Brad Hunter

So that gets to whose responsibility is this, right?

I think at that time in Los Angeles, anyways, there was five different serial killers operating at the time.

It was Serial Killer Central.

None of the cops from any of the other police services

barely talked to each other they were very guarded of their information and of course there was another none of the modern conveniences like you know dna cell phone pinging cctv all these things were out there so this was for for a homicidal maniac this was a playground

Sure.

They started out with old-fashioned shoe leather and whatnot, which...

it wasn't, you know, going, you know, as we've seen in numerous cases, it wasn't going to be enough.

It wasn't that the police didn't do their due diligence.

It was more a matter of the times, you know, we're against, you know, we're against them and they were against, you know, quite frankly, a very sophisticated predator.

So they, I mean, they did all the due diligence, but,

You know, it doesn't, you know, till years later, decades later after, you know, the last victim, Janelle Cruz, who was murdered in 1986.

She was the last victim, you know, years after that.

you know, one cop calls another cop and says, Hey, I got this guy, this thing.

And, you know, it sounds a little bit like that.

And so then, you know, you're starting to see, you know, patterns come together and the, you know, the, the writer, Michelle McNamara really did the world service by blowing this story up in her, you know, first in Los Angeles magazine.

And then in the books, the book, I'll be gone in the dark.

And just about all these, you know, crazy crimes that no one was putting together.

And certainly, you know, you know, there's nothing going on.

And at this point, too, he stopped.