Name: 20 Chilling Moments Killers Were CAUGHT In The Act
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And he was just sitting there and he put his hands up like this as I approached.

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And today we're looking at 20 examples of a killer being caught in the middle of a murder.

I think my first reaction then was to turn around to Scotty and say, don't look, Scotty.

Of course, that's the worst thing you could say.

Thinking Melinda is out cold, the attacker focuses on Laurie filling a bathtub with water and preparing to drown her.

We begin with a capture that proves the value of quick thinking.

Corl Eugene Watts was a drifter who had already claimed dozens of lives by 1982.

In fact, some suspect that he is the most prolific serial killer in American history.

But his spree ended when he broke into a Houston apartment and attacked two roommates.

While Watts was attempting to drown one woman in the bathtub, the other roommate, who had feigned unconsciousness, slipped out the balcony and alerted the neighbors.

They called the police and spotted Watts as he fled the apartments.

Authorities cornered him in a nearby yard, ending a cross country nightmare and proving that a neighbor looking out for another can be the only thing standing between a predator and its prey.

While Laurie is transported to the hospital, Melinda remains with police who have arrested a man seen running away from the apartment.

The self styled glamour girl slayer Harvey Glatman used photography appointments to lure aspiring models to their deaths.

His reign of terror was cut short in 1958 by a stroke of sheer luck and the brave actions of a potential victim.

A highway patrolman was cruising past a parked car when he noticed a violent struggle occurring in the front seat.

He pulled over to find Glatman wrestling with a woman, Lorraine Vigil, who had grabbed the killer's gun and was fighting for her life.

The officer's arrival ended the standoff leading to the arrest of a serial killer just seconds before he could claim another victim.

Glatman was executed in 1959 and Vigil outlived him by over 40 years, passing away in 2002 at the age of 66.

Moving from the 50s into the digital age, we have the disturbing case of the Slovak cannibal.

Mate Kirko treated the Internet as his own personal grocery store, seeking voluntary victims who wished to be killed.

In this way, he murdered and ate at least two women.

In 2011, a Swiss man agreed to meet Kirko, but secretly contacted the police.

An undercover agent then took the man's place and arranged a rendezvous in the woods.

When Kirko arrived, he was armed with knives, body bags and spices, fully expecting to butcher and eat his date.

But he quickly realized it was a sting and drew a firearm, shooting the agent.

He was then struck by a sniper's bullet and died in the hospital a few days later.

Karl Denke this entry takes us back to 1924 for a story straight out of a Gothic horror novel.

In a small German town in the Kingdom of Prussia, residents were startled by agonizing screams coming from the home of Karl Denke, a respected local organist.

Suddenly, a man burst from the apartment, covered in blood and screaming for help.

This man was Vincennes Olivier, who had just been hit in the head with a pickaxe.

Police initially didn't believe Olivier, owing to Denke's charitable reputation, and actually arrested him for vagrancy.

But a judge insisted on investigating further and Denke was taken in for questioning.

He then took his own life inside the holding cell before police could interrogate him.

When police searched his home, they found human flesh being cured inside jars of brine.

Tsutomo Miyazaki Sometimes getting caught for a lesser crime exposes a Monster Tsutomu Miyazaki, known as the Otaku Murderer, had been kidnapping and killing young girls across Tokyo throughout the late 1980s.

And his downfall didn't come from a homicide investigation, but from a concerned father.

In 1989, a man spotted Miyazaki taking lewd photos of his daughter in a park and confronted him.

Miyazaki attacked the father and fled on foot, leaving his vehicle behind.

When he foolishly returned to the park to retrieve his car, police were waiting for him.

Having been called by the concerned father, he was taken into custody and a search of his home revealed thousands of videotapes and photos of of his previous victims.

Pulling the curtain back on a serial killer hiding in plain sight.

Robert Black, a retired post office worker, is mowing his lawn when he sees a van pull up.

He also sees a young girl walk past the van, and

then he sees the young girl lifted up and whisked into the van.

This is arguably the closest call on this list.

In 1990, a resident in the Scottish village of Stow was mowing his yard when he saw a six year old neighbor getting into a stranger's van.

While it didn't look like a violent struggle, the neighbor's intuition screamed that something was wrong.

He took note of the vehicle's license plate and ran to the girl's house, informing her mother.

She then called the police, who quickly intervened and captured the vehicle.

In a horrible twist, the girl's father was one of the responding Officers, and

he found his terrified child bound and gagged inside a sleeping bag in the rear of the van.

The man was arrested and identified as Robert Black, a serial predator and killer of at least four young girls.

And the man who opens the back doors of the van is the little girl's father, who's a policeman.

Can you imagine what impact that must have had on him?

We were less than two minutes into the flight from Northampton park back to Rochester when we flew over Salmon Creek and underneath the bridge, I could see a body frozen in the ice.

By 1990, the Genesee river killer had Rochester, New York, under siege.

With no leads, police launched a helicopter surveillance team to monitor the local riverbanks.

On January 3, 1990, the body of June Cicero was discovered in Salmon Creek.

It was also around this time that both an eyewitness and a police surveillance team spotted a man standing on a bridge over the creek performing an act of a sexual nature.

The man's car was identified, leading police straight to one Arthur Shawcross.

It was a capture that felt cinematic, utilizing both aerial tactics and boots on the ground to capture one of New York's most infamous killers.

It was what the police had been waiting for.

FBI profilers had highlighted the killer's pattern of returning to the dead bodies, and

McCaffrey decided to follow the Chevrolet.

That was something where you had to more than just swallow.

this was something completely new to me, that a human being was able to do such a thing.

This German serial killer claimed at least eight lives between 1955 and 1976.

And the break in this case came from the unlikeliest of places.

The waste pipe in Yakim Kroll's building was clogged.

And when a neighbor asked what it could be, the Kroll told him it was guts.

Not knowing if it was just a morbid joke or a grim reality, the neighbor alerted a nearby policeman.

This led them straight to Kroll's apartment, where they found a human hand boiling on the stove and human remains crammed into the waste pipe.

Needless to say, Kroll was arrested immediately, earning the moniker the R Cannibal in the process.

After decades, Kroll was finally apprehended simply because the plumbing couldn't handle the evidence was trying to flush away.

He said rather flippantly, oh, it's guts.

And the neighbor complained, crow was nothing if not brazen.

With us is David McVicker, who is one of the rare individuals that survives an attack by serial killer the Freeway Killer.

William Bonin murdered at least 14 young men in California and his spree ended in, of all places, a parking lot.

On the night of June 11, 1980, police spotted Bonin picking up a teenage boy in his van.

They followed the vehicle to a gas station parking lot and then approached, hearing screams and bangs coming from within the van.

They then opened the doors and found Bonin actively assaulting his latest victim.

A search of the vehicle uncovered a toolkit of horrors, including ropes, knives and newspaper clippings related to the Freeway Killer.

The officers had physically interrupted an assault and probable murder in progress.

And Bonin became the first prisoner to die by lethal injection in California, having been executed in 1996 after his attack.

you were just a young boy at that time, he gets out and that's when he's doing the killings, correct?

I was told that he was in for 15 to life, but I was wrong.