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in a 9-year reign of terror the bodies of 23 young men are dumped along isolated tracks and waterways in deepest Louisiana he would Cruise go to areas where Street people Hustlers would frequent just the the number of victims is is the hardest thing when a suspect emerges he's far from the image of a violent man this is a serial killer you've never heard of there was really nothing we overlooked that would have identified him as a suspect as the list of victims grows ever longer detectives face a Race Against Time to stop a killer in

his tracks what would it take to prove his guilt which part of the puzzle will reveal the Killer's [Music] mistake [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] 19-year-old David Lavon Mitchell had been hitchhiking home from a wedding in St Charles's Parish when he disappeared 2 Days Later his body was found on an abandoned stretch of highway 5 months later and just 6 miles away another body Gary Pierre 20 years old discarded near AG a trash bin a trash dumpster while Mitchell's death was at first dismissed as accidental Pierre's body raised more suspicion her postmortem showed that he

had been tied up shortly before his death initially the first one you know we we had no idea that we were dealing with you know some something larger we worked it as trying to find identify the victim where did he come from then we had a second one that was kind of similar the victims were similar you know in age 7 months later less than 5 miles from where Gary Pierre was discovered 38-year-old Larry ranson's remains were found placed on the ground outside of the same type of you know trash dumpster the bodies were disposed

of uh where they were going to be found the next morning someone would have seen them police officers noted other similarities like the second victim Ransom was homeless and heavily involved with drugs no one had reported either man missing but with Ransom there was something new he'd been Savage the beaten an autopsy suggested he'd fought hard against his killer this was a death that could not be written off as an unfortunate accident and as the Sheriff's Office launched an investigation the bodies kept coming thick and fast all were found abandoned on Industrial sights or Wasteland

in Jefferson Parish an hours drive or so from the first set of victims some of the bodies showed signs of sexual assault they had been bound or restrained with asphixiation the most likely cause of [Music] death the fisical evidence you know the the U hair fibers or anything like that that stuff was all collected during autopsy and on the scene we knew we had you know several DNA profiles developed you know from the the Jefferson Parish cases uh you the M mitochondrial DNA which is hair you know you can get it off of there and

then the nuclear DNA which is you know seminal fluid off of one of the victims here in the city of ker uh but he wasn't in the system at first there was little uproar in the semi- rural communities where the victims remains were found he killed people who were marginalized he killed people who lived a high-risk lifestyle and didn't necessarily Garner a lot of sympathy from people outside their family but as homicide investigations sought out links between the deceased men local journalists were also beginning to look for patn like hom native DD thirston he seemed

to like black men uh slight black men they uh not big bronny guys but lean most were homeless or down in their luck they had criminal records or they were addicted to drugs basically it invisible people uh the ones that you drive by and you look at and you give no second thought other than say uh you know look at that bump these weren't guys who had their own way to get around they're walking it 10 between 10:00 and 2: in the morning they're getting they're getting in a truck with some stranger detectives will also

Al struck by a curious similarity between the victim's remains despite the youth and stature of the murdered men autopsy report suggested most had been killed without much of a fight no defensive wounds or no no evidence of a big struggle cuz some of these people were decent sized you know men even though they were young at age they were you know pretty much tall and and big in stature some of them profilers theorized that the perpetrator was a large strong man some one with the Menace or power to subdue his victims they had no idea

the prime suspect who would one day emerge bore no resemblance to this mythical killer Misfit Ronald Dominique attracted little attention as he lived quietly amongst the communities that he terrorized well we uh found out basically he was a loner you know he lived in a a trailer on a sister's property and going back we found out that you know in high school didn't really have any friends lawyer Richard C [ __ ] would become well acquainted with the character and background of Ronald Dominique when we go investigate people we we do we go back and

try to find out people that knew him when he was growing up teachers people he work for whoever he may have come come in contact with and we found with Dominic really didn't have any long lasting friends teachers that really took to him he came from an impoverished background U you know his parents were poor lower income um lived in a trailer and by a blue um dis regul everyday working fol he was of low intellect he didn't have a good education he grew up in Le Parish um he went to Tibido High School um

he was not a popular guy my understanding is that he didn't he didn't come to terms with his homosexuality until late in his jeans I'm told that he was bullied so high school was rough for him bullying and confusion about his sexual identity was only a part of Dominique's story his family history was traumatic Dominic's father suspected his mother of having an affair so the father gathered up Dominique and his sister and drove them to the mother's brother's house and they burst in and and found the mother and her brother in bed together obviously um

having sexual relationships investigators would one day hear that despite their complex relationship after graduating from high school in 1983 Dominique continued to rely on his mother for support he always lived with either his mom or his older sister he didn't amount to much of anything other than he he he worked in a you know some kind of labor intensive menial job working in a a supply uh business he had a bad attitude he felt that he was inferior you know couldn't get a girlfriend a boyfriend uh he was kind of a you know little overweight

he was just uh really aimless life no one no friends no one to be in love with or to love him eventually Ronald Dominique grew confident enough to acknowledge his sexuality according to DD thirst who has acquaintances in common with Dominique his presence in Tibido gabos was not altogether welcomed even when he came out of the closet and was part of the gay scene he really wasn't accepted there either I would imagine just because you're gay doesn't mean that other people will find you attractive other gay people find you attractive which apparently they didn't he

was short and obese [Music] sickly uh non-threatening shy or at least standoffish tend to complain some about his about his situation whether it be uh his surroundings or the food that he's given that sort of thing totally non-threatening obviously someone that you would picture being picked on not only because of his sexual or orientation but because of his physical uh attributes and someone that really had uh I don't want to say he had no redeeming qualities but he was nothing about him really stood [Music] out he was sometime just referred to as a gray person

he just fit into the background investigators would be told by those familiar with the Tibido gay scene that the only time Dominique came alive was when he was up on stage his favorite thing was being a female impersonator he liked to dress up like Patty Lael and imitate her but he wasn't very good at it criminologist Dr Brian Frederick believes that Dominique's social activities give a tantalizing hint into what made him tick and how he got his kicks this female impersonation this act uh where he was inviting others to laugh at him he's in control

of that this is a marker control is a marker and we know that with the serial rapes rape has nothing to do with love or affection or intimacy or sex it's a control issue and uh yeah the trappings of it were there in the ACT how long would it take for detectives to identify the unassuming unsuccessful Ronald Dominique as the perpetrator of a string of killings he was the most unthreatening individual I could I could think of he didn't look like someone that you would consider a serial killer someone capable of killing 23 you know

grown men in 1998 with six unsolved murders on their book so far cops had no idea that Dominique even existed this meant they were powerless to stop the Bloodshed as it continued unabated it just got to where the interval in between murders became smaller and smaller like like he needed it more often I think that's an interesting thing this one piece will make 52 layers watch on mobile devices or the big screen all for free no subscription [Applause] required in the summer of 1999 the bodies of Manuel Reed Angel Maya and Mitchell Johnson were all

found in and around Kenna the main city in Jefferson Parish the victims had been strangled one had injuries consistent with having been sexually assaulted was it someone that was comfortable in his environment that you know didn't care to be caught or was he just good enough to get away with it the killer did make mistakes an autopsy on man will Reed found DNA but it was not enough to snare the perpetrator once again there was no match found on the National Database but that did not mean that the attacker was unknown to the criminal justice

system detectives would one day discover a troubling record of violent crime and a possible motive behind the murders in 1993 aged 29 years old Ronald Dominique moved out of his mother's home and into his own place or almost his own place he lived on his sister's property in a in a trailer in the front yard he was in control this is the beginnings of somebody who wants to take control of their life a decade later investigators would learn that shortly after moving in Dominique's new trailer home was the scene of an alleged rape after luring

a man there with the promise of drugs Dominique handcuffed him and was said to have raped him at gunpoint before releasing him into the dark Street the man went to the police they decided not to investigate 3 years later another man attended Tibido Police Department claiming he'd been attacked in similar fashion The Story Goes that the it was at his sister's house and that the victim jumped out the window and ran away yelling questioned Dominique insisted that on both occasions he and the man had had consensual sex after which they had tried to Rob him

forcing him to pull a gun to defend himself this time Dominique was not believed he was arrested I think he spent 3 months in jail but that they never followed through with the case because they could never locate the victim again while incarcerated an incident occurred that investigators would later conclude had had a profound impact on Dominique's future actions they put Dominic in jail and while he was in jail he was brutalized violently raped by another inmate Ronald Dominique was left with lasting injuries according the police reports Dominic feared uh going back to jail so

he came up with this plan wherein he would rape these men and then he would strangle them so there'd be no one to testify against him and he wouldn't have to go back to jail I don't think Ronald Dominique is a high IQ person I really don't I think he's a simple person that had a simple plan um how he how he came up with the actual thought you know the killing of someone uh I don't think he it was the killing was the motive I think it was the sex act that was his motive

what strikes me as sort of unfortunate is that he felt the only way he could become intimate with someone else was by holding them at gunpoint tying them up and then forcing himself on them uh something happened happened to him that whether or not it was a sexual fantasy or it was some kind of something else that got him to come up with this uh I guess plan and scheme that if he wanted to have sex with a male they had to I guess he was intimidated and couldn't do it on his own he had

to kill him first I think in the beginning he he killed as a way to avoid prison but it escalated to where he really enjoyed the the entire process from the rape to the murder it just got to where the interval in between murders became smaller and smaller like like he needed it more often one of the things that's surprising was the fact that he was able to not only strangle these people what strength it took but also to pick pick up the bodies uh put him in his vehicle and then take him someplace and

dispose of them I was trying to figure out how he could do that cuz he was he didn't strike me as being that strong of indiv of an individual even though the the victims weren't that big they probably weighed 145 lbs somewhere around there and then it dawned upon me that he probably had a big Adrenaline Rush when he was doing this and that may have had some play in in why he did it and why he was able to to move bodies around and uh that sort of thing at the turn of the Millennium

having been responsible for the deaths of nine innocent men Ronald Dominique was still flying below the radar of law enforcement in Southern Louisiana and as the community got back to work after the winter holidays another victim was discovered um it seemed like every time we turned around there was another body 23-year-old Michael Vincent had been dumped on a barbed wire fence he had rope marks on his wrists so far so familiar but with Vincent there was something new while the first nine bodies have been found in the parishes neighboring the City of New Orleans Jefferson

and St Charles Vincent was discovered 40 Mi South in lach we kind of thought of these as two different series of homicides you had the nine victims that were here in Metro New Orleans and then all of a sudden Metro New Orleans doesn't get any more of these dumped bodies of this of the same you know type victim they all started coming down several miles in lower Louisiana in and around the city of hom for detectives It Was a Race Against Time to stop a killer one where they always seem to be two steps behind

working you know day and night trying to to develop a suspect only you know to wake up the next morning to we we have another victim then all of a sudden the murders came to an end for almost 3 years there were no more bodies but in October 2002 that changed Kenneth Randolph Jr an NOA Jones detr Woods I remember detr Woods just because I was there um I remember he was young Dominic dumped him with his bicep and a sugarcane fill out behind a church and it was summer and it was hot and he'd

been there and it wasn't a pleasant scene I remember going to the to his house and talking to his parents after um he was found and his there were a lot of there was a lot of family there and a lot of Heartache 18 months passed before another flurry of disturbing deaths Larry Matthews my Michael Barnett Leon nett all men who were down on their luck killed and their bodies disposed of along the bayus of sprawling tabon Parish over a six-month period still no suspects and the rate of murders picked up the pace in April

2005 two more bodies turned up in the city of Homer the first was 31-year-old August Watkins a homeless man an autopsy failed to establish the cause of death he would dump them it might be a sugarcane field it might be under an overpass it might be in a ditch they weren't always found right away cuz it was really remote places in south Louisiana in the summertime the Heat and the daily rains it would degrade a body it would degrade a dump sight pretty quickly so there wasn't always a DNA to find I know that in

one case he dumped a body in and unused Mini Storage um he closed the door and it was days before they found that one it was very nasty car scene by the time they did find it so there was no DNA there no gunshot wounds they were all you know strangled some form Days Later Kurt Michael kunam 23 years old and one of nine siblings was discovered dead restrained and strangled law enforcement realized they needed to act with urgency to prevent further tragedy the task force was put together when they realized that we have these

dead people that all have a common denominator in that they have been tied up and they figured out that it was happening in these jurisdictions well we formalized the the task force in May of 2005 we had Attorney General's office Louisiana State Police crime lab probation and parole working it with a 18 unsolved murders investigators had to work out what was relevant and what were red herrings in the evidence that they had the media were talking about some were found with missing a shoe uh some had no shoes uh and they were trying to say

that that was the trophy that this killer was was keeping was a shoe we think he just didn't finish dressing him um but that's what first caused us to link some things together they were found without shoes un a lot of them were found without shoes at the Homer Police Department a special incident room was set up to focus on catching a serial killer from 1998 to 2005 we had the noner in uh the nine here in Metro New Orleans uh and then the ones coming up in the lefou and tabone uh so we probably

had somewhere around 19 and it was full you know 8 and 1/2 by 11 printouts of of a of the the mug shot of a a person's head and every time we would would find one you know another victim would go on within 6 weeks of the task force launching their investigation another body had been found 34 year-old Alonzo Hogan it was overwhelming at the time you we would get you working you know leads and and people calling in giving us some kind of tip we're trying to find a certain type of descriptive a male

you know white guys you know black guys of different ages progress was agonizingly slow that was the the frustrating part that was know kind of early on and kind of still over just the the number of victims is is the hardest thing how long would it be before detectives hit a breakthrough and how many more young men would die in the meantime the thing that brought it all down was when Ricky Wallace who had memory serves his street name was motor mouth told his parole officer that some dude had tried to tie him [Music] up

on August 16th the remains of 17-year-old Wayne Smith were found his body dumped in a bayou was so badly decomposed that a cause of death was never determined it was yet another blow for detectives another face on their whiteboard and then nature intervened to frustrate them further huracane Katrina made landfall Katrina hit and everything just kind of went crazy so we kind of had to slow down a little bit cuz duties you know was spread all over the place at at that time a lot of those people from New Orleans evacu evacuated to H we

had in just a few days what officials compared to 10 years worth of growth in hom our infrastructure wasn't up to it so there was a lot of that going on we weren't really impacted um in the way of storms by Katrina but just a few weeks later Rita come through and it did it did have a lot of damage locally and so the communities were trying to recover from [Music] that as the cleanup from a devastating hurricane season continued the task force tried a new strategy in the task force meetings we knew the perk

wasn't 100% successful in one contact one kill whoever is doing this is not 100% successful every contact with a person is going to end up with a a victim so we were and that's that's where the probation and parole aspect came in so we had the probation and parole agents when they met with you know their the people they were supervising they would ask is anything out of the ordinary happening in and around this area as detectives hoped that tips would come in from Men on probation 40-year-old Chris devil went missing he'd been trying to

hitchhike out of Napoleonville after the devastation caused by the hurricane on October 14th his body was found dumped in a cane field less than a month later another victim Nicholas pelgrin 21 after Nicholas's murder in 2005 there was a long period of quiet from the bayu serial killer cops wondered if he had simply stopped killing or perhaps his modus operandi had changed maybe he had begun hiding the bodies of his victims rather than leaving them out in the open how many more went unreported went undiscovered how many more are buried somewhere discarded perhaps in a

more organized way in the bayou we know that Katrina was so destructive that there were bodies lying around the Bayou it wouldn't have been uncommon to come across a body that was exposed to the elements in October that year 27-year-old Tibido resident Christopher sutterfield was found dead he'd been beaten and strangled Weeks Later a breakthrough in the investigation in November 2006 a man called Ricky Wallace living in East Homer Southwest of New Orleans visited his probation officer with a story the story was that a white guy in a pickup truck that approached him while he

was walking down the street said he you know had a family member that was in a uh victim of abuse showed a picture of you know some we later learned that it was a family member of the perpetrator he was using uh to en lure them in where she will pay you for sex she's a she's a a domestic violence victim she's afraid of men as a matter of fact I believe it was his niece's uh photograph that he used to entice men some of the men to come to his place uh that was the

photograph he used to say look my wife uh wants to have sex with you here's what she looks like the person that that told us his story actually got into the pickup truck with the perpetrator actually let him bring him to a trailer and once he got into the trailer he said well before the girl comes in being that she's afraid of men I have to tell you up and he said there's no way I'm going to do that and that's when he kind of changed his tune about you're not tying me up you're going

to bring me back wherever you picked me up from well he was on Parole so the next time he saw his parole officer he says look the weirdest thing just happened to me detectives wanted to know more from Ricky Wallace they had to find out if the man who had tried to tie him up could be respons responsible for the deaths of 23 men and he was able to identify and show us you know where this trailer was located the address was on Bayou Blue Road Homer opposite a cluster of rusting industrial units came up

with a you know other residents there and you know Ronald Dominique kind of stood out as being a male that we didn't think was married you know he lived on his sister's property in a in a trailer in the front yard after that we started some surveillance on him and it didn't amount to to anything because he didn't do he worked at a oil fueld supply company doing some kind of just manual labor and other than that didn't really have a life he didn't leave the house didn't go to know bars didn't frequent anywhere he

would just sit at home uh so we still didn't have anything to tie him into these bodies Dominique didn't strike anyone as a man capable of overpowering fit young men let alone Killing Them In Cold Blood let's put this way he wasn't scary wouldn't scare anyone and kind of taken aback by how someone that looked like he did would be capable of committing all these offenses that he was accused of he's not a tall guy what is he about 55 he's obese he's not very imposing physically he doesn't look look like the kind who could

take on a a grown man and come out on top his demeanor was was rather a passive demeanor you know there wasn't anything threatening about him well what did he do positive in the community well he called Bingo he might have helped some neighbors with groceries or mow the lawn he looked like just some little little guy that that really had nothing going for him he had a bad heart fat and flabby there was nothing physically about him that would make you think that this person was capable of killing anyone at all with his hands

if you you look at a lot of serial killers through the years they don't stand out they fit in well this guy fit in well at what he did I mean he he didn't do anything he didn't do anything to call attention to himself he you know never gotten many arguments you know with the sister with anybody else in the community he kind of just stayed alone what detectives could prove was a curious pattern in where the bodies had been found and when released from jail in November 1996 Dominique had returned to the trailer in

his older sister's yard we realized that the sister lived right here in St Charles Parish within a few hundred feet of the St Charles Parish homicides you know three bodies you know where where they were dumped in St Charles Parish the next six victims were also found within a couple of miles of Dominic's trailer in the winter of 2002 into 2003 the siblings relocated to the Bayou Blue a workingclass community bordering the city of Homer when the family moved South so did the location of the bodies being discarded by the roadside so all the homicides

moved at the same time this family moved and you know Dominique followed him to live on his sister's property it was a striking coincidence but not enough to prove that Dominique was a killer the cops needed more he wasn't in the system uh we knew he was arrested previously accused of raping male so he was high on our radar with just that but didn't have anything to connect him you know with the crimes in itself so we made the decision to approach him and interview him and ask him that we investigating a bunch of crimes

where you know we have victims being dumped on the side of the road and we running down everyone that had an arrest you know in terone in the parish so we just sent you know two people to to make contact with him you know one female investigator from uh lefou parish and one from uh a male from Jefferson Parish and they interviewed him and he answered questions wouldn't admit to anything uh but did consent to a buckle swab which is a swab of his saliva they asked him for DNA he gave it I he knew

they were looking at him I don't know why he didn't say no some of the early cases they weren't able to get DNA because of um them being out in the elements you know you throw somebody in a watery ditch you're not going to get any DNA so it was the later cases that they were able to get DNA from Dominique may not have fully grasped the fact that he was the prime suspect in fact the only suspect in 23 homicides and whilst the DNA swap was processed cops needed to make sure that that number

did not rise we we had the FBI their their surveillance team actually was was assigned to it where they that that's what they do so 24 hours a day we had someone you know watching him in his residence and it is yes it it's binoculars it's you know it may be cars on the ground people walking you know even aircraft in the air uh if if it was mobile uh so cuz we like at that point when we we identified the killer there was not going to be any other you know any other victims in

late November 2006 the task force heard from their crime lab about the DNA swap taken from Ronald Dominique the match was made with one of the Kenna cases Manuel Reed found in a garbage dumpster in Kenna in 1999 they would also find a match with Sean found on the body of 27-year-old Oliver Le Banks discovered partially clothed on the outskirts of New Orleans in 1998 the evidence against Dominique was building when he realized that the police were following him and that his arrest was probably imminent he moved he left there and he moved into the

bunk bunk house which is a homeless shelter there in downtown H um he didn't want to he didn't want her to have to be exposed to that and that's why when we arrested him was in a boarding house you know in the city of [Music] hom what would a suspected serial killer say when confronted with hard evidence he would pick people up on Bourbon Street near the gay bar he would see him run their bicycle down the road he would just go out between 10 and two and whoever he came across if they got in

the [Music] truck Ronald Dominique didn't resist arrest or try to evade detectives in fact the officers who cornered their suspect in the home of bunk house on December 1st 2006 found it hard to believe they' got the right man two weeks before he was arrested he killed sutterfield according to bullies he was able to subdue tie up and rape a full grown man and then drag his body to where he dumped it then when he was arrested he he has a cade and he can't even walk upright he's having to be helped into the car

by two officers but any doubts in officer Minds evaporated as soon as the man in their custody sat down in an interview room well they had Ronald Dominique an interrogation and I just remember that it was like the floodgates open he just kept talking and talking and talking he didn't seem to be holding anything back and he provided details of all these murders early on when his initial encounters I really think weren't going to to result in a killing unless something in his conversation his interaction with some of these people uh he felt uncomfortable the

first victim Dominic's victim which was an individual he picked up in the French Quarter for the purposes of having sex they went to a remote area had sex but the victim was apparently pretty rough on Ronald and Ronald uh complained about it and the guy still kept on doing so Ronald struck him in the head with a tire H once he knocked him out realized that he doesn't have to deal with this pressure or problem anymore and then I think he he uh strangled having dumped the man's body by the roadside and realizing pretty soon

that no one suspected him of any crime Dominique realized he could have sex with men in a way that meant he was in control the early victims he would meet in an automobile the crime was committed in an automobile he would strangle them with either seat belt power again control but such low self-esteem to think that the only way he could be close to someone was through this mechanism he would Cruise uh go to areas where um Street people Hustlers would uh would frequent uh stop talk to him make a determination if they said yes

they' say come on get in uh he would drive him to his uh trailer and he would say well look um I don't want you to hurt me so in order to not be heard I want I want to tie you up uh before we have sex and those who agreed to do it were tied up then he would have sex with him and then strangle him and then dispose of the body body if he thought they were heterosexual he had a picture of an attractive woman who would say was his girlfriend or his wife

and he'd off them money to come back and have sex with this woman and he would use his his niece's picture because she was an attractive young lady he would say that she was shy and that she'd been hurt in the past um so the deal was that if you let me tie you up and she will have sex with you and then I'll pay you the money and if the guy said no ma'am I'm not interested he let him go if he agreed to be tied up he'd rape him and strangle him in teron

Parish where he'd been arrested Dominique was charged with eight murders he confessed to them all and prosecutors demanded the maximum penalty tasked with saving his client from execution Richard gy made a deal we discussed the ins and outs of the case and came to the realization that trying eight Capital cases in that Parish alone would be burdensome not only on the parish's finances but also on the families of the victims it would be decades before this would be over the families would have to go through the trial over and over they would have to hear

all these horrendous details of what happened to their loved ones and they they were not about hearing those gory details the victim's families agreed to allow Dominique to take a plea he pleaded guilty to avoid a trial to avoid the death penalty Ronald Dominique was sentenced to life imprison without parole for each of the eight murders I mean eight consecutive life sentences that's uh you know that's one after the other that's what you give a cat there's no need that waste the resources you know to prosecute him anywhere else know we just have open warrants

for him if he ever does you know try to get out each of them had a family that loved them and cared about them these were people that were hurting in spite of the fact that they loved ones might have been homeless and Street Hustlers or whatever they still loved them and uh they were angry at what happened this is a serial killer you've never heard of um he was prolific he got away with it for 10 years and nobody knows who he is these were somebody's children and they were raped and dumped in many

storages and sugarcane fields and under overpasses they deserve better as Dominique lives out the rest of his days behind bars investigators reflect on what finally brought a prolific serial killer to Justice his biggest mistake was leaving a potential victim alive to tell the tale we knew we weren't 100% uh the perk wasn't 100% successful in one contact one kill Ricky Wallace and his coming forward was what put all this together letting Ricky Wallace go free to tell the story of his close shave was what undid a decade of brutal murders by Ronald Dominique that was

his Killer's mistake a young woman goes missing on a night out please come forward with any information you may have no matter how small or relevant it may be we just wanton live be home Prime Suspect is a mystery man who for months has terrorized the student population I think each time he was never caught so he was embolden he became more and more um dangerous Libby Squire was missing presumed dead how could detectives piece together the evidence to uncover a [Music] [Music] killer [Music] [Music] at 2:21 a.m. on Friday the 1st of February 2019

a student named Libby Squire was reported missing by friends just a few hours early she and they had set off for a night out in Hull Libby's friends wanted to go out to the student nightclub the will and Libby wasn't very keen but her friends persuaded her that she should come along she'd gone to I think at least two other FL flats and they'd had a drink there it was a bitterly cold evening with below freezing temperatures and fog expected overnight there was already a blanket of snow on the ground security cameras along Hull's busting

Beverly Road would later revealed to detectives snapshots of how the night developed those who were with Libby Squire on the night uh became aare quite quickly after they left the house the cold seemed to have hit her hard and she was noticeably intoxicated and that was quite obvious from the way she was pictured walking on CCTV it was not a great surprise to them when they arrived at the nightclub and uh the Dorman said she's too drunk um she's not going to come in um it was in this stage that liby's said I'm going to

walk home uh but they said no they're very sensible they said we're going to put you in the back of a taxi to make sure that you get home all right they paid the driver and they they gave the driver her home address it was 11:30 p.m. on Thursday 31st of January when Libby's friends saw her into the cab less than 2 hours later her housemates returned home and discovered that she wasn't in her bed when they got in they found her room was empty like hadn't been Disturbed since she left uh and her phone

was on the side so she didn't have her phone with her her housemates when they discovered that she hadn't returned home they obviously were immediately very concerned because it was out of character for Libby they sat out and visited some of the takeways that they knew she liked and hoping she might be there and eventually even decided to get into a car and and just drive around a bit looking for her they drove around the areas that they that they would go out the bars other other houses that they would go to just to see

if they could see her anywhere or if they could find her anywhere it got to a point where they used Libby's phone to contact Libby's mother and just to say she disappeared and what should we do and eventually they did decide to ring the police in the early hours of that morning humberside police launched a search meanwhile they worked to build a picture of the missing student's life and background a second year philosophy undergraduate Liberty Anna Squire was known to everyone as Libby liby Squire was from highwick in buckinghamshire she was the eldest of um

four children to her father Russell and her mother Lisa she was incredibly close to her mother in particular she'd had a difficult time as a teenager she'd struggled with her mental health investigators here that after her a levels Libby had taken a gap year and traveled abroad she had worked hard to overcome her difficulties it had taken her a lot of courage to go to university to to leave home and start that new life for herself but she'd done that she was settled and she was exhilarated not only by being social as many students are

but her family said she she loved her studies as well and so she was throwing herself into it in a very big way she was clearly bright she was um popular Libby lived in a student house with a group of girls on Welsley Avenue they were very close friends um the house got on very well together there are over 14,000 students living in Hull and the majority of those do live off campus and they live in the areas immediately surrounding the the university in Newland Avenue bevly roads cossingham roads those areas and they do live

side by side with the local residents and I think the relationship between the the local residents and the students is is a really good one detectives quickly Tracked Down the the taxi driver who had taken Libby home the night she wen missing he told police that after he dropped her off he drove away Along Wellsley Avenue in the city when he glanced back Libby appeared to be walking towards her front door but after viewing security footage from the street police realized that something had made Libby turn around and walk away from home sadly she made

the tragic decision not to go into the house she fell over uh in the road she was seen to do that by a group of young men it was very cold in h that night I mean there was some suggestion she may have been suffering the early effects of hypothermia because she wasn't particularly dressed for the warmth so she she fell over several times um she was seen staggering along well asly Avenue where she where she lived um to the point that some students that live nearby sort of brought her into their house and said

oh are you okay she was very distressed she wasn't making much sense unfortunately when she left she'd actually dropped to house keys and so she was then wandering clearly disorientated clearly quite drunk around the Welsley avenue Beverly Road area without any way of getting back home Libby's keys on a pink key ring were found the next morning in the garden of her house in those crucial hours and days after Libby's disappearance both the student population and The Wider Community rallied [Music] around there were leaflets being handed out people in the city center and there were

Billboards in the city center just to make people aware of her disappearance local reporter Amy Murphy and her colleagues were soon joined in Hall by journalists from across the UK as Libby's disappearance became a national story Jack Hardy was one of them from the geography of the area it was obvious that there were only so many places that liby choire could have disappeared you know there was a a small River nearby which which was being searched very thoroughly by by the police but beyond that around there there's not many places that a 21y old can

suddenly vanish one of her friends at the University organized a search at the University which 200 students turned up to to take part in the search went on over that first weekend that she was missing and I think mainly took place in the University grounds and in University premises just in case she might have been there somewhere [Music] somewhere Libya is our kind thoughtful beautiful girl who is loved by so many people four days after libad had gone missing her parents Lisa and Russell Squire recorded an appeal um that was issued through humberside police where

they really appealed for for Libby to return home safely I miss you so much it's breaking my heart not knowing where you are I love you more it was around this time that detectives heard reports of a possible sighting members of the media did track down some CCTV footage that appeared to show two people getting into a car and driving away was this a breakthrough in the hunt for Libby who was the man she had been seen with captured on CCTV in the week after liby Squire went missing three women came forward to police with

worrying allegations they told officers that they had very recently been the victims of a man in the area the offenses fell into the category of offending public decency he was a sexual predator was there a connection between these crimes and liby's disappearance by early 2019 there had been a Serial sex attacker on the loose in Hall student area for for about 18 months the first offense in time was in July 2017 when a woman was uh having sex with her partner late at night when she saw a man looking through her window uh she looked

around and she confronted him and he and he ran away one of the offenses was on the road where Libby Squire lived sexual harassment of young women was not new occurrence in the neighborhood he was committing offenses of voyerism that is creeping up to the windows or doors of women and peering into their bedrooms or houses as they were coming out of the shower targeting houses generally of the student population he had been committing burglaries so breaking into their houses stealing computers cameras electrical Goods but these weren't just inquisitive crimes they were sexually motivated he

was also stealing sex toys underwear the man had not been caught and over time his actions had become increasingly audacious by the time we get to January 2019 this type of offending escalated and I think each time you know he he was never caught so he was embolden he became more and more um dangerous he targeted students all of the offenses that he committed we we put on a map and they were all within a couple of square miles and there's a lot of student accommodation in that area um I would save 80% maybe more

and I suspect he knew when he broke into the premises especially at the end that he knew that it was occupied by students and he knew that it was occupied by female students because he would have seen them coming and going word of the attacks spread to both students and the local population there was a sense in the community that there was somebody at large who was committing these sorts of offenses they were aware that there was a predator who was stalking women who were taking advantage of students out with their friends socializing just having

a few drinks you know and taking advantage of their vulnerability of heading home part of his modus operandi was not just to commit these sexual offenses but was to make sure that the women knew that he had been observing them leaving Behind These calling cards or making sure that they saw him as he was masturbating at them in the street and so there was a sense in which he um was excited by their fear and excited by them seeing him if he was seen by a member of the public normally two or three females he

kept doing what he was doing he did he wasn't intimidated by them he didn't run off and he made it quite clear that he had seen them and they had seen him and he kept doing what he was doing had Libby Squire come into contact with a sexual predator was he the man captured on CCTV with Libby as the search for Libby continued the sex offender at large in the area was a major line of inquiry had Libby crossed paths with him the biggest question of all was she still alive there are actually two very

parallel investigations going on here they they were publicly saying it was a missing person investigation but they were treating this as an abduction identifying this car and its driver became a top priority in the search for Libby Squire 5 days after she was last seen a breakthrough specialist officers scouring CCTV noticed something curious they picked up one car in particular over and over again from the night that she went missing and in the same area police trolled through hundreds of hours of CCTV uh once they realized that there was this vehicle apparently right next to

where liby was last seen it was a silver vool Astra since 8:00 on the evening of Thursday 31st of January it had been seen driving slowly around the Newlands Avenue area stopping only to refuel could it have been the same car seen parked on Hayworth Street later than at night a car that drove away shortly afterwards with two people inside another piece of surveillance video was brought to officers attention slowly trolling through all of the CCTV they were able to find a car they were able to find a license plate the vehicle's registration was run

through the National Database the silver hatchback belonged to this man 24-year-old parl [Music] rovic who was he what could he he tell them about the missing student officers began trolling through public records pav Reich was a Polish citizen born and brought up in Poland from a village in Northern Poland called vich uh he was one of eight children so he's from a big workingclass family and it was from a a very strictly religious community it was a very small place where he was from it was the type of place where everybody knew each other's business

he met a Polish woman after he moved to the United Kingdom married her here had two young children he was an utterly ordinary Man by appearance and by achievement nothing special about him at all he worked in a meat processing Factory in a town called Molton which is about 20 miles from [Music] Hull detectives building a picture of this person of interest discovered that pble Reich had come to the UK in 2012 the family had settled in the Newlands area of Hull not far from where Libby lived he was not a man who had ever

come to the attention of police pav rovic had never been arrested in the United Kingdom and that meant that the police didn't have his DNA uh or his fingerprints on file never arrested so his DNA not on the National Database officers were suspicious enough to pay him a visit they descended upon his home on Ragland Street after dark on Wednesday 6th of February very early on the morning of Thursday the 7th of February the humberside police issued a release saying that they had arrested a suspect in the investigation um a 24-year-old man had been arrested

on suspicion of the Abduction of liby it turned out that he had been arrested the previous evening and was being questioned detectives were Keen to find out what if anything parval rovic knew about Lippy Squire by this time she had been missing for a week her bank cards had not been used she did not have her phone was she alive or more likely dead even as some detectives asked relevant questions their colleagues were making a disturbing Discovery all of a sudden it lifted the lid on this secret life that pav reivich had had scenes of

crime officers at the home of p reivich on hulls Raglin Street didn't have to look far to find something that raised a red flag in the boot of his car they found a pink hold doll which was described as being full of trophies from his sexually motivated burglaries women's underwear um pictures of women that he had taken as he'd been raiding these houses over the course of the the last 18 months at that point they're then thinking well what's going on here when pav reivich was arrested police were able to take his DNA and that

linked him to this pattern of offending that had been going on in the community for Mike WBY it was an unexpected twist in the search for Libby Squire when they arrested him they didn't suspect him of those crimes it was just a natural process you're in custody let's have your fingerprints let's have your DNA they put that into the system was a routine invest part of the routine investigation and they materialized so it wasn't only at that point the missing person in relation to to liby be missing but they then thought there is another side

to this all of a sudden it lifted the lid on this secret life that pav reev should had his was the DNA that had been extracted from discarded condoms left around the neighborhood in the months before Libby disappeared he came back as being the person involved because of the DNA hit that they'd got so they developed that and as a result of that they built evidence they came to us decisions were made to charge him with a in in the end a total of 13 offenses for incidents in that area and in particular three incidents

in January of 2019 where he had burgled the house and stolen some sex toys and on two occasions he'd been masturbating in the street pavl deliberately targeted the student community of H and he deliberately set out to stalk harass and abuse reich's loved ones expressed shock at the double life that he'd been living to everyone who knew him he he was a quiet and polite boy he was the type of man who would just avoid trouble at all costs and his mother said he was sensitive uh she said he was so reluctant to get involved

in fights he'd feel faint at the sight of blood his sister meanwhile told us that um he was the type of man who didn't really hang around with any other male friends he would always have a woman in his life but it' be one woman to whom he was entirely devoted and he would care for her and she didn't think he would ever do anything to betray her relic's family would have find out that the sexual offending was merely the start the police were questioning relich for quite a number of days they they got extensions

so that they could continue questioning him and it wasn't until the Sunday evening that um a child Char was made and when the charge came through it wasn't what people were expecting we said well looking at those offenses on their own they are serious and they need to be investigated whilst you continue to look for liby people were expecting that he might be charged with with the murder of liby or with the Abduction of Libby at that point um but in actual fact he was then charged with a series of sexual offenses including verism and

outraging public decency and I think the last one of those was a matter of about 10 days before um the incident on the 31st of January into the 1st of February reivich was charged on Sunday 10th of February but the accusations did not relate to Libby's disappearance he denied knowing anything about the missing young woman her whereabouts still unknown 10 days on he tried to claim that he knew nothing about it he didn't how how was he supposed to know where where this girl was rovic was still the best lead the detectives had but even

after his arrest they were no closer to finding Libby they had nothing to directly link the suspect and the missing student frame by frame they continued to scour hours and hours of grainy CCTV footage could they find a shot of reivich and Libby together they track Libby's movements coming across sightings of her speaking with numerous strangers it was clear that you know people were concerned but she didn't take up the invitations to her sister she had mood changes and swings she was I'm crying I'm upset will you help me and then when people offered help

um she just didn't want to know them maybe she was then thinking you're a complete stranger I don't you know so it was difficult for these people to provide any form of assistance so they went on their way cold and Confused Libby sat for 10 minutes on a bench at the junction of Beverly Road in Hayworth Street another Good Samaritan approached her the police had said that a motorist had been passing on Beverly roads that night and had seen Libby in the snow next to the road I think the motorist had tried to help her

and then had got back in the car and driven away at 11:57 p.m. CCTV showed Libby on the move once again heading southwards along Beverly Road now at this point Libby is actually sadly walking up the road in the direction of safety she's walking back towards wle Avenue you can see she's uneven on her feet because she's staggering from one side of the road to the other Libby could not have known that someone was tracking her along Beverly Road at that very moment in parallel with reconstructing Libby's movements on security footage police were also retracing

the footsteps of parl reivich that cold Thursday evening beginning at 8:00 p.m. when he told his wife he was going out he was out and about on Beverly Road told his wife he'd gone out um running exercising he was not dressed for exercise wearing black and white trainers and distinctive jeans he was seen at 8:35 p.m. at a petrol station he was fueling up for what police would learn was an evening cruising the streets of Hull at 9:11 p.m. reich's car was picked up turning down barisford Avenue towards Oak Road Playing Fields somewhere that would

become a key location in the investigation they built up an incredible picture of him cruising around the streets of Hull stopping in certain locations getting out of his car and these are all locations in which he had in the past committed sexual offenses and so we were able to build up this pattern of him cruising about looking for people to offend against on the night of the 31st was looking for what he described as easy sex police found no evidence from the footage to suggest he was successful in that particular Mission but pictures from 11:57

p.m. the night liby went missing became crucial the Breakthrough in the case came from the discovery of this grainy footage so the clip starts with a camera that's overlooking uh a corner near haa Street and it shows a man climbing out the car which is paval relev which's car uh it's 2355 according to the clock so just before midnight by pure chance he parked his car in the dead end of Hayworth Street which is a road that joins Beverly Road almost exactly at that bus stop where Libby had stopped he couldn't have seen her when

he parked but he got out of the car to go off and try and find a woman to offend against and then on the corner you see a man who's uh highlighted by one Arrow a red arrow he is walking past where a green arrow is pointing to where Libby Squire is sitting so he's actually walked past her and he's walked off across the road pretending that he hadn't noticed her and disappeared just into the shadows of barisford Avenue and we know that he then waited on barisford Avenue and watched and what he was watching

was for whether she was on her own or with somebody else and other words he was watching to see whether this could be his opportunity this footage shows the very moment that parel reivich chose to enter the world of Libby Squire she set off walking up the road and we then saw him on CCTV emerging from barisford not crossing the road to the side that Libby was on but hugging the tree line In the Shadows on the opposite side of the road just stalking her as she walked up the road it was only when she

dips off into the entrance to this very quiet and dark secluded area on Beverly roads that suddenly pav relit shoots across and intercepts her they're now walking alongside each other back down the road he's right next to her presumably claiming to be offering some kind of help um and she's in a distressed and a confused State and he's pray on that basically they really come quite into sharp Focus around 1202 and 24 seconds cuz they're lit up by the light of a bus stop and so it's that first time you can see his quite bulky

silhouette next to her slender frame as she staggers from side to side back inexorably sadly in the direction of um his car which is parked on nearby Hay Street he's communicating with there as anybody would be if they were we had good intentions we don't know exactly what passed between them there's no sound so we can't say what was said but he's then persuading her to go back to his car which is across the road and just park down the side street police officers studying the security tapes could not tell what pavl revich was saying

to Libby Squire during their brief Journey on foot towards his vehicle on Hayworth Street and it's this point the CCTV Cuts back to his car on Hayward street you see the lights flash he's unlocking it at that point was put off by another vehicle which by pure chance drove to the end of Hayworth Street and had a group of men in it who we never traced but he couldn't act because they were there and so he went and sat in his car with the door open his feet out on the pavement and waited detectives theorized

that during this moment Libby lingered uncertain just out of camera shot on the pavement was this the last opportunity she would have to to escape the danger that she had unwittingly found herself in there was a car that was at the top of the road which had about three or four men in who were clearly Witnesses uh who he didn't want to see what he was about to try to do and so there's quite an old period that unfolds here where he just sits quietly in the passenger seat of his car with his legs out

of the car watching for these men to go the second that their car left the end of Hay withth Street he was up and out of his car straight over to [Music] Libby there's a third section of footage now which is an enhanced area a very very top of CCTV it's very important but it's also very indistinct you can see pav reivich going up to Libby square and you can see two indistinct figers it's being described as toing and throwing the common sense inference was that either trick her into getting into the car or dragged

her into it and her watch was found on the road at that point it wasn't broken so something had caused it to come off her wrist and we suggested to the jury that was him forcing her into the car she gets in the car and he then drives he then gets in the driver's seat and they drive off together and he comes back on to Beverly Road it was a troubling sign for the fate of the missing Libby Now Inc reivich still denied wrongdoing where was Libby Squire and what did parl reivich really know this

witness heard desperate screams from a woman coming from the playing [Music] fields CCTV footage had exposed Pavo revich as a liar in his first police interviews he had insisted that he had not come into contact with Libby Squire on the night that she vanished now he finally admitted that he had met the missing woman he was saying that he had picked up this girl uh who was looking distressed on the side of the street wanting to drive her home and then she'd thrown herself at him and he' said no no I'm a married man and

get out of my car he was consistent at that point in the sense that he said yes she'd be in my car yes I was trying to help her she made advances to me she got out the car I didn't see her again was there any truth in this version of events it brought police no closer to finding Libby and they still didn't have the evidence to definitively link p reivich with her disappearance detectives needed more painstaking examination of yet more CCTV footage revealed a car pulling up by the Oak Road playing fields at 11

minutes 12 on on February the 1st around the time that reivich claimed he had dropped Libby off so there are a few very very indistinct bits of CCTV which show pav reich's car arriving at the Oak Road Playing Fields is marked by a red arrow in the first clip where you can just see the corner of a headlight and then the second clip also marked by an arrow just the flash of a headlight as it goes past it's just off to midnight at this point and these are houses that are right on the edge of

the oak playing field so you could see him turning off Beverly Road in the direction of the Oak Road playing field and then arriving there within a minute or two later and you can see that's how they placed him out the scene where liby had been seen for the final time eight or nine minutes later the silver hatchback left the playing field and was seen driving back along Beverly Road the footage gave officers searching for Libya a new search area and a new line of inquiry but not one that offered much hope of a positive

outcome once they basically searched every around the general area several times the river was very was within about 400 yards of where Mr revitz had parked his car and said that he'd been with her um and their investigations LED them to believe that they'd been out of the car and there had been some sort of altercation or incident in the park because they had evidence from witnesses that they'd heard screaming we had evidence from a young man who lived lived in a house the only house that stood alone on oakr playing fields and his was

crucial evidence because we knew exactly when relich had taken Libby to the playing fields and this witness was woken from his sleep and at 14 minutes past midnight at exactly the time that Libby was there with reivich heard desperate screams from a woman coming from the playing fields there was more after a few minutes he saw a man who he would describe as not looking like he was dressed for a night out walking quickly not running but walking with a determination to get away from the playing fields as he interpreted it he didn't look back

and he could see him and there was enough ambient light to him to make out the details of this man and he thought that it was very suspicious and ultimately when he did see a picture of revish a few weeks later he was pretty confident that that was the man he had seen this was crucial evidence because this was plainly revage attacking and killing Libby and then leaving the scene as quickly as he could they'd only seen one person go back to the car so if she they couldn't find her on the ground the suspicion

was that she'd either fallen in or been put in the river by him detectives felt they had a strong case but without finding Libby's body they had no proof that this is what had happened to her or that revich had been involved it would be 7 weeks before they and Libby's loved ones had an [Music] answer unfortunately after he had killed Libby on the playing fields in a particularly cruel act he put her body into the river Hull and from there it passed out into the river Humber and out into the North Sea of sperm

point and it was many weeks before her body was spotted floating in the water off spurn point and was recovered by the Lifeboat the pride of the h and and recovered by the police there was some telling details even at that point that it was liby Squire she still had a a slender gold necklace around her neck which had the letter L on it um and it was only after subsequent tests they were able to fully confirm it was in fact the 21-year-old who had gone missing all these weeks earlier now that Libby's body had

been found could police and prosecutors secure a conviction it was crucial to find the body because that was finally the point at which they could start to put together a proper murder investigation a proper murder charge that they could bring against relich after so long in the water it was not certain that a pathologist would be able to uncover exactly what had happened to Libby we didn't know whether that would take the inquiry any further at that point because obviously we knew that if she was found in water she'd probably been in water for 6

to seven weeks police and prosecutors faced a long tense wait to find out what evidence Libby's body might reveal until then they could not charge reivich with murder in the meantime he stood trial for the 2-year reign of terror that he'd carried out against Hull's student Community revich appeared at Hull magistrates courts in the first instance facing these sexual offenses and then he was sent to Hull Crown Court he always denied the offenses at first and he was set to go on trial at Sheffield Crown Court in August 2019 it was actually deemed that it

would be appropriate that it was held further away from the city because it had been something that a really inflamed local opinion I thinking there was a concern that he might not be able to get a fair trial in in Hall in August 2019 reivich stood accused of verism outraging public decency and burglary on the day that his trial was due to start he changed his plea to guilty on nine of the 13 offenses that he was charged with he went on to be sentenced for a string of sexual offenses for eight and a half

years by the judge and Chef Hills but this was actually reduced to 5 and a half years on appeal reivich was 3 months into his sentence by the time the results of Libby's postmortem came back it had failed to establish how Libby died but it did uncover revealing evidence of the crime his Seaman was found on a high vaginal swab taken from the body that was crucial evidence because he had told the police when asked about it that he' left her alive and well and there had been no sexual contact between them at all and

yet here was this finding of his Seaman uh on the high vaginal swab and proved he was lying and proved that he had raped her for detectives at humberside police it was a crucial piece of evidence they charged reivich with murder by throwing Libby's body into the river he had hoped the authorities would never get hold of the evidence to see him convicted it was at the oako playing fields that uh it was said at court that he carried out the sex attack on Libby and and then dumped her body into the river either dead

or dying and it was swept out and he was hoping that that would be the end of his problems he knew the area he knew the river and he knew that he would take her out to the Humber estery and then hopefully this would never be something he would have to answer for revich was wrong nine months after Libby's disappearance he was charged with rape and murder of Libby Squire relev always denied raping and murdering Libby and he eventually went on trial at Sheffield Crown Court in January 2021 the trial lasted 2 weeks the eyes

of the world were on the court as the crown presented its evidence it was fair to say that there was a lot riding on this I mean that there had been this long buildup during which Libby's family felt that they hadn't got answers and they were looking for justice the medor attention was more than I've ever experienced and it was tense because you know this was a crime that really struck the heart of the community in Hull and I think that the whole city really wanted to see Justice for Libby all you can do as

a as a prosecutor is build the very strongest case that you can I was confident that the police had investigated this case to the highest standards and that there was a compelling body of evidence to put before the jury But ultimately it's always a matter for the jury to decide these cases Wright laid out for jur as the evidence against P relich the CCT V material was absolutely crucial rovic denied it all changing his story for a third time papovich lied consistently from the very first moment that he was arrested until the very end his

lies changed over time he gave different accounts he wasn't willing to concede anything or give away anything unless he was very much held to account over it at the heart of it he denied doing anything to Libby he denied that he' raped her he denied that he'd hurtt her he denied that he'd put her body in the river and he lied and he lied and he lied and he maintained those lies to The Bitter End what was reich's Claim about his encounter with Libby Squire he had met Libby on the evening of her disappearance he

had taken her to oako Playing Fields where they had had consensual sex and he had left her safe and well which must be an unbelievably difficult thing for her her family and those who loved her to hear cuz he was trying to claim that Libby Squire had initiated sex with him and he was a good Samaritan he was trying to drive her home and make sure she was safe and then she had thrown herself at him and he had had a moment of moral weakness and that he' betrayed his wife would a jury believe him

in court prosecutors confronted relich with a final piece of CCTV evidence there was also extensive CCTV footage of pav Reich driving around Holland walking around the student area Newland Avenue near where he lives for hours of after he raped and killed Libby Square um including at 3:00 a.m. he was just walking around Newland Avenue by himself uh it thought he even masturbated in the street uh which was confirmed by a used condom which was found nearby found to contain his DNA by someone uh in the following days taking the stand to give evidence in his

own defense rovic told the court that after having what he claimed was consensual sex with Libby Squire he was still unsatisfied he had stalked the the streets looking for another woman the jury didn't buy it he was unanimously convicted of rape and convicted of murder By An 11:1 majority decision uh the judge Mrs Justice Lambert sentenced him to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 27 [Music] years the verdict was of little Comfort to Libby's parents Lisa and Ross I remember her mother speaking after the verdict and for them the verdict changes nothing it will

never bring Libby back the trial for them they knew was not going to bring their daughter back it wasn't about some sort of Vengeance it was more about uh their need to hear about what had happened to their daughter and to hear the truth about what had happened to her Unfortunately they didn't get that from reivich because he didn't tell the truth um uh about what had happened a review of how H besides police had dealt with revious offenses prior to Libby's murder concluded that detectives had investigated the incident proportionately the area of Hull from

where Libby disappeared remains popular with locals and students alike police will continue their regular patrols something which locals have welcomed as the memory of the terror wrought by pavl rovic lingers there was a real sense of there but for the grace of God go eye and that any woman alone at night could have fallen into reich's path and have been subjected to that sort of sexual violence uh and murder when pav rovic picked up a vulnerable young woman with the intention of doing her harm he believed he could cover his tracks and Escape apprehension for

his crime his calculations were undone by the painstaking work of police officers who reconstructed the events of that freezing winter night frame by frame from the City's plentiful CCTV footage and when Libby Squire's body surfaced in the Humber estery it provided the crucial evidence needed to prove reich's guilt Beyond Reasonable Doubt reivich had made the simplest mistake of all he had forgotten that cities like Hull are full of security [Music] cameras [Music]