On October 22, 1969, a man claiming to be the Zodiac killer called a live Jim Dunbar’s television show. Soon after, police discovered alarming text messages from his girlfriend, Michelle Carter, which seemed to encourage him to kill himself. However, when police got there, he had already vanished. Berkowitz clearly believed it was rationalisation on his part – a need to “somehow mentally convince myself that there was some meaning, purpose and justification for my acts.” He even admitted to taking inspiration from horror films like The Exorcist and The Omen, and coined a new word – “pseudopossession” – to describe his own case. ", He said he would often "black out" and not remember what happened. "It just is what it is.". Shot a day after his arrest in 2009, the video is the last piece of evidence that the prosecution intends to bring in the trial. Anthony Sowell, 51, has been little heard from during three weeks of gruesome testimony including the jury's tour of the house of horrors in Cleveland, Ohio, where he allegedly raped, killed and buried his victims. Nationwide News Pty Limited Copyright © 2020. After he killed 18-year-old Kimberly Compton, Stephani called 9-1-1 and told them, “I can’t stop myself, I keep killing everybody” and “I don’t know why I had to stab her. “My first victim was called Hanem. Laci went missing on Christmas Eve, while 8 months pregnant. Also Read: 'Trials of Gabriel Fernandez': 9 Most Shocking Details About the Murder at Heart of Netflix Documentary. And because his voice was so distinctive, law enforcement compared his call to a previous phone call from five months earlier, where a man called about a woman found dead in the snow, who had been severely beaten.
Sowell said the women entered his home voluntarily and he used to help them by buying drugs and alcohol and sometimes having sex with them.
Imagining things? As detectives began to ask him to identify the names of the corpses inside of the home, he became animated and yelled that he did not know. One of these types is the “visionary serial killer”. A second part of the series focused on their appeals. Ryan White's documentary series debuted in 2017 and explores the murder of Sister Catherine Cesnik, who disappeared in November 1969 and whose body was discovered in January of 1970. "It was like a breakdown or something. “Let's say I needed to be possessed,” he wrote. For Compton and Potack, not enough evidence was there to prosecute him for those murders. Also Read: 'Making a Murderer' Lawyers to Host New True-Crime Podcast About Wrongful Convictions. Berkowitz enjoyed killing women because he believed it was sexually arousing. When he was arrested after robbing the bank, the bomb went off and killed Wells. In 2014, a federal appeals court issued a stay of execution for Panetti.
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According to Berkowitz, at the time of his arrest, he was being commanded by a 6,000 year old voice to kill women throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. However, there was a lot of blood and lacerations to the head that caused investigators to look into a possible homicide.