to the exclusion of every gun in the world, was the gun that killed those three ladies. the gun belonged to a 32-year-old security guard, a former marine, desert storm veteran originally from illinois. his name andrew urdiales. he was apprehended coming out of his house on the south side of chicago, where he lived with his parents. he didn t resist when the police showed up. soon after he sat down with detectives, urdiales started spilling the beans to their surprise, murder after murder after murder. he showed no remorse whatsoever. he was providing a lot of detail for all of these murders because he was proud of it. he also confessed to other murders he d committed 2,000
within days, urdiales would be moved to death row in san quint quintin. i was allowed to talk to him while he was still in the orange county sheriff custody. what was your reaction when you heard you were sentenced to death for your crimes? i was not surprised, i was expecting it. no hard feelings against the jury. did you think it was fair? they saw what they saw and they thought - they based on the decision of what they saw and heard. do you acknowledge that you killed the women that you were accused of killing. i don t think i want to answer that question. my side has not been heard yet. what is your side of this? why is what s happening to you
families, they have my condolences and that s as far as i can go with that. i don t know how much that ll mean to them when you don t admit the truth of what happened. i am sorry i could not give it to you. you know the expression, the truth will set you free. shortly after our interview, andrew urdiales was transferred to death row in san quintin, california. three weeks later, news that took everyone by surprise. 54 years old, andrew urdiales body was found. he was found unresponsive.
alone, and they re kindred spirits and people that understand me, and i understand them. for every time somebody said something about my daughter or one of the other girls, i have talked one of them, jennifer asbenson and the things that she went through, and my mind thinks that my daughter might have went through some of that, too. they all sat together to hear the judge s decision. will it be life in prison? or death. i find that these murders were premeditated, willful and deliberate and committed with malice aforethought. when we come back, is this finally the end for andrew urdiales?
urdiales started killing. i was always trained to kill boot camp. the expert witness for the prosecution in chicago. in some of the homicides, he describes himself as being at war where it is like combat and i am a trained killer. desert is opportunity for this man, why? well, if you are torturing and raping somebody and nobody is going to hear a woman screams, you basically can have at it. the killings were meticulously planned. in the desert, he kept murder weapons and things that he could tie these women up with. a storage unit, convenient for stepping off the base, killing and returning to duty as if nothing has happened. that s how he managed to get away murdering four women during