Holly Dunn: I was really trying to remember every detail about my attacker. FBI An FBI handout depicting the face of the Railroad Killer, ngel Maturino Resndiz. His attacks were distinctive for their brutal blows to victims heads, often caused by objects found in the victims own homes. I wish I could've seen his face when he knew she was comin' to testify against him. I could work through my emotions and that really helped me in my healing process. He was born on August 1, 1959. Holly's House is a child and adult advocacy center that provides a safe reporting location for victims of intimate crimes. She is the model of survivor. His body was found in the front yard of an abandoned downtown house. But they worked through the evidence. I told all the details of what I knew, what I remembered. And he just, like, reintroduced me to the world. Money was sometimes left at the scene. And I think the - amount of pressure that was put on him, ultimately led to him to have to make a choice. He was only charged with one because that's all you need to get the death penalty. He was sometimes referred to as The Railway Killer or The Railcar Killer. He ultimately pleaded not guilt by reason of insanity. And then I had to heal. After each murder, he would linger in the homes for a while, mainly to eat. You don't have to. Resndiz was evaluated as mentally disturbed but not insane at trial, and on May 18, 2000, with survivor Holly Dunn having testified, was convicted for the capital murder of Claudia Benton. And so, we could talk to each other, and Chris and I started strategizing, you know, saying, "OK, should I run? And he would just listen to me. Often the people were in bed asleep when he was getting 'em. And I woke up during the middle of the night screaming and crying. His birth name was ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis. Holly and her husband named their first born son William Christopher in honor of Chris Maier. I'm still, you know, the same person I was" - it felt good. Resndiz had many aliases but was chiefly known and sought after as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez. As dread escalated across communities easily reachable by train, Resendez was placed on the FBIs 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. They didn't know where he was. On the night of Aug, 29, 1997, in Lexington, Kentucky, young couple Christopher Maier and Holly Dunn were walking along railway tracks back to a party near the University of Kentucky when Resndiz suddenly emerged from a crouched position behind a metal electrical box. That he was doing it over and over again. Craig Sorrell, Lexington Police Dept. You do not deserve this. He was put to death five months. He was convicted of capital murder in Texas and executed by lethal injection in 2006. So he's like the boogeyman coming into your house. He was housed in the Polunsky Unit in West Livingston, Texas awaiting execution. My whole life focus changed because of it. Resendiz had been crouching behind the electric box on the right before ambushing the young couple. He had become known as "The Railroad Killer" as most of his crimes were committed near railroads where he had jumped off the trains which he was using to travel around the country. Craig Sorrell: We received a lot of phone calls and a lot of tips, and we followed up on a lot of people who thought they had seen this person. Resendiz is escorted from a Houston courtroom after receiving his execution date on Jan. 6, 2006. I deserve what I am getting." The electrical box Resndiz hid behind before attacking Maier and Dunn. And then I had to deal with being raped. I started to feel like, "Wow, this is a lot bigger than me." After finishing each sentence, he would be deported back to Mexico, only to return every time. Authorities were able to link him to at least 15 murders in six states: Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Illinois, Florida and California. September 2, 2017 / 11:05 PM And thinking, "I'm going to die.". I couldn't attend the funeral. tied to a tree, dead from strangulation. This man had no friends. He used many aliases, but was chiefly known and sought after as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez. Nobody else could speak out against him in first person. They were attacked, sometimes through burglaries, near the railways and were usually bludgeoned to death with some incidental object. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! FBI press conference: We are here to announce that Rafael Resendez Ramirez has been elevated to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Railroad tracks wind their way through Weimar, Texas, past the Weimar United Church of Christ. If they saw somebody, we'd get the train stopped, check the train - stop anybody and identify anybody on it. No emotion. Resndiz took sentimental items and also laid out the victims' driver's licenses to learn about their lives. Det. Holly Dunn: I chose not to attend the execution because Resendiz represented all those angry feelings that I had. It was very bruised - lots of cuts across her face. He did not deserve to live among us. / CBS News, Produced by Lourdes Aguiar and Michael McHugh [This story previously aired on Aug. 3, 2013. : This case for me has become one that I have looked back on many times. June 15, Gorham, Illinois: George Morber and Carolyn Frederick: Resndiz also claimed to have killed seven additional people in Mexico. United States government records show that he had been deported to Mexico at least four times since first entering the U.S. in 1973. Craig Sorrell: Somewhere around May or June of 1999, I got a call from ViCAP, which was the national database that we put the info in. I just ask you to forgive me and ask the Lord to forgive me for allowing the devil to deceive me. And my breathing was shallow enough that he thought he had killed me. ngel Maturino Resndiz : biography August 1, 1960 - June 27, 2006 (aged 46) During a court appearance, Resndiz accused Carter of lying under oath because his (Resndiz's) family was under the impression that he would be spared the death penalty; however, Resndiz's ultimate fate would be decided by the jury, not Carter.http . I thank God for having patience in me. But the INSs gravest error came on the night of June 1, 1999, according to Justice Department documents, when Resndiz was detained entering the U.S. in the desert near the Santa Theresa border crossing in New Mexico. On July 12, 1999, a Texas Ranger, Drew Carter, accompanied by Manuela and a spiritual guide, met up with Resndiz on a bridge connecting El Paso, Texas with Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua. And we started walking along the tracks. I thank God for having patience in me. At the time, he had been tracked down to Mexico. In my head, I was panicking. Maturino Resendiz is accused of being the so-called railroad killer, who . Video: "48 Hours" Live to Tell: The Railroad Killer. I would run down the hill of the front to our house across the fields. Aug. 29, 1997 Christopher Maier, a 21-year-old junior at the University of Kentucky, killed as he and his 23-year-old girlfriend, were taking a shortcut from one party to another. Two days later, the Railroad Killer reentered Texas and savagely committed four more murders over the course of just 12 days. : "Railroad Killer" Classification: Serial killer Characteristics: Rape - Robbery Number of victims: 15 Date of murders: 1986-1999 Date of arrest: July 13, 1999 ( surrenders) Date of birth: August 1, 1960 Victims profile: Men and women Method of murder: Stabbing with knife - Beating So the volume was huge, and you just started piecing the things together. Upon hearing the judge's ruling, Resndiz said, "I don't believe in death. Bludgeoned with the same pickaxe used to kill Dominguez in her farmhouse near Weimar, which is also where the Sirnics were murdered. But truthfully, the tip that made the case was a call from a family relative to "America's Most Wanted.". I mean, on the Texas side. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Holly Dunn: I started speaking about two years after the attack. Where have you been? In June of 1999, after being identified as the killer, he was placed in the Top Ten of the FBI's Most Wanted list and a reward of $50,000 (which just some days later was raised to $125,000). He became known as "The Railroad (or Railway) Killer" as most of his crimes were committed near railroads . My friend's still out there.". It was a horror show. And he got that moniker just by the fact that most of his murders happened in and around railroad tracks and that that was a mode of transportation that he used to travel across the country. [citation needed], Resndiz was tried and sentenced to death for the Benton murder. On the day of his execution, he asked forgiveness from the family members of his victims in attendance, and from God, for allowing the devil to deceive me.. Texas Executes 'Railroad Killer' Angel Maturino Resendiz Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A train-hopping serial killer linked to at least 15 murders near railroad tracks around the country. And that was my chance. Dunn managed to free her hands at one point, but couldn't get her feet untied. I don't even remember exactly what I said or how long it took. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis was born in Izcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico. Resendiz is escorted from the courtroom after receiving an execution date on Friday, Jan. 6, 2006, in Houston. September 2, 2017 / 7:17 PM Shortly before his execution on June 27, 2006, Resendiz confessed to other murders in addition to the known nine at the time of trial. Today, we're delving into the saga of the railroad killer Angel Maturino Resendiz. Resndiz continued riding the rails and committing murders across several states, with the ferocity of his attacks increasing with each stop. That they're not going through what - what has happened to them alone. And then, a pastor and his wife were killed in Weimar. I knew that I was injured. Accused serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, led by Sgt. I think I put my hand up to block it. We learned that he had a variety of names. The Kentucky murder of Christopher Maier, which Holly Dunn miraculously survived, seemed to match aspects of the murders of Benton and the Sirnics and the DNA once again matched as well. [Emotional] I don't think Jacob even knows like how much he helped me by just listening to me. March 23, Ocala, Florida: Jesse Howell and Wendy Von Huben: July, Colton, California: An unidentified transient, October 4, Hughes Springs, Texas: Leafie Mason, 81, December 17, Western University Place, Texas: Claudia Benton, 39, Fayette County, Texas: Josephine Konvicka, 73. It was there that she told me the worst story that I had heard in my life. Norman J. Sirnic and his wife Karen Sirnic were bludgeoned to death with a sledgehammer in the parsonage of the United Church of Christ. ", And I tried to rip off my fingernails and dig in the dirt so that if I was taken away, someone would know that I had been there. ngel Maturino Resndiz, whose case is explored in Oxygen's " Mark of a Killer ," was born in Puebla, Mexico in 1959. Resndiz raped Dunn, who stopped struggling when he reportedly told her just how easy it would be for him to kill her. [1][2][3][4], By illegally jumping on and off trains within and across Mexico, Canada and the United States, generally crossing borders illegally, Resndiz was able to evade authorities for a considerable time. By the time of his execution, Resendiz was linked to at least 15 murders in six states. Stars ngel Maturino Resndiz (archive footage) Ken Macha Ramon Laval See production, box office & company info Add to Watchlist Photos Add photo Top cast Edit ngel Maturino Resndiz Self - Serial Killer I was hit with some sort of wooden board. Heather Dunn Niemeier, Holly's sister: To see Holly happy, married is wonderful. You know, "I will let you go. In 1986, Resndiz killed his first victim: an unidentified homeless woman in Texas, according to The Houston Chronicle. Do you want credit cards? ngel Maturino Resndiz : biography August 1, 1960 - June 27, 2006 (aged 46) 9. In her stolen car, Resndiz traveled to Schulenberg, Texas, around four miles from Weimar, and the previous Sirnic killings. But it wasnt until Resndiz killed two teenage runaways in 1997 near railroad tracks in central Florida that investigators linked those slayings to his previous crimes and realized that they had a serial killer on their hands. Behind the scenes, Resndizs sister worked with Texas Ranger Drew Carter by encouraging her brother to give himself up. I signed up that day to go to school in England. It became the first of his many entries into the United States. He was the first guy that I dated after the attack. They actually kind of just realigned it. It just fell off. Craig Sorrell: Sometimes you don't always have the human picture, the actual human suffering. Craig Sorrell: We were the last of the cases presented. Resendiz is wanted in connection with a string of deaths in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. 1894 shipwreck found in Lake Huron, confirming "powerful, tragic story", Bipartisan Senate group unveils rail safety bill in response to Ohio derailment, What to know about Shigella bacteria as drug-resistant strain spreads, Top Dems push Fox News to stop promoting "propaganda" about 2020 election. Shortly before his execution on June 27, 2006, Resendiz confessed to other murders in addition to the known nine at the time of trial. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Having also confessed to eight other murders, Resndiz was sentenced to death, following an automatic appeal. Benton, a pediatric neurologist at the Baylor College of Medicine, was raped, stabbed, and bludgeoned repeatedly after he entered her home, which is near the Union Pacific railroad tracks. This man's body has never been found, and nothing is known about him except what Resndiz told authorities. I remember there being an oddly high number of calls. Holly gave that to Chris and all the others that had been murdered. In fact, over a 20-year period, Resndiz was deported or voluntarily returned to Mexico 17 times, having illegally entered the U.S. using a series of aliases. With his final words stating, I deserve what I am getting, the Railroad killer died by lethal injection on June 27, 2006. "[14][notes 1], On June 21, 2006, a Houston judge ruled that Resndiz was mentally competent to be executed. And they - I mean, I literally - I felt my hearing going into my head. 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