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WEBVTT BUT NOT GIVING UP.>> I BELIEVE HE'S ALIVE. CLAIRE: SERGEANT SCOTT GOSS WASTHERE AT THE BEGINNING, WHEN AKILLER HUNTED WOMEN,PROSTITUTES, ENGAGED THEM, THENMURDERED THEM, AND THE HEAD OFDAYTONA BEACH ROBBERY HOMICIDEHOPES HE'S THERE AT THE END .>> I PRAY EVERY NIGHT HE DOESN'TKILL ANYBODY ELSE, BUT I HOPEHE'S STILL ALIVE BECAUSE I WANTTO BE ABLE TO CATCH HIM.CLAIRE THE KILLER SHOWED HIMSELF: THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS 2005WHEN LAQUETTA GUNTHER WAS FOUNDNAKED, SHOT IN THE HEAD IN ANARROW ALLEY WAY OFF RIDGEWOODAVENUE NOT FAR FROM HER HAUNTS,AND HER DEATH STILL HAUNTS BESTFRIEND, STACEY DITTMER, WHO HADBEEN SEARCHING FOR GUNTHER.>> IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT SHE DIDIN HER LIFE, SHE WAS A HUMANBEING AND YOU HAD NO RIGHTTAKING HER LIFE. WHO GAVE YOUTHE RIGHT TO MAKE YOURSELF GOD?CLAIRE IT'S A SMALL TOWN AND AS: IT TURNED OUT, THE FIRSTVICTIM, KNEW THE SECOND ANDTHIRD.THEY HUNG OUT AT A LOCAL BAR,CRUISED THE SAME AREA AND POLICESAY GOT PICKED UP BY A MANCRUISING TO KILL.>> ALL THE WOMEN HAVE BEENCONNECTED TOGETHER, EITHER BYBALLISTIC EVIDENCE OR DNAEVIDENCE.CLAIRE IN JANUARY OF 2006, JULIE: GREEN WAS FOUND MURDERED, SHOTIN THE HEAD.AND IN FEBRUARY, IWANA PATTONWAS DISCOVERED DEAD.POLICE MATCHED BALLISTICS, A 40CALIBUR SMITH AND WESSON AND ORDNA TO CONCLUDE ONE MAN, THESAME MAN WAS THE KILLER.>> WE BIOLOGICALLY KNOW WHO HEIS, WE JUST NEED A NAME ANDTHAT'S THE MOST FRUSTRATING PARTABOUT IT.CLAIRE AN FBI PROFILER DESCRIBED: A MIDDLE AGED WHITE MALE,LIVING A SUBURBAN LIFE, LIKELY AFAMILY MAN WITH A DARK SIDE ANDHE STAYED UNDER THE RADAR, UNTILJANUARY 2008, WHEN THE BADLYDECOMPOSED BODY OF STACEY GAGEWAS DISCOVERED >> WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, BUT ITHINK ABOUT IT OFTEN .CLAIRE STACEY GAGE'S 87-YEAR-OLD: GRANDMOTHER SAYS STACEY LEFTTHE HOME THEY SHARED WITH HERCHILDREN 10 YEARS AGO TO RUN TOTHE STORE.BETTY HILL ADMITS HERGRANDDAUGHTER HAD ISSUES.>> STACEY, UNFORTUNATELY MUSTHAVE BEEN IN THE WRONG PLACE ATTHE WRONG TIME, DOING THE WRONGTHING, THAT'S THE ONLY THING ICAN THINK OF.CLAIRE POLICE HAVE SPENT TENS OF: THOUSANDS OF MAN HOURS TAKENHUNDREDS OF DNA SWABS SINCE THEMURDERS, AND USED FAMILIAL DNAHOPING TO FIND A CLOSE RELATIVE,NOTHING.THEY'VE IDENTIFIED THOUSANDS OFPOSSIBLE SUSPECTS BUT SO FARHE'S ALLUSIVE AS IS CLOSURE FOR, FRIENDS AND FAMILY.>> WE'RE NOT WORKING THE CASE ASIF HE'S DEAD, WERE WORKING THECASE AS IF HE'S ALIVE AND HE

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