My earliest memory is
my mother working on that typewriter.
And its keys were, like, super loud.
It was just a blur of machine gun sound, like...
Typing, typing, typing, typing, typing.
-It was... -Just like...
Did you know what she was typing away at?
-No... -No.
You'd never know in the house growing up what she did for work.
Good morning, Mrs. Burgess. Nice to have you with us.
Dr. Ann Burgess.
Dr. Burgess, it was my experience...
Well, I guess I knew that my mother did things that were different.
You know, we would have FBI agents come over to the house.
I remember some magazines,
certainly the TV shows.
A professor of psychiatric nursing.
...the minute any type of violence occurs.
For the offender, it gives him a record.
Her books are in the house.
Book on sexual assault, child molestation, a nursing book,
crime classification manual,
book on homicide.
Like, I knew all that.
But it really wasn't until late high school
that I learned she was working with serial murderers.
Severing the human head, two of 'em...
It's in a tourniquet, so it cut off the air.
I stabbed her i-i-in the back.
This is the person you grew up with
who brings dinner to the table,
and when you're crying she wipes your tears.
I was, like, shocked to know that she was involved
in trying to solve these crimes.
Dr. Burgess,
I've always thought of you like this Batman
who has the normal life and then goes out to catch the bad guys
and has this secret double life.
Oh, yes.
Police believe they may have a serial killer on their hands.
No one knows what is driving them to kill.
Murders of 13 girls...
-Killed as many as 21... -Thirty-six women...
We are a violent people in a violent country.
Getting inside the mind of evil
to help them solve serial killings.
The state's top law enforcement officer
called a press conference tonight in the ski mask rape case.
Fits the pattern of some 20 rape cases in the past two years.
The rapist would sneak into a house through an open window
or door to surprise his victim.
Police are advising women to be very, very careful.
Well, I'm very, very scared.
I have all the windows locked.
The nine states where ski mask rapes have occurred
may just be the tip of the iceberg.
The FBI needs to change their tactics
if agents want to catch the Ski Mask Rapist.
There are approximately four million girls
who will be going out within the next few years
to make careers for themselves
in a busy and toughly competitive world.
When I graduated from high school,
there were three options for women.
To be a teacher,
to be a secretary,
or to be a nurse.
I said, "Well, I can be a nurse 'cause I can ask everybody how they feel.
That's what I'll learn."
I'm always interested in how people feel.
But in academe, in terms of nursing,
nobody else cared about how they felt.
They said, "You should research physical illness only."
That was the mindset at that time.
"You're not gonna get anywhere with this."
But if I wanted to do something, I was going to do it.
I began to talk to the patients with traumatic experiences.
It is very hard for people to listen
to what has happened to another human being.
It makes them feel helpless,
and they don't realize that listening is a very powerful strategy to help.
In '78, I was a professor of nursing at Boston College.
I also had four young children.
One day my, uh, research assistant is looking very sheepish in the doorway
saying, "You've got a phone call." I'm saying, "Take it, Anna."
And she says, "I think you'd better. It's the, um, FBI."
You know, somethin' with my taxes or something?
Why are they calling me? You know, what did I do?
And he says he'd like to invite me down
to talk about the book that I wrote.
50% of the time, women ask for it.
If I'm on top and you say, "Alright, yeah, yeah."
Then a couple minutes later they say, "Oh, stop, stop." I ain't gonna stop.
If a woman wants to get even with her husband after an argument,
just yell rape.
They would blame the victim.
"Why weren't you taking care of your kids?
What are you doing out at night?"
I-I remember I was being pushed on the bed,
and then he put a sheet over my face.
At that time, I felt that my whole frame of reference for the world
had sort of fallen apart.
When Lynda Holmstrom and I started studying the problem of rape,
I was told, "Pick another topic.
Rape is not a problem."
And it was, but nobody was paying attention to it.
I believe that every woman has a story.
I certainly had some.
We lived in the nurse's dorm,
and I wanted to go to my sorority meeting.
The college was up this big hill.
I got up there and then they said, "Oh, just stand over there by that road,
and lots of people go down, you can just hitch a ride."
This car picked me up
and got me about halfway down and he pulled off.
I knew I was in trouble.
I was really, really scared.
I hit the horn and I said, "I'll get out, I'll walk the rest of the way."
Luckily, he took off.
When they would say, "Rape is not a problem,"
I didn't believe that.
I thought, "We've got to get people aware of this problem."
When the FBI called,
rape cases weren't being looked at.
They were just being put in the shelf.
The cases are going cold.
She was somebody who had this set of knowledge
that nobody else had.
She had spoken to those victims,
and she could go and teach the men of the FBI
everything that she had learned about rape and trauma and sexual assault.
When you're looking for who can you influence
to change a broken system,
the FBI was the top of the list.
So I felt I could make a difference.
Being down at Quantico was very much a culture shock.
The firing range opened at00.
They loved their guns.
FBI agents were kinda like these mythical cowboy figures,
sort of classic Americana.
And that was the image Hoover wanted to cultivate,
was the FBI as superheroes.
The special agent must be a good marksman
and have the courage to shoot it out
with the most venomous of public enemies.
If law enforcement in general was this boys club,
the FBI was kind of the cool kids of the boys club.
Ann thought, "Great, there's these saviors of America
"ready to learn from me
and to help do something about this immense issue."
I'm Ann Burgess,
and I'd just like to again personally welcome all of you.
You all have been selected for your expertise in a wide area.
She looked out at this audience of 40 FBI agents
who were all men,
and she started talking about rape,
and there were some snickers in the audience.
Her sort of whole view of these lofty, high-minded G-men suddenly crashed.
And of course, the one question they would always say to me, "Were you raped?"
Wow, what a question to come from the audience.
You know, here's all these men.
There are few other female agents teaching at that time.
There clearly was discrimination.
...no current connection...
They would be very confrontational in their questions.
Not about, "Well, how did the victim feel?"
I mean, you would hope that they would ask more,
"Tell me more about being a victim in-- from your lecture."
All of my research is in the area of victims
and the impact of victimization on...
They thought rape was just sex.
"Women secretly wanted it
or they were out there and asked for it."
I hope that many of you will be able to listen to what has...
The problem with the other side of the story
is they don't want to hear it.
You've gotta be very...
kind of resourceful in how you bring it in.
She used that first session to really show sexual assault
as it actually occurs.
Once she was able to get the agents to understand the severity of the issue,
they did start paying a lot of attention,
and they did start asking her questions
and they did see the value of being able to intervene and to help victims.
Throughout those early days,
Roy Hazelwood, who had been the one to initially invite her down,
he would introduce her to other agents.
Sometimes they took an interest,
a lot of times they didn't 'cause she wasn't there in any official capacity.
She wasn't even, you know, fully consulting yet.
So, when Ann came as this outsider,
the one group that would accept her were the other outsiders.
The Behavioral Science Unit
was a small part of the academic branch of the FBI.
The agents were all working on these sort of not-by-the-book projects,
some of which were approved,
some of which were not so approved.
It kinda didn't matter 'cause they were in the basement of Quantico
where no one was really paying them attention anyway.
I remember the first time going,
and you get on that elevator that doesn't have any numbers,
and then you get down two floors and there are no windows.
It's a bomb shelter, literally.
She started to learn more about two agents in particular,
John Douglas and Rob Ressler.
Ressler was a steady hand at the BSU.
He was calm, which was sort of a juxtaposition to Douglas.
Douglas was the most polarizing figure within the BSU.
Strong opinions and a lot of confidence,
and there were certain people that that definitely rubbed the wrong way.
I remember being at Quantico in John Douglas' office and he's got
-a dress hanging in the corner. -Yes.
Did he call it J. Edgar Hoover's dress? Yeah, okay.
And then the power goes out.
He's like, "I got a flashlight here somewhere."
-When he turns it on, it's under his chin. -Of course.
Douglas, uh, you had to get on his good side,
especially if you're gonna work with Ressler.
And I wanted to work with Ressler
'cause Ressler was interested in a population that wasn't studied at all.
I was talking to victims,
and he was talking with the other half, if you will.
I wanted to put the two halves together.
-The murder of people in series,
or serial murders,
has police departments across this country worried.
Motiveless, random killings,
sometimes thousands of miles apart.
Their victims are strangers.
Their motives unknown.
For Ressler, that was always the big question.
"How many serial killers are out there?"
A lot, that we knew of.
The unsolved Zodiac murders.
-The Hillside Strangler. -Son of Sam.
In the '70s, we saw this really steep rise
in the number of serial killers active.
The scientists say there is no way
to spot a mass killer in advance.
Even when they're caught, serial killers are seldom well understood.
Arresting and convicting serial killers
is still, for the most part, a matter of luck.
The mind of the serial predator
was not something that was at all understood.
Seven killings in two weeks.
Well up into the 15, 16 victims.
Thirty-three victims that we know of, and maybe more.
We don't understand it.
A conventional investigation is lacking.
We're, we're missing something here.
Why would somebody choose to kill strangers
over and over and over again?
What makes him so different from the rest of us?
Robert Ressler realizes that he has to do something
to begin to better understand the men who are committing serial killing.
Ressler said we need to go in and speak
with criminals like the ones of these cases we're trying to solve.
They operate by a different sense of logic.
So there's really no way to understand them
unless you talk to them.
If we don't start looking at serial killers
and learning something about them,
10, 15, 20 years from now,
we're gonna be right back where we are today.
This guy is a person to understand,
and to understand is to stop this guy.
Ressler was the dr-- he was the driving force,
and he wanted to do the interviews.
Of course, that could be a problem because they were serial killers.
And at that time, Ressler was doing single interviews,
and he liked this Ed Kemper.
He was-- finished the interview.
It was around three o'clock,
and he was getting really kind of nervous looking at his watch
and Kemper turns to him and said,
"You know, they-- the, uh, guard isn't coming back.
They're on change of shift. He's not gonna be here for 30 minutes."
He says, "In that time, you know,
I could snap your head and leave it on the table."
He said, "I'd own the prison then.
I killed an FBI agent."
Luckily, the guard came
and as they're leaving, Kemper turns to him and says,
"You know I was just kidding, didn't you?"
So that changed policy quick.
He never went alone again.
And Douglas was the one that was willing to go with Ressler.
It's important to understand that when Ressler and Douglas
and-and others were going in and interviewing these offenders,
they were doing so in a kind of unstructured way,
conversing with them, asking them general details,
taking whatever information they were willing to share.
They would interview serial killers face-to-face,
and then they would just have a conversation
about, "What does this mean? What does that mean?"
They had no idea what they had.
They didn't have the tools to make some sense out of them.
The agents were really interested in Dr. Burgess' work
because this rape study that she had done
involved this unwieldy data coming in
from just these people telling their story.
She was able to quantify that information,
do something productive with that.
So, the agents were interested in learning what her process was
and seeing if they could apply it to their research
and so they just shared it with Ann.
Something snapped in me.
-I picked up a rock. -Mm-hmm.
And, um...
...big size, softball size,
-and I hit her... -Mm-hmm.
...with the rock upside of her head.
-It, it knocked her unconscious... -Mm-hmm.
...and I left.
Once you kill another human being,
you'll never be the same person again.
The tapes that they brought back,
the cases were so horrific.
We had Charles Manson.
Since I was 10 years old,
I used to lay down and have to get my ass whipped till I couldn't walk.
Tell me about some pain.
Pain's not bad, it's good.
It teaches you things.
We had a number of Kemper tapes that came in.
I lived as an ordinary person most of my life.
Even though I was living a parallel and increasingly sick life.
He was so articulate.
Ted Bundy was equally articulate.
I-I can see how certain feelings and ideas
developed in me to the point where I began to act out on them.
Certain very violent and very destructive feelings.
Montie Rissell, really quite forthcoming.
He talked and he talked and he talked.
It was like I was just spinning out of control during the day, right?
But at night when I could dominate,
it was just exhilarating, I guess.
I listened closely until each cassette stopped.
I took notes and listened again.
I laid her on the hood of the car, and I raped her.
I said, "You do exactly what I say!"
So if you're gonna kill somebody,
y-you just put it on their neck and twist it three times...
What I heard was like eavesdropping
on the rawest fringes of humanity.
I cut off her head.
I had a utility knife, and I cut her throat.
I think I stabbed her four or five more times.
Be walking up the stairs
with a camera bag that had her severed head.
I saw potential in the study, but I also had to think about my family.
I hesitated 'cause it might take up extra time,
nighttime, weekend time.
That was hard because I had the young children.
I was feeling pressured to make the right decision.
I mean, I didn't care much about the offenders.
They were killers.
The biggest motivation from my perspective
was helping victims.
I focused on that as much as I could.
I think there is an empathy, a compassion that she understands
because of-of the lived experience.
My Uncle Frank was very caring and very supportive.
My uncle's house in Maryland
had a grand piano in one part of the living room
and a organ, real organ.
I think that I still probably have his sheet music, yeah.
And he could play by ear, so he could almost do anything.
Uncle Frank was a country doctor,
and Frank really nurtured her love of music.
They would play together.
She said many times
that she wanted to be a pianist,
but that's not how it played out.
Uncle Frank had a driver,
and the driver, we didn't know, was into drugs
and doctors have drugs.
They got into a fight, and my uncle was killed.
It was quite a struggle
because I know that even months later
they were finding blood in the back of lamps.
And, of course, that changed the whole landscape, if you will.
She had firsthand experience of what it's like to lose somebody you love so dearly.
So for my mom, one outlet for her is her work.
She's very devoted to try to figure out
how to prevent this from happening in the future.
Her work helps her deal with some of the tragedy that she's experienced.
So, I decided this was important.
I would help with the study.
It's not necessarily a fully sanctioned,
approved, by-the-book's move
to be bringing Dr. Burgess into the room.
She's not officially an agent.
She's a guest lecturer.
But Ressler says, "Forget about it. We'll deal with the consequences later.
Just get in here, help me figure this out."
The tapes that I listened to were fascinating.
Now the problem was we had to make sense out of it.
That data hadn't come in in a standardized way,
and how do you make sense of that?
How do you sort of quantify that information?
How do you set up a, a project?
That is where the academic comes in.
These were agents that never had done research.
They needed help with a methodology.
So we had to come up with this questionnaire.
We can't just go in willy-nilly and chitchat.
You have to ask the same questions
in order to be able to find common themes.
What are our research questions?
Through those first recordings,
she was able to say, "Here's where I would follow up."
"Here's where I would expand on this."
"How did you get him to say this?"
"How was he able to tell you that?"
Maybe we'd learn a good question.
What should the order of the questions be?
How far back do you have to go?
You'd say, "Did you see something or did you hear something?"
When you'd learned something, "Let's put it in."
We put together this 57-page questionnaire, color-coded it,
which made it easier for the agents,
and we started collecting the data.
Finally, there would be uniformity
of information that they were asking,
and so the agents learned what was really happening in the field
and they would take that information and they would bring it back to Ann,
who would then make sense of it.
Well, that's where we were starting to learn things.
How many siblings do you have?
How many older brothers?
Have you ever thought about suicide?
Do you have a history of bedwetting? Sleepwalking, nail-biting...
I would listen. I would hear something.
I would jot it down to see what was coming up over and over.
So if we see this in another guy, alright, that's really interesting.
If we see it in a third, okay, this is a pattern.
What are the patterns?
-Categories. -Data sets.
So the data began piling up.
And now we have...
we have something we can work with.
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We were pretty quiet in the beginning.
We didn't want anyone really knowing too much
because we didn't know if we were right.
So they knew something was going on 'cause we were always huddling together.
They had to figure out something we're talking about,
and we'd just say we're talking about cases.
There were certain types of projects
that were more highly ranked than others.
Forensics made sense.
Stuff that had to do with psychology
that was less grounded in a crime scene, less tangible,
seemed a little more like "woo."
Oh yeah, people call it the BS unit, the bullshit unit.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
They weren't ready for it.
That these agents wanted to spend FBI resources
focusing on these dredges of society,
the FBI did not want to have anything to do with that.
We didn't have the approval of the FBI,
but it was something that we had to do in secret.
I felt the stakes were really, really high.
All I can think about is...
what he did to her.
What were her thoughts?
How long did she suffer?
And those thoughts are with me all the time.
I read about 'em in the paper. They happen in New York City.
They don't happen in Ellensburg, Washington.
The whole unit was developing a tool
that might be useful to the field.
That was our whole goal is, "How can you prevent it?"
The agents of the BSU understood
they were developing a tool that could shift the paradigm
of how law enforcement was able to catch criminals.
Ann is a person who helped to develop the tools that assisted profilers.
Ann was the brains of the operation.
She saw the potential for using interviews with serial killers
to be predictive of who a killer might be.
Who identified characteristics of the offender
based on previous people who did similar things.
She thought if you can recognize the patterns,
you can do something to stop that pattern from continuing.
The state's top law enforcement officer,
Colonel Bo Garrison of the Louisiana State Police,
called a press conference tonight in the ski mask rape case.
The case involving burglary and crime against nature
fits the pattern of some 20 rape cases throughout South Louisiana.
A state police spokesman says
most of the break-ins involve sexual assault.
The rapist would sneak into a house
through an open window or door to surprise his victim.
Then in many cases, he would wait
until the woman's husband or boyfriend returned.
After tying up the husband, the attack would start.
Governor Dave Treen instructed state police commander Bo Garrison
to make capture of the Ski Mask Rapist top priority.
In the late '70s, I was a member of the Louisiana State Police.
When he came into the house,
he was very domineering, very commanding.
When there started to be media reports
of a ski mask rapist,
it created a sense of fear and huge concern.
Police are advising women to be very, very careful.
I really don't feel safe.
Just-- I'm just afraid, that's all. Really afraid.
Some residents have decided
that locking doors and windows isn't enough.
South Louisiana saw an increase of gun sales
by well over a thousand percent.
It was a community that was lost
for the violence that was taking place.
I'm very, very scared.
I have all the windows locked and, uh, the dogs loose at night,
and... I think I'm gonna put some bars in my window.
Well, local police departments
had never seen a case like this.
Law enforcement was so frantic
that the community was so scared
that they reached out to the BSU and said, "We really need help."
Hazelwood, when he was looking at these case files that came in,
he was noticing an escalation.
Early cases were what you might call a traditional rape.
And the more recent rapes, he had not only tied up the victim,
but had also tied up the victim's husband
to force the husband to watch as he was raping the wife.
Hazelwood wasn't sure what to make of it,
so he shared cases that had come in with Ann to get her opinion.
We decided to see if we could compare it to our other cases
to see what we could learn.
One of the profilers said,
"This case sounds just like Montie Rissell."
Montie Rissell was very different from some of the serial killers.
He had a whole series of rapes before he started killing.
We wanted to see if there was some pattern there.
Internally, we're dealing with a trusted group here,
certainly on a case just like it.
In this particular case, we had a young man by the age of 14,
had raped his first victim.
I talked to this guy for probably 12, 14 hours.
He told us a lot.
Let's look at the first rape.
What really led you up to doing it?
When I climbed up the balcony,
I don't think I even had that intention.
It was more or less maybe to just break in
and rob something or steal something.
I walked into the bedroom and she was in, in her bed.
-Just hearing the fear... -Mm-hmm.
...in her voice and-and not knowing what was going on,
it was like an-an adrenaline rush.
Ann discovered these offenses looked very much like the pattern
we see in people with an addiction.
Less violent at first,
peeping through windows, stealing underwear,
calling up somebody and using foul language and hanging up.
And then there's a need to keep increasing the stimulus, like a drug.
There was an adrenaline rush, a power trip, control.
Just to be able to take another person
and dominate 'em and-and control 'em.
When it stops being exciting enough, that's when you can get the murder.
I mean, th-that's what's so scary.
She's the one that first mentioned to me,
if I didn't hurt her, she'd have sex with me,
thinking that she could control the situation.
Once you kill another human being,
you'll never be the same person again.
It's like a junkie wanting another shot of dope.
We learned that the excitement piece,
the adrenaline rush was an underlying theme.
It was like drugs, a little isn't enough.
At first, it is,
and as you adjust to that psychologically and physically,
you take more and more and more.
It's the same process.
Like an addiction, you keep craving something
which is harder, harder,
something which gives you a greater excitement.
Through the Montie Rissell case,
we began to see the pattern of the Ski Mask Rapist.
If you don't catch 'em fast enough,
they just escalate further.
The Ski Mask Rapist was doing such sadistic things to the victim's body
that my feeling was that we better catch him fast
or we're gonna lose, physically lose the victim.
At this point in time, the Ski Mask Rapist had committed dozens of known assaults.
So Hazelwood was tasked to share whatever resources he could
on the FBI's behalf
to try and stop this individual.
There was this idea that if Ann brought
her understanding of psychology into interviews of the victims,
she could learn information that could glean insight
into who this individual was.
Even though she was only a consultant,
Ann was sent down there to interview victims.
The fact that a lone female came down
representing herself with the FBI
led authorities there to call the FBI to say,
"Somebody's down here impersonating an agent."
It wasn't widespread
to have females in these roles,
so I can see where authorities in Louisiana might be a little skeptical.
I felt very anxious to go out
because to be an actual part of an ongoing investigation
was unusual for me.
The pressure I was feeling was really a question of,
"Would I be able to contribute to the case?"
And I could have just gone in and said,
"What do you remember? What can you tell me?"
But I chose to take it from a more human standpoint.
is there any particular image that registers?
sometimes I just start thinking about it.
I dont like that feeling.
I just start thinking about something else...
How do you get someone to trust you in an hour?
That's the hard work.
Dr. Burgess: Do you ever kind of replay, the whole...
I mean I cant block it from my mind
Dr. Burgess: Tell me about that...
We had to explain to the victim how important it was
for her to give us very detailed information.
I told her that they were asking
because they wanted to get the offender.
She's helping in this process,
and once she knew that, she realized I really believed her
and she would give out the information.
He came up from behind. I was probably raped for awhile, but I was out.
I kept my eyes closed the whole time.
But when I stood up, I could see.
Dr. Burgess: Is there any image that registers?
It took a great art to make people comfortable enough
to be able to attest to those things.
That was a really unique skill set that nobody in the FBI had
and very few people in the country had.
And a lot of it did go back to, you know,
her early work with victims of sexual assault.
It's quite loud. It's more effective than using your own voice.
I think the women's movement has drawn attention to rape.
Before, it was an unspeakable crime.
We're saying that it is not her fault that she got raped.
Ann saw this case as an opportunity to continue to destigmatize
this idea of being a victim of rape.
If we are raped, we don't have to be humiliated,
we don't have to hide.
They were finding out how many cases were not being heard,
were not even being reported.
So, in this case, women were told to report it.
So, some of those barriers of,
you know, "Don't report" finally weren't there.
There have been three rapes in the past four months.
Where there have been attacks,
police security has been beefed up.
The more that these cases were heard,
law enforcement can learn from that,
and they could start to take action.
When you can find new witnesses, you're gonna find new stuff
and you think, "Okay, now there's real possibility there."
Based on Ann's work,
the best way to get to the heart of what went on
is to talk to the surviving victims.
And why it was that person was chosen,
that'll tell you something about the offender as well.
The victim will actually help you solve the case.
Dr. Burgess: Did you talk about why it happend that night?
I just figured why not pick a house with people that have a lot of money?
I realized that how he selected victims, there's a similar pattern.
He would go after wealthy women,
and I always felt that that was very important.
And what could I gain from that information?
In the fall of 1981,
the escalation of the occurrences was rapidly progressing,
but we were fearful that one of these days
we were gonna have a deceased victim.
When I came back to Quantico,
I gave the information on the victim to the agent.
The agents have to figure out what the characteristics were.
Age? Were they working or not?
Were they married? Were they single? Who did they live with?
The behavioral things that you could check out.
Even though Dr. Burgess wasn't allowed in the room
for that profiling session,
the profilers leaned on her ideas
to take all these different inputs,
the crime scene, witness testimony, interviews with serial killers,
and turned them into a viable law enforcement tool.
Based on how long he'd been active,
they classified him as a man in his late 20s or early 30s.
I was on the floor.
He kept choking me and pulling me up by my hair.
His domineering behavior
showed that he saw himself as an alpha male.
Twenty-five rapes attributed to the Ski Mask Rapist.
Rape cases in five Louisiana cities.
It started to be constant reporting, almost weekly,
into Mississippi, into Texas.
We've been getting calls from California, Wisconsin.
I had two calls yesterday from Ohio.
Seventy different jurisdictions across the United States
that were investigating this crime.
Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio...
His evasiveness and the frequency with which he moved
showed that he was educated and served in the military.
Nine states where ski mask rapes have occurred
may just be the tip of the iceberg.
He did one attack in Columbus, drove 30 miles, attacked another woman,
and before the night's out, he is in Virginia and then headed to Ohio.
Seventy-seven break-ins and robberies in a dozen states.
Violence was becoming an important part
of the offender's ritual.
Not violence as a tool to overcome the victim's resistance,
but violence as pleasure.
He was taking broom handles and hairbrushes
and violating women with those items.
He was also taking cigarettes and burning them.
I want to know why he picked our house
He saw the corvette
I don't know if he saw you in the Corvette
but he saw the Corvette
We know that he liked nice things
and he's profiting off what he could steal.
And we thought that suggested he would have a flashy car.
Finally, they were able to get the profile out.
Authorities have been working with a psychological profile of the rapist.
The profile called an individual a good looker who picks up women easily,
but is likely to beat them up
and is incapable of long-lasting relationships.
That he most likely would kill a resisting victim
and that he would probably drive a fancy car.
And we were distributing, um, the flyer all throughout South Louisiana.
-Assaulted a woman... -137 rapes...
Three rapes there October 29.
-...in 17 states. -Rapes in cities across...
The brutal rapes of three family members...
The center of a multi-state crime spree.
In September, he had actually shot a husband.
That told us, in fact,
this guy was ready to take the next step.
As many as 130 rapes in cities across the nation...
And I tried to pull it away from my throat and he said,
"Don't touch my knife or I'll kill you."
When I could dominate, it was just exhilarating, I guess.
State police spokesman said the investigation will continue...
Seventy-seven different assaults...
When I realized that he wants to be able to control me,
then he was gonna kill me.