in Los Angeles forensics experts try to make sense of a photoshoot that crossed the line from daring to deadly [Music] in the Pacific Northwest law enforcement hunts a brutal predator whose lust for violence is reaching a fever pitch follow the footsteps of a killer a double homicide investigation Spurs an international manhunt the law has no jurisdiction in human mind we're at killers twisted motives may forever define police but actions cannot devise science through forensic detectives contract even the most deranged criminals and put an end to their lethal obsession [Music] in Los Angeles where image is everything a pretty face and sexy body can launch a woman into the spotlight but not everyone makes it that far in November 1995 the model went to a photo shoot and vanished days went by without a word worried friends and parents had no clue to her whereabouts [Music] then she caught the eye of a passing stranger one afternoon a trash collector working along the Angeles Crest Highway found a daydream in the litter several days later he saw the woman's face again she was Linda sobic a model from Hermosa Beach who had been missing for five days he contacted the police about his odd discovery a former LA Raider cheerleader 27 year old Sol Beck was riding a wave of success her schedule was packed with shoots for magazine covers and calendar spreads she had just landed a part on a popular sitcom the day she disappeared Linda told her mother that she would be at a remote photo shoot with a photographer named Chuck her mother didn't know who Chuck was or where they were going Linda promised to call her after the shoot no call ever came the trash collector showed police where he dumped the roadside trash this bag there they found more photographs pages ripped from so Beck's appointment book and a makeup bag they also found a clue they hoped would lead them to the model the receipt was for the loan of a sport utility vehicle a prototype that hadn't been released yet it was signed by Charles Rathbun and dated November 16th the same day Sobek disappeared it seemed the mysterious chuck had been identified [Music] Rathbun police learned was a respected photographer who specialized in pictures of new cars he was considered one of the best and his view breath bun said he didn't know how his receipt got mixed in with Linda so Beck's belongings but admitted that he was probably the last person to have seen her on the morning of her disappearance he said so Beck asked him to meet her at a restaurant parking lot she was looking for work he wasn't interested detective Mike Robinson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department took Rathbun's statement he said that he met with her briefly in up Denny's parking lot looked at her portfolio and told her that he had a very tight schedule and pushed her out of the car and left her there at noon on the day she disappeared he said his last observation of her was standing in the parking lot unlocking her white dots are so Beck's car was still in the parking lot but there the trail Leupold Rathlin the last to have seen her was the only lead to the missing model police asked him to come to the station for a more complete interview he didn't keep his appointment he called later that day and said that he had car problems and then never showed up and never called back but police learned that Rathbun had contacted a friend in law enforcement she had received a rambling fax in which he confessed to accidentally killing Sobek he also threatened to kill himself police rushed to his house they found him drunk and incoherent he was taken into custody [Music] in jail Rathbun gave police a second account of what happened he admitted that he'd lied when he said he hadn't hired Linda sober he recounted of tragic accident at a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert Rathbun wanted to photograph Linda taking the rugged prototype to its paces he got behind the wheel to show her how to spin it [Music] he claimed he had lost control two and a half time vehicle and the rear end slammed into so bad killing her panic Rathbun dug a grave with his hands and abandoned the body he said he was so traumatized he couldn't remember where he buried her police didn't believe this sudden change of story but with nothing more to go on they couldn't refute his account flimsier alibis have held up in court investigators were not about to let that happen the case entered its next phase to find the flaws in Rathbun's story police got hold of the car unfortunately it had been detailed at least twice since Rathbun borrowed it investigators hoped that some evidence survived the thorough cleaning the first task was to search for signs of impact LA County criminalist Heidi Robbins didn't find any the initial examination revealed no such evidence on the exterior of the car being that it was a prototype it was a brand-new vehicle right off the line so it was very clean which is really not what we're used to looking at is forensic scientist a criminalist the vehicle was it didn't have a scratch on it there wasn't a dent to be seen perhaps the victim had been run over not struck the vehicle was placed on a lift again the car was cleaned we didn't see any type of blood or tissue or fiber evidence at all associated with the exterior or undercarriage of that vehicle the next step was to examine the vehicles interior although the leather seating looked pristine it was not blood residue was found in the crevice between the seat cushions and had stained the stitching tests showed that it matched so Beck's blood type for long blonde hairs were collected and shown to have belonged to her robbins noticed that one of the doors had a deep dent in it it seemed that a struggle may have occurred inside the marks inside the car suggested a tale far different from Rathbones but the whole story couldn't be told without so Beck's body and Rathbun had conveniently forgotten where it was in custody he tried to commit suicide asserting that was all a mistake he wrote in his own blood that he never meant to hurt anyone the act could be read as either despair or cunning calculation in an apparent attempt to prove his sincerity eight days after Linda Sobek had disappeared Rathbun recalled where he had buried he directed the search party to a steep ravine 6,000 feet up 40 miles from the site of the photo shoot varied more than a week the remains would probably yield few clues about the factors that led to her death it's always been my contention that Rathbun decided to contribute to our efforts on the day that he did because he felt that the body would be so decomposed that we wouldn't be able to determine those factors for detective Robinson Rathbun's confession and suicide attempt didn't ring true to him the photographer was artfully controlling the investigation meeting out information too little too late his sudden recollection of the burial site was the latest example supervised by a forensic anthropologist Robyn's team carefully removed the body each ruck from the top of the grave was numbered in catalog inch by inch soil was lifted from the grave then sifted and analyzed after 8 hours investigators had their most crucial piece of evidence two feet down they found so bad much to their surprise the elements had spared her there was very little degradation I think due to the coldness and that altitude and the ravine that she was buried in had such minimal amount of sun exposure she essentially was refrigerated for those nine days investigators surveyed the body had the victim been struck by a car she would have had knee level injuries her legs showed no broken bones or abrasions but they did bear severe ligature marks it appeared she'd been bound around the ankles the condition of her clothes also suggested something more than a luckless accident and hasty burial most women are probably comfortable wearing a zip top somewhere maybe in the center of their chest and Linda's clothing was zipped all the way up to the to the base of her neck I thought that's very unnatural position and to me when you see clothing that has a bit of an unnatural position it indicates the possibility that there may have been some redress or some alteration of the clothing the unnatural position of her clothes suggested that Rathbun had dressed her possibly after her death and apparently by trying to wipe away evidence Rathbun inadvertently created a second clue that revealed he wasn't telling the full story she was a model she wore makeup she was on a photo shoot and when she was recovered from that grave there was a complete absence of any makeup or any residues thereof that we could detect and the crime scene and that concern me also the condition of her clothing makeup and the marks around her ankles suggested that the victim wasn't just standing around before she died something else was going on and it pointed to burgers Linda so Beck was photographed for the last time on the autopsy table from marks on her body the medical examiner could tell that she had been smothered hemorrhaging in the eyes showed the breath was literally squeezed out of her and she hadn't gone without a struggle her wrist was sprained she had been tied up the physical evidence shattered Rathbun's story of a car accident as the case went to trial a first-degree murder charge seemed inevitable but Rathbun wasn't finished in a bid for a manslaughter conviction he offered another account of what happened his new version explained away all of the evidence in what was now Rathbun's third rendition he claimed that Sobek began to undress and strike erotic poses he said she was a tease she became upset when he took pictures of her he set the camera aside and they started kissing but she wouldn't let it go further after things cooled down and she got dressed Rathbun showed her how to make the car spin but he was too reckless [Music] he thought he hit and killed her but she'd only stumbled trying to get clear she cut her face when she fell Rathbun told authorities he put her in the car to take her to the hospital she became hysterical fighting with him and threatening a lawsuit [Music] we tried to restrain her with a bear hug but she only grew more agitated and more violent as a last resort he sat on her she finally quiet then he realized she wasn't breathing [Music] he pulled her out of the car to try to revive her but she was dead to explain the ligature marks reference said he then bound the models ankles to better maneuver the unruly body back into the vehicle he then buried her it was a colorful story but once again it felt too contrived I felt that in trying to answer every piece of evidence that the prosecution had presented he sort of built a patchwork quilt that wasn't real square at the edges it just didn't have the right form to it if Rathbun could sell this fabrication to the jury he'd likely get off with manslaughter to prove his case Rathbun provided the court with five rolls of film from the photo shoot he explained that he had left them in the desert after the victim was killed he had his brother retrieve them for him four of the rolls showed Sobek modeling but the fifth roll was almost unrecognizable Rathbun explained that it contained the intimate photos of Linda Sobek that proved she was teasing him but in the heat of the moment he'd grabbed a roll he'd already shot not realizing he took pictures of Linda so back over pictures of the Lexus interior the harsh desert climate also had apparently affected the rolls ruining the emulsion Rathbun presented 13 distorted images of a woman in pornographic poses double exposed over a car interior and along with them he served up a modified version of what happened this version better explained the condition of the victims clothes and makeup at this point in time the facts of the story changed we had another version of the truth come out at this point and it was suggested that her death actually resulted not from a vehicle this time but from this consensual sexual activity that had gotten out of hand it'll too rough and accidentally resulted in her death these photographs were introduced to prove this latest version of the truth investigators set out to prove the photos were fakes detective Robinson felt the pictures were too damaged to be conclusive he needed to determine if the Lexus and the woman in these photos were really who Rathbun said they were he learned that several weeks before borrowing the Lexus Rathbun had photographed a 1998 Oldsmobile prototype the detective requested Rathbun's pictures of that car's interior from the manufacturer Heidi Robbins brought the double exposed images and the old mobile interiors to the national law enforcement and corrections technology center in El Segundo California for comparison the agency provides sophisticated forensic imaging technology for law enforcement the images were scanned into a high-speed computer and enhanced with graphics software before they could make sense engineer bill Repetto digitally enhanced their contrast shadow detail and color the films are in really bad shape in fact a lot of the emulsion is missing so the detectives really didn't have a full shot of the entire dashboard using our equipment we were able to alter the contrast do some sharpening look for features that were hard to do in the conventional photographic process but we can do it in real time on a utor I guess you're interested in finding out is that a body part or there's that part of the dashboard once the pictures were sharpened Repetto sized and overlaid the oldsmobile dashboard atop the damaged negative his goal was to see if the car and the photos was really the Lexus that Sobek died in or if it was the Oldsmobile you can match up things like the speedometer dial oh that the radius of the steering wheel unfortunately we can't see this pattern the logo on the steering wheel but it matches up pretty good I mean you work with this just a few minutes and it's pretty darn obvious this is not a Lexus this is an Oldsmobile Repetto next had to eliminate Linda sobic as the faceless model he compared the dress Sobek wore at the photo shoot to a portion of lace shown in the double exposed images because lace patterns repeat it only takes a fragment of the material to point out a mismatch now in this image you can see that there's a there's a definite pattern here there's a boot shape marking you know a vertical feature and it bends over to the left and that's repeated up here the lace patterns were inconsistent so were comparisons between so Beck's Anatomy and the model in the photos Rathbun's latest account was disproven the defense on their fourth and final version of the truth when the defendant took the stand had to go up and explain all the physical evidence findings and the circumstances surrounding the death and in his testimony he did initially state that this was the Lexus and that this was in fact Linda so back and it was very powerful rebuttal testimony when the jury could see for themselves that not only was this not the Lexus but this clearly was not Linda so back once again the facts contradicted Rathbun's story the jury didn't buy any of referenced Charles Rothman was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole almost from the start the photographer was the focal point of the Sobek case but when murder is more random investigators must take a wider view in Beaverton Oregon on the morning after Valentine's Day 1981 police were called to a townhouse in a quiet neighborhood there they found the body of eighteen-year-old julienne reeds she'd been shot in the back of the head with two 38 caliber bullets apparently while running for her life the medical examiner determined that she died between 3 & 4 a.m. as investigators processed the crime scene detective Dave Bishop gathered the first important clue the tell-tale signs where that the victim knew whoever killed her the door was unlocked the stereo was on there was a couple of wine glasses in the sink police searched the townhouse or any traces the killer may have left behind no fingerprints were lifted but technicians did recover hair and fiber samples upstairs they found signs of a struggle the bed was a toy tore apart the sheets everywhere and just I mean it was obvious it you know there's there was a war up there stains on the sheets showed that a man with type B blood had had sexual relations with the victim within a week of the murder detectives questioned over 150 of the victims friends and acquaintances several mentioned an older man who had recently resurfaced from her past he worked at a local club and dated her once or twice the year before reach thought he was a little overbearing and decided they should just be friends his name was Randall Woodfield Randy had been an all-american athlete and was drafted by the Green Bay Packers for a brief stint in the NFL he was an affable fun-loving guy but he was no Boy Scout police learned that he was on probation having served three years for robbing joggers in Portland police arranged an interview with him he vaguely remembered the victim but said he had not seen her for months investigators found him candid and agreeable you know if you didn't know him he would be the guy next door I mean he was he was and unpleasant to talk to not use very little profanity soft-spoken Woodfield was forthcoming about his past but suspicions were raised when he refused to submit hair samples or take a polygraph test seven grueling hours of interrogation produced little information but managed to wear him down he finally agreed to let police search his apartment I told the detectives the first thing that they that went into the house to grab was a sheets off his bed and because I was going to give us the hair and blood investigators got the hair sample they wanted from wood beaten sheets they also found a 32 caliber bullet and a roll of athletic tape in his gym bag ordinarily these items meant nothing now police weren't so sure athletic tape was a crucial clue when a rash of unsolved rapes and murders that had been occurring along Interstate five for more than two months detectives wondered if they were onto something bigger than an isolated homicide suspicions intensified when investigators check Woodfields phone bill to see it be called Julie reads he was living with a young lady at that time actually who owned the house and he was running a portion of the house I said do you know whether or not he's made any phone calls to Bieber too and her response was probably because I just got the phone bill today it was over 200 some dollars and he's called everybody he obtained a copy of Woodfields phone bill from his housemate when he was on the road Woodfield like to stay in touch with former girlfriends charging calls to his housemates phone Bishop searched the bill for weeks his number he didn't find it but the other numbers on the bill formed a chilling pattern but all of a sudden as I'm going through this it become very obvious that what I'm seeing is scary it's the map of i-5 beginning in December 1980 a predator hunted along Interstate five over three states robbing roadside establishments sodomizing and killing the young women who worked there a task force had been set up to track the killer's movements to gather the paltry clues he was rigorously consistent preying on strangers leaving Reno's prints dark-haired dark-eyed described his hang up and wore false beards and hoods at six foot two On January 18 1981 one month before reapz was killed police and rescue were called to an office building in Salem Oregon several miles down i-5 from where Julie reeds was killed where he God Lisa Garcia and Sherri Howe had been cleaning an office when an intruder slipped in the women were sexually assaulted both were shot in the back of the head astonishingly Garcia never lost consciousness though groggy and confused she was able to dial 911 to bullets from entering Garcia's brain hull was not so fortunate she died at the hospital detectives analyzed the office crime scene they collected hair and fiber samples and two 32 caliber slugs the evidence and the method of attack matched the profile of a killer who'd been creating a one-man crime wave Oregon detectives believe they may have stumbled onto the trail of the serial killer prowled interstate five the i-5 killers victims were always attractive young women with long hair he would often bind their wrists with the same brand of white athletic tape and when he killed it was with bullets to the back of the head many robbery victims had caught a glimpse of him but Lisa Garcia was the only one who had seen him kill he was described as a white male in his 20s with dark bushy hair he wore an adhesive bandage on his nose probably to distract his victims from noting his features but police still didn't know who he was he had committed more than 20 acts of rape and robbery it was already suspected of killing five women Julie wreaths made it six like the office building Garcia was shot in reach his house was along the i-5 corridor Garcia gave the i-5 killer a face reads gave him a possible name Rendell would view the blood and hair samples gathered from Woodfields apartment bolstered by the paper trail of his phone bill gave authorities enough evidence to go to Woodfields home and arrest him for suspicion of murder as the i-5 killer but to build their case they needed as much evidence as they could muster Lisa Garcia the sole survivor of the i-5 killers murderous attacks was called in to identify him don't call the police where's the back room a lineup was arranged participants were asked to recite statements made by the i-5 killer the circumstantial evidence against Randall Woodfield was strong his physical description and movements matched the killer's profile his housemate confirm that he was out of the house on the nights the killer struck the hairs from Woodfields bedroom matched the strands found and Juli reached his bed and in the office building where Lisa Garcia was attacked he had type-b blood do what I say all the police needed was a credible eyewitness Lisa Garcia unequivocally picked Woodfield from the lineup it was the voice she said that clinched it if the bullet found in his apartment could be linked to the 32 caliber slug removed from Lisa Garcia's skull the case against Woodfield would be a lock but police faced two problems the single bullet found in his possession hadn't been fired so it bore no marks that would enable police to compare it with a bullet from any crime scene and worse they had no gun to test-fire it with traditional ballistics testing would be useless instead investigators needed to compare the bullets atom-by-atom at Oregon State University's radiation center analyst Michael Conrad II uses nuclear power to put criminals behind bars they call this up and describe the evidence that they had and asked us if we could help them with that we told them that that was an ideal situation and for activation analysis Conrad II received four bullet fragments from crimes police suspected were the work of the i-5 killer he was also given the bullet found in Woodfields gym bag his job was to see if they matched manufacturers produced bullets in batches each tank of lead contains different amounts of the trace elements silver copper tin antimony and arsenic a process called neutron activation analysis allows scientists to compare my new levels of these elements this enables them to identify bullets produced in the same batch conrad ii cuts a sample from the bullet flattens it into a wafer and cleans it in nitric acid to remove contaminants [Music] a pneumatic tube sends it on its 16-foot underwater journey to the core of a nuclear reactor at the core the sample is bombarded with subatomic particles called neutrons some of the atoms in the sample absorbs some of these neutrons the sample becomes unstable releasing the extra neutrons in a burst of energy in a process known as radioactive decay every element releases this radiation in its own unique and consistent pattern by reading the pattern the element and its quantity can be identified once the container is shuttled back to the lab Conrad II has to hurry before the radioactivity diminishes otherwise he'll have nothing to analyze I have a minute to get this sample out d capsulated and on the detector he places the disk on a computerized sensor the system produces a pattern showing the relative amounts of each trace element in his sample if the unfired shot from Randell Woodfields apartment matched the slug removed from Garcia the suspect wouldn't be able to dodge a conviction the samples yielded an identical pattern neutron activation analysis proved that the bullet fragments from the crime scene and the bullet from Woodfields apartment came from the same batch the bullet from his apartment matched the one taken from Lisa Garcia fiber air and telephone records tied him to several other crime scenes Woodfield was a sly methodical killer who prepared for his attacks with a ritualistic intensity his pattern was as consistent as it was deadly his formula for targeting random victims made him seem unstoppable but then he broke his routine and turned on someone he knew that ultimately led to his capture based on the evidence investigators assembled the final hours of Julie reads mr. Woodfield would come to her house and possibly three in the morning contact her he had been drinking asked if he could crash there for a while she apparently agreed they had a couple glasses of wine she put on some coffee [Music] at that time he pulled the gun took her upstairs raped her sodomized her and then coming down the stairs shot her twice in the back armed with an imposing forensics case the prosecution was able to prove that Randall Woodfield was the i-5 killer he was found guilty of murder attempted murder and two counts of sodomy he is currently serving life plus 165 years in the Oregon State Penitentiary a killers motivations often lie beyond the scope of forensic investigators detectives must satisfy themselves with learning how when and by whom the murder was committed on the afternoon of April 3rd 1985 a bridge Club convened at the Boonesboro Virginia home of Derek and Nancy Haysom though both their cars were in the driveway neither 72 year-old Derek nor his wife answered the door fearing trouble the guests called a family friend came over with a spare key they were alarmed Derrick never missed their weekly game certainly not when he was hosting [Music] inside investigators from the Bedford County Sheriff's Department were faced with a gruesome scene they determined that Derek and Nancy Haysom had been killed the previous weekend their throats were slashed their bodies marred by numerous wounds detectives eliminated robbery as a motive for the killings there was no forced entry no valuables or money taken the floors were smeared with blood investigators wondered whether the odd patterns pointed to a cult killing forensics expert Steve rush was one of the first on the scene the entire floor had been wiped and blood all this comes took me back because it's so unusual to somebody would at that time I thought play in the blood as investigators scoured the scene for evidence they realized that the cryptic swirls were actually the work of a murderer trying to cover his tracks they feared he may have succeeded all too well normally a messy crime scene yields many clues but the scene at the hey some house in Virginia wasn't the aftermath of a sloppy killer when the criminal noticed that he was leaving footprints he removed his shoes and camouflaged the tracks a single print survived the oak flooring on which it appeared was sent to the lab for analysis at the Virginia Division of forensic science dr. Robert palate uses footprints to stop criminals in their tracks he works from life-sized photos to keep the original prints free from damage from telltale weave patterns he could see that the print from the Hasen house came from a foot in a sock a barefoot would have made his job easier because feet like hands bear tiny grooves called friction ridges a print expert relies on these ridges to precisely match a footprint to a person they can make a positive identification to the exclusion of anyone else they could say that that print was made by the person who gave them a known impression that's not possible in this examination Hallet would have to base his analysis simply on the foots anatomy though the photograph from the Hasen house indicated that the foot had been dragged Hallett was pleased with the evidence the impression is complete I have a heel of an arch I have a metatarsal pad or ball of the foot and I have five toes that are distinctly shown and that is considered to be an excellent photograph to work with but until Hallett had something to compare it against the bloody sock print would be useless he would have to wait for a suspect to surface despite the lack of hard evidence lead investigator lieutenant Riki Gardner was already forming an impression of the assailant it was obvious from the from the get-go that whoever performed committed the murders was very angry with with both mr. mosz hasten the haysom's appear to have known their assailant and had even shared a meal stale remnants of food and wine lingered at two place settings but three chairs not to appear to have been pushed back abruptly from the table the haysom's were killed by someone they didn't fear but should have Gardner's team searched for any small clue they could find any hint of the killer they tried to elicit latent fingerprints by sealing the house and pumping it full of superglue humans hours passed as they laborious Lee analyzed a house full of fingerprints but out of the thousands lifted from every surface no suspicious ones could be found the killer left no fingerprints now investigators were out for blood hoping to track the killer's movements by the bloody trail he left to reveal subtle traces the forensics team used luminol the chemical combines with blood even drops imperceptible to the human eye when the light goes out the luminol enhanced blood glows under an alternate light source and filter the luminol indicated to us one person coming out of the house going down to the driveway and appearing to get into an automobile these were photographed and swabs are taken and identified as blood the victim's blood tracked on the killer's socks revealed only one set of prints it confirmed a lone assassin a more intense search continued inside to see what else the blood might reveal once again they poured over every inch of the house looking for telltale clues of the killer's movements through most of the house the luminol told investigators nothing they didn't already know then in the bathroom the chemical revealed one single drop separated from the rest the killer failed to completely wash it away detectives supposed it came from the killer's own testing showed that the droplet was Type O it could not have come from Derrick who was Type A nor Nancy who was Type A B if the killer had bled elsewhere in the house his blood would have been mixed with the victims and been rendered unidentifiable the careful killer had left a vague trail but no hints about the motive investigators questioned friends and family asking each where they'd been on the weekend of the murder and checking every story no suspect surfaced they hoped that the haysom's daughter Elizabeth could provide information since she had only recently left home a freshman at the University of Virginia she was an extremely bright young woman educated in Swiss and English boarding school she described the haysom's as warm and loving parents she couldn't imagine who would want them dead Elizabeth said that she and her boyfriend had been in Washington DC when the murders occurred she was able to provide movie stubs from the weekend in checking her alibi Gardiner obtained their hotel and Car Rental receipts the documents raised more questions than they answered the Car Rental receipt showed they driven 669 miles but the round trip from Charlottesville to DC is only 240 miles when I went to Charlottesville to talk to Elizabeth I confronted her with the fact that we had learned of this and she stated that they had done a lot of traveling and had gotten lost on several occasions and you know I say you have to get major loss to have that many miles in a car it was inconceivable that they racked up an additional 429 miles in two days of city driving unless a trip to Boonesboro was added to the equation Gardner contacted Elizabeth's boyfriend near his side yen's soaring a German citizen or son of a diplomat shared Elizabeth's intellect and international background the Jefferson scholar hardly seemed the violent type like Elizabeth he said they had put the extra miles on the car when they got lost while sightseeing suspicions peak when yen's refused to supply a blood sample or foot impression claiming his involvement might endanger his father's diplomatic status police arranged a second interview with yen's he never showed instead Elizabeth's half-brother found a note in Elizabeth's apartment in the note yen's explained that he and Elizabeth weary of the investigation at left town he asserted his innocence claiming that he was not a violent person a search was conducted Yin's and Elizabeth could not be found several days later the enza's car was located 340 miles away at Newark Airport detectives believe that the couple had fled to Europe with their international backgrounds Elizabeth and Jen's would have no trouble covering their tracks abroad Interpol was notified but had no recourse no charges had been filed no evidence against them had been gathered the investigation came to a screeching halt all police could hope for was that one day soon the couple would slip up and resurface seven months past the prime suspects had fled to Europe then in May 1986 a British detectives searched the flat of a young couple who had been arrested for Czech scamming browsing through a box of their love letters he realized that they were guilty of more than fraud the lovers had planned a murder the letters and diary told a far different story than either yen's or Elizabeth had shared with police back in Virginia Elizabeth had loathed her parents and their smothering involvement in her life she particularly resented their intent to separate her from Yin's she wanted them dead would it be possible to hypnotize my parents she wrote do voodoo on them will them to death why won't my parents just lie down and die I despised them so much Yin's wrote that he was willing to help concoct a scheme to pull it off a constable from Scotland Yard contacted detective Gardner and he says understand you may be interested in us or Elizabeth hasten and I'm going yeah all the time you know I'm sliding up in a chair a little bit more and he says well her parents murdered gardener caught the next plane to England to confront yen's and Elizabeth with their own words Elizabeth struck with remorse admitted she knew about the murders beforehand but didn't commit them she returned to Virginia for trial yen's admitted killing the haysom's but as a German citizen he hoped to get his case moved to Germany where he would be tried as a minor if found guilty there he'd do only a few years time then he could be reunited with Elizabeth he advised me that he was ready to tell me the truth and he just started with when they met in the fall of Hinda Lizabeth met in the fall of 84 they fell in love and one thing led to another Jen's told Gardner that he was so in love with Elizabeth he'd do anything for her even kill I mean he was smitten obviously by Elizabeth I mean he this was probably if not the for one of the first the first relationships he had ever had and I mean she had manipulated him into the feeling that you know you're my future and and will spend the rest of our lives together and I you're my only love and he you know he he went for it he fell for but back in Virginia Elizabeth turned on her lover she portrayed yen's as a bloodthirsty psychotic who killed without much urging she'd lived in a state of terror afterwards she said fearing that yen's would kill her if she went to the police on August 24th 1987 Elizabeth pleaded guilty to being an accessory before the fact she thought she'd get off easy but she was sentenced to 90 years in prison yen's fought extradition for three years then the United Kingdom agreed to extradite him when Virginia promised it would not seek the death penalty if he were found guilty when it was clear yemm's was to face hard time in the States he changed his story pinning the murders on Elizabeth he claimed that the roles of killer and accessory were reversed Elizabeth had killed her parents while he stayed in Washington he'd lied about it until now to protect her Yin's was a good storyteller but forensics would provide the definitive account the next step in the haisa murder investigation took place in the lab where Elizabeth a Sungmin yen soaring made footprints all right you know just walk right through Robert Hallet compared these impressions with the print gathered at the crime scene transparencies were made of the prints Hallet drew parallel lines through each image to compare them a distinguishing feature appeared on the photograph of the bloody print the ball of the killer's foot formed a plateau between the second and third toes following the line Hallet found a striking similarity with soaring footprints it exactly touched those same two positions on the impression of yun soaring however when that parallel line keeping it equidistant all the way across came to this position for Elizabeth Haysom the pad metatarsal pad was significantly below quite a bit below Elizabeth's print didn't have this feature and was eliminated Hallet tested yen's as print further this is the impression that we're trying to determine as to who made and I've placed an overlay over it the right foot of yen soaring placement of the toes a bit of tarsal pad the ball of the foot the arch heel all exactly match there were no differences in Hallett's opinion yen soaring had left the print the foot that made that impression is either that foot by Yen soaring or someone that had a foot exactly like his and I've never seen such a condition to exist [Music] next a sample of saurons blood was tested against a single droplet found on the floor of the haysom's bathroom they matched both were Type O soaring couldn't get around the evidence in the case a single sock print and one wayward drop of blood indisputably put him in the house on the night of the murders his own letters spoke of premeditation [Music] at trial an account of the murder was pieced together yen's and Elizabeth had met in school but the haysom's didn't think yen's was good enough for their daughter they had been threatening to use their influence to have yen's expelled from the university determined to stay together yen said he and Elizabeth made a plan while she created an alibi in Washington yen's drove to Boonesboro to kill her parents they invited him in he made a final plea to keep dating their daughter Derek Haysom refused he swore he'd do everything in his power to keep them apart that's when yen's lost control he pulled the knife he'd purchased that day and killed the hey symbols for his crimes yen soaring was found guilty of first-degree murder and given two life sentences forensic science can't explain of killers lethal obsessions but detectives and the scientists they rely on are driven by obsessions of their own in the field or in the lab they are on a mission to stop killers no matter 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