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He killed at least a dozen Texas women stabbed or strangled for no apparent reason.

It's almost like a horror movie. It was so horrific. You can't believe it's real, but it was.

But because of his good behavior behind bars, the state of Texas must legally free him.

He will be the first serial killer in his country's history ever to be legally released unless we

do something. Our story begins in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But by the time we're done, it will have

taken us up the highway to Detroit, over the river into Canada, and across the country, all the way

to Houston, Texas. On September 14, 1980, homicide detective Paul Bunton was assigned to a new case.

It was a Sunday morning. Rebecca Huff, a 30-year-old graduate student at the University of Michigan,

had been stabbed more than 50 times with what looked like a screwdriver. Detective Bunton had seen

other stabbings like this recently, and there was one detail that stood out which seemed to connect

these murders. All of them were very early morning, Sunday mornings. It became glaringly obvious at

that point that we had a serial killer on our hands. One third of all murder cases in America remain

open. Each one is called a cold case, and only 1% are ever solved. This is one of those rare cases.

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Rebecca Huff was the third young Ann Arbor woman to be stabbed death in just six months.

In July, 26-year-old Glenda Richmond was found dead near her front door, stabbed 28 times.

And before that, in April of 1980, Shirley Small had blood to death on the sidewalk outside of

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