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The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror | Episode 4 : Before the Spree

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

3.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode, we look at Christopher Wilder’s prolific history of targeting women before the crime spree where he abducted Tina Risico. Three women Wilder pursued in 1982 and 1983 describe how he played on their dreams of becoming models, but pushed their boundaries and tried to control them. A journalist who pieced together Wilder’s long criminal history describes how he slipped through criminal justice systems in two countries over three decades. The Beauty Queen Killer: 9 Days of Terror was produced by Ample Entertainment and 101, the producers of Yellowstone, for ABC News Studios. The series is now streaming on Hulu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:10.6

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0:18.5

Essential for their overall well-being and a happy healthy life they give you plenty of smiles so look after

0:25.8

theirs with dental life pick up dental life in the pet food aisle

0:32.0

Christopher Wilder's awful Odyssey appears to be over and remains unexplained.

0:39.0

Spotted by state troopers, Wilder shot himself, but the bullet passed through his body and wounded a police officer.

0:45.0

Wilder then fired again, this time killing himself.

0:48.0

We are gratified that the killings will stop.

0:52.0

However, our investigation... that the killings will stop.

0:53.3

However, our investigations to locate the missing women will continue. This is Deborah Roberts co-anchor of 2020. Here on the 2020

1:06.4

podcast we've been bringing you the Beauty Queen Killer nine days of terror,

1:11.0

a new true crime series streaming on Hulu. In this bonus episode

1:15.9

we're going to go deeper into Christopher Wilder's history before he

1:19.6

abducted Tino Rizico on his cross-country murder spree.

1:25.0

Wilder victimized women across two continents over three decades.

1:30.0

We'll learn how he perfected his con, getting women to trust him.

1:35.0

I literally thought it was my fault the whole time.

1:37.5

I wanted this. I wanted to be a model.

1:40.0

This is what you have to do, right?

1:42.0

I didn't want to tell anybody.

1:44.0

What stories from three of his earlier victims

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