"[police radio chatter]" "Drop the gun." "Drop the gun." "[gun shots fire] [police dispatcher]" " Dean, is there anything we can help you with while you're there?" "Uh, negative." "[police radio chatter]" "Shots fired." "479 Park Path Walk." "Suspect has a shotgun." "Possible gang." "Okay, he's underneath my light, guys." "Roger." "We got your light." "Suspects heading southwest... 211 just occurred." "1833 West 24 Street." "Suspect used a double barrel shotgun... [dramatic music]" "[police radio chatter]" "?" "m" "[police radio chatter]" "Female with a gun inside 209 West 103rd Street." "She has a .22" "automatic stainless steel." "Use caution..." "Drop the gun." "[{police dispatcher] Shots have been fired." "Southeast unit." "Code 2." "My leg!" "Just relax, relax." "Can you move your foot though?" "Twice." "Just above the heart, too." " What were you stabbed with?" " I don't know." "It's a sickness within us, I suppose." "You just have to..." "You're obsessed with getting it." "You're just obsessed with making damn sure that this bastard isn't going to do it again." "Oh, Jesus." "My God." "No, not him, too." "Oh, dear God." "Five years ago, we had 1,500 murder cases." "This year it will be about 2,500 cases." "That is almost doubled." "Right here's a version of just an average semiautomatic rifle. .22." "You buy it in a hardware store, department store and they saw it off." "[police dispatcher] Shooting in progress." "103 Sequoia." "It's the scene of a large party and we issued Code 3." "Pick up that shooting in progress" " on Sequoia Northeast." " Roger." "[woman yelling]" "[yelling continues]" "Any Rampart unit." "Screaming female." "415." "Male with a gun." "[gun shots firing]" "[narrator]" " America is the only industrialized nation with a higher murder rate than countries at civil war, like Cambodia and Nicaragua." "Just take and drill some holes in it..." "An attempted murder every 3 minutes." "A murder victim every 20 minutes." "Japan, England, and West Germany, with a combined population equal to America, have 6,000 murders a year." "America has 27,000." "In the 80 years of this century," "America has had more than a million murders." "More than all her fatalities in all her wars." "Bodies and more bodies." "All day, every day." "Guns and more guns." "No place seems safe." "Not even the street." "No person feels safe." "Not even the president." "[gun shots firing] [people yelling]" "[gun shot] [narrator]" " President Reagan waves to the crowd, then is shot in the left lung." "[gun shot]" "A secret serviceman is knocked off his feet by a bullet in the stomach." "[gun hammer clicks]" "This is the gun." "[gun shot] The gunman is arrested." "John Warnok Hinkley, 25." "Son of a wealthy businessman." " How do you feel?" " How do you feel?" "Great." "What are you going to do when you get home," "Mr. President?" "What are you going to do when you get home?" "Sit down." "[narrator" " But the President of the United States had been close to death." "It wasn't always like this." "Just 25 years ago, the American dream seemed to come true." "Big cars, big houses, big everything." "[upbeat rock music] N'" "But not everyone could get an equal share of the dream." "[crowd yelling]" "Though it seemed impossible, they now exist side by side." "America the beautiful and America the violent." "Where legal remedies are not at hand." "Redress is sought in the streets." "In demonstrations, parades, and protests, which create tensions and threaten violence and threaten lives." "We face therefore a moral crisis as a country and people." "[narrator]" " The turning point was November 22nd, 1963, the day the American dream of freedom was wedded to the American nightmare of murder." "[crowd cheering]" "President John Kennedy, the symbol of his handsome young country." "His smile embodies America's confidence that it can do anything, even walk on the moon." "Jacqueline Kennedy is making her first public appearance since the tragic death of their newborn child." "President Kennedy lands in Dallas at 11:40, [presidential music] N'" "greets the waiting crowd, and leaves the airport at 11:52." "His motorcade passes street after street of enthusiastic crowds cheering as he waves and rides into the heart of Dallas." "At 12:29, his limousine approaches this building, passes beneath his assassin 's window," "and slows down to 11 miles per hour to turn this sharp corner into Dealey Plaza." "[newscaster]" " The president's car is now fuming onto Elm Street, and it will be only a matter of minutes before he arrives at the Trade Man'." "I was on the Stemmons freeway earlier, and even the freeway was jam-packed with spectators waiting their chance to see the President as he made his way towards the Trade Mart." "[gun shots]" "It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route." "There's numerous people running up the hill alongside Elm Street by the Stemmons Freeway." "Stand by." "Just a moment please." "Parkland hospital there has been a shooting." "Parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound." "I repeat:" "A shooting on the motorcade in the downtown area." "The president's car is now going past me." "The limousine is now traveling at a very high rate of speed." "Secret servicemen standing up in the limousine." "They are armed with submachine guns." "It appears as though someone ahead of the limousine might have been hit." "Put me on, Phil." "Put me on." "Phil, am I on?" "We're here at the Trade Man'." "The motorcade is coming by here." "The presidential car coming up now." "We know it's the presidential car." "You can see Mrs. Kennedy's pink suit." "There's a secret serviceman spread eagle over the top of the car." "Something is terribly wrong." "Looks as though they're going to Parkland Hospital." "Could have been one or two or even all of the people within the car may have been the victim here." "There's already a cordon of police officers running from the cars, from their vehicles here." ""The policeman says," No." "You cannot come in here." "You cannot come in here." "We'll let nobody else in."" "It was definitely the president's car." "We can see the first lady's pink suit." "That's the only identification we could see." "Just now we received reports here at Parkland that Governor Connally was shot in the upper left chest." "And the first unconfirmed reports say the president was hit in the head." "President Kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at Parkland Hospital here in Dallas after he and Governor John Connally of Texas were shot." "Just a moment." "Just a moment." "We have a bulletin coming in." "We now put you directly to Parkland Hospital." "The President of the United States is dead." "President Kennedy has been assassinated." "It's official now." "The president is dead." "[National Anthem playing] I ♪" "Do solemnly swear." "That I will faithfully execute." "The office of President of the United States." "The office of President of the United States." "[National Anthem playing] I ♪" "[drum playing] N'" "[narrator]" " The young widow leads the shocked nation through its grief with great strength and dignity." "[drum playing] N'" "She tells her two-year-old son to salute his father farewell." "Presidents and kings do the same." "[Taps playing] H'." "Two hours after the assassination," "Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, is arrested in this theater with a pistol and taken to this building, the Dallas police station." "His rifle is found hidden near the assassin's window." "Two days later, as Oswald is escorted to a car in the basement, a gunman jumps out of the crowd of reporters." "[gun shot]" "He's been shot." "He's been shot." "Lee Oswald has been shot." "[gun shot] [narrator] The gunman is Jack Ruby," "52, a nightclub owner." "In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded there was one assassin who fired three shots from behind the president." "In 1979, the House committee concluded there were two assassins and four shots fired from both behind and in front of the president." "This film is the best evidence." "Which way did the fatal shot come from?" "[gun shots]" "Government audio experts say a second assassin fired one shot from behind this fence." "The controversy continues to the present day." "[Martin Luther King] We want all of our freedoms." "We want it here, and we want it now." "[narrator]" " Martin Luther King tried to heal the sickness of racial hatred and won the Nobel prize for urging a violent land to turn away from violence, but the answer he got was more violence." "Shortly after this photo was taken, on April 4th, 1968," "Dr. King was assassinated on this motel balcony in Memphis by James Earl Ray," "39, prison escapee." "In 1979, a government investigation concluded he was probably paid to do it by two white men who hated blacks." "The murder of Martin Luther King triggered riots in 125 cities." "Police needed the help of 45, 000 soldiers as the government fought a war with its own people." "[police sirens wailing]" "[gun shots firing]" "[Buffalo Springfield "For What Its Worth" playing] ♪ ♪" "Then another series of battle lines was created by the growing hatred of the war in Vietnam." "♪ There's something happening' here" "♪ But what it is ain't exactly clear" "♪ There's a man with a gun over there" "♪ Tellin' me I got to beware" "♪ I think it's time we stop children" "♪ What's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's going down" "♪ There's battle lines being drawn" "♪ Nobody's right if everybody's wrong" "I' Young people speaking their minds" "♪ Getting so much resistance from behind" "♪ It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's going down" "We want workers to defend students." "♪ What a field-day for the heat" "♪ A thousand people in the street" "♪ Singing songs and carrying signs" "♪ Mostly say, hooray for our side" "♪ It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's going down" "?" "m" "♪ Paranoia strikes deep" "♪ Into your life it will creep" "♪ It starts when you're always afraid" "♪ You step out of line" "♪ The man come and take you away" "♪ I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's going down" "♪ Paranoia strikes deep" "To shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in their hand in Chicago." "♪ It starts when you're always afraid" "♪ You step out of line" "♪ The man come and take you away" "♪ We better stop, hey, what's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's going down" "♪ We better stop, hey, what's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's doing down" "♪ We better stop, now, what's that sound" "♪ Everybody look what's doing down" "♪ We better stop, children, what's that sound" "?" "m." "I did represent more the average citizen in this country than did any other candidate, based on the fact that the man who works each day for a living and pays his taxes and holds the country together has been ignored except on election day." "Next president of the United States:" "The honorable George C. Wallace." "[crowd cheering]" "[narrator]" " Gorge Wallace has a good chance to defeat." "Richard Nixon until this day in Maryland," "May 15th, 1972." "[gun shots firing] [people screaming]" "Call an ambulance!" "[narrator]" " This is the gunman," "Arthur Bremer, 22, a drifter from Milwaukee." "[gun shot] [people screaming]" "Wounded four times, Wallace survives and is confined to a wheelchair for life but now has no chance to be elected." "Call an ambulance!" "Before following Wallace's campaign," "Bremer first fol/owed Nixon." "Though hard to believe, presidential elections were now being decided by killers." "Robert Kennedy appealed to young and old, black and white, student and worker," "trying to end the violence that began with the murder of his brother." "[crowd chanting] We want Bobby." "We want Bobby." "We want Bobby." "[narrator]" " But as he speaks at this Los Angeles hotel, an assassin is waiting nearby." "[crowd cheering]" "I thought that he was the prince." "I thought he was the heir apparent to President Kennedy, and I wish to hell that he could have made it." "When I saw him in real life, it was a thrill to me, sir;" "But when I saw him there that night at the Ambassador, he seemed like a saint." "My thanks to all of you and now on to Chicago, and let's win there." "Thanks very much." "[narrator]" " On this day, June 4th, 1968, he has won the California primary, finishes his victory speech, and moves through the happy crowd to this doorway." "[gun shots] Then enters the door to the kitchen passageway, where a Palestinian fanatic waits with a gun." "He is shot from behind three times, including pointblank behind the ear." "Although rapidly losing blood, he says," ""ls everyone else all right?"" "The gunman is Sirhan Sirhan, 24, a horse track employee in Los Angeles." "Every morning when I get up," "I say, I wish that son of a gun were alive." "I wouldn't have to be here right now." "A doctor." "We need a doctor right here, there's an emergency, please, immediately." "[crowd screaming]" "[narrator] The ambulance finally arrives, but Kennedy dies in the hospital." "I started searching for coffee." "That was all that I wanted to do." "And I found some." "In the kitchen area?" "But where, I don't remember, sir." "In a kitchen type room?" "I don't remember where I saw it." "But I remember getting the cup." "It was a shiny..." " Large urn'?" " Urn, and there was a girl there." "I don't remember much more what happened after that." " You don't remember?" " I don't remember." "Do you remember anything?" "Other than the choking and the commotion..." "I don't remember that." "On May 18th of last year, you were sitting and writing in your room." "They're the writings of a maniac." "They're the writings of Sirhan Sirhan." "They're not the writings of me now, sir." "I'm not mentally ill, sir, but I'm not perfect either." "If you had three wishes, what would they be?" "The first wish..." "I wish that Senator Kennedy was still alive." "And I wish that every day that I've been here." "Second one," "that there should be peace in the Middle East." "That's all." "[narrator]" " Robert Kennedy, killed like his brother by assassins' bullets." "The killing of America." "A few weeks after the assassination of President Kennedy, the murder rate exploded upward, tripled in just ten years, and continues to the present day." "A new breed of killer appeared." "They didn't want money or sex or revenge." "It was a new kind of murder the senseless killing of random strangers." "[church bell ringing]" "The first major sniper incident occurred in 1966 on this peaceful campus at Texas University." "The sniper was a student who fired from this campus tower overlooking the whole city of Austin." "Charles Whitman, 25, an ex-marine sharpshooter." "Like most snipers, he was a white middle class honor student who had never committed a crime." "One morning, he went to the top in this elevator with a large supply of food and ammunition and all these guns." "Whitman barricaded this door and used a dolly to pull all his supplies up these stairs, then hauled them out on to the deck and began methodically shooting people at random." "The first victims are students walking across the campus, talking to friends, and going to class." "Then Whitman aims at the city and kills random shoppers and even a man in a barber chair." "[newscaster]" " This is a warning to the citizens of Austin." "Stay away from the university area." "Traffic is now converging on this area." "A boy riding a bicycle has been shot and seriously wounded." "There has been a report of a policeman that has been shot." "[narrator]" " Students try to rescue wounded friends- [newscaster]" " There 's another shot and another shot." "[narrator] But some are already dead." "[newscaster]" " The county blood bank has asked that anyone with the following blood types... [narrator]" " By afternoon, 16 people are dead, and more than 30 seriously wounded." "Three police officers finally reach the tower." "The sniper was in this position as he was distracted by the officers, coming from the rear here." "He turned in this manner." "The officers fired a round, hit him here in this area with six rounds." "The second blast was a round from the shotgun, which hit him here." "This is where the sniper fell, here in this area here." "[narrator]" " Police discovered that the previous night," "Whitman went to this apartment building and stabbed his mother to death." "Then he went home and typed," ""I just killed my mother."" "If there's a heaven, she's going there." ""If not, she's out of her pain."" "Then he went in the bedroom and killed his wife, asleep in their bed." "But he didn't join her until he had shot 50 strangers." "Within five years, snipers had become a fixture of American life." "Usually they were hardworking, wholesome looking students, frequently in the top 2 percent of their class, often still in high school." "What happened is not without a lesson to us." "That lesson is that we must press urgently now for the legislation that's pending in congress to help us prevent the wrong persons from obtaining firearms." "[narrator]" " The new law merely prevented minors from buying guns by mail." "The increasing violence made gun sales quadruple in 10 years." "By 1970, the number of privately owned guns in America went over 100 million." "The combined total for Japan, England, and West Germany is under 1 million." "Americans now own more guns than the police and the army." "More than 100 mil/ion guns in just 60 million households." "Two guns for every family." "[gun shots firing]" "September 1980, a security camera watches two teenagers enter this market." "As the first one pays for a pack of cigarettes, his accomplice pulls a gun and demands money." "The clerk agrees, but before he can even open the register, the first teenager orders the gunman to shoot for no reason." "[unintelligible dialog]" "Okay." "You have to pump it yourself." "Pack of Marlboro." "Will that be it for you?" "[unintelligible dialog]" "This is a hold up." "This is a hold up." "You see this?" "Give me all your money in the bank." "Right now." "Fast." "[gun shots]" "On!" "On God!" "Call the police." "Hurry!" "We've just been robbed and shot." "Please hurry." "[narrator] The 53 year old clerk dies as his wounded assistant phones police." "Pack of Marlboro." "Will that be it for you?" "[unintelligible dialog]" "This is a holdup." "This is a hold up." "You see this?" "Give me all of your money in the bank." "Right now." "Fast." "[gun shots]" "On!" "On God!" "We've been robbed and I've been shot." "Please hurry." "We've been robbed and shot." "Please hurry." "[narrator]" " Murders like this now happen every day." "Eighteen-year-old Robert Smith was a high school honor student in Arizona." "One November morning in 1966, he loaded two pistols, walked into this beauty school, and ordered the five women and two children to lie on the floor with their heads at his feet." "One woman hid her baby under her body, while another said, "You better go." "40 students will be here in a minute."" "He said, politely," ""Sorry." "I don't have that many bullets."" "Then Robert Smith shot them each twice in the back of the head and waited for police to arrive." "When they asked why, he said," ""To get known." "I just wanted to make a name for myself."" "Brenda Spencer, an excellent student in a San Diego high school." "One Monday morning in 1979, she aimed out her bedroom window with this rifle, which she had received for her 16th birthday, and shot children walking to the elementary school across the street." "She killed the janitor and principal as they bravely pulled 11 wounded children to safety." "I got shot, and then Mr. Barnes said, um, "Crystal", I mean, he said, um," ""Duck, you guys!" "Run!"" "Then I got shot, and then I went in the nurse's office, and I was bleeding a lot." "I was just laying there." "[narrator]" " After five hours," "Brenda Spencer surrendered calmly to police." "When they asked her who she wanted to shoot, she said, "I kinda like red and blue jackets."" "When they asked why, she said," ""Because Mondays are always so boring."" "Many of the young people have lost a purpose in life, and by so doing, the human value is so low that killing himself, that aggression toward himself, could easily be transformed to aggression toward someone else." "[narrator]" " In 1974, Anthony Barbara said," ""Tell mom I went target shooting."" "Instead, he set fire to his New York high school, killed passing strangers from the roof, and hanged himself." "January 1973, three black snipers set fire to this hotel in downtown New Orleans and killed guests in their rooms, including a young doctor on his honeymoon." "[police siren wailing]" "Other guests flee to the balconies, trapped between flames and bullets." "A terrified black maid is told," ""Don't worry, we're only shooting whites today."" "Then the snipers barricade themselves on the roof and shoot arriving firemen." "The chief of police is killed during the first assault." "Two snipers are killed by nighttime helicopter assault." "[gun shots]" "There he is." "I think he got him." "Yeah." "He's dead." "[narrator]" " But the leader continues shooting from the rooftop bunker." "He is Robert Essex, 23, recently discharged from the navy, living in this apartment covered with anti-white slogans." "The attack force carefully moves onto the roof and prepares to charge the bunker." "[guns shots]" "Finally all the snipers are dead, but they have shot policemen, firemen, hotel employees and guests." "Like most snipers, they make no attempt to escape, as if committing suicide." "[eerie music] N'" "The most bizarre killers are the mad saviors, who have an insane belief in salvation by bloodshed." "Sirhan wanted to save Palestinians." "Mark Essex tried to save the world from whites." "Manson said he was saving the world from blacks." "The Manson Family was a family of murderers who first brought to public attention the new levels of grotesque viciousness." "Charles Manson, 36, chose a house at random, tied up the family at gunpoint, then ordered his followers to go inside and commit ritual slaughter." "[unintelligible singing]" "Go ride a horse." "You're what?" "Go ride a horse." "[Charles Manson] Feelings towards everything." "I feel no bad." "I know no bad." "Yes." "Open them." "I'm not against you." "[interviewer]" " Are you bitter?" "[Charles Manson] Bitter?" "No." "No" "I have a question." "Are you guilty of any murders?" "Are you guilty of plotting any murders?" "I killed a chicken once." " Any human beings?" " No." "No." "You're absolutely innocent of any conspiracy to commit murder or telling anyone to commit murder or planning it?" "I'll plead guilty to the Indians." "[narrator]" " Herbert Mullin, 25, butchered 13 strangers in 1973 because God told him to save California from earthquakes." "John Frazier, 24, killed a family, execution style, on a divine mission to stop pollution." "He chose this expensive house because it was built on a mountainside." "It belonged to Dr. Victor Ohta, famous eye surgeon and humanitarian." "Frazier's note said," ""World War Ill."" "Anyone destroying the environment" ""will suffer the penalty of death."" "When arrested, he had shaved the left side of his head, hair, beard, eyebrow." "David Berkowitz, 24, called himself "The Son of Sam."" "He believed the neighbor's barking dog was the devil's voice, ordering him to purify the world." "During 1977, in New York City, he killed teenage lovers in parked cars." "When addressed, he said," ""People say, 'He's smiling,"" "so he must be happy he killed them.'" "I wasn't happy" ""I just had a job to do and was doing it."" "The Reverend Jim Jones." "[audience applause]" "I really don't feel comfortable with our worship being photographed." "I really don't." "I must go against the entire council." "I don't feel good about it." "L..." "They can photograph me all they choose because I do not care." "I'm fearless." "I come unafraid of anything." "But I don't want the cameras focusing on others." "Ask me your questions, and I'll tell you right straight from the shoulder where I stand." "Now get out there... [audience applause]" "[narrator]" " In 1977, the Mad Savior decided to save his San Francisco church by moving to Guyana and building this jungle settlement cal/ed Jonestown." "There's the thumb that Father told you about that was cut off." "I called on Father's name." "I put it back, and it's all right now." "About 3:00 or 3:30 in the morning," "I woke up, and I had a constriction," "I guess, in my chest, or in my stomach." "And I couldn't breathe." "I couldn't breathe at all." "I didn't even call on Father." "I thought of him and then it all went away." "Thanks, Father." "Thank you, Father." "Thank you, Father." "[narrator]" " Although Jim Jones had often been bizarre, in November, 1978, the reports from former Jonestown members went far beyond the bizarre." "That they considered a mass suicide, which my younger brother, my younger brother and sister are minors, they don't have the maturity to make such a decision as that." "Soto me that would be mass murder." "Flour, rice, black-eyed peas." "More peas." "We have different containers around the place." "We couldn't go through all of it." "Tremendous inventory they've built up." "Kool-Aid." "[drums playing] N'" "The United States government." "And we're hereto inquire into the health and the welfare of the American citizens who are here." "[narrator]" " At first, the congressman finds no evidence of the incredible rumors." "[interviewer] Many people in your group" " People play games, man." "They lie." "They lie." "What can I do about liars?" "Are you people gonna leave us?" "I just beg you, please leave us." "Bill, we will bother nobody." "Anybody wants to get out of here can get out of here." "We have no problem about getting out of here." "They come and go all the time." "I don't know what kind of game..." "People like publicity." "Some people do." "I don't." "[narrator]" " As the congressman and reporters return to the remote airstrip," "Jim Jones sends his assassins to stop them, hiding behind a tractor and trailer." "[gun shots firing]" "The slaughter continues as the Mad Savior gives his people the final salvation by ordering at gunpoint their mass suicide, the babies first." "[Jim Jones] The congressman's dead." "Please get us the medication." "It's simple." "It's simple." "There's no convulsions with it." "It's simple." "Just please get it before it's too late." "The BDF will be here." "I beg you get moving, get moving, get moving." "Die with respect." "Die with a degree of dignity." "Lay down your life with dignity." "Don't lay down with tears and agony." "Accepting death is like stepping over into another plane." "Don't be this way." "Stop this hysterics." "No way for us to die." "We must die with some dignity." "[narrator]" " And finally, Jim Jones himself;" "After killing more than 900 Americans." "There's been so much violence and uh," "I don't know, just, uh, it's gotten to the point that, uh," "the police keep - they have these magnum weapons now." "They can't hit with them." "They keep blowing people away." "We need people, like..." "Come on in." "Come on in." " It fell through." " It's okay." "Nobody's getting hurt." "Just come on in." " Hey, hey, come on in." " You better come on in." "Come on in." "It's too late now." "Grab you a seat over there." " Sit down." " Park it." "Park it over here so we can keep everybody together." "[narrator]" " In October 1980," "James Hoskins took over this Cincinnati television station after making a newscaster his hostage in the parking lot." "Are you putting some responsibility on...?" "On all the media." "This was convenient." "It just seems if you could do something for these people." "It's so frustrating." "My studio's down here." "And I watch people down in the street, they're fighting over nickels and dimes." "There just seems..." "You watch the politicians they got the same old bull." "Reagan's got the same bull." "Carter's got the same bull." "We do not have democracy at this time." "Jim, we probably have another minute or so on this tape." "Is there any other point you wanted to make?" "I can't think of any point I want to make except give me a place where the police can come and get me and we're going to shoot it out." "And you people can leave." "Here?" "Well, I don't see any other place for me to shoot it out." "They've got their magnums." "They want to hurt the poor people of the street?" "I've got my magnums." "I'm ready." "I'm loaded." "How will that help, though?" "All these idealistic things you just said, how..." "You seem like such a nice gentleman." "I blew my girlfriend away tonight." "It's over for me." " Can we..." " We planned to do big things." "We plan to take your station." "And through madness." "I'm trying to hold it together." "I killed her." "We won't..." "We planned to do things together and I went berserk." "She's dead." "I can say, you don't seem like the kind of person..." "If you don't want to hurt us..." "I don't want to hurt you." "I would like you to leave." "I just want the police..." "They're always hurting poor people..." "Let them come and [beep]." "Let them come and hurt me now." "That won't solve anything." "That wouldn't solve anything but I killed my girlfriend." "What am I going to do?" "But it wouldn't solve anything, though." "What am I going to do?" "Can we get some help for you?" " We have friends." " You cannot get help for me." "They're going to take me..." "They're going to put me in prison." "They're going to put me in there..." "They're going to put people in where they rape you..." "Turn this thing off so you don't get these four letter words." "[narrator] Waiting for police to attack, he sat in the newscaster's chair and shot himself." "In April, 1979," "Richard Townsend, a San Diego psychotherapist, is forced at gunpoint to remove his money from this bank by Newman Osebar, a Nigerian student living with Townsend's family for two years." "Police surround the white Porsche while Townsend sits at the steering wheel with Osebar pressing the gun to his head." "Traffic on the freeway is stopped." "After two hours of negotiations, Osebar agrees to surrender." "As instructed, he throws out his coat, belt, shoes." "Here her comes." "Got both feet out." "Well, there's that." "Oh, there goes a shoe." "He's got the shoes off, two shoes." "Well, he's out, Mom." "[gun Shots] " Oh!" "Damn!" "Christ!" "[police sirens wailing] [narrator]" " But he comes out aiming a -45" "The hostage is rescued." "The gunman dies in the ambulance." "The traffic moves again." "Richard Hall is taken hostage in his own mortgage company and marched down the streets of Indianapolis in 1977." "As Hall slips, an excited rookie draws his gun." "A seasoned veteran motions him to holster it." "What are you doing with that thing?" "Yeah, right in his neck." "[unintelligible crosstalk]" "I never said nothing, you bunch of bastards." ".-.In my life and I like policemen." "So you guys act..." "Start acting like you know something." "Shut up, you dumb bastard." "Go." "[narrator]" " The gunman takes a pair of police handcuffs and a patrol car." "[police radio chatter]" "What are you going to do?" "What are you going to do?" "Stop." "Hey, get the cars out of the way now." "[narrator]" " Anthony Kiritsis, a bartender, is enraged at Hall for turning down his loan application." "The handcuffed hostage, with a sawed off shotgun wired to his bleeding neck, is paraded before reporters for three days." "Hold it." "Hold it." "I want this goddamn thing understood." "I'll read it." "Number one... [narrator]" " Another wire runs from the trigger to the gunman's neck." "Give me a drink, pal." "Give me a drink." "I'm sober, man." "I had six drinks in 1976, and I haven't had any this year." "And I don't miss them a fucking bit." "Number 4... [unintelligible]" ""We found it impossible to agree on terms satisfactory to our best interest."" "Their best interest." "I went up there to borrow money to build a 10,000 square foot restaurant, that would have grown to a million," "2 million bucks a year and these motherfuckers gave it to somebody else." "[police radio chatter]" "What happened?" "What's the matter?" "Jim?" "I told this man," "I told this man before this thing was over that he would think I was a goddamn witch." "I read him all these things, all these charges that were on that paper, plus some." "That I typed up a few months ago and tried to recall and recall back four years." "I called every goddamn one of them, didn't I, Dick?" " Didn't I?" " That's right." " Every goddamn one." " That's right." "I hope this doesn't go off." "I'm having too much fun." "I said, ladies and gentlemen, that these people were lucky they were dealing with me." "I haven't got a goddamn nerve in my body, and you're goddamn lucky." "A nervous guy would have blown his goddamn brains out a long time ago." "[indistinct police chatter]" "And I can tell you, by god." "I was in trouble." "I was in a hell of a lot of trouble." "You saw one of these goddamn things off and kidnap somebody," "I'm going to tell you something, fellows, there ain't gonna be much left in that old road." "I'd like to please..." "A lot of nice people called me in two or three days and told me that they were behind me, and I want to thank them." "I want to thank my brothers Henry and George." "Mark and John." "Johnny, I can't think of his last name." "Johnny Ferguson." "[police chatter] Unit code 2." "[narrator] Kiritsis finally releases Hall and surrenders to police." "The courts acquit him of any crime but confine him to a mental hospital." "Let me say something." "We all live in the greatest country on earth, but this is the type of thing that" "undermines the liberties that my father and my mother came here from Greece for, and probably all of your ancestors." "And I'm not trying to be corny." "I may be a flag waver, but I wave it a hell of a lot better than John Wayne." "I'll tell you that." " I did not." " Okay." "[upbeat piano music] H'" "[narrator]" " But for three days they seem to embody the plight of their country." "The man of progress with the fool of violence on his back." "Drop the gun." "Drop it." "Drop it." "[narrator]" " San Diego, 1979." "Sam Brown was a sidewalk sniper, shooting at the drivers of passing cars." "Drop it." "[gun shots]" "[narrator]" " Neighbors say he claimed to come from outer space, from the Starship Enterprise, with a secret message for earth people." "He died on the way to the hospital." "For three long minutes, he ignored police shouts to drop his weapon and calmly looked the other way, then casually shifted his legs, concealing the fact that he was raising his gun." "[gun shots]" "All this puts enormous pressures on police." "The American judicial and penal systems are so overloaded that killers facing life in prison are allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and get out in a few months." "Though hard to believe, even Sirhan Sirhan will be released in 1984." "Everyone pays the penalty for these failures, but every two days one police officer pays with his life." "In two years, 3 officers were killed in England and 13 in Japan, while America lost 372." "["Homicide" by 999 playing] N'" "♪ I believe in homicide" "♪ I rest my case" "♪ Don't cast a sign" "♪ You'd better believe it" "♪ That's the truth of it" "They got dudes out here that will pay up to" "$2,000 for a girl 11 years old, you know." "For six hours." "So they pay up to $2,000 for that, you know?" "I don't know." "I gotta make some money tonight, too." "Listen, me and you." "All the kinky guys are out tonight." "Most of them like to see guys dance, and I don't dance." "What do you mean "dance"?" "You take off your clothes and dance in front of them?" "Mm-hmm." " How much they give you?" " Twenty." "Take off your clothes and dance." "That's embarrassing." "I know." "Too embarrassing." "Do they put on music even?" "Yeah, they put on music." "It's not good music, but it's music." "♪ You better believe it" "It'll be destructive." "Yeah, he'd try to beat you up." "And every time he'd go," ""You can leave any time you want."" "And you say, "Well, maybe I'll leave now."" "And he goes, "No, you can't do that."" "And he pushes you back on the bed." "He wants to kill people." "He wants to kill some of them." "I Homicide." "I Homicide." "I Homicide." "I Homicide" "♪ You try to tell me it's his fault" "I just freaked." "I said, "What?"" "I mean, I'm sitting there, thinking she's crying." "What she's doing was she's was gagging on her blood out of her nose and mouth." " It was so lodged with blood..." " What did she do?" "She shot herself." "And I saw the bullet hole and the gun on the floor and her eyes closed." "And she's going [snorting]." "You know, all the blood and shit, and I freaked me out." "I just picked up the gun." "I was debating on whether to shoot myself." "Put it down, you know." "I opened up the door, I started screaming, man." ""Murder," you know, "Suicide."" ""Somebody get an ambulance."" ""Help me," you know, "Make her live."" "I started trying to hold her hand." "Manager grabbed me." "Told me to take my hands off her." "I said, "Bitch, she's my mother."" "You don't tell me the take my hands off my own mother."" "You know, I was telling her live, you know, survive, you know, live through it." "She died nine hours later." "She died the next day." "The public generally never sees what you find when you arrive there." "And you..." "A million things go through your mind." "You sit there and say, "My god." "What's happened here?"" "How could this happen?" ""How could anybody do something like this?"" "All the general things that the layman would think, you experience these things also." "["Homicide" by 999 playing] N'." "Did you at any time ever use an ice pick?" "No, sir." "You struck Ms. Lamp with a sledge hammer." "Do you recall the sledge hammer, which was introduced?" "Yes, sir, I recall it." " Was that true?" " No, sir." "[narrator]" " Lawrence Bittaker, with an IQ of 138, dragged high school girls into his van, then murdered them by twisting a coat hanger around their throat with a pair of pliers." "When his tape recording of one murder was played in court people rushed outside and vomited." "I touched Ms. Ledford in the breast with cold metal pliers." "And if you listen to the tape, you'll hear those pliers being replaced in the tool box a few seconds later." "What did you touch her on the breast for with a pair of pliers?" "To shock her with the cold metal." "[narrator] The 20th century is called." "The Age of Mass Murder because sex killers appeared every five years." "But in the 70s, they began appearing every five weeks." "In 1971, farm labor contractor Juan Corona made headlines for killing 25 men who worked for him." "By 1977, sex killers were so commonplace that aerospace engineer Patrick Kearney made no headlines when he pleaded guilty to killing 21 boys." "John Gacy, 36, a building contractor, was known for his extreme generosity and civic sen/ice, such as entertaining at children's hospitals as a clown." "In 1978, the bodies of 32 teenage boys were found under his suburban Chicago home." "Gacy grabbed the first victims from streets near gay bars but then concentrated for five years on the high school boys in his neighborhood." "A 15-year-old went to play baseball and never came home." "A 16-year-old went to ask for a job with Gacy's construction company." "A 17-year-old went to tell Gacy his paycheck was late." "Their mutilated bodies were found under the house of death." "John Gacy was finally arrested because he ran out of space and dumped the 33rd body in a river." "Are you guilty of killing anyone at all?" "Am I guilty of killing anyone at all?" "No, I'm not." "Unless you could say Dean Corll was killing?" "I defended myself." "[narrator]" " Wayne Henley." "He first gets involved in the Houston Mass Murders in 1971," "when he is only 15, by bringing his teenage buddies to the house of a fatherly friend who is twice his age." "What did he want you to do?" "He wanted to pay me to find people and bring them to him, and help him do his thing, and kill them, and help him bury them." " And pay me." " He was going to pay you?" "How much would he pay you per person?" "I don't know." "He said $1,500 once." "$1,500 a person?" "That's what he said." "[narrator]" " Dean Corll, 33, electrician and ex-Marine." "Although he never pays any money," "Wayne keeps bringing him boys for two and a half years." "Most of the 27 victims live on the same street as Wayne, attend the same junior high school," "and know Wayne Henley all their lives until he invites them to Dean's house for beer and poker." "Although Wayne wants no part in the homosexual rapes, he joins more and more in the slow torture and sadistic killing of his friends." "Inside Dean's house, the naked victims are handcuffed to this plywood board at gunpoint." "The floor is covered with vinyl sheets to catch their blood." "The stereo is turned up to drown out their screams." "The horrified boys see Dean get undressed and hope it's only rape." "Then they see Wayne take out the hunting knife." "One summer night in 1973," "Dean Corll suddenly tries to rape and murder Wayne on their torture board." "Hello?" "Mama?" "Who's this?" "It's Wayne." "Yes, this is Mama, baby." " Mama?" " Yes." "I killed Dean." "What?" "Oh honey, you didn't." "Yes." "Oh, God." "Where are you?" "I'm..." "It's all right." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Where are you?" "I'm by his warehouse." "Where?" "At that warehouse he keeps." "Can I come out there?" "Yeah." "Yes." "Is that in Lawrence Park?" "She can't..." "No." "You can't come." "I'm with the police, Mama." "[narrator]" " Wayne showed police the mass graves on the beach." "It took a bulldozer to find all 27 bodies." "The early ones were decomposed." "The later ones mutilated, chewed and castrated." "One victim disappeared three months after his brother." "Two more brothers disappeared on the same day." "The youngest victim was nine, son of the comer grocer." "Wayne's best friend was a popular 7th grader who liked to make everyone laugh." "David Hilligiest, 13." "Wayne's mother and David's mother, both strict religious women, had been friends for 15 years." "The two boys had always been playmates, running in and out of each other's houses since they could walk." "Until the day David's parents sent him to pick up his little brother from the public swimming pool... the day David disappeared." "What did he tell you about this location out here?" "He told me that he had David Hilligiest out here." "What'd he say about David?" "He just told me that he killed him and buried him out here." "What did he want you to do?" "He wanted to pay me to find people and bring them to him." "Help him do his thing and kill them." "Well, I was just heartbroken." "That's all." "I don't know how to express myself." "I just felt just dead." "That's all." "What is your reaction toward the Henleys that live just a block or so up the street?" "Um, I have no bitterness." "I've known them all these years, and I have a lot of compassion for them." "I realize that even with our grief with our son possibly being dead and possibly him knowing about it..." "I can feel compassion for them because I feel that they're in a much tougher place right now than we are." "Wayne's in great spirits." "He said everybody had been really nice." "[narrator]" " Most sadistic mass murderers like Wayne have an IQ above 125, yet they continue the kill like clockwork." "More than 100 victims in four cases." "Almost as if they are dedicated to the killing of America itself." "One even said he mass murdered college students" ""because" I wanted to hurt society where it hurt the most by taking its most valuable future members."" "Kenneth Bianchi was called the Hillside Strangler because he dumped the victims on Hollywood hillsides." "He dragged women from streets and apartments to his van." "Bianchi said his accomplice was his cousin," "Angelo Buono." "To even begin to try and live with myself" "I have to take responsibility for what I've done." "You... you're a motherfucker for trying to get me to leave him." "I killed her, and Angelo killed her." "You mean the Wechler one Angelo killed?" "This broad I never seen before." "Martinic." "This broad I never seen before." " You never saw them at all?" " No." "This broad I never seen before." "Robinson?" "This broad I killed." "These two Angelo killed." " Johnson and..." " This one I never seen before." "This one I never seen before." "This broad I killed." "Markum you've never seen before and Ms. Kastin is the broad you killed, you say?" "Am I going too fast for you?" "Yeah, you're going so damn fast." "I'm not that smart." "[eerie music] N'" "[narrator]" " Ted Bundy." "The FBI suspects him of being America's worst sex killer, murdering possibly 40 coeds in six states over a five year period." "In Seattle, he was a law student, suicide therapist, and assistant to the governor." "When he wrote the official review of state crime laws, his friends and teachers were sure one day he would be governor himself." "The police were sure he had murdered sleeping women with such fury that he ripped apart their bed frames, then bludgeoned and raped them with the metal bars." "But police never had enough proof to go to court." "Bundy never left finger prints, and eyewitnesses never recognized his constantly changing face." "When he grabbed a 12-year-old girl running to her gym class and dragged her to his car, a passerby thought he was an angry father beating his sobbing child." "Bundy stuffed her mangled corpse in an abandoned pig sty." "He said he was going to get it." "Okay." "You've got the indictment." "It's all you're going to get." "[narrator]" " In Tallahassee, he was finally indicted for mass murder." "I'll plead not guilty right now." "And your grand jurors, being present, given the court to be informed and understand..." "Alright." "I'll be heard." "[narrator]" " He tore up the indictment in the elevator [unintelligible crosstalk]" "But was brought to trial." "How you doing?" "Aren't you getting tired of Florida?" "[narrator]" " During the night of January 15th, 1978," "Ted Bundy crept into the Chi Omega sorority house with a club." "He exploded from bedroom to bedroom in a frenzy, savagely assaulting coed after coed." "The testimony showed that the frontal area of the brain of the skull was fractured jagged and exposed a portion of the brain." "She was left in her own bed in a pool of blood." "As to Count ll of the indictment, the Court finds while the victim was in her bed was stripped of her night clothing." "One nipple was incised and bit off." "There was evidence of vaginal and anal trauma, and she was left in a pool of blood in her own bed." "It was determined, of course, that there was a bite mark." "[narrator]" " A clear bite bark had been made in the buttocks of one victim." "It matched Bundy's teeth as precisely as a fingerprint." "I can't." " I'm leaving the courtroom." " No, you're not." "Sit down." "[unintelligible crosstalk]" "Sit down, Mr. Bundy." "Sit down, Mr. Bundy." "I'm not going to be in this room when the jury walks out." "I'm not going through this and you knew that, Your Honor." " Sit down." " You know how far you can push me." "You want a circus, you got a circus." "I'll rain on your parade, Jack." "You'll see a thunderstorm." "[unintelligible]" "Mr. Bundy, sit down." "I know it's not a party but please have water in the room." "You understand?" "Get off!" "And if there's any more delay in this courts proceedings occasioned by your voluntary acts, we're proceeding without you." "Since I have been in Dade County..." "Don't shake your finger at me, young man." "Don't shake your finger at me, young man!" "[narrator]" " But Bundy couldn't stop the testimony of three coeds who miraculously survived his brutal fury." "Some of my teeth were knocked out." "Um, I had broken facial bones." "I had a broken arm and a crushed finger." "[narrator]" " Her jaw bone was held together by a metal pin." "Damage to the inner ear forced another survivor to abandon her career in ballet." "I had five skull fractures and multiple contusions in my head." "And because of the skull fractures, the 8th nerve was damaged, and I lost the hearing in my left ear and the equilibrium." "And I had a broken jaw, and my left shoulder was pulled out of joint." "Mr. Bundy." "Yes." "Would you point him out then for the Court?" "Objection." "I will allow this for the purpose of the motion." "It is further ordered that, on such scheduled date, that you be put to death by a current of electricity." "[narrator]" " His mother listened to the end." "And such current of electricity shall continue to pass through your body until you are dead." "It's a tragedy for this Court to see such a total waste of humanity that I've experienced in this court." "You're a bright young man." "You'd have made a good lawyer." "I'd have loved to have you practice in front of me." "But you went another way, partner." "Take care of yourself." "I'm an American and I went off the deep end." "[narrator]" " Ed Kemper has been serving a life sentence in this California prison since 1973, when, at the age of 24, he murdered his mother, then called police and confessed to having dismembered college coeds for two years," "as well as cannibalizing and raping their headless bodies." "When someone abandons himself to being a victim, he's going to have to be one." "[narrator]" " With an IQ of 136," "Kemper is now the prison's best reader of books for the blind." "I'm saying I wanted to kill my mother since I was 8 years old and I'm not proud of that." "It started with surrogates at a nonhuman level, physical objects, my possessions, other people's." "Destruction of things that are cared about, and then destruction of things that are living, on a lower level, small animals, insects, animals, and then finally people." "It started coming to a head again so I went back down." "I ran away back down there." "And then a month later, I'm up living with my grandparents in the mountains and ten months later," "I murdered them." "It made it worse to be on top of a mountain." "I was literally on the top of a mountain when it happened." "And I could sense..." "I sensed everybody in the world just stopping what they're doing, turning around, saw what I did, and are coming to get me." "And I knew I was paranoid at that moment, and I knew anybody that came up there and give me a funny look or fishy eye or quizzical look, I'd have blown their brains out thinking they were coming to get me." "If it had been in a city," "I'd have been a mass murderer at age 15." "I would have killed until they gunned me down." "I wouldn't have been able to reason my way out of it." "I was scared to death and I was violent." "I felt my back hit that wall." "I was the rabbit that always ran, always backed away, always burns his bridges." "Suddenly there weren't any more." "My back hit that wall, and I came out screaming and kicking and shooting." "[narrator]" " He was released to the one person that authorities at the state mental hospital recommended he never see again." "I got paroled to my mother." "Atascadero decided that I didn't ever need to talk to her again at all." "Don't give her Christmas present." "Leave her alone." "She got her pound of flesh out of you." "I wasn't sniveling about my mother to them." "I didn't like to hear what they had to say about her." "She went through three husbands like a hot knife through butter." "Four months after I was out," "I was back into the fantasy bag." "My first date was an absolute disaster." "Wasn't her fault, you know?" "And I didn't blame her even then." "I'm saying." "It was a terrible tragedy." "But boy, she didn't ever talk to me again." "It was awful." "Wasn't sexual or grabbing at her or any of that." "I was just such a dork." "Taking her to a John Wayne movie and Denny's." "It's terrible." "I never been on a date." "At 16 It was cool, you know?" "I'd never been on a date, you know?" "I was locked up since I was 15." "But I can't tell her that." ""Oh, gee." "Don't mind me."" "She kind of got hung up on my looks or whatever." "She was a gorgeous young lady." "Pure class." "And she saw something there that I guess wasn't there." "And boy, she found out quick." "[narrator] Taking elaborate precautions, he drove around universities and picked up hitchhiking coeds while wearing these glasses." "These are the ones." "Now, would you get in a car with this man?" "Huh?" "Hmm?" "The state has made me much more credible as a human being." "[narrator]" " While his mother worked at the university," "Kemper buried the mutilated bodies in the mountains and took the severed heads home." "Then he slept with their heads for days, and finally went looking for more." "I was losing a grasp on something that was too violent to keep inside forever." "As I'm sitting there with a severed head in my hand, talking to it or looking at it, and I'm about to go crazy, literally." "I'm about to go completely flywheel loose, and just fall apart." "I say, "Wow." "This is insane."" "Then I told myself, "No, it isn't."" "You're saying that." ""And that makes it not insane."" "I said, "I'm sane, and I'm looking at a..."" "I said, "Wait a minute." "Wait a minute."" "I've seen paintings and drawings of Viking heroes talking to severed heads and taking them to parties." "Old enemies in leather bags." ""Part of our heritage."" "This is me back then in 1972 and '73." "Unable to live with the fact that I just stabbed to death and out the throat of an innocent young woman." "Innocent in the sense that she did not plan on that happening." "She didn't do anything specifically for that to happen to her, yet she was a very active participant in her own death." "And in my memory of that." "She was 19 years old, and her roommate in the trunk who died right after that was 18." "I didn't go hog wild and totally..." "What I'm saying is," "I found myself doing things in an attempt to make things fit together inside." "I was doing sexual probing and things, in the sense of striking out or reaching out and grabbing and pulling to me." "But appalled at the sense that it wasn't working." "That isn't the way it's supposed to be." "It isn't the way I want it." "See what I'm saying?" "And yet I get, during that time," "I become engaged to someone who is young and beautiful and very much the same advantages and very much the same upbringing." "And Disneyland values." "And she's very much the reason I surrendered." "I picked up two girls who were so much like the first two, it was unbelievable." "Almost identical circumstances." "And I let them go." "Everything went towards killing them, and I didn't." "But I'm saying, "Wow." "It's uncanny."" "It was almost like it was meant to be that way." "And I said, "Wow." "I've got..." "This has got to stop"" "and I let them out." "They never even knew what was going on." "I let them out." "I would have gotten away with those two being murdered." "Said, "No." "It's got to stop."" "And a week later, I murdered my mother." "Went back to Santa Cruz and killed her." "[narrator]" " He killed her with a hammer in her sleep" "Cut off her head and hands, but then put her vocal cords in the garbage disposal and threw darts at her severed head." "I am an American and I killed Americans." "I am a human being and I killed human beings." "And I did it in my society." "[chanting]" " Death to the Klan." "Death to the Klan." "Death to the Klan." "[narrator]" " A hundred years after the O-K." "Corral, gunfights continue in the streets in the land of a million murders and a hundred million guns." "How long can we afford to have unregistered guns, handcuffed prosecutors and revolving door prisons?" "Whatever it takes, the solutions will be expensive." "But is living in fear a cheaper price?" "How many senseless murders are we willing to tolerate?" "Does the rate need to quadruple again before we've had enough to make us fight back?" "[John Lennon]" " You know;" "People get together and just howl, you know, play." "Whatever." "But we're trying it our way." "Maybe one day we'll all get together." "But we must all do something." "♪ All we are saying" "♪ ls give peace a chance [narrator]" " John Lennon gave his autograph to the gunman, six hours before the senseless shooting, in the entrance to his New York apartment building." "[singing "If I Fell" by the Beatles]" "♪ If I give my heart to you" "I I must be sure" "♪ From the very start" "♪ That you would love me more than her" "♪ If I trust in you" "Maybe it won 't happen again if we all join together." "[upbeat rock music] N'" "We have about 40 seconds before we begin our vigil." "We ask everyone 's cooperation with respect to our great friend John Lennon, who I'm sure is with you all today." "We ask for complete silence." "We begin our vigil now." "At the conclusion, to terminate our vigil, we will begin our recorded John Lennon music." "We start now." "May we all pray." "["Imagine" by John Lennon playing]" "?" "m" "♪ Imagine there's no heaven" "♪ It's easy if you try" "♪ No hell below us" "♪ Above us only sky" "♪ Imagine all the people" "♪ Living for today..." "Aha-ah... ♪ No need for greed or hunger" "♪ A brotherhood of man" "♪ Imagine all the people" "♪ Sharing all the world..." "You... ♪ You may say I'm a dreamer" "♪ But I'm not the only one" "♪ I hope some day you'll join us" "♪ And the world will live as one" "[narrator]" " Two people were shot at this Central Park vigil." "While you watched this movie, five more of us were murdered." "One was the random killing of a stranger." "[melancholy piano music] N'"