Newport Beach, California sits just south of Los Angeles.

It's 2012, and the owner of a marijuana dispensary has been kidnapped, tortured, and left for dead in the Mojave Desert.

It began a decade-long game of cat and mouse between investigators and a perpetrator, a mastermind of escape.

It's a psychopath.

Oh, my God.

They let Hannibal Lecter out?

Devil in the Desert is out now.

In the Dark.

Ambulance, what's the address? There's a stranger in the dark.

That 911 call was the most traumatizing thing I've ever heard.

My friend is staying with me and I just walked in and she's laying on the bathroom floor and there's blood everywhere. This is a horrific

tape. Gut-runching. Is she awake? She's not awake. There's blood all over her face and all on the back of her head.

Something strange. You got the paramedics on the way to help you, stay on the line, Caitlin.

The operator then starts walking her through performing CPR.

We're going to do this until help can take over.

Count out loud so I can count with you.

She's bawling when she calls, and then she just pulls it together.

Okay, okay.

Pump the chest hard and fast, at least twice per second and two inches deep.

Okay.

And then count out loud so I can count with you.

You just hear her counting.

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