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So,you working on a little era credit?
It's kind of a thought exercise.
About two dozen unsolved murders.
I mean,it looks pretty real to me.
Ever since Don got hurt,I can't
stop thinking every violent act is,
to some degree,explicable.
You got a lot of different M.
O.
s
here,different victim types:
men,women,children;
shot,stabbed,strangled,bludgeoned.
Three of these are
pedestrian hit-and-runs.
But there is a timeline pattern.
You found a pattern in all this?
Yep.
By using some of the same
mathematical concepts that lk
for signs of intelligent
life in our universe.
Ah,yeah,of course.
It's not as "out there" as it seems.
The universe creates an endless
background of electromagnetic static.
SETI-- the Search for
Extra-Terrestrl Intelligence--
uses algorithms to sift through
all this random cosmic noise
to find a signal that is
complex yet repetitive,
a non-natural pattern
created by an intelligence.
I've adapted the signal
detection algorithm
to analyze the pattern,and I got
this spatio-temporal
visualization model.
Its sequence is half lunar.
It's indicative of a
recurring emotional need,
buffered by planning and survllance.
Okay,but if the M.
O.
s and
the victims are all different?
He's a different type of serial killer.
All right.
He's working on a theory.
Serial killer nobody's noticed but him.
How does he figure?
Signals from deep space.
Seems a little outside
the box even for Charlie.
Yeah,thing is,a few years ago,Don got shot
at a bank robbery that Charlie had predicted.
He retreated to his garage,
and he buried himself in
an unsolvable math problem.
He's been in here 24/7
the past five days.
You know,there's a symptom of posttraumatic
stress disorder called hypervigilance.
Means you're always looking out for potential
danger and threats,thinking you see it.
And 's not really there.
Trying to scare me to death.
What are you doing at the FBI
till 3:00 in the morning? Nothing.
Nothing,huh?
You're working some serial case.
David told me.
He thinks I'm overreacting?
Charlie,hey,this isn't your fault.
I know that.
Well,you got to move on.
Since when have you ever moved on?
Since I got stabbed.
Sooner or later,we're both gonna have
to learn we can't solve every problem.
Hey!Call 911!
Ah,Betancourt,thanks for coming.
Yeah,no problem,JJ.
Whatcha got?
Postal worker halfway through his rounds
popped in the head,small-caliber,close-range.
And what's he doing in the alley?
A resident says he uses
the alleyway as a shortcut.
Maybe somebody knew his routine
But your guy's working on that angle.
My guy?
Yeah,the professor.
He's yours,isn't he?
Yeah.
Yeah,he's ours.
Well,the pattern isn't perfect.
I mean,there are micro-clusters
that are currently anomalous.
But the overall pattern is extraordinarily
regular,which is indicative
How many murders in a micro-cluster?
Two.
Mostly.
Sometimes three.
That's very micro.
David,those are outliers.
The macro-pattern is
persistent,statistically valid.
Charlie,we both started here on
the same case five years ago.
Okay?
You know I'm a believer in what you do.
And I'm asking for a lot.
Working your theory would
take hundreds of man-hours.
Everybody's already
busy on confirmed crimes;
if I tried to reassign agents to work a
serial case that had no serial elements,
outside of a timeline pattern discovered
by a mathematician,I mean,I'd get fired.
This is what he's counting on.
Excuse me?
He knows serial killers get
caught because of patterns,
telltale traits,compulsive behavior,
so he switches his M.
O.
s,his
weapons,victim types on purpose.
No repetitive behavior means no pattern.
No reason to expend law
enforcement resources to find one.
All right,what do you
want me to do,Charlie?
SETI telescopes--
always gathering data.
I need more data.
I'll take anything you can give me.
Okay,all right.
There's a lot of amateur work
being done for serial killer data,
and some of it is
surprisingly comprehensive.
Amateur work.
Yeah.
There's a guy we worked
with on a recent case.
You should meet him.
Good afternoon.
Hah? Hi.
I'm
Oh! Professor!
Welcome.
Roy McGill.
Oh,welcome!
Hi.
Such a pleasure.
Hey,would you mind locking up?
Thanks,buddy.
Certainly.
Please forgive the,uh,concrete decor.
Nature of my work requires
an enhanced level of security.
Welcome to the Truth Cave.
You like it? Pretty cool,right?
Pretty cool.
You hungry?
I'm fine.
Okay.
Oh! You got to hear this.
Heads up.
Watch this.
Wait for it.
Wait for it.
This'll be good.
You know what that
is? 'Course you don't.
That's a sound recording of a
UFO from a Russian friend of mine.
Teeger Woods.
Like Tiger Woods,or not.
Huh?
Art Bell's gonna run
it on his show tonight.
Actually,I'm,um,I'm just
here to talk to you about
Serial killer,right?
You know how I knew that?
I have ESP.
I don't have ESP.
I'm
totally messing with you.
Agent Sinclair told me.
Oh!
Freakin' awesome,man!
I always knew you and
I were gonna team up.
I always knew it.
I'm really
just here to collect some data
I'm a little surprised
it took the FBI so long.
I mean,I've only got the
sixth most popular blog
on serial killers.
Oh.
Do you want this seat?
I'm fine.
Oh,so am I.
It's pretty comfortable.
Hey,look at this.
So,I found two murders that fit
into your I tried to find things
that fit into the,spatio-tempura
that Agent Sinclair sent me.
By the look of it,I
didn't do a good job.
I was really hoping to
find more data than this.
Not a problem.
Not a problem.
And we're off!
Where are we going?
Serial kilr data central.
Yeah!
Gene Evans.
It's a pleasure.
You guys should
have,like,some sort of,like,
you know,crazy,math handshake.
Gene's into numbers,too.
Gene's an accountant.
Mm,retired.
Uh,and,tabulating taxes hardly qualifies
as math the way Professor Eppes knows it.
Gene is part
of a network--
amateurs who help with
police investigations.
The number of missing persons and unsolved
murders can overwhelm most agencies,
so there's hundreds of us
around the country,and we
gather and tabulate
data as much as we can.
Gene solved four missing person cases in
California and a *** case in Oregon.
Well,"assisted" would
be closer to the truth.
But the fact is,I stopped.
Couple of years ago,I got
a bunch of phone calls,
probably just cranks,but
it spooked the wife.
Well,any information you can provide
would be much appreciated here,Gene.
When Roy described your theory
something came to mind.
These aren't L.
A.
-area cases.
They're all from up near
Fresno and Bakersfield.
And several years ago.
Yeah,but the time patterns,the
knowledge of the victims' routines,
uh,very similar.
And-and then there's this.
That's a constrictor knot.
Simple and secure,
but once you get it tight,it's
very difficult to untie.
Same knot was used in five of
the cases you're looking into.
Whoa.
Freaky.
- Have you shown any of this to the police?
- Yes.
A detective up in Bakersfield.
Brent Driscoll.
Charlie,you're living and
working out of boxes now.
You've become a previous
incarnation of me.
What's taking you so long?
Do you need some help?
I'm too busy.
I need to find the missing pieces here.
Make one mistake,people get hurt.
Cognitive emergence work.
God,you haven't even touched
this since Don's injury.
Have you ever considered
this might be an overreaction?
My theory's correct.
Ifou want to say that this is a
reaction to Don's situation,go ahead.
No,I mean,come on,you're
an applied mathematian.
You're applying math to a problem.
And there's something to be
said for cathartic endeavors.
Well,let's say,for hypothetical reasons,
that I'm not crazy,
that my timeline pattern is correct.
Let's say that there is a serial
killewho has avoided detection.
Why the anomalies in the timeline?
Why the micro-clusters?
What am I missing?
Well,whatever is missing
lies beyond all of this.
You seek to quantify a single individual
in some elegant,mathematical pattern.
But the universe is full of
all these odd bumps and twists.
And so are people.
Now,perhaps your approach needs to
be less elegant,more complicated.
Haven't we had this conversation before?
Well,now,cosmologically speaking,
everything that happens
has happened before.
Can I help you find something?
Yeah,I think I left
something in here,some files.
For your serial killer case?
It's an office; people talk.
So everyone thinks I'm crazy.
You know about Kim Rossmo?
Canadian detective,mathematician.
His work on geographic
profiling was,was groundbreaking.
Rossmo identified the same type of
serial killer as you're looking for--
one that deliberately hides
any signs of a criminal pattern.
He called them stealth predators.
They try to commit crimes in such a way
that authorities
aren't even aware of it.
Really?
In Vancouver,he did something
a lot like what you're doing--
working only off of a pattern.
The police didn't believe
his theory that a cluster
of disappearances was the
work of a single killer.
So they fire Rossmo.
Ten more deaths later,
they realize that he's right.
So they caught the killer
with 31 bodies buried on his property.
I'd love to see Rossmo's methodology.
Had a feeling you might be interested.
Thanks,Matt.
You're in my spot here.
I fell asleep.
I just had the worst dream.
I wonder why.
What are you doing here?
I like it here.
I don't know what it is,you know?
I been shot.
I been beaten.
How many sports did I play as a kid?
And I-I've never been
laid up like this.
You got stabbed.
How can you be so calm about it?
Well,I mean,I survived,for one thing.
Who are you?
What have you done with my brother?
I don't know,Charlie.
All I can tell you is I feel like
job ju doesn't o me anymore.
Yeah?
Well,that's got to be the meds talking.
Where you going?
I might as well work.
I don't want to have
another dream like that one.
Charles?
Hey.
Um,is everything okay?
My search for a non-random
signal has revealed
not only an intelligence,
but an extremely careful
and shrewd intelligence.
It's not one area; it's three.
He moves.
What,the serial killer?
Yeah.
It became apparent when I combined
Gene Evans' data with
Kim Rossmo's methodology
that this killer is a stealth predator.
He knows that too many murders
in one area gets attention,
and so he moves.
Terrific.
A super-smart killer.
Who's struck three times in 18 years,
starting in northern California,
and then the Fresno-Bakersfield area,
and now he's here.
It's good to see you.
Bye.
You do realize 7:00 is an inhuman
hour to be calling somebody.
We're very close,Roy.
I just need a little more data,
and I'm thinking Gene's gonna have it.
Oh,man,this is gonna blow the doors
off the Zodiac,Bundy,the Red Ripper.
Gene?
Martha?
Hello?
Let's check the garage.
Well,car's still here.
Oh,my God.
Oh,my God.
Gene Evans and his wife
don't fit the macro-pattern.
They fit the pattern of micro-clusters.
What interests me is that Evans
collected data on the killings.
Police interviewed a witness who was driving by
the Evans' house near the time of the killing.
This is the description he gave of a man
he saw walking across their front yard.
Uh,David,sheriff's homicide's asking
if we'reorking the
Evans *** with them.
Tell them we're looking at it for
a possible link to an FBI case.
Okay.
Do I tell them we suspect a serial?
No.
Not yet.
First,we need to see if anybody
had an ordinary motive
for killing Gene Evans.
Want to be sure.
My brother Gene and his
wife Martha were good people.
What happened to them is wrong.
Is there anyone who
would want to hurt them?
I thought you knew about that already.
Former client said Gene me a miste on
his taxes,cost him his life savings.
He threatened my brother.
They had to t a restraining order.
There's police reports and everything.
The guy's a nut.
What's this guy's name?
Mark Horn.
He said you saw someone
outside the Evans' house
the night that he and
his wife were killed.
Now,could this be the man?
It was dark.
And,like I told the
sheriff's detectives,you know,
he had a jacket on
with the hood pulled up.
But
yeah,that looks like him.
Thank you.
Uh,that guy,have you arrested him yet?
Guys,what about me and my family?
Are we gonna be a target now?
Who are you?
Why you going through Charlie's stuff?
I happen to be Professor
Lawrence Fleinrdt,
holder of the Walter T.
Merrick Chair in Theoretical Physics.
Oh,yeah? Can you prove it?
Yes,if you'd care to hear a lecture on
the photoelectric properties
of Ly-Alpha emitters
in a QZ2 plane universe.
I-I have no idea what just happened.
But why are you going
through Charlie's stuff?
Because,my young friend,I think I have
a Green Lantern book in here somewhere.
Green Lantern!
In brightest day,in blackest night
No evil shall escape my sight.
Sight!
I love the Lant.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Charlie and I,we're,uh,
we're investigating a
little FBI case.
Shh.
Keep it on the D.
L.
Oh,wait,so you must be the
consultant,uh,who specializein,
well,let's call them
unusual explanations.
I think the Bureau refers to
me as "the conspiracy nut.
"
Some of the history's greatest minds
have been rejected by society at large.
Whoa,you're one of us!
Well,actually,I prefer
the term "conspiracist.
"
I drop the word "nut" altogether.
For example,I don't put too
much stock in cryptozoology.
Oh,well,you should take a look at
my,uh,Bigfoot Web site sometime.
You'll be singing a
whole different tune.
It's the same old lyric: silly
men dressed up in gorilla suits.
Oh,Charlie! Hey,good timing.
Oh,I got something
important to show you.
Why don't you,uh,step into my office.
Your office.
I was
just kidding with you.
So,I took a look at
your whole three-area idea,
and I think I might have
identified a victim zero.
High school girl
murdered in 1988.
Nancy Kershaw,17.
Found in a wooded area
near a public park.
What's your criteria
for identifying her as a victim zero?
My cr-- for
identifying
I love your hair,by the way.
I took the earliest of the
three areas you identified--
Stockton-- and I,uh,looked
for previous murders.
If I may,you know,not all
people murdered in that area
can be linked to a cluster.
This guy--
he's good.
I got a copy of the M.
E.
's report.
Check it out.
Constrictor knot.
But that's not unique
to all these cases.
If she is Victim Zero,
serial killers will often start
with somebody that they know
or live close to.
It's true.
Nancy Kershaw had a boyfriend.
A week after she was killed,
somebody claiming to be
the murderer called him up,
threatened to kill him,too.
I'm good.
Guys,I should be doing
this for a living.
Gene Evans' disgruntled client
Mark Horn used a credit card
at a gas station three miles from the
Evans' house on the night of the murders.
Might not be good for
Charlie's serial theory.
But it's good for solving
Evans' *** case.
Mark Horn.
I didn't do anything wrong!
You got no reason to arrest me!
Oh,yeah? Well,I guess we have a
difference of opinion.
Come on.
I was watching my daughter.
You aren't allowed around your daughter
without her mother's permission.
She is my daughter! Damn it.
Why'd you lose custody?
My wife didn't understand that
I have to fight for what is mine.
Gene Evans.
He had a restraining
order out against you.
You violated it.
Yeah,I wound up in a county
jail when I am the victim!
I am not the one they
should be locking up.
Who is?
Gene Evans.
Evans is dead.
You went to his house
the night he was killed.
I only drove by.
Evans got that restraining
order out against you
because you broke into his home.
I needed his records.
I didn't kill him!
I needed him.
Help me make the case with the IRS.
Charlie's not here.
I know.
He's in his office running
another statistical analysis
on his serial killer data.
He can be pretty obsessive.
You can never get through to
him when he gets like this.
The only way is to find
a flaw in his analysis,
you know,prove he's not
following a valid line.
I went over his work looking for errors.
I think there's a good reason
for Charlie to be obsessed.
All right,why don't you
talk me through it then?
Mark Horn threatened Gene
Evans,broke into his home.
We can pla him in the
vicinity of the ***.
Can you link him to
any of the other deaths?
No,he was out of the
country for one cluster,
in another state for another one.
I just looked at those interrogation
tapes.
There's no way that's the guy.
Based on what?
Based on the fact that he was
arrested for harassing Evans.
I mean,if he's gonna kill him,
he's knows were gonna come after him.
Right,but Horn didn't
try to leave the area
or conceal his whereabouts.
Well,Amita showed me this work
she's doing on your timeline,
and it answered some questions.
You say he's careful.
He plans his attacks.
He scouts his victims.
So why kill Evans without
the usual interval?
For the same reason he kills this guy:
'cause he's careful.
The killer didn't know
that this postal crier would
be running three hours late.
Which means that the mailman saw
the killer at the house
of the last ***.
Okay,so he kills the mailman
as a witness,but why Evans?
Why? Because two days before
he dies,he goes online,
said he's gonna start up
with his detective work again.
And the killer decided to stop him.
So the micro-clusters happen
when the killer covers his tracks.
We don't have hard evidence.
It's all circumstantial.
And statistics.
And the pattern,which
indicates another attack
within the next 48 hours.
I say we move now.
I'll take responsibility.
Okay,you all heard the man on desk duty.
Let's get to it.
The one important constant,
his careful stalking
of potential victims,
sometimes for weeks.
There are often police reports
of prowlers and peeping Toms
prior to the killings.
And yet you say he's careful?
I think he likes to spook his victims,
let them catch glimpses of him.
And even if they call the police
Prowler reports aren't
taken as serious threats.
Well,if he's gonna kill again,
maybe there'll be new prowler
reports and attempted break-ins.
In L.
A.
alone,here have
to be hundreds a week.
The most likely target
is a couple in their mid-30s
within an area of elevated
geographic probabilities.
Single-family
residence,no locked gates,
no alarm systems.
A place to conceal a
vehicle,access to a major roadway.
That gives us a starting point.
In your analysis,you,uh,you
left out Victim Zero.
Well,that's because I don't
think that there's enough
to link Nancy Kershaw to the clusters.
See,I kinda have to agree with Roy here.
I share his interest
in this Victim Zero.
See?
You see that? Physics guy thinks
there's something to my idea.
Well,now just consider,Charles,
you don't include Nancy Kershaw
because she doesn't
seem to fit your pattern.
But is that really a
reason to exclude data?
Do you think her death
tells us something?
Well,you know when we look at
the light from distant stars,
we look at the past,millions,maybe
billions of years ago.
That's how long it took that
light to reach the Earth.
And yet,the undisputed 1862 UFO sighting
during the battle of Vicksburg
proves that extraterrestrials have
mastered superluminal velocity.
Just returning to the point here,
if Nancy Kershaw is the first victim,
that tells us things about the killer
that he was very careful to
hide in subsequent crimes.
She was in his orbit,so to speak.
Right,right.
And remember,
if our guy did kill
her,then he's the same guy
who called up the boyfriend
and threatened to kill him,too.
So somebody out there
has heard his voice.
All right,find out what you can
from the conspiracy community,
and I'll get the FBI on it.
Thank you,astrology dude.
Astronomy.
Astronomy.
Thanks.
You remember what Gene
Evans told Charlie?
That he shared his research
on serial killers with a
detective in Bakersfield?
Yeah?
Name's Brent Driscoll,and guess what.
He died last year.
How?
They said he fell,hit his head,
and wound up drowned
in his backyard pool.
Doesn't that seem just
a bit suspicious to you?
Bakersfield PD look into it?
Well,sure,but they didn't
know there was a killer
who eliminates
investigators and witnesses.
We need Driscoll's files.
I'm driving up tomorrow.
What do you have there?
It's a home improvement oject
I'm hope you both will help me out with.
I told you I would.
All right.
So,front and
backyard landscaping.
Take a look.
You're asking him about it?
What about me? I own this house.
Oh,yeah,like you care what
hedges he puts out there.
Point made.
How you doing there?
David's got half the office trying to ID
potential victims by running down prowler reports.
Hey,you guys remember
the first time,huh?
That first serial case?
Remember? It was right
here in this room.
You figured it out together.
Remember?
It was like a lifetime ago.
Five years.
Yeah,it was right before that
you had grown so far apart
that I was the only
thing you had in common.
I figured after I died,
you might spend years
without seeing each other,
but to tell you the truth,
I'm not worried about that anymore.
Hey,Charlie,you got something new?
No,I've got something old.
I was talking with Don and my dad about
a previous serial case we worked on,
and it reminded me of this.
So I analyzed these three
clusters,and it gave me
these three probable locations
for the killer.
That's the hot zone equation.
The very same.
Now how does this work?
Well,think of it like a
Can,uh,can I do this?
It's like a lawn sprinkler
spreading hundreds of drops of water.
Now,it's impossible to predict
where the next drop will fall,
but if you took away the sprinkler,
from the pattern of drops you
could calculate its location.
You're saying that we can find
out where the killer lives?
Yeah.
We know that he's either lived in
or is linked t these three areas.
You run a comparative analysis
against the prowler reports we got?
Oh,I love it when a student grasps
the full potential of an application.
Top 30 potential victims,
ID'd from police
reports,geographic areas,
victim profiles.
The numbers represent the
probability of their being
the next victim.
The best we can get is 23%?
In the world of statistical
analysis,23% means
Uh,can I do this one?
It means get your *** in gear.
Come on,guys.
Dinner's ready.
So,he tends to attack couples, right?
And also teenagers.
Some with their parents
asleep in the same house.
We got people at the 30 residences
that Charlie thinks are
the most likely targets.
Yeah,maybe we'll get lucky,
so to speak.
Hey,what's that movie with
Al Pacino-- he's a cop,
and he ends up sleeping
with Ellen Barkin,
and then it turns out that
her ex-husband was the killer?
Sea of Love.
No,that wasn't it.
Yeah,it is.
Seen it,like,five times.
You a big Pacino fan?
No.
Michael Rooker fan.
He was Henry inHenry:
Portrait of a Serial Killer.
Oh,yeah,that guy.
That guy's always the killer.
No,he's not.
You ever seen
The Replacement Killers?
He was the cop.
Hey,look there.
FBI.
Get down!
On your knees!
Okay,don't shoot me!
What the hell's going on?
We're FBI.
Leonard,is that you?
You know him?
Leonard Philber.
Friend of my daughter's.
What are you doing here?
I was just gonna TP the tree,man!
FBI!
Kill your light.
Kill your light.
Did you see him?
No.
He had a car hidden
nearby.
He ditched it.
Continued on foot or had
a second car somewhere.
He had an escape route
planned out in advance.
He knew exactly where he was going.
Everyone all right?
Everyone's fine.
All right.
I'll get back to you.
Well,it was the right
place,buddy,but he's gone.
Damn it.
He plans ahead.
He knew how to get away.
Listen,I'm worried that
we've presented ourselves
with an even bigger problem here.
What do you mean? This
guy's moved three times.
Now that he was almost caught,he's
going to relocate again.
So,the killer started
in northern California,moved south,
and now he's here in L.
A.
Like three points of
gravitational force,
the killer residing
somewhere in them,unseen,
exerting his destructive
influence like a black hole.
Yeah.
We need to narrow
each hot zone down
and profile all the men in
them and look for a common link.
That's a lot of legwork.
All right.
I'll get census lists
and Social Security records.
We can start cross-checking.
I found something in the Driscoll files.
Now,Driscoll's the detective
who worked with Gene Evans,
and he supposedly drowned
in a pool last year.
He interviewed a man as a
suspect in aurder in Bakersfield.
Robert Posdner-- the guy who
claimed he saw Gene Evans' killer.
He was a witness in the *** here.
He was also a suspect
in a Bakersfield ***.
Bakersfield files ID
him as Wayne Potvin.
He's one of 19 suspects
in the *** of a married couple.
Now,Driscoll questioned him,did a
background check.
He came up clean.
It was a fake ID.
All right,we got more.
We ID'd about 250 men
with ties to three geographic areas.
Ran their DMV photos
through facial recognition.
Got four hits.
Thomas Park,David Palmer,
William Potvin,and Robert Posdner.
It's the same guy.
We got our killer.
We still can't tie him
through hard evidence to even one ***.
Well,we can at least get
him for faking his identity.
That's not enough.
We need to put
this guy away for serial ***.
What's next? You tell me,boss.
Right,okay.
UmWe-We
put him under surveillance
and we try to see if we can
get enough for a search warrant.
Sounds good.
Follow Two to Follow One.
Eagle has landed.
Follow One to Follow
Two.
You've been made.
Don't burn the target.
Copy,Follow One.
Breaking away.
It's just weird knowing
who the killer is
and not being able to prove it.
Yeah.
It's not unlike that
period between forming a theory
and then finding the
proof that supports it.
Well,most theories don't
relocate,switch identities,
and resume killing people.
No,not that we know of.
You realize,Charlie,at some point,
you're going to have
to focus on work here.
You need help with
your particle analysis?
No,no,no.
I'm not talking about me.
I'm talking about you.
Your potential.
Solving crimes is important,
but discovering the hidden
mathematical structures
within brain operations
Guys! I t something.
You all right? Uh-huh.
Yeah,I'm good.
My heart hurts,but I just
ran from the parking lot.
What's that,like,200 feet?
Here's the thing.
So,I was looking at the whole,uh,
Victim Zero case,right?
The high school girl?
There was a fellow
student who was expelled
from the same school the year before.
He was a suspect.
Thomas Park.
Thomas Park?
That's one of the identities
the FBI suspect used.
Bingo!
This is so Zodiac.
Frickin' awesome.
Look at this.
I got goose bumps.
And it continues down my spine.
Thomas Park was 18 at the
time of Nancy Kershaw's ***.
They knew each other
and it says here that
he was a suspect because
he kept asking her out
and hanging around her
house.
Stalking her.
Nancy Kershaw's
boyfriend,Steve Savard
Now,he got to the house
when the killer was still
there.
He chased him away.
Now,one week later,
he was nearly killed in a car accident.
Someone cut his brake line.
Couple of days after Kershaw's ***,
her boyfriend received
a threatening phone call
from somebody claiming to be the killer.
Steve Savard heard the killer's voice.
All right.
Do we know where he is now?
Well,after the ***,his
family got scared.
They moved from Stockton to Nevada.
Are they still out of state?
'Cause we need to find him right now.
Uh,I did.
I used some of my
contacts to track him down.
His flight should have
landed an hour ago.
Are you kidding me? Huh?
Are you kidding me? He's a little angry.
You know,I just figured
time was sensitive,right?
So,I took the liberty of
Of impersonating an FBI agent?
I didn't tell anyone I was
I can't help what people assume.
I went to work that
day,like any other day.
I went to work that
day,like any other day.
Amita's desied an
algorithm that captures
Robert Posdner's voice from
his Bakersfield interview.
Ah.
When he was interviewed
as a possible suspect?
Yes,and she's mathematically
reconstructed it
to have the same tone and timbre
as his voice might have had at age 18.
We have some recordings we
want you to listen to,okay?
Amita,we're ready.
I went to work that day,
like any other day.
I went to work that
day,like any other day.
I went to rk that y,
like any other day.
That one.
There' s one more.
I went to work that
day,like any other day.
No.
No,not that one--
the one before it.
That was the closest.
Closest?
Or the same guy that
threatened you 20 years ago?
Well,you-you altered it,right?
'Cause now he's an adult.
You tried to make it
sound like a teenager.
Can I hear the recording the way it is?
Amita,play #3 straight.
I went to work that
day,like any other day.
That's him.
He said he killed Nancy
and he was going to kill me.
You're sure?
He murdered the girl I loved.
Nearly killed me.
My family moved to another state.
Everything changed.
There's not a week that goes by
I don't wake up from a dead sleep
and hear that voice.
Yeah I'm sure.
Robert Posdner.
FBI.
Let me see your hands.
It's Agent Sinclair,right?
Robert?
What's happening? It's okay,honey.
They're federal agents.
Look at her.
Poor thing haso idea.
It'll be a total shock.
Honey,it's almost time to
pick up the kids,isn't it?
Nobody knew about me.
I liked it that way.
Some serial killers,you
know,they write to the newspapers
or they taunt the police.
I never drew attention to myself.
I just wanted to go about
the things I needed to do.
You know,most serial killers
They can't control themselves.
They're too damaged.
They aren't careful.
You need to plan if
you're doing it right.
You know,people who know me,
they'll all say they
never suspected anything.
Well,I made sure they didn't.
That's my favorite part.
Took you guys a long,long
time to find me,didn't it?
I know there are
reasons,psychological motivations
for why sociopaths
become serial killers.
But this guy
He just seems evil.
You really weren't expecting a
rational explanation,were you?
I mean,with these guys,you know,
no matter how smart and
focused they appear to be,
it always comes down
to an irrational rage.
And in the end,it's
rationality that caught him.
Rationality and logic.
That and a little obsession.
Your brother gets stabbed,
and you react by
catching a serial killer.
You got a hell of a way
of working through things.
Some people drink.
Some gamble.
I analyze data.
So Charlie,how about
tomorrow,we unpack your office
and get you set up in
your new,prestigious space?
Yes,and locate several books of mine
I think got left in your stuff.
All right.
I'm ready.
What about you,Donnie? Hmm?
You going to be hanging out with
me for the next couple of weeks?
Sorry,pal.
I'm back to full duty Monday.
Ooh,there's a quick recovery.
So,why don't you try to put
some time between injuries,huh?
Trust me.
I plan to take it easy.
Yeah,right.