Brad Hunter

They were also from that area, Watkins Glen, and nobody remembered them.

They were just like a blip.

And you start going through papers at the time,

And they're a blip.

His parents were in a car accident in 1940.

I mean, that's really the extent of it.

I started at the beginning back in Bath, New York, and tried to find out about...

the family going from there.

And from the sounds of things, it wasn't a normal family life, particularly if we think of, you know, post-war 1950s, white picket fence America sort of a deal and leave it to Beaver and that sort of stuff.

His dad was in the Air Force,

And they lived in Germany for a while.

Now, there's one of the things that may have been, and it has not been hammered into stone, is that he'd witnessed his sister raped when she was seven at a military base in West Germany at the time.

And that may have had an effect on him.

He seemed like a maladroit individual, somebody that you'd feel socially uncomfortable around.

And, you know, it doesn't look like there was a lot of friends or anything like that.

And, you know, obviously being serial killers, a fairly solitary occupation.

Life.

He pleaded guilty because...

He pleaded guilty because he would have got the death penalty or a sentence to the death penalty.

I mean, it's not like California isn't quite like Texas to strap him down at every opportunity.