Fed Explains Railroad Killer Case! This Serial Killer Made The FBI 10 Most Wanted!
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Summary
In this episode we cover the case of the railroad killer aka The Trainee Killer . We cover his crimes, his trial, and the investigation into his crimes. This is a story you don t want to miss!
Transcript
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and we are live what's up guys welcome to feta 1811 today we're going to talk about
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the railroad killer man got a lot to cover let's get right into it gentlemen
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i was a special agent with homelands investigations okay guys hsi the cases that i did mostly were
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human smuggling and drug trafficking no one else has these documents by the way here's what feta
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covered doctor lofredo confirmed lacerations due to stepping on glass murder investigations
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you don't know and he's positioning been on february 13 2019 you're facing two counts of
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two meditative murder racketeering and rico conspiracies young slime life here and after
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referred to as ysl the defendants uh six nine and then this is billy seiko right here now when they
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first started guys six nine ran i'm upset i'm watching this music video you know i'm bobbing
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i'm like hey this shit lit but at the same time i'm pausing oh wait who this right who's that in
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the back firearms and violent crime aka bush i see violated you're wanting to stay away from the big
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this is the one that's gonna fuck him up because this gun is not traceable well it happened at the
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gun range here's your boy 42 dug right here on the left okay sex trafficking and sex crimes they can
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effectively link him to paying an underage girl i'm gonna love my children right right and the first
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bomb went off right here suspect to shut down a backpack on the site of the second explosion inspired
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by al-qaeda two terrorists brothers the zokar sarnev and tamarland sarnev when the cartel shipped drugs
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into the country as this guy got arrested for um espionage okay trading secrets with the russians for
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monetary compensation the largest corrupt police bust in new orleans history the days of the police
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are gone so he was in this bad boy we're gonna go over his past the gang time so that this all makes
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sense all right we're back what's up guys welcome to fed it man uh today we're gonna be covering the
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railroad killer but real quick uh number one guys check us out on rumble.com slash fresh and fit as you
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guys know we made them switch over to rumble don't worry we're still gonna be on youtube however the
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after hour shows in the middle we're gonna be going over to rumble but all the regular shows that we do
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monday through friday are going to go ahead and still be on fresh and fit on youtube okay also uh
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checks out on fresh and fit.locals.com um where you guys can get all the behind the scenes action
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and um also if you guys like this podcast you guys like to listen to on audio check it out on
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um anchor.fm slash fed at 1811 again that's anchor.fm slash fed at 1811 i got christina in the
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house with me she's helping me out with the show she just got off the plane it's 3 25 in the morning
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right now we're filming this real so she looks like crap uh but she's here what you have anything
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you want to tell the people damn you've been boasting me all day you have everything you want to tell
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the people yeah contact me at fed at 1811 if you guys have any cases yeah if there's any cases that
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you wanted to win and whatever state you are in just let me know because we do need people
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in different states to find cases for me yep we're gonna be uh you know now that we finished the 9-11
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stuff we're gonna go ahead and be hitting some of these serial killers for you guys have been
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requesting them like crazy christina actually has a list of people that you guys want us to cover
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it takes time um zodiac killer black dahlia what else people have been requesting um zodiac black dahlia
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charles manson and then for for serial killers and then we have like um we have the recent school
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shootings which i don't know oh yeah yeah yeah you guys have been asking for those too and then we
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have like uh young dolf uh christina's gonna go to memphis for that one guys i'm gonna send her and
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xena to memphis they're gonna go ahead and take care of that so um you will go ahead and yeah because
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people are too scared like bro every time we said and the fourth the another suspect i think the fourth
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guy just got arrested recently so but anytime we send anyone over there guys they're like oh who
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are you what's your name blah blah blah they ask all these goddamn questions so um christina and dina
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shout out to both of them i'm gonna have them go to memphis and do it for me they're gonna go do a
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quick little trip go over there give me the documents come on back we don't know when though yeah we don't
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know when so yeah um the schedule's kind of busy right now yeah so anyway uh but anyway yeah uh so
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today's episode guys we're gonna be covering the railroad killer so christina actually thought
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so i did i filmed the night stalker earlier as you guys know make sure to like that video by the
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way subscribe because youtube made me take it down because they're lames but it's back up uh in its
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entirety uh but she thought i was actually going to cover this one because me and her had been
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researching this case what like uh two months ago prior or something like this before they even
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requested it yeah we had yeah we haven't watched this one for a while yeah so um we're gonna go ahead
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and cover christina's actually excited to do this one uh really uh i got confused with the other one
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yeah but you're like oh this one i remember watching this one yeah but they had same thing
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yeah anyway uh all right cool what just because they're both mexican that's racist uh no oblivion
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are racist wow all right cool you're the most racist person here i don't know what you're talking
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about um all right guys so we're gonna go ahead and get it so as you guys know this name of this
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episode is called tracks of a killer uh from the fbi files the you know the good old fbi files
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one of my favorite documentaries um that we use on this on this podcast so yeah without further ado
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uh let's get into it before i do christina you got anything for the people before um that was it
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right no that's actually that's pretty much it if you want any cases done just contact us and just
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understand that it takes time yeah yeah it takes a lot of time you you and a hundred other plus people
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are requesting cases and also i had to find a case i had to find the name the case number the
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documents and then we had to study and see if it's like even worth it it's just it takes a lot it
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takes hours and yeah she does a lot of the research on the side so cool anyway without further ado guys
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let's get right into it the nation's railroads become the conduit of a killer
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recurring clues tell police they face the worst predator of all a ritual serial killer
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he's cunning deadly and on the move but the authorities are determined to stop him in his tracks
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like that unsolved mystery slide you know what i'm saying all right more than 200 000 miles of train track
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across the united states from california to kentucky few living near a railroad felt safe in the summer
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of 1999 a serial killer rode the rails picking towns and victims at random he left behind a trail of
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bloodshed but no trace of where he would turn up next i'm jim kalstrom former head of the fbi's new
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york office as the number of victims grew the fbi enlisted the help of a profiler to help predict
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on december 17th 1998 in west university place texas a young woman called the police from outside the
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house of the house of the house of the house of a friend she worked with
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she told them that her friend a prominent doctor at a nearby medical school had failed to show up at work that morning
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according to her colleague this was completely out of character
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she had not responded to phone calls to the house all day
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when we hung up everything was fine she said she'd see me tomorrow
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nothing out of the ordinary and that that was yesterday
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the colleague was sure that something was wrong
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i'm just very concerned about the doors and windows of the house were locked
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the officers found that the garage door was unlocked
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so obviously right police are on alert with something like that
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so they got to go ahead and they got to clear the house
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obviously you got a prominent doctor in an affluent neighborhood
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missing not showing up for work and or returning phone calls
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and then they go and they see jewelry uh you know
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on the floor etc so they got to clear this goddamn place
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222 let me have a supervisor in a crime scene unit to the scene
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so now they got a court in the place off it called homicide detective so now this thing has been elevated right and especially for a small little area like this a suburb of houston this is uh you know unfamiliar territory for a lot of these detectives man very rarely do they end up with murders like this
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though a 10-year veteran of the department he was surprised by the report of a homicide
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west university place just a small little suburb 2.2 square miles
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largely residential and uh and affluent community
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the last time we had a murder was in 1985 during the robbery
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god damn so well over a decade guys since they'd had a murder
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the brutality of the crime struck the detective
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blood spatter was all over the place in the hallway and on the
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and just so y'all know i want to give you guys a
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often called west university or west u for short is a city located
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houston sugarland metropolitan area in southwestern harris county
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at at the 2000 uh 2020 u.s census the population of the city was
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about 15 000 it is nicknamed the neighborhood city
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and is mainly a bedroom community of upper class for upper class
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uh families west university west university place
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it's surrounded by the cities of bel-air houston and south side place
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as of 2011 west university place has the state's
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fifth highest concentration of households with incomes
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of 150 000 dollars or greater which is a very high income guys
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um so yeah the state's fifth highest concentration of wealth
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uh in the state of texas right there so this ain't no broke boy place man
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there was a large butcher knife that was near the body
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investigators also recovered a heavy blood spattered blunt object nearby
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both were weapons of opportunity the killer found in the house
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weapons of opportunity versus coming in with you know predetermined weapons
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police contacted the doctor's husband and learned he had taken the couple's two children
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out of town to visit relatives before christmas
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the victim had work obligations to take care of that wife so she was not able to travel with him
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evidence suggested that the killer had taken his time in the house
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it was uh it was uh it was quite strange to see it like that
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driver's licenses being out left being left out in the open
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in the kitchen the detective found partially eaten fruit
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possibly more evidence the killer had lingered in the house
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according to the doctor's husband it was the only set
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there were no foreign fingerprints at the suspected point of entry
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investigators found the broken cover of a steering column next to some pry tools
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we surmised him that he had to break the steering column of the jeep
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when i picked up the large piece of the steering column
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i could visibly see fingerprints on the shiny black plastic
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the column cover was bagged for later analysis at the lab
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at autopsy the medical examiner determined cause of death
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multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head
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the gruesome nature of the murder worried detective maha
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it just didn't fit the pattern of a random killing
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san antonio police found an abandoned jeep in a motel parking lot
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all right so san antonio guys a lot further away
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the plates were traced to west university place
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the plastic cover of the steering column was missing
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and just so y'all know you guys are probably wondering
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is east texas and san antonio is like the center
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because a lot of the crooks that i used to chase from laredo
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we noticed too that the steering column was just an absolute disright
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analysts made electronic copies of the fingerprints
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and ran them through an automated matching system
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guys this is obviously the late 90s now at this point
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this happened late at night in 1997 near the railroad tracks where these two had been walking
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the male was killed by his skull being crushed by rock and the female was sexually assaulted
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she was also physically assaulted pretty severe injuries
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though dazed by the young woman somehow survived
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seeing that her boyfriend was dead she made her way to a nearby house where residents called the police
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she was able to give them an artist depiction uh a local artist uh the offender
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yo that chick described it fucking perfectly look at that that sketch artist and that chick
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fucking crazy that accuracy is wild gets from the lexington police department
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i compared it and i didn't immediately say wow you know this is him what i felt was kind of a guarded
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optimism that this could be the same guy but a sketch guard optimism bruh that's him what are you
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talking about man boom baca isn't proof young needed scientific evidence to be sure
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he learned that the lexington police still had dna samples from the sexual assault two years earlier
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and arranged for the samples to be flown to the fbi lab in washington dc
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at the dna analysis unit examiners began processing the samples
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a couple samples to be worked examiner alan juesty homicide out of kentucky
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we looked at 13 different unique dna regions and we developed an individual profile at each one of
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those regions i describe it like looking at a person's physical characteristics you can look at
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one dna region and it might be the same as another person's and that'd be like saying that two people
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both have brown eyes well that's very common you look at 13 different dna regions it's like saying
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somebody has brown eyes is left-handed is six foot three is got red hair the more dna regions you look
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at the more complete the picture you get of the person damn so that was a really simple way of
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explaining how you know dna analysis very in a very crude manner works
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after mapping the dna profile of the perpetrator from lexington juesty contacted the examiners in
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texas who had mapped the samples from weimer and west university place
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by comparing the results that i obtained with the results they obtained we were both able to determine
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that we had a possible common donor in other words the same person was committing these crimes
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in texas young forwarded the news to the other investigators i was able to call lexington pd and
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i heard a lot of hooping and hollering because they thought it was gonna be an unsolved case
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yeah like whoa we got that boy whoa yeah we know who the fuck this motherfucker is this mexican
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and they were probably going crazy over there in lexington man they're going wild because yo
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they didn't know who the fuck it was they're like what the hell so yeah man now now the case they're
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there for them they're like they were probably going wild and that's the power of bringing the
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feds into your investigation sometimes guys that micap right that federal law enforcement database
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they're able to utilize that thing and link it to another crime and contact that pd get dna samples
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from them and then bam they marry up the two texas investigations right way more way more texas
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and west university place and bam they're able to connect connect it with lexington kentucky
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boom now they got him identified at three different crime scenes with three different victims
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them dudes went wild whoa yeah america that's yeah lexington police i know it's pretty good southern
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accent isn't it so bad fuck you he's now had rafael resendez as their prime suspect
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authorities across the southwest canvassed homeless shelters and train yards
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on may 28th authorities found the preacher's truck abandoned near a train yard in san antonio
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the preacher's truck from waymer texas guys which again waymer is about one hour west of san
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antonio guys all right here i'll show you guys real quick so what does he do again he abandons
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the truck in the same goddamn city as he did with the doctor san antonio
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which san antonio by the way guys has a huge mexican population very strong
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um hispanic community there which would make sense why he would go there because a lot of people this
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guy more than likely probably didn't speak english so him being in san antonio is able to blend in
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people speak spanish so he's able to operate a little bit more freely he's around his people
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so and there's a big illegal population in san antonio as well huge smuggling location
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yeah okay mine's a hondo okay don't install me like that
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it looked like rescinders had returned to the rails
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finding him would be an overwhelming task for special agent eckerd and their team
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we had never faced this type of obstacle before there are thousands of tracks there are thousands
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of trains every day and it was difficult to determine which line that he rode
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with a massive search area to cover they had to be resourceful
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one way we handled this is we developed a small wanted poster that we gave to the people that
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in train yards across the nation locals were advised to be on the lookout for rafael resendez
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if they spotted him they should call the fbi fugitive squad immediately
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when we received these calls we would contact the railroad police they would pull the person
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off the train and identify them agents and railroad police responded to hundreds of sightings
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the fbi's best lead was the fugitive sister in new mexico
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agents stayed in contact with her hoping she might hear from him
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and if she did hear from him they hoped she'd talk
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so far it seemed the only way to track resendez was to follow a trail of bodies
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on june 4th 1999 a fayette county texas woman stopped by her mother's house to check on her
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imagine the horror you come to your you know your parents place
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place is all fucked up you haven't heard from them
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then in the bedroom she found her mother's body
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in 1999 agents were on the trail of rafael resendez linked to four murders in texas and kentucky
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as his notoriety grew the press dubbed him the railroad killer
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now an elderly widow had been murdered in rural fayette county texas
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like the other victims she lived near a railroad
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the gruesome crime looked like the work of rafael resendez according to fbi special agent mark young
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when you looked at that real brutal style of murder
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you felt like yeah i could be dealing with the same guy because
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there were jewelry boxes that had been opened up
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from waymer as you guys can see it's uh right here
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in between major cities right like san antonio and houston
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all these small small little towns in between man
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i lived in south texas so i'm very familiar with uh
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instead the killer stole trinkets and personal items
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fingerprints in the laundry room indicated the killer had broken in through a rear window
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he was just leaving fingerprints all over the place
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take certain items and spend an inordinate amount of time
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which was a thing that we had seen a number of times
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showing that i totally own and dominate this individual and their belongings
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more than a i'm hungry and i need something to eat
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two distinctive clues at the fayette county scene seemed intended as a message to investigators
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open to an article about the recovery of the preacher's stolen vehicle
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it had been recently unpacked and set up on the bed
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he was looking at the police trying to antagonize him now
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and that's what happens a lot of these serial killers man
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a lot of serial killers end up being fucking cloud chasers
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they really enjoy seeing themselves on the news
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or in this case they know exactly who the fuck he is
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it seemed the railroad killer was taunting the authorities
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the canine unit followed his scent to the train tracks
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less than 24 hours later the next victim was discovered
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i got a call in regard to a crime scene in houston
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that was being assessed by the houston police department
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a 26 year old school teacher was found sexually assaulted
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her driver's license had been removed from her wallet
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like the other victims she lived near railroad tracks
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the teacher's car a white honda sedan had been stolen
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they just go on a killing spree a lot of times guys
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you know people will think oh look are they going to chill or whatever
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because they see that the doors are closing in on them
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one of the concerns we did have was that this guy was going to evolve
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a lot of times in the past we've had serial killers
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and that is they began to kill a number of victims
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a number of victims with really no cooling off period
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with his last two victims killed in a 24 hour period
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on June 6th a rail yard worker spotted the fugitive in Flatonia, Texas
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special agent Bobby Eckerd was part of the operation
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you had the one squad that was the serial homicide investigators
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and if you guys remember I broke I broke down how the FBI is broken up
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but essentially a squad is a group of 5 to 10 agents that have a supervisor over them
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and they're tasked with working together in a group and they typically investigate some type of crime in unison
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of crimes then the other side was the fugitive investigators that their sole purpose was to locate apprehend and arrest rescinders
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the fugitive squad look for patterns in the suspects past
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we were able to determine that he followed the crops
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in Washington State he followed the avocado route
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in Florida he would be involved in the citrus crops
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in Kentucky and North Carolina he would pick tobacco
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now they got a pattern of his travel that is dependent upon the crop season
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and also being a serial killer at the same time
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agents would try to eliminate these comfort zones
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you go everywhere that you can possibly think of
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by going there by law enforcement presence in those places
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people aren't willing to help out the fugitive anymore
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eight days after the school teacher was killed in Houston
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her car was found 300 miles away near the Mexican border
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all right Del Rio Texas man I've been there before
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did a Lank King case out of there with another agent
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just you guys get an idea of the distance he traveled