wanted to do this. then it happened again to another mother and another daughter. somebody is killing mothers and daughters. that is about as scary as it. gets who is out there. and who would be next. something you would never imagined would happen. the clues lie here, in abandon mansion, erie, haunting. where was this killer? hiding cold calculating eyes, lifeless. he was almost a ghost. could they catch him? could they stop him? i get chills all over. i m kind of on the edge of my. seat he truly thought he could outsmart us. hello and welcome to dateline. would you recognize danger, if it was lurking nearby? this story that you are about to hear, is a tale of true terror. a killer was stalking victims in a quiet neighborhood, leaving residents panicked that they would be next. police were determined to catch him, unaware he was hiding in plain sight. but soon, a stolen set of keys would help investigators unlock a mystery and unmask a murderer. here is d
executed. detective bernie nelson had investigated hundreds of murders. and had learned to keep the recurring images of death at arms length. but this case was different. he was the father to a teenager around karissa lofton age. ma am i ve been shot. me and my mother have been shot. i m bleeding to death. that poor little girl in her bedroom. she has the gumption to get on the phone and call you. it hurts to listen to the 9-1-1 call because you can feel and hear the fear the fear in her voice. even though nothing was taken it seemed clear the killer broke into the house. in fact the burglar alarm had gone off, but it was disabled in under one minute. and that put karen s thing kion loft and at the top of police is persons of interest. list he lived in the house. he knew the code. police brought him in for questioning. does your mom set the alarm for the? house all the time? one of the detectives plainly said, everybody in that room things it s you, you re the only one that
door in the neighborhood and talk to neighbors, try to ask them questions but i had to repeatedly explain to her that we can t have her interrupting our case. she s a thorn in your side. she is. but i understood because if my sister were killed, it would be hard for me to sit still to. so detective shot near made patricia a promise. we were sitting in the car and i remembered just crying and crying and crying. and then he promised me, he said i m gonna get him. he said if it s the last thing i do. he said i m gonna get. him to do that, detective shot near and nelson had to confront a terrifying question. you ve got to murdered mother daughters within, across the fence, virtually. right. same neighborhood. so you re thinking are these things related? right? you d have to think that if they are related, you have a serial murderer on your hands and you don t know when he s going to hit next. and you don t know who he s going to hit next. coming up. a neighborhood on
residents, home invasion victims vicky and lloyd urban that man only one thing, panic. it was crazy. i couldn t sleep at night. any sound, i had alarms put up throughout the entire house and plus we got the dog, and bars on the windows. yes. the house was turned into four knocks. a barking crazy dog who closet the windows if he hears a doorbell ring. there was no peace in the house. i was like, we have to turn some of this stuff down. i can t live like this because he s, like i don t care if this is going to save our, life you know? just the fear that spread was absolutely amazing. by july 2009, four months after the debate murders and six months after the lofted murders, detectives were stumped. we kept calling them and they weren t giving us no answers so that pisses me off because i felt like we deserved to know something. it was wild.