with a description of the attacker. one of the distinctions that emerged were descriptions of bad teeth more specifically, rotted teeth, dark brown stains or discoloration, and the teeth seemed to accompany bad breath. linedecker: at that point, the police weren t linking these crimes publicly. we do not know exactly what the links would be. what we will do is we will check put the investigators from all of the surrounding agencies and see if they have any cases that are similar to ours. at some point, you realize they re all connected. man: five murders and three sexual attacks in the past eight weeks. it was just a summer of terror. i m nervous. you know, i m nervous for my family, nervous for my friends and neighbors. kristof: you were afraid to pick up the newspaper in the morning because he was killing with such viciousness and so rapidly.
and were able to provide police with details of the attack. man: virginia petersen did talk to a reporter by telephone. she said, you never really dream it would happen to you. i keep pinching myself, she said, hoping it didn t happen. but it did. if being responsible for multiple murders, that is at different times and different locations, defines a serial killer, then i guess we would have to say that, yes, we would have a serial killer. martin: it went from the suspicions of a serial killer might be operating to an absolute certainty. jordan: emergency crime calls to the lapd jumped by more than 15%. he looked like the man the news people have been showing? martin: gun sales supposedly doubled during this period measures that weren t necessarily heard of before. woman: the owner that owns the gun shop said he had a rash of women coming in
my girlfriend called me and said there was a man asking to use her bathroom and her phone. police weren t sure what to make of ben and his version of events. so there was no way to tell whether this story that ben had told police on the 911 tape actually happened? the only thing we had was ben s words. no cell phone records back then and no records of local phone calls, so that phone call may have never happened? that is correct. i would expect someone to be, i can t find her, i don t know where she is, she s not answering. it was a very mellow, it was a very feelingless phone call. it was somebody who didn t seem too concerned. ben waited in the living room while they went into angie s bedroom. they came out and told him angie was dead. the first responding officer, what he remembered most was even after he had discovered the body and said so, ben didn t even ask what condition,
that they murdered my son. all of them should be in prison, doing time. after so many police failings, will there ever be fulljustice for stephen lawrence? daniel is with me now. there have been over 15 inquiries on inquest into the murder of stephen lawrence, and one thing that stood out for me in your report, as it clearly also did to neville lawrence, is why were you able to get to this when the police weren t? i you able to get to this when the police weren t? you able to get to this when the police weren t? i have asked myself this a lot over police weren t? i have asked myself this a lot over the police weren t? i have asked myself this a lot over the past police weren t? i have asked myself this a lot over the past few - police weren t? i have asked myself this a lot over the past few years. i this a lot over the past few years. i think i just this a lot over the past few years. i think ijust needed to stand back, look at the case. this man was in the case from the start a
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