A series of murders puts the residents of a small desert town on high alert. As bodies continue to pile up, the urgency escalates, pitting Detective Dave Frankel in a race against time to capture a deranged spree killer before he claims his next victim.
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00:00May 13th, 2013.
00:14It's a day that people that live in this rural area will never forget, ever.
00:19All right, what do you need to tell us?
00:24I don't want to say that I'm crazy, but I'm just, you know, just hearing stuff.
00:29The voice will tell you to do this and do that.
00:34So what kind of things were these voices saying to kill somebody?
00:40They have a spree killer on their hands.
00:42Wherever he happens to be is where he might strike again.
00:46And we don't know where that is.
00:48Nobody knows what's going on.
00:49Why is he doing this?
00:51Who is he targeting?
00:52The garage door was open, and then I walked in.
00:56I shot the lady first, and I shot the woman in the front of her head.
01:01The body count is going to continue to rise.
01:04Where is this son of a b****?
01:07And then I just went blank.
01:10Then I shot him.
01:14Some crimes occur to make the evening news.
01:18We now have the identity of all five victims.
01:21And then don't survive the 24-hour news cycle.
01:25And there are some crimes that people are never able to forget.
01:30And this is one of them.
01:36I spent my career closing murder cases.
01:40But I'm not the only one who answered the call.
01:45It takes a rare breed to solve the unsolvable.
01:49To catch a ruthless killer.
01:51To find justice for the dead.
01:55That's what it takes to be an American detective.
02:19It's around 7 a.m., and Marsha Longfellow is worried.
02:24She's been trying to call her friend, Elisir Grimm,
02:27for quite some time and hasn't been able to reach him.
02:29And that, she thinks, is very unusual.
02:33So she goes to the gas station where he works.
02:37But he's not there.
02:40And then she notices fluttering newspapers in the wind
02:44a short distance away from the station.
02:49And she walks closer to investigate.
02:54And sees something on the ground.
02:58What is that?
03:09What she finds is Elisir Grimm, half-naked and dead.
03:14And so it begins.
03:18I'm David A. Frankel.
03:20I'm a retired Washoe County Sheriff's Office detective
03:24in Reno, Nevada.
03:25When I got hired, after a couple years,
03:27I rotated into an undercover role
03:29where you follow the worst criminals around.
03:31And you really gotta eye into how the criminals think,
03:35what they're doing.
03:36Criminals always stroke her balls,
03:37so you just gotta keep an open mind
03:39and think out of the box.
03:49On that day, we got notified of a body
03:53out off of Interstate 80.
03:55And there's not much out there.
03:59I remember seeing, like, newspapers all over.
04:05And then the body was kind of in an area just off the road
04:09and seemed to be covered by a blanket.
04:13The briefing was over.
04:15The briefing deputies tell Frankel
04:18that the victim is 51 years old.
04:20His name is Elisir Grimm.
04:22And he works at that particular gas station
04:25a very short distance away.
04:27The body was found at the I-80 Mustang exit.
04:32It's very familiar to people because the Mustang Ranch
04:35is at that exit.
04:39The Mustang Ranch is a brothel about 15 miles outside of Reno.
04:43It has been there for a long time.
04:46The Mustang Ranch, it's a popular place.
04:49You're wondering if it's related to that.
04:52Prostitution encourages the arrival
04:55of an unsavory element in society.
04:59It waves a red flag.
05:01It says, come here and do as you wish.
05:05Come on down.
05:06If you're the next contestant on the customer,
05:08it's always right.
05:10The deputy coroner and Frankel together
05:13respond to a look at the body.
05:16His pants are pulled down and his shirt's pulled up.
05:21He appears to have some sort of injury.
05:27The deputy coroner does a closer examination of the head.
05:31And he discovers that the head is missing.
05:34And he says, I don't know if it's a head or a tail.
05:36He does a closer examination of the head.
05:39And he discovers three small caliber gunshot wounds.
05:45The general position and the indication of the body
05:48is he was killed recently, overnight, less than 12 hours.
05:53There's no evidence of a struggle, no defensive wounds.
05:56He has money in his wallet.
05:59So why is he undressed?
06:01Does the shooter want to humiliate him
06:03so when he's discovered he's naked?
06:06Anything.
06:09Mr. Graham's body was found 100 yards or so from a gas station
06:13that he also worked at.
06:15We did talk to people at the gas station.
06:19The employees say the last time they saw him was last night
06:23when they closed and they all left for the evening.
06:25And there's certainly nothing out of the ordinary
06:27in this gas station this morning.
06:29There's no robbery.
06:30They say he has a truck.
06:31So where is it?
06:33They don't know.
06:36It's always important to search the surrounding area
06:39from a crime scene to determine
06:41if other evidence can be discovered.
06:44And as those investigators plan out to search the area,
06:48Detective Franco goes to speak with the relatives of the victim.
06:56So I was at work and then they told me
06:59that my brother was murdered.
07:01I just didn't believe it was real.
07:06Because I had just talked to him.
07:07I just got my Mother's Day gift.
07:10You know, how is it possible?
07:14But that's it.
07:24It was right in this stretch where he was killed.
07:28And he was found here, up there.
07:31When I came, there was still blood markings over there
07:38by the stop sign.
07:43This is my brother, Ellie.
07:45You can't see it in this picture,
07:46but Ellie had a crooked smile.
07:49You know, it looked like a Popeye grin.
07:54When I was growing up, there was 15 children.
07:58My dad was a pig farmer.
08:00And I think Dad and Ellie were like mud on a pig.
08:05They were inseparable.
08:08The two of them loved the hogs.
08:13He had multiple jobs.
08:15The gas station, the mission, the newspapers.
08:19He worked for the mattress company.
08:21I don't even know when he slept, but he kept it all up.
08:25He'd always help somebody.
08:27When somebody needed something,
08:28oh, go to Ellie.
08:29She can help you.
08:30Who do you rely on when your reliable rock is no longer here?
08:44When they told me that Ellie was murdered,
08:47I thought Frank killed him.
08:48The sister believed that Mr. Graham's brother,
08:51Frank, may have killed her brother.
08:55They had an ongoing dispute that was pretty toxic.
09:00Detective Frankel goes to see relatives
09:03for the very purpose of trying to develop a suspect.
09:07And this family handed him a suspect on a silver platter.
09:12Frank's brother, Ellie,
09:14was the only person in the family who knew Frank.
09:16At 7.30 a.m., the victim, Elizabeth Graham,
09:32was discovered dead near the gas station where he worked.
09:35And now investigators are looking into his own brother
09:38as possibly the killer.
09:40When they were kids, Frank and Ellie were very close.
09:44They were like two peas in a pod.
09:47She said, they will never talk about it,
09:49but something really bad happened between them,
09:52and neither one forgives the other.
09:55Tension between Frank and Ellie grew.
09:58For 20 years, they had their rivalry.
10:02In the prior few weeks,
10:03there had been an incident where Frank
10:06had been trying to kill his brother.
10:08There had been an incident where Frank
10:10may have tried to run his brother over with a car.
10:15She said Elizabeth was visiting his parents at the family home,
10:19and her brother decided to come by as well.
10:22And when that happens, there's always going to be trouble.
10:28Frank allegedly announces he's going to kill his brother
10:33by running him over and attempts to do the same.
10:39When your blood runs hot,
10:44whatever is convenient becomes a weapon.
10:49I just remember Ellie just saying, you know,
10:52my leg's messed up.
10:54I'm like, are you okay?
10:56Yep.
10:58And then the police were called.
11:00But Ellis here wouldn't pursue anything.
11:03So the Sheriff's Department drops the charge.
11:05Immediately, you're thinking we might have a really good lead.
11:08So you definitely have to go check that out.
11:13There's nothing more dangerous than a feud
11:16that goes on for 20 years,
11:18and then a recent event where it escalates.
11:20It gets more hateful by the minute.
11:28They find Frank, bring him into the office for interrogation.
11:32He is hostile.
11:34He is angry.
11:36He finds it to be ludicrous that they think he would kill his brother.
11:40And they say, well, why not?
11:42You tried to two weeks ago.
11:45Finally, he says, look, I just got into town.
11:48I've been driving a truck for weeks.
11:50He's an over-the-road trucker.
11:53They check with his employment, and that's true.
11:57We were able to verify that Mr. Graham's brother, Frank,
12:00was not involved.
12:02In his murder.
12:03He's just a brother who doesn't like his dead brother.
12:08But that's all he is.
12:10So it's back to square one.
12:13You just have to reassess any other information you can get
12:16and keep tracking down people with connections to the victim.
12:23Now it's nine o'clock in the morning,
12:25and Frank will hear us back from the officers
12:27searching the crime scene area,
12:29where they discover a pickup truck in a ditch along I-80.
12:34You certainly have to go look at it
12:36because it's in the vicinity of where the body's found
12:38and see if there's any connection.
12:41They search the truck, assuming it belongs to Mr. Graham,
12:45and they don't find anything of any interest.
12:48So they run the plates, and they discover
12:50it belongs to someone else entirely.
12:53It came back to people with the last name of Pate,
12:57and they lived in Fernley, Nevada,
12:59which was in the next county over.
13:02That's what we call a cow county,
13:04meaning it's a lot of farmland.
13:06It was a pretty peaceful little town.
13:09Robert Pate was 84 years old,
13:10and he lives with his wife, Dorothy.
13:14His truck is abandoned within a quarter mile of the murder scene.
13:19Now, why is that?
13:21Did they see anything, or are they involved?
13:23You have to keep an open mind of it could be any of the above.
13:30He may be 84 years old,
13:32but all it takes is six pounds of pressure to pull the trigger.
13:37First thing we do is call the police department
13:40in that jurisdiction and ask them,
13:42hey, can you make contact with the Pates
13:45and ask them if they know anything
13:47about their vehicle being out here at the Mustang exit?
13:51And the officer that answers the phone says,
13:53boy, that's amazing.
13:54We found his house on fire in Fernley this morning.
13:58That was pretty alarming.
13:59Like, what's going on?
14:03The 911 call came in at 5.30 this morning.
14:07When the fire department responded,
14:09they discover a pickup truck in the garage was on fire.
14:14The fire had also spread to the house.
14:17The fireman went in to clear the house, but found no one home.
14:21Robert and Dorothy Paper not in this house.
14:24I felt that it wasn't this crazy coincidence.
14:28A light bulb went off.
14:30These might be linked together.
14:32What is going on here?
14:34Something is.
14:43So we responded out to Lyon County in the Fernley area
14:47where the other crime scene was
14:49to see if we could help with anything that they needed.
14:54My name is Marty Dues.
14:55I was the detective for the Lyon County Sheriff's Office.
14:59When the Washoe County Sheriff's Office calls us,
15:01we're now looking at possibly sitting on a piece of evidence
15:04for their case.
15:05Everybody was kind of getting extremely confused.
15:08The pieces of the puzzle were fitting together oddly.
15:11Things are going through your head.
15:13Like, was Mr. Graham involved in something at the Pates' house?
15:17Did he steal their truck?
15:19We know that the fire department responded to a truck on fire
15:26in the garage.
15:29They assume it is a truck belonging to the resident,
15:32Mr. Robert Pape.
15:35However, at 7.30 in the morning, Robert Pape's truck is 20 miles away.
15:42So then the question becomes, if it's not the Pape truck,
15:46then whose truck is it?
15:47When the police in Lyon County ran their records check,
15:53that truck came back to our victim, Mr. Graham.
16:00It's like, what the heck is going on here?
16:03This just gets more confusing by the moment.
16:06There must be some kind of connection.
16:09And also, where are the Papes?
16:11Are they in the house?
16:12The fire department says no.
16:14The fire department goes in, puts out the fire,
16:16and they make a sweep of the house.
16:17So we were basically taking it at their word.
16:20And it was myself and the fire marshal who were talking.
16:23And we're both kind of like, are we sure we check the house good?
16:28Fire departments are good at putting out fires.
16:32They're not very good at searching places.
16:34You train detectives to be thorough and detailed and overlook nothing.
16:38So we did a greater walkthrough of the house.
16:42With a structure fire, the entire house is covered in soot.
16:46It's understandable why people overlook things,
16:49because it's a mess, filthy mess.
16:56When we did go into the master bedroom, the bed had been stripped.
17:01There was a weird substance on the floor, just like squiggles, on the door.
17:05There was a weird substance on the floor, just like squiggles on the carpet.
17:10It looked like shampoo.
17:12It was really weird.
17:13It kind of threw us off.
17:15When we got to the walk-in closet, something was just,
17:18it was just, they just call it JDLR.
17:21It just doesn't look right.
17:27Most of their clothes were hung up,
17:28but then there's these two huge piles of clothing on the ground,
17:32like somebody just emptied out a dresser
17:34and just threw it on the floor.
17:38Then we started just peeling back some of the clothes.
17:44And then all of a sudden it was just like, I think we got a problem.
17:48You find what you've been looking for.
17:52Two dead people.
17:53Detective Dave Frankel and Detective Dews of the Lyon County Sheriff's Department
17:58find two dead bodies, an elderly man and an elderly woman.
18:05They confirm the identity of these two people,
18:07and they are in fact Robert and Dorothy Pape.
18:11We have three bodies.
18:13The Papes are dead.
18:14Mr. Graham is dead.
18:17We have a list of people who have been identified.
18:19The Papes are dead.
18:21Mr. Graham is dead.
18:23What is going on?
18:26In Lyon County, we're all deputy coroners in the sheriff's office.
18:28So we were like, okay, we need to start switching over to coroner mode and crime scene mode.
18:36Mrs. Pape had been shot in the head,
18:39and Mr. Pape had been shot in the head and torso.
18:44Small caliber bullets, just like Elisha or Graham.
18:48Now we know this is connected.
18:50And the same shooter is involved in all of this mess.
18:54There is some evidence of decomposition,
18:57which says this didn't happen this morning.
18:59This happened a few days ago.
19:01So they are first.
19:02Mr. Graham is victim number two.
19:06What is the purpose behind that?
19:09Detectives continue their search, and they find two locations.
19:14The obvious spots where these people were killed.
19:17More than likely, Dorothy's laying in bed.
19:21And Robert Pape's laying flat on his back on the floor.
19:26So somebody moved those bodies post-mortem.
19:31Now, why did they do that?
19:32The Papes' house appeared to be like a ransacked residence.
19:38Jewelry seemed to be gone.
19:41Other things that would lead them to believe this might have been a burglary gone bad.
19:46To have this kind of violence associated with theft and burglary is very rare.
19:52We did a greater walkthrough of the house.
19:55Now I start seeing indications that are throwing me off.
20:01There's a full cookie sheet of freshly cooked bacon.
20:05It's just sitting on the counter.
20:08They find half-eaten food.
20:10You have a guy who kills and then decides to live there with his victims
20:17because they're decomposing two or three days worth.
20:21He's eating a pizza with dead people.
20:24Extremely creepy.
20:26Extremely.
20:30And while they're working this scene, the relatives of Dorothy and Robert Pape arrive.
20:35And they inform him of their deaths.
20:38I go screaming up the driveway in my car and I jump out and this guy in a suit
20:44comes running up to me.
20:45I asked him, you're a fire detective or something?
20:49And he goes, no, I'm a homicide detective.
20:52He puts his hands on my shoulder like this and he's holding me and he goes,
20:59we believe that they've been murdered.
21:01And I'm like, what, what do you mean they've been murdered?
21:08They asked who they might have known that would have done this.
21:13They'd said a lot of people know the Papes and nobody had a bad word to say about them.
21:17Murder never, ever crossed my mind because everybody in that town loved him.
21:23This is Bob and Dottie's 50th wedding anniversary.
21:27This is Bob and Dottie's 50th wedding anniversary.
21:32They celebrated just the two of them because in their minds, that's all there was.
21:38You never saw one without the other.
21:42Bob and Dottie were married 63 years.
21:47Bob was in the U.S. Army and he was in Korea for two years and he had a purple heart.
21:56And then Bob's career was in the drywall tapers union.
22:04Dottie was a stay-at-home mom.
22:06She had like five miscarriages trying to have children.
22:10And so Bob and Dottie pretty much gave up on ever having any children.
22:16And then she got pregnant with my husband.
22:20We were, the four of us, a very close family.
22:26With the Papes being deceased in Lyon County and Mr. Graham being deceased in our county
22:31and the coincidences of their vehicles being at opposite scenes,
22:37obviously we're thinking there's some kind of connection.
22:42They asked, did your mother or your father know a man named LSD or Graham
22:46who worked in a gas station 20 miles away on I-8?
22:50And I went, absolutely not.
22:52So it certainly gives one the impression so far that these victims were connected at random.
22:59It puts a lot of pressure on you because obviously your body count's going up quickly.
23:03Is somebody going on a killing spree?
23:05Do we have a serial murderer?
23:07Are we going to find more bodies?
23:10Your assumption is great that this person isn't through killing.
23:14He likes it and wherever he happens to be is where he might start again.
23:19And we don't know where that is.
23:21Now it's 11 a.m., both agencies have been placed on high alert.
23:26The Lyon County Sheriff's Department gets a phone call to check the welfare on Angie Duff.
23:32This is a neighbor of the Papes.
23:36Detective Dews can see that house from where he's standing.
23:41They said the female that owned the house would volunteer at the Senior Center
23:45and she was a no-call, no-show that morning.
23:47We sent two street deputies.
23:55Well, they get there and there's no answer.
24:01One of them went around back.
24:12And the back glass and everything fell off.
24:17The windows have been shattered and there's glass everywhere.
24:27He's looking through that window and sees the absolute worst thing he could see.
24:35The fear was he would strike again.
24:40And he has.
24:47It's a little after 11 a.m. on the same day and they discover two more dead bodies.
24:56A man and a woman.
24:58All of a sudden, that's five.
25:01Our body count's going up.
25:02There's no longer any doubt.
25:03This is one person.
25:05They're on a killing spree.
25:06Anyone they encounter, they're going to kill.
25:09That's when the pressure ratchets up pretty high.
25:11When they gain entry to the home of Angie Duff, they examine the house.
25:18It's a chaotic crime scene.
25:19Actually, it was more like a combat zone.
25:22She was fighting for her life.
25:24There's blood everywhere.
25:25It's all over the carpets.
25:27It's on the floors.
25:28It's on the walls.
25:29I can honestly say it's the most bloody, non-suicidal crime scene I've ever seen.
25:37The victims who are identified is Angie Duff and her companion, Lester Lieber.
25:44Both have been shot to death with small caliber bullets.
25:48Lester also had a very evident knife cut into his chest.
25:53Now we have two weapons involved, perpetrated by the same person.
25:57Maybe we're now really enjoying the moment.
26:00I don't know.
26:00I don't know.
26:01I don't know.
26:01I don't know.
26:02I don't know.
26:02I don't know.
26:03I don't know.
26:03I don't know.
26:04I don't know.
26:04I don't know.
26:05I don't know.
26:05I don't know.
26:06I don't know.
26:06Are we enjoying the violence?
26:08Hard to say.
26:09But it's an escalation.
26:12So now what's the motive?
26:13Nothing is taken.
26:14Nothing's rattled through.
26:15The cars are still here.
26:17And I have had a serious fight in this house with firearms and a bladed weapon.
26:24It's like it's calculated, but it's random at the same time.
26:28So they're looking at these bodies and then they realize the blood is very fresh.
26:35This just happened.
26:39If they got far, they're on foot, right in the general area.
26:46Where is this son of a b****?
26:48He's here somewhere.
26:52So now we have to lock down that neighborhood and keep track of who's going in and out,
26:57because the killer might be right next to us and us not even knowing.
27:06We brought in the SWAT team and then they searched as far as they could in every direction.
27:16We have other deputies doing house to house, knocking on doors.
27:20It's quite a chaotic scene in a way of a lot of moving parts.
27:27This is absolutely every officer with a badge and a gun that they can get their hands on.
27:32We already have five people killed.
27:34We could have 20 dead before this is over.
27:37We're going to make it stop.
27:40And the way to make it stop is to find him.
27:42In a small town, word gets around very quickly.
27:45So there was a lot of news media around.
27:48The people of Fernley are terrified.
27:50You know your neighborhoods better than we do.
27:54Be our eyes and ears.
27:55Call us.
27:57Nobody knows what's going on.
27:59People were wondering, is he going from house to house?
28:02Why is he doing this?
28:03Who is he targeting?
28:05A lion that is on the hunt.
28:08And they are the prey.
28:10That's pressure.
28:14An hour passes.
28:16It is the longest hour in history for that neighborhood.
28:19The urgency is incredible.
28:21They feel it in their chest, their hearts in hammer mode at the moment.
28:27And all of a sudden received another call of a possible burglary.
28:32They rush over a few houses down and they talk to the homeowner.
28:35He said, I hear somebody crawling around in a crawl space under my house.
28:43He is probably able to see them from under that house.
28:48And he has a gun.
28:49That's a very awkward feeling.
28:51You begin to feel very naked, very naked indeed.
28:55The SWAT team was called so they could do the search.
29:15So SWAT dives under that house.
29:20And they find nothing.
29:22But they did locate a phone and a large amount of cash.
29:28Maybe he was here, but he's not here now.
29:31So where did he go?
29:36When you know that your shooter is nearby, your head is on a swivel, your gun is in your hand,
29:45the safety is off, you're prepared to defend yourself.
29:48And you better be, because he's prepared to kill you.
30:06So they're looking around and all of a sudden they hear somebody yell, there he is.
30:13And all of a sudden he comes like through the window.
30:16And all of a sudden he comes like through the garage.
30:20And he's got a pair of jean shorts on, he's covered in blood.
30:24The SWAT team comes around the corner, sees him, and then just swarmed in on him.
30:31Puts him at gunpoint, orders him onto the ground.
30:35And got him in cuffs.
30:38You assume he has a gun on his person.
30:40But they search him, and there's no gun.
30:46He's holding both key fobs for both the cars at Angie Duff's house.
30:51He identifies himself as Jeremiah Bean.
30:56Okay, Jeremiah, it's time to talk to this boy and find out what his maladjustment is.
31:03So what kind of things were these voices saying?
31:07To kill somebody.
31:19It's euphoric when you finally find the animal and you lock him up.
31:24And he suddenly doesn't look like he's 12 feet tall.
31:27He just looks like what he is, an idiot.
31:34Once you get this person in custody, it's almost a relief.
31:37And now it's piecing together how this all happened.
31:44And it's a relief that he's alive.
31:47And now it's piecing together how this all happened.
32:05He says he wants to talk.
32:07Like, I want to tell my story.
32:17Mr. Bean decides he's going to do an absolutely pathetic third grade level impersonation
32:34of a schizophrenic.
32:35He's acting as if he's speaking to voices coming out of his own head.
32:40What he's getting is an F from his acting instructor because it's just pathetic.
32:46So what kind of things were these voices saying?
32:50They were just saying to kill somebody.
32:55To kill someone?
32:57They see through his smoke screen in a microsecond.
33:01Hey, Jeremiah, take your time on this, OK?
33:05And eventually, Jeremiah realizes that his shtick isn't working.
33:09And he starts to break down.
33:11You know, I just got tired of life.
33:15And I just ended up doing some foul stuff.
33:20He just literally painted the story from the first time that he sought the papes and decided
33:26that he was going to rob them to the point where he was in the holy cell.
33:34He says he was staying with a friend in the area of the papes' home.
33:38He's a heroin addict.
33:39He's desperate for money.
33:41And he had been watching the papes and kind of looked at them as an easy target.
33:46That's why he chose to victimize them.
33:50The garage door was open and I walked in.
33:54And then I just went into the bedroom.
34:03And then I shot the lady first in the back of the head.
34:07I think she was sleeping.
34:11Her husband rushed to her aid and suffered the same fate.
34:16He came back into the bedroom and then I shot the old man in the front of the head.
34:23Then he ransacked their home, took their property of value, and stayed there for a day or two.
34:31Then what happened?
34:33Just, I took the truck and then I took off.
34:41He went to Reno and pawned some things, got some money, went to a strip club.
34:45He was using the papes as his own personal ATM.
34:49And then he came back to Fernley, right back to the papes' house.
34:53They were smelling pretty bad, so I just kind of like covered them with clothes or whatever.
34:58Okay.
34:59Were they in the same spots or what?
35:02They were in the closet.
35:05How did they get there?
35:06I put them there.
35:07And he said that he then took bottles of shampoo and squeezed them onto the carpet,
35:14hoping that that would mask the scent.
35:17And then Sunday came around and I was just like, I'm gonna take this truck again and,
35:20you know, I'm gonna just try to have some fun or whatever.
35:25I left out to go to Reno.
35:28He drives it onto I-80 and heads west.
35:31Okay.
35:32So what happened?
35:33So I was trying to make a U-turn off of the freeway.
35:36Got a little sparks.
35:39The truck got stuck in a ditch.
35:42He's within a quarter mile of the gas station where Graham works.
35:46Graham sees him off the road in this truck.
35:50Okay.
35:51So how did you get him to stop?
35:53I just, I just swayed.
35:54I was like, hey, excuse me.
35:56And then I just, I just went blank.
35:59Then I shot him.
36:06Was he still inside the car?
36:07Was he outside?
36:10He was still inside the car and I tried to scoot him over or whatever,
36:13but then he kind of like just fell out.
36:16He grabbed his pants to try to move and they came down.
36:20He grabbed his shirt to drag him and all it did was pull up.
36:24That's why he's almost naked.
36:26So now he jumps in Graham's truck.
36:29But instead of getting back on I-80 heading westbound,
36:32for some reason, he went back to Fernley, right back to the Pape's house.
36:38Then he realizes he's got another thing he has to cover up.
36:41And then I just, I set the truck on fire.
36:46I poured a gas can all over the truck.
36:50The matches were actually in the guy's truck.
36:53And then I ran.
36:55He decided he was going to hide all his crimes by starting a fire.
36:59And then hopefully escape and disappear, which didn't go exactly as he planned.
37:04I was just like, I don't know what to do.
37:06So I went a couple of houses up and I just opened the door and I went into the house.
37:13The home of Angie Duff.
37:16He said he wasn't there to rob the house.
37:20He was there to simply garner a vehicle.
37:23And then what happened?
37:24The lady came out of the bedroom.
37:26And then what happened?
37:27The lady came out of the bedroom.
37:29And she was just like, where are you?
37:32And then that's when I shot.
37:34And I missed.
37:35Angie goes in to fight her fight.
37:38But she picks fight.
37:38And so she begins to tussle with him a little bit.
37:42And he says that there's a struggle over the gun.
37:45And he gets her pushed back.
37:48And she kind of slumps.
37:50And then he drops the gun and he shoots her.
37:53Then what happened?
37:54Her husband came from the backyard.
37:57Lester, who is in the backyard watching the papes house burn, comes back in the house.
38:02And being said that, you know, basically he's caught him off guard.
38:07Firing at him, hitting him and missing him.
38:10Blowing up the sliding glass door.
38:12They get into a small scuffle, but it wasn't much.
38:14He said Lester went down pretty fast.
38:18And then he grabbed a knife and started stabbing him.
38:21Now he is covered in blood.
38:23Then what happened?
38:26I started to get undressed or whatever.
38:31And then I just left to hide.
38:33And here come the police.
38:35Oh no.
38:36Now he's trapped.
38:38Thank you for telling me these things.
38:40It can't be easy.
38:42You could see when he was done talking, his whole body just relaxed.
38:46He got it all off his chest.
38:48After the confession is complete, they recovered a .22 caliber pistol.
38:53The ultimate corroborating evidence.
38:56He is toast, as we say in the murder biz.
39:03The person of interest or suspect in five murder cases
39:06made his first court appearance just minutes ago.
39:09So we're all waiting in the courtroom.
39:12He comes in with his attorney.
39:14And stands up and pleads not guilty.
39:17It was really mind-boggling to everybody because
39:21he confessed right away that he did it.
39:24So he goes into trial.
39:27The evidence going to trial is overwhelming.
39:30Jeremiah Bean is convicted of five counts of first-degree murder
39:35and sentenced to death.
39:37They say the death penalty is revenge.
39:41They're right.
39:44It is.
39:45Time for you to say goodnight, Jeremiah.
39:48Death is permanent.
39:49And he didn't care.
39:53He killed five innocent people that he didn't even know.
39:56People that had families.
39:58People that had kids and grandkids.
39:59And didn't think twice about it.
40:02What I learned from this case is keep an open mind because anything can happen.
40:06And as much as I like to look at the good in people,
40:09there are wolves among us that will do terrible things.
40:14The last time I was out here to attend to Ellie's cross was about
40:22two and a half, maybe three years ago.
40:26It just is a reminder that he's not forgotten.
40:31The sickest part about the whole thing,
40:35if that slimy son of a b**** had gone over to Bob and said,
40:39hey man, I need to make a couple of bucks,
40:42he would have hired him to help him pull weeds or do whatever.
40:48But what does he do?
40:49He kills them.
40:52He's a good guy.
40:53He's a good guy.
40:54He's a good guy.
40:55He's a good guy.
40:56He's a good guy.
40:57He's a good guy.
40:57He's a good guy.
40:58He's a good guy.
40:59He's a good guy.
41:00He kills them.
41:02Angry is what it makes me.
41:06How dare you?
41:08It makes me want to take a hammer to his head.
41:14When people say, there's good in everyone,
41:17this is the reason why that's not true.
41:20There's no good in Mr. Bean.
41:22What mercy do we owe him?
41:24None.