Resendiz had been crouching behind the electric box on the right before ambushing the young couple. When we first started working it, we approached it from the standpoint of a fugitive investigation and that was trying to learn as much as we could about the subject at hand. In 1988, he spent some time living in St. Louis, where he worked for a temp agency. 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. I fought him. But, then run down the stairs to play with my younger sister. Video: "48 Hours" Live to Tell: The Railroad Killer. In adulthood, he spent a total of 11 years in American prisons for crimes such as assault, auto theft, firearm possession, and burglary. And really that was the only thing that they could fix. And there is nothing there. Right after this attack happened, I just wanted to lay in bed and not get out of bed again. He was born on August 1, 1959. And Resndiz didnt spare Frederick, beating her to death, then sexually assaulting her afterward. And I woke up during the middle of the night screaming and crying. We learned that he had a variety of names. Some people he murdered included: Norman J. Sirnic and Karen Sirnic (May 2, 1999), Fannie Whitney Byers (December 10, 1998), and Claudia Benton (December 17, 1998). He was . Supposedly the boyfriend of the previous victim. Angel sent home $140 (pounds 90) a month, far more than the $6 a week the local nuns paid him for teaching English without a credential. And the pastor and his wife were murdered in their bed with a sledgehammer that was found in a tool room there at the house. I deserve what I am getting." tied to a tree, dead from strangulation. On June 4, Resndiz killed two people in one day, sexually assaulting Houston school teacher Noemi Dominguez, before murdering her with a pickax. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Holly Dunn: They said, "Well, could you tell us what he's wearing?" Angel Maturino Resendiz pleaded not guilty today to the charge that he murdered a doctor in her Houston home in December. And that - that was, you know, a very scary time, because I just - I felt - I knew that he knew I was still alive. Her face - it looked like a boxer whenever they - whenever they get cut during a boxing match. ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis was born in Izcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico. And she started - I kept losin' her a little bit here and there. Much of the jewelry was sold or melted down. Resndiz's ultimate fate, however, was decided by a jury, not Carter. 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 . 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. Det. At age 20, college junior Holly Dunn came face-to-face with an infamous serial killer who earned his nickname by choosing victims along the railroad tracks. [citation needed], Prior to surrendering at the El Paso bridge, the U.S. Border Patrol had arrested Resndiz and deported him back to Mexico. And I mean, I was so close to fainting when I looked at him again that I mean - I don't know how I didn't. And thinking, "I'm going to die.". I won't tell anybody what happened here, just don't hurt me.". They'll be right behind me. Det. Chad Goetz, University Senior: It was - probably 1:00, 2:00 in the morning. He had at least 1 sister, Manuela, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Convicted railroad killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, center, points his finger after being. Watch Live: Closing arguments begin in double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, Ex-Georgia star Jalen Carter was racing in deadly crash, arrest warrants allege, Watch Live: Garland testifies amid ongoing special counsel investigations, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. He was prone to violence at least 20 years prior to this killing spree. Morber was shot to death with a shotgun and Frederick bludgeoned with that weapon. Texas authorities determined they had a serial killer on their hands. FBI press conference: We are here to announce that Rafael Resendez Ramirez has been elevated to the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Resndiz raped Dunn, who stopped struggling when he reportedly told her just how easy it would be for him to kill her. Det. It was almost like my worst nightmare coming true. Holly Dunn: It was very dark and you couldn't see very well. And so, we could talk to each other, and Chris and I started strategizing, you know, saying, "OK, should I run? I definitely think that there's parts of me that wanted to retreat away. And that's where we started the discussions about Resendiz and the fact that he was tired and that he might be willing to surrender. One excerpt of "Sole Survivor" details the attack on Holly and her friend Chris Maier and the other the beginning of her recovery with the help of her sister Heather, among others. Known as The Railroad Killer, Angel Resendiz killed at least 9 people, and is thought that he have taken more lives. He murdered at least 16 or 15 people. Craig Sorrell: As part of the search, there was actually a huge operation to stop trains. DAVID J. PHILLIP/AFP via Getty Imagesngel Maturino Resndiz enters a federal courtroom in July 1999. He would confess to many more before his execution. In her stolen car, Resndiz traveled to Schulenberg, Texas, around four miles from Weimar, and the previous Sirnic killings. Drew Carter: Detective Sorrell called and we compared details about the cases. They were attacked, sometimes through burglaries, near the railways and were usually bludgeoned to death with some incidental object. She said that - he wasn't muscular, but he seemed somewhat wiry. Prior to surrendering at the El Paso bridge, the U.S. Border Patrol had arrested Resndiz and deported him back to Mexico. I got my hands untied. He used many aliases, but was chiefly known and sought after as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez. Holly Dunn: I chose not to attend the execution because Resendiz represented all those angry feelings that I had. My friend's still out there.". He was tried for first-degree murder with damning evidence to back the charges up, found guilty and sentenced to death. (Biography.com Editors, 2015). "This is what happened to me. I had to deal with Chris dying. Craig Sorrell, Lexington Police Dept. I realized, at that point, that he was going to rape me. 'Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair': 33 Pictures Of The Summer Of Love In San Francisco, 'Exceptional Discovery': 24 Perfectly-Preserved Bronze Statues Uncovered In An Ancient Etruscan Spa, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch. He died on June 27, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas, USA. That they're not going through what - what has happened to them alone. Holly Dunn: I flew into Houston with my family the night before I was going to testify. The electrical box Resndiz hid behind before attacking Maier and Dunn. Do you want credit cards? I talk about the trial as the hardest day of my life. I remember there being an oddly high number of calls. - Alternate link. So it was an all out race then to try and figure out where he was and get hands on him. I was constantly running away from someone. Two days later, the Railroad Killer reentered Texas and savagely committed four more murders over the course of just 12 days. What if someone wanted you dead but you lived to tell? It was a Thursday night. Ninety miles away in Fayette County, Texas, Josephine Konvicka, 73, was killed by a blow of the same pickax used to kill Noemi Dominguez. And that was my chance. It was surreal. Holly Dunn: I don't have things that I think about all the time. The Terrifying True Story Of Railroad Killer ngel Maturino Resndiz. He did not deserve to live among us. I don't want another case to prove up. Kind of a wavy, black hair, wearing glasses. / CBS News, Produced by Lourdes Aguiar and Michael McHugh [This story previously aired on Aug. 3, 2013. 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. Maybe this is what I had been running from in all those dreams as a child - this horrific story that happened to my sister.". Because he couldn't get - his arms were all tied up in his backpack. Some of the stolen items that had been removed from his victims' homes were returned by his wife and mother after his surrender. And I could not figure where all the blood had come - was comin' from. She was our only living witness. And after two years, we hadn't had anything of substance anyway, so we chased any lead. Devon Anderson: And I had been waiting to see this guy. And there's three people in that ol' pickup truck. is een documentaire televisieserie geproduceerd door NHNZ die werd uitgezonden op Lifetime Movie Network. So the judge sentenced him to death. To mark the 20-year anniversary of her survival, Holly Dunn has written a book due out in November 2017. And so, we were talking to each other, trying to figure out how we were going to get away Because Chris kept saying, "You know if you can get yourself untied get away, run away." Despite an appeal pending with the 5th U.S. I started to feel like, "Wow, this is a lot bigger than me." You know, look at your family. Craig Sorrell: Despite her - state, she was ready and willing to try and communicate what had happened to her. We knew that we had forensic evidence, we had fingerprint evidence that linked to a particular suspect and both houses were in the near vicinity of railroad tracks. What do you want? Bludgeoned to death with a brick. Resndiz stated that he met the woman at a homeless shelter. There'd be days that I would literally cry to him. His birth name was ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis. 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. I was so scared that I had to get out of the country. This man had no friends. He was executed in 2006. His mother, Virginia Resendiz de Maturino, never married his father and frequently abused him physically. I don't deserve to cause you pain. For me to be able to say, "You didn't destroy me." The sketch was the best thing we had and the DNA evidence, of course. They were flat black and expressionless face. We sat there and talked for a while, I'm not sure how long, but we got up to leave and go back to the party. Between nineteen eighty six and nineteen ninety nine percent is murdered. Shot in the head with a shotgun. Det. In 2006, she received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for public service, one of the nation's highest honors for humanitarian work. I don't think I knew what my injuries were. Dr. Claudia Benton, a 39-year-old Baylor College of Medicine physician, was found sexually assaulted, stabbed and beaten to death inside her Houston-area home located near railroad tracks on Dec. 17, 1998. Local news report: The dragnet for the suspected rail riding serial killer now stretches from Ohio to the Mexican border. ngel Maturino Resndiz (born ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis), a.k.a. As soon as I could get the surgery to get my jaw wired shut and my jaw fixed, my parents took me home. Being a survivor is one thing, but helping other survivors and knowing how to do that in a professional manner was another thing. And they - I mean, I literally - I felt my hearing going into my head. The same month, a Texas Ranger, Drew Carter, contacted Manuela, Resndiz's sister who lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico and to whom he was close. Heather Dunn Niemeier, Holly's sister: Her face was disoriented. Holly Dunn: To know that he was doing it again, that he was more violent, that he was killing more people. And I hoped that he experienced some of the fear - that Holly did. I deserve what I am getting." Often the people were in bed asleep when he was getting 'em. ATM cards? The two were walking along some railroad tracks when they were assaulted. On July 13, Resndiz met with Drew Carter and surrendered himself. Much of the jewelry was sold or melted down. He was not tried for any other crimes. Because there's no victim to stand in front of you to tell you what they experienced, what they went through. It was held here in Houston. It felt good for me to be able to say, you know, I graduated from college in front of the guy who basically could have ruined my life and destroyed it. Von Huben's fiance. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. But truthfully, the tip that made the case was a call from a family relative to "America's Most Wanted.". Three of Resendiz's victims, Norman and Karen Sirnic and Josephine Konvicka, were from the Weimar area. The Sirnics' red, Bludgeoned to death with a pickaxe in her apartment. I'm running. : On Aug. 29, 1997, I received a call at home about 3:00 in the morning that there had been an attack on two students along the railroad tracks. After each murder, he would linger in the homes for a while, mainly to eat. 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. Known as the Railroad Killer, he was at one point the FBIs most wanted fugitive. It was updated on Sept. 2, 2017.]. Holly Dunn, Chris Maier's girlfriend, somehow managed to survive after being raped, stabbed, beaten and left for dead by Resendiz. 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