♪ (eerie intro) ♪
- (React) We are going to be taking a look at some notorious
serial killers... - Spooky! Okay.
- (React) ...who have not been caught. - Are we allowed to legally film this?
(laughs) - All right.
That's a little scary, but... (laughs)
- (narrator) This desolate strip of wildlife preserve
on the south shore of Long Island is giving up dead bodies
at an alarming rate.
Three found just this week. - (gasps)
- (narrator) One last week. - Oh my god.
- (narrator) Four more last December.
- He hit them all in the same place?
- (man) This is a very close community.
And, you know, we leave our doors unlocked.
- Watch, it's him. - He's probably the serial killer.
(chuckles) Leaving your door unlocked. - Maybe he should start
locking his doors. - (narrator) The four discovered
last December identified as escorts... - (gasps)
- (narrator) ...who advertised on Craigslist.
- They're all young. - (narrator) And three more
found on Monday. Police appear... - Whoa!
- (narrator) ...to be working with very few clues
despite the number of bodies and the multiple crime scenes.
Experts think that may mean the killer is familiar
with police procedure. - (Lawrence) Either he knows
what he's doing... - What?!
- (Lawrence) ...and understands what crime scene investigation
is all about, or he's just been lucky up until now.
- It's always the smart ones. - How do they not find this person?!
And you don't even known if it's a guy either.
What if it's this small girl that's killing all these people?
That's the thing. You never know about serial killers.
- It kind of scary to me that things like that have gone on
for so long, 'cause obviously, if you're saying that's happened
for almost the past 20+ years, that's scary.
It would be interesting to see what other people's theories
are on that. - It all happened at the same time.
They're all in the same area. Yeah, same guy.
Or group of people. Who knows?
- The killer probably is super smart,
either working super low cover or even out in the open.
- Might be one of the police officers or detectives that is trying
to figure out the case. And they know where
they're not supposed to be at at a certain time,
so they're thinking one step ahead
before they actually do it. So, then they know
how to get away with it. - 'Cause if you haven't gotten caught,
there has to be some connection you have.
- Maybe that guy's the killer, the one that they interviewed,
'cause he's like, "Yeah, I leave my door unlocked."
Okay, well, you probably leave your door unlocked,
because you know the serial killer isn't gonna come get you,
because you are the serial killer, so you're not worried about it.
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- (narrator) Beginning in 1986, spots along the historic...
- Of course it's by the woods. - (narrator) Six people
were murdered and two more missing... - (gasps)
- (narrator) ...were believed to be killed as well.
The homicides became know as the Colonial Parkway murders.
- (narrator) FBI and Virginia State Police investigators
have speculated that the suspect... - (gasps)
- (narrator) ...might be a law enforcement officer...
- Dude. - (narrator) ...a National Park
Service ranger, or someone impersonating one...
- Oh, that would make sense. - (narrator) ...or perhaps
a rogue operative from the Central Intelligence Agency,
which has a training facility... - Dang! They got all these theories.
Hold on. I can't keep up! (laughs) - (narrator) ...believe
the Colonial Parkway murders were committed by more
than one perpetrator working as a team.
- Oh! Multiple people. - I liked that last theory
that it was multiple killers working as a team,
because that's so many. - I mean, that would
make more sense, though. I don't feel like one person
could kill a cou-- I mean, maybe, but, like...
- So, maybe it was a couple that killed other couples.
- Why would someone wanna kill couples?
- I don't know why they were specifically getting couples, though.
Maybe they were like, "Oh, two for one special.
They're already together." Or maybe they were just so jealous.
- I'm gonna say he got-- he fell really in love,
got his heart broken, and then just started acting crazy.
- I feel like maybe it was someone who was spiteful and maybe
didn't have that ability to connect with people,
so definitely something of that nature.
So, I don't know if that's a thing of maybe potentially jealousy
or just their own unhappiness in their own life.
- (narrator) In the 1980s, a mystery crept along major highways
and isolated truck stops. - Ohhh.
- (narrator) Two weeks ago, authorities discovered
the badly decomposed body of a... - Oh, no.
- (narrator) ...red-haired woman... - Not the teeth.
- (narrator) ...near Nashville. - (narrator) Weeks passed,
and more women were found dead.
- Oh, he only kills people with red hair?
- (Brandon) Public attention just really drew to this idea
of one man killing all of these redheads.
- Oh my gosh. - (narrator) The media dubbed it
the Redhead Murders. - The Redhead Murders.
- 2019? Wow. - (Brandon) We discovered that
DNA located on her body... - Redhead.
- What if it's him? (laughs) - (Brandon) ...contained the DNA
of Jerry Johns. - (gasps)
- (narrator) What should have been a major break was a bust.
Jerry Johns, a former truck driver, was dead.
- No! - (narrator) He died in prison
serving time for assaulting, kidnapping, and attempting
to kill a young red-haired woman in Knoxville back in 1984.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What?
- The fact that the man that they investigated
was also a redhead was kind of interesting.
- Redheads? Why the redheads? Leave them alone. (laughs)
What did they do? - He got something against
his own kind. - This guy's a psychopath
for killing only redheads. - If they found his DNA too
on that lady... yeah, this is connected.
It's all him. I don't mean to put the blame
all on him, but I'm putting the blame all on him. (laughs)
- Maybe he had one bad relationship with one redheaded woman,
and he was just like, "All right. I'm just gonna
kill a whole bunch of redheads." - I think he was probably
the killer of the first couple, and then maybe somebody
who knew him was trying to finish off what he had started.
- What if it was something as simple as he got--
like, a redhead broke his heart, you know?
And so, he just starts killing a bunch of redheads.
That's weird.
- (narrator) The Doodler or Black Doodler,
as he was sometimes referred to, was responsible for 14 killings
in under two years. - (gasps) No!
- (narrator) The killer targeted members
of San Francisco's gay community, often meeting with his victims
at gay nightclubs... - "'Cause gays silent"?
- (narrator) The Doodler was given that name
because of his habit of sketching each of his victims
before killing them. - That's terrifying.
- (narrator) He would draw out a picture of his targets
then give it to them as a means of initiating a conversation.
- Oh my gosh. - (narrator) This would often lead
to them leaving with the Doodler before engaging in sex
and then being stabbed to death. - Oh my god!
- (narrator) There were three survivors of the Doodler's assault,
which did result in the apprehension of a murder suspect.
Frustratingly, due to social stigma at the time, all three survivors
refused to testify as they didn't want to come out as gay.
This resulted in the suspect walking freely,
his identity never revealed. - That's insane.
I mean, I understand the fear from their perspective,
but at the same time, that's... If people in your community
are being harmed and affected, I feel like that's--
but also, in the '70s, that's a really hard decision to make.
- Who cares? I mean, I get back in the day,
they cared more. But at that point,
it's like, you should probably say something.
- I think definitely that era of stigmatization around this time
definitely made it more difficult to solve.
But at the same time, you can't really judge
the people for not coming forward just because that is such a personal
and intense thing to become public, especially if they were not--
like, in the '70s, I don't think being gay
was acceptable. - Damn! That's so tricky.
Especially back then, coming out was probably way harder
than it is now. - Three people do not want to testify
against this killer, an actual killer! Like, hello?
- Maybe they knew the person, and then they didn't wanna
say anything, trying to protect their identity,
because they know them personally or something?
- Some serial killers have this charming factor,
and I feel like that's-- they need something to draw them in,
you know, draw their victims in. And so, I think he's probably
like a smooth talker, who was like, "Yo, can I draw your picture?"
Draws the picture. "All right. Let's go back to my room,"
blah, blah, blah, blah. And then, boom! Get stabbed.
- I think it's really unfortunate that these cases were not solved,
especially the last one, I think, was a little bit...
It's a very difficult thing to look at and listen to,
'cause-- obviously, given the circumstances.
- And then, watch next week, we're gonna see someone
in Long Island killed again. Knock on wood.
- (React) How does it feel to know these killers
could still be out on the loose? - Yeah, it's just a little unsettling,
but, the thing is, you kind of have to move on
and hope for the best. And hopefully, you're not one
of the victims. And just keep watching your back.
- Well, I already don't go anywhere by myself,
but now I got my pepper spray on hand. Don't eff with me, guys!
- We just gotta watch our back, you know?
Don't trust anyone. - They're all probably old,
probably have some sort of back problem or something like that.
- I think it definitely makes me more nervous
to be a human. But at the same time,
I'm not gonna stop living my life.
- Thanks for watching this episode of React.
- Do you have any theories about these cases?
Let us know in the comments. - Don't forget to subscribe
for more episodes like this one. - Bye!
- I hate watching scary things, but I love listening to them.
But then after, I'll be like-- I'll regret it,
'cause then it keeps me up at night. - What a sad world.