Morgan Absher

I read somewhere that they collected over a thousand samples of blood in that basement and blood samples ended up matching six different victims.

Investigators also found this diagram that Travis had made showing plans for this new basement extension.

Investigators also found this diagram that Travis had created showing plans for a basement extension.

And they concluded that he was going to build two cells in there where he would chain women up.

He was planning for these like little air vents that went out into the basement.

And there was no bathroom facilities in the plan.

And he had like made a list of things that he needed.

One thing on the list was adult diapers so that he could keep these women captive for long periods of time.

Like, again, just like we knew this person was just depraved.

But like, yeah, clearly like this is one of the worst I think we've encountered.

Even longer.

And you guys, it gets so much worse when we get into clue number 10.

Maury had a whole bookshelf of VHS tapes in the basement.

And you guys, this next section is going to get pretty graphic, so please skip ahead if you can't handle it.

Most of them looked like they were just home videos or kid movies.

But when investigators started looking at some of these tapes, on one tape, they saw 46-year-old Betty James being tortured.

Another tape labeled Your Wedding Day showed Maury torturing some of his other victims, though the tape wasn't labeled which victims they were.

Another tape showed Maury strangling a young woman while she was chained to a wooden beam in that very basement.

After her body goes limp, he turns to the camera and says, quote, This is first kill.

Number one.