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Speaker 1: Pushkin. Memorial Day weekend.

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Speaker 2: 2019.

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Speaker 1: It's a month after my meeting with Erica. Tristan Beaudet

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Speaker 1: has been dead for nearly a year. Anthony Raud has

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Speaker 1: been in jail for seven months. And this is the

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Speaker 1: weekend that State Parks thinks it's safe to open the

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Speaker 1: campground again. From the time of Beaudet's murder until Rauta's arrest,

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Speaker 1: the authorities offered almost nothing to the public. No warnings.

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Speaker 1: Little information. So people in Malibu were left to figure

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Speaker 1: things out for themselves. There were a lot of creepy

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Speaker 1: similarities among the near-misses and the murder. But publicly, the

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Speaker 1: cops kept repeating the same old story. Not related. At

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Speaker 1: least nothing they would share. But then, after Rauta's arrest,

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Speaker 1: that changed. The crimes were all related. And not just that.

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Speaker 1: One person had done them all. Was that even possible?

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Speaker 1: I need to walk around the campground. See it for myself.

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Speaker 1: So tonight, on the grand reopening weekend, I'll be camping out.

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Speaker 1: Turning off the canyon road, there's a long entrance road

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Speaker 1: leading to a little guard shack. The park employees take

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Speaker 1: your money and give you your parking pass. The two

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Speaker 1: people working seem skittish. Are they nervous about something? I

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Speaker 1: park by Site 49. That's where Scott McCurdy, Tristan's brother-in-law, camped.

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Speaker 1: That's where I'm staying tonight. It's right next to Site 51,

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Speaker 1: where Tristan Beaudet was murdered. I'm trying not to get

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Speaker 1: creeped out. The campground is basically deserted. Empty campsite after

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Speaker 1: empty campsite. It's a little eerie. There is a young

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Speaker 3: We were just driving up to go camping, and we

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Speaker 3: were planning to actually go to Los Padres National Forest,

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Speaker 3: but we're noobs at the camping game and did not

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Speaker 3: reserve six months in advance like everyone else did.

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Speaker 2: So we called.

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Speaker 1: They decided to try Malibu Creek State Park.

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Speaker 3: So we just popped on in, and there was a

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Speaker 3: line of cars coming in, but we were like, oh,

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Speaker 3: for sure, it's packed. And so we pulled up, and

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Speaker 3: they're like, nope, there's still some spots available. And then

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Speaker 3: it was just another like the one other camper here

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Speaker 3: at like 11 a.m this morning was just like like

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Speaker 3: oh you know because we were asking if they knew

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Speaker 3: the murder and we were just like what are you

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Speaker 3: talking about bro like yeah and we're like what are

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Speaker 3: you the murder like i was like oh my gosh

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Speaker 3: so but yeah i'm yeah.

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Speaker 1: I'm freaked out to be honest maybe we'll leave tonight

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Speaker 1: Walking around, I noticed one of those interpretive signs you

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Speaker 1: often see in state parks. Animals of the night, it says.

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Speaker 1: While campers sleep, the park belongs to the animals. Can

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Speaker 1: you hear the howl of a coyote, the scratch-scratch of mice,

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Speaker 1: or the hoot of an owl? As you walk through

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Speaker 1: an animal. The sign talks about bobcats, coyotes, raccoons, but

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Speaker 1: doesn't say anything about mountain lions. Maybe they didn't want

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Speaker 1: to start a panic. It starts getting dark, so I

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Speaker 1: Tristan's site, Site 51. That's strange. When I drove in,

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Speaker 1: the park workers told me it was already reserved. I

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Speaker 1: zip into my tent. I text home, I'm fine. But

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Speaker 1: this feels weird. I have a sleepless night. Every noise

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Speaker 1: feels too close. Rain falls. I'm sure I feel something

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I hear footsteps approach and then recede. I'm

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Speaker 1: so relieved when the sky lightens to gray. I open

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Speaker 1: up my tent. It's before dawn, lightly drizzling. I noticed

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Speaker 1: that the anniversary couple didn't make it through the night.

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Speaker 1: And no one ever showed up to claim Site 51.

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Speaker 1: I'm Dana Goodyear, and this is Lost Hills.

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Speaker 4: Lost Hills.

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Speaker 1: Episode 4, Animals of the Night. In the morning, I

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Speaker 1: decide to explore a little more. The campground is the

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Speaker 1: site of the murder and two of the near misses. Also,

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Speaker 1: the place people are the most vulnerable. Gathered, sleeping, guards down.

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Speaker 1: I mean, part of being here is.

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Speaker 4: Trying to understand this place that Rauta lived and this

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Speaker 4: place that Tristan Baudet died. Tristan's tent might have been

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Speaker 4: there just beyond the picnic table, or he might have

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Speaker 1: But I wondered if.

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Speaker 6: His.

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Speaker 1: I wondered where his door was.

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Speaker 1: I study the map. Site 49, where I am, Site 51,

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Speaker 1: where Tristan was. Then the road curves around the meadow. 54, 55, 58. 58.

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Speaker 1: That's where near-miss number two happened. It was November 9, 2016,

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Speaker 1: 3.30 a.m. A man named Ron Carson was lying in

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Speaker 1: bed when he says his camper was rocked by an explosion.

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Speaker 1: He later testified that it, quote, felt like a bomb

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Speaker 1: the light, he saw shotgun pellets stuck into the wall,

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Speaker 1: right next to where his head had been. Just across

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Speaker 1: of another attack, near Miss No. 3, on January 7, 2017.

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Speaker 1: between 4 and 5 a.m. The next day, she found

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Speaker 1: a hole in her trunk State Parks Police recovered a

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Speaker 1: metal shotgun slug. This is insane. These three crime scenes,

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Speaker 1: the camper, the car, and Beaudet's tent, are just a

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Speaker 1: cluster in the same corner of the campground, where a

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Speaker 1: with wild mustard and little purple flowers. I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: curious about this way, because this seems like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: The path heads north toward the mountains. I know that

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Speaker 1: somewhere out there, two or three miles away, beyond Mulholland Highway,

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Speaker 1: in a remote and seldom-traveled part of the park, is

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Speaker 1: where Anthony Rauta lived. It's where he was arrested. And

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Speaker 1: it's not that far. There are only a couple hundred

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Speaker 1: homeless people in Malibu. And they fall into distinct categories.

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Speaker 1: There are the beach dwellers, a lot of them living

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Speaker 1: in RVs along Pacific Coast Highway. They're the mountain men, homesteader,

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Speaker 1: loner types like Rauta, who live up in the hills.

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Speaker 1: And there are the town folk, who congregate in and

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Speaker 1: around the library and shops. Yeah, we'll go, let's just

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Speaker 1: check over here by the library and we can park.

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Speaker 1: And then we can walk into Legacy. I'm tagging along.

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Speaker 1: with the Sheriff Department's homeless outreach team. These deputies make

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Speaker 1: regular welfare checks to the camps scattered around Malibu. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping that they might have run into Rauta at some point.

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Speaker 1: We're across from the library in Legacy Park, right behind

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Speaker 1: the ultra-high-end Malibu Country Mart shopping center. This is a

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Speaker 1: spot where a lot of homeless people gather. One of

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Speaker 1: the deputies shows me an app they use to keep

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Speaker 1: a record of everyone they make contact with.

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Speaker 7: This is everyone I've spoken to in the last two years.

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Speaker 1: Ozzie, Anthony Rauta's dad, told me that his son had

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Speaker 1: a library card, that he hung out at libraries a lot,

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Speaker 1: in spite of being a mountain man. I take a

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Speaker 1: deep breath. Would you be able to check that database

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Speaker 1: for someone for me? To find out if they've received.

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Speaker 2: Homeless services and.

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Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely.

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Speaker 7: I can check it.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 1: What's the name? Last name first? First name first.

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Speaker 3: Anthony.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Rauda. R-A-U-D-A.

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Speaker 7: Did I spell it right?

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Speaker 1: You did it right.

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Speaker 6: Okay.

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Speaker 5: I'm going to scroll up, but it'll say did not

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Speaker 5: match any client.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Disappointing, but not surprising. Rauta seems like the kind

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Speaker 1: at all costs. But then, just as we're about to leave,

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Speaker 1: a man named Josh Crawford.

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Speaker 7: Walks up to me.

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Speaker 1: He used to camp here. Now he sleeps in a car.

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Speaker 1: The cops tell me that he actually volunteered to help

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Speaker 7: I'm curious how he ended up out here.

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Speaker 1: Turns out, It's the energy. It's so beautiful.

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Speaker 7: You know, Malibu is, like I say, that's the reason

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Speaker 7: people come here. Because it's an energy here.

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to leave.

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Speaker 7: It's like we'd rather sleep on the ground here than

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Speaker 7: in an apartment in hell.

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Speaker 6: You hear me?

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Speaker 7: I'd rather sleep on the ground here around this good energy.

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Speaker 1: How do you describe the community of people living in

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Speaker 7: It's all above. It's tight-knit. It's a lot of loners.

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Speaker 7: You got your junkies. You got your alcoholics. You got

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Speaker 7: your people that's depressed. You got people that have lost

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Speaker 7: their kids, made them lose their mind. You know, it's

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Speaker 7: a lot of reason people end up out of here

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Speaker 7: on a psychological level.

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Speaker 1: Can I ask you about a specific person, if you

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Speaker 1: ever heard of somebody living in Malibu? I pull up

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Speaker 1: a picture of Rauta on my phone. There are only

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Speaker 1: a few online. One from the day of his arrest,

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Speaker 1: another one that looks like an old mugshot, and a

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Speaker 1: few from his courtroom appearances, where he's in a restraint chair,

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Speaker 1: wearing a blue jumpsuit and a spit mask.

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Speaker 7: Now, not this picture, but that picture sure looks kind of.

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Speaker 1: Because I think he used to come down and go

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Speaker 1: to the library and.

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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm, because... I think that guy... That's like a younger picture.

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Speaker 6: Of him, I think, though.

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Speaker 1: He's talking about the old mugshot, where Rauta has a defiant,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, because it looks like this guy used to be

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Speaker 7: with this, uh, white lady that was also, you know,

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Speaker 7: she was on the street. But he was a drinker, like, and, uh... Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I remember.

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Speaker 1: And he had a girlfriend?

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Speaker 7: I don't know about a girlfriend, but it was a

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Speaker 7: white lady. He would be around every day, and he

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Speaker 7: of years ago or something. Yeah, I kind of want

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Speaker 7: to say he kept a guitar with him, too. Wasn't

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Speaker 7: no hell of a player or nothing, but he had

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Speaker 7: be out for their rockers or whatever, but he used

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Speaker 7: to say things like about him singing and stuff like that,

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Speaker 7: because he always had that guitar with him.

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Speaker 1: A guitar? A lady friend? It's so tempting to think

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Speaker 1: confirm it. No one else I talk to in Malibu

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Speaker 1: his capture. I'm trying to catch a shadow. Rauta's so

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Speaker 1: hard to pin down, so hard to place, anywhere, when

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Speaker 1: he's not firmly behind bars. For months, I've been trying

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Speaker 1: I ask for anything and everything. Crime data, staffing levels,

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Speaker 1: keep going back to the park. One day, I join

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Speaker 1: a walking tour. led by a former ranger, to commemorate

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Speaker 8: Many people refer to this as the jewel of Santa

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Speaker 1: It's a motley crew of film buffs and science fiction

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Speaker 8: Oh, I was in the campground.

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Speaker 8: That's for sure. I don't know really any more than

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Speaker 8: I don't know, but there was one day that the

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Speaker 1: A few years earlier, he tried to take Hudson hiking

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Speaker 1: Lou says the trail to Rauta's camp is not too

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Speaker 2: So like when I woke up I woke up like

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Speaker 1: This is Jimmy Rogers, near-miss number one. He was attacked

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Speaker 2: And then I found it and it was metal. You

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Speaker 2: drop it on glass and it goes like, did my

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Speaker 2: body just make that? I don't think so. And then

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Speaker 2: and then eventually we just a few of the wounds

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Speaker 2: were still kind of open. So my girlfriend started like

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Speaker 2: squeezing at it. She took that one out and then

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Speaker 2: we were like, all right, we need to get x-ray.

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Speaker 2: And they found four, there were four more embedded in

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Speaker 2: there pretty deep. So then I went and got surgery.

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Speaker 1: He hadn't been bitten by a rabid animal or by

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Speaker 1: a vampire bat. He'd been shot with birdshot, small shotgun

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Speaker 1: pellets used to kill birds in flight. Jimmy shows me

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Speaker 1: the scar. It's about three and a half inches across

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Speaker 1: on the underside of his right arm between the elbow

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Speaker 1: and the shoulder. It's a big, scary-looking wound.

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Speaker 2: If you just look at the pattern on my arm,

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Speaker 2: it looks like they're pretty close. But it's hard to say.

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Speaker 2: But within five feet is what the police officers actually

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Speaker 2: told me was most likely.

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Speaker 1: But the wound isn't even the most disturbing part. The

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Speaker 1: most disturbing part is how Jimmy sleeps. How he was

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Speaker 1: sleeping when he was shot. Bundled up in his down

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Speaker 1: jacket and sleeping bag, wrapped up in his hammock, with

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Speaker 1: his right arm draped over his head. It seemed to

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Speaker 1: Jimmy that the person who shot him was aiming for

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Speaker 1: his head. After the pellets fell out of his arm,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy went back to the park and tried to find

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Speaker 1: someone to talk to, someone he could tell this bizarre

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Speaker 1: story to and maybe get answers.

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Speaker 2: So I just came out here and I was just

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Speaker 2: looking around and I found a state park employee and

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Speaker 2: just told them what happened. And he told me that

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Speaker 2: somebody's vehicle was shot with the same birdshot. And so

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Speaker 2: they were really concerned about it. And so he gave

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Speaker 2: me the number for the sheriff I tried to contact

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Speaker 2: them a few times but they pretty much never revealed

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Speaker 2: much information and so probably after like a couple emails

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Speaker 2: and a couple phone calls I just stopped.

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Speaker 1: I asked Jimmy if he'll indulge me, go on a walk.

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Speaker 1: I want to see how long it takes to get

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Speaker 1: from where he was shot over to the campground. He's game.

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Speaker 1: It's not far, but it takes us an hour on

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Speaker 1: dusty trails through the foothills. At a run, 15 minutes, max.

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Speaker 1: So we're going under a little sort of.

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Speaker 2: Riparian area.

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Speaker 1: We're in a riparian area.

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Speaker 3: Excellent.

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Speaker 1: From the campground, we walk to the entrance of the park,

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Speaker 1: out onto the canyon road, where all those cars were shot,

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Speaker 1: near Misses 4, 5, and 6. And while we walk,

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Speaker 1: it hits me. How small this area really is. I

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Speaker 1: just want to say one thing because we may not

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Speaker 1: be here again. Up and down this stretch of road

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Speaker 1: is where the pre-dawn shootings at cars were concentrated.

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Speaker 6: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know that. That's crazy. It seems so obvious.

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Speaker 2: It's all right here.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy's right. It is all right here. How could the

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Speaker 1: sheriff's department and state parks not have seen that? How

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Speaker 1: could they think or say they believed these were isolated incidents?

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they have warned the public? The authorities, Jimmy says,

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Speaker 1: were pretty unhelpful throughout his ordeal. After taking his report,

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Speaker 1: they never followed up. They didn't seem to care. But

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Speaker 1: they did say something odd.

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Speaker 2: Well, they didn't really tell me much because they said

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Speaker 2: that you can actually kind of manufacture different weapons. So, like,

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Speaker 2: the officer actually said they could have made something to

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Speaker 2: fire this type of round. Like, even something really small

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Speaker 2: that you just hit from the back. It could have

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Speaker 2: been a handheld thing or anything.

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Speaker 1: This is about the so-called missing shotgun, the gun that

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Speaker 1: was used in near misses 1 through 5. the gun

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Speaker 1: that was fired at Jimmy while he slept in his hammock,

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Speaker 1: the gun that has never been found. From what the

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Speaker 1: cops told Jimmy, it sounds like that gun wasn't a

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Speaker 1: gun at all.

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Speaker 8: ¶ ¶