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Did you ever actually meet JonBenet Ramsey in person?

And today we're looking at history's most infamous true crime cases and the disturbing details that keep them burned into our memories.

In that trial, Ramirez's fascination with Satanism emerged.

At Cielo Drive, we have a weird homicide.

In a scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religious right, five persons, including actress Sharon Tate, were found dead at the home of Ms.

Tate and her husband, screen director Roman Polyanski.

On the night of August 8, 1969, Charles Manson sent Charles Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and

Linda Kasabian to 10050 Cielo Drive with one brutal instruction.

The next night, Manson personally went to the Los Feliz home of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, then then left followers inside with a simple directive.

While the police admitted they had no suspects in the Bel Air massacre, there were two more murders 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of Los Angeles.

Market owner Leo LaBianca and his wife Rosemary were found by their children at Cielo Drive.

Pig was written in blood on the front door at the labianca home.

Messages like death to pigs and war were scrawled in blood, with war carved into Leno's torso and a fork stuck in his abdomen.

For Manson, the murders were meant as a signal the the opening shots of his imagined Helter skelter race war.

What do you want to call me a murderer for?

The making of the Manson Family Two years ago, the hippie commune led by Charles Manson moved it into this old wild west film set just outside Los Angeles.

On the night the alleged murders took place, Manson didn't suddenly wake up one day with a murder cult at his disposal.

At Spahn Ranch, he welcomed drifters and disillusioned young people looking for purpose, then gradually cut them off from the outside world.

He mixed Bible verses, half digested Scientology terms, and

his own apocalyptic reading of the Beatles White Album, insisting that its songs held secret prophecies.

Over time, personal identities, boundaries and doubts got stripped away.

By the summer of 1969, key followers like Tex Watson and Susan Atkins believed they weren't just doing what Manson said.

They were helping fulfill a cosmic prophecy.

That slow, creeping conditioning is part of what Makes this case so chilling.

One day, a couple that I had been living with said, hey, we want you to meet this groovy guy.

He'd been in the circle playing the guitar, and

he gives me a big hug and, oh, we're so happy to see.

I just felt, ah, someplace I belong, Someplace somebody wants me.

Prosecution's now hoping the BTK killer will receive a jail sentence of 175 years.

The former scout leader's good fortune that Kansas did not introduce the death penalty till after his killing spree was over.

The BTK Killer's greatest disguise wasn't a costume.

He came across as a reliable family man and community figure.

He served as president of the church council at Christ Lutheran, led a cub scout troop, and

later worked as a city compliance officer.

While neighbors saw a neat house and a dependable presence at church, raiders secretly murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991.

But with us right now is Chief of Police Richard Lemonion.

How can you be sure that the BTK letter is authentic?

Ron, after reviewing the contents of the letter, there's absolutely no question that the only person who would have the type of information that was included in the letter would have to be the killer himself.

He compartmentalized it all with unnerving ease.

Crime scenes one moment, council meetings and family dinners the next.

When he was finally arrested in 2005, many locals struggled to reconcile the man they knew with the BTK killer.

They had feared proving how deceptive a normal facade can be.

I never met him personally, but, you know, there were, you know, small towns, people talk, mixed opinions, of course.

He was known to be a very active person in one of the churches up there.

But there were a lot of people that said that he was the type of person that.

One phrase that we've heard frequently creeped you out.

It's confirmed now that Raider, as you just heard, called his kill plans projects.

He had these codes that he would use in his journal and in his manuscript.

And the codes were PJ was pro inside his own private world.

In his notes, he gave attacks codenames and treated them like ongoing assignments.

The Otero family murders in 1974 were Project Little Mechs, and

the 1974 attack on Katherine Bright was Project Lights Out.

He mapped out Houses planned entries and recorded what went right or wrong, then kept souvenirs to relive the crimes later.

Stalking stage is when you start learning more about your victims, potential victims.

I looked up their names, address, cross reference and called them a couple of times.

The language did a lot of psychological work for him.

By labeling murders as projects, he turned human lives into tasks to be completed and documented.

His letters, which began in the 1970s and then resurfaced in 2004, showed the same cold vocabulary.

Victims reduced to objectives, the suffering reframed as personal work.

Everything is a game, everything is manipulation.

Now, most folks thought Eddie was just a trifle foolish, but

when the lady who owned the local hardware store disappeared, disappeared and police checked out Ed Gein's place, they walked into a scene from Hunting Season in Hell and all of a sudden the sheriff followed to come out in the shed.

And he had the body hanging in the shed with the head off.

When officers entered Engine's Plainfield, Wisconsin farmhouse in 1957, they weren't prepared for what they found.

They came looking for missing store owner Bernice Worden and uncovered a house partially furnished with human remains.

There were bowls made from skulls, chair seats covered in human skin, masks fashioned from faces, and

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