S5 Ep8: Ángel Reséndiz, the Railroad Killer
What Makes a Killer
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🗓️ 21 September 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Luxury Seekers, listen up, we're Ren and we make high-end kitchens for down-to-earth budgets. |
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| 0:27.8 | Visit your nearest showroom. |
| 0:29.8 | What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended for all audiences. |
| 0:36.8 | Listener discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:43.8 | December 1998 |
| 0:45.8 | The residents of 39-year-old Claudia Benton was broken into by a savage intruder. |
| 0:52.8 | The mother of two had been brutally beaten, sexually assaulted and fatally stabbed. |
| 0:58.8 | He seemed to be almost ghost like the way he could get into houses without being heard and ghosts scare people. |
| 1:07.8 | The killer was a man named Angel Resendez, who had been illegally boarding trains across the US border from Mexico for over 20 years. |
| 1:17.8 | He would go on to kill at least 9 people. |
| 1:20.8 | But capturing Resendez would prove to be one of the FBI's most challenging cases. |
| 1:25.8 | There's 140,000 miles of track in North America. |
| 1:29.8 | So how do you get your head around that? How do you find someone that's riding the rail? |
| 1:33.8 | You never really knew who was going to be the next victim. |
| 1:37.8 | It was whoever had something that he wanted and that could be anybody. |
| 1:42.8 | This is what makes a killer, a series that chronicles the lives and crimes of the world's most notorious killers. |
| 1:49.8 | I'm your host, Jennifer Natoso. |
| 1:52.8 | In every episode, we'll trace a killer's origins, examine their behavior and follow their path to bloodshed. |
| 1:59.8 | In this episode, we'll discuss Angel Resendez, the railroad killer. |
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