[music playing]
Caryn had been working at LA Tan for probably about a year,
usually day shifts.
Caryn wasn't even supposed to be working that night.
She was doing a favor for the manager.
I would never think that this kind of incident
could happen in Orland Park.
[music playing]
[buzzing]
Caryn was cleaning one of the beds when the door buzzed.
She came to help what she thought
was supposed to be a customer.
The man pulled out a gun and told
her give him all the money.
[music playing]
He had her step away from the register.
And at that point, he pulled out a piece of rope
and forced her to tie herself up.
Tie it tight!
[music playing]
SHANNON MCDANIEL: First thing he saw was the gun,
and then he saw Caryn tied up.
[music playing]
Jason tried to explain that he was a new father,
he was married, that he didn't have to do this.
Quit looking at me!
Look at me!
Ahh!
BENJAMIN FELDHEIM: As the gunman pulled out the lengths of rope,
he dropped one on the ground.
He let go of the gun and moved away from it to reach down
and pick up that piece of rope.
And in that moment, Jason saw his opportunity,
and he went for it.
[shouting]
[phone dialing]
[shouting]
Jason's instructing him to stop everything
that he's doing, to stop moving, reaching into his pockets.
But the man didn't listen.
[ticking]
[shouting]
[SIREN WAILING, DISPATCH RADIO CHATTER]
[music playing]
[heavy breathing]
[screams] That's my gun!
JASON MCDANIEL: Give me the gun!
[shouting]
[music playing]
All right, get on the ground!
Get on the ground!
Lay down, way down!
[siren wailing]
On the ground!
[bleep] get on the ground now!
Get on the ground now!
[gunshot]
[snarling]
[interposing voices]
Get on the ground!
[screams] [inaudible].
[siren wailing]
[grunting]
[music playing]
[ticking]
[siren wailing]
[shouting, grunting]
No!
[gunshot]
[heavy breathing]
[sobbing]
POLICE OFFICER: Don't move.
[interposing voices]
[music playing]
When I do reflect back on this, something about him
just didn't fit.
He was wearing all black, ski knit
cap, big guy, big round guy.
And he's older too.
He had no life in his eyes.
When Jason came in, I just thought, oh, thank goodness.
You know, somebody's here.
Somebody's going to see me.
I'm not going to die alone here.
Ah! Give me the gun!
Give me the gun!
I kept asking him, I was begging him,
I'm like, hey, show me your hands,
or I'm going to have to shoot you.
And he kept rolling around on, like,
this belt where I see all these weird tools, and you know,
just weird stuff.
So who knows what he could have had underneath there?
And I didn't want to become a victim.
And that's when I shot him.
[gunshot]
[music playing]
BENJAMIN FELDHEIM: Police ran ballistics on the gun
that Gary Amaya used and connected
that gun to bullets found at four other crime scenes.
This man was attacking people and killing people at random.
[music playing]
Gary Amaya was, in fact, the Honey Bee Killer, a man who
had approached people in Illinois and in Northwest
Indiana, mentions something about honey bees,
and then killed people.
CARYN ROHDE: When I found out that I came face
to face with a serial killer, it changed my world
forever, to know that all of these odds
were stacked against me.
I definitely think that since I was saved that day,
I have something greater to do.
I know I'm not done yet.
[music playing]
JASON MCDANIEL: Heroes are for policemen and firemen.
I wouldn't consider myself a hero like that.
But it feels good, though.
You know, when people say things like that, feels good.
[music playing]