Wicked Attraction (2008–…): Season 1, Episode 7 - Mother Knows Best - full transcript

ON THE MORNING
OF SEPTEMBER 11, 1978...

...32-YEAR-OLD GERALD GALLEGO

WAKES UP
HIS 21-YEAR-OLD GIRLFRIEND,

CHARLENE WILLIAMS...

CHARLENE.

...AND TELLS HER
THAT TODAY IS THE DAY

TO MAKE HIS FANTASIES A REALITY.

HE HAD THIS IDEA THAT HE WANTED
TO KIDNAP YOUNG GIRLS

BECAUSE HE WAS
VERY UNHAPPY WITH HER.

HE WAS TELLING HER SHE DIDN'T
HAVE ANYTHING TO OFFER HIM,

AND SO HE WAS GETTING HER
IN A POSITION



TO BE ABLE TO GO SHOPPING
FOR YOUNG WOMEN.

SHUT UP.
BE QUIET!

SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

CHARLENE WENT ALONG
QUICKLY ENOUGH WITH THESE DESIRES

BECAUSE SHE WANTED TO PLEASE HIM
ANY WAY THAT SHE COULD,

EVEN IF IT MEANT
GIVING THE GO-AHEAD

TO TURN THESE SEX FANTASIES
INTO REALITY.

LATER THAT SAME DAY...

...SACRAMENTO POLICE

RECEIVE A CALL CONCERNING
TWO MISSING GIRLS...

16-YEAR-OLD KIPPI VAUGHT

AND 17-YEAR-OLD
RHONDA SCHEFFLER.

RHONDA SCHEFFLER
AND KIPPI VAUGHT WENT SHOPPING

AT COUNTRY CLUB PLAZA
SHOPPING CENTER.



WERE DUE TO RETURN HOME
THAT EVENING,

AND THEY FAILED TO SHOW.

FAMILIES ON BOTH SIDES
WENT TO THE SHOPPING CENTER

AND FOUND THEIR CAR ABANDONED
BEHIND ONE OF THE STORES...

AND IT SEEMED VERY SUSPICIOUS.

THE CIRCUMSTANCES
WERE SUSPECT RIGHT OFF THE BAT

THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING MORE

THAN JUST A COUPLE
MISSING GIRLS.

WE LOCATED WITNESSES
WHO SAW BOTH KIPPI AND RHONDA

GET INTO A RED FIREBIRD
WITH TWO BLACK INDIVIDUALS,

AND ONE OF THE WITNESSES SAID
KIPPI ACTUALLY WAVED AT HER

THROUGH THE BACK WINDOW
OF THE CAR.

AND IT SEEMED LIKE
A VERY VALUABLE SIGHTING,

THAT, IN FACT,
SHE KNEW THE PERSON.

INVESTIGATORS FOLLOW THE LEAD,

NOT REALIZING IT IS FALSE.

TWO DAYS AFTER KIPPI VAUGHT
AND RHONDA SCHEFFLER

ARE REPORTED MISSING...

...A MIGRANT WORKER
FINDS THEIR BODIES IN A MEADOW

20 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF SACRAMENTO.

AN AUTOPSY REVEALS
BOTH GIRLS WERE RAPED,

THEN BLUDGEONED
AND SHOT TO DEATH.

THE BRUTALITY OF THE CRIMES

DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED
BY THE PUBLIC.

THIS PARTICULAR CASE
WAS A VERY HIGH-PROFILE CASE...

THE TWO YOUNG GIRLS
ABDUCTED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

IN A SHOPPING CENTER,

SO WE HAD A LOT OF LEADS.

BUT OUR MAIN LEAD
WAS THIS RED PONTIAC FIREBIRD,

AND THERE STILL WERE THINGS THAT
JUST DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT ABOUT IT.

SOUNDED VERY INTERESTING
IN THE BEGINNING,

BUT IT WAS A DEAD END.

THE CASE GOES COLD.

MEANWHILE, GERALD GALLEGO'S
APPETITE FOR RAPE AND MURDER

HAS JUST BEGUN.

GERALD IS DEFINITELY

THE QUINTESSENTIAL
SEXUAL SADIST AND SOCIOPATH.

HE DERIVED GREAT PLEASURE OUT
OF INFLICTING PAIN UPON OTHERS.

ONCE HE WAS ABLE
TO ACHIEVE THAT,

HE WANTED THIS VICTIM OUT OF
HIS SYSTEM RIGHT THEN AND THERE

SO HE COULD MOVE ON
TO SOMEONE ELSE.

CHARLENE WAS INITIALLY SHOCKED
AFTER THE FIRST VICTIMS,

BUT SHE WAS TOO CAUGHT UP
IN THE WHOLE PROCESS

TO DO ANYTHING BUT CONTINUE
TO COOPERATE WITH GERALD,

FEARFUL THAT AS EASILY
AS GERALD WAS ABLE

TO KILL HIS FIRST VICTIMS,

HE COULD KILL HER
WHENEVER HE WANTED.

A FEW WEEKS AFTER THE MURDERS,

GERALD GALLEGO
AND CHARLENE WILLIAMS

DECIDE TO MARRY.

THEY VISIT
GERALD'S 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER

AT HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE
IN CHICO, CALIFORNIA,

TO TELL HER THE GOOD NEWS.

GERALD
BEGAN MOLESTING HIS DAUGHTER

WHEN SHE WAS 6 YEARS OF AGE.

HE WAS ABUSED AS A CHILD

AND GREW UP
TO ABUSE HIS OWN CHILD.

OFTEN, YOU'LL FIND
THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE ABUSERS

WERE ABUSED THEMSELVES.

THEY SHOW UP
AT HIS MOTHER'S HOUSE.

THE MOTHER
CALLS THE LOCAL POLICE

BECAUSE SHE BECAME AWARE OF
GERALD MOLESTING HIS DAUGHTER.

THE STEPFATHER GOT HIS RIFLE

AND THREATENED TO KILL HIM
AND WANTED HIM OUT OF THERE.

THEY FLEE TO RENO.

THEY GET MARRIED
UNDER AN ASSUMED NAME,

AND THE NAME GERALD
IS USING IS STEPHEN FEIL,

WHICH IS ACTUALLY
A COUSIN OF CHARLENE.

AND CHARLENE'S MOTHER HELPED
PROVIDE THE IDENTIFICATION

SO THEY COULD USE HIS NAME.

IN CHICO,

POLICE ISSUE AN ARREST WARRANT
FOR GERALD GALLEGO

FOR MULTIPLE FELONY CHARGES
FOR THE ASSAULT OF HIS DAUGHTER.

THEY LEARN
THAT THIS IS NOT GERALD'S

FIRST RUN-IN WITH THE LAW.

HE HAS ALREADY BEEN ARRESTED
23 TIMES

FOR CRIMES RANGING FROM ROBBERY
AND SEXUAL ASSAULT

TO ESCAPING FROM PRISON.

AUTHORITIES NOW KNOW

THEY ARE DEALING
WITH A VIOLENT FELON

AND ARE DETERMINED TO CATCH HIM.

BUT WHEN CHICO POLICE ATTEMPT
TO SERVE THEIR WARRANT

AT GERALD'S LAST-KNOWN ADDRESS,

HE IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND.

POLICE
IN SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA,

WORK THE HOMICIDE
OF TWO TEENAGE GIRLS

WHO DISAPPEARED
FROM A MALL PARKING LOT.

BOTH WERE RAPED,

BEATEN WITH A BLUNT OBJECT,
AND SHOT IN THE HEAD

BEFORE BEING DUMPED IN A FIELD.

WE HAD A LOT OF INFORMATION
COMING IN FROM THE PUBLIC,

AND SO THERE WAS A LOT OF LEADS
WE WERE RUNNING DOWN.

THEY WERE BASICALLY DEAD ENDS,

AND THE CASE
KIND OF JUST REMAINED THERE

AS A COLD CASE FOR A WHILE.

IN NEARBY CHICO,

OFFICERS SEARCH
FOR 32-YEAR-OLD GERALD GALLEGO,

WHO IS ON THE RUN AFTER CHARGES
ARE BROUGHT AGAINST HIM

FOR RAPING
HIS 14-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER.

GERALD IS NO STRANGER TO CRIME.

HIS FATHER WAS EXECUTED
IN MISSISSIPPI IN 1955

FOR THE MURDERS
OF TWO POLICE OFFICERS.

AT ONE POINT,
HE MADE THE COMMENT

THAT HE COULD
FEEL HIS FATHER IN HIM.

THERE'S BEEN
THEORIES TOSSED ABOUT

REGARDING A GENETIC BASIS
FOR CRIMINALITY...

THE BAD SEED THEORY...

AND A NUMBER OF STUDIES
HAVE SHOWN A STRONG CORRELATION

BETWEEN HEREDITY
AND HOMICIDAL TENDENCIES.

GERALD IS A SERIAL WOMANIZER

WHO REGULARLY THREATENS AND
ABUSES THE WOMEN IN HIS LIFE.

GERALD'S MOTHER
WAS A PROSTITUTE,

AND SHE WAS NEGLECTFUL,
COLD, DOMINEERING.

HE GAINED A HATRED TOWARD WOMEN
THAT RESULTED

IN HIS MISTREATMENT OF WOMEN
OVER THE YEARS

AND HIS SEXUAL FANTASIES
THAT HE DEVELOPED OVER TIME.

GERALD'S CHILDHOOD HAD A
TREMENDOUS EFFECT ON HIS FUTURE.

HE WAS THE VICTIM
OF SOME SERIOUS CHILD ABUSE.

31-YEAR-OLD
GERALD GALLEGO

MEETS CHARLENE WILLIAMS
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1977,

JUST A FEW WEEKS SHY
OF HER 21st BIRTHDAY,

AT THE BLACK STALLION CARDROOM
IN SACRAMENTO.

SHE HAD GROWN UP IN THE
COUNTRY-CLUB TYPE OF ATMOSPHERE,

WHERE SHE CAME FROM A HIGHER
CLASS OF PEOPLE THAN GERALD,

WHO WAS PRETTY MUCH A BARTENDER

FREQUENTING THE CARD CLUBS
IN SACRAMENTO.

SHE WAS REALLY DIFFERENT...
NIGHT AND DAY... FROM GERALD.

SHE WAS WELL EDUCATED.

SHE MADE HER WAY THROUGH LIFE
IN ABLE TO PLEASE PEOPLE.

SO, SHE'S VERY SMALL AND PETITE
COMPARED TO THIS FELLOW

WHO PERCEIVED HIMSELF AS BEING
A REAL MACHO TYPE OF A PERSON.

HE WAS WHAT I CALL
A CHEST BEATER.

SHE HAD A WILD STREAK
IN HER, AND SHE WANTED MORE.

SHE HOPED TO ESCAPE THE BOREDOM
AND CONSTRAINTS OF SUBURBIA.

SHE WAS LOOKING FOR A WAY OUT.

IN GERALD, SHE FOUND THIS
BAD-BOY IMAGE APPEALING TO HER.

WITHIN A FEW WEEKS
AFTER MEETING,

GERALD MOVES
INTO CHARLENE'S APARTMENT

AND QUICKLY BECOMES
CONTROLLING AND ABUSIVE.

GERALD WAS THAT KIND OF PERSON,

AND HE WAS VERY GOOD
AT MANIPULATING FEMALES.

THE TWO BEGIN USING DRUGS.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE
PLAYED A BIG ROLE

IN THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN CHARLENE AND GERALD

IN THE SENSE THAT THEY HAD
A SHARED GOAL OF GETTING HIGH.

THE RELATIONSHIP SOON SOURS,

COMPOUNDED BY THE FACT
THAT GERALD IS IMPOTENT.

WITH HIS SEXUAL PROBLEMS,

THEY WERE WILLING TO TRY
ALL TYPES OF THINGS.

THE SEXUAL FANTASIES WERE A WAY
TO DEAL WITH THE IMPOTENCY,

AND THIS LED TO THE NOTION

THAT THEY COULD TURN THESE
SEXUAL FANTASIES INTO REALITY.

HE WAS A VERY SELFISH,
DEMANDING MAN

WHO WAS FRUSTRATED.

ALL OF THAT CAME TOGETHER

TO CREATE IN THIS MAN'S MIND
THIS SICK FANTASY

THAT HE WAS
GOING TO HAVE YOUNG GIRLS,

VERY YOUNG GIRLS AVAILABLE

THAT HE COULD JUST HAVE ON TAP
AS SEXUAL SLAVES.

CHARLENE WAS HAPPY TO ENGAGE

IN THESE SEX-SLAVE FANTASIES
TURNED INTO REALITY

BECAUSE IT WOULD
TAKE THE ONUS OFF OF HER.

SHE WOULDN'T HAVE TO
GO OUT OF HER WAY

TO TRY TO PLEASE HIM AS MUCH.

THE WARRANT

FOR THE SEXUAL ABUSE
OF GERALD'S DAUGHTER

IS STILL ACTIVE,

BUT CALIFORNIA AUTHORITIES
HAVE NO IDEA

THAT GERALD GALLEGO
IS LIVING IN NEARBY NEVADA

AS STEPHEN ROBERT FEIL.

THE GALLEGOS LAY LOW
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS,

BUT ALL THAT CHANGES
ON JUNE 24, 1979.

IN THE SUMMER OF 1979,

WITH THE HELP
OF HIS WIFE, CHARLENE,

GERALD GALLEGO PICKS UP

WHERE HE LEFT OFF
NINE MONTHS EARLIER

WITH HIS PLAN TO ABDUCT WOMEN
AND KEEP THEM AS SEX SLAVES.

ON JUNE 24th,

CHARLENE APPROACHES
14-YEAR-OLD BRENDA LYNN JUDD

AND 13-YEAR-OLD
SANDRA KAY COLLEY

AT THE WASHOE COUNTY FAIR

AND ASKS THEM IF THEY WANT TO
MAKE MONEY DISTRIBUTING FLYERS.

THE GIRLS SAY YES
AND FOLLOW HER TO THE VAN.

GET IN.

MOVE.
NOW! MOVE!

CHARLENE ACTED AS THE BAIT

TO LURE
THESE UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS.

GERALD WANTED HIS VICTIMS YOUNG

BECAUSE THEY WERE
A REFLECTION OF HIS DAUGHTER,

WHO HE MOLESTED FOR YEARS.

ONCE HE COULD NO LONGER DO THAT,

HE TURNED TO OTHER YOUNG WOMEN
THAT MIRRORED HIS DAUGHTER.

HE HAD THIS IDEA THAT
HE WANTED TO KIDNAP YOUNG GIRLS

BECAUSE HE WAS
VERY UNHAPPY WITH HER,

TELLING HER
THAT SHE WAS VERY BAD IN BED.

HE USED CHARLENE
TO CONTACT THESE YOUNG LADIES

AND BRING THEM BACK TO THE VAN.

AND WHEN THEY GOT BACK
TO THE VAN, GERALD TOOK OVER.

THAT AFTERNOON,

RELATIVES OF BRENDA JUDD
AND SANDRA COLLEY

CONTACT POLICE WHEN THE GIRLS
NEVER RETURN FROM THE FAIR.

CHARLENE DRIVES UP ROUTE 395
INTO CALIFORNIA,

SOME 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF RENO.

GERALD WALKS OFF WITH THE GIRLS,
LEAVING CHARLENE BEHIND.

HELP ME OUT.
PUT THIS STUFF IN THE BACK.

COME ON. HURRY UP.

MOVE OVER... MOVE!

WHAT'S THE MATTER
WITH YOU?

I DON'T BELIEVE YOU...
CRYING.

GOD.

GERALD TAKES THE GIRLS
OUT OF THE CAR ONE AT A TIME,

KILLS THEM WITH A HAMMER...
BLOWS TO THE HEAD...

AND BURIES BOTH BODIES.

THEY WERE OPERATING
IN DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS

AND, IN FACT, DIFFERENT STATES.

THERE WAS JUST NO RECOGNITION
THAT THESE CASES WERE CONNECTED.

AUTHORITIES FOLLOW LEADS

THAT TAKE THEM TO SEVERAL STATES
BEFORE THE TRAIL GOES COLD.

THREE MONTHS LATER,
GERALD AND CHARLENE LEAVE RENO

AND RETURN TO SACRAMENTO,

USING THEIR ASSUMED NAME...
THE FEILS.

AFTER THE MURDERS
WERE COMMITTED,

GERALD AND CHARLENE LED
AS NORMAL A LIFE AS THEY COULD

UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES,

BUT GERALD
WAS ADDICTED TO KILLING.

AND FOR MOST SERIAL KILLERS,

THERE IS OFTEN
NO STOPPING THE KILLER

UNTIL THE KILLER
IS EITHER CAUGHT OR KILLED.

10 MONTHS LATER,

ON THE MORNING
OF APRIL 24, 1980,

GERALD WAKES CHARLENE
AND AGAIN TELLS HER IT'S TIME.

GET OUT OF BED!

THEY ACTUALLY
WENT OUT SHOPPING

TO LOOK FOR YOUNG GIRLS.

THEY SPENT THE GOOD PART
OF A MORNING AT VARIOUS PLACES.

THEY FIRST WENT TO ONE MALL
IN SACRAMENTO,

AND THEN THEY MOVED ON
TO A SCHOOL.

AND BECAUSE IT WAS MORNING TIME

AND MOST OF THE YOUNG GIRLS
WERE IN SCHOOL,

THEY COULDN'T FIND ANYONE.

GERALD AND CHARLENE
EVENTUALLY MAKE THEIR WAY

TO A MALL IN CITRUS HEIGHTS,
A SACRAMENTO SUBURB.

THIS IS SUNRISE MALL,

WHERE KAREN TWIGGS
AND STACEY REDICAN

WERE ABDUCTED.

GERALD POINTED OUT.
HE SAID HE WANTED THOSE GIRLS.

CHARLENE LURED THEM OUT
TO THE VAN,

WHERE GERALD BOUND THEM UP.

AND THEN THEY DROVE FROM HERE
UP INTERSTATE 80 TO NEVADA.

WHILE SHE WAS DRIVING,
HE WAS IN THE BACK,

RAPING THESE GIRLS.

WHEN HER DAUGHTER
NEVER RETURNS HOME,

KAREN'S MOTHER REPORTS
HER AND STACEY MISSING

TO THE SACRAMENTO
POLICE DEPARTMENT.

KAREN TWIGGS
AND STACEY REDICAN

WERE A COUPLE YOUNG GIRLS

WHO HAD A REPUTATION
FOR BEING RUNAWAYS

AND OFTEN DID RUN AWAY,

SO THERE WAS NOT AN INTENSE
INVESTIGATION GOING ON.

THEY WERE SIMPLY
MISSING PERSONS.

THEIR JOURNEY COMES
TO AN END IN LIMERICK CANYON.

GERALD UNTIED ONE OF
THE GIRLS AND WENT OFF WITH HER,

AND THEN,
IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME,

CAME BACK AND UNTIED
THE SECOND GIRL AND TOOK HER.

HE HAD HAD THE HAMMER WITH HIM.

HE TOOK CHARLENE

AND MADE HER
GO DOWN TO THE LOCATION

WHERE THE GRAVES WERE.

GERALD MURDERS HIS VICTIMS

BECAUSE THIS IS PART
OF HIS SEXUAL FANTASY.

HE'S NOT JUST INTERESTED IN
SEXUALLY ASSAULTING HIS VICTIMS.

HE ACTUALLY WANTS TO KILL THEM.

THIS IS LIKE THE CLIMAX,
IF YOU WILL,

OF HIS SEX-SLAVE FANTASY.

TWO MONTHS GO BY,

AND GERALD SEEMS TO BE SATED
FOR THE MOMENT.

IN JUNE, GERALD
AND A NEWLY PREGNANT CHARLENE

DRIVE TO OREGON FOR VACATION.

ALONG THE WAY,

THEY SPOT ANOTHER EXPECTANT
MOTHER ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.

LINDA AGUILAR WAS A YOUNG LADY

WHO WAS HITCHHIKING
IN GOLD BEACH, OREGON.

GERALD SAW LINDA
AND GAVE HER A RIDE.

ONCE SHE WAS IN THE VAN,

GERALD TOOK HER TO THE BACK
AND GERALD COULDN'T PERFORM

WHATEVER HE WANTED TO DO
WITH HER.

EVENTUALLY THEY DROVE DOWN
ONTO THE BEACH,

AND GERALD KILLED LINDA,

WITH SMASHING HER HEAD
WITH A ROCK.

GERALD'S M.O. CHANGED
WITH LINDA AGUILAR.

SHE WAS OLDER
THAN HIS PREVIOUS VICTIMS

AND PREGNANT,

AND HE STILL WAS WILLING
TO GO AFTER HER.

THERE WAS JEALOUSY
ON CHARLENE'S PART

FOR THIS PARTICULAR MURDER
MORE THAN ANY OF THE OTHERS

IN THAT GERALD WAS WILLING

TO GO AFTER A PREGNANT WOMAN
AND MURDER HER.

TWO WEEKS LATER
ON JUNE 22, 1980,

TOURISTS FIND THE BODY
OF 21-YEAR-OLD LINDA AGUILAR

IN A SHALLOW GRAVE.

ACCORDING TO THE PATHOLOGIST,

SHE WAS ACTUALLY STILL ALIVE
WHEN HE BURIED HER IN THE SAND.

BY THE TIME THE DETAILS

OF LINDA'S AGONIZING DEATH
ARE REVEALED...

...GERALD AND CHARLENE
ARE BACK IN SACRAMENTO...

AND LOOKING
FOR THEIR NEXT SEX SLAVE.

AFTER COMMITTING SEVEN
MURDERS IN LESS THAN TWO YEARS,

GERALD AND CHARLENE GALLEGO

REMAIN UNDER
THE AUTHORITIES' RADAR.

THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY
SHERIFF'S OFFICE

IS UNAWARE OF THE OTHER CRIMES
IN THE NEIGHBORING DISTRICTS.

GERALD AND CHARLENE WERE
OPERATING IN THREE STATES...

NEVADA, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA.

AND IN THIS CASE,

WE WERE INVESTIGATING
OUR DOUBLE MURDER,

NOT KNOWING THAT IT WAS
CONNECTED TO MANY OTHER MURDERS.

ON JULY 16, 1980,

AFTER SPENDING THE DAY FISHING,

GERALD AND CHARLENE GO TO
THE SAIL INN IN WEST SACRAMENTO.

34-YEAR-OLD MOTHER OF TWO
VIRGINIA MOCHEL

IS A FAVORITE OF THE REGULARS
AT THE SAIL INN.

CHARLENE ENGAGES HER
IN CONVERSATION.

IT WAS INCREDIBLE.

CAUGHT THESE BASS
ABOUT THIS BIG.

HUGE!

FISH EVERYWHERE.

AWESOME.

THE GALLEGOS
TAKE HER TO THEIR APARTMENT...

...WHERE GERALD
REPEATEDLY RAPES HER.

CHARLENE WAS ABLE
TO DISASSOCIATE HERSELF

WITH THE REALITY OF WHAT WAS
HAPPENING TO THESE GIRLS

BECAUSE SHE WAS JUST
MORE FOCUSED

ON MAKING HER OWN LIFE EASIER
AS A RESULT.

WHEN GERALD IS FINISHED,

HE STRANGLES VIRGINIA.

THEN HE AND CHARLENE
DISPOSE OF HER BODY.

UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE GALLEGOS,

VIRGINIA'S DISAPPEARANCE
DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED.

THE YOLO COUNTY
SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT

STARTED AN INVESTIGATION.

THE CIRCUMSTANCES
WERE IMMEDIATELY SUSPICIOUS

IN THAT
SHE DIDN'T SHOW UP FOR HOME

AFTER TURNING
AND CLOSING THE BAR.

THEY WENT BACK TO THE BAR

AND INTERVIEWED AS MANY PATRONS
AS THEY COULD FIND

WHO WERE IN THE BAR THAT NIGHT.

SEVERAL PEOPLE
REMEMBER A VERY LOUD YOUNG COUPLE

NAMED STEPHEN AND CHARLENE FEIL.

THE DETECTIVE FROM YOLO COUNTY
CALLED CHARLENE,

GOT HER TO COME DOWN
TO THE STATION HOUSE,

AND ACTUALLY TALKED TO HER.

CHARLENE ADMITS
THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND

HAD STOPPED INTO THE BAR
FOR A FEW DRINKS

AFTER A LONG DAY OF FISHING.

AND SHE SAID SHE WAS
IN THE BAR THAT NIGHT,

BUT SHE HAD DRANK SO MUCH,

SHE DIDN'T REALLY REMEMBER
WHAT WAS GOING ON.

CHARLENE WAS ABLE
TO USE HER CHARMS

TO CONVINCE INVESTIGATORS

THAT THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT IT,

SO THEY WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE
FROM CAPTURE AT THAT POINT.

ON JULY 27th,

THE BODIES OF KAREN TWIGGS
AND STACEY REDICAN,

THE GIRLS WHO WENT MISSING

FROM THE SUNRISE MALL
THREE MONTHS EARLIER,

ARE FOUND IN LIMERICK CANYON.

THERE WAS
A MAN OUT HERE CAMPING

WITH TWO OF HIS SMALL CHILDREN.

WHILE THEY WERE RUNNING AROUND,
ONE OF THEM DISCOVERED,

LIKE, A FOOTBALL NOSE PROTRUDING
FROM THE GROUND.

AND IT WAS THEN
THAT THEY DISCOVERED THE BODIES.

AND THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CAME OUT

AND CALLED IN THE NEVADA
DIVISION OF INVESTIGATION.

BOTH OF THE VICTIMS WERE BOUND

WITH THEIR ARMS
BEHIND THEIR BACKS.

DURING THE AUTOPSY,

IT WAS DETERMINED
THAT BOTH OF THESE VICTIMS

HAD BEEN BLUDGEONED TO DEATH.

FROM THERE, IT WAS A MATTER
OF GOING TO SACRAMENTO

AND DOING BACKGROUNDS
ON THE GIRLS

AND TRYING TO DEVELOP
ANY INFORMATION THAT WE COULD.

MARRIAGE RECORDS
OF A GERALD GALLEGO.

NEVADA INVESTIGATORS
ARE UNAWARE OF THE CONNECTION

BETWEEN THEIR VICTIMS

AND THE OTHERS
IN THE SURROUNDING AREA.

IN SACRAMENTO,

POLICE GET A BREAK
IN THE VIRGINIA MOCHEL CASE

WHEN HER BODY
IS FOUND ON OCTOBER 2nd,

10 WEEKS AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED.

SHE WAS FOUND IN AN AREA
ALONG THE SACRAMENTO RIVER.

SHE HAD BEEN STRANGLED.

HER ARMS ARE BOUND
WITH FISHING LINE.

THE DETECTIVE REMEMBERED
THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE BAR

WHO HAD BEEN USING
FISHING LINE THAT NIGHT

WAS THIS
CHARLENE AND STEPHEN FEIL.

AS POLICE
COMB THROUGH THEIR RECORDS

IN AN EFFORT
TO TRACK THE FEILS DOWN,

THEY ARE UNAWARE

THAT GERALD AND CHARLENE
HAVE SPLIT UP.

CHARLENE HAS SOLD THE VAN

AND MOVED BACK IN
WITH HER PARENTS,

WHILE GERALD LIVES

IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT
APARTMENTS AND MOTELS.

BUT WHEN GERALD GETS THE URGE...

...HE KNOWS WHO TO CALL.

CHARLENE
WAS FAR TOO TIED UP INTO THIS

TO JUST WALK AWAY.

THAT WASN'T AN OPTION
TO JUST WALK AWAY FROM GERALD

AND JUST GO ABOUT HER LIFE

OR TO REPORT HIM
TO THE AUTHORITIES

WITHOUT IMPLICATING HERSELF.

ON NOVEMBER 1st,

GERALD AND
A STILL-PREGNANT CHARLENE

HEAD OUT IN SEARCH
OF ANOTHER SEX SLAVE.

THEY WERE JUST DRIVING AROUND,

AND JUST BY CHANCE,

MARY BETH SOWERS
AND CRAIG MILLER

WERE LEAVING A RESTAURANT THERE.

THEY WERE COLLEGE SWEETHEARTS
PLANNING TO MARRY THE NEXT YEAR.

GERALD REALLY IS LOSING CONTROL.

HE'S WILLING TO GO AFTER
WHOMEVER HE WISHES

WITHOUT REGARD
TO THE CONSEQUENCES.

MARY BETH SOWERS WAS THE PERSON
THAT GERALD WAS TARGETING.

HE SAW CRAIG MILLER
AS MERELY SOMEONE IN THE WAY

THAT HE HAD TO
GET OUT OF THE WAY.

- WHAT ARE YOU DO...
- JUST GO.

BUT WHAT ARE YOU GONNA...
MOVE.

MOVE!

MY GOD!

AUTHORITIES
IN NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA

ARE BOTH INVESTIGATING
MULTIPLE MURDERS

PERPETRATED
BY SERIAL-KILLING COUPLE

GERALD AND CHARLENE GALLEGO.

THE GALLEGOS' LATEST VICTIMS

ARE CRAIG MILLER
AND MARY BETH SOWERS.

MOVE. MOVE!

MY GOD!

AFTER KILLING CRAIG,

GERALD SEXUALLY ASSAULTS
MARY BETH SOWERS

FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS

BEFORE CHARLENE DRIVES
TO A SECLUDED AREA,

WHERE MARY BETH THEN MEETS
THE SAME FATE AS HER FIANCé.

BY MORNING,

CRAIG MILLER
AND MARY BETH SOWERS

ARE REPORTED MISSING.

CRAIG'S BODY IS FOUND
WITHIN A FEW HOURS,

BUT THERE IS NO SIGN
OF MARY BETH.

MY SON, HER BROTHER,
CALLED IN THE MORNING,

ABOUT 8:00 OR 9:00

AND EXPLAINED THAT MARY BETH
WAS MISSING.

AND I SAID, "WELL,
THIS IS SOME KIND OF A JOKE,"

AND HE SAID,
"NO, DAD, IT'S NO JOKE,"

THAT THEY FOUND CRAIG'S BODY
THIS MORNING.

SACRAMENTO POLICE
FINALLY GET A SOLID LEAD.

HE ABDUCTED
MARY BETH SOWERS

AND CRAIG MILLER
IN FULL VIEW OF WITNESSES,

WHO WROTE DOWN
THE LICENSE NUMBER OF THEIR CAR

AS THEY DROVE AWAY
WITH THE KIDNAPPED COUPLE,

WHICH LED IMMEDIATELY
TO THEIR IDENTITY.

POLICE RUN
THE LICENSE-PLATE NUMBER

AND SHOW UP
AT CHARLENE'S PARENTS' HOUSE

LATER THAT MORNING.

CHARLENE TELLS THEM
THE CAR WAS STOLEN.

SHE WAS SO CONVINCING,

THE DETECTIVE THERE
WAS UNABLE TO FEEL

THAT THERE WAS ANY REASON
FOR SUSPICION.

AS SOON AS THE DETECTIVE LEAVES,
CHARLENE INFORMS GERALD,

AND THAT'S
WHEN THEY MAKE A RUN FOR IT.

GERALD AND CHARLENE NEEDED MONEY
GOING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

MADE CONTACT WITH HER MOTHER,

WHO AGREED
TO WIRE MONEY TO THEM IN OMAHA.

THE FBI AGENT
BECAME AWARE OF THIS,

AND THEY WERE STANDING BY
WHEN THEY PICKED THE MONEY UP.

THE GALLEGOS ARE
ARRESTED ON NOVEMBER 17, 1980,

FOR THE MURDERS
OF MARY BETH SOWERS

AND CRAIG MILLER.

FIVE DAYS AFTER THE ARRESTS,
ON NOVEMBER 22nd,

THE BODY OF MARY BETH SOWERS
IS FOUND IN A PASTURE.

SHE HAS BEEN SHOT
THREE TIMES IN THE HEAD.

THAT WAS A STRUGGLE.

YOU JUST
DON'T WANT TO LOSE A CHILD,

ESPECIALLY THAT WAY.

EVEN AFTER THEY ARE ARRESTED,

GERALD CONTINUES
TO MANIPULATE CHARLENE.

HE WAS IN ONE FACILITY,

AND SHE WAS IN A WOMEN'S
FACILITY IN SACRAMENTO COUNTY,

AND THEY WOULD CORRESPOND
BY LETTERS.

HE WOULD WRITE LETTERS TO HER

ABOUT HOW HE WAS GONNA
PROTECT HER

AND HE LOVED
AND A LOT OF STUFF LIKE THAT.

AT THE SAME TIME,

HE WAS WRITING LETTERS
TO PEOPLE OUTSIDE THE JAIL,

SAYING THAT
IF SHE OPENED HER MOUTH,

HE WAS GONNA TAKE HER DOWN
WITH HIM.

WHILE IN CUSTODY,

CHARLENE GIVES BIRTH TO A SON
ON JANUARY 17, 1981.

HER PARENTS
ARE GIVEN CUSTODY OF THE BABY.

BUT AS TIME PASSES,

GERALD LOSES HIS HOLD
OVER CHARLENE.

FACING A POSSIBLE
DEATH SENTENCE,

SHE DECIDES TO SAVE HERSELF.

CHARLENE AGREES
TO A PLEA BARGAIN.

BUT THE PROSECUTION
IS UNPREPARED

FOR WHAT CHARLENE TELLS THEM.

SHE REVEALED
THERE WERE EIGHT OTHER MURDERS

THAT THEY HAD COMMITTED.

THIS WAS A MEANS FOR CHARLENE

TO BREAK FREE OF GERALD
AND HIS CONTROL OVER HER.

AS THAT INFORMATION
STARTS FLOWING IN,

YOU'RE KIND OF EXCITED,
AND YOU THINK,

"BOY, NOW HERE'S A CHANCE

THAT WE MAY BE ABLE
TO SOLVE THIS CASE."

WHEN CHARLENE WAS TRYING
TO BECOME A STATE WITNESS,

SHE GAVE INFORMATION ABOUT
AT LEAST EIGHT OTHER MURDERS

THAN THE TWO THAT THEY WERE
CHARGED WITH AT THE TIME...

MARY BETH SOWERS
AND CRAIG MILLER.

SHE TALKED SOMETHING
ABOUT A SHOPPING CENTER,

AND I KNEW IMMEDIATELY
THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

KIPPI VAUGHT
AND RHONDA SCHEFFLER.

SHE TALKED ABOUT A HITCHHIKER
IN GOLD BEACH... LINDA AGUILAR.

STACEY REDICAN AND KAREN TWIGGS.

WELL, IT WENT
ON AND ON FROM THERE,

AND IT DIDN'T TAKE VERY LONG

TO REALIZE THAT THEY WERE GOOD
FOR A LOT OF MURDERS.

NOW, AUTHORITIES
IN 10 JURISDICTIONS

ACROSS THREE STATES
MUST DECIDE HOW TO PROCEED.

EVERY ONE OF THOSE JURISDICTIONS
WANTED A PIECE OF HER

AS FAR AS
HOW TO GET HER INVOLVED

IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CASES.

THEY AGREE
THAT GERALD AND CHARLENE

WILL BE PROSECUTED
IN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA

FOR THE MURDERS
OF MARY BETH SOWERS,

CRAIG MILLER, STACEY REDICAN,
AND KAREN TWIGGS.

CHARLENE WILL BE SPARED
A DEATH SENTENCE.

CHARLENE'S SENTENCE IN THIS CASE

WAS A COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
OF ALL THE 10 JURISDICTIONS...

16 2/3 YEARS.

THE AGREEMENT WAS FOR HER
TO DO EVERY DAY OF THAT

WITHOUT ANY EARLY RELEASE
OR ANYTHING ELSE.

THE DEAL WITH CHARLENE
WAS THAT IF SHE EVER LIED TO US,

ALL BETS WERE OFF

AND THAT SHE WOULD BE CHARGED
WITH ALL THE MURDERS

AND THE KIDNAPPINGS
AND ALL THE CRIMES.

SO THERE WAS A LOT OF INTENSIVE
INTERROGATION OF CHARLENE.

BUT CHARLENE DOESN'T
JUST TALK ABOUT THE MURDERS.

WE TOOK CHARLENE BACK
TO ALL THE PLACES

WHERE AN ABDUCTION TOOK PLACE,
WHERE A MURDER TOOK PLACE,

A SEX ASSAULT TOOK PLACE
THROUGHOUT SACRAMENTO COUNTY,

UP TO OREGON, THROUGHOUT NEVADA,

AND INTERVIEWED HER
ON THE SPOT.

AND SHE WOULD POINT OUT
EXACTLY WHERE THINGS TOOK PLACE,

AND IT WOULD BE VIDEOTAPED.

WE WERE FISHING
AND CAME FROM THAT DIRECTION

JUST TO STOP HERE.

AND GERRY HAS GOT THE GUN.

STILL, RIGHT OUT THERE,
IT'S ALL LIGHT.

IT'S LIGHT.

THEN GO BACK OUT THIS WAY
AND HEAD UP ON THE FREEWAY.

AND THEN DOWN ON TO 50 AND OUT
TO THE WOOD HOLLOW APARTMENT.

FIRST OF ALL,
WE STOPPED JUST UP A WAY,

UP THAT WAY,
WHERE GERRY TOOK THE BODY OUT.

I CAME UP THIS ROAD,

AND THIS
IS WHERE I TURNED AROUND.

AND WHAT? AND THEN PROCEEDED
BACK DOWN THAT WAY.

AND THEN AS I'M GOING DOWN
THAT WAY, AND I'M GOING SLOW,

GERRY GETS BACK
IN THE VAN,

AND THEN WE HEAD BACK
TOWARDS THE ROAD.

HOWEVER, WITH ALL THE
INFORMATION CHARLENE PROVIDES,

THERE IS ONE QUESTION
STILL ON EVERYONE'S MIND.

WHY?
WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP?

WHY DIDN'T YOU DROP A DIME
AT SOME POINT

AND PREVENT SOMEBODY
FROM GETTING MURDERED?

I NEVER REALLY HEARD
A GOOD ANSWER FOR WHY.

I THINK THAT CHARLENE
DIDN'T PURSUE ANYTHING

BECAUSE OF FEAR THAT SHE WAS
GOING TO BE THE NEXT VICTIM.

DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?
TO ME, IT DOESN'T.

AFTER A YEAR OF
INTERVIEWS AND INVESTIGATION,

GERALD GALLEGO'S TRIAL BEGINS.

WHAT OCCURRED IN CALIFORNIA

WAS THAT HIS EGO WAS STILL
THE MAJOR FACTOR,

AND HE DECIDED THAT
HE WAS GONNA BE A GREAT LAWYER

AND DEFEND HIMSELF.

AND IT TURNED OUT
HE DID A VERY LOUSY JOB.

HE DID MORE QUESTIONS

THAT INCRIMINATED HIMSELF
THAN ANYTHING.

AFTER SIX MONTHS OF HEARINGS,

ON JUNE 21, 1983,

GERALD GALLEGO
IS SENTENCED TO DEATH

FOR THE MURDERS
OF MARY BETH SOWERS

AND CRAIG MILLER.

IN NOVEMBER OF 1983,

AS A RESULT OF HER PLEA BARGAIN,

CHARLENE IS FORMALLY SENTENCED

TO 16 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS
IN PRISON.

I THINK SHE SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN
THE DEATH PENALTY, TOO,

WITH ALL THAT INVOLVEMENT
THAT SHE HAD.

THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR THAT.

GERALD IS THEN
EXTRADITED TO NEVADA

AND IS PUT ON TRIAL

FOR THE CRIMES AGAINST
KAREN TWIGGS AND STACEY REDICAN.

GERALD WAS SITTING
OVER TO THIS SIDE

WITH HIS ATTORNEY.

GERALD WOULD OFTEN TRY
TO STARE PEOPLE DOWN.

HE WOULD TRY TO DO THAT
WHEN CHARLENE WAS TESTIFYING.

AND FROM TIME TO TIME,

I WOULD RUN INTO HIM IN
THE HALLWAY WITH HIS ATTORNEYS,

AND HE WOULD TRY TO DO
THAT STARE-DOWN.

OF COURSE, IT DIDN'T WORK.

ON JUNE 25, 1984,

GERALD GALLEGO IS AGAIN
SENTENCED TO DEATH,

THIS TIME FOR THE MURDERS
OF STACEY REDICAN

AND KAREN TWIGGS.

WHEN A TRIAL ENDS,

AND WHEN YOU PUT SOMEBODY
OF HIS CHARACTER AWAY,

IT'S A GOOD FEELING.

I WAS ELATED
WHEN IT WAS OVER WITH.

EVERY HOMICIDE INVESTIGATOR
WANTS A CAREER CASE.

YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY

THAT YOU WORKED
A MAJOR INVESTIGATION

AND THAT KIND OF THING.

BY THE TIME THAT'S DONE,

YOU NEVER HOPE
TO SEE ANOTHER ONE LIKE IT.

AFTER THE SECOND TRIAL,

CHARLENE RETURNS TO PRISON
TO SERVE OUT HER SENTENCE.

AND IN AUGUST OF 1997,
AT THE AGE OF 40,

SHE IS RELEASED ON PAROLE.

I WOULD SAY

THAT JUSTICE PROBABLY
WAS NOT SERVED.

SHE ONLY SERVED
LESS THAN 17 YEARS

FOR BEING A DIRECT PARTICIPANT
IN 10 MURDERS.

I THINK THAT CHARLENE

PROBABLY IS NOT A THREAT
TO SOCIETY

AT THIS STAGE OF HER LIFE.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME,

I BELIEVE THAT SHE IS
THE TYPE OF PERSON

THAT CAN BE INFLUENCED EASILY

BY SOMEONE THAT HAS
A STRONG PERSONALITY.

IF THAT PERSONALITY HAPPENS
TO BE ANTISOCIAL,

AND SHE'S INVOLVED
WITH SUCH A PERSON,

THEN IT CERTAINLY IS POSSIBLE

THAT SHE COULD DO
THE SAME TYPE OF THING,

GET INVOLVED IN SOME MURDERS.

SHE SHOULDN'T BE OUT OF PRISON,
FIRST OF ALL,

AND SHE SHOULD BE EXECUTED.

MORE THAN 20 YEARS

AFTER VANISHING
FROM THE WASHOE COUNTY FAIR,

THE SKELETAL REMAINS
OF BRENDA JUDD AND SANDRA COLLEY

ARE UNEARTHED
IN LASSEN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

UP UNTIL THAT POINT,

YOU'RE ALWAYS HOPING
THAT THEY ARE GONNA BE FOUND.

YOU HOPE THAT YOU'RE THE ONE
THAT FINDS THEM.

IT'S ALWAYS THERE.

I GET A CALL
FROM ONE OF THE PARENTS,

AND ALL THEY SAID WAS
"THANK YOU."

AND I SAID, "WHY THANK ME?

I DIDN'T RETURN YOUR DAUGHTERS."

AND SO YOU NEVER REALLY
GET AWAY FROM IT.

AFTER MANAGING
TO PUT OFF HIS EXECUTION

FOR ALMOST TWO DECADES,

ON JULY 18, 2002,

AT THE AGE OF 56,

GERALD GALLEGO DIES IN PRISON

FROM RECTAL CANCER.

HAD HE NOT DIED IN PRISON,

I'M SURE HE WOULD
STILL BE THERE,

LIVING ON DEATH ROW,

AND I'M SURE HIS APPEALS
WOULD BE GOING ON TODAY.

THE FACT
THAT GERALD'S DEATH PENALTY

WAS NEVER CARRIED OUT
WAS A HEARTBREAKER TO ME.

I WANTED TO GO
AND WATCH HIM DIE.

I ABSOLUTELY DID.
I WOULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT THERE.

GIVEN HIM THE PILL OR PULLED
THE LEVER OR WHATEVER IT WAS.

YEAH.
THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.