denials of involvement they knew, they said, that he was lying. we ve had so many people sitting in that chair, okay, who think that they re smarter than us. no. yes. i m down at the break. you made a mistake. you did and i have to pay for. it why were investigators here in nebraska that that livers was lying. beside the polygraph, there is a state profiler who suggested that this was the sort of crime committed by young males who know the victims. how else will they know to find the farmhouse whale in the middle of nowhere if they did not know them? and after that, said the profiler, this was the sort of crime that appeared to be very personal. an execution. that livers rang those bells, all of them, and wearing them loudly. eventually detectives got quite explicit telling livers that he was headed for death row, unless he would start giving them what they knew to
there was such relief that this unknown unabomber was caught and just stunned when we saw where he lived alone, fashioning those bombs and writing those manifestos. thank god for his brother with who recognized something in those letters and tipped off the fbi with his suspicionings, finally suspicions, finally bringing justice. charles watson in atlanta the, thank you, arthel? arthel: thank you. more for more on this, we re going to bring in mary ellen o toole, a retired fbi profiler who worked on the unabomber case. mary ellen, thank you for joining us. if you would, you re on the phone with me, would you remind us of your involvement in the case? and also tell us the thoughts, the feelings that flooded your mind when you heard the news. thank you. yes, i worked on the case with really hundreds of other agents and law enforcement people from federal and state agencies who really did a fantastic job.
man on the run. the state under the deal it made with the killer no death penalty and he was sentenced to life in prison. hilton admitted nothing beyond the emerson murder. the first time you ve ever done anything like this? i ll let my attorney answer. by now, investigators from a half dozen southeastern states as well as fbi profiler s were rummaging through hilton s past. by the time he was captured he wasn t much more than a vagrant in a van but his past was more complex. as an army veteran, hilton had earned an associates college degree, gone private pilots license on the g.i. bill and been married three times before the wheels apparently came off. true crime author has written more than 25 books including trails of death about hilton. it s an underestimate him as foolish, this is a very dangerous person. according to rosen he was shaped by a number of factors. hilton who never knew his biological father was raised by
rental home in moscow, idaho. according to court documents, kohberger s dna was found on a knife sheath at the crime scene. in a recent dateline exclusive a source with inside knowledge of the investigation says detectives have found evidence that several months before the murders kohberger went on amazon to buy a k-bar knife and sheath greg cooper is a retired fbi profiler who has studied killers of multiple victims. they don t wake up in the morning and go out and commit a crime like this. no. there had been most likely crimes committed in the past. reporter: in the fall of 2022 the dateline source claims kohberger had befriended a classmate at washington state university who returned to her apartment to find someone had broken in and moved her belongings around. the source says she called kohberger who volunteered to install a video security system after the installation police believe if kohberger was close enough to the apartment he could pull up the security cameras h
burglary. this comes six months after the disturbing murders inside this off campus rental home. according to court documents, brian colbert s dna was found on a knife chief at the crime scene, and in a recent daylight exclusive, a source with inside knowledge of the investigation claims several months before the murders, colebrook or went on amazon to buy a caborn i, fan sheath. craig cooper is a retired fbi profiler weighing in on the case. he s been thinking about committing crimes for a long time. with that knife? absolutely. he has become familiar with it, feel the east with that. investigators say kolberg s white hyundai was near the home the night of the killings. one of the to surviving roommates tells police she saw a man inside the home with bushy eyebrows, wearing a mask in black clothing. more than a month later, with no rust, suspicions were brewing within the colbert family, according to dateline. a source had several family members searched his car for