The University Predator: Jerald Wingeart | World’s Most Evil Killers | Forensic Files

in January 1973 a young woman went missing in AC quied Michigan farming Community when Da magar was abducted it
was unnerving it was just chilling could something like this happen in broad daylight that's impossible in this
area 6 years years later a 16-year-old high school student was murdered in similar circumstances just 40 m away it
was strange the location where her body was found you could almost superimpose on top of dawn magar's scene where her
body was found Gerald Wingard followed a pattern he would troll rural towns and college campuses for young women to
abduct to rape sometimes to kill he would get into his vehicle and he would go cruising he was out looking for a
victim Winger got away with murder for three decades but in the end his horrific past caught up with
him this was one of the first cases in the world that DNA evidence played a factor
when Gerald Winger was at last brought to Justice he was finally recognized as one of the world's most most evil
[Music] [Music] [Music] killers in 1973 Dawn and Don mag were high school sweethearts married
with a one-year-old son when Dawn vanished while out shopping the close-knit community of aaso Michigan
was terrified where she was abducted Groceries on the ground truck door open foggy night and everything we knew
something really bad had happened it was an unsolved case for so many years it was just part of the local lore whoever
this is they're still out there and who knows who else they've abducted and killed evil had invaded this rural idial
Dawn's friends and family wouldn't see peace or Justice for almost 30 years this killer Story begins on the
15th of January 1941 in a small town just 130 mi from oaso with the birth of Gerald Leroy
Winger he was from Niles Michigan which is which is almost to the Indiana border
Winger was one of five children in a close ordinary middleclass family well we know if win's background wouldn't
really suggest the things that were were to happen later in his life you can hide
in a big family and perhaps you're you're not under so much attention in high school he was an athlete he was
considered fairly intelligent uh well-liked he seemed like the All-American boy actually had a
football scholarship in June 1959 aged just 18 Wingard married his first wife an
18-year-old girl from his hometown a few months later he enrolled at University and the couple moved to
Anne Arbor he went to the University of Michigan he was to all intents and purposes hard working late in
1960 this upright University student is uh involved in a car accident with his then partner which puts an end to
his athletic career in the wake of the car accident the couple have a baby a little boy but
the tragedy continues to strike them and after 7 months the baby dies unexpectedly 4 months later in July 1961
a fellow student at the University suffered a hallowing attack uh young woman and her boyfriend the young woman
was blind they were uh traveling in his car uh they decided to stop on the side of a rural road and spend a little time
together while they were sitting there they noticed a car drive by them kind of slow the next thing they know a man gets
out of the driver's side of the car and they can see that he's got a rifle in his hand he asked the girl to tie up
the boy but she couldn't because she was blind so he ordered her back into the car and he tied up the boy he then
proceeded to take her purse take his wallet take his keys moved some stuff from the vehicle that he was in into
their car and then he put the girl into the car and drove off with her as a 19-year-old blind girl at that time
taken from her boyfriend taken to an unknown location she had no idea where she was at and then brutally
raped having brutalized the young woman the attacker left her tied up in a ditch
next to a remote Country Road he told her to walk away and she struggled in this rural area to get away from him and
she hid and when she knew that he was finally gone and likely not coming back she wored worked her way somehow back
out to the road and flagged down a motorist that that brought her care when police returned to the scene
they found the woman's boyfriend still alive and an incriminating piece of evidence they find that the car that the
suspect left there um appeared to be his own car and it was Gerald wert's car he
told somebody about what he' done ended up going to a lawyer and he was advised to go to the police and hand himself in
which is what he did but he didn't hand himself in out of any remorse or guilt or shame or anything like that cuz he
basically said but I had a black hour I can't remember anything that I did yeah I'll accept it was me but I have no
memory of it he was charged with the armed robbery and the sexual assault tried before a judge Wingard pled
Insanity several experts argued he was suffering from a skitso personality disorder
this would certainly explain those behaviors of violence and and the rapes and would certainly have an impact on
the rest of his life and the way that he was going to behave in spite of Wing's protestations
of his innocence he was convicted of the rape and robbery and sent to jail for eight
years his wife divorced him shortly after after his incarceration freed in 1969 Wingard quickly remarried had a
daughter and forged a career in the relatively new field of computer programming the family settled in the
Lancing area of Michigan just a 30-minute drive from the small city of aaso a place that was struck by tragedy
on the 27th of January 1973 with The Disappearance of 20-year-old Local woman Dawn magar she
was at home in chessine with her husband and one-year-old child she left chestin
to come to aaso to do some shopping once she got here she started having car trouble so she called up her
father-in-law and made arrangements to borrow his truck so she could finish her errands so she went over to his house
got the truck and then from there she made a couple of stops and then she went to a plaza just north of aaso called the
Yankee Plaza that was a pretty small shopping center it only had like maybe three
stores or businesses in it author Billy Bates was a child living in the aaso area in
1973 we were in that shopping plaza all the time and so when this happened when Dawn magar was abducted I remember my
mom talking about it cuz she was a young mom herself she stopped in there to do some
shopping at the store when she didn't make it back home her husband started getting concerned and then he eventually
came into a was to file a missing person's report she was not the type of person
you would expect to go missing immediately as soon as she was reported really she was seen as a high-risk
victim this is is totally out of character they found her father-in-law's truck out in the strip mall parking lot
the door was open the items that she bought were in the vehicle there was a couple of keys from the keychain uh one
laying on the floor in the truck and one laying on the ground outside the truck early on they they felt that there was
some foul play involved and they they started acting on that accordingly La was known in the area as
a popular young woman from a close family she grew up in corana and she had two brothers uh she lived at home with her
mother and father who were very loving um she did well in high school she had a lot of friends well-liked person just a
real downto Earth friendly Midwestern girl you know journalist Tony hornus got to know daor at High School in Corona
she was gorgeous strawberry blonde little little freckly I would say she was in the group with a with a
bunch of us you know parties after football games and you know just that kind of thing school
activities Dawn and her husband DA got together in high school and eventually married in 1971 and had a
child having just celebrated her son's first birthday Dawn was now missing Under Suspicion
circumstances so at the time that she was abducted it was very foggy the fog was thick and uh would have been very
easy for somebody to kidnap someone without being seen the police got a search party going and there were
hundreds of people there you know I was there and we did grid searches around the
county we all knew we were looking for a body after more than 5 weeks of daily searches tirelessly scouring the rural
area on foot and on Horseback the fears of volunteers like Tony were realized news of a gruesome Discovery less than
10 miles from where the 20-year-old mother had last been seen alive spelled tragedy for Dawn magar's friends and
family on March 4th 1973 there were two boys up in the Oakley area uh their family had a maple syrup
operation so they had a lot of maple trees and their job was to go out that day and just check the trees and while
they were doing this they found what looked like a human being to them on the ground so the state police responded up
there and they were able to determine that it was Don magir it appeared that she had been
inducted and murdered and was also raped prior to her death the violent homicide
of a young mother was a shockingly unusual occurrence in shiai County while investigators waited for
the results of Dawn's autopsy her murder became the only thing local people were
talking about it's a rural area very low crime back in those days maybe somebody would
break into somebody's car maybe break another house once in a while but murder oh my gosh never well at this point it
obviously it turned into a homicide investigation there were a couple of pretty good suspects back when this
happened but they never had anything conclusive to show that any one of those people had committed the crime first
rule like that in the law enforcement he are going to look at the people closest
to her you know the husband everything Rock Solid Alibi no way could Don have done this took
polygraphs no no no he was home with his son as public fears mounted and with a murderer on the loose detectives hoped
that Dawn's remains would give them the answer to who had killed her because of the cold weather there
was not a lot of decomposition she was found faced down on the ground her coat was buttoned up
in the front and her arms were inside coat not the sleeves so that the coat was kind of like a straight jacket and a
bullet hole in the back of the jacket and um then of course subsequently in the autopsy they
discovered there were two other bullets the forensic evidence that was collected
at the time was exquisitly preserved through some real fine police work uh and and scene work so what the medical
examiner found was that she had been shot once in the bag and twice in the back of the head with
22 caliber bullets and they were able to recover the bullets from her body Dawn had also been raped and the
killer had left behind vital evidence so during the autopsy uh they did a vaginal
swab and uh when it was tested later by the lab there was a presence of seen Physicians who did the autopsy had
collected the Sean samples from her and literally put them in a like a sandwich bag back then like it it's crazy to
think about that and then they put it in storage back then of course all you could do was
match blood types you couldn't there was nothing else you could really do the blood type detected from dawn
magar's attacker did not match either of the police's main suspects but the following summer 18 months after Dawn's
murder another significant clue emerged in 1974 there was a couple of boys swimming in the shiw wasi river right in
aaso just off on the north side of the bridge on Main Street they stumbled across something laying on the bottom of
the river they picked it up and it was a gun would have been easy for anyone driving by or to to exit a vehicle and
and throw items out from uh that location the firearm was a 22 caliber revolver because of the deterioration of
the firearm in in the river the rusting and so forth they were unable to ballistically prove that it was involved
because of the circumstances the location that was found the ammunition the right making model of the gun they
believed that this was the murder weapon Detectives now had the gun they believed had been used to kill Dawn
magor but they still did not know who it belonged to the investigators were able to trace
that firearm back to a pawn shop in Yuma Arizona and they were able to obtain a name of Robert Shaw but when they went
to that address uh Mr Shaw had already moved and uh they were unable to track him any further 2 years later police
detectives made another Discovery in 1976 again there was a couple of kids playing in the river this time south of
the bridge south of where the gun had been found and they found a wallet laying on the bank of the river uh not
too far from the water that wallet was turned in to the police and it was found to have the identification of Don magar
so this guy definitely came back through aaso and pitched it off this bridge and
the shasi river is one of the very few rivers in the world that run from south to
North and so when he threw it out it kept drifting Downstream it offered no other uh
information at that point no no evidence or anything but it also helped um confirm that this gun that was found two
years before would be the gun that was used in this crime by the late 1970s with no new
information to help catch Dawn's killer the trail had gone cold a body blow for the community but especially for the
young woman's family Dawn's father continued to search for her killer after she was found and
spent most of his time doing that and the family felt that eventually contributed to his death was his
obsession was we're trying to find out who who killed her in April 1979 a teenage girl Laura May McVey
disappeared just a few miles away from oaso and in shockingly similar circumstances uh she was a
16-year-old uh high school student who I I believe was on their high school track
team or cross country team she was running jogging along a road as I recall and then just turned up missing there
was a witness that seen her talking to someone in a van and then after that she was never seen again until her body was
later found in another County further north her body had been outside for quite a while so there was some
decomposition but they were able to determine that she had been strangled and that was how she died Di
and there was evidence that she was sexually assaulted but there was no seman this time the police quickly
identified a suspect somebody had observed a strange or suspicious van in the area uh wrote
that registration or license plate number down after this individual who had written this license plate number
down heard about the abduction and and the death of Laura McVey uh and turn that information over to the please the
van turned out to belong to 38-year-old Gerald Winger who'd been in the hubberston area at the time he was up
fishing with his brother and another friend and he left the same night said I got to go home I got to go do something
he just went cruising Winger's pattern seems to be attacking and sexually assaulting
vulnerable young isolated women he would was out looking for somebody who fitted that kind of
profile when police ran a background check on their suspect they uncovered his conviction 20 years earlier for rape
and when they searched his van they found fibers they believed had come from Laura mcvey's blue jogging
suit who was charged with with murder but there were lots of arguments about whether the evidence was a admissible
whether the police had collected it in the right way whether it was a lawful search because and he was
really really lucky there because some of the key evidence just wasn't able to be presented to the court the judge
dismissed it you know and he walks away as the trial collapsed for the murder of Laura
McVey wingett left the courthouse with a smile on his face insisting to the press
and to the public that he was an innocent man and he had done nothing wrong whatever it was a gigantic
fraud he may have proclaimed his innocence but after his release officers witness firsthand Gerald wingard's
predatory habits the Michigan State Police uh did surveil him for quite some time and what
they learned from that he would often leave the L area where he resided and would travel to uh strip clubs in the
Detroit area but instead of taking the freeway system in Michigan that would offer the fastest and most direct route
he would take the back roads and would always cut through various college campuses what the detectives believed at
that time is that he was trolling he was out looking for a victim someone that he could abduct
without being seen wingert was never caught in the act and the surveillance operation was eventually called
off he dropped off the radar at that point the man that investigators was certain was responsible for killing
Laura McVey was free to roam the streets of aaso but Gerald Winger's luck was about to change two decades after the
notorious unsolved murder of Dawn magar in shiai County evidence from the crime scene was still sitting on a shelf in a
Michigan crime lab including Seaman samples found in Dawn's body back in in the 70s they really
weren't that sophisticated with DNA but they had recovered DNA from her and they
preserved it in 1994 Michigan and started um getting involved with DNA evidence DNA
technology biological samples that had previously only revealed a perpetrator's blood type could now produce a DNA
profile that would match a single individual this is exactly what the State Crime Lab managed to do with the
dawn magar case in the mid 1990s they were able to uh build this profile this DNA profile on our unknown
killer I became the detective at the aaso post in November of 1998 and I actually took an interest in the
unsolved homicide cases at the post the magar case to me was the most promising because there was DNA evidence detective
Mark pendra was determined to solve the 25-year-old Cold Case and catch a predatory killer he now had the DNA of
the man who'd raped Dawn magar before she was murdered but there was no match on the police database you have a DNA
profile which is great but you have no idea who it belongs to so you still basically have a houd done it also
preserved in evidence was the handgun found dumped in the shasi river in 1974 it was actually Mark's idea to
focus our efforts on a firearm that had been found uh within a year of this murder so we turned back towards the gun
to see if that could lead us to somebody when Mark told me this case is solvable
you know we got the gun you know and that's when I really believe too that it could be it could be
solved in 1974 the gun had been registered to a man named Robert Shaw but the police
hadn't been able to find him in 1999 the they tried again in an unexpected breakthrough they quickly discovered
that Robert Shaw was living in Lansing Michigan now we're excited we got the connection of that gun getting to
Michigan so we started investigating Robert Shaw and then eventually uh we contacted him for an interview he
specifically recalled buying a 22 caliber revolver from a pawn shop in Yuma Arizona when he was stationed in
the Army down there and that he had purchased it for plinking and shooting jack rabbits and so forth he didn't know
what happened to the gun he knew he didn't have it anymore he thought maybe he had traded it to a friend but really
had no idea so we interviewed him extensively we did our background investigation on
him we actually ran a polygraph and he came back in conclusive so now we're wondering was he involved
in the crime detectives knew there was one Sure Fire way to eliminate as a suspect so when they did a DNA test on
him it was no match that was in her it was another dead end until a few months later when Robert Shaw contacted
detective Steve harburger out of the blue he called me up one day and he said Steve I I've got another name I want to
give you I was looking at a case of wine this case of wine made me remember a guy
that my ex-wife began having an affair with back in the early '70s and it reminded him of the name of weert
and that's how he finally remember this name so he provided us with that name she eventually left me for this guy and
I remember his first name was Jerry he thinks that the gun became up missing around that time and Joe might
have taken it investigators began to gather everything they could about this new suspect we found out that in
1961 he had been convicted of a robbery and a rape in an arbor of a blind woman and we also found that he had been
arrested in 1981 for 1979 homicide in Ionia so this was the first time that we had a suspect that had the background
and the propensity for doing this type of crime and we both became extremely excited at at the potential that this
was our killer um it was at that time that he and I put all of our energy into Mr wiard to either identify him properly
through DNA evidence or eliminate him and keep moving on in 2000 we had surveillance done on him and
what we were looking to do was to get a DNA sample by the year 2000 59-year-old Gerald Winger was living with his latest
wife just outside Detroit Winger was married four times so you know quite the ladies man I guess
but he you know he'd been dormant for a lot of years you know living a quiet life in Sterling Heights he was a
computer wiz and people liked him kept to himself quiet he was uh very bright from what I recall and um but he was a
charmer he's got a good job he's blending in uh with his environment just like everyone else
does but in in secret you know he's got this other life that that he at least had lived at one time and may have
continued aaso detectives started following their suspects every move what we had that the surveillance team
looking for was him to discard a cigarette chewing gum a pot bottle anything of those of that nature that
would contain his DNA and unfortunately during the whole time they were surveilling him he never discarded
anything like that while their team was trying to prove a link between their suspect and the DNA traces left on Dawn
magar's body Mark and Steve were finding other links between Dawn's case and wingard's other suspected or confirmed
attacks starting with the rape of the blind students over three decades earlier we found that a girl was
abducted the weapon used was a 22 caliber the victim was abducted from a rural area uh transported to another rural
area where she was raped but the other thing that we found very interesting was the victim from
1961 her underwear were missing da magar it was found that her underwear were missing the other thing
that we found that was similar was that he had tied the victim's hands behind her back in
1961 in 1973 Dawn's arms were inside of her coat not in the armsleeves but inside of her
coat and the coat was zipped up in effect acting like a straight jacket the officially unsolved murder of Laura
McVey in 1979 also carried intriguing similarities we were able to get photographs of the different scenes
associated with Laura McVey that the location where her body was found you could almost
superimpose on top of Da magar's uh scene where her body was found the position of the bodies and so
forth the type of rural area it was strange they were they were almost identical detectives were building a
case but it was purely circumstantial they doubted it would be enough to secure a
conviction we need to tie him in through DNA we need to definitively show that he
was the one who left the seen deposits uh in da magar's body that were recovered so what they ended up doing
was doing a trash pull when we put our trash out by the curb site all of a sudden it becomes a public entity so uh
I just pulled up to the curb I jumped out grabbed four bags of trash threw them on my car and drove
off in November 2000 32 cigarette butts from Gerald wingard's garbage bags were sent to the State Crime Lab in Lansing
Michigan through the winter and early spring the Cold Case detectives waited to find out if they had finally cracked
the dawn magar murder case and could take a dangerous man off the streets when the call finally came it was
incredible [Music] news I eventually heard back from the lab and they said we found a DNA match
on a merit brand cigarette Bud total excitement it was it was unbelievable that we were able to
finally put a name with the DNA profile that we had from from a case in 1973 to somebody that was likely
involved in at least one other homicide of a of girl that got he got away with it and now it was looking like we were
going to be able to put a case together on him question by the police on the 7th of
March 2001 Gerald Winger denied visiting aaso or ever meeting Dawn Maga I reached
down into my bag and I said let me show you a picture of her and he says I don't
know her I've never seen her before and at this point he became extremely agitated began slamming his fist on the
table look I've told you once I'm not going to tell you again I don't know her I've never met her I've never had sex
with her I I don't know this woman when the police interrogated Winger for the first time they found him out in a
series of Lies he certainly had been in the ooso area at the time of Dawn's disappearance he certainly newer the DNA
proved that and gradually it became abundantly clear that there was a case to be
answered and winget had to answer it he said well guess what you're under arrest
for the murder of Don magar we informed him that we did have a search warrant for um DNA and other biological evidence
and that we were going to be collecting that uh from him and it was very hard to read his emotions he
was angry but he also seemed scared and I think he knew at that point it was done that that we had
him so then right after that we knew we needed to go tell Don magar's mother that we had gotten her man she was quite
elderly at the time so we broke the news to her kind of easily that we had found
the man that was responsible for her daughter's murder and he was locked up in jail she was obviously very grateful
after all this time that we had gotten a man that had killed her daughter in November 2001 Gerald Winger
stood trial for the murder of dawn magar for the first time the people of shasi County got a look at the bogey man who'd
cast a shadow over the area for 28 long years it was a very arrogant defiant type of demeanor that he was portraying
throughout this proceeding this trial he was cocky he always turned around laughing at his daughter kind of had
this look to his face like he didn't care about other people that that was the kind of look that he had on his
face investigators desperately hope that a case years in the making would be enough to convict him first off and
foremost we had had Sean which had DNA secondly we had the gun and the gun was very important because without that gun
we never get to jural Winger attorney Vince green represented Winger he admitted that they had sex but
he said it was consensual sex his defense was that he had met the victim who was a stranger they had just
met they had consensual sex and then they parted ways and when they did she was still alive to Dawn's family
wingard's claims were a further violation and an insult to his victim's memory oh I think they were all offended
and and angry that he would insinuate that number one she would cheat on her husband and number two that
she would be the type of girl that would just meet somebody and have sex with them the DNA evidence that linked Winger
to the crime also revealed a time frame the sexual intercourse had to have taken
place around the time of the murder the spermatozoa still had tails attached there's a short time window or time
period where those Tails began breaking off and in her case those Tails were still attached her body had been
preserved in the middle of winter in Michigan outdoors and so our forensic experts
were able to testify to the fact that whoever left this seminal evidence in Dawn was likely the
killer it was powerful testimony but it relied on a jury comprehending the strength of the DNA evidence still a
relatively new field at the time but prosecutors were also able to prove that Gerald Wingard had a history of violent
sexual attacks on women the Clincher was when the woman he raped in 1961 came walked into the courtroom with her
Leader dog and that was heart-wrenching you know testimony when she testified to all this
and went through all the graphic detail that was involved in this in this rape and sexual
assault the jury kept looking at her and then they look at him and they look at her and theyd look every time the new
detail would come out from her they'd look right at him and then he would just kind of show that defeat the girls that
um were associated with him as victims had a similar build they were petite they had um blonde or strawberry blonde
hair he seemed to have a thing for that type of woman there was a juror who fit this
profile of the type of woman he liked and we all noticed during the trial he spent a lot of time staring at this
juror it was a little spooky on November the 26 2001 the jury retired to consider whether Gerald Leroy
wingert was guilty of first-degree murder when the jury went out for deliberations he said something to the
deputy was keeping an eye on him he says get my bill ready to jail cuz I'm going
to be checking out he was confident he was going to be found not guilty I thought that we had put together a lot
of circumstantial evidence a lot of similar a evidence we had our DNA and we had a gun so I felt really confident how
do you find Reasonable Doubt when there isn't any when you have DNA evidence that is so
clearly indicating that whoever killed this person did it probably right before right after they had sex with this
person after 2 days of deliberation the jury found Wingard guilty of premeditated first-degree
murder I was elated this guy who was not only responsible for Dawn's death most likely responsible for Laura mcvey's
death was certainly responsible for the rape and robbery involving this other lady back in ' 61 and quite frankly
maybe others was now going to pay the price he was caught and now he was going to pay for what he
did the sentencing for this type of conviction first degree murder and felony murder there's only one sentence
he can get and that's life in prison with no parole Gerald wingert was finally facing
the music for the murder of dawn magar something he never expected to have to do his jaw dropped and he was just
looking at disbelief when they said guilty he was so like I said he was so confident he was going to be going home
right after this that he just couldn't believe that he was found guilty Winger did not want to get caught he he didn't
like being held to account for some serial offenders they don't care it it's part of the game Winger didn't like it
it actually quite frightened him I think Gerald Leroy Winger died in prison in August
2022 he never officially admitted to any further murders though investigators had
their suspicions about the man who habitually cruised rural back Lanes on the lookout for lone females he did a
lot of traveling he'd been to a lot of states and plus did a lot of traveling a Michigan so the potential for murder was
certainly there it was definitely on his mind they're quite compulsive and obsessive serial killers it's very very
difficult I think to get rid of a compulsion or an obsession and whereas they might be able
maybe to control things I don't think the compulsion ever goes away I do believe that the Gerald wiart
was involved in many more homicides there was uh one former soulmate of his that we had talked to
and that soulmate said that wingert had told him that there were nine bodies Gerald wingard's crimes against
young women started young at just 20 years old for those who knew him his violent sexual offending came out of
nowhere but once he'd embarked on a path of predatory behavior he didn't know how
to stop Winger took the Peace of Mind the security and in some cases the lives of
the young women unlucky enough to cross his path but in 2001 he finally paid the
price for being one of the world's most evil killers [Music]

In January 1973, 20-year-old mother of one Dawn Magyar vanished while on a shopping trip in Owosso, Michigan. Two months later her body was discovered nearby in the woods. She had been raped and shot three times.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the abduction and murder of Dawn Magar and the capture of serial killer Gerald Winger through DNA evidence.

Key points

Gerald Winger's Pattern of Abduction. Gerald Winger trolled rural towns for young women to abduct, rape, and sometimes kill.
The Disappearance of Dawn Magar. In January 1973, a young woman named Dawn Magar went missing, sparking fear in her community.
The Gruesome Discovery. After weeks of searching, Dawn Magar's body was found, shocking the small community.
DNA Evidence Breakthrough. In the mid-1990s, DNA evidence from Dawn's case was finally analyzed, offering hope for justice.
DNA Match Found. Detectives finally find a DNA match linking Gerald Winger to the murder case.
Trial and Conviction. Gerald Winger stands trial for the murder of Dawn Magar and is found guilty.

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