Maurice Shema

Yeah, it was surprising to me that there was only one bit of physical evidence.

It's a set of orange fibers, probably from a blanket.

And these are threads that came from David Wood's vacuum cleaner, like the bag in his vacuum cleaner.

And then they were also found with one of the victim's bodies in the desert.

Judith Kelling was a sex worker in El Paso in the 80s, and she's deceased now, but she came forward and did a recorded interview with Johnny.

She came forward shortly after some of the women were found in the desert, and she said she'd been hitchhiking, and a white guy picked her up with his truck, and he wouldn't take her to where she wanted to go, but instead invited her to do cocaine with him out in the desert.

So he drives her out there and pulls out a shovel and also some rope.

Judith Kelling says that he tied her up and raped her, and there are a lot of creepy details, like he kept telling her to say that she was 14 years old.

And then he hears some voices nearby and gets spooked, and he leaves her out in the middle of the desert to find her own way home.

The police give Judith a photo lineup, and she identifies David Wood as the guy.

And she takes the police to where she was raped, and Johnny tells me that it's about 50 yards from where the murder victims were found.

Yeah, and it takes a long time.

But the jury is convinced, and they only deliberate for like 90 minutes before sentencing him to death.

Yeah, he had a lot of them to choose between.

Greg actually got the original list of police suspects, and there were 36 of them on it.

And some of them did seem promising.

So there was one man who failed a polygraph test about the murders, which I know those are unreliable, but he did fail it.

So Greg's team runs that one down, and Alvin and I had to actually knock on some of these people's doors too, which we describe in the show.

Basically, Greg's theory on this case is that the cops had tunnel vision.

They were under all this pressure to solve the case.