October 4, 2022 • 56 mins
Full of unrealized potential, this snake let his anger and envy take over. Slithering through Anchorage’s trails, the serial killer murdered five people and seriously injured another before he was stopped.
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The boy's fit young body reminded Envy of his glory days
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in high school.
The adulation of spectators,attention of the girls, the
glory and promise of high schoolhad led him nowhere.
He snapped back to focus.
He was a street predator livingthe life.
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Envy wandered the city.
He traveled to areas where hethought he would find people
living their private lives inpublic areas.
In short, he wanted to walkamongst people he could easily
look down upon.
He was familiar with severalareas that fit that bill.
His city was banded with verdantparks, wild lands and waterways.
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These green belts, crisscrossedby paved trails that provided
hiking and biking access toevery corner of the city, even
up into the Chugach Mountainrange.
Certain locations, particularlywhere paths, bus routes and
social services converged werepopular hangout spots for the
homeless and teens alike.
The general rule was thelocations had to be far enough
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away from residences andbusinesses to limit constant
calls to the police.
Envy would never admit it tohimself, but these places
attracted him for the samereason they attracted the other
counter-culturists, young andold.
Envy was in his forties now,which was not young, but he
wanted to have a good time.
Sometimes he kind of liked thepeople he met.
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Although he always looked downon them.
They didn't have his gifts, hispotential.
He always felt sorry for theyoung ones.
They hadn't yet learned thatlife was just gonna screw them
over regardless of theirpotential.
Sometimes he'd just walk up andjoin a group.
They'd share their shit, maybesome beer.
And it was a nice time.
Other times he grew quicklyannoyed by their stupidity.
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Their carefree attitudes chafedhis nerves.
That was the case on July 3rd,2016 on the bike path down by
Ship Creek.
There was this guy.
He was the same age as Envy,maybe older.
Homeless.
Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Homelessness is a hard life andsometimes 30 looks 60.
There was this young chickhanging out with him.
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She looked young, maybe 20.
Envy thought,'what the fuck isshe doing with this loser?' He
tried to talk to the girlthinking,'well, if she likes
this homeless dude, why not?'But something's wrong with the
young chick.
'She's a box of rocks' and thehomeless guy was pissed.
'Fuck him,' Envy thought.
The girl must just like homelessguy for his dope.
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'Fuck her too.' Envy stared atthem.
And he made a decision.
Envy's hand was in his jacketpocket, firmly wrapped around
the grip of his Colt Python.
The 357 Magnum spoke to himabout power.
Envy chuckled to himself,imagining what was about to
happen.
His thoughts were so vivid, theyfelt like a premonition and the
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premonition was prophecy.
A divine message of who he couldbe.
The two subjects before Envy.
Well, they weren't smart enoughto know his plan.
Envy he smiled as he slowlypulled the pistol out of his
pocket and into view.
The girl glanced over first,blowing out a surprise breath
and then smiled in disbelief.
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She thought it was a joke.
Or did she think Envy was ajoke?
Homeless dude sitting facing thechick cued on the girl's
reaction and looked at Envy.
Homeless didn't take the Magnumas a joke.
He had long experience with theinsane cruelty of the street.
Death often appeared suddenlyand unexpectedly.
Envy saw that recognition inHomeless's eyes.
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Envy only paused long enough forhomeless to shift as he lifted
his palm and yelled,"hey, wait!"The first blast overwhelmed the
next words.
Five quick, but efficient shotsfollowed.
Homeless and the Chick, even asbullets tore through them, tried
to flee, but bullet shockedflesh was unable to comply with
the brain's desperate orders.
Both flopped to the ground; thechick in effectually trying to
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crawl away while Homelesschuffed his last blood spattered
breaths.
Envy nervously glanced around.
After all, they were on the sideof a trail and all the shots
still ringing in his ears weremuch louder than he had
imagined.
But he sensed no one around.
He took the time to watch hiskills until even the tiniest
shutters stopped.
Even then the hearts moved bloodout in a slow trickle.
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Their crimson streams met.
When the surface tension broke,mingled, the two sources became
one and then slowly grew largerwith time.
Envy watched fascinated.
The two on the ground below himhad each existed for years,
breathing constantly theirhearts beating for decades in a
seemingly endless tempo until hedecided otherwise.
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In a life full ofdisappointments, Envy had
finally found something thatlived up to his expectations.
As Clint Eastwood said in thatmovie, it's a hell of a thing
killing a man.
You take away all he's got andall he's ever gonna have." envy,
rolling the 357 side to sideadmiring its form, imagined
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himself as Dirty Hairy.
The warm adrenal after glow feltlike power surging through his
body.
In the month after his ShipCreek kill, Envy had spent his
free time, which was almostunlimited, wandering along the
trails and into the back eddiesof his city.
These were the places wheregarbage was deposited, just like
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in a river or stream.
The people he met there were thehomeless, the drunks and the
kids who were going nowherefast.
He spent time reflecting on theShip Creek kill.
The man, scum, probably livingin a tent, scraping together
what he could for that day'shigh.
The girl, even lower, dumb asshit and willing to debase
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herself to catch crumbs the dudewas willing to sprinkle on her
as she'd groveled dirty need infront of him.
Anyway, he was proud of himselffor taking the initiative to rid
his city of those two.
Earlier that day, July 28 hadbeen a good one.
Envy had spent much of it with agroup he'd stumbled across in
the woods on the east side.
They seemed happy to share withhim and not demand anything in
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return.
Some camps were like that.
You could wander in quietly,observe without obligation and
then wander away.
Although it had been a month andEnvy had the itch to kill, there
hadn't been an opportunity.
He appreciated, even cultivatedrandom pattern in his life,
having confidence.
It would keep the police fromidentifying him.
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His selection of targets wasbased on fate, which he
understood to be the finalarrangement of reality from
infinite variability.
But sometimes it just boileddown to whether he liked someone
or if there were too manywitnesses or more importantly,
if somebody pissed him off.
Envy knew that he would mow downa crowd to get to the right
shithead.
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But today he was magnanimous,allowing the people he passed to
live another day.
So it was, that Envy wanderedaway from that group early in
the morning of July 29th.
That time of year, middle of thenight meant it was only dusky
for a few hours.
Envy was restless.
If he wasn't gonna make his nextkill here, he decided to move
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back to the west side.
He had a couple of places inmind and headed out of the woods
into the adjacent neighborhood.
Envy surveyed the houses for acar or a bicycle to steal.
It was 3:00 AM.
Aside from the television lightsflickering against the curtains
here and there, he saw noactivity.
Then he sensed movement down thestreet, way off to the west.
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There was somebody on a bicyclepeddling toward him.
Envy thought,"what kind of lowlife fucker is out here, riding
a bike at this time of night?"He stepped off the road into
concealment, behind a clump ofunkept landscaping.
As the bicycle progressed, Envysaw that the rider was a skinny
black man, or maybe a kid.
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As the bike proceeded, Envydecided he must be about high
school age.
"What could he be doing out hereat this hour?
Couldn't be anything good." Hethought,"dope delivery?" As the
rider approached Envy steppedconfidently from cover and
walked along the street.
The boy didn't sense theintercept course until it was
too late.
Envy raised his pistol at thelast moment, fired and continued
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firing, tracking the boy as hetried to veer away.
The rider fell and skidded,crashed down hard against the
pavement.
It looked like a mass of armsand legs tangled with the
bicycle in a heap at the edge ofthe street.
Envy didn't miss a step stridingup to the graceless heap, he
took a moment to survey andsavor the new kill.
The boy's fit young bodyreminded Envy of his glory days
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in high school.
The adulation of spectators,attention of the girls, the
glory and promise of high schoolhad led him nowhere.
He snapped back to focus.
He was a street predator livingthe life.
There was no apparent dopestash, but the bike was nice.
He wondered who the kid hadstolen it from.
Envy reasoned, you can't rete astolen bike, so he yanked it
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away from the dying boy, mountedit and rode away.
Envy had a choice to make afterlast month's kill.
He'd been surprised by thepublicity on the kid in Muldoon.
Something about the boy made himthink about the high school
days.
A week later, he found out why.
He read in the paper that theboy was the son of his high
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school friend, Bobby Thompson.
Envy's best friend in highschool was Bobby's brother
Quincy, who had been murderedthe summer after graduation.
Envy killed the nephew of hisbest friend.
He rolled that around in hismind for a few days before
deciding it was all just part ofthe game.
There was nothing he could doabout it now.
Besides it wasn't like Bobby, awell known player had ever
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reached out and offered him anyof his action.
A few days later, he began tofeel good that it had been
Bobby's son.
The cops probably just assumedthe kid was blow back on the
family.
Retribution from something Bobbyhad done.
With this in his mind, Envy'sjudgment was that no course
correction was necessary.
As his self-imposed month, longwaiting period ended.
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He felt that heat and fear onthe trails was going down.
It was a big year for murder inhis city, and Envy was doing his
part.
But he didn't wanna make amistake.
Didn't wanna find himself behindbars.
Fuck that.
He'd die before he ever wentback to prison.
Envy used the intervening month,the same way he had before and
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after the prior kills, findinghis next spot.
He had some selected, buteverything depended on fate.
On August 28th Envy's timerclicked and it was hunting
season again.
At night he began walking,finding himself along Chester
Creek trail.
He passed the Anchorage SportsComplex and, finding no one
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there, he proceeded west.
As Envy walked the tunnels underA and then C streets, he was
almost giddy with excitement.
Who would fate present as thenext sacrifice?
But neither tunnel nor blockbetween was occupied at this
late hour.
Nor did he see anybody along thecreek at the edge of the woods,
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as he moved toward the woodedpark land.
Valley of the Moon Park wassandwiched in a steep sided
valley through which one of thecity salmon streams, Chester
Creek, ran.
The valley separated downtown tothe north from Midtown to the
south.
There were houses along thesides of the valley, but dense
woods gave the area a feeling ofisolation, an island of
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wilderness in the middle ofurban sprawl.
The Eastern half of the parkalong C street was also densely
wooded.
While the west side was wellused, nicely manicured city
park.
Envy knew that during the day,the park with its massive
spaceship, jungle gym andgazebos was popular with
families and children.
Many Anchorage kids hadcelebrated summer birthdays
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there.
Valley the Moon Park at nightwas another story.
Neighborhood teenagers andhomeless emerged from their
homes and hovelss and engagedthe park facilities for their
own more adult recreation.
Envy knew this mix ofinhabitants sometimes
precipitated violence.
He'd noted over the years,fights stabbings, even gang
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rapes had gone down in thisbeloved yet tarnished heart of
the city.
As a setting for a kill, it wasperfect.
It wasn't until he came to thecleared parkland that he saw
someone, a man sitting aloneunder the gazebo closest to the
creek.
Envy was disappointed that theman was alone, but his eagerness
overcame indecision.
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Envy watched the man who seemedto be talking to himself, almost
arguing with himself.
Envy walked closer, his handgripping the 357 Magnum tightly.
Senses, fully alert and scanningfor anyone else in the open
area.
Sensing no one Envy closed thedistance.
The target heard and sensedmovement coming from behind and
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to the right.
The man remained seated, butturned on the bench and leaned
towards Envy who imagined thetarget was squinting, trying to
resolve this figure through thedarkness.
The target said something angryand incoherent.
Envy thought,"not just drunk.
He's crazy too." Crazy or not,the Target's tone was not
acceptable.
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Envy wasn't gonna let anyone,especially this crazy drunk
piece of shit talk to him likethat.
Envy pulled the pistol, extendedit and gave the target the
answer to the question'who wasstanding in the darkness of the
Valley of the Moon Park?' It wasdeath.
Death has come for you.
After firing several shots intothe man under the gazebo, Envy
got up close to admire his skillwith the pistol.
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When the first bullet hit, theman had stood bolt upright as if
preparing a flee, but thesuccessive barrage brought him
crashing forward across thepicnic table.
He wasn't quite dead, but it wasclear he was headed there.
Envy was quiet, respectful,listening for the man's
valediction, but all he heardwas a whimper and a wheeze.
And then nothing.
Envy stood and surfed the nowfamiliar adrenaline surge,
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savoring, that sameinvincibility that came with the
prior kills.
Then he sensed movement.
Still a good distance away, butdefinitely coming towards him.
Envy prepared his weapon inanticipation of fate's new gift.
There were sporadic lights alongthe trail.
When movement flashed beneathone of the distant lights Envy
saw a single man in darkclothing, riding a 10 speed.
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The path he was following wouldbring him close.
It was only 30 feet between theCreek and the gazebo, and the
path ran between the two.
Envy, in dark clothing of hisown, moved to weight in the dim
periphery of one of the lightcones.
As the man pedaled close, Envycould see that he was a young
white guy.
At least the media will see hewas an equal opportunity
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executioner.
This time, the sacrifice neversaw fate coming.
The shots were on point and thesacrifice skidded to the ground,
piling up an Envy's feet, as ifit was fate's offering to him.
The thrill of the kill, the newsupplicant in the throws of
death beneath his feet, all ofEnvy's feelings of inadequacy
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were washed away.
The world had screwed Envy over,but he had found the courage to
fight back.
As Envy walked out of the Valleyof the Moon Park, he knew that
fate owed him more payback.
It was mid-November no killssince Valley of the Moon Park.
The problem was the damn cops.
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They brought intense heat on hishunting grounds and he had a
couple of close calls.
In the media, there was a lot offocus on the number of shootings
in the parks, and he couldn'tget credit for them all.
It was a record killing year inhis city.
Apparently, it wasn't just Envywho was tired of the bullshit.
So being smart, he'd beendisciplined, played the long
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game.
He finally found his callinglike that Def leopard song, Hey!
He had something to say! But hewasn't gonna burn out or fade
away! This shitty world and thefucking people in it were gonna
fear him for a long time tocome.
Such was Envy's outlook as heroamed the city through the
months of September and October.
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He'd been cautious.
But mid-November, it was greenlight time again, so carrying
his Magnum, he ventured out topay society back for fucking his
life over.
He went downtown, arriving intime for bar break chaos.
It was Saturday morning and thedebris and detritis that
stumbled out of the bars andstaggered through the streets
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would make perfect targets andhorrible witnesses.
Envy walked alone, face covered,everything cinched up for the
cold, and for anonymity.
He heard a car slow rollingbehind him, it's tire studs
clicking on black ice.
He didn't turn to look.
If it was a cop, he'd let himpass by, like they had countless
times in recent months.
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But this car wasn't passing.
Envy picked up the paceslightly, gripping the Magnum in
his coat pocket.
He had time to consider.
If it's a cop, should he run?
No death is stoic.
Death doesn't run.
If it's a cop, they representedsociety that had fucked him
over.
He wasn't going to be doing therunning.
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He was gonna be doing thekilling.
He damn sure wasn't gonna goback to prison.
Fate would roll in his favor.
Right about then, Envy heard thesquad car's public address
speaker crackle to life, sir,please stop." Envy felt the
beloved jolt of adrenaline, butit was soured this time with
fear.
He thought,"the fucking copshave ruined my life.
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Now I'm gonna ruin theirs." ThePA system barked again with the
same request.
Envy hadn't broken stride orlooked back as he traversed two
city blocks with the cop in tow.
The only thing that changed wasthe pace of his respirations
vying to keep up with the beatof his heart.
Envy had once read that the Armytaught its infantry troops, that
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the only thing to do whenambushed was to ferociously
attack the threat.
That was his plan as he spunsuddenly 180 degrees to confront
the officer.
To Envy's surprise, there wasnot one set of headlights behind
him, but two.
It was the moment of truth, andEnvy put his trust in fate.
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Ship Creek.
Two people shot dead, layingnear each other on the ground;
positioned like maybe they triedto get away.
Homeless party spot off the biketrail, along a salmon stream,
running through the middle of anindustrial area.
No known witnesses.
A few hours old.
Reported by a lady out for herSunday morning bike ride.
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The crime was brutal both fromthe standpoint of what had been
done to the victims, and fromthe perspective of the case
detective's assessment ofsolvability.
The victims, a 41 year old manand a 20 year old woman each
sustained several gunshots.
They were laid out at whatlooked like a party spot, a
little off ship Creek biketrail.
The area was strewn with debriscommon to this type of area,
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making it difficult to figureout what was trash and what if
anything was related to theshooting?
The detectives had seen thisbefore.
These scenes never made thecase.
There were no fingerprints, nofootprints, and no weapon.
There wasn't even any shellcasings, which meant one of two
things, a revolver or shooterwho kept his head after killing
two people.
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Not good.
The detective knew it would comedown to the interviews.
Maybe the scuttlebutt aroundBrother Francis shelter, which
was only a couple blocks to thesouth.
If they were lucky they couldtrack down a gun and the
ballistics would match.
In any event, this case wasn'tstarting off well.
Most homicides have a context, aframe of reference from which to
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start.
This one was way too ambiguousfor investigators to be
optimistic.
Later, after the detailedprocessing, members of the
police search team would usemetal detectors to comb a patch
of woods between the trail andthe Creek.
Then the Anchorage FireDepartment would come and do
what they referred to as awashdown of the scene, erasing
the biological fact of what hadhappened the morning before.
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Over the following days, acanvas came back without result.
There were rumors as therealways were, but those were so
far fetched and without a sourceto be immediately dismissed.
Some of the businesses producedgrainy surveillance videos of
figures in the surroundingblocks that were suspicious only
because the timing coincidedwith the best guests on the
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shooting.
The problem was, there werealways people wandering around
the blocks around the shelter.
The victimology wasn't much helpeither.
Jason Netter 41 was a long termhomeless man.
He hustled low-end drugs andstolen property to pay for a
meager habit.
He'd been in and out of jail forminor offenses for years.
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In fact, he'd just been releasedfrom a two month stretch, two
days before his murder.
20-year-old Brianna Foisy was asad case.
She had an intellectualdisability from Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder.
She had been homeless stayingwhere she could, and based on
interviews, it seemed likeBrianna was hanging out with
Jason Netter because he tookcare of her in some fashion,
whether it be his shelter or thedrugs.
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Muldoon.
Detectives arrived at the sceneof a shooting in the Muldoon
area of Anchorage in the earlymorning hours of Friday, July
29th, 2016.
A young man lying dead in thestreet.
The area is an older residentialneighborhood, tightly packed
with duplexes and single familybuildings on small lots.
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The victim was identified byfamily members as 21-year-old
Treavyonkindle Bobby DwayneThompson, known widely, simply
as Trey.
The investigation confirmed whatwitnesses were saying.
Trey had just finished a shiftat work, and was at the end of
the ride home when he waskilled.
The man who shot him, stole hisbike and rode it away.
The victim background on TreyThompson was unremarkable to
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police.
He was largely unknown to theinvestigators, but his father's
name caught their attention.
The victim's father, BobbyThompson was widely acknowledged
even by himself to be a violentcareer gangster criminal.
Bobby started his first decadein the federal prison, just as
his son Trey was born.
And it would turn out to be hissecond decade in the federal pen
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had started just before Trey haddied.
With Trey's pedigree in mind,detectives had to examine the
possibility that Bobby's son waseither following on dad's path
or that his dad's life had takenits karma out on the boy.
When investigators started theirvictimology, they were sadden to
learn that Trey was not livingthe life patterned after his
father.
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Quite the opposite.
Trey appeared to be ahardworking, smart, responsible
guy.
As far as the other theory thatTrey had been the victim of
payback against his father, thedetectives could find no
evidence.
Witnesses near the shootingscene told police they saw a man
walking around in the woods,east of the houses earlier that
night.
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After hearing gunshots around3:00 AM, they said the same man
was pulling Trey's bike fromwhere he laid dying on the
street and then using it to fleethe scene.
The witnesses were able tocontribute to a composite sketch
of the shooter, but no one inThompson's family or in the
neighborhood recognized the manin the picture.
Investigators knew the end ofDubin street, west of Bolan was
a trailhead for unauthorizedpaths through the woods that led
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to illegal camping areas on theedge of military land.
In the days following TreyThompson's murder, the Alaska
State Crime Lab matched bulletsfrom the Ship Creek double
homicide to Trey Thompson'smurder.
It was the same cult Python,357.
The investigators decided towithhold this information from
the public.
Another insight from the Muldooncanvas was that the shooter had
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been captured on a neighbor'svideo surveillance system.
The images were not clear.
It was a wide shot from theeaves of the house, but using
comparison with other knownitems in the frame, the
suspect's height could beaccurately estimated.
Investigators still didn't knowwho he was, but they could say
with confidence, it was a whiteguy around six foot four.
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Valley of the Moon.
On Sunday, August 28th, 2016,just before 2:00 AM Anchorage
police were called to Valley ofthe Moon Park for a man who was
found dead on the bike trailthat runs parallel to Chester
Creek.
When the officers arrived, theysaw young white male lying dead
on the trail with a blue bicyclenearby.
From obvious injuries and bodyposition, it appeared that the
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man had been shot while ridingand collapsed.
Almost immediately, officersrealized that there was a man in
the nearby gazebo who had alsobeen shot and killed.
Ever since the Ship Creek andMuldoon murders were linked,
investigators were watching,waiting for exactly what they
were seeing in this case.
Persons shot to death withoutcontext.
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For example, no precipitatingfight, no witnesses.
And despite multiple shots beingfired, no shell casings evident.
As with the Ship Creek case, theAPD search team combed the area
with metal detectors and foundno spent brass or anything else
of interest.
Part of any good murderinvestigation is the
victimology.
This study is particularlyimportant in unknown suspect
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crimes because who the victimwas, who they associated with is
often the path to finding whowas most likely to have killed
them.
The victim under the gazebo wasidentified as Kevin Turner, 34.
At the time he was murdered,Kevin was living on the street.
Like many homeless people, hesuffered from mental illness,
specifically schizophrenia andbipolar disorder.
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Although Kevin had documentedconflict with people due to his
mental illness, detectives wereunable to link him with any
viable suspects.
Investigators were unable tofind a link between Kevin Turner
and the second victim, Brie deHusson, 25.
De Husson was a community socialand environmental activist.
According to relatives, heregularly traveled around the
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city on his bicycle via thetrail system.
Their best guess was that Breewas riding to see one of his,
several friends in the area.
Investigators looking at thescene and the circumstances
agreed that De Husson was justin the wrong place at the wrong
time.
That also meant, apart from thescan crime scene evidence, De
Husson would not be providing aworkable link to the shooter.
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The bullets recovered from thescene and from the bodies at
autopsy were submitted to theAlaska State Crime Lab for
ballistics comparison.
And as the investigatorssuspected, the markings matched
those fired in the Ship Creekand Muldoon murders.
That made a total of five knowndead in three incidents.
It was confirmation thatAnchorage had a new serial
killer.
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In police, detective parlance,2016 was the year the Anchorage
homicide unit got slammed.
The Valley of the Moon doublehomicides were the 24th and 25th
murders of the year.
The all time annual high for thecity was 29 killings, and there
was still a lot of year left in2016.
8 of the murders so far thatyear had been double homicides.
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With an arrest in only one ofthose cases to date.
APD homicide detectivesgenerally average a solve rate
greater than 80%, which issignificantly higher than the
rate for the rest of the state.
In 2016, at the time of theValley of the Moon shootings,
their clearance rate for theyear was well below their
average.
And with each successivekilling, public outcry grew
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louder.
The investigators were releasinglimited information on many of
the cases.
With the string of shootingsthat were linked to the Colt
Python, the police had notdisclosed any relationship.
The closest they came was ageneral warning to the public to
be cautious using the city'strail system, and avoid using
them at night due to recentviolence.
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Privately, the policedepartment, cobbled together
units and law enforcementpartners to form a shooter task
force.
This began a massive effort tosort and investigate the flood
of incoming tips, whilesimultaneously combing the
city's homeless camps and partyspots, in an effort to identify
a suspect or witnesses.
On November 12th, 2016, APDofficer Arn Salao was working a
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midnight shift in the downtownarea.
He was dispatched to a cabdefraud, meaning that a customer
of a cab had taken a ride, andonce at the destination had fled
without payment.
Officer Salao arrived in thegeneral area, saw a man walking
on the south sidewalk of 5thAvenue near Cordova Street.
The man was the only one insight.
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They were still a few blockseast of the busier bar break
areas, so the man was a possiblesuspect or witness to the cab
defraud.
Officer Salao called in hisobservations to APD dispatch as
he followed the man at adistance.
The man never turned to lookback, even when Officer Salao
called out on his cruiser'spublic address system, asking
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the man to stop.
Salau intended to press theissue, so he moved in closer to
contact the man.
Suddenly, the subject turned 180degrees, simultaneously drawing
a pistol, taking several stridestowards the police car.
The subject began firing intothe car.
Despite being shot severaltimes, Officer Salao engaged in
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a fight at the door of his car.
Having heard Officer Salao'scall and updates, Sergeant Mark
Patske was in the area andheaded to back Officer Salao up.
Sergeant Patsy arrived in timeto see the suspect turn and
approach Salao's car as hepulled a gun.
Patske exited his vehicle andimmediately fired on the
suspect.
In the barrage of returngunfire, the suspect collapsed
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to the sidewalk.
Dead.
In the exchange Officer Salaowas shot four times in the
abdomen.
He was taken to the hospitalwhere he underwent a series of
life saving surgeries.
Almost immediately after OfficerSalao left the shooting scene,
one of the officers placed thegun.
Recognition of the gun led tothe next realization.
For weeks, police officers hadbeen on the lookout for a Colt
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Python and a white guy estimatedto be around six, four.
The Colt Python was laying onthe ground next to a guy, and he
sure looked well over six foot.
Bingo.
The shooting scene was treatedlike all over the major crime
scenes and was cordened off formeticulous processing of
documenting items and theirprecise locations.
The gun was taken to the stateof Alaska Crime Lab, where the
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request for ballisticscomparison was completed without
delay.
The Colt Python was determinedto be a match in all five
murders and the officer involvedshooting.
The man that attacked OfficerSalao was taken to the Alaska
State Crime Lab and autopsied.
He was identified as James DaleRichie, a 40-year-old white
male.
At six, four, he matched theheight estimate of the Muldoon
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shooting suspect.
Investigators began to look atwho Richie was for two reasons.
First they needed to besatisfied he was the one and
only shooter.
Second, everyone victimsfamilies, officers, and the
community as a whole needed toknow why, if why was knowable.
Richie was born November 4th,1976 in Anchorage, Alaska.
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He grew up with his parents andtwo sisters living in Wonder
Park area, which is a northcentral neighborhood in the
city.
Richie distinguished himself asan intelligent boy, if was
somewhat an underachiever withacademics.
People who knew Richie in highschool characterized him as a
happy and super smart person.
His SAT scores were well aboveaverage.
One of his neighbors said he wasknowledgeable about computers
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and willing to lend a hand.
He went to East High School andexcelled at sports, playing key
positions in the 1994 statebasketball and football
championships.
He rubbed elbows with histeammates who later went onto
the pros like Mao Tosi, who didfour years for the NFL and
Trajon Langdon who played forthe NBA.
Richie himself was recruited forcollege football by division two
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schools.
Richie echewed the smallerschool opportunity, deciding
instead to try to walk on as afootball player at West
Virginia.
He told people he'd be studyingchemical engineering.
Before he left town, Richie'sbest friend Quincy Thompson was
shot and killed.
People who were close to Richiesaid he took Quincy's death
hard.
Richie's transition to collegelife did not go as planned.
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He did not make the footballteam and he dropped out of his
courses after the firstsemester.
Instead he returned to Anchorageand became a drug dealer.
Between 1994 and 1998, Richiewas involved in serious criminal
activity related to narcotics.
He was shot.
He was looped into a homeinvasion robbery of rival drug
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dealers.
During that crime Richie left afingerprint on duct tape used to
secure a woman who wasn't eveninvolved.
She was the mother of one of histargets.
That investigation led to a raidon Richie's apartment, where he
tried to pull a gun on police.
In the search, the investigatorsnetted saleable amounts of
crack, cash and ammunition.
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This first case netted Richiealmost no jail time, but he took
his first felony conviction andprobation time.
At sentencing, he wrote ofremorse telling the judge that
he quote"lay in bed every nightthinking about how I ruined my
life.
I sit up crying, wishing I couldgo back to when I was in high
school." Richie also wrote thathe would've"chosen a small
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division two school to go playfootball at instead of a
division one college" For hisfuture plans, he wrote,"I wanna
finish college, raise a familyand buy a house.
Instead as a felon, I'll neverbe able to get a good job." End
quote.
The words of contrition didn'ttranslate into acts.
Between 1998 and 2007, Richieentered into a cycle of arrests
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for new street crimes orviolations of conditions of
probation and parole, and was inand out of state's custody.
The longest term was a two yearstretch where he was arrested
for first degree burglary duringan east Anchorage break in.
Ominously, officers caught himcarrying several sets of flex
cuff restraints, and he haddumped two guns in the
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residence.
After the prison time, Richiefollowed his parents who were
living in Virginia.
He lived in Broadway, Virginiawith them until February, 2016,
at which time he moved back toAnchorage.
Within a week of the downtownshootout, homicide investigators
and APD brass called families ofvictims together for a meeting,
where they laid out a completecase synopsis.
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Following the family meeting wasa scheduled press briefing
where, for the first time, itwas revealed that officers had
known, they were looking for onesuspect in the Ship Creek,
Muldoon and Valley of the Moonkillings.
They confirmed that the followup investigation led them to the
conclusion that the suspect wasthe same man, Richie, that was
responsible for the attack onOfficer Salao.
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Mark, the media dubbed Richie,the midnight sun killer.
Why did they choose that?
Mark (35:47):
Well, they also tried on the Anchorage serial killer, but
considering the number of thosewe had in the recent years.
Yeah.
It didn't work.
I'll put a plug in here.
I've been saving some of thosefor later episodes.
Anyway, Anchorage has had morethan its fair share of serial
killers.
So it went to midnight sunbecause he killed in the early
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morning hours where people werepresumably more active in the
summer, and that's why they'reout on the paths because of the
extra sunlight.
But lemme tell you the killingsand activity and the Anchorage
bike trails had very little todo with the amount of sun or the
season.
The timing on these crimes hasmore to do with the patterns of
the homeless community than themidnight sun.
Marcy (36:29):
Why do you call him Envy?
Mark (36:32):
If you listen to the other episodes, in some of the cases,
I'm writing a narrative where Ihave partially dramatized the
story.
Obviously there are incidentswhere no one knows exactly what
was said because only thesuspect has lived to tell the
tale and his account should behighly suspect when it isn't
backed by solid evidence.
So where evidence and statementsare light on details, what we
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have is the ability to seecurrent motivations and past
statements and actions.
That's how I formed thenarrative.
Marcy (37:01):
How did that go with Richie?
Mark (37:04):
In my reading of Richie, I see a man with great potential
in high school star athlete in agroup of star athletes.
Classmates called him a brain.
He had very high test scores.
His peers thought of him as atotal package.
But here's a guy like so manywho are labeled the total
package that has a fatal flaw.
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He leaves high school and thinkshe doesn't have to work at it.
Or he doesn't actually reallyhave the skills people give him
credit for.
You know, he passes onreasonable opportunities and
almost immediately failsdisastrously.
Most people, especially youngpeople who suffer setbacks like
that, maybe they take some timeto recover, but recover they do.
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Well, Richie didn't.
So after failing to get on theWest Virginia football team and
quitting after the firstsemester of college, he went
home and he lived with hisparents.
He worked himself into someserious street crimes.
But most importantly, he becameangry that all of his potential
didn't pay off.
In this respect, I looked at himlike the Son of Sam killer.
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Here's a guy with a high IQ, butdoesn't have anything going for
him.
No good jobs.
Girls won't touch him with a 10foot pole because well, he's
angry and weird, and as nothinggoing on.
And as the years go by, it justgets sadder and sadder and he
gets madder and madder.
Does he get even with the peoplewho control society, the pillars
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of our community?
No.
He lashes out at the poorordinary people.
He is around every day and hedoes it for petty personal
reasons.
I call him Envy because hekilled five people in an
extended infantile tantrumbecause he didn't get what he
wanted from life.
Marcy (38:48):
Related to the narrative issue, we often discuss if I
think that you've gone too farwith that assessment of the
suspect.
How do you feel about it withRichie?
Mark (38:57):
We've talked about some of the things I write.
Discussed whether I've gone toofar with what is available.
Some things I have pulled backon.
I've got a good example of howthat works, and the kind of
thing that has allowed me tomake judgements on Richie and
other suspects.
Within a week of Muldoon, Richieknew he had killed his high
school best friend's nephew.
Richie spent a lot of time withthe Thompson family in high
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school, so much so that BobbyThompson's mother used to call
Richie her other son.
When Richie found out about thisconnection, and I have no doubt
that he knew about theconnection, because there was a
lot of media on it and peoplelike him are going to look at
that media and see what thepolice might know and see, what
the coverage was like.
So when he knew, when he findsout, his best friend's nephew
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that he killed, was he filledwith a regret and remorse?
Did he worry about inadvertentlyshooting a person who might
matter to him?
No.
The next people he killed werealso unknown quantities,
particularly Bre de Houston inthe Valley of the Moon Park.
Marcy (39:56):
Do you think that Richie's best friend being
murdered, had anything to dowith his subsequent problems?
Mark (40:02):
Who knows?
But I tend to think not.
For the majority of people, theeffect of something like that
would be to motivate them toescape street crime life.
For Richie, it did the opposite.
He got further in.
I mentioned the home invasionwhere he taped up a rival dope
dealer's mother.
Well, that shows he was in verydeep.
That particular crime isreserved for some of the worst
criminals operating in a city.
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It's one step away fromkidnap-ransoms like they have
regularly in Mexico.
Those types of crimes can easilyspiral into homicides or
retribution shootings.
Marcy (40:35):
What factors made this a particularly difficult set of
cases to solve?
Mark (40:41):
First, you lack context.
In a lot of murders, you havewitnesses who can tell you
exactly who did it, or, exactlywho's likely to have done it.
The more tenuous, the linkbetween suspect and victim, the
more difficult the crime, can beto solve.
That's why, the drug relatedmurders in cities like LA in the
mid nineties where the peopleshooting and the people getting
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shot had no connection to oneanother.
Those clearances were in the midto, low teens, and that's why.
You have no connections.
In some of the media accounts,Richie's crimes were portrayed
as if he was killing hikers.
This is a misconception.
The two killed on Ship Creekwere at the time they were
murdered, very close to whereJason Netter spent his winters
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living out of his shippingcontainer.
Trey Thompson's home wasunfortunately just down the
street from a homeless camptrailhead.
Kevin Turner was homeless andprobably hanging out in the
gazebo at Valley of the Moonpark because he had a tent in
the woods just to the east.
There's a general problemsolving crimes amid the homeless
population for several reasons.
Some of them lack phones to callfor help.
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There's also a traditionaldistrust of authority.
so witnesses may not beforthcoming with information.
The other thing is on some ofthese scenes or people staying
in the woods close to where acrime has occurred, a large
number of those people are gonnabe drunk or high or have mental
health issues, which makes theiraccounts problematic.
In addition to the problems Ijust talked about in 2016, there
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was a huge spike in homicidesacross the city.
In fact early in the year,January 28th, there was a double
murder, of Selena Molinax, whowas 19 and Ownie Morrisette, who
was 20.
Their bodies were found also offof a city trail, a place called
Point Worenzoff, and those,murders were completely
unrelated to Richie's victims.
Marcy (42:30):
To expand on that misconception about hikers and
the types of trails.
Anchorage has hundreds of milesof trails, but they're paved
multi-use trails that are verypopular, sort of urban setting
kinds of things.
There is a lot of use during theday with biking and walking and
running and things, but it's nothiking trails like hiking, a
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dirt path up to a mountain topor something like that.
It's a pretty urban use.
Mark (42:58):
Yeah.
In fact De Husson, that's what,his family said he was doing is
basically moving between his,his house and his friend's
house.
A lot of people, if they live inMidtown and work downtown, they
take a bike.
You can get up into, reallyrugged mountain terrain via the
trail system, but you have towork to get up there
Marcy (43:14):
You mentioned it earlier in this story that, during the
day they're used by families bylike you said, professionals.
Kids have ridden their bikes onthe trails.
We use them to get to parks andto the beach and things like
that.
Mark (43:26):
We had our own favorite city park that's kind of in
that, area, but we never went toValley of the Moon much because
I worked in Spenard and I knewsome of the things that were
going on there.
Marcy (43:37):
Some of the things you wrote about were based on your
knowledge of the locations andthe homeless culture in
Anchorage.
Mark (43:42):
For a time I was coordinating response to
problems in homeless camps andwith the homeless population and
working programs in, aroundthem.
Also just a general policeofficer, you have a lot of
contact in the camps.
That familiarity with thelocations and how people were
living day to day, gave me a lotof insight.
I know that to kill the peoplehe did when he did, where he
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did, Richie had to be involvedwith that community.
That doesn't mean he was livingon the street.
I don't really actually knowwhere he, I think he was
flopping a lot of differentplaces, but he was close,
familiar with those hangouts.
You don't get to where he got atthe times he got there without
scouting and spending a lot oftime walking around on those
trails.
Marcy (44:24):
Can you talk about the composite sketch?
In this case, it seems like itwas amazingly close, but even
the people that knew him didn'trecognize him in the sketch.
Mark (44:34):
I agree.
Sometimes sketches are betteroff to check, you know, to
exclude possible suspects if youhave a solid lead.
The problem with composites isthat they can look like a lot of
people.
In this case, at the time of thecomposite Richie hadn't come up
yet as a strong suspect.
If he had, the sketch, would'vedefinitely given him added
attention.
What makes this composite awinner are certain features.
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If you look at his picture, theeyebrows are distinct and they
are right on.
The lips and high hairline arealso are right.
Marcy (45:05):
We'll add the video link and the composite sketch to the
show notes so you can take alook.
How do you get composites done?
Mark (45:12):
Well, this particular one was credited to the FBI, which
to me is unusual.
Usually we would do that.
I don't know if they had aspecial source or background to
work that, but at APD, thedetective units have access to
computer programs.
The way that happens is you justsit a victim or a witness down
and you run through the program,which presents facial feature
options, and they select whichone's closest.
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You do that until the personthat is your witness is
satisfied that that's as closeas they can get to the person
they saw.
Some detectives are moreknowledgeable or better at this
than others.
So generally in a given unit,you'd have a detective who,
would be the person to go to.
You'd schedule with them andthey would work that program.
There's several of theseprograms.
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Some of the ones that come tomind are Identi-kit, Faces,
Portrait Pad, there's severalothers, but those are probably
the most popular.
Marcy (46:04):
With no shell casings, how did they know the bullets
were fired from a Colt Python?
Mark (46:10):
There are criminalists whose specialty is examination
and comparison of firearms,bullets, casings, and everything
pertaining to firearms.
In this case, the pistol was arevolver, so it wasn't ejecting
casings that could be matched.
All they had were the firedbullets.
Either those came from, thescene.
Sometimes you get a bullet stuckin wood or a bullet you have to
dig out the ground.
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The experts can tell that markson a bullet were fired from a
certain type of barrel, becausethey get what's called lands and
grooves striations on theexterior part of the bullet.
Some of those with differentweapons are the same.
They have the same twist rateand everything.
They're difficult to tell apart,but the Colt Python, luckily had
a distinct pattern, it wastraced specifically.
They knew right away looking atthe pattern.
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They have a log of what the coldPython patterns would be like,
based on the twists and themeasurements of those lands and
grooves.
And they knew right away, it wasa Colt Python.
and for that reason, they could,match the individual bullets
together, as they were all firedfrom a Colt Python.
Marcy (47:08):
So when they saw that Colt Python laying on 5th
Avenue, after Salao wasattacked, do you think they
connected that to the othershootings right away?
Mark (47:16):
Yeah, the Colt Python's distinct.
It's no longer production.
It's considered a collector'spiece, I think it's partly
because the Dirty Harry, ClintEastwood guns.
This would be an unusual gun toencounter on the street.
It's pretty valuable now, Ithink they're running 1500 bucks
a piece.
Whereas a lot of, your averagepistols are five, 600 bucks and,
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some of the ones that you run onthe street are significantly
less.
If you ran into that as a patrolofficer, you'd be thinking, Hmm.
I wonder if this was stolen froma burglary or did somebody
borrow it from daddy'scollection or, something like
that.
But to answer your question afew months after I retired, I
happened to be speaking with anofficer colleague of mine, and
he's telling me, what I wasmissing at APD.
And I was flipping shim hitabout how the city had gone a
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hell in my absence.
The last record homicide yearhappened the year I got hired.
2016, the year following myretirement was looking like it
was gonna be break that record.
That's when he told me, inconfidence, they were looking
for a serial killer carryingthis distinctive gun.
I have no doubt they immediatelyrecognized it as it lay there
next to Richie.
Marcy (48:20):
The decision to not give the public complete information
about the linked murders turnedout to be very controversial.
Mark (48:28):
Yeah.
That decision was all about notlosing the ability to find that
gun.
The reasoning being, if they'dreleased the information,
focusing on the Colt Python, thesuspect would likely dispose of
it, get rid of evidence.
One of the things about being inthe detective unit, especially
with a bigger case is there's alot of debate about decisions in
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the investigations.
And it's healthy too, because,you don't work in a box, in the
dark.
You have a lot of opinions andespecially as a case officer,
you get to make a decision whatyou think is best, along with
the judgment of, potentiallyvery experienced investigators.
The healthiest detective unitshave that kind of give and take
where everybody's giving theiropinion and, not getting your
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feelings hurt if you don't havethe best idea.
I can see, why they made thedecision they did.
but I can also see the otherhand, releasing information
would've immediately gottenattention that the Muldoon
shooting alone didn't.
Remember the sketch at thatpoint up until the very end that
sketch of that man was onlylinked to the Muldoon shooting.
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I think if they had releasedthat, that sketch was
responsible for potentiallyfive, it would've gotten a lot
more attention and possibly,been able to get an ID.
And then even if the suspect,had dumped the gun, you could
investigate the link toownership of 357.
Incidentally when he left, forWest Virginia Richie left that
gun with a friend of his, andthat friend kept it all the way
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up until 2016 when he gave itback to Richie.
So there were investigatorroutes to the gun, even if the
gun had been dumped.
On the other hand, they put outa warning of danger on the
trails and roads late at night.
Part of the calculation wasprobably that putting out too
much information wouldjeopardize the investigation
while doing no good.
The trails in Anchorage arecomfort zones for people.
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There's a ton of denial aboutpersonal safety.
I would've had no confidencethat people are gonna heed that
warning.
I hate to say this.
There are parts of Anchoragethat are dangerous, particularly
at night, particularly forwomen, particularly for women
who are alone.
Keep in mind, that's true oflots of places in our country,
both urban and rural.
Marcy (50:36):
The shooting involving Officer Salao was caught on
video.
Let's talk about that.
Mark (50:42):
Yeah.
We're gonna link to it.
It's both his car video and thevideo of Sergeant Patske's car.
The video's chilling.
I'm sure it's that way foreverybody watching it, but I
worked a lot in the downtownarea.
This happened the backside ofthe Office Depot building, just
a few blocks down from oursubstation, where back in the
day I processed dozens of DUIs.
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It's just a block east of theFBI Anchorage building.
It's also chilling to me becausea lot of police contacts are
just like this.
If you're an officer trying tostop someone to talk to them on
the street and they're walkingaway, you're not gonna run down
there.
You're gonna call on your PAsystem,"hey sir, please stop,
police." And you gauge theirresponse.
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A lot of foot pursuits startfrom this situation.
It's better to be in your carchasing, especially if the dude
turns out to be a gazelle.
Believe me, it's easier to catcha gazelle if you followed him
for five or 10 blocks before youexit your car.
I've been shot at, but not fromclose range.
I've been attacked unexpectedly,thankfully not with a gun.
This incident is the nightmareyou hope never happens.
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The first time I watched thevideo, I started sweating.
Part of it was a familiarity ofsetting and the time of day and
activity.
Having made many, many contactsin the middle of the night from
my car, you never know how it'sgonna go.
In this case, there, were telltales that it wasn't gonna be
easy contact.
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It's unusual for somebody to bewalking in front of you with you
slow rolling behind in a policecruiser.
Like I described, they can hearyou back there.
You can hear a car, even from ablock behind you.
It's November, so it's alreadykind of icy.
It's cold.
You've got the click click clickof, studs on, asphalt.
You're kind of holding back.
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You call out to dispatch, lethim know where you are, the
suspect description in casesomething goes bad.
And it's unusual for a person tonot even look back, right?
You're at least gonna get aglance almost all the time.
A lot of people will, especiallyif they're alone will kind of
turn and shrug and inquisitivelook like"you want to talk to
me?" And that's how it normallygoes.
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Richie was doing what I call ablinders walk, telegraphing that
at the very least he didn't wantto contact with police, which
isn't uncommon.
But it's one of those subtlesignals.
People go to ludicrous lengthswith the blinders walk.
The problem is if you're apolice officer who has to stop
them as part of your duty, youdon't know what their response
is gonna be when you actuallyrun up and make contact.
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Thankfully a sudden attack witha pistol is very rare.
The fact that Officer Salaodidn't just roll up and jump out
and engage, probably saved hislife.
Because what happenned is itallowed time for the cover
officer who happened to be closeto hear that the subject wasn't
stoppin.
That tactical delay allowed thesecond officer to get there in
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time to shoot back.
When I was working on nightshift, that's part of the mid
shift culture.
The expectation for officers, ifyou're not tied up and an
officer's gonna make contact,you start rolling that way.
Particularly if that contactdoesn't seem quite right and you
get to know the people you'reworking with so well, you can
hear the inflection of concernin their voice.
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I can't tell you how many timesI was headed, to cover somebody,
when it blew up into a bigincident.
or when my shit was weak, thecavalry having heard the
inflection in my voice wasalready close.
There is no better feeling whenyou're in a fight with a
suspect, maybe you're on theground in the dark on the side
of the road than hearing yourcover car go 10-7, meaning help
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has arrived.
You know, just talking aboutthat makes me wanna go back.
Officer Salao was seriouslyhurt, but he eventually
recovered and chose to continuehis career as a police officer.
He later made commercials forthe blood bank.
One of the things he credits fora survival is the blood
transfusions he was able toreceive immediately following
the shooting.
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In the commercials, he thankedhis donors and asked that people
consider donation.
During my career, I had threefriends that were murdered on
duty.
Additionally, two officers wereshot and nearly killed on my
shift while I was working as asupervisor.
Both of those officers whonearly died, battled back, just
like Officer Salao and returnedto serve and protect their city.
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I couldn't have more respect fortheir courage.
May God bless these men andwomen and keep them safe.
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The boy's fit young body reminded Envy of his glory days
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Envy wandered the city.
He traveled to areas where hethought he would find people
living their private lives inpublic areas.
In short, he wanted to walkamongst people he could easily
look down upon.
He was familiar with severalareas that fit that bill.
His city was banded with verdantparks, wild lands and waterways.
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These green belts, crisscrossedby paved trails that provided
hiking and biking access toevery corner of the city, even
up into the Chugach Mountainrange.
Certain locations, particularlywhere paths, bus routes and
social services converged werepopular hangout spots for the
homeless and teens alike.
The general rule was thelocations had to be far enough
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away from residences andbusinesses to limit constant
calls to the police.
Envy would never admit it tohimself, but these places
attracted him for the samereason they attracted the other
counter-culturists, young andold.
Envy was in his forties now,which was not young, but he
wanted to have a good time.
Sometimes he kind of liked thepeople he met.
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Although he always looked downon them.
They didn't have his gifts, hispotential.
He always felt sorry for theyoung ones.
They hadn't yet learned thatlife was just gonna screw them
over regardless of theirpotential.
Sometimes he'd just walk up andjoin a group.
They'd share their shit, maybesome beer.
And it was a nice time.
Other times he grew quicklyannoyed by their stupidity.
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Their carefree attitudes chafedhis nerves.
That was the case on July 3rd,2016 on the bike path down by
Ship Creek.
There was this guy.
He was the same age as Envy,maybe older.
Homeless.
Sometimes it's hard to tell.
Homelessness is a hard life andsometimes 30 looks 60.
There was this young chickhanging out with him.
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She looked young, maybe 20.
Envy thought,'what the fuck isshe doing with this loser?' He
tried to talk to the girlthinking,'well, if she likes
this homeless dude, why not?'But something's wrong with the
young chick.
'She's a box of rocks' and thehomeless guy was pissed.
'Fuck him,' Envy thought.
The girl must just like homelessguy for his dope.
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'Fuck her too.' Envy stared atthem.
And he made a decision.
Envy's hand was in his jacketpocket, firmly wrapped around
the grip of his Colt Python.
The 357 Magnum spoke to himabout power.
Envy chuckled to himself,imagining what was about to
happen.
His thoughts were so vivid, theyfelt like a premonition and the
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premonition was prophecy.
A divine message of who he couldbe.
The two subjects before Envy.
Well, they weren't smart enoughto know his plan.
Envy he smiled as he slowlypulled the pistol out of his
pocket and into view.
The girl glanced over first,blowing out a surprise breath
and then smiled in disbelief.
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She thought it was a joke.
Or did she think Envy was ajoke?
Homeless dude sitting facing thechick cued on the girl's
reaction and looked at Envy.
Homeless didn't take the Magnumas a joke.
He had long experience with theinsane cruelty of the street.
Death often appeared suddenlyand unexpectedly.
Envy saw that recognition inHomeless's eyes.
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Envy only paused long enough forhomeless to shift as he lifted
his palm and yelled,"hey, wait!"The first blast overwhelmed the
next words.
Five quick, but efficient shotsfollowed.
Homeless and the Chick, even asbullets tore through them, tried
to flee, but bullet shockedflesh was unable to comply with
the brain's desperate orders.
Both flopped to the ground; thechick in effectually trying to
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crawl away while Homelesschuffed his last blood spattered
breaths.
Envy nervously glanced around.
After all, they were on the sideof a trail and all the shots
still ringing in his ears weremuch louder than he had
imagined.
But he sensed no one around.
He took the time to watch hiskills until even the tiniest
shutters stopped.
Even then the hearts moved bloodout in a slow trickle.
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Their crimson streams met.
When the surface tension broke,mingled, the two sources became
one and then slowly grew largerwith time.
Envy watched fascinated.
The two on the ground below himhad each existed for years,
breathing constantly theirhearts beating for decades in a
seemingly endless tempo until hedecided otherwise.
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In a life full ofdisappointments, Envy had
finally found something thatlived up to his expectations.
As Clint Eastwood said in thatmovie, it's a hell of a thing
killing a man.
You take away all he's got andall he's ever gonna have." envy,
rolling the 357 side to sideadmiring its form, imagined
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himself as Dirty Hairy.
The warm adrenal after glow feltlike power surging through his
body.
In the month after his ShipCreek kill, Envy had spent his
free time, which was almostunlimited, wandering along the
trails and into the back eddiesof his city.
These were the places wheregarbage was deposited, just like
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in a river or stream.
The people he met there were thehomeless, the drunks and the
kids who were going nowherefast.
He spent time reflecting on theShip Creek kill.
The man, scum, probably livingin a tent, scraping together
what he could for that day'shigh.
The girl, even lower, dumb asshit and willing to debase
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herself to catch crumbs the dudewas willing to sprinkle on her
as she'd groveled dirty need infront of him.
Anyway, he was proud of himselffor taking the initiative to rid
his city of those two.
Earlier that day, July 28 hadbeen a good one.
Envy had spent much of it with agroup he'd stumbled across in
the woods on the east side.
They seemed happy to share withhim and not demand anything in
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return.
Some camps were like that.
You could wander in quietly,observe without obligation and
then wander away.
Although it had been a month andEnvy had the itch to kill, there
hadn't been an opportunity.
He appreciated, even cultivatedrandom pattern in his life,
having confidence.
It would keep the police fromidentifying him.
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His selection of targets wasbased on fate, which he
understood to be the finalarrangement of reality from
infinite variability.
But sometimes it just boileddown to whether he liked someone
or if there were too manywitnesses or more importantly,
if somebody pissed him off.
Envy knew that he would mow downa crowd to get to the right
shithead.
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But today he was magnanimous,allowing the people he passed to
live another day.
So it was, that Envy wanderedaway from that group early in
the morning of July 29th.
That time of year, middle of thenight meant it was only dusky
for a few hours.
Envy was restless.
If he wasn't gonna make his nextkill here, he decided to move
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back to the west side.
He had a couple of places inmind and headed out of the woods
into the adjacent neighborhood.
Envy surveyed the houses for acar or a bicycle to steal.
It was 3:00 AM.
Aside from the television lightsflickering against the curtains
here and there, he saw noactivity.
Then he sensed movement down thestreet, way off to the west.
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There was somebody on a bicyclepeddling toward him.
Envy thought,"what kind of lowlife fucker is out here, riding
a bike at this time of night?"He stepped off the road into
concealment, behind a clump ofunkept landscaping.
As the bicycle progressed, Envysaw that the rider was a skinny
black man, or maybe a kid.
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As the bike proceeded, Envydecided he must be about high
school age.
"What could he be doing out hereat this hour?
Couldn't be anything good." Hethought,"dope delivery?" As the
rider approached Envy steppedconfidently from cover and
walked along the street.
The boy didn't sense theintercept course until it was
too late.
Envy raised his pistol at thelast moment, fired and continued
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firing, tracking the boy as hetried to veer away.
The rider fell and skidded,crashed down hard against the
pavement.
It looked like a mass of armsand legs tangled with the
bicycle in a heap at the edge ofthe street.
Envy didn't miss a step stridingup to the graceless heap, he
took a moment to survey andsavor the new kill.
The boy's fit young bodyreminded Envy of his glory days
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in high school.
The adulation of spectators,attention of the girls, the
glory and promise of high schoolhad led him nowhere.
He snapped back to focus.
He was a street predator livingthe life.
There was no apparent dopestash, but the bike was nice.
He wondered who the kid hadstolen it from.
Envy reasoned, you can't rete astolen bike, so he yanked it
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away from the dying boy, mountedit and rode away.
Envy had a choice to make afterlast month's kill.
He'd been surprised by thepublicity on the kid in Muldoon.
Something about the boy made himthink about the high school
days.
A week later, he found out why.
He read in the paper that theboy was the son of his high
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school friend, Bobby Thompson.
Envy's best friend in highschool was Bobby's brother
Quincy, who had been murderedthe summer after graduation.
Envy killed the nephew of hisbest friend.
He rolled that around in hismind for a few days before
deciding it was all just part ofthe game.
There was nothing he could doabout it now.
Besides it wasn't like Bobby, awell known player had ever
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reached out and offered him anyof his action.
A few days later, he began tofeel good that it had been
Bobby's son.
The cops probably just assumedthe kid was blow back on the
family.
Retribution from something Bobbyhad done.
With this in his mind, Envy'sjudgment was that no course
correction was necessary.
As his self-imposed month, longwaiting period ended.
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He felt that heat and fear onthe trails was going down.
It was a big year for murder inhis city, and Envy was doing his
part.
But he didn't wanna make amistake.
Didn't wanna find himself behindbars.
Fuck that.
He'd die before he ever wentback to prison.
Envy used the intervening month,the same way he had before and
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after the prior kills, findinghis next spot.
He had some selected, buteverything depended on fate.
On August 28th Envy's timerclicked and it was hunting
season again.
At night he began walking,finding himself along Chester
Creek trail.
He passed the Anchorage SportsComplex and, finding no one
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there, he proceeded west.
As Envy walked the tunnels underA and then C streets, he was
almost giddy with excitement.
Who would fate present as thenext sacrifice?
But neither tunnel nor blockbetween was occupied at this
late hour.
Nor did he see anybody along thecreek at the edge of the woods,
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as he moved toward the woodedpark land.
Valley of the Moon Park wassandwiched in a steep sided
valley through which one of thecity salmon streams, Chester
Creek, ran.
The valley separated downtown tothe north from Midtown to the
south.
There were houses along thesides of the valley, but dense
woods gave the area a feeling ofisolation, an island of
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wilderness in the middle ofurban sprawl.
The Eastern half of the parkalong C street was also densely
wooded.
While the west side was wellused, nicely manicured city
park.
Envy knew that during the day,the park with its massive
spaceship, jungle gym andgazebos was popular with
families and children.
Many Anchorage kids hadcelebrated summer birthdays
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there.
Valley the Moon Park at nightwas another story.
Neighborhood teenagers andhomeless emerged from their
homes and hovelss and engagedthe park facilities for their
own more adult recreation.
Envy knew this mix ofinhabitants sometimes
precipitated violence.
He'd noted over the years,fights stabbings, even gang
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rapes had gone down in thisbeloved yet tarnished heart of
the city.
As a setting for a kill, it wasperfect.
It wasn't until he came to thecleared parkland that he saw
someone, a man sitting aloneunder the gazebo closest to the
creek.
Envy was disappointed that theman was alone, but his eagerness
overcame indecision.
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Envy watched the man who seemedto be talking to himself, almost
arguing with himself.
Envy walked closer, his handgripping the 357 Magnum tightly.
Senses, fully alert and scanningfor anyone else in the open
area.
Sensing no one Envy closed thedistance.
The target heard and sensedmovement coming from behind and
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to the right.
The man remained seated, butturned on the bench and leaned
towards Envy who imagined thetarget was squinting, trying to
resolve this figure through thedarkness.
The target said something angryand incoherent.
Envy thought,"not just drunk.
He's crazy too." Crazy or not,the Target's tone was not
acceptable.
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Envy wasn't gonna let anyone,especially this crazy drunk
piece of shit talk to him likethat.
Envy pulled the pistol, extendedit and gave the target the
answer to the question'who wasstanding in the darkness of the
Valley of the Moon Park?' It wasdeath.
Death has come for you.
After firing several shots intothe man under the gazebo, Envy
got up close to admire his skillwith the pistol.
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When the first bullet hit, theman had stood bolt upright as if
preparing a flee, but thesuccessive barrage brought him
crashing forward across thepicnic table.
He wasn't quite dead, but it wasclear he was headed there.
Envy was quiet, respectful,listening for the man's
valediction, but all he heardwas a whimper and a wheeze.
And then nothing.
Envy stood and surfed the nowfamiliar adrenaline surge,
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savoring, that sameinvincibility that came with the
prior kills.
Then he sensed movement.
Still a good distance away, butdefinitely coming towards him.
Envy prepared his weapon inanticipation of fate's new gift.
There were sporadic lights alongthe trail.
When movement flashed beneathone of the distant lights Envy
saw a single man in darkclothing, riding a 10 speed.
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The path he was following wouldbring him close.
It was only 30 feet between theCreek and the gazebo, and the
path ran between the two.
Envy, in dark clothing of hisown, moved to weight in the dim
periphery of one of the lightcones.
As the man pedaled close, Envycould see that he was a young
white guy.
At least the media will see hewas an equal opportunity
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executioner.
This time, the sacrifice neversaw fate coming.
The shots were on point and thesacrifice skidded to the ground,
piling up an Envy's feet, as ifit was fate's offering to him.
The thrill of the kill, the newsupplicant in the throws of
death beneath his feet, all ofEnvy's feelings of inadequacy
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were washed away.
The world had screwed Envy over,but he had found the courage to
fight back.
As Envy walked out of the Valleyof the Moon Park, he knew that
fate owed him more payback.
It was mid-November no killssince Valley of the Moon Park.
The problem was the damn cops.
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They brought intense heat on hishunting grounds and he had a
couple of close calls.
In the media, there was a lot offocus on the number of shootings
in the parks, and he couldn'tget credit for them all.
It was a record killing year inhis city.
Apparently, it wasn't just Envywho was tired of the bullshit.
So being smart, he'd beendisciplined, played the long
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game.
He finally found his callinglike that Def leopard song, Hey!
He had something to say! But hewasn't gonna burn out or fade
away! This shitty world and thefucking people in it were gonna
fear him for a long time tocome.
Such was Envy's outlook as heroamed the city through the
months of September and October.
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He'd been cautious.
But mid-November, it was greenlight time again, so carrying
his Magnum, he ventured out topay society back for fucking his
life over.
He went downtown, arriving intime for bar break chaos.
It was Saturday morning and thedebris and detritis that
stumbled out of the bars andstaggered through the streets
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would make perfect targets andhorrible witnesses.
Envy walked alone, face covered,everything cinched up for the
cold, and for anonymity.
He heard a car slow rollingbehind him, it's tire studs
clicking on black ice.
He didn't turn to look.
If it was a cop, he'd let himpass by, like they had countless
times in recent months.
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But this car wasn't passing.
Envy picked up the paceslightly, gripping the Magnum in
his coat pocket.
He had time to consider.
If it's a cop, should he run?
No death is stoic.
Death doesn't run.
If it's a cop, they representedsociety that had fucked him
over.
He wasn't going to be doing therunning.
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He was gonna be doing thekilling.
He damn sure wasn't gonna goback to prison.
Fate would roll in his favor.
Right about then, Envy heard thesquad car's public address
speaker crackle to life, sir,please stop." Envy felt the
beloved jolt of adrenaline, butit was soured this time with
fear.
He thought,"the fucking copshave ruined my life.
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Now I'm gonna ruin theirs." ThePA system barked again with the
same request.
Envy hadn't broken stride orlooked back as he traversed two
city blocks with the cop in tow.
The only thing that changed wasthe pace of his respirations
vying to keep up with the beatof his heart.
Envy had once read that the Armytaught its infantry troops, that
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the only thing to do whenambushed was to ferociously
attack the threat.
That was his plan as he spunsuddenly 180 degrees to confront
the officer.
To Envy's surprise, there wasnot one set of headlights behind
him, but two.
It was the moment of truth, andEnvy put his trust in fate.
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Ship Creek.
Two people shot dead, layingnear each other on the ground;
positioned like maybe they triedto get away.
Homeless party spot off the biketrail, along a salmon stream,
running through the middle of anindustrial area.
No known witnesses.
A few hours old.
Reported by a lady out for herSunday morning bike ride.
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The crime was brutal both fromthe standpoint of what had been
done to the victims, and fromthe perspective of the case
detective's assessment ofsolvability.
The victims, a 41 year old manand a 20 year old woman each
sustained several gunshots.
They were laid out at whatlooked like a party spot, a
little off ship Creek biketrail.
The area was strewn with debriscommon to this type of area,
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making it difficult to figureout what was trash and what if
anything was related to theshooting?
The detectives had seen thisbefore.
These scenes never made thecase.
There were no fingerprints, nofootprints, and no weapon.
There wasn't even any shellcasings, which meant one of two
things, a revolver or shooterwho kept his head after killing
two people.
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Not good.
The detective knew it would comedown to the interviews.
Maybe the scuttlebutt aroundBrother Francis shelter, which
was only a couple blocks to thesouth.
If they were lucky they couldtrack down a gun and the
ballistics would match.
In any event, this case wasn'tstarting off well.
Most homicides have a context, aframe of reference from which to
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start.
This one was way too ambiguousfor investigators to be
optimistic.
Later, after the detailedprocessing, members of the
police search team would usemetal detectors to comb a patch
of woods between the trail andthe Creek.
Then the Anchorage FireDepartment would come and do
what they referred to as awashdown of the scene, erasing
the biological fact of what hadhappened the morning before.
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Over the following days, acanvas came back without result.
There were rumors as therealways were, but those were so
far fetched and without a sourceto be immediately dismissed.
Some of the businesses producedgrainy surveillance videos of
figures in the surroundingblocks that were suspicious only
because the timing coincidedwith the best guests on the
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shooting.
The problem was, there werealways people wandering around
the blocks around the shelter.
The victimology wasn't much helpeither.
Jason Netter 41 was a long termhomeless man.
He hustled low-end drugs andstolen property to pay for a
meager habit.
He'd been in and out of jail forminor offenses for years.
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In fact, he'd just been releasedfrom a two month stretch, two
days before his murder.
20-year-old Brianna Foisy was asad case.
She had an intellectualdisability from Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder.
She had been homeless stayingwhere she could, and based on
interviews, it seemed likeBrianna was hanging out with
Jason Netter because he tookcare of her in some fashion,
whether it be his shelter or thedrugs.
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Muldoon.
Detectives arrived at the sceneof a shooting in the Muldoon
area of Anchorage in the earlymorning hours of Friday, July
29th, 2016.
A young man lying dead in thestreet.
The area is an older residentialneighborhood, tightly packed
with duplexes and single familybuildings on small lots.
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The victim was identified byfamily members as 21-year-old
Treavyonkindle Bobby DwayneThompson, known widely, simply
as Trey.
The investigation confirmed whatwitnesses were saying.
Trey had just finished a shiftat work, and was at the end of
the ride home when he waskilled.
The man who shot him, stole hisbike and rode it away.
The victim background on TreyThompson was unremarkable to
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police.
He was largely unknown to theinvestigators, but his father's
name caught their attention.
The victim's father, BobbyThompson was widely acknowledged
even by himself to be a violentcareer gangster criminal.
Bobby started his first decadein the federal prison, just as
his son Trey was born.
And it would turn out to be hissecond decade in the federal pen
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had started just before Trey haddied.
With Trey's pedigree in mind,detectives had to examine the
possibility that Bobby's son waseither following on dad's path
or that his dad's life had takenits karma out on the boy.
When investigators started theirvictimology, they were sadden to
learn that Trey was not livingthe life patterned after his
father.
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Quite the opposite.
Trey appeared to be ahardworking, smart, responsible
guy.
As far as the other theory thatTrey had been the victim of
payback against his father, thedetectives could find no
evidence.
Witnesses near the shootingscene told police they saw a man
walking around in the woods,east of the houses earlier that
night.
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After hearing gunshots around3:00 AM, they said the same man
was pulling Trey's bike fromwhere he laid dying on the
street and then using it to fleethe scene.
The witnesses were able tocontribute to a composite sketch
of the shooter, but no one inThompson's family or in the
neighborhood recognized the manin the picture.
Investigators knew the end ofDubin street, west of Bolan was
a trailhead for unauthorizedpaths through the woods that led
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to illegal camping areas on theedge of military land.
In the days following TreyThompson's murder, the Alaska
State Crime Lab matched bulletsfrom the Ship Creek double
homicide to Trey Thompson'smurder.
It was the same cult Python,357.
The investigators decided towithhold this information from
the public.
Another insight from the Muldooncanvas was that the shooter had
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been captured on a neighbor'svideo surveillance system.
The images were not clear.
It was a wide shot from theeaves of the house, but using
comparison with other knownitems in the frame, the
suspect's height could beaccurately estimated.
Investigators still didn't knowwho he was, but they could say
with confidence, it was a whiteguy around six foot four.
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Valley of the Moon.
On Sunday, August 28th, 2016,just before 2:00 AM Anchorage
police were called to Valley ofthe Moon Park for a man who was
found dead on the bike trailthat runs parallel to Chester
Creek.
When the officers arrived, theysaw young white male lying dead
on the trail with a blue bicyclenearby.
From obvious injuries and bodyposition, it appeared that the
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man had been shot while ridingand collapsed.
Almost immediately, officersrealized that there was a man in
the nearby gazebo who had alsobeen shot and killed.
Ever since the Ship Creek andMuldoon murders were linked,
investigators were watching,waiting for exactly what they
were seeing in this case.
Persons shot to death withoutcontext.
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For example, no precipitatingfight, no witnesses.
And despite multiple shots beingfired, no shell casings evident.
As with the Ship Creek case, theAPD search team combed the area
with metal detectors and foundno spent brass or anything else
of interest.
Part of any good murderinvestigation is the
victimology.
This study is particularlyimportant in unknown suspect
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crimes because who the victimwas, who they associated with is
often the path to finding whowas most likely to have killed
them.
The victim under the gazebo wasidentified as Kevin Turner, 34.
At the time he was murdered,Kevin was living on the street.
Like many homeless people, hesuffered from mental illness,
specifically schizophrenia andbipolar disorder.
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Although Kevin had documentedconflict with people due to his
mental illness, detectives wereunable to link him with any
viable suspects.
Investigators were unable tofind a link between Kevin Turner
and the second victim, Brie deHusson, 25.
De Husson was a community socialand environmental activist.
According to relatives, heregularly traveled around the
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city on his bicycle via thetrail system.
Their best guess was that Breewas riding to see one of his,
several friends in the area.
Investigators looking at thescene and the circumstances
agreed that De Husson was justin the wrong place at the wrong
time.
That also meant, apart from thescan crime scene evidence, De
Husson would not be providing aworkable link to the shooter.
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The bullets recovered from thescene and from the bodies at
autopsy were submitted to theAlaska State Crime Lab for
ballistics comparison.
And as the investigatorssuspected, the markings matched
those fired in the Ship Creekand Muldoon murders.
That made a total of five knowndead in three incidents.
It was confirmation thatAnchorage had a new serial
killer.
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In police, detective parlance,2016 was the year the Anchorage
homicide unit got slammed.
The Valley of the Moon doublehomicides were the 24th and 25th
murders of the year.
The all time annual high for thecity was 29 killings, and there
was still a lot of year left in2016.
8 of the murders so far thatyear had been double homicides.
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With an arrest in only one ofthose cases to date.
APD homicide detectivesgenerally average a solve rate
greater than 80%, which issignificantly higher than the
rate for the rest of the state.
In 2016, at the time of theValley of the Moon shootings,
their clearance rate for theyear was well below their
average.
And with each successivekilling, public outcry grew
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louder.
The investigators were releasinglimited information on many of
the cases.
With the string of shootingsthat were linked to the Colt
Python, the police had notdisclosed any relationship.
The closest they came was ageneral warning to the public to
be cautious using the city'strail system, and avoid using
them at night due to recentviolence.
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Privately, the policedepartment, cobbled together
units and law enforcementpartners to form a shooter task
force.
This began a massive effort tosort and investigate the flood
of incoming tips, whilesimultaneously combing the
city's homeless camps and partyspots, in an effort to identify
a suspect or witnesses.
On November 12th, 2016, APDofficer Arn Salao was working a
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midnight shift in the downtownarea.
He was dispatched to a cabdefraud, meaning that a customer
of a cab had taken a ride, andonce at the destination had fled
without payment.
Officer Salao arrived in thegeneral area, saw a man walking
on the south sidewalk of 5thAvenue near Cordova Street.
The man was the only one insight.
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They were still a few blockseast of the busier bar break
areas, so the man was a possiblesuspect or witness to the cab
defraud.
Officer Salao called in hisobservations to APD dispatch as
he followed the man at adistance.
The man never turned to lookback, even when Officer Salao
called out on his cruiser'spublic address system, asking
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the man to stop.
Salau intended to press theissue, so he moved in closer to
contact the man.
Suddenly, the subject turned 180degrees, simultaneously drawing
a pistol, taking several stridestowards the police car.
The subject began firing intothe car.
Despite being shot severaltimes, Officer Salao engaged in
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a fight at the door of his car.
Having heard Officer Salao'scall and updates, Sergeant Mark
Patske was in the area andheaded to back Officer Salao up.
Sergeant Patsy arrived in timeto see the suspect turn and
approach Salao's car as hepulled a gun.
Patske exited his vehicle andimmediately fired on the
suspect.
In the barrage of returngunfire, the suspect collapsed
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to the sidewalk.
Dead.
In the exchange Officer Salaowas shot four times in the
abdomen.
He was taken to the hospitalwhere he underwent a series of
life saving surgeries.
Almost immediately after OfficerSalao left the shooting scene,
one of the officers placed thegun.
Recognition of the gun led tothe next realization.
For weeks, police officers hadbeen on the lookout for a Colt
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Python and a white guy estimatedto be around six, four.
The Colt Python was laying onthe ground next to a guy, and he
sure looked well over six foot.
Bingo.
The shooting scene was treatedlike all over the major crime
scenes and was cordened off formeticulous processing of
documenting items and theirprecise locations.
The gun was taken to the stateof Alaska Crime Lab, where the
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request for ballisticscomparison was completed without
delay.
The Colt Python was determinedto be a match in all five
murders and the officer involvedshooting.
The man that attacked OfficerSalao was taken to the Alaska
State Crime Lab and autopsied.
He was identified as James DaleRichie, a 40-year-old white
male.
At six, four, he matched theheight estimate of the Muldoon
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shooting suspect.
Investigators began to look atwho Richie was for two reasons.
First they needed to besatisfied he was the one and
only shooter.
Second, everyone victimsfamilies, officers, and the
community as a whole needed toknow why, if why was knowable.
Richie was born November 4th,1976 in Anchorage, Alaska.
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He grew up with his parents andtwo sisters living in Wonder
Park area, which is a northcentral neighborhood in the
city.
Richie distinguished himself asan intelligent boy, if was
somewhat an underachiever withacademics.
People who knew Richie in highschool characterized him as a
happy and super smart person.
His SAT scores were well aboveaverage.
One of his neighbors said he wasknowledgeable about computers
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and willing to lend a hand.
He went to East High School andexcelled at sports, playing key
positions in the 1994 statebasketball and football
championships.
He rubbed elbows with histeammates who later went onto
the pros like Mao Tosi, who didfour years for the NFL and
Trajon Langdon who played forthe NBA.
Richie himself was recruited forcollege football by division two
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schools.
Richie echewed the smallerschool opportunity, deciding
instead to try to walk on as afootball player at West
Virginia.
He told people he'd be studyingchemical engineering.
Before he left town, Richie'sbest friend Quincy Thompson was
shot and killed.
People who were close to Richiesaid he took Quincy's death
hard.
Richie's transition to collegelife did not go as planned.
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He did not make the footballteam and he dropped out of his
courses after the firstsemester.
Instead he returned to Anchorageand became a drug dealer.
Between 1994 and 1998, Richiewas involved in serious criminal
activity related to narcotics.
He was shot.
He was looped into a homeinvasion robbery of rival drug
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dealers.
During that crime Richie left afingerprint on duct tape used to
secure a woman who wasn't eveninvolved.
She was the mother of one of histargets.
That investigation led to a raidon Richie's apartment, where he
tried to pull a gun on police.
In the search, the investigatorsnetted saleable amounts of
crack, cash and ammunition.
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This first case netted Richiealmost no jail time, but he took
his first felony conviction andprobation time.
At sentencing, he wrote ofremorse telling the judge that
he quote"lay in bed every nightthinking about how I ruined my
life.
I sit up crying, wishing I couldgo back to when I was in high
school." Richie also wrote thathe would've"chosen a small
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division two school to go playfootball at instead of a
division one college" For hisfuture plans, he wrote,"I wanna
finish college, raise a familyand buy a house.
Instead as a felon, I'll neverbe able to get a good job." End
quote.
The words of contrition didn'ttranslate into acts.
Between 1998 and 2007, Richieentered into a cycle of arrests
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for new street crimes orviolations of conditions of
probation and parole, and was inand out of state's custody.
The longest term was a two yearstretch where he was arrested
for first degree burglary duringan east Anchorage break in.
Ominously, officers caught himcarrying several sets of flex
cuff restraints, and he haddumped two guns in the
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residence.
After the prison time, Richiefollowed his parents who were
living in Virginia.
He lived in Broadway, Virginiawith them until February, 2016,
at which time he moved back toAnchorage.
Within a week of the downtownshootout, homicide investigators
and APD brass called families ofvictims together for a meeting,
where they laid out a completecase synopsis.
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Following the family meeting wasa scheduled press briefing
where, for the first time, itwas revealed that officers had
known, they were looking for onesuspect in the Ship Creek,
Muldoon and Valley of the Moonkillings.
They confirmed that the followup investigation led them to the
conclusion that the suspect wasthe same man, Richie, that was
responsible for the attack onOfficer Salao.
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Mark, the media dubbed Richie,the midnight sun killer.
Why did they choose that?
Mark (35:47):
Well, they also tried on the Anchorage serial killer, but
considering the number of thosewe had in the recent years.
Yeah.
It didn't work.
I'll put a plug in here.
I've been saving some of thosefor later episodes.
Anyway, Anchorage has had morethan its fair share of serial
killers.
So it went to midnight sunbecause he killed in the early
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morning hours where people werepresumably more active in the
summer, and that's why they'reout on the paths because of the
extra sunlight.
But lemme tell you the killingsand activity and the Anchorage
bike trails had very little todo with the amount of sun or the
season.
The timing on these crimes hasmore to do with the patterns of
the homeless community than themidnight sun.
Marcy (36:29):
Why do you call him Envy?
Mark (36:32):
If you listen to the other episodes, in some of the cases,
I'm writing a narrative where Ihave partially dramatized the
story.
Obviously there are incidentswhere no one knows exactly what
was said because only thesuspect has lived to tell the
tale and his account should behighly suspect when it isn't
backed by solid evidence.
So where evidence and statementsare light on details, what we
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have is the ability to seecurrent motivations and past
statements and actions.
That's how I formed thenarrative.
Marcy (37:01):
How did that go with Richie?
Mark (37:04):
In my reading of Richie, I see a man with great potential
in high school star athlete in agroup of star athletes.
Classmates called him a brain.
He had very high test scores.
His peers thought of him as atotal package.
But here's a guy like so manywho are labeled the total
package that has a fatal flaw.
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He leaves high school and thinkshe doesn't have to work at it.
Or he doesn't actually reallyhave the skills people give him
credit for.
You know, he passes onreasonable opportunities and
almost immediately failsdisastrously.
Most people, especially youngpeople who suffer setbacks like
that, maybe they take some timeto recover, but recover they do.
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Well, Richie didn't.
So after failing to get on theWest Virginia football team and
quitting after the firstsemester of college, he went
home and he lived with hisparents.
He worked himself into someserious street crimes.
But most importantly, he becameangry that all of his potential
didn't pay off.
In this respect, I looked at himlike the Son of Sam killer.
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Here's a guy with a high IQ, butdoesn't have anything going for
him.
No good jobs.
Girls won't touch him with a 10foot pole because well, he's
angry and weird, and as nothinggoing on.
And as the years go by, it justgets sadder and sadder and he
gets madder and madder.
Does he get even with the peoplewho control society, the pillars
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of our community?
No.
He lashes out at the poorordinary people.
He is around every day and hedoes it for petty personal
reasons.
I call him Envy because hekilled five people in an
extended infantile tantrumbecause he didn't get what he
wanted from life.
Marcy (38:48):
Related to the narrative issue, we often discuss if I
think that you've gone too farwith that assessment of the
suspect.
How do you feel about it withRichie?
Mark (38:57):
We've talked about some of the things I write.
Discussed whether I've gone toofar with what is available.
Some things I have pulled backon.
I've got a good example of howthat works, and the kind of
thing that has allowed me tomake judgements on Richie and
other suspects.
Within a week of Muldoon, Richieknew he had killed his high
school best friend's nephew.
Richie spent a lot of time withthe Thompson family in high
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school, so much so that BobbyThompson's mother used to call
Richie her other son.
When Richie found out about thisconnection, and I have no doubt
that he knew about theconnection, because there was a
lot of media on it and peoplelike him are going to look at
that media and see what thepolice might know and see, what
the coverage was like.
So when he knew, when he findsout, his best friend's nephew
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that he killed, was he filledwith a regret and remorse?
Did he worry about inadvertentlyshooting a person who might
matter to him?
No.
The next people he killed werealso unknown quantities,
particularly Bre de Houston inthe Valley of the Moon Park.
Marcy (39:56):
Do you think that Richie's best friend being
murdered, had anything to dowith his subsequent problems?
Mark (40:02):
Who knows?
But I tend to think not.
For the majority of people, theeffect of something like that
would be to motivate them toescape street crime life.
For Richie, it did the opposite.
He got further in.
I mentioned the home invasionwhere he taped up a rival dope
dealer's mother.
Well, that shows he was in verydeep.
That particular crime isreserved for some of the worst
criminals operating in a city.
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It's one step away fromkidnap-ransoms like they have
regularly in Mexico.
Those types of crimes can easilyspiral into homicides or
retribution shootings.
Marcy (40:35):
What factors made this a particularly difficult set of
cases to solve?
Mark (40:41):
First, you lack context.
In a lot of murders, you havewitnesses who can tell you
exactly who did it, or, exactlywho's likely to have done it.
The more tenuous, the linkbetween suspect and victim, the
more difficult the crime, can beto solve.
That's why, the drug relatedmurders in cities like LA in the
mid nineties where the peopleshooting and the people getting
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shot had no connection to oneanother.
Those clearances were in the midto, low teens, and that's why.
You have no connections.
In some of the media accounts,Richie's crimes were portrayed
as if he was killing hikers.
This is a misconception.
The two killed on Ship Creekwere at the time they were
murdered, very close to whereJason Netter spent his winters
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living out of his shippingcontainer.
Trey Thompson's home wasunfortunately just down the
street from a homeless camptrailhead.
Kevin Turner was homeless andprobably hanging out in the
gazebo at Valley of the Moonpark because he had a tent in
the woods just to the east.
There's a general problemsolving crimes amid the homeless
population for several reasons.
Some of them lack phones to callfor help.
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There's also a traditionaldistrust of authority.
so witnesses may not beforthcoming with information.
The other thing is on some ofthese scenes or people staying
in the woods close to where acrime has occurred, a large
number of those people are gonnabe drunk or high or have mental
health issues, which makes theiraccounts problematic.
In addition to the problems Ijust talked about in 2016, there
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was a huge spike in homicidesacross the city.
In fact early in the year,January 28th, there was a double
murder, of Selena Molinax, whowas 19 and Ownie Morrisette, who
was 20.
Their bodies were found also offof a city trail, a place called
Point Worenzoff, and those,murders were completely
unrelated to Richie's victims.
Marcy (42:30):
To expand on that misconception about hikers and
the types of trails.
Anchorage has hundreds of milesof trails, but they're paved
multi-use trails that are verypopular, sort of urban setting
kinds of things.
There is a lot of use during theday with biking and walking and
running and things, but it's nothiking trails like hiking, a
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dirt path up to a mountain topor something like that.
It's a pretty urban use.
Mark (42:58):
Yeah.
In fact De Husson, that's what,his family said he was doing is
basically moving between his,his house and his friend's
house.
A lot of people, if they live inMidtown and work downtown, they
take a bike.
You can get up into, reallyrugged mountain terrain via the
trail system, but you have towork to get up there
Marcy (43:14):
You mentioned it earlier in this story that, during the
day they're used by families bylike you said, professionals.
Kids have ridden their bikes onthe trails.
We use them to get to parks andto the beach and things like
that.
Mark (43:26):
We had our own favorite city park that's kind of in
that, area, but we never went toValley of the Moon much because
I worked in Spenard and I knewsome of the things that were
going on there.
Marcy (43:37):
Some of the things you wrote about were based on your
knowledge of the locations andthe homeless culture in
Anchorage.
Mark (43:42):
For a time I was coordinating response to
problems in homeless camps andwith the homeless population and
working programs in, aroundthem.
Also just a general policeofficer, you have a lot of
contact in the camps.
That familiarity with thelocations and how people were
living day to day, gave me a lotof insight.
I know that to kill the peoplehe did when he did, where he
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did, Richie had to be involvedwith that community.
That doesn't mean he was livingon the street.
I don't really actually knowwhere he, I think he was
flopping a lot of differentplaces, but he was close,
familiar with those hangouts.
You don't get to where he got atthe times he got there without
scouting and spending a lot oftime walking around on those
trails.
Marcy (44:24):
Can you talk about the composite sketch?
In this case, it seems like itwas amazingly close, but even
the people that knew him didn'trecognize him in the sketch.
Mark (44:34):
I agree.
Sometimes sketches are betteroff to check, you know, to
exclude possible suspects if youhave a solid lead.
The problem with composites isthat they can look like a lot of
people.
In this case, at the time of thecomposite Richie hadn't come up
yet as a strong suspect.
If he had, the sketch, would'vedefinitely given him added
attention.
What makes this composite awinner are certain features.
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If you look at his picture, theeyebrows are distinct and they
are right on.
The lips and high hairline arealso are right.
Marcy (45:05):
We'll add the video link and the composite sketch to the
show notes so you can take alook.
How do you get composites done?
Mark (45:12):
Well, this particular one was credited to the FBI, which
to me is unusual.
Usually we would do that.
I don't know if they had aspecial source or background to
work that, but at APD, thedetective units have access to
computer programs.
The way that happens is you justsit a victim or a witness down
and you run through the program,which presents facial feature
options, and they select whichone's closest.
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You do that until the personthat is your witness is
satisfied that that's as closeas they can get to the person
they saw.
Some detectives are moreknowledgeable or better at this
than others.
So generally in a given unit,you'd have a detective who,
would be the person to go to.
You'd schedule with them andthey would work that program.
There's several of theseprograms.
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Some of the ones that come tomind are Identi-kit, Faces,
Portrait Pad, there's severalothers, but those are probably
the most popular.
Marcy (46:04):
With no shell casings, how did they know the bullets
were fired from a Colt Python?
Mark (46:10):
There are criminalists whose specialty is examination
and comparison of firearms,bullets, casings, and everything
pertaining to firearms.
In this case, the pistol was arevolver, so it wasn't ejecting
casings that could be matched.
All they had were the firedbullets.
Either those came from, thescene.
Sometimes you get a bullet stuckin wood or a bullet you have to
dig out the ground.
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The experts can tell that markson a bullet were fired from a
certain type of barrel, becausethey get what's called lands and
grooves striations on theexterior part of the bullet.
Some of those with differentweapons are the same.
They have the same twist rateand everything.
They're difficult to tell apart,but the Colt Python, luckily had
a distinct pattern, it wastraced specifically.
They knew right away looking atthe pattern.
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They have a log of what the coldPython patterns would be like,
based on the twists and themeasurements of those lands and
grooves.
And they knew right away, it wasa Colt Python.
and for that reason, they could,match the individual bullets
together, as they were all firedfrom a Colt Python.
Marcy (47:08):
So when they saw that Colt Python laying on 5th
Avenue, after Salao wasattacked, do you think they
connected that to the othershootings right away?
Mark (47:16):
Yeah, the Colt Python's distinct.
It's no longer production.
It's considered a collector'spiece, I think it's partly
because the Dirty Harry, ClintEastwood guns.
This would be an unusual gun toencounter on the street.
It's pretty valuable now, Ithink they're running 1500 bucks
a piece.
Whereas a lot of, your averagepistols are five, 600 bucks and,
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some of the ones that you run onthe street are significantly
less.
If you ran into that as a patrolofficer, you'd be thinking, Hmm.
I wonder if this was stolen froma burglary or did somebody
borrow it from daddy'scollection or, something like
that.
But to answer your question afew months after I retired, I
happened to be speaking with anofficer colleague of mine, and
he's telling me, what I wasmissing at APD.
And I was flipping shim hitabout how the city had gone a
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hell in my absence.
The last record homicide yearhappened the year I got hired.
2016, the year following myretirement was looking like it
was gonna be break that record.
That's when he told me, inconfidence, they were looking
for a serial killer carryingthis distinctive gun.
I have no doubt they immediatelyrecognized it as it lay there
next to Richie.
Marcy (48:20):
The decision to not give the public complete information
about the linked murders turnedout to be very controversial.
Mark (48:28):
Yeah.
That decision was all about notlosing the ability to find that
gun.
The reasoning being, if they'dreleased the information,
focusing on the Colt Python, thesuspect would likely dispose of
it, get rid of evidence.
One of the things about being inthe detective unit, especially
with a bigger case is there's alot of debate about decisions in
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the investigations.
And it's healthy too, because,you don't work in a box, in the
dark.
You have a lot of opinions andespecially as a case officer,
you get to make a decision whatyou think is best, along with
the judgment of, potentiallyvery experienced investigators.
The healthiest detective unitshave that kind of give and take
where everybody's giving theiropinion and, not getting your
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feelings hurt if you don't havethe best idea.
I can see, why they made thedecision they did.
but I can also see the otherhand, releasing information
would've immediately gottenattention that the Muldoon
shooting alone didn't.
Remember the sketch at thatpoint up until the very end that
sketch of that man was onlylinked to the Muldoon shooting.
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I think if they had releasedthat, that sketch was
responsible for potentiallyfive, it would've gotten a lot
more attention and possibly,been able to get an ID.
And then even if the suspect,had dumped the gun, you could
investigate the link toownership of 357.
Incidentally when he left, forWest Virginia Richie left that
gun with a friend of his, andthat friend kept it all the way
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up until 2016 when he gave itback to Richie.
So there were investigatorroutes to the gun, even if the
gun had been dumped.
On the other hand, they put outa warning of danger on the
trails and roads late at night.
Part of the calculation wasprobably that putting out too
much information wouldjeopardize the investigation
while doing no good.
The trails in Anchorage arecomfort zones for people.
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There's a ton of denial aboutpersonal safety.
I would've had no confidencethat people are gonna heed that
warning.
I hate to say this.
There are parts of Anchoragethat are dangerous, particularly
at night, particularly forwomen, particularly for women
who are alone.
Keep in mind, that's true oflots of places in our country,
both urban and rural.
Marcy (50:36):
The shooting involving Officer Salao was caught on
video.
Let's talk about that.
Mark (50:42):
Yeah.
We're gonna link to it.
It's both his car video and thevideo of Sergeant Patske's car.
The video's chilling.
I'm sure it's that way foreverybody watching it, but I
worked a lot in the downtownarea.
This happened the backside ofthe Office Depot building, just
a few blocks down from oursubstation, where back in the
day I processed dozens of DUIs.
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It's just a block east of theFBI Anchorage building.
It's also chilling to me becausea lot of police contacts are
just like this.
If you're an officer trying tostop someone to talk to them on
the street and they're walkingaway, you're not gonna run down
there.
You're gonna call on your PAsystem,"hey sir, please stop,
police." And you gauge theirresponse.
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A lot of foot pursuits startfrom this situation.
It's better to be in your carchasing, especially if the dude
turns out to be a gazelle.
Believe me, it's easier to catcha gazelle if you followed him
for five or 10 blocks before youexit your car.
I've been shot at, but not fromclose range.
I've been attacked unexpectedly,thankfully not with a gun.
This incident is the nightmareyou hope never happens.
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The first time I watched thevideo, I started sweating.
Part of it was a familiarity ofsetting and the time of day and
activity.
Having made many, many contactsin the middle of the night from
my car, you never know how it'sgonna go.
In this case, there, were telltales that it wasn't gonna be
easy contact.
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It's unusual for somebody to bewalking in front of you with you
slow rolling behind in a policecruiser.
Like I described, they can hearyou back there.
You can hear a car, even from ablock behind you.
It's November, so it's alreadykind of icy.
It's cold.
You've got the click click clickof, studs on, asphalt.
You're kind of holding back.
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You call out to dispatch, lethim know where you are, the
suspect description in casesomething goes bad.
And it's unusual for a person tonot even look back, right?
You're at least gonna get aglance almost all the time.
A lot of people will, especiallyif they're alone will kind of
turn and shrug and inquisitivelook like"you want to talk to
me?" And that's how it normallygoes.
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Richie was doing what I call ablinders walk, telegraphing that
at the very least he didn't wantto contact with police, which
isn't uncommon.
But it's one of those subtlesignals.
People go to ludicrous lengthswith the blinders walk.
The problem is if you're apolice officer who has to stop
them as part of your duty, youdon't know what their response
is gonna be when you actuallyrun up and make contact.
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Thankfully a sudden attack witha pistol is very rare.
The fact that Officer Salaodidn't just roll up and jump out
and engage, probably saved hislife.
Because what happenned is itallowed time for the cover
officer who happened to be closeto hear that the subject wasn't
stoppin.
That tactical delay allowed thesecond officer to get there in
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time to shoot back.
When I was working on nightshift, that's part of the mid
shift culture.
The expectation for officers, ifyou're not tied up and an
officer's gonna make contact,you start rolling that way.
Particularly if that contactdoesn't seem quite right and you
get to know the people you'reworking with so well, you can
hear the inflection of concernin their voice.
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I can't tell you how many timesI was headed, to cover somebody,
when it blew up into a bigincident.
or when my shit was weak, thecavalry having heard the
inflection in my voice wasalready close.
There is no better feeling whenyou're in a fight with a
suspect, maybe you're on theground in the dark on the side
of the road than hearing yourcover car go 10-7, meaning help
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has arrived.
You know, just talking aboutthat makes me wanna go back.
Officer Salao was seriouslyhurt, but he eventually
recovered and chose to continuehis career as a police officer.
He later made commercials forthe blood bank.
One of the things he credits fora survival is the blood
transfusions he was able toreceive immediately following
the shooting.
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In the commercials, he thankedhis donors and asked that people
consider donation.
During my career, I had threefriends that were murdered on
duty.
Additionally, two officers wereshot and nearly killed on my
shift while I was working as asupervisor.
Both of those officers whonearly died, battled back, just
like Officer Salao and returnedto serve and protect their city.
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I couldn't have more respect fortheir courage.
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