Wicked Attraction (2008–…): Season 1, Episode 3 - Madness of Two - full transcript
Wicked Attraction looks at the case of Elizabeth Haysom who convinced her 18-year-old boyfriend Jens Söring to kill her retired parents.
IN THE EARLY-MORNING
HOURS OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1997,
THE PLACER COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE GETS A 911 CALL
ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN
WANDERING ALONG INTERSTATE 80
IN AUBURN, CALIFORNIA.
SHE SAYS SHE'S BEEN
KIDNAPPED AND RAPED.
DISPATCH CALLED ME AT HOME AND
ASKED ME TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE VICTIM WAS VERY SHAKEN.
SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY UPSET.
I THINK THAT SHE WAS
VERY RELIEVED
TO HAVE SURVIVED THIS ORDEAL.
SHE IS ABLE TO TELL
THE POLICE WHAT HAPPENED.
SHE HAD BEEN
WALKING HOME FROM HER SCHOOL.
AND SHE WAS WALKING DOWN
WASHINGTON STREET
IN RENO, NEVADA,
WHEN SHE HEARD A VEHICLE
COME UP BEHIND HER.
GO, GO, GO!
THE VICTIM TOLD THE OFFICERS
THAT A FEMALE
WAS DRIVING THE VAN
AND THAT THE MALE
GAVE HER INSTRUCTIONS
ON HOW TO GET TO THE FREEWAY
FROM WHERE THEY WERE.
SHE WASN'T SURE WHETHER
THIS WOMAN WAS ALSO, HERSELF,
A CAPTIVE IN SOME FASHION.
SHE ATTEMPTED TO GET
SOME SUPPORT OR SOME HELP
FROM THIS WOMAN
WHO WAS DRIVING THE VAN.
EVENTUALLY, THE VICTIM REALIZED
THAT THIS WOMAN WAS ASSISTING
THIS MAN IN THIS ABDUCTION.
THEY THEN TOOK HER
ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, TO AUBURN.
IN THE COURSE OF THIS ABDUCTION,
THERE WAS A NUMBER OF SEXUAL
ACTS PERFORMED ON THIS WOMAN.
I THINK THE TERM
"SEXUAL PREDATOR"
CERTAINLY APPLIES
TO THESE TWO OFFENDERS.
OFFENDERS WHO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR THAT IS SADISTIC...
THAT IS, WHERE THEY'RE
DERIVING SEXUAL PLEASURE
FROM THE SUFFERING
AND HUMILIATION
AND CONTROL OVER ANOTHER VICTIM.
THEY LACK THE ABILITY TO CARE
ABOUT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
HER INTENT WAS TO REMEMBER
AS MUCH ABOUT HIM AS SHE COULD
SO THAT SHE COULD IDENTIFY HIM
IF SHE SURVIVED THIS ORDEAL.
AFTER HOURS OF ABUSE,
THE COUPLE FINALLY DROPS HER OFF
ON A DESERTED ROAD
IN CALIFORNIA,
MORE THAN 90 MILES
FROM WHERE SHE WAS KIDNAPPED.
THE VAN PULLED UP HERE,
SOMEWHERE IN THIS AREA
ALONG HERE.
THE VICTIM HAD ALREADY BEEN
INSTRUCTED TO GET DRESSED.
AT THAT POINT,
WHEN THEY STOPPED THE VAN,
SHE WAS GIVEN HER PURSE
AND HER BACKPACK.
THEY WARNED HER NOT TO GO
WALKING BY HERSELF ANYMORE
AT NIGHT IN RENO
AND SAID THAT SHE WAS VERY LUCKY
THAT SHE HAD BEEN PICKED UP
BY TWO SUCH NICE PEOPLE.
AND, AT THAT POINT,
THEY LET HER OUT OF THE VAN,
TOLD HER TO TURN HER FACE AWAY,
COUNT TO 20,
AND THEN THEY DROVE OFF.
THE WOMAN
WALKS TOWARD THE INTERSTATE,
WHERE SHE FLAGS DOWN HELP.
ALTHOUGH IN SHOCK,
THE VICTIM GIVES DETAILED
DESCRIPTIONS OF HER ATTACKERS.
SHE MADE SURE TO LOOK AROUND
HER SURROUNDINGS,
TO REMEMBER THE FACES
THAT SHE SAW.
SHE LISTENED TO THEIR VOICES.
SHE REMEMBERED THE SMELLS.
WHEN THE MALE WAS TALKING
TO THE FEMALE SUSPECT,
THAT HE CALLED HER "MICKEY."
POLICE DEVELOP
COMPOSITES OF THE SUSPECTS
AND PUT OUT AN A.P.B.
FOR THEM AND THEIR VAN.
BECAUSE THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN
ACROSS STATE LINES,
THE FBI IS NOTIFIED.
IT'S PRETTY RARE TO HAVE
A MALE AND A FEMALE TOGETHER
DOING A SEXUAL ASSAULT
OF A STRANGER.
SO THAT DEFINITELY GETS THE HAIR
ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK UP
THAT YOU HAVE A PRETTY DANGEROUS
PREDATOR PAIR OUT THERE.
AND, HISTORICALLY,
THERE HAVE BEEN
SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT
MALE/FEMALE TEAMS
THAT HAVE OPERATED IN THIS AREA.
IN THE 1980s,
GERALD AND CHARLENE GALLEGO
WERE A MALE-AND-FEMALE
KIDNAP, RAPE, AND MURDER TEAM
THAT WERE OPERATING
IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA.
THEY HAD, I THINK,
ABOUT 10 VICTIMS.
THE GALLEGOS DUMPED
ONE OF THEIR VICTIMS
IN CLIPPER GAP...
WHERE THE YOUNG WOMAN
ABDUCTED AND RAPED FROM RENO
WAS RECENTLY LET GO.
AUTHORITIES FEAR THERE MAY BE
A COPYCAT ON THE LOOSE.
THESE ARE HIGH-PRIORITY CASES
FOR THE FBI.
THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT THERE
THAT MIGHT BE GETTING READY
TO PREY ON ANOTHER VICTIM
NEED TO BE ADDRESSED
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO, IN THESE KIND OF CASES,
WE DROP EVERYTHING,
GET OUT THERE,
AND START DEVELOPING LEADS...
RECOVERING EVIDENCE,
DOING INTERVIEWS
AS SOON AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
MORE THAN A MONTH PASSES
WITHOUT ANY OF THEIR EFFORTS
PAYING OFF.
AND THE CASE GOES COLD.
NOVEMBER 3, 1997,
IS A SLOW NIGHT AT WORK
FOR 17-YEAR-OLD LINDA MARSHALL
IN PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA.
THERE IS
ANOTHER SEXUAL ATTACK
IN WHICH BOTH OF THESE PEOPLE
ATTEMPTED TO HAVE SEX
WITH THIS WOMAN.
THEY BEAT HER. THEY ENDED UP
TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER.
AND THEY SAID, "WELL,
IF YOU TELL WHAT WE'VE DONE,
"WE'RE GOING TO LET
THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OUT,
AND WE'RE GOING TO
BLACKMAIL YOU."
EVENTUALLY, SHE, OF COURSE, WAS
AFRAID THAT THEY WOULD KILL HER.
WHEN SHE IS RELEASED,
LINDA GOES TO THE POLICE.
BUT INSTEAD OF TELLING THE TRUTH
ABOUT HER ATTACKERS, SHE LIES.
LINDA IS AFRAID OF THEM
AND AWARE OF THE PHOTOS
THEY POSSESS.
SHE CLAIMS SHE WAS ABDUCTED
AND RAPED BY THREE MEN.
HER STORY SEEMS SUSPICIOUS
TO THE POLICE,
AND WHEN THEY CONFRONT HER
ABOUT HER INCONSISTENCIES,
SHE DROPS THE CASE.
THESE INDIVIDUALS
WILL TEND TO INCREASE
IN THE COMPLEXITY
OF THE BEHAVIOR
THAT THEY'RE ENGAGING IN,
SOMETIMES SEEKING MORE EXTREME
OR MORE DIVERSE KINDS
OF BEHAVIORS
IN ORDER TO GET THE SAME DEGREE
OF FULFILLMENT.
MANY OF THEM, PARTICULARLY
WHEN THEY'RE ENGAGING
IN EXTREME VIOLENCE AND SADISM,
DO NOT STOP ON THEIR OWN.
IN THE FALL OF 1997,
AUBURN, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORITIES
SEARCH FOR TWO SUSPECTS
IN A KIDNAPPING-AND-RAPE CASE.
WITH ONLY DESCRIPTIONS
OF THE PERPETRATORS...
A MALE AND FEMALE TEAM...
AND THEIR VAN
AND UNAWARE OF ANY OTHER CRIMES
COMMITTED BY THE COUPLE,
THE POLICE RUN OUT OF LEADS
AND THEIR CASE
IS AT A STANDSTILL.
ON NOVEMBER 19, 1997,
SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS
RESPOND TO A RESIDENCE
TO TAKE A REPORT
ON A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT.
TWO TEENAGE GIRLS TELL OFFICERS
THEY WERE BOTH RAPED
AT DIFFERENT TIMES
BY THE SAME COUPLE.
THE MOST SHOCKING REVELATION
WAS THE FACT
THAT ONE OF THE GIRLS
WAS MOLESTED BY HER OWN MOTHER
AND PROVIDED TO HER BOYFRIEND
FOR SEXUAL PURPOSES.
THE KIND OF OFFENDER THAT WOULD
GIVE UP THEIR OWN CHILD
FOR SEXUAL ABUSE
TO ANOTHER OFFENDER
AND EVEN PARTICIPATE
IN THAT ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION
IS JUST AS CULPABLE
OF AN OFFENDER
AND LIKELY SHARES
SIMILAR KINDS OF DEVIANT
FANTASIES AND IMPULSES
AND IS THE KIND OF A PERSON
WHO, SIMILARLY,
IS UNABLE TO HAVE ANY COMPASSION
OR CARING FOR THAT CHILD.
THERE IS MORE TO THE STORY.
THE TWO GIRLS HAD ALSO TOLD US
THAT THEY HAD SEEN
A REPORT ON TV A FEW WEEKS PRIOR
ABOUT A KIDNAP/RAPE OUT OF RENO,
AND THE DESCRIPTIONS
OF THE MALE AND FEMALE SUSPECTS,
AS WELL AS THE VEHICLE,
WERE VERY SIMILAR.
THE GIRLS GIVE INVESTIGATORS
THE NAMES OF THEIR ATTACKERS...
JAMES "FROGGY" DAVEGGIO...
AND MICHELLE "MICKEY" MICHAUD.
WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
OF THE RENO KIDNAPPING AND RAPE,
MICHAUD AND DAVEGGIO KNEW THAT
THE AUTHORITIES WERE AFTER THEM
BECAUSE THE COMPOSITE
OF DAVEGGIO
WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER
AND IT WAS ON TELEVISION.
SO THEY CERTAINLY KNEW
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
THAT THE POLICE HAD REASON
TO SUSPECT THEM.
I RAN RECORD CHECKS
ON EVERYBODY INVOLVED
AND FOUND THAT DAVEGGIO
WAS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER
WHO HAD JUST RECENTLY REGISTERED
IN SACRAMENTO
AND THAT MICHELLE MICHAUD
WAS A PROSTITUTE
WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED
FOR PROSTITUTION SEVERAL TIMES.
POLICE ARE NOT SURPRISED
TO SEE THAT EACH
HAS A LONG HISTORY OF OFFENSES.
JAMES ANTHONY DAVEGGIO
WAS BORN IN 1960
IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
HE HAD
A VERY UNHAPPY UPBRINGING.
HIS MOTHER WAS THE DOMINANT
PERSONALITY IN HIS HOUSEHOLD.
SHE WAS INVOLVED
IN VARIOUS SEX CRIMES,
EVEN AS A JUVENILE.
HE HAD MANY DIFFICULTIES,
PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES...
A LOT OF BAGGAGE, A LOT OF RAGE,
A LOT OF ANGER...
AT WOMEN, ESPECIALLY.
MICHELLE MICHAUD WAS TWO YEARS
OLDER THAN JAMES DAVEGGIO,
GREW UP IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA.
SHE RAN AWAY FROM HOME
WHEN SHE WAS 17.
SHE ENCOUNTERED A PIMP
WHO TURNED HER OUT,
PUT HER ON THE STREET.
EVENTUALLY, SHE WOUND UP
WORKING IN MASSAGE PARLORS.
JAMES DAVEGGIO
AND MICHELLE MICHAUD
MET IN OCTOBER OF 1996
IN A BAR WHERE DAVEGGIO WORKED.
MICHAUD AND DAVEGGIO
WERE PRIMARILY DRAWN TOGETHER
BECAUSE OF THEIR MUTUAL
ADDICTION TO METHAMPHETAMINE.
METHAMPHETAMINE
IS A PSYCHOSTIMULANT,
AND WHEN PEOPLE TAKE IN
METHAMPHETAMINE...
WHETHER THEY'RE SHOOTING IT UP,
WHETHER THEY'RE SNORTING IT,
OR WHETHER THEY'RE SMOKING IT...
WHAT WE TYPICALLY SEE
WITH A PERSON WHO'S INTOXICATED
WITH METH IS EUPHORIA,
AN INCREASE
IN THEIR LEVEL OF IMPULSIVENESS.
PARANOIA CAN BE PART OF IT,
AGGRESSIVENESS, FIGHTING,
DELUSIONS... A PERSON COULD
LOSE CONTACT WITH REALITY.
BASICALLY, AN EROSION OF THE
VALUE STRUCTURE THAT THEY HAD.
AND IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD
VALUE STRUCTURE TO BEGIN WITH,
IT'S GONNA GO FURTHER DOWNHILL
AND MORE EXTREME ACTS
ARE GOING TO BE MORE LIKELY.
MICHAUD AND DAVEGGIO
TENDED TO PROJECT ONTO THE OTHER
WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE
IN ANOTHER PERSON.
AND MICHAUD WOULD SAY LATER
THAT SHE PERCEIVED DAVEGGIO AS
BEING A STRONG FATHERLY FIGURE
THAT AROUND WHICH
THE FAMILY COULD COALESCE.
I THINK DAVEGGIO... FROGGY...
SAW HER AS SOMEBODY
WHO WAS WILLING TO DO ANYTHING
TO PLEASE HIM,
AS HE ALWAYS
EXPECTED WOMEN TO DO.
A PERSON WHO HAS TREATED WOMEN
AS OBJECTS, AS MR. DAVEGGIO DID,
VERY WELL COULD RECOGNIZE
THE OPPORTUNITIES
THAT ADDICTION TO
METHAMPHETAMINE MIGHT REPRESENT.
THAT IS, HE MAY SEE THAT IF
THE PERSON HE'S INVOLVED WITH...
FOR EXAMPLE, MICHELLE MICHAUD...
IS HOOKED ON METH
AND HE'S THE GUY
THAT CAN FUND THAT HABIT
OR PROVIDE THAT METHAMPHETAMINE,
HE VERY WELL COULD USE THAT
AS A WAY OF CONTROLLING HER.
THE FACT
THAT MICHAUD IS A PROSTITUTE
AND DAVEGGIO IS ALREADY
A SEXUAL PREDATOR
MAKES THEM AN IDEAL MATCH.
YOU'VE GOT A PROSTITUTE,
WHOSE JOB IS TO BASICALLY
USE HER BODY AS A COMMODITY,
HOURS OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1997,
THE PLACER COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE GETS A 911 CALL
ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN
WANDERING ALONG INTERSTATE 80
IN AUBURN, CALIFORNIA.
SHE SAYS SHE'S BEEN
KIDNAPPED AND RAPED.
DISPATCH CALLED ME AT HOME AND
ASKED ME TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL.
THE VICTIM WAS VERY SHAKEN.
SHE WAS OBVIOUSLY UPSET.
I THINK THAT SHE WAS
VERY RELIEVED
TO HAVE SURVIVED THIS ORDEAL.
SHE IS ABLE TO TELL
THE POLICE WHAT HAPPENED.
SHE HAD BEEN
WALKING HOME FROM HER SCHOOL.
AND SHE WAS WALKING DOWN
WASHINGTON STREET
IN RENO, NEVADA,
WHEN SHE HEARD A VEHICLE
COME UP BEHIND HER.
GO, GO, GO!
THE VICTIM TOLD THE OFFICERS
THAT A FEMALE
WAS DRIVING THE VAN
AND THAT THE MALE
GAVE HER INSTRUCTIONS
ON HOW TO GET TO THE FREEWAY
FROM WHERE THEY WERE.
SHE WASN'T SURE WHETHER
THIS WOMAN WAS ALSO, HERSELF,
A CAPTIVE IN SOME FASHION.
SHE ATTEMPTED TO GET
SOME SUPPORT OR SOME HELP
FROM THIS WOMAN
WHO WAS DRIVING THE VAN.
EVENTUALLY, THE VICTIM REALIZED
THAT THIS WOMAN WAS ASSISTING
THIS MAN IN THIS ABDUCTION.
THEY THEN TOOK HER
ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS, TO AUBURN.
IN THE COURSE OF THIS ABDUCTION,
THERE WAS A NUMBER OF SEXUAL
ACTS PERFORMED ON THIS WOMAN.
I THINK THE TERM
"SEXUAL PREDATOR"
CERTAINLY APPLIES
TO THESE TWO OFFENDERS.
OFFENDERS WHO ENGAGE IN SEXUAL
BEHAVIOR THAT IS SADISTIC...
THAT IS, WHERE THEY'RE
DERIVING SEXUAL PLEASURE
FROM THE SUFFERING
AND HUMILIATION
AND CONTROL OVER ANOTHER VICTIM.
THEY LACK THE ABILITY TO CARE
ABOUT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.
HER INTENT WAS TO REMEMBER
AS MUCH ABOUT HIM AS SHE COULD
SO THAT SHE COULD IDENTIFY HIM
IF SHE SURVIVED THIS ORDEAL.
AFTER HOURS OF ABUSE,
THE COUPLE FINALLY DROPS HER OFF
ON A DESERTED ROAD
IN CALIFORNIA,
MORE THAN 90 MILES
FROM WHERE SHE WAS KIDNAPPED.
THE VAN PULLED UP HERE,
SOMEWHERE IN THIS AREA
ALONG HERE.
THE VICTIM HAD ALREADY BEEN
INSTRUCTED TO GET DRESSED.
AT THAT POINT,
WHEN THEY STOPPED THE VAN,
SHE WAS GIVEN HER PURSE
AND HER BACKPACK.
THEY WARNED HER NOT TO GO
WALKING BY HERSELF ANYMORE
AT NIGHT IN RENO
AND SAID THAT SHE WAS VERY LUCKY
THAT SHE HAD BEEN PICKED UP
BY TWO SUCH NICE PEOPLE.
AND, AT THAT POINT,
THEY LET HER OUT OF THE VAN,
TOLD HER TO TURN HER FACE AWAY,
COUNT TO 20,
AND THEN THEY DROVE OFF.
THE WOMAN
WALKS TOWARD THE INTERSTATE,
WHERE SHE FLAGS DOWN HELP.
ALTHOUGH IN SHOCK,
THE VICTIM GIVES DETAILED
DESCRIPTIONS OF HER ATTACKERS.
SHE MADE SURE TO LOOK AROUND
HER SURROUNDINGS,
TO REMEMBER THE FACES
THAT SHE SAW.
SHE LISTENED TO THEIR VOICES.
SHE REMEMBERED THE SMELLS.
WHEN THE MALE WAS TALKING
TO THE FEMALE SUSPECT,
THAT HE CALLED HER "MICKEY."
POLICE DEVELOP
COMPOSITES OF THE SUSPECTS
AND PUT OUT AN A.P.B.
FOR THEM AND THEIR VAN.
BECAUSE THE VICTIM WAS TAKEN
ACROSS STATE LINES,
THE FBI IS NOTIFIED.
IT'S PRETTY RARE TO HAVE
A MALE AND A FEMALE TOGETHER
DOING A SEXUAL ASSAULT
OF A STRANGER.
SO THAT DEFINITELY GETS THE HAIR
ON THE BACK OF YOUR NECK UP
THAT YOU HAVE A PRETTY DANGEROUS
PREDATOR PAIR OUT THERE.
AND, HISTORICALLY,
THERE HAVE BEEN
SOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT
MALE/FEMALE TEAMS
THAT HAVE OPERATED IN THIS AREA.
IN THE 1980s,
GERALD AND CHARLENE GALLEGO
WERE A MALE-AND-FEMALE
KIDNAP, RAPE, AND MURDER TEAM
THAT WERE OPERATING
IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA.
THEY HAD, I THINK,
ABOUT 10 VICTIMS.
THE GALLEGOS DUMPED
ONE OF THEIR VICTIMS
IN CLIPPER GAP...
WHERE THE YOUNG WOMAN
ABDUCTED AND RAPED FROM RENO
WAS RECENTLY LET GO.
AUTHORITIES FEAR THERE MAY BE
A COPYCAT ON THE LOOSE.
THESE ARE HIGH-PRIORITY CASES
FOR THE FBI.
THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT THERE
THAT MIGHT BE GETTING READY
TO PREY ON ANOTHER VICTIM
NEED TO BE ADDRESSED
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
SO, IN THESE KIND OF CASES,
WE DROP EVERYTHING,
GET OUT THERE,
AND START DEVELOPING LEADS...
RECOVERING EVIDENCE,
DOING INTERVIEWS
AS SOON AS WE POSSIBLY CAN.
MORE THAN A MONTH PASSES
WITHOUT ANY OF THEIR EFFORTS
PAYING OFF.
AND THE CASE GOES COLD.
NOVEMBER 3, 1997,
IS A SLOW NIGHT AT WORK
FOR 17-YEAR-OLD LINDA MARSHALL
IN PLEASANTON, CALIFORNIA.
THERE IS
ANOTHER SEXUAL ATTACK
IN WHICH BOTH OF THESE PEOPLE
ATTEMPTED TO HAVE SEX
WITH THIS WOMAN.
THEY BEAT HER. THEY ENDED UP
TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF HER.
AND THEY SAID, "WELL,
IF YOU TELL WHAT WE'VE DONE,
"WE'RE GOING TO LET
THESE PHOTOGRAPHS OUT,
AND WE'RE GOING TO
BLACKMAIL YOU."
EVENTUALLY, SHE, OF COURSE, WAS
AFRAID THAT THEY WOULD KILL HER.
WHEN SHE IS RELEASED,
LINDA GOES TO THE POLICE.
BUT INSTEAD OF TELLING THE TRUTH
ABOUT HER ATTACKERS, SHE LIES.
LINDA IS AFRAID OF THEM
AND AWARE OF THE PHOTOS
THEY POSSESS.
SHE CLAIMS SHE WAS ABDUCTED
AND RAPED BY THREE MEN.
HER STORY SEEMS SUSPICIOUS
TO THE POLICE,
AND WHEN THEY CONFRONT HER
ABOUT HER INCONSISTENCIES,
SHE DROPS THE CASE.
THESE INDIVIDUALS
WILL TEND TO INCREASE
IN THE COMPLEXITY
OF THE BEHAVIOR
THAT THEY'RE ENGAGING IN,
SOMETIMES SEEKING MORE EXTREME
OR MORE DIVERSE KINDS
OF BEHAVIORS
IN ORDER TO GET THE SAME DEGREE
OF FULFILLMENT.
MANY OF THEM, PARTICULARLY
WHEN THEY'RE ENGAGING
IN EXTREME VIOLENCE AND SADISM,
DO NOT STOP ON THEIR OWN.
IN THE FALL OF 1997,
AUBURN, CALIFORNIA, AUTHORITIES
SEARCH FOR TWO SUSPECTS
IN A KIDNAPPING-AND-RAPE CASE.
WITH ONLY DESCRIPTIONS
OF THE PERPETRATORS...
A MALE AND FEMALE TEAM...
AND THEIR VAN
AND UNAWARE OF ANY OTHER CRIMES
COMMITTED BY THE COUPLE,
THE POLICE RUN OUT OF LEADS
AND THEIR CASE
IS AT A STANDSTILL.
ON NOVEMBER 19, 1997,
SACRAMENTO POLICE OFFICERS
RESPOND TO A RESIDENCE
TO TAKE A REPORT
ON A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT.
TWO TEENAGE GIRLS TELL OFFICERS
THEY WERE BOTH RAPED
AT DIFFERENT TIMES
BY THE SAME COUPLE.
THE MOST SHOCKING REVELATION
WAS THE FACT
THAT ONE OF THE GIRLS
WAS MOLESTED BY HER OWN MOTHER
AND PROVIDED TO HER BOYFRIEND
FOR SEXUAL PURPOSES.
THE KIND OF OFFENDER THAT WOULD
GIVE UP THEIR OWN CHILD
FOR SEXUAL ABUSE
TO ANOTHER OFFENDER
AND EVEN PARTICIPATE
IN THAT ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION
IS JUST AS CULPABLE
OF AN OFFENDER
AND LIKELY SHARES
SIMILAR KINDS OF DEVIANT
FANTASIES AND IMPULSES
AND IS THE KIND OF A PERSON
WHO, SIMILARLY,
IS UNABLE TO HAVE ANY COMPASSION
OR CARING FOR THAT CHILD.
THERE IS MORE TO THE STORY.
THE TWO GIRLS HAD ALSO TOLD US
THAT THEY HAD SEEN
A REPORT ON TV A FEW WEEKS PRIOR
ABOUT A KIDNAP/RAPE OUT OF RENO,
AND THE DESCRIPTIONS
OF THE MALE AND FEMALE SUSPECTS,
AS WELL AS THE VEHICLE,
WERE VERY SIMILAR.
THE GIRLS GIVE INVESTIGATORS
THE NAMES OF THEIR ATTACKERS...
JAMES "FROGGY" DAVEGGIO...
AND MICHELLE "MICKEY" MICHAUD.
WITHIN A DAY OR TWO
OF THE RENO KIDNAPPING AND RAPE,
MICHAUD AND DAVEGGIO KNEW THAT
THE AUTHORITIES WERE AFTER THEM
BECAUSE THE COMPOSITE
OF DAVEGGIO
WAS PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER
AND IT WAS ON TELEVISION.
SO THEY CERTAINLY KNEW
FROM THE VERY BEGINNING
THAT THE POLICE HAD REASON
TO SUSPECT THEM.
I RAN RECORD CHECKS
ON EVERYBODY INVOLVED
AND FOUND THAT DAVEGGIO
WAS A REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER
WHO HAD JUST RECENTLY REGISTERED
IN SACRAMENTO
AND THAT MICHELLE MICHAUD
WAS A PROSTITUTE
WHO HAD BEEN ARRESTED
FOR PROSTITUTION SEVERAL TIMES.
POLICE ARE NOT SURPRISED
TO SEE THAT EACH
HAS A LONG HISTORY OF OFFENSES.
JAMES ANTHONY DAVEGGIO
WAS BORN IN 1960
IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.
HE HAD
A VERY UNHAPPY UPBRINGING.
HIS MOTHER WAS THE DOMINANT
PERSONALITY IN HIS HOUSEHOLD.
SHE WAS INVOLVED
IN VARIOUS SEX CRIMES,
EVEN AS A JUVENILE.
HE HAD MANY DIFFICULTIES,
PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFICULTIES...
A LOT OF BAGGAGE, A LOT OF RAGE,
A LOT OF ANGER...
AT WOMEN, ESPECIALLY.
MICHELLE MICHAUD WAS TWO YEARS
OLDER THAN JAMES DAVEGGIO,
GREW UP IN THE SACRAMENTO AREA.
SHE RAN AWAY FROM HOME
WHEN SHE WAS 17.
SHE ENCOUNTERED A PIMP
WHO TURNED HER OUT,
PUT HER ON THE STREET.
EVENTUALLY, SHE WOUND UP
WORKING IN MASSAGE PARLORS.
JAMES DAVEGGIO
AND MICHELLE MICHAUD
MET IN OCTOBER OF 1996
IN A BAR WHERE DAVEGGIO WORKED.
MICHAUD AND DAVEGGIO
WERE PRIMARILY DRAWN TOGETHER
BECAUSE OF THEIR MUTUAL
ADDICTION TO METHAMPHETAMINE.
METHAMPHETAMINE
IS A PSYCHOSTIMULANT,
AND WHEN PEOPLE TAKE IN
METHAMPHETAMINE...
WHETHER THEY'RE SHOOTING IT UP,
WHETHER THEY'RE SNORTING IT,
OR WHETHER THEY'RE SMOKING IT...
WHAT WE TYPICALLY SEE
WITH A PERSON WHO'S INTOXICATED
WITH METH IS EUPHORIA,
AN INCREASE
IN THEIR LEVEL OF IMPULSIVENESS.
PARANOIA CAN BE PART OF IT,
AGGRESSIVENESS, FIGHTING,
DELUSIONS... A PERSON COULD
LOSE CONTACT WITH REALITY.
BASICALLY, AN EROSION OF THE
VALUE STRUCTURE THAT THEY HAD.
AND IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD
VALUE STRUCTURE TO BEGIN WITH,
IT'S GONNA GO FURTHER DOWNHILL
AND MORE EXTREME ACTS
ARE GOING TO BE MORE LIKELY.
MICHAUD AND DAVEGGIO
TENDED TO PROJECT ONTO THE OTHER
WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE
IN ANOTHER PERSON.
AND MICHAUD WOULD SAY LATER
THAT SHE PERCEIVED DAVEGGIO AS
BEING A STRONG FATHERLY FIGURE
THAT AROUND WHICH
THE FAMILY COULD COALESCE.
I THINK DAVEGGIO... FROGGY...
SAW HER AS SOMEBODY
WHO WAS WILLING TO DO ANYTHING
TO PLEASE HIM,
AS HE ALWAYS
EXPECTED WOMEN TO DO.
A PERSON WHO HAS TREATED WOMEN
AS OBJECTS, AS MR. DAVEGGIO DID,
VERY WELL COULD RECOGNIZE
THE OPPORTUNITIES
THAT ADDICTION TO
METHAMPHETAMINE MIGHT REPRESENT.
THAT IS, HE MAY SEE THAT IF
THE PERSON HE'S INVOLVED WITH...
FOR EXAMPLE, MICHELLE MICHAUD...
IS HOOKED ON METH
AND HE'S THE GUY
THAT CAN FUND THAT HABIT
OR PROVIDE THAT METHAMPHETAMINE,
HE VERY WELL COULD USE THAT
AS A WAY OF CONTROLLING HER.
THE FACT
THAT MICHAUD IS A PROSTITUTE
AND DAVEGGIO IS ALREADY
A SEXUAL PREDATOR
MAKES THEM AN IDEAL MATCH.
YOU'VE GOT A PROSTITUTE,
WHOSE JOB IS TO BASICALLY
USE HER BODY AS A COMMODITY,