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on the 3rd of February 1997 the bodies of a 35 year old woman and a 10 year old girl were discovered by firefighters as
they responded to an emergency call in Cook County Chicago Illinois they knew that without an autopsy that
they had been murdered their throats were slit the mother and daughter had become the fifth and sixth victims of a
sexual sadist named Paul Runge the unique ammo that he had used when he was killing his victims was using a
guy's or ruse to lure them or to get inside their homes and then by the end sexually assaulting
killing and setting their homes on fire years later rungi would shock investigators with a detailed confession
of his two-year crime spree after you pour the liquid on them what'd you do I walked away to the bed with the
match I haven't even walked me through the crimes how he did each one how he basically cased the crime scenes you
know the thought that he put into it the premeditation I mean the guy was an absolute animal
the barbaric killer had gone on record Paul Runge had become one of the world's most evil killers
[Music] [Music] foreign between 1995 and 1997 Paul Runge raped and killed Six Women and a young girl in
Chicago Illinois the police had suspected him in the early investigation but lacked the evidence to make an
arrest but in 2000 a DNA match taken from his youngest victim finally led to his
conviction they were watching them I mean the FBI was involved and uh that doesn't happen in local
murders all the time so they were they were lying to him and they were watching him but they needed a break they needed
a big a big break The Big Break came in the DNA when confronted Runge confessed to
killing 35 year old Yolanda Gutierrez and her ten-year-old daughter Jessica munis and began to divulge the
horrifying intricacies of many more murders I want to do the right thing and help
you guys and you already know I've been trying to do the whole time I didn't ask
for an attorney that stuff you know because I'm guilty I did this stuff he was almost like gratuitous and
sharing the details of these crimes that he was proud of himself like he was bragging and it was almost like he
wanted to show police you know look how look what I was able to accomplish this killer Story begins on the 28th of
January 1970. Paul Frederick Runge was born in Illinois and adopted as an infant
he told me that he was raised in a very loving family in the south suburbs Chicago Oak Forest Illinois
he was sent to good schools he had a younger brother he told me that his mother was very loving
Paul renji was extremely close to his adoptive mother when she was the person that chose to adopt him I think he
really took to that and they had a very strong attachment [Music] as a young boy rangi displayed some
troubling Behavior while attending the local Catholic School [Music] ranji had a history at a very young age
of starting to show the sexual deviance towards other girls and he would grab them touch them in appropriate ways
around the age of eight he was asked to leave the school the fact that a boy of this age is
actually asked to leave an educational institution shows that his behavior really was off the scale in terms of
being unacceptable the scales would be tipped again in 1984 when at the age of just 14 rangi was
accused of raping two girls once they were questioned by police they seemed to say that this was actually more
consensual than they originally had claimed and ranji was let go I think it sends a very significant
message out to him that actually this kind of behavior isn't all that serious at the age of 17 a traumatic event in
the teenager's life would trigger an escalation in his behavior that would lead to more serious consequences in
1987 comes probably the most significant moment in Paul rangi's life his mother is suffering from cancer
and she's dying he's actually at home with her on the day that she passes away this is extremely traumatizing
especially for a child that's already been in some ways abandoned by parents when he was put up for adoption
but one thing that we need to remember is that he was engaging it in inappropriate and abusive Behavior
towards girls before this event actually happens so it doesn't explain why he went on to to do what he did
in August 1987 whilst grieving the death of his adoptive mother rangi inflicted unspeakable torture on a schoolgirl
three years his Junior he called a 14 year old girl at one o'clock in the morning his father was
out of town and he enticed the girl to meet him but what she doesn't know is that he's
going to keep her hostage for the weekend and sexually abuse her throughout that time
in the most vicious premeditated and ruthless manner he's lured this girl to his house he
strikes her over the head she becomes very disorientated and what follows on from this is is a sustained and violent
and sadistic sexual attack it really was incredibly depraved eventually he placed her in a sleeping
bag and put her in the cross piece of the house and uh taped up and told her to shut up
and stay there and she was able to Escape run out into the street and get some help from a passerby
seventeen-year-old rangi was arrested shortly after the attack and would later plead guilty to aggravated kidnapping
and sexual assault he was sentenced to 14 years in prison and in Cook County you get
day-for-day good time so he was released seven years later in 1994. I think this sends a very important
message to him again that sexual violence towards women especially this nature is not something that that's
really going to result in a massively long prison sentence after being released from prison 24 year
old rangi met his girlfriend Charlene who was known as Sherry in late 1994 he moved in with Sherry and
her housemate Dina bartolini who got on well with the couple he was funny he was Charming
you know we laughed all the time it was just he was just like really kind of fun guy
to be around he'd wake up in the morning go to work come home we'd do dinner or order out or
whatever and he would help clean it was just he was a normal everyday person except he wasn't
he most certainly was not on the 3rd of January 1995 just months after his release from prison Paul Runge
killed for the first time [Music] 24 year old Stacey fro Bell was an old friend who'd recently been reunited with
Dina and Sherry and the friends were looking forward to catching up she was a friend of ours from when we
used to go to the bars during the weekends and we see where the forest preserves and we just hang out there and
which was kind of like part of the group that we used to hang around with she was such a sweetheart
she had come over earlier during the day we were kind of going through old pictures
and she was having such a good time she's like well let me go home she's like I want to come back maybe I you
know have some drinks whatever and just you know continue this reminiscing years later when recounting the events
of that night Runge would claim that Sherry called him before Stacey returned it worked and as she said
and that uh she probably will be a good candidate for having a freeway we're just laughing having a good time I
was actually sick that night I was like running 103 fever I think I had one wine
cooler I'm like all right guys my head kind of went really warm and I went to bed
put some good music on and uh as you can think or you know kind of really drunk in that stuff and turn sure
he went upstairs and uh Sherry came and we went into our bedroom and she said well Stacy I'm spend the night
yes I remembered I think I woke up to go to the bathroom and Sherry said that she was gonna that
Stacy was gonna spend the night because she was drinking rangi later claimed that Shetty was
angry with Stacy and that led to him targeting his girlfriend's sleeping friend the weight was sitting on the uh on the
table in our bedroom and uh I said okay and I picked the uh the um wait up when I went to the room and she was laying
out of bed you know kind of drunk I went to the room and I hit her on the head twice
and then um we uh kind of like he's dead you know I mean she she's not alive anymore
he's starting off with somebody he knows it's almost a kind of warm-up killing it's one that he feels confident that he
can accomplish when Dina woke the next morning she was surprised to learn that Stacy had not
stayed the night I think I was halfway down the stairs and I didn't see her I figured she'd be sleeping on the
couch and Charlene came by and she you know came came towards me I'm like where's Stacy
you know well she's not here she's like how her husband wanted her home so she drove home
but Stacy hadn't made it home and when Dean went to work I brought stage in the bathroom
and uh put her in the bathroom I close the door and I saw her and remember after he's finished
what did you do uh I'm sure he got me uh kitchen bags out of the kitchen garbage
bags and I put the pieces into the garlic that evening Runge and Sherry asked to
borrow Dina's car we couldn't put those body parts in my car because it was too small
mostly they just needed my vehicle to go to the store or something because theirs
had no gas and then they left and came back so it was for me it was no big deal to give
them the key to say go ahead uh buying parts of her car drove off toward the sky okay if you
drop them all in one place or do you scattered they were all wrong the following day the 5th of January
Stacey froble's husband reported her missing after she'd failed to return home from the Runge house
police questioned all three housemates we found out that she never made it home and then we found out that her car was
found over in Hanover Park somewhere I think in front of a bar so that was really kind of creepy he was
like wow what happened to Stacy we had people we had you know police over asking us questions about you know
Stacy being there that night and if we seen anything weird or you know and as far as I knew of course she went
home because her husband wanted her home the housemates were shaken by their friends mysterious disappearance we
talked about it a lot wondering where she went after she left our townhouse when she never made it home so we used
to discuss that and what happened to her about you know about her you know maybe
she met somebody at a bar we mean we had no idea he was so arrogant and confident about
his lie and trying to put her housemate off the sense that he was able to get away with it and that's just astonishing
two weeks after she was reported missing police received a call from a dog walker
who discovered body parts 20 miles away at the Illinois Wisconsin border it would be many months before DNA would
identify the victim as Stacey froble the news came as a shock to her friend Dina who was no longer living with Runge
so that was really it's really quite upsetting to find out that she her body was found
somewhere just just bits and pieces of it I don't think they even found her whole
body so yeah it was it was weird and what happened we didn't know why I didn't know what happened to her nobody knew
what happened to her well I didn't know what happened to her rangi married Sherry just weeks after
killing Stacey frobo but when investigators learned of the newlyweds previous conviction for the depraved
attack on a teenage girl he became the prime suspect in Stacy's murder they believed that ranji had committed the
murder of froble but they couldn't prove it to the amount they they needed to arrest him and bring charges against him
he may be a person of interest in inquiry but nothing certain no hard evidence so inspired or perhaps encouraged by
that success if you like with uh Stacy froble ranga kills again years later rangi described how in July
of 1995 he and his wife had targeted two Bosnian sisters under the guise of setting up a fake cleaning company
assistant State's Attorney General Bob Milan remembers the hallowing recollection so Janet and Amelia Pagan
bevik came over the United States from Bosnia to start a new life I've been in the country about six
months they're 22 and 20. looking for work Keen to establish themselves in the community
they found out through a friend that they worked with that Paul rongi and his wife were going to start a cleaning
business rangi and his wife eventually brought the girls over to their house on July 12th of 1995 under the rules that
they were going to interview them for this cleaning business but what they don't realize
and that's the horrifying part what they don't realize is just how much danger they are both in
the real reason for luring the women back to the house soon became clear when rangi made them a proposition of a very
different kind a foursome with him and his wife all right about sex and uh she's like
what do you mean sex I meant the four of us having sex upstairs in the bedroom for money
and uh you know we should look back for about her sister and said something to her sister and her sister got up and ran
the one sister broke for the door she actually ran and actually got outside the back door
I caught him by the back of the hair and pulled her down to the ground what was your colors the ground and concrete the
driveway concrete travel yes what happened to her when we did that uh she couldn't put her hands back she went
straight down to figure out her head on the concrete she was hurt so badly that she was
throwing up and almost unconscious and he dragged her back in the house when the sisters saw her injured sibling
she started screaming but the sister that was screaming and he handcuffed her to a weight bench
down in the in the basement and then he started to assault the sister that was injured in front of
the other sister afterwards she said she said why are you doing this you're looking out why are
you doing this what did you say to her I didn't say anything I didn't thought about it and I was complaining for
myself you know I don't understand this you know why this is why this turn to wise turnout like this and I died I
couldn't I she was right and I didn't understand it's for a girl who's screaming on the
weight bench pulling trying to pull her hand away screaming you know my sister my sister please don't do that to my
sister eventually brought the injured sister upstairs and and uh drowned her in a
bathtub can you go back back downstairs what happens uh chairs down there and the girl uh
that's what was that what was that and uh that's what we're talking about to go talk to my sister and uh I said she
drowned in the tub and she started screaming and you can just imagine the the level of
fear and just the violence that that's gone on in this particular attack raped the second sister
in the basement while she was handcuffed to the weight bench eventually he brought her upstairs and
strangled her put her in the bathtub and dismembered both of their bodies after you've dismember the bodies what
did you do with the body parts I put him into cold cases in the bags how many garbage bags did you fill the
side effects maybe eight to ten it was a horrifying confession uh later on that night we uh drove to
some apartments nearby and uh put the bags in adultery [Music] foreign detectives looking into the reported
disappearance of Janet and emila learned that a mutual friend of the rungies and
the sisters had helped set up a meeting about a cleaning job This was later confirmed when
investigators made a vital Discovery in the couple's garbage they found in there at the note that he
or Sherry wrought out that connected them to the Bosnian sisters okay their numbers were honored
Hanover Park PD now had three women who were never seen alive again after visiting the rungies it was too much of
a coincidence so now they know all right please no in search of the definitive evidence
they needed to prove it FBI approached rangi's former housemate Dina who was surprised to learn that he'd become a
suspect I found out Paul was involved when the FBI came knocking out my door first I'm like whoa what were you guys
want to do with me but it was this like they said they said you're not you know you're not in any
trouble we just want to talk to you and basically propose that I try to help them try to get some information from
Charlene and Paul Dina agreed to wear a wire and visited the rungies who were now living with his
father in Glendale Heights the attempts proved unsuccessful I had a feeling they they knew something
was up though I mean I'm not a very good actress so they were very very quiet they didn't give up any information
the FBI and the police were convinced of runge's involvements but had no proof aware that he was being watched the
sexual sadist was about to change tactics and take his Killing Spree to another level
renji seemed have a slight change in his Mo where he went from being almost responsive to the environment to
actually going into the environment to pick his ideal victim in January in 1997 rangi was working as
a delivery driver when he noticed of a sale sign as he drove past the house of single mother dorota Dorothy Dubach
now he's a very Sly operator he goes to a local pay phone and rings are up and says I see you're selling your house
I'd really quite like to see it in a sense endears himself to her using that plausible manner
on Surface nothing to fear on the 10th of January rangi called Dorothy to arrange a second viewing
he was playing the part of a buyer that was trying to make a decision in a short
time frame and needed to see the home twice he could have used the time in between his two showings of the home to
cool off think about his decision decide not to commit murder but instead I think
that time in between actually served to get him more excited about the crime foreign
ER wasn't home that day so Dorothy called one of her very good friends he said I got this guy coming over he
was here the other day he's kind of weird um she said if you don't hear from me in
15 minutes half joking you know call the police as she showed Runge around Dorothy
explained that she was having problems with the furnace and an engineer was due to visit that day to carry out repairs
posing as the concerned buyer rangi wanted to inspect it himself and uh I told her I thought I knew what
was wrong with it and she came over to look and we came over the look I pushed her on the floor
by the way um that I screamed my color show up so uh I'm not gonna hurt you I can do
anything be quiet if you want to see your daughter don't don't kill me and my uh polish fan up and walk her
into her life oh wrongy was a very disarming guy which made him even more frightening he
he uh talked his way in to he told me over a hundred houses uh if you met him and he came to your
door and asked to use the phone or to ask for directions or whatever you'd let him in very frightening guy
off to raping Dorothy rungy claimed he forced her to shower before taking her back into the bedroom and tying her
hands where'd you do that later on in bed and what position is the layer in the back
player on the battery stomach foreign okay what'd you do that uh again proper Irene
leaned on her with my hand like this I'm the high part of the back lower neck area and I was talking to her I said
don't say anything don't tell nobody don't do anything I'm not going to come back I'm not gonna hurt you or your
daughter or anything like that uh that was that was pretty much it whether you're leaning hard or we land inside uh
I was late enough to I guess you are and what do you mean by that because uh when I got up my first she was more she
wanted me to breathing that I realized she started carrying my pillow Paul Runge had now cruelly taken four
lives and was quick to make sure he left no evidence that might lead the police to his door
what was your reason for the United States to draw attention to that I don't know
as he ignited the closet wanted to do that if I went to work a short while later the furnace engineer
arrived to find the house Ablaze the fire department raced to the scene and discovered Dorothy's body on the bed
at first determined that you know okay well maybe she died of the fire she might have been
smoking or something like that however when an autopsy was conducted it was determined that number one she had no
smoke in her lungs which means she wasn't breathing when the fire was on uh two they noticed signs of
trauma the Pathologists found evidence that suggested Dorothy had been tied up and
strangled there are also signs of sexual assault so what looked like a terrible accident
is actually a cold-blooded premeditated murder rangi's previous victims had all visited
his home and been killed there but his change in tactics meant he was operating under the police's radar in a new area
Cook County Paul Runge had already killed unbeknownst to investigators he was now stalking his prey
less than a month later rangi strikes again responding to a local selling ad for a
children's reading program known as Hooked on Phonics he posed as an interested father and visited the
apartment of 35 year old Yolanda Gutierrez and her ten-year-old daughter Jessica
came over to her place to see it one morning early before Jessica went to school
he actually saw Jessica he saw Elana Gutierrez found her attractive he looked at Hooked on Phonics and said
he wanted to think about it and he left why should they know think this chapter is turned up isn't a legitimate buyer it
was the cost in their lives rangi had assessed his potential victims reassured that she was single and that
there would be no obstacles to his attack three days later on the 3rd of February 1997 he returned to the
apartment around her around the front and put it back to a drop tragically Jessica was
also home that day your daughter say anything no she'd do anything nothing except the shack work and then
uh I took another tape out of the pocket and I take their hands behind her back and then the little girl can't find her
back got him on the bed he repeatedly raped them Jessica had been subjected to a quite a
sustained sadistic sexual attack at the same time her mother had so this tells us that this killer has no boundaries he
has no limits the fact that there's a 10 year old child there is not something that puts his brakes on or gets in his
way or stops him from doing what he wants to do if anything she's part of the appeal for him
rangi slashed the throats of the mother and her young daughter the 27 year old killer once again set
about covering his tracks this time he'd come prepared so he had his briefcase and inside the briefcase
he had the duct tape he had the knife he had the flammable substance in there and he poured the flammable substance
all over both of them after you pour the liquid on them what'd you do I walked over the bed with the
match real fast out why didn't you do that um to a hide the fact of what I didn't
start next couples uh um I can't tell you why I cooked next I mean I don't know I don't know why I did
that the Chicago Fire Department arrived soon after being alerted by a member of the
public it was a Halloween scene they knew that they're without an autopsy that they had been murdered
their throats were slit and they were they were partially new whilst rangi remained prime suspect in
the investigation into the 1995 killings of three women who disappeared after visiting his home nobody knew he was
also responsible for the recent murders in Cook County in March investigators had another body
on their hands when a female was found dead following a fire at her home I mean there was no doubt when they got
there that there was a crime that had been committed that uh she had been murdered and that a fire
had been set to cover up the victim was later identified as kamira Peru and it soon emerged that
just like the murder of Dorothy Dubach the 45 year old woman had been selling her apartment and rangi had already been
to recce the scene of the crime would go over and case the place which he did in all three cases a case that
looked it over made sure nobody else is around and then he'd return to those scenes and attack on the 14th of March
1997 Runge returned to the apartment getting ready to leave and I said okay thank you that kind of stuff my turn
then I turned back she turned around the other way and I grabbed it from behind him turn on the floor
in the back of the neck area push her down to the ground she started reading real bad uh profusely but then what
happened I stood up and walked into the bathroom what happened in the band um I laid her down on a floor in the
bathroom and uh she was kind of crack Rocky and uh she's still bleeding real bad and it depends off
they raped her she did wake up and try to fight back she actually grabbed an iron
that was nearby and tried to hit him in the head where I just kind of went like there's
my armor we will close the toilet and he strangled her and asphyxiated her on the on the floor
after he raped her again he took a flammable substance poured it over her body and in the bathroom and set it on
fire and left the scene cat and mirror had been desperate to return home to her native Poland but
runghi had crawly snuffed out her dream so the victims are all women who live without a male partner they're all women
who have something that they're selling usually their home their property and this is just a pattern that is not going
to emerge randomly the killings are too close together and it's just far too much of a coincidence
Chicago PD investigators now knew they had a serial killer on the loose who'd murdered four people in the space of
just three months [Music] the police are able to link the murders together because of how similar they
were all committed around the same time in the same way with the places being set on fire
police were pretty certain that it was the same actor investigators have no clue as to who
this sadistic individual was meanwhile detectives over in Hanover Park investigating the murders of the three
women that had visited runge's home were confident that he was their killer but had yet to find the evidence to prove it
unbeknownst to the two investigating teams they were seeking the same man although without evidence connecting him
to the murders of Stacey fro Bell and sisters emila and Janet passenbergovic Hanover Park had an ace up their sleeve
that would get rungy off the streets to still on parole from what he did to the little girl back
in 87. in 1996 they conducted a search warrant on his father's home and they found
their weapons they found a stun gun they found combat knives and some other weapons in their
crossbows that he wasn't supposed to have the possession of weapons was a violation of his parole and in May 1997
27 year old rangi was arrested filed a petition called the sexually violent person's petition for they have
evidence that a person is sexually violent found these weapons and that he should
be taken off the streets so we could take our time and build a case if investigators couldn't find something
new Paul Runge would walk free they are left just thinking that this person almost certainly committed this crime
but they can't actually prove it they couldn't prove it to the amount they they needed to arrest him and bring
charges against him in 2003 years after he was sent back to jail investigators were running out of
options they turned to runge's now ex-wife offering her immunity if she testified against him Charlene took the
deal and admitted to luring the sisters to their home under false pretenses cleaning up after all three murders and
helping rangi dispose of the bodies whilst Hanover Park geared up to put runghi on trial scientists were
re-examining evidence from the Chicago PD fire murders they had a breakthrough that would finally expose the full
extent of the Killer's actions in September of 2000 there is a DNA match which emerges from the body of
little ten-year-old Jessica and it's a match for rungee's DNA the DNA it's a game changer it's a game
changer rangi is a killer who thinks he's incredibly smart that he's just going to
get away with it that he's thought of everything but the one thing that he hadn't anticipated would be that science
would catch up with him now investigators knew that Paul Runge was also responsible for the four fire
murders it was a memorable moment for assistant State's Attorney Bob Milan gave him his rights introduced myself
said I understand you want to hear it from me well the DNA is yours right he said yeah
and so first off you know it's yours right I mean you know what you're you don't need me to tell you we're there
why would we be talking to you about this unless we had your DNA right and I go here it is Boom
said one town and then I knew and so once I showed it to him and confronted him with that
he confessed to the Gutierrez Muniz murders once the floodgates had opened there was
no holding back rangi shocked investigators when over the course of 10 hours he went on to confess to all seven
murders communicated to me that you wanted to explain why you're telling yourself
about these papers yes um I'm telling you the cases because I want to help the families that are
going through this right now I don't know what happens to our loved ones I want to do the right thing and help you
guys I didn't ask for an attorney that stuff you know because I'm guilty I did this stuff and I just
wanted you I wanted I wanted to do it over with I think this is because he realizes that
the game is up now and he's risking actually losing control of the story around these crimes so this is when he
starts confessing because he's trying to get ahead of that he's trying to claim the narrative for himself
his demeanor was notable to Bob Milan who listened to all the horrifying details
so I asked him how did is it to dismember somebody's leg or arm how hard is it to saw through and
remember he told me it's not that hard it's like sawn through a small Branch that's how he answered the question
that's how he told me uh there's no tears no remorse nothing he wanted to be known as being so bad
and that was one reason why he was willing to share all of the horrific details of the ways that he murdered
these women and I think it was really to almost get credit for it to see himself in such a
horrible manner but to know that he was almost like an evil villain and he was really the worst there is
the full extent of runge's past and his confession to the heinous murder of Stacey fro Bell came as a huge shock to
her friend Dina who'd been in the house on the night of the murder in 1995. I've had found out that he they had
actually killed her in the room across the hall where I was that night sleeping upstairs in the bedroom
he killed her and cut her up in the bathroom and then used my vehicle to dispose of her body
I just can't believe thank goodness I didn't hear anything because I have a feeling if they knew I did
that I would have been dead too I would not be sitting here talking to you guys today
but it did it was like I said it was like an out of Body Experience just even thinking that
something like that could happen right across the hall from where I was sleeping
[Music] in January 2006 Paul Runge stood trial for the murders of Yolanda Gutierrez and
her ten-year-old daughter Jessica munis case they elected Anne which was the most evidence was The Majestic
community's Greer is murders because he had the DNA plus the confession I actually testified not only to that
case but a number of the other ones rangi was convicted by the jury at the sentencing hearing the other crimes came
in to be taken under consideration and the jury sentenced him to death [Music] unbelievably rangi was never tried for
the other murders he confessed to how do you tell the families of the Bosnian sisters we're not going to try
this case we're not going to reach a conviction with it how do you tell them that I I don't get it and when we had
the note that connected him to those sisters and the people that connected him to those sisters and then of course
full confessions to the crime so I don't get it I wasn't for it but it wasn't my decision to make
in 2011 capital punishment in Illinois was repealed and rangi's sentence changed from the death penalty to
Natural life in prison later that year it was announced that as he had already been given the maximum
penalty the other case is against Runge had been dropped in reality he was a monster
charm and disarming ways to get into homes and rape and murder multiple women I think Stacy her family all the things
that they've got to go through and every single woman that he has murdered their lives have been changed forever
they'll never be the same nobody will in this investigation this whole entire thing with Paul rugby he's just evil
he is just plain evil foreign was a sexual sadist who took advantage of the trust that he was afforded by the
young and vulnerable women who let him into their homes a cold and calculated deviant he inflicted unfathomable
torture on his victims he is a dangerous predator who will forever be known as one of the world's most evil killers
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Season 7, Episode 19

Paul Runge assaulted and killed 6 women and a young girl in Chicago, Illinois. The Police had suspected him in the early investigation but lacked the evidence to make an arrest.

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Brief Summary

Paul Runge's murders of women in Chicago reveal his sadistic nature and chilling confessions after his capture.

Key points

The Discovery of Bodies. On February 3, 1997, firefighters discovered the bodies of a mother and daughter in Chicago.
Paul Runge's Confession. Years later, Runge confessed to a two-year crime spree involving multiple murders.
The Arrest of Paul Runge. In 2000, DNA evidence finally led to Runge's conviction for his heinous crimes.
The Disappearance of Stacey Froble. Stacey Froble went missing after a night at Runge's house, leading to a chilling investigation.
The Horrific Attack on the Sisters. In July 1995, Runge and his wife lured two Bosnian sisters under false pretenses.
The Disarming Killer. Paul Runge, a charming yet terrifying figure, gained trust before committing horrific acts.

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