DR_ELIZABETH DR_STONE GARY JOHN MARY MATTHEWS NARRATOR REGINA SKIP STAN SWAT_OFFICER TOBY MATTHEWS A woman that was shot and left for dead at that time in Dallas, that was not an anomaly. DR ELIZABETH I'm doing this routine autopsy, but the eye was gone. STAN I got a call that another body had been found and there was no doubt in our mind that was our third victim. We knew then that we had a serial killer. MATTHEWS Why would a killer do it? To see somebody hunting down women on my beat made it very personal to me. When victims fight back, there's more DNA that we can utilize. We discovered that there was a link. There were so many X-ACTO blades and knives. [Skip] Nobody had had this kind of case before. (suspenseful music) NARRATOR Early morning December 13th, 1990, veteran homicide detective Stan McNear is asleep at his home in Dallas, Texas. STAN I was awakened from a call from the dispatcher, advising that a lady's body had been found in the street out near Cotton Valley, close to the Dallas county line. TOBY It was a residential area, kind of a rural area in Dallas, small houses, almost out in the country. STAN When we arrived, there was a nude body of a female lying in the street. A young lady, probably in her 30s. It appeared that she had been shot in the head. JOHN A woman that was shot and killed and left for dead, at that time in Dallas, that was not an anomaly, but the way the body was positioned, was certainly abnormal. REGINA She was placed in a very vulgar way, showing her private parts, with her hands up and her breasts exposed. JOHN We found no evidence of weapons or other paraphernalia that would be tied to the crime. STAN I believe then that she was killed somewhere else and brought there. JOHN One of the officers that responded to the scene identified the victim as Mary Pratt. (dramatic music) JOHN Mary was a known prostitute, a 33-year-old white female. REGINA I remember meeting Mary. She was sweet as she could be. She was respectful to us, and she had a kind spirit, and I warned her to get off the street. (suspenseful music) DR ELIZABETH I'm doing this routine autopsy like we've done dozens if not hundreds of times by then. I knew she had a gunshot wound to the head. JOHN She was shot one time in the head with a .44 caliber bullet from very close range. It was an intimate crime, possibly, she knew the killer. DR ELIZABETH You document everything you find. Hair length and color, teeth condition, piercings, tattoos, scars, eye color. In the case of Mary Pratt, I go to open her eyes, but the eye was gone. (dramatic music) DR ELIZABETH There's no globe or eyeball present, but I knew she had a gunshot wound to the head, and occasionally a bullet path will disrupt an eyeball. It's not real common, but it's certainly not unheard of. I go and I open the lid of the other eye, and it's gone, too. STAN I'd never seen anything like that at all. NARRATOR Police fan out through the neighborhood, hoping to dig up more information. REGINA I was a police officer, a young, rookie police officer. All the prostitutes, we knew them very well and we dealt with them on a daily, hourly basis. JOHN When you're working the street, it sounds strange but officers develop relationships with the people they work with. REGINA John and I were talking to prostitutes, pimps, all of them, gathering knowledge, just trying to get to bottom of who this could possibly be. REGINA My partner and I felt very responsible for the area. (man laughs) REGINA Appreciate it. JOHN We have the ability to go where we want and to talk to the folks and build a relationship. (dramatic music) NARRATOR One day after the discovery of Mary Pratt's body, officer Regina Smith and her partner come across a local woman they know well. REGINA I ran into Veronica Rodriguez. Veronica Rodriguez was a regular prostitute in the Oak Cliff area. She was working early that morning. JOHN When we first saw Veronica, she was cut up, she had pieces of dirt and mud in her hair. When you see somebody in that condition, you're like, what happened to you? REGINA Veronica said that she and Mary Pratt were doing a double out in a field with this guy, a trick, and she had been attacked, and had to run for her life to get away. (dramatic music) REGINA Mary Pratt was down on her knees when she was shot. JOHN Veronica said that she was able to escape into the darkness and that she ran. REGINA She ran to a neighbor's house. Veronica was so strung out on drugs and she was well known for fabricating stories. Her word was not bond. We took every word down that she said. We had some doubts. NARRATOR Veronica Rodriguez is unable to provide a description of the murderer, and says she doesn't know the name of the neighbor who helped her escape. SKIP There was a lot of violent crime that was going on in Dallas, hundreds of murders a year. It was during a crime wave that went through all the major cities in the country. NARRATOR The homicide department can barely keep up with the number of murders. With little to go on, Mary Pratt's murder case goes cold. (dramatic music) STAN I got a call from the dispatcher's office that another body had been found. JOHN When officers arrived on the scene, they saw the body of a female, partially nude, bloody, this victim was shot multiple times in the torso and in the head. REGINA She was displayed in a very similar pattern as Mary, partially nude, breasts showing, arms flailed out, legs flailed out in a very vulgar manner. (somber music) DR ELIZABETH Monday morning, there was another doctor, and he said, "Oh, remember that case "you had with the eyes gone?" I said yeah. He said, "I had another one like that this weekend." Pulled up both cases and realized they were both found about eight blocks apart. REGINA He turned to her with a look of rage in his face and said, I'mma kill all of you hoes. STAN Another body had been found. (dramatic music) NARRATOR Dallas police are working a unique murder case, where the killer has surgically removed victim Mary Pratt's eyeballs. Two months later, they have a second victim whose eyes have also been removed. STAN This was the second case where they'd been removed and again, it shows there that they were probably removed by extreme precision. DR ELIZABETH You look at her from the outside, their eyelids look normal. There's no disruption of the eyelid, upper or lower. There's no cuts, tears, or anything unusual. This indicated some degree of care of skill, being able to remove an eye from the front like that. JOHN We're not talking about a violent pulling of eyes out of a socket, we're talking about taking time and being very methodical, and performing surgery after death to remove the eyes. JOHN Why would a killer do it? JOHN What motivation would he have after he's already killed the woman to take the time? This is time that he could be getting caught. NARRATOR The second victim's fingerprints are sent for identification, and the results come as a shock to officers Regina Smith and John Matthews. JOHN Once the fingerprints came back, Dallas County advised us that the second victim was identified as 27-year-old Susan Peterson. NARRATOR Like the first victim, Susan Peterson was a prostitute in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. JOHN I knew Susan very well, and Susan was one of the more outgoing, more social women. To see that there is somebody hunting down women on my beat made it very personal to me. REGINA I saw Susan Peterson before she was killed and she told me that I would be proud of her because she was clean now and that she was getting married. I said well, I'm happy for you. She said well, I'll just hope you find who killed Mary. The next day Susan Peterson was killed. I was actually frightened that Susan had been killed because I knew that if he got Susan, as tough as she was, that we were dealing with a very bad killer. We just had to find the person that was doing this. NARRATOR Police now believe that the same killer has left his mark at both crime scenes. JOHN Dallas police reached out to FBI to say we have two women that are killed in very similar circumstances, and both of 'em have had their eyes surgically removed. TOBY And the FBI checked the database, and they tracked most of the murder cases in the United States. They had not had a victim that had had its eyes surgically removed. SKIP Nobody had had this kind of case before. They had no idea who to look for. NARRATOR The FBI's behavioral unit focuses on the killer's unique mark to help them build a psychological profile of their suspect. (gun fires) MARY The victims had been shot with a gun. That would suggest that the offender wanted to kill the victim quickly because his goal, his whole purpose was to get at those eyeballs. The victim is left nude in a residential neighborhood. That certainly implies that this is a sex crime, and the eyeballs were tied in somehow to the sexual pleasure. The idea of the eyeballs becomes very important to this crime. Offenders who take trophies, it enables them to relive the event, and it's very high-risk behavior. That's all exposure, not only to possible witnesses, but also to forensic evidence. That implies just incredible sense of arrogance and ultimately maybe feelings of being god like. JOHN Perhaps we had a crazy doctor or surgeon because the taking of the eyeballs was done with such surgical precision. They said that he would be connected to the neighborhood where the bodies were found. Someone that frequented prostitutes. MARY My experience with serial sexual killers is that they will craft a lifestyle around themselves, and that can include the kind of work that they do, when they go to work, who they pick as a wife or partner that won't question them when they go out late at night, all in an effort to continue this behavior that is so important to them. TOBY The police department has female officers who have been ordered to be prostitute decoys to try to pick up the John. There were undercover officers who were photographing license plates of any car going by. JOHN The girls still only talked to us. The girls knew that we cared about them, that we were looking out for them, and that we didn't want them to be the next victim. They were scared. They were scared they were gonna be murdered and their eyes cut out. (suspenseful music) TOBY One month passes, and the war rooms are full of diagrams and maps up on the bulletin boards. They're doing everything they can to find the suspect, and they can't find one. NARRATOR The case seems to have gone cold. (dramatic music) REGINA About a month after Susan Peterson was killed, my partner and I ran into Veronica Rodriguez again. JOHN We knew that she was out doing a trick and immediately Veronica ran to us, and said, "Don't arrest him, don't arrest him." She said, "He's the one that saved me. "He's the one I told you about." Referring to her previous story that she had told us about escaping from possibly being murdered. REGINA It was a gentleman known as Axton Schindler. NARRATOR Investigators hope Axton Schindler might be able to tell them more information about Mary Pratt's murder. If Veronica Rodriguez's story is true, Schindler is a possible witness to a homicide. TOBY His nickname was Speedy because he talked very quickly, like someone on speed. He was a very strange guy. REGINA I said Veronica said that you saved her that night. Is this true? What went on that night? And he was very dismissive to me. He wouldn't even answer. He was like, "I don't know." He never said yes or no, he just threw his hands up. It seemed like he was more frustrated about being caught. NARRATOR Axton Schindler proves to be an uncooperative witness. Investigators don't know if he's just worried about being caught with a prostitute or if he might know something about the night Mary died. REGINA My partner and I just took all of his information. He gave me a driver's license with the address of 1035 El Dorado. I knew that there was something funny going on. El Dorado was in north Oak Cliff, and I knew that where Mary's body was found was way south of Oak Cliff, so I knew the difference between where Veronica Rodriguez said she escaped and ran to his house, then to 1035 El Dorado way on the other side of town. My partner and I told the story of Veronica Rodriguez to homicide division, but it's coming from two young, rookie officers on the street and I'm sure they did their job and tried to take it seriously, but at that time, we never heard back from them. NARRATOR Axton Schindler remains a person of interest but police are forced to let him go. STAN A month after Susan Peterson's murder, in March of 1991, I got a call from the dispatcher's office that another body had been found in Oak Cliff. Once I drove up, the way the body was displayed in the street, we knew that that was a similarity. Then once we got up to the body and looked at it, we knew then that we have a serial killer. (suspenseful music) NARRATOR A serial killer has murdered two women in Dallas, leaving the gruesome mark of surgically removing his victim's eyes. A third body has just been discovered. STAN We opened the eyes, the sockets, and saw that there were no eyes in the body. When we saw that the eyeballs were missing, we felt then we were looking for the same person that was responsible for all three of the killings. JOHN Patrol officers on the scene identified her as Shirley Williams. She was a prostitute who worked in that area of Oak Cliff. NARRATOR Shirley Williams had a day job in housekeeping at a Dallas motel. She was married and had a daughter. TOBY Shirley had a family. She had a close family. They didn't know her lifestyle situation. You wanna be able to give that victim's family some closure as to what happened. NARRATOR The medical examiner confirms that the eyeballs are again missing, but the killer has diverged slightly from his mark. In this case, the eyes have been removed with far less care. DR ELIZABETH What was obvious on first looking at Shirley Williams as versus the other two, she had put up a fight. TOBY She was beaten up in the face. STAN There were cuts around the eyes and face that we hadn't seen on the other victims. TOBY She had a grazed wound, so that was an indication her head was moving before she was shot in the cheek. MARY Shirley saw something happening at the last moment and tried to prevent it. He didn't anticipate that and there was a struggle that ensued. (dramatic music) (gun fires) But even after a struggle like that, he's still going after her eyes. JOHN When victim's fight back, there's more DNA that we can utilize. They may scratch the suspect, getting skin, hair, fiber under their fingernails. Anything like that. DR ELIZABETH She had a cut, just to the right of her eye in this temple area, that on X-ray we had seen a little fragment of metal. We removed a small triangle of what turned out to be an X-ACTO knife. JOHN With the discovery of the X-ACTO knife embedded in the skull, that pretty much eliminated any doctor, who was gonna have scalpels and professional medical tools. We just knew from the evidence we were dealing with an amateur, for sure, like a hobbyist, somebody that builds model airplanes or a carpenter or anybody that may use X-ACTO knives in their work. So now we had somebody that had knowledge of anatomy, that had studied or learned how to remove the eyes, but was doing it in a very rudimentary way using X-ACTO knives that you could buy just about anywhere. The suspect could have been anybody. (dramatic music) TOBY Also recovered from her body were two head hairs from her left hand, which means she probably grabbed his head before she was shot. There was also one intact pubic hair found on the back of her neck. JOHN So now we have a transfer of evidence from the killer to the victim, and so you can try to tie it back to the killer. NARRATOR They have evidence, but no suspect and no motive. Police have no idea who would leave such a grotesque mark on his victims or why. A few days later, a long-time prostitute named Brenda White agrees to speak with detectives. She shares a story that could break the case open. JOHN Brenda wouldn't normally talk, but with the three murders now occurring, Brenda wanted to let us know about somebody attacking her. TOBY She told them that she got picked up by a trick. REGINA She told him she wanted him to take her to a certain place, and he started driving a different direction, and she said, "Let me out of the car." He turned to her with a look of rage in his face and said, "I hate hoes. "I'mma kill all of you hoes." And she pulled out her mace and maced him. JOHN And even before he could stop the car, she bailed from his vehicle. She thought that was the only way she was gonna make it out alive. REGINA I said, well, Brenda, what did he look like? She said, "He's a white male with salt and pepper hair, "muscular build and Mexican looking." He's not Mexican but he has olive skin tone. That's what she meant. NARRATOR The improved description doesn't match that of Axton Schindler, the only person of interest police have developed in the case. Officers Matthews and Smith decide to take this new piece of information and try out some new technology at the police department. REGINA I said, I'm going over the constable's office and I'm gonna utilize their computers to try find this John. NARRATOR The two beat cops enter in all the addresses they've come across in their investigation to see if any are linked to a man who matches the description of Brenda White's attacker. JOHN I was just putting in different property addresses and seeing if there was any commonalities that I could find. REGINA I put in that computer that driver's license from Axton Schindler with the address of 1035 El Dorado, and it pulled up Frederick Albright. I said, well, who is that? Frederick Albright was Axton Schindler's landlord. JOHN Upon searching the tax records, we discovered that there was a link. We discovered that Fred Albright owned property both at 1035 El Dorado and in Cotton Valley close to where two of the girl's bodies were dumped. Right there is what we call an affirmative link, and then I read his voting record and then I saw his death certificate, and I went, something's not right. Dead people don't vote. One of the deputy constables, he overheard us talking about Albright. He said, "Wait a minute, I know that name." He had said he'd received a tip from a female several weeks before that said she knew an individual, used to date him. He became increasingly violent, that he had a fascination for eyes, and that she even knew that he had x-acto knives. She gave the deputy the name. She suspect she called about was Charles Albright. Within a couple of keystrokes, it was easy to determine that Charles Albright was the son of Frederick Albright. REGINA I had a funny feeling inside very quickly. He had multiple charges. He'd been to prison. I was able to pull his picture. (dramatic music) JOHN In the picture, we saw a 57-year-old man with salt and pepper hair, and athletic build and olive colored skin, that almost exactly matched the description that Brenda White had given us. REGINA When I saw that, I had chills up and down my spine. I said that's him. I got him. NARRATOR Police have a name for their suspect, the man who may be responsible for leaving his terrifying mark on three victims. REGINA We found out that he had an overnight job as a part time newspaper delivery man, which would excuse him from his house during the wee hours. We were certain that we were on the right track. Our next step was to go to the homicide division. TOBY They had no idea what kind of reception they're gonna get when they bring their investigation to these veteran homicide cops. TOBY Well, they laid out the whole case of what these girls had told them, and this El Dorado address and Charles Albright association with it and Albright's past, and how he matched the description. REGINA The detective in charge asked me to go to Brenda White and present a photo lineup with Charles Albright's picture. We met Brenda White and as soon as I presented that photo lineup to Brenda White, she said, "That's him." Without any hesitation. STAN My partner and I decided to show Veronica Rodriguez a line up. She identified him also as the person that she escaped and got away from. Once we had two positive identifications on Albright, we contacted the tactical squad and told them that we had warrants and that we were gonna run 'em in a residence on El Dorado in Oak Cliff. (footsteps echoing) (dog barking) It was after midnight, probably two o'clock in the morning. (suspenseful music) Officer Smith and her partner were there, two FBI agents. There were probably eight or nine SWAT officers. That's when we told the SWAT people we were ready to go. They threw flash bangs through two windows. (bombs exploding) SWAT OFFICER Get on the ground. NARRATOR The Dallas SWAT Team surrounds the house of Charles Albright, the man suspected of killing three women and expertly removing their eyes. JOHN Once we got the signal that everybody was in position. (glass shatters) The house was breached. (grenade explodes) Stun grenades were thrown in. Literally blowing the suspect out of his bed. SWAT OFFICER Get on the ground. You there, get on the ground. (officers shouting) Get on the ground. STAN He didn't offer any resistance, and his girlfriend didn't offer resistance. Took 'em both outside and split 'em up. REGINA I escorted his live-in girlfriend out of the house. She was a middle-aged lady. She was visibly shaken, and had no idea what was going on. I gave her a cigarette, calmed her down because she had just been through utter hell, and the next thing I saw was Charles Albright in red bikini underwear, and then they brought him over to me, and they said, "Officer Williams, is this the guy?" And I said yes, that's him. JOHN I can tell you one of my proudest moments as a police officer was when the sergeant of the tactical team called me inside and said, "You deserve this." And handed me Charles Albright to take to the squad car, the arrest of the serial killer, and it was emotional. I still get emotional thinking about it. NARRATOR Police charged Charles Albright with murder. TOBY Since Albright was in custody, we began building the case. NARRATOR Police send Albright's DNA off to the lab and begin to interrogate him. [Journalist] Do you have any idea why they're accusing you? [Albright] No, sir, I don't. (dramatic music) TOBY He denied everything and said I've never been with a prostitute, I don't know any prostitutes. I've never been with a prostitute. Denied everything. JOHN He got representation, and refused to talk to us about any elements of the crimes. After Albright is arrested, we begin to search his house. GARY So I was looking for eyeballs, X-ACTO knives, I was looking for hair fibers, even collected the bag out of the vacuum cleaner to try and match up, to see if any of those prostitutes had been there. STAN The house was in a messy state, clothes and books and stuff like that everywhere. We found some books that had to do with serial killers, and there was some newspaper clippings about the offenses before we learned who he was. TOBY He had hundreds of pictures of these women, which he focused in on their eyes. These were women he saw at the mall. He would take close up shots of their faces as they walked by. He focused on the eyes. (suspenseful music) STAN We found a fireplace that had a trap door, and down inside was several guns. GARY He was a convicted felon. He wasn't supposed to have any firearms. TOBY We found another significant piece of evidence. He had X-ACTO knives all over the house. GARY Oh my goodness, there were so many X-ACTO blades and knives and all that kind of thing. NARRATOR Authorities dig into Albright's past, hoping to find clues as to what could have motivated him to kill these women, and what he might have done with their eyes. (dramatic music) JOHN Albright was born in 1933. He was adopted by Dell and Fred Albright. His parents died in the 80s. DR STONE Albright's adopted mother, Dell, was a strict person. Critical, could be overbearing. SKIP There was great resentment that his mother tied him to the bed to take naps, forced him to play the piano. She sometimes dressed him up as a girl in girl's dresses. He just resented that kind of controlling nature. DR STONE Dell taught him in her particular special hobby of taxidermy. TOBY Started working on small animals. One of the challenges was to take the eyes out, which he learned to do, scoop 'em out, that sort of thing. (dramatic music) SKIP Charlie always wanted to replace the eyes with these beautiful marble-like eyes that you could get at the taxidermy shop, but they were expensive, and Dell was a very frugal woman. Instead she got black sewing buttons and let him sew button eyes over where the eyes were. JOHN That could have been one of those triggers. Not only am I gonna kill women, but I'm gonna do something that my mother never let me do. I'm gonna get the real eyes, and I'm gonna keep 'em. NARRATOR Among the mountains of circumstantial evidence in Albright's house, detectives continue searching for the one concrete clue that would definitively close their case. TOBY There was very interesting evidence discovered in his house but the fact is, it didn't tie him to the crime at all. STAN It was all circumstantial, and we didn't have enough to file murder on him. TOBY Detectives were hopeful that they might find the eyeballs in that house, that could connect him to our victims. They looked everywhere for it but they didn't find it. (dramatic music) NARRATOR Then investigators find what may be a crucial lead. GARY We found the information that led us to the place on West Morland, where he had a storage unit. (suspenseful music) (door squeaks) And we opened up the door and lo and behold... (door squeaks) REGINA It was like a scene out of a horrific movie. MATTHEWS Digging into the information that we recovered, we discovered that Albright had a rental storage unit. REGINA It was like a scene out of a horrific movie. JOHN It had all of these animals preserved in formaldehyde. Jars and jars and jars and stacks of 'em. REGINA It was shelf after shelf of pickled frogs, salamanders, newts. (suspenseful music) STAN We started finding a lot of taxidermy stuff, and stuff in formaldehyde. We had learned that Albright had a fantasy for taxidermy. JOHN That was a huge, major clue that said, okay, this individual has the skills and knowledge and ability to remove eyes, maybe even only using X-ACTO knives, but he can do it. STAN That raised our eyebrows. The X-ACTO knives and him being interested in taxidermy. We were looking for evidence that would connect him with some of the bodies. NARRATOR The storage unit is a huge find, but even then, the evidence is all circumstantial. STAN Every time we found something like that, I said the evidence is just building. The case is just building. I was convinced that we had the right guy. GARY All these things were pointing at him as being a possible suspect, but there was nothing that we could use to point towards him being the killer. (door creaks) (dramatic music) TOBY There was more need to gather more evidence because we didn't have him really connected to the victims in the case. Our theory was if someone's going around, serial killer, killing prostitutes, he's going to have a lot of contact with these women, and therefore we wanted to find those witnesses that could connect him to our victims and make our case stronger. (dramatic music) SKIP So Regina and her partner hit the streets, this time with a full photo of Charlie and they say, "Do you recognize this man?" STAN Word has spread that the guy responsible is in custody so the prostitutes starting talking more freely to Officer Smith and her partner. JOHN We take his picture and show it in a lineup to a dozen prostitutes, and everyone picks him out, and not only does everyone pick him out, they go, "Oh, he was one of my tricks." Or, "He was one of my regulars." REGINA Some talk about how he would come by and give them hamburgers and clothes, that there was a Mr. Hyde to his Dr. Jekyll. Some would talk about how he wanted to do strange sadomasochistic acts with them, like beating them with a rope. JOHN They would get paid extra money to take a pretty vicious beating and scream a lot because that's what he enjoyed. TOBY Everyone was very worried whether we had sufficient evidence to convict Charles Albright, so there's a lot of pressure there to develop that evidence and get him convicted because there's a lot on the line. This guy gets away, then he's gonna commit these crimes again . JOHN We immediately went down there, hoping to find evidence. Evidence that may have been from the night of Shirley's murder. REGINA It has blood and everything and I just know that was Sheryl Williams blood in there. NARRATOR Charles Albright is suspected in the murders of three women, leaving his mark by removing their eyes. Investigators are desperate for physical evidence to tie him to the murders. Then Officers Smith and Matthews find what could be the final piece of the puzzle. REGINA During that investigative process, I encountered one prostitute in North Oak Cliff by the name of Tina Connolly. Tina Connolly was Shirley William's best friend, and the last time she saw Shirley Williams was the very night that she was killed. (suspenseful music) TOBY Tina Connolly saw Charles Albright that night. She didn't want anything to do with him. She left. Shirley Williams was the only other prostitute working. When she got back, Shirley was gone. Tina Connolly had said the last thing I saw her wearing was a yellow raincoat. JOHN She told us of a field down the street from the motel where Shirley was picked up the night she was murdered. She used to take Albright on dates in this field. We immediately went down there, hoping to find evidence, evidence that may have been from the night of Shirley's murder. During our search of the field, there was a large pile of trash in the middle of the field, with plywood and it was just brown and gray, but sticking out of that, Gina saw a yellow raincoat. REGINA It had blood and everything and I just knew that was Shirley William's blood in there. (suspenseful music) TOBY On the yellow raincoat was a lot of dried blood. but it'd been exposed to the sun and the elements that couldn't, there was no further DNA testing could be done on it. STAN They started examining it, and were able to take some hairs from the raincoat. TOBY There were these strange animal hairs found that it took a while for our forensic analyst to figure out. It turned out it was squirrel tail hair. In Charles Albright's house, investigators took his vacuum cleaner bag. The same squirrel tail hair was found in Charles Albright's vacuum cleaner. Also found in that vacuum cleaner were eight head hairs that had the same characteristics as Shirley Williams. NARRATOR It's exactly the piece of evidence they've been looking for, and several weeks later, police get results back from the lab that analyzed the hairs found on Shirley William's body. TOBY They were a match. They had enough evidence to charge him with the murders. There was a lot of pieces put together to build a case, to convince a jury. NARRATOR As the trial begins, prosecutors decide their best strategy is to try Albright only for Shirley Williams' murder. TOBY The primary case was the murder of Shirley Williams. That's where we had the most evidence. Her final act to try to fight for her life, actually resulted in evidence that convicted her killer. Once we got the guilty verdict, we knew what the punishment would be. That jury was gonna give him life, and they didn't waste any time sentencing him to a life sentence. REGINA It was big news in Dallas, and the community were so thankful that we had caught him. Now they could relax because this prolific killer has been captured. JOHN You know, I've heard this phrase from folks afterwards, how do you know you got the right guy? It's simple. No more women died. (dramatic music) NARRATOR For more information on Mark of a Killer, go to oxygen.com.