after that. however, it's idiotic for him to have appeared. the attorneys knew that. remember authorities were within an inch of making a case against him in these two cases, but they lacked one thing, and he provided the link by saying i killed them all. that's enough now probably for a jury to evaluate whether he committed the murder. >> if it gets to the jury. >> if it gets to the jury. >> if that issue gets to the jury. let's also look at the timeline. i'll start with you, paul on this one, there's a significant gap in the timeline of the crimes. 1982 his wife kathleen goes missing. in 20 000 a gigantic gap is there, and does that put you as an advance or disadvantage as his defense attorney? >> well it makes it more difficult for the prosecution, this gap, because usually with serial killers, you're going to see serial killings timewise