there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states and it is getting shorter every day. new warnings including from former republican officials about the risks of a second donald trump presidency. in gaza the death toll is surging as israel expands its military operations against hamas. palestinian civilians and more than 130 hostages caught in the middle. an urgent push is under way to get israel and hamas back to the bargaining table. exhausted and demoralized. the new report on the stress air traffic controllers are under and the risk that it carries for air travel. i m kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman. this is cnn news central. new this morning with donald trump surging in the polls, fresh sounds of alarm about what a second trump presidency might mean. and some of the warnings are coming from one-time republicans. quote, let s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality there is a clear path to dictatorship in the united states and
but then in october of 1981, with the suspect in jail, the monster struck. once again, the victims were young lovers in their 20s, shot to death on a lovers lane in the countryside, murders five and six. the same beretta .22 was the murder weapon. the young woman suffered the same postmortem mutilation, performed with a notched knife. this murder set up a pattern that would repeat itself. police arrested a suspect and the killer, almost as if taunting them, killed again. and the police were humiliated and had to release him. the monster struck again eight months later in june of 1982 about ten miles south of florence. a young couple had parked just off a busy road. this time, the young man apparently spotted the killer. he saw the murderer coming? yes, because he tried to start with the car.
subculture that many florentines found disturbing. these hills were not only being stalked by a killer, they were also swarming with peeping toms. police quickly zeroed in on one of these voyeurs. they focused on a fellow who was an ambulance driver during the day and who had been creeping around those hills at night and they arrested him. he lied to them at first. of course, he lied. he didn t want to admit what he was doing, and then even when he did admit he was a voyeur he lied about his movements that night and was contradicted by other people. so they thought, we ve got our man, here he is. they arrested him. but then in october of 1981, with the suspect in jail, the monster struck. once again, the victims were young lovers in their 20s, shot to death on a lovers lane in the countryside, murders five and six. the same beretta .22 was the murder weapon. the young woman suffered the same postmortem mutilation, performed with a notched knife. this murder set up a pattern that wo