Featuring: Man in the Window

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L.A. Times Studios

True Crime, Los Angeles Times, Chris Goffard, Society & Culture, News, Christopher Goffard, La Times, Bravo, Los Angeles

4.6 • 42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Please enjoy a special feature of the first episode of L.A. Times Studios production, Man in the Window. In this episode, Phantom in the Fog, investigative reporter Paige St. John discusses how a series of brutal dog killings in a small town in California acted as the prelude for the coming danger and violence committed by one of California's deadliest serial killers.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's your host Christopher Gafford.
0:03.1	Thank you so much for tuning in to the first season of Crimes of the Times.
0:07.2	While you wait for season two, please enjoy a special featured episode of the Los Angeles Times production, Man in the Window.
0:15.2	Led by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Paige St. John, the show investigates the Golden State Killer and traces his path
0:22.3	of devastation through the eyes of his victims. This is episode one of Man in the Window,
0:28.2	Phantom in the Fog.
0:36.7	Man in the Window contains depictions of sexual violence and is not suitable for everyone.
0:42.3	Please be advised.
0:48.3	It's a sweltering California Day, and Bonnie Colwell is climbing the steep hill of the old family farm.
0:58.0	This little piece right here was pastures.
1:01.0	Mm-hmm.
1:02.0	And then from the...
1:03.0	At the very, very top is a tall farmhouse, Bonnie's old home.
1:09.0	It was right here, 48 years ago,
1:12.5	that Bonnie told her fiancé that their engagement was over.
1:17.1	He was very happy about that.
1:18.9	He was not calm about it.
1:22.9	She was still a teenager, barely out of high school,
1:26.3	and he was an older Vietnam vet named Joe.
1:30.1	It had been exciting at first, but now she was ending things between them.
1:34.8	It was just, you know, I want to marry you. We were perfect together, and I don't want you to do this.
1:42.4	I think he kind of felt like the door was closing
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