- (React) We're going to see which of you can
find the serial killer in a lineup of mugshots?
- Easy!
- I'm super down for this. (laughs)
I am really down for this.
- Is this something you do? Is this like...
- I do watch Law and Order: SVU. - I'm dead! (laughs)
- (React) You're looking for the serial killer nicknamed Dr. Death.
- Dr. Death. - Shut the [censored] up, Dr. Death?
- I feel like C doesn't look like a doctor.
- B looks like he's more like yeah, I did it.
- I think C. - I think B.
- I think B is the obvious choice, 'cause he looks a little evil,
but C has that smug [censored] look on his face.
- He looks like the frown emoji. - Yeah he does.
- He. (laughs)
- When I think of doctor, I go straight to B,
but it's not B for me.
- You don't think it's B?
Dude, that's straight up where I went.
- Really? - B, my final answer.
- I'm gonna say C.
- I'm going B. - I think A.
He has like a pompous air to him, too.
- B. - I'm going with B.
- (React) The answer is A.
(buzzer rings) (Izzy screams)
- B just seemed the most different compared to the rest of them.
- (React) A.
- (narrator) In March 2012, a school librarian
goes to a Dallas hospital for a routine back surgery.
- A routine back surgery?
- These closeups always freak me out.
- (narrator) Three months later, another patient comes
to another hospital for a neck surgery,
where she suffers a stroke, and later dies.
- Oh.
- (narrator) A day after this operation,
a third woman goes under the knife hoping to fix her back issues.
- Ow.
- (narrator) Then wakes up screaming in pain.
(Sharon gasps)
What all three have in common in surgeon Christopher Duntsch.
- (woman) They thought they had a young, hot, neurosurgeon.
- That's hot? Geez.
- Hot?
- I don't think they mean hot physically,
like hot off the college. - Oh.
- (narrator) Instead of helping patients, he hurts them, badly.
- How many times did it have to happen?
- Yeah, like, why? - What's the, why would you do this?
- (woman) Anyone close to me thinks that I am likely
something between God, Einstein...
- Oh, he's a narcissist. - Wow, well, that's creepy.
- I mean, duh, you'd have to be a narcissist to be a serial killer.
- Yeah. (both laugh)
- Doctors are meant to be saving lives.
You have your lives in their hands.
- When they cross that line into cocky...
- Mm-hmm.
- I mean, there's some real trouble that can happen, right?
- (React) This is John Wayne Gacy. He's nicknamed the killer clown.
- Ooh. - Easy, B, I already know.
I've seen the documentary.
- Oh, B! - It is B.
- I'll go with B then. (Izzy laughs)
C, though, is pretty creepy.
- He's the one from American Horror Story season four.
- I'm gonna say A. - I was gonna say A too.
- Mm-hmm.
- Isn't he, he's the clown dude.
- The other two on the sides, maybe convicted of something.
That middle picture's very iconic.
(buzzer rings) - In American Horror Story,
the guy who they had play the clown
was like a larger person, so I...
- You thought it was him - I thought it was A.
- (narrator) John Wayne Gacy was born on March...
- (laughs) If they used that photo, I would've picked him.
- Yeah, that... - That looks like a serial killer.
- (narrator) Gacy was convicted of sexually assaulting
two teenage boys, and given a 10 year sentence.
- Ugh.
- (narrator) Despite the lengthier sentence,
Gacy was released from prison on parole just after 18 months.
- What?
- (narrator) On January 3rd, 1972,
Gacy picked up 15 year old Timothy McCoy
at a bus station in Chicago.
Gacy stabbed the teen to death in his home,
and buried his remains in a crawl space.
- Ugh!
- (narrator) After his release, he was arrested
after a teenager accused Gacy of trying to sexually assault him,
but the charges were dismissed.
- What!?
- How?
- He was buddy, buddy, bro.
They just didn't expect him to be that person.
- (Jack) Wow.
- (narrator) Gacy would often dress up as Pogo the Clown.
- Oh, that's the one, okay. - Mm-hmm.
- He's the clown.
- (narrator) Police searched Gacy's house near Chicago,
and uncovered evidence of numerous murders.
- Oh.
- (narrator) The discovery shocked the nation.
- Oh my God.
Are those all different humans?
- (narrator) As more bodies were discovered at Gacy's home,
and in his crawl space.
- Jesus.
- Oh lord.
- (narrator) But insisted that they were committed
by an alternate personality.
- Pleading insanity. That's, oh my gosh.
- (React) What's your thought
on so many of his previous charges getting dismissed?
- Not surprised.
He's a white guy who is... - Respect in the community.
- Respected in the community, business guy.
- It's 'cause he's white and a man, and that's the only reason.
- And I feel like it's hard too,
especially when you're targeting younger kids.
- Younger people.
- Because they are less likely to be believed.
- The crazy part is with serial killers,
is they're usually very charming.
Like, it's the people that you least expect.
The telling part is they're always narcissistic
in the way they talk about themself,
and that's what he was.
- (React) Albert DeSalvo.
- Oh, I've heard of this name.
- C is giving me a little vibe, for some reason.
- These are really great mugshots, I gotta tell you.
- Yeah. - (laughs) I mean, [censored] them.
But like also, wow. - But also like good,
they know their angles. - (Izzy) Yeah.
- I'm thinking A. - I'm thinking C.
- I'm thinking A. - I'm going C.
- He's giving Boston.
- I'm gonna go with A.
He looks most like an Albert DeSalvo.
- C. - I bet you it's [censored] B!
- My boyfriend's from Boston, so I've gone like multiple times,
and he's just giving Boston vibes.
- Well, he looks Italian. - Yeah, I was thinking DeSalvo.
- Okay. - Yo, I'm a person of color.
I know my people of color.
- (narrator) Between June 1962, and January 1964.
- Oh, this is old, old.
- (narrator) 11 women ranging in age from 19 to 85
were found brutally murdered in their home.
- Jesus!
- In their homes?
- Yeah, he would break in their home.
- (narrator) 33 year old Albert DeSalvo,
already in prison for a robbery and sexual assault,
confessed to the murders.
There was no physical evidence linking DeSalvo to the killings
besides that confession. - Wow.
- (narrator) He recanted it just before being stabbed to death
by another inmate in 1973.
- Wow.
- (narrator) But one piece of physical evidence remains.
- Too good for him.
- (narrator) In 1964, police found semen on a blanket
where Mary Sullivan's body lay.
- It's always the semen. (laughs)
- (Daniel) DNA evidence wasn't dreamt of in the 1960s.
But even then...
- That's so gross! - No, not it.
- Ugh!
- (narrator) That foresight led investigators to preserve the blanket.
- I mean, he admitted it. - True.
- I guess it's best to know it's one person and not multiple.
- (Jack) Yeah.
- It's insane that they saved the blanket.
They were like we wanna know,
and we know in the future we will be able to know.
- I know!
- That's gross, 'cause that means...
- Wow. - See, man?
That's what happens! (laughs)
- These are, people died!
- (React) We are looking for H. H. Holmes,
nicknamed America's first serial killer.
- Well, my first thought is B,
because we haven't had a lady killer yet.
- I'm doing terrible here.
I'm gonna get my crystals out. I'm gonna ask them some questions.
- Historically, it's white men who are serial killers.
- (whispers) That's what I'm saying.
- But A, if it was a time during slavery.
- Yeah, he could've like... - I would understand,
if he like murdered his slave owners. - Murdered his...
- The woman's freaking me out, but I'm gonna go C.
- Isn't it B?
- I don't know, I feel like it's B.
They're like looking into my soul.
- I'm gonna say C.
- I'm thinking C, I'm locking in C.
- I'll go with C.
- For the first time! - It's C?
- (React) It is C. - Okay.
- Maybe I just kinda wanted like... - Wanted them to be the killer.
- I wanted them to be the killer.
- (narrator) H. H. Holmes was one of America's first serial killers.
- It was the mustache, for me. So I was like not it.
- (narrator) And builds a three story building of his own design,
which includes a drug store on the first floor,
hotel on the second, and apartments on the top.
Men are, in large part, turned away from the hotel.
- Oh, is this the one Hotel was based off of?
- Mm. He built an entire murder house.
- (narrator) Often, forgiving young women of their debts
when they suddenly leave town without their belongings.
- Huh, people don't usually do that.
- Mm-mm.
- (narrator) Kiln he says he uses for blowing glass,
despite the fact that it's the wrong size for blowing glass.
It is the right size for burning bodies though.
- Look at the edit.
- So dramatic, huh? (Jaxon laughs)
- (narrator) He would seduce a woman, and once she was his,
he would kill her. - Ah.
- (narrator) Holmes was finally arrested on November 17th, 1894.
The excavation of his building, known as the Murder Castle,
uncovers, among other things, a vat of acid with eight ribs in it.
- Oh yeah. - (Brittany) Ugh!
- (narrator) Charred high heel shoes, various bones, and a kiln.
- Ugh.
- (narrator) He admitted to 27 murders.
- 27?
- (narrator) He claimed to have killed were still alive,
so we really have no idea.
- No, if they say, back in the day, if they say it's a certain number,
it's like times 10.
- No, he really went above and beyond to murder.
He was like, I'm not just gonna do it in the streets.
- He built his own. - (laughs) Yeah.
- If he's so dedicated to building the palace,
you would think that he's gonna say ran off,
burn their belongings, have a kiln that's big enough
to blow glass if you're saying it's for glass.
Blow glass in your kiln, so you have some glass.
- The last... - It's the weirdest thing.
- The littlest thing that gets you.
- (React) William Devin Howell. The sick ripper.
- A does give murderer. - A gives murder vibes,
and he's like yeah, I did that.
- C has those angry eyebrows that make you think it's him.
- But A, I feel like might be too obvious.
- Yeah. - 'Cause there's like,
I feel like somebody tried to fight back against him at some point.
- First one looks like he's, judging by the tattoo,
maybe gang related.
- Right, 'cause of this right here, huh?
- Yeah, yeah.
- B looks like creepy, but he also kinda looks like
he's in jail for like masturbating in public or something.
- I just feel so bad, 'cause you're wrong about it,
like imagine they're like a really nice person.
- Yeah, we're just judging them but...
- And then like, you know, we're just judging their looks.
- I mean, it's kinda like Tinder though,
we do the same thing. - I know, I feel bad.
I never want my mugshot, and they're gonna be like
yeah, Izzy's definitely a serial killer.
- They're saying B. - I'm saying C.
- Uh, A. - I'll go with A.
- I think I'm going with C. - I'm going with B.
- Wow, nice! (Danny laughs)
- Ah, dang! - Yes!
- I knew it, go with your gut!
- He's so boring though.
- (narrator) William Devin Howell creatively gave himself
his own title, and referred to himself...
- I mean, this looks like, I have to hold on to the cord, it's scary.
- (narrator) William's stint as a heartless serial killer
began in 2003... - (laughs) The dove.
- Hmm? - The dove.
- (narrator) The woman informed the police
that her 33 year old sister... - Tur-tey tree.
- (narrator) Nilsa Arizmendi was not heard from for seven days.
Nilsa got involved in the sex trade in an effort to support
her own drug addictions.
The police then found out that William Devin Howell
had acquired Nilsa's services.
Nilsa was last seen getting into...
- Oh, I can't stare at that. I can't. (laughs)
- (narrator) It wasn't just Nilsa who went missing.
Six more women disappeared in 2003.
This was just the beginning of William's murder spree.
As Diane Cusack, Mary Jane Menard,
Joyvaline Martinez, and Marliyn Gonzalez.
- He looks like Joey Fatone.
- (narrator) All unfortunately came to their untimely demise.
- Was that NSYNC? - Yeah. (laughs)
- (narrator) William had placed all of his victims' remains
in one singular location that he referred to as his garden.
- That is disgusting. - Ew.
- Sick, oh my... - Creepy!
- The garden, oh my God.
That's something out of like Resident Evil.
- (React) Salvatore Perrone.
- A is giving Salvatore.
- Yeah, A is giving it.
- Can you just imagine that like the last image of your life
is one of these guys,
like [censored] that, dude. - Yeah.
- The balding and the mustache is really kinda,
it seems like an Italian look, but then again.
- But so does C.
I don't think it's B. - No.
- I feel like A. - Yeah, I was gonna say A.
It's what the crystals are saying. It's just, I don't...
He's balding, he seems like sad enough.
- He's giving all the context clues.
- C, C, C, with the... - C.
- With his, you know, collared shirt. - Yeah, he looks like
the dad next door of like a normal guy,
but he's also gonna kill somebody.
- I mean, C looks so... - (Jaxon) I know.
- So New York though.
- You know what? I'll go with A.
I'll take the bullet, I'll go with A.
- And then that seems right. Alright, we'll go opposite.
I'll go C.
- You're both correct!
The answer is A! - Hell yes!
- Every time, we call it out that it's gonna be that one,
and we never choose that one!
- I knew it. - Dang it, oh my God!
- I knew it!
- (reporter) The NYPD says the man terrorized...
- Oh, this is recent.
- (reporter) Is under arrest.
Right now, the 63 year old clothing salesman.
- Yucky! Look at that comb over!
- (narrator) 63 year old Salvatore Perrone
had a blank expression on his face,
and ignored questions shouted by reporters
as he was led out of the police borough command.
He's charged with killing three Brooklyn store owners.
- Aw, oh. Killing business.
- Yeah.
- (narrator) Police say they recovered a jerry-rigged bag
that held a .22 caliber rifle. - Wow.
- (narrator) Which ballistics tests linked to all three crime scenes.
- Oh my gosh.
- He was not smart. This is like the dumbest one.
- He said he don't remember.
- (narrator) ...was actually well known
to many store owners in Brooklyn. - What?
- (owner) That there would be a murderer,
I would've never expected that in a million years.
- Oh. - Really.
- It's the... - It's weird that
he's a murdering business owner. - ...ones you least expect.
- Maybe they did him dirty in the business.
Yeah.
- People always wanna see you do good, but not better, I feel.
- (React) Was it harder than you expected
to pick out serial killers in a lineup, or perhaps easier?
- I think once we found the patterns, it got a little easier.
- That's true, but then you're profiling people.
You can't just be like oh, you're ugly, you're probably a murderer.
- It's hard to tell from just their face,
without any prior information. - Right.
- (React) You got it.
- And that must be so hard for people that actually look at lineups
and have to pick someone out. - Right.
- Honestly, I think we got all of 'em right.
- Yeah. - We were both like
oh, it's this one, but we're gonna go with this answer.
(laughs)
- The lesson we've learned, to trust our gut,
and that we're good at identifying serial killers probably.
- Thanks for watching this episode.
- Like and subscribe, or else.
- And drop a comment letting us know
how well you guys did in this challenge.
- (both) Bye!
- He's making it like a fun, happy place,
like oh, it's my garden!
- My first thought was like I hope he didn't make like food,
and then the dead bodies are the soil,
that's kinda gross.
Like what if it's at my Ralphs right now, I don't know that.