to the east coast on federal weapons charges, but the charges in idaho were dismissed after a psychologist declared him insane and not criminally responsible. i am not at all convinced that any of those diagnoses were appropriate. what he would do is, when he was incarcerated, he would, in my opinion, feign mental disorder. his lawyer then argued successfully that pending assault charges in baltimore be dropped because joe s right to a speedy trial had be denied. oh, he absolutely played the system. there s no doubt about that. he played the system to his advantage, and as i said earlier, he had a mental disorder, but never, in my opinion, rose to the level of legal insanity. this guy knew exactly what he was doing. he was responsible for his behavior. he did a lot of things that were very premeditated. as the baltimore hostage standoff in march of
joe, look, i am here for you. joe, i am here to get you some help. i need you to come out, joe. i need you to come out, and i need you to release the hostages and come out as soon as you can. i need to you come out right now. i m here for you. bill toohey is the spokesman for the baltimore county police department and was immediately on-site for the standoff. joseph palczynski and television had this were obsessed with one another. joe palczynski wanted television. television wanted joseph palczynski. when he started taking people hostage, the first thing he did when he went into that house was turn on the television. the palczynski murders, kidnappings, two-week manhunt and hostage standoff had become a media circus. when he was on the run, he had with him a portable two-inch television set and a stack of batteries. when he went into the motel the second night out with tracy whitehead, the first thing he did was to turn on the television and saw his picture on the 11:00 news
he had a mother who minimized and pretty much bailed him out of every situation, further sending him the message, this is not so bad, joe. after being harassed by joe palczynski for over two years, the culottas were seriously thinking of moving away from the area. joe would soon be released from prison after serving 1 1/2 years of a 3-year sentence. he got out early for good behavior. we were wondering when it was going to happen. we were positive he would show up. and he just he found another girl. he found tracy. still ahead, the manhunt turns into a potentially deadly standoff. [female announcer] if the most challenging part of your day
for four days in march of 2000, joe palczynski, who had already killed four, held his ex-girlfriend s mother and family hostage in their home. in a tense siege, police surrounded the perimeter of 7520 lange street. they re bringing people out. during the standoff, palczynski was considered so dangerous that a remote-controlled robot brought meals to the barricaded home. he made lynn whitehead retrieve the meals from the front window. the hostage negotiations with palczynski would exhaust the patience of seasoned officers and were complex enough to end up in fbi textbooks afterwards. we were able to negotiate our way through deadlines. repeatedly he would set deadlines if you don t produce tracy in 15 minutes, i will shoot somebody. joe was always demanding to speak with tracy, a request the police repeatedly denied.
on television. nothing is going to happen to you, joseph. i promise. i promise you. i will get you help. we have doctors here and i have a good doctor for you. i promise you, nothing is going to happen. the negotiators and forensic profilers were trying to calculate what he would do based on his criminal history. there was a lot for the investigators to look at. over a span of 13 years, seven women had filed assault charges against joseph palczynski. he served time in jail only twice and was in and out of mental health facilities. incredibly, there was even a prior case eerily reminiscent of the hostage standoff.8;รงรท this is footage of palczynski surrendering in 1992, after a confrontation over a girl led to a 15-hour standoff with police in gooding, idaho. he had fled there as a fugitive after escaping from a maryland state mental hospital. joe was eventually brought back