Chicago Ripper Crew — Part 2: Rituals of Blood | Inside the Cult, the Killings & the Survivor Who Ended It - Dark Dialogue

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John (00:11):
By late 1982, Chicago's Nightmare had a face, a name, and finally a
survivor who could speak it aloud.
Beverly Washington's courage cracked opena case that had swallowed women whole.
Her description of a red van and a manwith a feather hanging from the mirror
gave detectives something they hadn'thad in two years, A direction the

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city's predators had ruled long enough.
Now the hunt was turning inward.
What followed wasn't a singlearrest, it was a chain reaction.
Edward Spritzer nerves snapped,first spilling pieces of horror he
could barely understand himself.
Then came the Coco Relaisbrothers, Andrew and Thomas.

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Each confession twistingagainst the other.
Contradicting, amplifying and exposinghow deep Robin G's control had gone.
The interrogation rooms ofVilla Park and DuPage County
became confessionals of madness.
Four men revealing their ownmythology under fluorescent lights.

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What they revealed shock.
Even veteran homicide detectives.
Rituals carried out in a suburban attic.
Trophies of flesh preserved inboxes, and a hierarchy of fear where
obedience mattered more than life.
But those same confessions alsoraised impossible questions.
Who was telling the truth?

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How could every man describe thesame rituals differently, and if
yet truly commanded the violence?
Why did the legal system bendjust enough to spare him?
Tonight we step into that fracture.
The moment when investigation metinsanity, we'll trace how one woman's
survival brought the crew down.

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How forensics finally alignedwith rumor and how prosecutors
tried to map order into chaos.
Because once the talking began,the line between guilt manipulation
and self-preservation blurred intostatic, a noise that still echoes
through Chicago's case files.
This is dark dialogue, the breakingpoint, the night the killers

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started confessing and the truthbecame another kind of nightmare.

Angela (02:28):
Angela.

John (02:28):
How's it going tonight?

Angela (02:29):
Hi, John.
I'm good.
How are you?
I'm

John (02:31):
good.
Brilliant.
Yeah.

Angela (02:33):
I'm interested in the confessions.

John (02:35):
Yeah.
You're interested to hear how that went?

Angela (02:37):
Yeah, let's, let's hear how that went.

John (02:40):
Pretty freaking jacked up story thus far, isn't it?

Angela (02:42):
Yeah.

John (02:43):
Yeah.

Angela (02:44):
And they all told a different story,

John (02:46):
you'll see.
Oh,

Angela (02:47):
how is that?
Okay,

John (02:50):
well, welcome listeners.
You're listening to Dark Dialoguewhere we dive into the crimes that
haunt small towns and big cities alike.
I'm your host, John.

Angela (02:58):
And I'm Angela and John.
You know, October is one ofmy favorite times of the year.
The nights get darker, the storiesget creepier, and it just feels
right to lean into these hauntingcases, even though it's now November.
We're continuing our October specialepisodes because of family emergency
kept us from posting on schedule.
It happens, and wemissed most of the month.

John (03:21):
Yes.
And if there was ever a case darkenough to carry that Halloween energy
straight through November, it's this one.
Tonight we're stepping into the breakingpoint of the Chicago Ripper crew.
The moment when their reign of ritualand blood finally collided with justice.

Angela (03:38):
This is where everything starts to unravel.
The red van is no longer a mystery.
The survivors are finally being heardand the city is beginning to realize
just how close it came to hell.
Detectives are piecingtogether confessions,
contradictions, and pure madness.
All for men who once followedRobin Geck like of God.

John (03:58):
Exactly.
We'll cover how Edward Spritzer captureset off a chain reaction of arrests,
how the cocoa re relays brotherscracked under interrogation, and how
those confessions revealed the truescope of their crimes and their lies
will also break down the forensicbreakthroughs that tied it all together.
And the critical role of survivorslike Beverly Washington, whose courage

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forced this nightmare into the light

Angela (04:23):
and like always.
Listener discretion is strongly advised.
These next chapters involve graphicviolence and assault, but they also show
how survivors and investigators foughtto bring justice to the forgotten.

John (04:35):
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Angela (05:08):
Alright, the streets of Chicago are quiet for now, but in 1982, they were
filled with fear flashing lights, and thesound of hand handcuffs finally closing.

John (05:17):
The killers are caught, the confessions are coming, and the
truth is about to get even darker.
I'm your host John, and I'm Angela.
And this is Dark Dialogue becausethe past doesn't stay buried, not
in Chicago and not in the voicesthat finally decided to talk.
Before the arrest, before the confessions,before Chicago even realized that cult

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of killers was hunting in streets.
It all began here, themurder of Linda Sutton.
May 23rd, 1981, June 1st, the discovery ofSutton's body behind the Bre Rabbit Motel.
February 12th of 82, the unnamedvictim, May 15th, Lorraine Lorianne
Borowski was abducted and murdered.

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May 29th of 82 Shui mock was abducted.
June 13th, angel York was attacked.
And remember she survived.
August 28th of 82.
Sandra Delaware was found murdered.
September 8th, 82, RoseDavis was found murdered.
September 11th.
Carol Poppas disappears.

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September the 30th.
Shui MA's body was finally recovered.
October 6th, Raphael Todo was killed,and Alberto Rosario was wounded again.
On October 6th, Beverly Washingtonwas attacked and she survived.
And October 10th of 82, LorraineBarrow's body was finally found.

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So from 1981 to 19 82, 13 monthsof terror left Chicago scarred.
But the survivors, angel York and BeverlyWashington refused to stay silent.
Their words would lead detectivesstraight to the men behind the ritual,
and that's where we pick up next,the capture of Edward Spreitzer and
the van that finally stopped rolling.

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When police found Beverly Washingtonlying beside the railroad shacks in
early October, 1982, they weren'tsure she'd survived the night.
Her injuries were catastrophic.
Mutilation inflicted with a knife, massiveblood loss shock, and yet she was still
conscious, barely through that pain.
She spoke and what she saidwould change everything.

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Her attacker, she told detectives, wasa white man in his mid twenties, slender
with greasy brown hair, a mustache, aflannel shirt and square toed boots.
He drove a red van, not just any van,but one with tinted windows, a wooden
divider, and hanging from the rearview mirror feathers in a roach clip.

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It was a description, so specific,so vivid that detectives immediately
knew they finally had a real lead.
While surgeons worked to save her life,investigators stood at her bedside
recording every detail She rememberedpills forced down her throat rape,
and the moment the knife came out.
When he removed her left breastand left her bleeding in the dirt.

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The hospital interview produced acomposite sketch and the first solid
description of the of the suspect vehicle.
For the first time, police hadsomething to chase besides the ghosts.
Detectives spread out across Chicago'sneighborhoods, canvassing motels, truck
stops, industrial corridors, and the sextrade routes where the van had been seen.

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They spoke to other women workingthose streets and what they
heard echoed Beverly's Nightmare.
Angel York, another survivor, describedthe same type of vehicle vehicle.
Cynthia Cynthia Smith had foughther way out of it months earlier.
Different attacks.
Same red van piece by piece.
Detectives built in map sightings,license plate fragments, witness

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statements, all circling the same idea.
This wasn't one man acting alone.
It was organized systematic.
A group operating with ritualprecision across the city.
Within weeks of Beverly Washington'sattack, the investigation zeroed in
on the western suburbs, Villa Park,and the surrounding areas where that

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distinctive van had been spotted.
Again, detectives traced the vehicle'sregistration following a paper
trail that led straight to Robin GTand unemployed carpenter husband,
electrician father, and a man alreadyknown to police for sexual violence.
Armed with warrants, policesearched both the van and Gex home.

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Inside the vehicle, they found bloodstainstrace evidence and marks that suggested
a woman had been restrained inside.
What they discovered in that housestopped even veteran investigators.
Cold in the attic, stood makeshift,alter, adorned with candles and
objects arranged in a way thatmatched the ritual detail survivors.
It described.
It was the physical confirmationof what everyone feared.

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The rituals were real, and theyhad been happening here inside
an ordinary suburban home.
From that moment, the chase was over.
The hunt had found its face,Robin gt and the red van that
carried Chicago's darkest secrets.
On October 20th, 1982, Chicago policemade their first major breakthrough

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in the Ripper Crew investigation.
That morning, detectives arrestedRobin GT in connection with the
attempted murder and mutilation ofBeverly Washington, the woman who had
survived to tell about the red van.
The move wasn't impulsive.
Detectives had methodically linked geck tothat distinctive van through Washington's
detailed hospital bed statement anda growing list of witness sightings.

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When the warrant came down,officers executed it cleanly.
Gch was taken into custody at hisElmhurst home without incident.
While other units simultaneouslysearched his property for evidence,
GT's arrest represented morethan just one man in handcuffs.
It was the public face of monthsof quiet, relentless police work.

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Behind the scenes invest investigatorshad been assembling the pieces, survivor
sketches, canvases of known sex workareas, and overlapping descriptions from
women attacked in different neighborhoods.
Every lead kept circling back tothat van and to get at the house.
Evidence teams inspected boththe vehicle and the attic.

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Rumors had already begun calling thespace a Satanic chapel, but to those
first officers inside, it was only a clue.
Something they didn'tyet fully understand.
They boxed what they could, loggedevery item and waited for their
forensic results that would follow.
From the start, Geck was unreadable.

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During questioning between October20th and 26th, detectives applied
steady, but careful pressure.
He sat there, calm, cold, deflectivedenying any link to Washington or to
other mutilation, murders that were stillsplashed across Chicago's headlines.
When they presented Washington's detaileddescription of the van's interior,

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the feathers, the roach clip, thewooden divider, he dismissed it all.
He claimed ignorance said hewas being framed and refused
to waiver from that line.
As forensic teams combed throughhis van, they started finding
what they'd been waiting for.
Bloodstains possible fibers fromvictim's, clothing and objects
matching survivor testimony.

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Meanwhile, detectives began mapping G'smovements cross-referencing his locations
with dump sites and abduction zones.
The overlap was undeniable.
The timeline was closing in.
Word of G'S arrest spread fast acrossChicago's law enforcement community
Departments that had spent a year chasingrumors now had a name more survivors

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and witnesses began stepping forward.
People who had seen the van, recognizedthe driver, or remembered other men
who sometimes rode with him at night.
Each new statement added anotherthread to the web connecting
the small ring of suspects.
Now living around Villa Park, betweenOctober 20th and the 26th, Geck
remained in custody under tight watch.

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Detectives were cautious.
They didn't want to file chargesuntil the evidence was airtight.
They built their case quietly matchingforensics to fuck to survivor statements.
Drawing timelines.
Cross-checking Gex alibis and draftingwarrants for the men, for the men,
believed to be his accomplices.
Still.

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One thing alluded them.
A confession.
G, never cracked.
He was confident, almost mockingat times, insisting that the
police had the wrong man.
He smoked with calm outrage for thetape recorders even asking to see
the evidence himself to, as he putit, clear up this misunderstanding.

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It was a performance that onlydeepened investigators resolve.
Behind closed doors,detectives pushed forward.
They reviewed old missing personsreports, reopened unsolved homicides,
showing ritualistic similarities, anddug into anyone tied to get the case
was expanding, not shrinking by theend of October 26th, they still didn't

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have a confession, but they didn't needone to see where the trail was hitting.
The evidence, the witness accounts, andthe survivor testimony were all pointing
the same direction toward G'S closestassociates, the men who worked beside
him, the ones who rode in that van.
The next phase of theinvestigation was already underway.

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Interrogations, searches and surveillanceaimed at exposing the rest of the network.
The quiet was almost over.
Next, the walls start closing in onEdward Spreitzer and the story of
the Ripper crew begins to unravel.
After Robin G's arrest on October20th of 82, detectives kept him under
heavy questioning why they built theircase and widened the investigation

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to include his suspected associates.
But by October 26th with prosecutorsunable to hold him on the single
attempted murder charge of BeverlyWashington, get posted bail and
walked free, an outcome that leftinvestigators furious and uneasy.
Did you have a thought over there?

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Just

Angela (15:29):
silently cussing to myself?

John (15:31):
Yeah.
The moment he was released, lawenforcement switched to high alert.
Everyone knew Geck understood exactlyhow close the investigation had come.
Detectives feared he mightintimidate witnesses, destroy
evidence, or disappear altogether.
Plainclothes officers began tailinghim through the Villa Park area.

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24 hour surveillance every stop,every contact log, and photographed
what had been an interrogation,now became a containment.
Operation Gex release onlysharpened the mission.
The task force dividedhis focus three ways.
First, keep constant tabs on G'Smovements and his companions.

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Two, gather more direct evidence,linking him to other sale, to
other assaults and homicides thatmatch the crew's ritual pattern.
And three, press survivors andwitnesses for stronger testimony before
fear or fatigue could silence them.
Detectives re-interviewed victimscombed hospital and police records

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for similar cases and coordinatedwith suburban departments to cross
reference every report involvinga red van, ritual mutilation, or
a group of white male suspects.
For the first time, dozens ofscattered investigations began
to merge into a single picture.
While the surveillance team shadowed Geck,prosecutors and detectives quietly built

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the next phase of the case, they drew upwarrants in refined case files for his
suspected accomplices, making certain nopiece of evidence could be dismantled.
As circumstantial forensic labsaccelerated testing on blood fibers and
materials recovered from GIS, van andproperty, hoping the results would fill

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the gaps left by his refusal to confess.
At the same time, police reachedout to informants around Villa Park
bartenders, motel clerks, anyone whomight notice changes in the behavior
of men connected to get they werewatching for panic cleanup or flight.
As rumors of arrest and therelease spread, the press began

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circling reporters camped outsideG'S home trying to photograph the
suspect with the satanic attic.
The pressure on police wassuffocating inside the department.
Detectives worried about BeverlyWashington's safety and the
safety of other survivors whohad risked everything to talk.
Every passing hour felt like a countdownto something none of them could predict.

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By November 4th, 1982, theinvestigation reached its tipping point.
Get was free, but only on paper.
Surveillance teams never let himout of their sight and evidence
against him was multiplying.
By the day, detectives began planninga coordinated strike, new warrants,
simultaneous arrest, and a sweepthat would finally bring in Edward

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Spreitzer and the Coco Brothersmotels were staked out Phone records
polled schedule synchronized.
The objective was simplemove before any member of the
crew could vanish or destroy.
What little proof remained.
Every lead, every lab result,every sleepless night had
brought them to this point.

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The city's perpetrators were stillwalking free, but not for much longer.
The next arrest would tearopen the river crew for good.
November 5th, 1982.
After months of blood fear andPursuit, the Chicago Ripper Crew
case finally hit its breaking point.
That morning began with a coordinatedseries of arrests, the culmination of

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weeks of survivor testimony, forensicanalysis, and relentless surveillance.
Less than two weeks after walking free onbail, Robin GT once again found himself
staring down the law in the early hours.
Detectives who had shadowedhim since his release moved in
fast, armed with fresh warrants.
They entered his Elmhurst residenceand took him into custody before dawn.

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The timing was deliberate, designedto stop him from destroying
evidence, intimidating witnessesor fleeing as he began to sense
how close the investigators were.
This time GT was booked downtown,not only for the attempted murder
of Beverly Washington, but undersuspicion for multiple homicides
and ritualized assaults that hadhaunted the city for nearly two years.

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While GT was being driven towardthe precinct, other teams were
already in motion in Villa Park.
Officers closed in on Edward Spritzer,who was staying at a modest roadside
motel, a familiar setting for the crew's.
Late night meetings, he wastaken without resistance.
According to reports.
He looked confused and evenasked officers if they quote

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needed help with the geck thing.
That single line told detectiveseverything they needed to know
about his place in the hierarchy.
A follower still orbitingits leader across town.
Another unit swept in on Andrew Coco Riis.
Detectives had watched himcarefully waiting until he was
alone and away from his family.

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They didn't want resistanceand they didn't want warning
calls going out to the others.
Within minutes, he too wasin custody, quiet, contained,
and cut off from contact.
Both men were quickly separatedand interrogated in isolation.
Each was faced with survivor statements,crime scene photos, and forensic

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evidence pulled from the red van.
And for the first time,investigators could look each
suspected accomplice in the eye.
None of this happened by chance.
The November 5th raid representeda carefully choreographed alliance
between city homicide detectives,DuPage, county investigators, and
a network of informants seatedthroughout suburban motels and bars.

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The goal was simple.
No one warns anyone.
Each arrest hit withinminutes of the others.
No phone calls, no tip offs,no time to rehearse alibis.
Surveillance logs from the, fromthe previous 24 hours, showed
growing paranoia among the suspects.
Their movements had become erratic.
Conversations overheard by informantssuggested they were afraid, even

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considering flight detectives chosethat moment to strike before panic
could become escape by nightfallon November 5th, three men.
Robin Geck, Edward Spreitzer and AndrewCoco Reis sat behind locked doors.
The cruise secrecy was broken.
The investigators finally had the coreof the group responsible for a string

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of ritualistic murders and mutilationsthat had paralyzed Chicago since 1981.
It was the turning point, born of tirelessdetective work and the unbreakable courage
of survivors like Beverly Washington,whose testimony had led them here.
What followed could test everycourtroom, every confession room,

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and every definition of justicethe the city still believed in.
With the arrest complete, theinterrogation room rooms filled with
silence, a silence waiting to break,and when it did, the truth that came out
would be darker than anyone imagined.
It all broke on November 5th.

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The same day the coordinated arrestbrought down the, the Chicago Ripper crew.
Inside an interview room, barely 10feet wide detectives sat across from
Edward Spritzer, a man whose fear ofRobin Geck still held him like a chain.
What began as another round ofdenials would soon become the
confession that changed everything.

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Detectives came prepared, armedwith survivor testimony, forensic
links and psychological profilesbuilt from weeks of groundwork.
They knew spritzer weaknesses,his dependence on geck, his iness
to please, and the fear that itkept him compliant for so long.
At first, he denied everything he said.

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He didn't know about the van,the women, or the mutilations.
But hour after hour, the walls closed in.
Detectives reminded him of theevidence, the blood in the van,
the survivor identifications, the,the fact that G hadn't lifted a
finger to help him since the arrest.
Slowly Spreitzer defiance began to fade.

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His voice softened, he admitted toquote, doing bad things, and then he
started to talk, not just in fragmentsor hints, but in full horrifying detail.
What came next filled 78 pagesof transcript the most chilling
account detectives had ever heard.

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Spritzer described the structureof the crew, the rituals,
and the murders themselves.
He laid out the pattern, step by step,abduction, rape, mutilation, and the
ceremonies that Gkt orchestrated.
Afterwards, he told investigators how themen lured women into the red van, how Gkt
acted as leader and priest, and how he andthe Coco Relays brothers followed orders.

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He described the use of knives, cords,and makeshift restraints, details that
aligned with the forensic findingsfrom the vehicle and the crime scenes
spritzer named victims, one by one, LindaSutton, Lorraine Borowski, sway Mock,
Sandra Delaware, Rose Davis, and others.
He spoke of survivors like BeverlyWashington and Angel York, whose

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accounts now mirrored his own admissions.
Every description, the bindings,the method of mutilation, the ritual
removal of breasts matched whatinvestigators had seen, but never
fully understood until that moment.
Within hours.
Andrew Coco Relais also began to talkbetween his and Spreitzer statements.

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The number of murders balloonfar beyond anything police had
imagined up to 17, possibly more.
While some details would later proveinconsistent in timeline or location,
the overarching pattern held the redvan, the ritualistic violence, the
group acting under gex direction.
Spritzer painted a portrait ofnightly hunts through Chicago's

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industrial corridors, a routine ofcruising, selecting and sacrificing.
To him.
It was obedience to the city.
It was terror given structure.
That single confession changedthe entire investigation.
For the first time, detectiveshad a detailed map of what had
happened, names, dates, roles, andmethods that tied together nearly

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two years of unsolved murders.
The case against the crew no longerrelied on rumor or fragments.
It was now anchored in thewords of one of its own.
Prosecutors immediately began draftingformal indictments, issuing follow-up
warrants, and chasing down everylocation Spritzer had described.

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The rituals, the forensic matches,and the explicit admission of
intent would soon form the backboneof every charge that followed.
Edward Spritzer words pulled backthe curtain on the Chicago Ripper
crew, and once the truth wasspoken, it couldn't be buried again.
The next question was whether the menwho followed Geck would survive the

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weight of what they'd confessed to.
When Andrew Coco relay is sat downin the interrogation room on November
5th, it didn't take long for thefacade to break his confession.
Rapid, detailed, and Disturbingly,matter of fact, would confirm everything
detectives feared about the Chicago Rippercrew and the ritual system that drove it.

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Andrew was swept up in the samecoordinated arrest that captured
Robin Gch and Edward Spreitzer.
Investigators described him as sociallyisolated, intellectually limited,
and deeply dependent on GT's control.
The illusion of protection vanished themoment Gch was taken away within hours.
Both Andrew and Spreitzer began totalk two followers whose loyalty

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evaporated when their leadercould no longer shield them.
Andrew's statement mirrored spritzerin structure, but widened the lens.
He implicated himself, him, hisbrother, Thomas Spritzer and gt
in a campaign of ritual murder,bound by what he called obedience.
He confessed to taking part in orwitnessing up to 17 murders, sometimes

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saying 18, and described a hierarchy ofcommand where Geck dictated every act.
He told investigators how the crewcruise, Chicago's red light in industrial
districts looking for women to abductvictims were lured into the red van,
restrained, raped, stabbed, and mutilated.

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The weapons changed knives, razors evencan openers, but the pattern never did.
Each attack followed G'Sscript carried out as a ritual
rather than a random crime.
In the murder of Rosebeck Davis,Andrew admitted rioting with GT and
Spreitzer helping drag Davis into thevan and stabbing her multiple times.

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At at G'S command, he recounted herrape and mutilation in detail that
later matched autopsy findings andsurvivor accounts, almost word for word.
When showing photographs of LorraineBorowski, Andrew didn't hesitate.
He pointed to her picture and said,quote, that's the girl Eddie Spicer
and I killed in the cemetery.
End quote, he described the location,the wounds, the mutilation, all aligning

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precisely with forensic evidence inthe crew's unmistakable signature.
Andrew's confession came not asone statement, but as a series of
overlapping interviews, each addingnew names, tools, and places.
His tone stayed subdued, evensubmissive, and moments he sounded
remorseful more often, simply resigned.

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He spoke of obeying G as though it werelost, describing the murders as required.
The violence as ritual dutywhere spritzer offered volume.
Andrew supplied precision the small,verifiable details that allowed
detectives to stitch the case together.
By November the 14th, prosecutors filedformal charges against Andrew Coco

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Relais in Edward Spritzer for the murdersof Rose Davis and Lorraine Borowski.
Their confessions interlockedperfectly each cooperating the
other, and both placing Robin Geckat the center of the killings.
Andrew's early cooperation gaveinvestigators their clearest inside
view, yet how the crew functioned,how fear and devotion kept it

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alive, and why it had taken nearlytwo years for anyone to speak.
What began as a string of missingwomen had now been exposed for what?
It was a ritual enterprise of murderhidden in plain sight with Andrew
Coco relay's confession on record.
The ritual was no longer rumor.
It was evidence.
And for the first time, the story ofChicago's ripper crew had a beginning, a

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middle, and the promise of a reckoning.
Between November 5th and November12th, while detectives processed
confessions from Edward Spreitzerand Andrew Coco Reis, the man they
believed sat at the center of it all.
Robin GT was back inthe interrogation room.
The pressure was relentless.
Detectives hoped the domino effect of theother's breaking would finally bring down

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the one that they all called the leader.
The odds seemed insurmountablefor GT investigators had survivor
identifications, forensic evidence,and a 78 page confession from Spreitzer
that placed him at the top of the Rippercrew hierarchy but GT didn't flinch.
He looked at the photographs ofthe victims and said nothing.

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Detectives described him as showing nointerest, no recognition, zero emotion.
He denied knowing any of the women.
He denied knowing about the van.
He denied the killings, the mutilationsand the rituals described in
excruciating detail by his accomplices.
Even when detectives laid out evidencepiece by piece, G's answer never changed.

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I don't know anything about that.
He sat calmly, sometimes with afaint smirk as detectives threw
everything they had at him.
Each time.
The words hit the wall of his composureand slid off without leaving a mark.
Gex demeanor unnerved.
Even the most experiencedinterrogators, he wasn't shaken,
wasn't angry, just detached.

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One investigator later saidit felt like he enjoyed the
power of withholding the truth.
They tried confrontation, empathy,long silences, nothing worked.
At one point, detectives placed him wherehe could see spritzer being questioned,
hoping that the sight of his followerconfessing would break his control.

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It didn't get sat still cold and unmoved.
His indifference had an almosthypnotic effect on those around him.
The reaction was immediate and unexpected.
When Spritzer caught a glimpse of G,the man who had already given them 78
pages of confession began to unravel.

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His tone changed, hisconfidence evaporated.
He started recantingportions of what he had said.
Shifting blame toward Andrew CocoReis and softening his accusations
against gat even in custody.
Separated by concrete walls, Gex controlstill held that strange cult like dynamic.

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His dominance and their obediencehadn't broken with the arrests.
It lingered in every room, in everyinterview, in every attempt to pull the
truth from the men who followed him.
Detectives had torn apart every alibi,every lie, every inch of geek's world.
But they couldn't tear apart his silence.

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He never confessed not once.
And as the investigations pressedforward, that silence became its
own kind of weapon, shielding him,manipulating others, and turning
the case into one of the mostchilling displays of psychological
control Chicago has ever seen.
By November 12th, 82, 1 week afterthe coordinated arrest that brought

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down Robin Gch, Edward Spritzerand Andrew Coco eus investigators
were ready for the final move.
The search now centered on ThomasCoco s the last name on the list, and
the last link in the chain that hadterrorized Chicago for nearly two years.
Detectives tracked the Coco Relaysbrothers through a forwarding

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address left at the Rip Van WinkleMotel, a place Chillingly close
to where Linda Sutton, the crew'searliest known victim had been found.
The connection wasn'tlost on investigators.
They watched the brothers quietlytaking note of their patterns, their
contacts, and their daily routines.
Every moment was logged,every sighting timed.

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The goal was simple.
Bring Thomas in afterthe others were secured.
When the full weight of the evidence andhis brother's arrest couldn't be ignored.
Detectives located ThomasCoco relays at his home.
When they approached and started askingquestions, his answers didn't add up.
He hesitated, contradicted himselfand stumbled through details.

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He should have known theinconsistencies were enough.
Following standard procedure for ahomicide investigation, officers escorted
him downtown for further questioning.
He didn't resist.
He didn't demand a lawyer orask what it was all about.
He just went with them quiet,uncertain, and unaware that the
net had already closed around him.

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At just 23, Thomas Coco Relaisseemed an unlikely figure in a case.
This depraved, he had no priorrecord, worked as a house painter
and was described by both familyand later attorneys as slow witted.
Psychological eval.
Evaluations would put hisIQ at 75, placing him in the
borderline range of intellect.

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Those who knew him, called himnaive, a man easily led traits that
would become central to his defensein the years ahead to police.
That night, though, he wassimply the missing piece.
The quiet brother whose name keptsurfacing in statements, the man who
might finally connect every threadof the investigation With Thomas

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Coco relay in custody, the map ofthe Chicago Ripper crew was complete.
Four men, one van in a ritualof murder that had stalked
Chicago Street since 1981.
The next step would come under fluorescentlight when the final interviews
began, and the last story was told.
After his arrest on November 12th, ThomasCoco res unraveled almost instantly.

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He was nervous from the start.
His hands shaking his eyes,darting across the interview room.
As detectives settled in, he'd alreadyfailed a polygraph, and now the
questions were coming fast, layeredwith the evidence and the names
of the men that he once trusted.
At first, he said he just wanted tohelp his brother, Andrew, but soon

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the truth spilled out like somethinghe couldn't hold back anymore.
Within hours, the mask fell away.
Thomas Coco relayswasn't defiant or angry.
He was frightened and lost.
Detectives reminded him ofthe survivor testimonies.
The confessions already on recordand the evidence pulled from the van.
The pressure wasn't juststrategic, it was psychological.

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Every mention of his brother, everyreminder of Gex betrayal pushed him closer
to collapse, and then he began to talk.
He spoke about things.
No one in the room would forget actsthat even the most seasoned investigators
would later say made their stomachs turn.
When asked why he went alongwith it, Thomas didn't hesitate

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quote, you just have to do it.
He told them he believed RobinGE had powers that refusing him.
Wasn't just dangerous, it was in possible.
That belief wasn't new.
It matched what his brother andSpritzer had already confessed.
Gex control was total psychological,emotional, and spiritual.

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Thomas wasn't the mastermind,he was the follower.
A 23-year-old man with an IQ of 75,described by psychologist as profoundly
suggestible, but suggestible or not.
What he described nextwas unmistakably real.
He told detectives about G'Sattic, the one that others called

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the Satanic Chapel, candles andaltar, the smell of wax and rot.
He described women being torturedwith knives and ice picks how
Geck used a wire garot or a pianowire to remove their breasts.
Reading from the Satanic Bible as heworked, he said the severed flesh was
sometimes cut into small pieces and eatenpart of what Geck called their communion.

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He said they were ordered to masturbateinto the tissue afterwards and act
Geck demanded as proof of loyalty.
And when asked about the aftermath,Thomas told them about a wooden box, get
kept a trophy chest that once held whathe estimated were around 15 breasts.

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The detectives who heard it said Theroom felt colder after he finished.
The horror was no longer abstract.
It had structure steps, a ritualprocess they could finally trace
When showing photographs of thevictims, Thomas didn't hesitate.
He pointed to Lorraine Borowski and saidshe was one of the women that he and

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Andrew had abducted, raped, and killed.
He recognized Linda Suttonas well, identifying her as
one of the earliest victims.
His recollections matched theforensic evidence, the wounds,
the mutilations, even the order ofevents, everything aligned with what
the others had already described.
Thomas Coco relay's.

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Confession didn't just echowhat detectives already knew.
It filled in the blanks.
It explained the rituals, the hierarchy,and the belief system that turned
four men into instruments of terror.
It was the moment the investigation'sfinal curtain lifted, revealing
not just the crimes, but thedarkness that drove them.

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By mid-November 1982, thewalls had finally closed
around the Chicago Ripper crew.
The confessions were on tape,the evidence was cataloged.
And now after two years of terror,the law was ready to speak.
But even here at the moment when justiceshould have been simple, the truth
fractured into four very different paths.

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Thomas Coco Reiss, Dean of Arrest,November 12th, 1982, initial
charge, the murder of LorraineBorowski filed the same day.
He was taken into custodyindictment formally indicted by
grand jury on November 16th, 1982.
Thomas's confession had beenimmediate and devastating.

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He described the crew's ritualmutilations and so-called satanic
chapel, and the acts of cannibalismand sexual desecration that formed the
backbone of the group's ceremonies.
His testimony gave prosecutors theconnective tissue they needed linking
names, places, and methods into a singleprosecutable form of ritual murder.

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Andrew Coco Riis date of arrest betweenNovember 5th and November 7th of 82, the
initial charges jointly charged with EdEdward Spritzer for the murder and rape
of Rose Davis on November the 14th, 82.
Bond status indicted andordered, held without bond.
Within three days of arrest, Andrew'sconfession expanded the body count,

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describing his role in up to 17murders, including the killings of
Rosebeck Davis and Lorraine Borowski.
His words provided bothvalidation and horror.
The timeline of two years ofmethodical ritualistic killings
carried out under G's influence.
Edward Spreitzer Date ofarrest, November 5th, 1982.

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Initial charges with Andrew Coco Reisfor the murder and rape of Rose Davis
filed on November the 14th, 1982.
Further indictments later named ina separate indictment for the murder
of Lorraine Browski Spreitzer.
78, page confession remained thecornerstone of the prosecution.

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Seven murders, one aggravated battery.
Each crime explained in sequence,each scene detailed with precision.
His testimony not only condemnedhimself, that built the case
against every other man in the crew.
Robin Gch, the ringleader date ofsecond arrest November 5th, 1982.

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Initial charges none forhomicide, for all the accusations.
No direct physical evidenceever tied gch to the murders.
Even with three men naming him asthe leader, prosecutors couldn't
link him to the killings beyondthe confession testimony, and that
wasn't enough for a murder charge.

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Instead, they built their caseon the one survivor who had lived
to face him Beverly Washington.
Geck was indicted for a series of feloniesconnected to her assault, attempted
murder, rape, deviant sexual assault,aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery.
He never confessed notto police, not in court.

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In every interview, he maintainedhis innocence, cold, detached,
and utterly consistent.
By the end of November, thedividing lines were clear.
Three men confessed to murder one man.
The one they called the leader did not.
For prosecutors, the goal wasno longer just conviction.

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It was survival.
In court, every confession would betested, every statement dissected, and
every gap in the physical evidence wouldmatter, because in the months ahead,
the ritual of justice would begin onejust as deliberate and far more enduring
than the horrors that brought them here.
The case against the Chicago Ripper crewwasn't built on DNA or fingerprints.

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There were no clean ballistic hits,no single piece of forensic gold.
What prosecutors had insteadwas something darker.
A web of confessions,ritual, and corroboration.
Every survivor's account, everyautopsy note, every detail kept
secret from the press formed apattern to precise, to ignore.

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The pattern was ritual and itbecame the foundation of the case.
The cruise signature was unmistakable,the amputation of a woman's left breast.
That single detail appearedagain and again across victims.
Linda Sutton, Lorraine Borowski,Sandra Delaware, Rose Davis, and

(44:57):
each one bore the same wound pattern.
Forensic examiners confirmed that the cutswere deliberate, measured, and unique.
It was a detailed police neverreleased to the public, yet
every confession repeated it.
Confessions describe piano wireor garrot wire used to perform
the amputations matching woundmorphology across several victims.

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Autopsy findings aligned perfectlywith what the suspects had said.
Under interrogation, the individualseems told the rest of the story.
Lorraine Borowski stabbed over 80 timesher wounds consistent with the suspect's
claims, including the use of a glass ax.
Linda Sutton bound with handcuffsgagged, both breasts removed her

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body decomposed and an unnatural ratebecause of the massive chest wounds.
Sandra Delaware wrist tied behindher back with a shoelace brought
twisted around her neck, matchingthe confession details exactly.
Rose Davis beaten to death with blunttrauma to the face wounds from a hatchet
lined up with what the suspects described.

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A rifle recovered from Robin G'sapartment matched ballistics from the
drive-by murder of of Raphael todo.
The crews only known Mel victim.
Each forensic link was circumstantialon its own, but together
the mosaic was unmistakable.
The prosecution's backbone wasn'tjust blood or wounds, it was people

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Beverly Washington left for deadbeside the tracks had survived.
To describe her attacker and hisvan, her accountant gave detectives
the blueprint, a red van with tintedwindows, a wooden divider and small
personal details, a feather and aroach clip hanging from the mirror.
Those same features wereconfirmed by multiple witnesses.

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Once police seized thevehicle, the vehicle.
Andrew York, another survivor describedbeing handcuffed, assaulted, and thrown
from the same red van months earlier.
Her details right down to how she'dbeen restrained matched Beverly's
story and confirmed the crew'so the crew operated as a group.
Detectives also traced the men tothe Rip Van Winkle Motel, where

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they had rented side-by-side rooms.
The motel stood just a few hundredyards from Linda Sutton's dump
site managers recalled strangerituals and late night gatherings.
It was here that the first whispers ofthe of the cult connection began to sound
less like rumor and more like evidence.
At Lorraine Borowski Workplaceinvestigators found her scattered personal

(47:38):
effects, shoes, keys, and purse contents.
Just as the suspects described intheir confessions, the placement proved
abduction confirming their versionof events with chilling accuracy.
The investigation's most disturbingconfirmations came not from the streets,
but from the suspect's own homes.

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When police searched G's attic,they found what the man had
called the Satanic chapel.
The room was outfitted exactly asdescribed, red and black crosses
painted on the walls, candles,and an altar draped in red cloth.
Detectives also found a wooden box.
Consistent with the one ThomasCoco Relay described a trophy chest

(48:20):
that once held severed breasts.
It contained suspiciousstains and fatty residue.
Though no viable DNA could be recovered,and it was long before DNA was a thing.
Yeah, even without biological proof,it's discovery aligned too precisely with
the ritual accounts to be coincidence.
Other confessions describe specificacts, forced cannibalism, masturbation

(48:46):
into the wounds and the insertion offoreign objects, including the rock
and the wine bottle found duringcer, Sarah Delaware's autopsy.
Each grizzly element matchedforensic reports point for point.
Investigators also see Satanic books,ritual objects in occult paraphernalia
from the defendant's apartments.

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Together these items gave physical shapeto the crew's psychological landscape.
A landscape where murder wasceremony and obedience was faith.
The evidence room couldn't holdwhat this case represented.
Every photograph, every labreport, every confession lined
up to reveal the same thing.

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A pattern of cruelty so deliberate.
It blurred the line betweenhomicide and ritual sacrifice.
And in the courtroom waiting ahead,the challenge for prosecutors would be
clear to take the intangible horrorsof belief and fear and translate them
into the tangible language of law.
By late 1982 and into 1983, the ChicagoRipper crew case had shifted from

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interrogation rooms to courtrooms.
The confessions were explosive.
The press coverage was relentless, andnow both sides were racing to define
the story that jurors would hear.
It wasn't just a fight for justiceanymore, it was a war of strategy.
The prosecution's firstpriority was corroboration.

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The trio of confessions from EdwardSpreitzer and the Coco Rees brothers had
to hold up under the weight of scrutiny.
Detectives revisited every autopsy, everycrime scene, and every ritual detail,
matching statements and physical reality.
The breast amputations, chestwounds, bindings, and the
recovered ritual paraphernalia.

(50:35):
Every verifiable overlap becameanother thread in the State's case.
Their strongest human evidence wasBeverly Washington, the woman who had
survived what so many others hadn't.
Her identification of Robin Gett thered van and the precise details of its
interior gave the prosecution somethingno confession could living proof.

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Investigators backedthat with hard context.
They documented that all four suspectshad rented adjoining rooms at the Rip
Van Winkle Motel, not far from LindaSutton's dump site, they photographed
G'S attic, the so-called Satanicchapel, and cataloged its ritual layout.
Inside, they logged the trophy box,the rifle tied to Raphael El Dorado's

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murder, and satanic books and symbols.
Each piece bouldering the narrativeof organized ritual violence.
Each man faced separate indictments,but the prosecution structure was clear.
If every confession could stand, eachdefendant could reinforce the others, and
together they could prove the pattern.

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The defense struck back hard and fast.
Their target.
The confessions themselves for Thomasand Andrew Coco Relais attorneys
filed motions claiming police coercionand false promises of leniency.
Arguing that detectives had manipulatedtheir clients into confessing by
suggesting that they be treatedas witnesses and not as killers.

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They pointed to their client's borderlineIQ scores, 74 to 76 and claimed
vulnerability, confusion and intimidation.
Both men underwent competency evaluationsbut were ruled fit to stand trial.
Robin G's defense tried a different route.
Insanity.
His attorneys argued that he wasdelusional, detached from reality

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and unfit to understand his actions.
But after psychiatric exams on March 2nd,the court ruled that he was saying and
fully aware at the time of the crimes.
Some defense strategies leaned towardsdismantling the ritual motive itself.
They called the Satanic details fantasy,a collective hallucination among weak

(52:47):
minds, desperate to please interrogators.
Others shifted the blame entirely to get.
Describing him as a manipulativecult leader whose supernatural
hold over his followers turnedthem into unwilling accomplices.
In hearing, after hearing, judges weighedthe admissibility of the confessions.

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Defense attorneys arguedcoercion, exhaustion, and deceit.
Prosecutors countered with transcripts,consistency and corroboration.
Ultimately, the rulings favored the state.
The confessions would stand.
Psychiatric defenses rose and fell.
G'S insanity Plea was denied aftermultiple evaluations, and the courts

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declared all four men mentally competent.
No matter how diminished theirintellect or their strange
beliefs, bond hearings came next.
All three confess participants wereheld on $1 million bond or none at all.
While media attention surged to thepoint of threatening jury integrity.
Judges issued partial gag orderslimiting what prosecutors and attorneys

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could say outside the courtroom.
Inside those walls, thegroundwork was clear.
The prosecution would tell a story ofritual murder and coordinated sadism
while the defense would paint a pictureof manipulation, delusion, and coercion.
When the prosecutors stepped into thecourtroom, they leaned into the cult.

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The Satanic chapel.
The ritual objects and the eerieuniformity of the wounds became their
unifying theory, a psychologicaland physical signature that no
jury could dismiss as coincidence.
It wasn't just murder,they argued it was worship.
A system of ritualized violencecarried out in service of one man's

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depravity and sustained by fear.
By the start of 1983, the stage was set.
The confessions were admissible.
The sanity hearings were over,and the city that had watched
the crews arrest would now watchthe system, try to explain them.
The next battle would decide what justicelooked like for the women they left

(54:57):
behind, and whether the course couldconvict a man who led a cult without
ever confessing to a single murder.
By the close of 1982, the men whocalled themselves the ripper crew were
finally in custody, broken apart bytheir own words, their own fear, and
the sheer gravity of what they'd done.

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Chicago police had theconfessions, the ritual evidence,
and the survivor's testimony.
What they didn't have was closure,because the more the case unfolded, the
clearer it became that this wasn't justabout murder, it was about control,
psychological, sexual, and spiritual.
A system built around one man'sdominance and three other submission.

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They didn't just kill tosilence their victims.
They killed to obey.
Detectives had seen serial killers before.
They'd seen greed,lust, revenge, and rage.
But the river crew was different.
There was no money, no feud, no profit.
Just ritual and obedience.
Every crime had choreography, everymutilation, meaning, and at the

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center set, Robin gt, a man whonever confessed, never flinched, and
never let go of the control he built.
The cocoa relays, brothers andEdward Spritzer told investigators
everything, every ritual, every screen,every weapon, their stories lined
up to perfectly to be coincidence.

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Yet still, the question lingered, werethey puppets or were they willing?
Participants in a cult builton kicks, delusion of power
as the charges rolled in.
Chicago tried to make senseof what it had just witnessed.
Four ordinary men, construction workers,husbands, neighbors, had spent two
years terrorizing women in a city thatnever even knew a pattern existed.

(56:53):
At least 15 victims, two survivors,and a trail of evidence that looked
more like a satanic ritual thana conventional homicide case.
Behind the headlines, prosecutorsand detectives knew this case
would test the system itself.
How do you prove evilwhen the leader leaves?
No fingerprints, no DNA and no confession.

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Just a trail of broken followers andunspeakable acts carried out in his name.
The arrests had stopped the killings, butjustice that was just beginning because
when the trials came, the truth wouldn'tjust be about who committed the murders.
It would be about who controlled them.

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Before the courtrooms, before thesentences, there were the women
names that barely made the eveningnews faces that disappeared between
city lights and alley shadows.
They were daughters, mothers,friends and survivors.
Each one pulled into a nightmarethat most of Chicago never knew was

(57:59):
happening until it was far too late.
The first was Linda Sutton, 28years old, abducted in May of 1981.
Her body was found behind a motel.
10 days later, mutilated herwife reduced to evidence tags and
autopsy photographs for detectives.
She became the blueprintfor the rest of us.

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She was the beginning ofsomething no one could yet name.
Then came the UNN cocktail Waitress35 stranded after a car ran outta gas.
No name, no headlines, justthe same brutal signature.
She reminds us that anonymitycan be the cruelest wound of all.
Lorraine Lori Borowski 21 Walk to workone spring morning and never arrived.

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Her body was found months later ina cemetery stabbed, tortured, left
beneath the same ground where theothers would one day mourn her.
Her death would anchor thecase, her name whispered in
every courtroom that followed.
Shui mock.
30 years old, a woman on herway home in Hanover Park.
She never made it back.

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Her remains surfaced monthslater at a construction site.
Bones and silence bound together.
Sandra Delaware, barely 18.
Her body lay along theChicago River wrist tied.
Bra nodded under her throat.
She was still a teenager, buther story was told in evidence.
Photographs labeled adult femaleRosebeck Davis, 31 killed only

(59:34):
weeks later, her face crushed.
Her body left in an alley.
The details of her death would echothrough every confession that followed.
And then there was Raphael Todo.
28. The crews only known male victim.
A man shot in cold blood.
His life ended because violencehad become casual to his killers.

(59:55):
Not everyone died.
Some lived scarred, silenced, but alive.
Angel York survived a nightinside the red van handcuffed,
cut and thrown into the dark.
She somehow found the will to crawlback into the world and tell her story.
Beverly Washington, her couragechanged everything left for dead

(01:00:17):
by the railroad tracks, her breastamputated, her body butchered.
She lived and she spoke.
Her testimony broke the case wide open.
Because of Beverly, themonsters were named Alberto.
Rosario wounded, but breathing became theonly man to walk away from their gunfire.

(01:00:37):
And then there was Cynthia Smith andthe unnamed black woman both attacked,
both escaped, both carrying the kindof trauma that never quite ends.
But the list doesn't stop there.
The confession spoke of unnamedwomen, a black woman chained
and thrown into the river.
A Hispanic woman left with bite marksand desecration that defied understanding

(01:01:02):
names The police never meshed a fileswomen who never made it home and
families who never even knew to look.
There was Carol Pappas, the wifeof of the Chicago Cubs pitcher
found five years later in her car.
Her death rolled an accident,but her name tangled forever.
In the cruise Confessions thenwas Susan Baker, 22, whose body

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was found after the arrest.
Her murder, echoing the same ritualpattern, and Lorraine Baez, whose
name surfaced in a confessiononly to be dismissed for details
that didn't fit, but whose absencestill lingers in the timeline.
And then there were the others.
The women who were never identified,never found, never even searched.

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For 15 severed breasts, Thomas Coca Relayssaid, each one once belonged to someone
with a heartbeat, a voice, and a story.
When the records list, unknownfemale, we have to remember, she
was known to someone, a friend,a daughter, a name whispered in

(01:02:10):
a prayer that never got answered.
This case was neverjust about the killers.
It was about the women who enduredthe unendurable and the survivors who
turned their trauma into testimonystrong enough to shatter a cult.
So tonight we say their names andwe remember the ones who never
had a chance to tell theirs.

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