Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry (2010–…): Season 1, Episode 10 - Discovering Danger and a Double Life - full transcript

LINDA BERGSTROM

MARRIED A NAVY MAN WHO PROMISED

TO KEEP HER SAFE FOREVER.

WE WERE IN LOVE WITH EACH

OTHER.

YOU COULD FEEL IT.

JAMES WAS VERY PROTECTIVE OF

HER.

HE REALLY CARED WHAT SHE

THOUGHT.

BUT LINDA WOULD



SOON DISCOVER THE HIDEOUS TRUTH

ABOUT HER HUSBAND'S DISTURBING

DOUBLE LIFE.

DURING THE DAY, ALL HE EVER

THOUGHT ABOUT WAS ATTACKING

WOMEN, AND AT NIGHT THAT'S ALL

HE DREAMED ABOUT.

TIED HER HANDS BEHIND HER

BACK AND TOLD HER I WOULD NEVER

HURT HER.

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN

THE MAN YOU ONCE LOVED TURNS OUT

TO BE A MONSTER...

I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN HE WOULD



SNAP.

...AND ONLY YOU CAN

PUT HIM BEHIND BARS FOR GOOD?

HE DID WAY TOO MUCH.

HE NEEDED TO BE CAUGHT.

WHEN IT COMES TO

LOVE AND MARRIAGE, THINGS AREN'T

ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM.

LINDA BERGSTROM GREW UP IN A

TEXAS FAMILY WHERE CHILDREN WERE

SEEN, BUT NOT HEARD.

WE WERE CATHOLICS.

THERE'S TWO BROTHERS AND TWO

SISTERS.

MY FATHER... HE WAS RATHER

STRICT WITH US.

AND I WORK MY BUTT OFF...

WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO HAVE

FRIENDS.

WE WEREN'T ALLOWED TO WALK

AROUND THE HOUSE FREELY.

WE WERE REALLY CONFINED TO

CERTAIN AREAS.

BUT AFTER

GRADUATING FROM HIGH SCHOOL,

LINDA BEGAN TO SPREAD HER WINGS.

SHE SOON STARTED DATING A YOUNG

MAN NAMED JAMES BERGSTROM.

WE MET IN FEBRUARY OF '84,

AND AFTER A WHILE, WITH US

TALKING AND DATING, HE SAID,

"WELL, WILL YOU BE MY

GIRLFRIEND?"

AND I SAID YES.

20-YEAR-OLD JAMES

WORKED AT THE LOCAL PAINT

FACTORY.

HE WAS QUIET AND SENSITIVE, AND

HIS CHIVALROUS NATURE WON LINDA

OVER.

HE WAS VERY PROTECTIVE OF

HER.

HE WAS VERY SOLICITOUS OF HER.

HE OPENED DOORS.

HIS MANNERS WERE GREAT.

HE ACTED AS IF HE REALLY CARED

WHAT SHE THOUGHT.

THEN, ONE MORNING,

AFTER OVER A YEAR TOGETHER,

LINDA GOT A PHONE CALL THAT

QUICKLY TOOK THEIR RELATIONSHIP

TO THE NEXT LEVEL.

JAMES HAD CALLED ME UP, AND

HE SAID THAT HE MADE A DECISION

TO JOIN THE NAVY WITH HIS

BROTHER.

AND THEN HE SAID, "BUT BEFORE I

GO, WE'RE GONNA GET MARRIED."

THE PROPOSAL CAME

AS QUITE A SURPRISE, BUT LINDA

KNEW SHE WANTED TO BE WITH

JAMES, NO MATTER WHAT.

THE DAY THAT WE GOT MARRIED

WAS ON APRIL THE 25th, 1985.

THAT MORNING, HE CALLED ME UP,

AND HE SAYS, "GET READY.

WE'RE GONNA GO GET MARRIED."

AND I'M LIKE, "WHAT?" YOU KNOW?

HE SAYS, "JUST GET DRESSED.

WE'RE GONNA GO DO IT."

AFTER THEIR SPEEDY

COURTHOUSE WEDDING, THE

NEWLYWEDS MOVED TO BANGOR,

WASHINGTON, SO JAMES COULD BEGIN

HIS NEW CAREER IN THE NAVY.

WE DROVE TO WASHINGTON STATE,

AND IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL VIEW.

EVERYTHING WAS NEW.

EVERYTHING WAS EXCITING.

ENCHANTED BY HER

NEW SURROUNDINGS, LINDA QUICKLY

SETTLED INTO HER NEW LIFE IN

THE GREAT NORTHWEST.

JAMES, HOWEVER, DIDN'T SEEM TO

MAKE THE TRANSITION QUITE AS

WELL.

JAMES STARTED TO HAVE THIS

TEMPER.

HE DIDN'T LIKE BEING IN THE

MILITARY.

HE HATED IT.

I MEAN, THAT'S ALL HE TALKED

ABOUT... WAS GETTING OUT OF THE

SERVICE.

JAMES HAD GIVEN

THE NAVY A FOUR-YEAR COMMITMENT,

BUT JUST MONTHS INTO HIS

SERVICE, HE BECAME DETERMINED TO

FIND A WAY OUT.

ALL HE TALKED ABOUT IS GOING

BACK HOME, GOING BACK TO WHERE

HIS FRIENDS WERE AT SO THAT HE

COULD GO OUT AND PLAY

BASKETBALL.

THAT'S ALL HE TALKED ABOUT...

THOSE TWO THINGS.

JAMES DESPERATELY

WANTED TO MOVE BACK TO HOUSTON,

WHERE HE PROMISED THINGS WOULD

RETURN TO NORMAL... BUT LIFE WITH

JAMES WOULD NEVER BE NORMAL

AGAIN.

IT ALL CAME TO A HEAD ALMOST

FOUR YEARS LATER ON MAY 18,

1989.

LINDA CAME HOME FROM WORK TO

FIND TWO MEN IN SUITS WAITING

FOR HER, AND THEY HAD SHOCKING

NEWS.

ONE OF THE MEN CONFRONTED ME

WITH HIS BADGE, AND HE SAYS HE

WAS A DETECTIVE, AND HE TOLD ME

THAT JAMES WAS ARRESTED.

HE SAYS, "YOUR HUSBAND WAS

CAUGHT WATCHING A 53-YEAR-OLD

WOMAN UNDRESS."

I WAS, LIKE, "WHOA, NO.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME."

BUT A PEEPING TOM

WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT

JAMES WOULD ULTIMATELY PROVE TO

BE.

I WAS TERRIFIED.

AT THAT POINT, I PROBABLY WENT

INTO SHOCK.

IN THE FALL OF

1985, FOUR YEARS BEFORE JAMES

WAS ARRESTED FOR PEEPING ON A

FEMALE NEIGHBOR, LINDA'S NEW

HUSBAND WAS HAVING TROUBLE

ADJUSTING TO NAVY LIFE IN

WASHINGTON STATE.

JAMES HATED BEING IN THE

NAVY, AND HE DESPISED BEING OUT

ON THE SUBMARINE.

AND FROM HIS FIRST VOYAGE TO HIS

SECOND, IT JUST GOT WORSE.

IT WAS SORT OF LIKE A CYCLE.

WE WOULD GET INTO ARGUMENTS

BEFORE HE WENT TO SEA.

WHEN HE CAME BACK FROM SEA,

WE WOULD GET INTO ARGUMENTS

AGAIN.

AS THE MONTHS

PASSED, THE PATTERN CONTINUED.

BUT SOON, JAMES APPEARED TO HAVE

FINALLY FOUND A HEALTHY WAY TO

DEAL WITH THE STRESS.

IN ORDER TO RELIEVE THE

STRESS AND THE ANGER, JAMES

STARTED TO TAKE JOGS AT NIGHT.

AND THEY GOT LONGER AND MORE

FREQUENT.

LINDA DIDN'T MIND HIM TAKING THE

JOGS... SHE THOUGHT IT WAS A

GREAT IDEA.

AND FOR A WHILE,

THE NIGHTTIME JOGGING SEEMED TO

WORK.

I NOTICED THAT HE WOULD KIND

OF MELLOW OUT.

SO EVERYTHING SEEMED LIKE IT WAS

GOING OKAY.

AND THAT LIFE

CONTINUED WITHOUT INTERRUPTION

UNTIL ONE NIGHT WHEN LINDA SAW

SOMETHING SHE WAS NEVER SUPPOSED

TO SEE.

IT WAS OCTOBER OF 1988.

LINDA AND JAMES WERE UNLOADING

GROCERIES WHEN JAMES SUDDENLY

DISAPPEARED.

I WENT UPSTAIRS, AND I

TURNED BACK, AND I SAID, "WELL,

WHERE'S JAMES?"

YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT HE WAS

HELPING ME WITH THE GROCERIES.

SO I WENT DOWNSTAIRS, AND I KIND

OF LOOKED TOWARDS THE RIGHT, AND

I SAW HIM BETWEEN THE FENCE AND

A WINDOW.

AND I LOOKED AT HIM.

I SAYS, "WELL, WHAT ARE YOU

DOING?"

AND HE SAW ME, AND THEN HE PICKS

UP A SCREEN, AND HE SAYS, "OH,

THERE'S THIS SCREEN.

YOU KNOW, WE NEED A SCREEN FOR

OUR WINDOW."

LINDA WASN'T SURE

WHAT SHE HAD JUST WITNESSED, BUT

SHE COULDN'T SHAKE AN

UNMISTAKABLE FEELING OF DREAD.

I SAYS, "NO.

YOU WERE LOOKING IN THE WINDOW,

WEREN'T YOU?"

HE SAYS, "NO."

HE SAYS, "I WASN'T DOING THAT."

I QUESTIONED THAT, AND HE LOOKED

RATHER SINCERE, YOU KNOW?

HE SAID, "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING."

LINDA WAS HOPEFUL

THAT THE INCIDENT WAS JUST A

MISUNDERSTANDING.

AND BEFORE LONG, LIFE RETURNED

TO NORMAL.

EVERYTHING SORT OF MELLOWED

OUT.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHEN WE'D GO

OUT PLACES AND DO THINGS

TOGETHER, AND HE SEEMED TO BE

FINE.

AND LIFE WAS FINE

UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1989, WHEN

PROTECTIVE JAMES BEGAN TO WORRY

ABOUT HIS YOUNG WIFE'S SAFETY.

THERE WAS A RAPIST WHO HAD

BEEN TERRORIZING IN THE AREA

CALLED PARKWOOD FOR QUITE SOME

TIME.

HE'D BEEN BREAKING INTO HOUSES,

AND JAMES WAS TERRIFIED THAT

THIS MAN WOULD SHOW UP AT THEIR

DOOR.

PARKWOOD WASN'T FAR

FROM THEIR NEW HOME OUTSIDE OF

BANGOR, WASHINGTON.

AND THE MEDIA HAD SEIZED

UPON THE STORY OF

THE PARKWOOD RAPIST.

JAMES TOLD ME, YOU KNOW,

"THERE'S SOMEBODY WEARING A SKI

MASK.

LOCK THE DOORS, YOU KNOW?

MAKE SURE THE WINDOWS ARE

LOCKED."

LINDA TOOK

APPROPRIATE PRECAUTIONS AND

NEVER THOUGHT MUCH ABOUT THE

RAPIST UNTIL JUST A FEW WEEKS

LATER ON MAY 18, 1989.

THAT WAS THE DAY WHEN LINDA

LEARNED THAT JAMES HAD BEEN

ARRESTED FOR PEEPING.

I CAME INTO THE APARTMENT.

THERE WERE DETECTIVES IN THE

HOUSE.

THEY HAD TOLD ME THAT HE WAS

ARRESTED FOR PEEPING THROUGH A

WINDOW.

WAS JAMES A

PEEPING TOM?

THE THOUGHT WAS BAD ENOUGH.

BUT NOTHING COULD HAVE PREPARED

LINDA FOR WHAT INVESTIGATORS

TOLD HER NEXT.

THE DETECTIVE SAID, "WE THINK

HE IS THE PARKWOOD RAPIST."

AND I SAYS, "LOOK, OKAY, A

PEEPING TOM?"

MAYBE.

BUT A RAPIST? NO. NO WAY."

SO I SAID, "YOU KNOW WHAT?

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS."

I THINK, AT THAT POINT, I

PROBABLY WENT INTO SHOCK.

FEARING THE WORST,

LINDA WENT DOWN TO THE STATION,

WHERE JAMES HAD ALREADY

CONFESSED TO THE PEEPING

INCIDENT.

I ASKED HIM... I SAID, "DID

YOU COMMIT THIS RAPE?"

HE SAYS, "NO."

HE SAYS, "I DIDN'T DO ANY OF

THAT."

AFTER SEVERAL HOURS

IN CUSTODY AND HEAVY

QUESTIONING, JAMES WAS FINALLY

RELEASED.

THE POLICE IN THE SEATTLE

AREA REALLY COULDN'T GET ENOUGH

EVIDENCE TOGETHER TO CHARGE

JAMES, AND THE NAVY WAS

EMBARRASSED BY THE SITUATION AND

JUST WANTED JAMES TO LEAVE, SO

THEY OFFERED TO PAY HIS WAY BACK

TO HOUSTON.

AT LONG LAST, JAMES

WAS FREE FROM THE NAVY, AND

LINDA WAS HOPEFUL THAT MOVING

BACK TO HOUSTON MIGHT SAVE THEIR

STRUGGLING MARRIAGE, BUT THINGS

WERE ABOUT TO GO FROM BAD TO

EVEN WORSE.

WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING...

I WASN'T SURE WHO HE WAS AT

THIS POINT, AND THAT WAS LIKE

LIVING IN HELL.

BY THE FALL OF

1991, SIX YEARS

INTO THEIR MARRIAGE,

JAMES AND LINDA BERGSTROM WERE

BACK IN HOUSTON AND CARING FOR

THEIR 18-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER.

BUT INSTEAD OF GETTING BETTER AS

HE'D PROMISED, LIFE WITH JAMES

HAD BECOME UNBEARABLE.

LINDA REALLY TRIED HARD TO

KEEP IT TOGETHER, BUT JAMES'

ANGER ESCALATED.

HE WOULD BECOME ANGRY OVER THE

SMALLEST THING.

HE DIDN'T LIKE WHAT SHE WAS

WEARING.

HE DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY SHE

LOOKED AT SOMEBODY ELSE.

HE DIDN'T LIKE SOMETHING SHE

SAID TO SOMEONE.

I WASN'T SURE WHO HE WAS.

I LOOKED AT HIM AS IF HE WAS A

STRANGER AT THIS POINT.

BY NOW, LINDA HAD

GROWN SUSPICIOUS OF JAMES'

LATE-NIGHT JOGS.

LINDA DIDN'T MIND JAMES

TAKING THE JOG, BUT THEN SHE

BEGAN TO SEE SOME THINGS THAT

TROUBLED HER.

JAMES WOULD COME HOME, AND HE'D

HAVE GRASS STAINS AND HE HAD

TORN PANTS.

ONE DAY, SHE SAW HIM LOOKING

THROUGH A WINDOW AT THEIR

APARTMENT COMPLEX, WHERE SHE

KNEW THAT THERE WAS A WOMAN AT

HOME.

JAMES' BEHAVIOR

BECAME INCREASINGLY BIZARRE, AND

AS THE FIGHTING GREW WORSE,

JAMES BECAME VIOLENT.

JAMES WAS A TYPICAL ABUSIVE

HUSBAND IN SOME WAYS.

HE WOULD BE PHYSICALLY VIOLENT

WITH HER AND THEN, AFTERWARD,

APOLOGIZE AND SAY THAT HE LOVED

HER.

HE THREATENED TO KILL ME MANY

TIMES.

I HAD BRUISES.

I HAD A BLACK EYE.

I WAS TERRIFIED.

MEANWHILE, LINDA

WASN'T THE ONLY WOMAN IN THE

HOUSTON AREA LIVING IN FEAR.

DETECTIVES FROM THE

HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT WERE

ALREADY IN HOT PURSUIT OF

ANOTHER DANGEROUS MAN, A RAPIST

PREYING ON WOMEN IN

THE GREATER HOUSTON AREA.

MY APARTMENT MANAGER CALLED

ME ONE NIGHT AND ADVISED ME THAT

AN INDIVIDUAL HAD COME INTO ONE

OF THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND

HAD ATTACKED A COUPLE OF

FEMALES.

WHEN I WENT OVER TO THE

APARTMENT AND I SPOKE WITH THE

TWO YOUNG LADIES, THEY SAID HE

HAD A GUN AND HE HAD A VERY

UNUSUAL SKI MASK THAT HE WAS

WEARING.

PEOPLE IN HOUSTON WERE AMAZED

THAT THIS WAS GOING ON RIGHT

HERE IN THE CITY.

IT WAS BIG NEWS, MADE BIG

HEADLINES HERE.

AS THE LIST OF

VICTIMS GREW TO OVER 20, LINDA

BEGAN TO THINK THAT THE POLICE

IN WASHINGTON STATE HAD BEEN

RIGHT ABOUT JAMES ALL ALONG.

I WOULD ALWAYS ASK HIM... I

SAYS, "DID YOU COMMIT THAT RAPE?

YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED?"

AND HE WOULD SAY, "NO, I DIDN'T

DO THAT."

HE SAYS, "ALL I DID WAS LOOK

THROUGH A WINDOW, AND THERE'S

NOTHING WRONG, YOU KNOW... ONE

HONEST MISTAKE, YOU KNOW?"

HE SAYS, "YOU'RE MAKING A BIG

DEAL OUT OF THIS."

AS SHE GREW MORE

AND MORE CERTAIN THAT HER

HUSBAND WAS A RAPIST, LINDA KNEW

SHE WAS TRAPPED.

LINDA COULDN'T LEAVE HIM

BECAUSE, IF SHE LEFT HIM AND GOT

A DIVORCE, HE TOLD HER HE WOULD

FIGHT FOR CUSTODY OF THEIR

DAUGHTER, AND SHE KNEW THAT THAT

MEANT THAT THE DAUGHTER COULD BE

VICTIMIZED.

SO INSTEAD OF

LEAVING HER ABUSIVE HUSBAND,

LINDA DID SOMETHING MOST

UNEXPECTED... SHE TURNED FROM A

LOVING WIFE TO A VIGILANTE

DETERMINED TO HELP PUT JAMES IN

JAIL.

I THOUGHT, "YOU KNOW WHAT?

THAT'S IT.

I'M GONNA SEE TO IT THAT THIS IS

GONNA STOP."

SHE MONITORED HOW MUCH GAS HE

HAD IN THE CAR.

SHE MONITORED WHEN HE LEFT FOR

WORK, KEPT A RECORD OF WHEN HE

GOT BACK.

IF HE WAS GOING OUT WITH A

FRIEND TO PLAY BASKETBALL, SHE

CALLED THE FRIEND, MADE SURE

THAT'S WHERE HE WAS REALLY

GOING.

IT WAS IMPORTANT TO STAY

BECAUSE HE NEEDED TO BE CAUGHT.

HE NEEDED TO BE PUT AWAY.

THEN, ON THE NIGHT

OF DECEMBER 6, 1991, LINDA

FINALLY GOT THE BREAK SHE NEEDED

WHEN THE PHONE RANG IN THE

MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

JAMES CALLED ME UP, TOLD ME,

"HEY, YOU KNOW, I WAS ARRESTED."

HE WAS OUT LATE AT NIGHT, AND HE

GOT PULLED OVER.

HE SAYS, "I DIDN'T HAVE MY

LICENSE."

HE SAYS, "YOU ARE GONNA COME OUT

HERE AND PAY MY BOND, AND I'LL

BE OUT."

EARLY THE NEXT

MORNING AFTER JAMES WAS

RELEASED, LINDA WENT TO RETRIEVE

HIS CAR FROM THE IMPOUND LOT.

I CLIMBED INTO THE CAR, AND I

COULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT I SAW.

I WAS TERRIFIED.

I IMMEDIATELY SAW DUCT TAPE, A

SKI MASK, AND I BELIEVE HE HAD

SOME ROPE THERE, TOO.

AND I KNEW... I KNEW THESE WERE

HIS TOYS.

AND LINDA KNEW THAT

SHE HAD TO CALL THE POLICE

IMMEDIATELY.

I STARTED PASSING RED LIGHTS,

STOP SIGNS... I DIDN'T CARE.

AT THIS POINT, I JUST WANTED TO

GET HOME AND CALL THE POLICE

DEPARTMENT.

LINDA FILED A

REPORT THAT SOON CAME TO

THE ATTENTION OF

LIEUTENANT CHARLES DUNN.

I PULLED UP THAT OFFENSE

REPORT, AND LINDA BERGSTROM

HAD REACHED OUT TO THE

HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT SEX

CRIMES DIVISION AND REPORTED TO

THEM THAT SHE THOUGHT THAT HER

HUSBAND MAY BE ATTACKING WOMEN.

AND THE THING THAT I KEYED ON

WAS A SKI MASK.

AND AS HE DUG

FURTHER, LIEUTENANT DUNN KNEW HE

WAS SCRATCHING THE SURFACE OF A

CASE UTTERLY UNLIKE ANYTHING

HE'D EVER SEEN BEFORE.

WE NEEDED TO STOP JAMES

BEFORE HE DID BECOME THE MOST

PROLIFIC SERIAL RAPIST IN THE

NATION.

I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN HE WOULD

SNAP.

A PERSON LIKE HIM... YOU JUST

DON'T KNOW.

BY DECEMBER OF

1991, LINDA BERGSTROM'S WORST

FEARS HAD BEEN REALIZED.

IT APPEARED THAT HER HUSBAND

JAMES WAS A SERIAL RAPIST.

BUT THERE WASN'T ENOUGH EVIDENCE

FOR THE HOUSTON POLICE TO MAKE

AN ARREST JUST YET.

WELL, THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY

DNA OR ANYTHING THAT TIED JAMES

TO THESE ATTACKS, AND SO THEY

REALLY NEEDED AN EYEWITNESS...

THEY NEEDED SOMEONE WHO COULD

IDENTIFY HIM.

THE WAIT WAS

EXCRUCIATING.

FOR THREE MONTHS, LINDA LIVED A

NIGHTMARE, FEARING FOR HER LIFE.

THAT WAS LIKE LIVING IN HELL.

THEN, ON

DECEMBER 27, 1992, DETECTIVES

FINALLY GOT A HUGE BREAK IN THE

CASE.

IT BEGAN THAT DAY WHEN I CAME

INTO WORK... CRIME ANALYSIS WAS

WAITING FOR ME.

THEY HAD THE CASE OF THE

17-YEAR-OLD GIRL, AND SHE

ACTUALLY SAW HIS FACE.

A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL

HAD HEROICALLY FOUGHT OFF THE

RAPIST, AND HER POSITIVE I.D.

FINALLY BROKE THE CASE WIDE

OPEN.

SHE GAVE A GREAT DESCRIPTION

OF WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT OCCURRED,

AND IT WAS REALLY ALL WE NEEDED

TO MAKE THE CASE.

JAMES BERGSTROM WAS

ARRESTED IN THE PARKING LOT OF

HIS APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT

AFTERNOON.

I SPOTTED HIS VEHICLE FIRST

WITH THE LICENSE PLATE.

I IMMEDIATELY WENT UP, AND I

REMOVED HIM FROM THE CAR AND

HANDCUFFED HIM.

LINDA LEARNED OF

JAMES' ARREST LATER THAT DAY.

AND THE PHONE RANG, AND IT

WAS HIM.

AND HE SAID, "I'M IN JAIL.

THEY CAUGHT ME."

AND HE SAYS, "I'M TIRED OF

THIS."

HE SAYS, "I'M GONNA GET HELP."

AND I SAYS, "GOOD, FINALLY.

YOU NEED TO TELL THEM

EVERYTHING."

THAT NIGHT, JAMES

CONFESSED TO ATTACKING OVER A

DOZEN WOMEN.

HOW DID YOU GET IN THE HOUSE?

WELL, THROUGH THE GARAGE

DOOR.

TIED HER HANDS BEHIND HER BACK

AND TOOK OFF HER CLOTHES.

I TOUCHED HER AND CARESSED HER

AND TOLD HER I WOULD NEVER HURT

HER.

THEN I LEFT.

THE ONE THING THAT HE TOLD ME

THAT WILL LIVE WITH ME FOREVER

IS HE SAID THAT, DURING THE DAY,

ALL HE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WAS

ATTACKING WOMEN, AND AT NIGHT,

THAT'S ALL HE DREAMED ABOUT.

THE DETAILS OF

JAMES' CRIMES SPELLED OUT A

DISTURBING STORY.

JAMES WAS REALLY NOT OUT

THERE, OUT JOGGING, IN ORDER TO

GET PHYSICALLY FIT.

HE WAS OUT THERE STALKING WOMEN.

HE WAS JOGGING THROUGH

NEIGHBORHOODS LOOKING FOR OPEN

GARAGE DOORS, LOOKING FOR WOMEN

WHO WERE HOME ALONE, WATCHING TO

SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE

NEIGHBORHOODS.

YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND...

RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT ARE TWO

OF THE MOST UNDERREPORTED CRIMES

THERE ARE.

SO, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE

50, 60... THERE COULD BE

HUNDREDS, AND, UNFORTUNATELY,

I DON'T EVEN THINK JAMES KNOWS.

IT WAS ONE OF THE

BIGGEST CASES OF SERIAL RAPE AND

SEXUAL ASSAULT THE HOUSTON P.D.

HAD EVER SEEN.

AND EVERYONE AGREED THAT LINDA

DESERVED ENORMOUS CREDIT FOR

PUTTING JAMES BEHIND BARS.

IF SHE HAD MAINTAINED HER

SILENCE, IF SHE HADN'T COME

FORWARD, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BEFORE HE WAS

CAUGHT AND STOPPED.

BECAUSE SHE ELECTED TO STAY

AND BECAUSE SHE ELECTED TO REACH

OUT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE WERE

ABLE TO STOP JAMES BEFORE HE DID

BECOME THE MOST PROLIFIC SERIAL

RAPIST IN THE NATION.

JAMES BERGSTROM WAS

INDICTED ON 13 COUNTS OF

AGGRAVATED SEXUAL ASSAULT AND

ROBBERY.

AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO

MULTIPLE CHARGES, HE WAS

SENTENCED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1992.

I SAW THE VICTIMS AS THEY

ENTERED THE COURTROOM, AND I

FELT BAD FOR EVERY ONE OF THEM.

THEY GAVE HIM FOUR 99-YEAR

SENTENCES... AND I WAS VERY GLAD

TO HEAR THAT.

TODAY, LINDA LIVES

A QUIET LIFE WITH HER DAUGHTER

AND NEW HUSBAND IN SUBURBAN

HOUSTON, AND SHE'S REMOVED

EVERYTHING THAT REMINDS HER OF

THE MAN WHO MADE HER LIFE A

NIGHTMARE.

I GOT RID OF EVERYTHING.

I GOT RID OF EVERY PICTURE WE

OWNED, EVERY SPOON, EVERY PIECE

OF FURNITURE.

I WANTED NOTHING TO BE REMINDED

OF THIS PERSON.

IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO TRUST

ANYBODY... PROBABLY WOULDN'T

HAVE TRUSTED THE PERSON NEXT

DOOR.

BUT AFTER SO MANY

YEARS, LIFE IS LOOKING UP FOR

LINDA.

TODAY, I FEEL VERY

COMFORTABLE.

I'M VERY HAPPY.

BEFORE, MY LIFE WAS IN HELL, AND

TODAY, I CAN SAY I'M IN HEAVEN.