think that criminals are outlaws who think completely differently than us, but researchers tell us that is a mistake. Criminals are so much like us that they are often invisible without anyone suspecting them. It was the summer of 1987 in Lafayette Louisiana, like the Gators, he was always looking for prey and he found it. The woman seemed to live alone. She would return later. She cut the telephone cable. What she does is break in while the victims are sleeping. They demand that money go through their wallets. They emptied his bags, but then he committed the sexual assault.

He was what profilers call a power security violator. His approach is that I am in control and if you do what I say, nothing will happen to you. He then intimidated the woman. telling her that he would not have come in and raped her if she had kept the window closed, he finally warned her that if she reported him to the police he would come back and hurt her or her loved ones in 1987 M Galán was a patrolman accompanying the detective called to investigate the rape, Little did he know that this would become the case that would define his career.

Well, at that time there were no suspects and we also didn't use DNA at that time, we really had nothing to go on. There was no evidence that we could use at that particular time to make an arrest. The rapist had cleaned up after him and left no fingerprints, hair or fibers, but a vaginal swab yielded a sample from the rapist Seaman, although the sample was not of immediate use. it was preserved, as for the woman who was traumatized, ahead of her were years of overwhelming fear and mistrust, broken relationships and black holes of depression and the terror of knowing that the rapist was still out there. 7 years passed.

M gallion had risen through the ranks and become a detective and that was when he was called to another rape case. I had the opportunity to speak with the victim. She was later taken to the hospital where she was examined and evidence was collected from her. The woman described how the man had attacked her while she was asleep he was wearing a handkerchief he said he was there to rob her and then he raped her the description was that of a rapist who secures power, you see, rapes are not sexual acts, but rather an act of power against power. to one person, a vaginal swab in this 1994 assault also yielded a sample of the rapist's sailor, although in 1994 DNA testing had been added to the forensic arsenal, the sample did not match any of the possible suspects, this rape also seemed unsolvable and a year later.

In 1995, Mack overheard a conversation between a detective and a sergeant about a third rape. It sounded like they were reading his case from 1994. The file is starting out as a robbery. The handkerchief blames the woman herself. Another reassuring rapist of Power, excited by control, asked. them for a biological sample from this new rape case when the DNA was compared to the sample from their 94th case, it was a match. He had asked me to see if two unsolved cases could have come from the same source. He felt that Theos of the cases were similar enough to be the same person, we compared the two DNA profiles and found that they were identical and that's when we knew we had a serial rapist at work, we thought about the 1987 case and also We analyze that biological sample.

He also found a match. Mac returned to the Lafayette Police files with astonishing skill. He selected more than a dozen other unsolved cases between 1987 and 1995 in which the rapist Mo appears similar. DNA confirmed that they were all the same rapist because all the attacks took place. in one particular area he was nicknamed the Southside Rapist, but what was the underlying pattern? All the women were white but of different ages. All of the women were attacked in their homes, but their homes ranged from upper-class housing projects to low-income housing projects. Mack was put in charge of the investigation, he would be asked certain questions: who was this rapist, what was he like, where was he, what would it take to catch him, and how many more women would be raped before he was caught. and 1995 I always felt the sense of urgency in this case because I could never know when he was going to come out and actually do this again and I mean people who are attacked like that, I mean their lives are completely ruined . of regular Norms really does horrible things to them in 1995 Mac helped create a special task force but surprisingly the rapist didn't attack that year or the next, so in late 1996 the task force was disbanded once again, It was just Mac then he had a break.

The survivor of the 1994 rape had a nightmare in which she briefly glimpsed the rapist's face. When she woke up she realized it was a memory she had repressed but she couldn't remember the rapist's face clearly enough to describe it to her. a police sketch artist that's when Mac decided to enlist the help of a hypnotist, he said we can remember anything, anything we hear, see, feel, taste or touch, it's permanently ingrained there, it's just a matter of coming back to it. , but through hypnosis. We can take him back in time to that place and access his subconscious and get that information.

Although the woman was afraid to relive The Experience, she agreed to a session with a news reporter and a police sketch artist. Anything to help catch the rapist like the event. It was too brutal and traumatic to return the woman directly to the past. The hypnotist uses the film technique where the subject is told that he is watching a film of the event, a documentary of his life, will he still experience some anxiety? but it is not the same as taking her back to that experience. He gives her a remote control so she can control the movie.

It's like a normal remote control, but with an extra special button, a panic button, when she needs it, she can stop the movie. and all her fears and anxieties will melt into the chair and fade away, then it's time to start with her eyes closed. He mentally guides her to a movie theater down the hall and to her seat, the movie starting the day before and taking the woman through it all. that led to rap in hypnosis we can cover a day inside and in 30 minutes we can fast forward we can rewind we can steal time we can freeze frame time so to speak and in her particular case we take her back to that day the moment we start Going into the actual sexual assault, the victim began sweating profusely and had a very red face.

There were several occasions where we had to stop at a Ste painting and assure her that she was very safe and that she was actually very safe. What we did was we rewound the film and then we asked her to go back step by step in this process where she went through the actual rape to the moment where she told us that the rapist actually took off his scarf at a specific point. in time momentarily to kiss her and then we pushed it up at that point we rewinded, we froze that frame and then we were able to move forward step by step starting with the eyes, then the nose, then the mouth, the cheeks, the neck area. the ears, the head in general, the hair, the eyebrows, the forehead, obtaining all that information during that hypnosis session, as the composite artist would draw it.

Suspects who looked like the sketch. They were questioned about being the rapist seller. Some had a solid alibi. Those who were not asked for DNA samples, but there were no matches, but Mack refused to give up. He knew the survivors would never feel closure until the rapist was caught. He read books on psychological profiling and reread the FBI file on the Southside rapist in 1997. The police had called a meeting of all known victims of the Southside rapist. One similarity that many of them reported was that the rapist was carrying a large black flashlight. One woman said that she could feel his warmth next to her and that sheThe way the rapist held it was Like a police officer, you can now buy one of these types of flashlights at the local hardware store, but in the 1980s they were only used by police firefighters, utility workers, and security guards.

This fit the FBI profile that the Southside Rapist could be a police officer or police officer so something strange happened at Mom's own house. He and his wife had gone to a function at their daughter's school when she arrived. home his front door was wide open nothing had been stolen or broken into it was the Southside Rapist Now looking for Mac, as much as Mac was looking for him, the DNA hadn't solved the case or the police sketch, so Mac contacted Canadian Kim Rosmo, who had pioneered a new forensic geographic profiling tool. The geographic profiles arise from a theoretical area called environmental criminology that does not ask why Johnny became a bad boy.

He says assuming Johnny is a bad boy. What is the influence of the environment on his criminal patterns? More specifically he asks where investigators should look for Johnny instead of finding out where the crimes will occur. If we already knew where they took place, what can we say about where the person responsible for those crimes probably lives? Showcasing a map of Lafayette Louisiana profilers would try to zero in on the violator's hunting area, the most likely area where this predator is found. He lived in May 1998. Geographic profilers Kim Rosmo and Brad Moore flew from Vancouver to see if they could help Detective Mt Gallan catch the Southside rapist.

Our goal is to see crime sites during the day because that's when you can really see them, but also. during the time that defenders commit violations because the world is very different, for example, it is very different at 400 p.m. that at 4:00 a.m. and it is different on a Sunday than on a Wednesday in each place they look at what surrounds the house what was at the end of the street what was around the corner where people parked the pedestrian paths hiding places, the possible escape routes, any thing that might help them focus on the predator's hunting pattern, they are hunting the hunter, so they try to put themselves in the predator's shoes and see the world as he sees it, it could be if the lights seem to be and we can tell from the road whether or not there is a two car garage where there is only one car parked there with curtains or curtains open, signs of perhaps disrepair or an indication that a man is not present could be Rel For the sexual assault type of crime, One thing all of the targets shared was that they were fairly accessible from the street and it would have been easy for the rapist to check on them from the sidewalk or appear at a window, suggesting that the rapist was not a stalker. that followed the women home, but rather a Prowler, a predator that roamed the area hunting for prey.

It has been said that humans are simply more complicated forms of animals and I think we see that with hunting behavior animals need to eat and animals need to avoid being eaten. We can see the same thing with criminals: they need to find victims but they also don't want to be caught on the scene after three exhaustive days. Kim Rosmo flew back to Vancouver and entered all the data into Riel, his software program named after a star. In Orion's belt, the hunter, we take all the crime scenes and put them in as coordinates or, um, digitize them directly into the map of the area and then the computer will generate, in this case, about half a million um. calculations and will produce for us what we call a Jeopardy surface the most likely area of ​​a mudguard residence the total area of ​​lafayette is approximately 61 square kilometers or 24 sare My profilers had narrowed down the place where the rapist likely lived to 1 square meter then, On December 1, 1998, police receive an anonymous tip to investigate Randy KO, who is an officer in the Sheriff's Office loft.

Mack gets a trusted friend at the Sheriff's Office to secretly fax him. Randy Ko's personal file. Randy Ko's home address is inside. geographic profilers Jeopardy Zone further condemning the house he lived in before 1991, when most of the rapes took place, is in the center now review the sketch composed these days Randy KO has changed his overall appearance, wears glasses and looks a new hairstyle, but Photos of Kom before 1995 show a striking resemblance to the suspect. The lab has a DNA sample from the Southside rapist. Now they need Ko's DNA, so an investigator working undercover obtains one of Kom's discarded cigarette butts.

Then on Christmas Eve 1998, Matt calls Arthur Young in the lab and I watched the information come out of the computer and it was like being a lottery winner on a Saturday night watching the numbers fall and I'm looking at my ticket one match two match three match four match and after a certain point I just said this is it um this case can finally be closed and I can get it off my desk it had been there for those long 6 years Ernest Randall KO was arrested after after They handcuffed him, it seems like he just got very depressed, it's like everything was over, which is what I told him.

I told him he didn't have to worry anymore. It's over. He confesses for 6 and a half hours, even admitting to two rapes that investigators knew about. It turns out that KO was a Prowler, not a stalker, when he saw a house that appeared to be without a man, he would later return with his rape kit and look for an open window, which led to Ko's physical and mental assault on these women. was especially hateful. that he had worked in Youth Services with teenage girls who had been raped. I look at it like Randy is a rapist trying to be a police officer, not a cop who rapes people, because no one who has sworn to do what we have sworn to do would go. go out and do something like that Ernest KO was sentenced to 25 years for 19 counts of rape.

There are many women who can now have closure in their lives knowing that the person who traumatized them has been caught and is finally being punished. I think Lafayette and the surrounding areas of Acadiana were very fortunate to have an individual like M gallion on this case because I am sure without him this case would not have come to a conclusion, but for MC gallion the real heroes of the case are the forensic scientists. and the women themselves and in particular a woman who was willing to travel to her subconscious to help capture a dangerous predator two sisters both promising athletes but a powerful presence stalks their young lives their sights are set on one and must control their every move.

When her desire becomes Violent Obsession, she must find this possessed man and enter the world of forensic science, the science of crime, where the guilt or innocence of a suspect can depend on a single piece of evidence. To love means to cherish and protect. a stalker chases stalks and threatens a stalker can't love but might be willing to kill it's late August 1995 Jolene Samuels is just a few days away from the biggest adventure of her life at 19 years old she's about to leave her home in Toronto on a track scholarship to the University of Alabama and will be missed by mother and younger sister Bethany her mother Maryanne is divorced she is proud to see her oldest daughter spread her wings and go out on her own Jolene is taking the last few days before leaving for Relaxing and packing her bags watches her mother and Bethany leave for work.

It hasn't been a good year for Jolene and she's happy to leave her old life behind. A knock brings her to the door. It's Bethany Maryanne returns home from work that night at her usual time. She shouts hello to the girls but she doesn't get any. answering something is not right Jolene's shirt is wrinkled in the hallway there is a red stain on the basement door at the bottom of the stairs she discovers an indescribable horror in shock she runs to a neighbor who calls the police they are Jolene and Bethany Innocent victims of a breakup and Enter went horribly wrong.

Investigators rush to the scene. Things are not what they seem. The flag began to be raised for us. As soon as we walked in the door, long before we reached the basement. uh, and I saw the bodies, a TV stereo, and a toaster piled up next to a back door, but these aren't the usual targets for thieves. Thieves come in, small valuables are left visible, untouched, the kind of loot that thieves find easy to steal. Hide and sell quickly, but it didn't look like any break and entry any of us had seen before. When we got to the basement, we knew this wasn't a breakup gone bad; there was something much more.

Personal and intimate to this particular crime, investigators believe that evidence of a breakup and Enter was staged to cover up a premeditated murder. Forensic identification officers are scouring the scene for clues. All they find of the murder weapon are two mangled pieces of a knife handle. The bodies of the murdered girls are sent to the morgue where they are examined by pathologist Dr. Toby Rose. This is a diagram I made when I was preparing my report and it shows the younger sisters large wound on the front of her neck. I think the younger sister was killed first because she has absolutely no injuries to her hands or arms, so it seems like she couldn't or was so shocked in time that she couldn't defend herself at all.

I thought that the older sister was killed second, the wound on her neck was quite similar to the wound on the younger sister's neck, the younger sister had only one stab wound in the skin of her chest, but the older sister had multiple stab wounds and I estimated them as 19 stab wounds. I also thought she was murdered second because she has evidence of having struggled. She has knife wounds on both hands. Dr. Rose performs one more standard procedure, a simple act that will prove vital later if we always trim their nails. if they have long enough nails to do that and we send it in a sealed envelope to the Forensic Science center for analysis and that is to see if there is any type of evidence or tissue or material under their nails that can be analyzed and used The identification unit spends many intense days searching the house in hopes of finding fingerprints or any clues that might identify the killer.

They find no fibers or hairs that could aid their investigation, but 30 sets of identifiable fingerprints are successfully extracted from the house. The problem is that all 30 sets of fingerprints belong to Jolene or Bethany, so the standard forensic evidence that you get from homicide scenes, fingerprints, things of that nature were not there for us in any beneficial way, The killer may have been wearing gloves that he had been careful to cover his fingerprints. Investigators call Detective Inspector Kate contacts a behavioral profiling expert. She watches a police videotape of the crime scene to understand the nature of the killer.

It's almost as if you could feel the anger of the person who was inflicting these injuries. These young women must have felt it because they were very emotional, very deep, very penetrating. Kate Lions believes that Jolene was the main target due to the particularly brutal injuries on her body. This is an absolute explosion of rage to be able to inflict this type of injury on these. victims and it was certainly clear to me that this was someone who had a relationship that we call an intimate stalker who have had an intimate relationship. Harassment is a very common occurrence before a homicide.

Jolene and Bethany were two innocents. young women with Bright Futures ahead of them, but someone they knew wanted them dead why the investigators know they are dealing with a savage and intelligent criminal, they know the staged breakup and Enter is a cover for a murder frenzy the day after the Maryanne murders tells police chilling story Jolene had been dating a young man called Rohan Ranger for several years, she had broken off the relationship 11 months ago and started dating other guys, but Ranger was obsessed with her and followed her everywhere. Rohan Ranger couldn't accept that Jolene Ya wasn't his, that's more than enough for the police to pick up Ranger for an interview, but Ranger surprises them by being open and cooperative.

He doesn't act like a man with anything to hide. He volunteers to give the police a blood sample for DNA analysis. and he tells a very different story than Maryanne about his relationship with Jolene. He claims that she was not dating anyone else and that she wanted him to visit her in Alabama. They were still in love. In one case, you have this relationship that broke down and her. she doesn't want anything to do with them, on the other hand, you're talking to Ranger and you're like, oh my god, they're going to do it, they're planning to get married.

The two stories are so contradictory that the police's suspicions about Ranger only increase. They put him under surveillance. They see him at the girl's funeral among the other 3,000MERS. They wait to see if she will appear at the more intimate funeral at the local high school. The investigators are surprised to learn that, interestingly, Jolene had made arrangements for her. At her own funeral she asked a friend to sing Amazing Grace at any service being held and she made a bet with another friend that she would be murdered, the friend agreed to pay Jolene $10. A Ranger appears near the end, actually approaching her mother. and she expressed her condolences and gave him a hug that she described to me as the coldest moment she can remember.

Mark Mendleson is even more suspicious of Ranger because he discovered that the only things missing from the house were Jolene's personal belongings outside this entire house and all the looting and moving of stereos and toasters and VCRs and the emptying of dresser drawers. , there were only three things missing in that house. What went missing is a videotape of Jolene playing soccer, her electronic organizer, including her phone. Her friends' numbers are missing, but the most important thing was a gold necklace that Ranger had bought just for her older sister a few years ago. This necklace never left her neck.

She ran track events with him. She swam with him. She played soccer with him. She slept. with it on her necklace that she was not allowed to take off of her because if she ever saw Ranger without it he would get angry. Missing in Jolene's last few weeks, her growing independence was constantly thwarted by the Rangers' obsessive control, it may be difficult for some of us to understand, but again, some people sometimes feel that their lives are becoming so out of control that this person , no matter how much they try to get away from them, seems to be coming back into their lives and trying to control them as much as they do.

Try to get away from the fact that the other person seems to be so obsessed with them that sometimes and again it is not uncommon for victims to almost accept whatever fate has in store for them, they don't see that they really have many choices to make. Maryanne tells the police that she saw Jolene struggling to free herself from the Rangers' control, but Jolene told her in a sinister tone that if anything happened, Rohan Ranger was responsible. Maryanne tells the police that 2 days before the murders she overheard Jolene and Ranger having a fierce argument in the basement of their home, he demanded that Jolene give up her track scholarship and stay with him in Toronto, she refused because At one point in his life, he stood up and said no, come on and see if you are a defiant, controlling, scheming individual.

It could set you off, I think as easily as anything else. Four months after the murders, forensic biologists conclude their examination of Jolene's nail clippings, what they find is a display of DNA from a small amount of tissue from the nail. skin under the nail that doesn't belong to Jene. In our experience, foreign DNA under the nails is a rare and significant finding. Investigators hope DNA from this material will identify the person Jo Colen must have scratched deeply moments before her death. The results amaze the research team if we have, for example, in sample number a. the nail scrapings profile and sample number B is Rohan Ranger's profile, then I can tell you instantly that Rohan Ranger is not the source of the same nail scrapings example, those profiles do not match, they are different, it is excluded As the source of the strange DNA and the nail scrapings, this information turns the investigation upside down.

It is possible that all the circumstances that point to Ranger as the killer are mere coincidence. If so, then who is the killer despite the surprising evidence of DNA that Mark Mendelson can? Don't stop believing that Rohan Ranger must be involved in the murders. You still can't get it out of the investigation and the reason is that you have the reason for her leaving. He does not like. You have the harassment. The next. You have the threatening one who has to stay inside and we have to keep our focus open and our minds clear that there is a second person involved the police intensify their surveillance on Ranger and his circle of friends one by one they are checked all give blood samples none Some of them may be involved in the crime, but maybe there is someone they missed.

They follow Ranger to a park where he appears to be waiting for someone. A car stops and a stranger gets out. We didn't know who this guy was. We had no idea. who this guy was, but he was the first person Ranger had contact with that we had never seen before. This is Adrien kin Cade. Investigators had heard about him, but were told he had left the country. He is Rohan Ranger's cousin and before he disappeared from sight. The two were inseparable. Investigators discover that Kincade is a vicious character with a violent temper. Everyone who knows Kin Kade says that he doesn't care about others, not even his own son.

The child's mother told us that she hung this 9-month-old child out of a nine-story window because the child was crying. and said he would stop the child from crying, so he has no respect for anything, much less human life, but when the police try to locate him for an interview and a DNA sample, he disappeared, but they locate his ex-girlfriend and his son, they receive permission. From her to perform what is known as a reverse paternity test, they take blood samples from both the mother and the child to establish the separate DNA profile of her. Each child's DNA is made up of the combined DNA of his parents.

A reverse paternity test subtracts the mother's DNA profile. What remains of her son is the father's DNA profile, investigators then send Conca's DNA profile to Pam Newell for her analysis. Now when I compare Adrien Kincade's profile in the C lane to the profile I see in the nail scrapes in the A lane, I can't tell. In fact, they could have come from the same source. Investigators know they have identified a killer, but now they learn that Concade fled the country with the help of American police. They tracked him down, arrested him in Miami and brought the cannada under intense interrogation, Kincade admits.

He is at the girl's house on the day of the murders, but denies killing the sisters and points to Rohan Ranger as the murderer and the mastermind behind the Slavs. K Kade said that Ranger is a mind controller, that's what he told us, the man is very powerful and can control him. Your mind does what it tells you to do when the police at Ra's apartment find over 40 books stolen from a local library. Not all of these books come Ninjutsu, The Art of Invisibility, which is a book about ninjas and essentially teaches you how to commit murder. and indeed, the ninju speak of using a knife as the weapon of choice to commit these murders.

Police now think they know how Ranger recruited Kin Kade to join him in the cruel crime of him if you have to fix the pipes in the house you don't call. The minister calls the plumber and I think Adrien King Kate was the man for this job. His Ranger cousin had found the accommodation he needed. Ranger needed a connection to access the girl's house because he was no longer welcome there. Bethany was the unwitting Key to the plan. Police still don't know exactly what happened next, but they do know that when Ranger and Concade left the house, the two young women had been massacred.

Rohan Ranger and Adrien Concade were found guilty of the murders of Jolene and Bethney. Samuels and sentenced to 25 years in prison without the possibility of parole, one thing is for sure, we have two girls who did nothing in their lives to deserve this, they lived fantastic lives, purely prosperous, with the entire future in the world ahead of them and no I don't deserve this when desire became Obsession murder became the ultimate form of control the stories in the exhibit are based on real cases the scientists and forensic investigators are the real people who worked on the cases the names of the victims The names of the culprits are fictitious and they are real.