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13x16 - Unmasked

Posted: 01/19/24 08:11
by bunniefuu
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up next

a predator terrorizes a texas town

i said i have family i have a son just

please don't r*pe me he started to choke

me

i couldn't breathe i was just gasping

for air until he finally stopped

no one knew what he'd do next we had a

huge problem

that this guy wasn't going to stop when

police find him

the dna evidence exonerates him he was

smart enough to outwit

the investigators i knew he he was just

evil

and i never knew that there was evil

people on this earth like that

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it was 9 p.m in texas city texas

and 19 year old stevie green was waiting

for a friend to drive her home from work

but the friend never showed up i'm in

a ticked off mood because he left me

hanging christmas was coming around the

corner

i've thought about taking a taxi but

then i was like no i want to save the

money so

we can have a better christmas so stevie

decided to walk home

which was about a mile away

suddenly she heard someone running up

behind her

the footsteps just stopped the knife was

in my back

i didn't want to die i was willing to do

anything

that this man was gonna ask me to do he

said he'd s*ab her if she didn't

take off her clothes as he r*ped me i

just kept thinking in my head

saying the lord's prayer the more i said

it the more angry

he got afterwards still holding the

knife

he told her to get up they told me to

turn around

and have my back to him and when i stood

up

something in me just told me to run and

i grabbed my shoe and i

booked into the middle of the street

screaming at the top of my lungs

stevie was traumatized in shock but

lucky to be alive

it was very difficult for stevie to look

at him and get a good description other

than some general

build general height and things of that

nature

the whole time he kept telling me don't

look at my face don't look at my face

stevie described her assailant as an

african-american wearing a hooded

sweatshirt

that concealed his face but nothing more

it was somewhat shocking that it did

happen at 9 15

at night walking home on a street that

i've walked my kids have walked

and i would trust them to this day to

walk down that street

no clues to the r*pist identity were

left at the scene

however a r*pe test kit produced his dna

profile

unfortunately that dna profile did not

match any of the dna profiles in the

statewide database of known criminal

offenders

police checked files for known sexual

offenders

living near the crime scene one stood

out

kenneth ray johnson had just moved to

texas city after serving

25 years for r*pe he was really a good

suspect because he was new to the area

he didn't want to cooperate at first but

then he did he had

several alibis if i'm not mistaken

johnson denied any involvement

since he was on parole he was wearing an

ankle bracelet that tracked his movement

using gps technology

it showed johnson was at home at the

time of the r*pe

and his dna did not match the dna of the

r*pist

he was not in the location on the date

where stevie green was sexually

assaulted

i never questioned that he would be

found i knew that he was going to pay

for what he did one way or another

but would he be caught before he could

strike again

with no one in custody for stevie

green's r*pe

investigators feared he would strike

again

as the investigation went into the fifth

week and we heard nothing more about

any suspects being arrested or charged

or identified

it became an idea that maybe this was

going to be an unsolved crime

then five weeks later fifteen-year-old

vanessa rocha

and her sixteen-year-old boyfriend were

in a secluded area

of goddard park in downtown texas city

we went out there on many occasions and

never had anything to worry about

a man walked rapidly toward the young

couple we looked up and we saw a man

standing there with a devil mask on with

a g*n

he told my boyfriend to turn not to look

at him

the man held a g*n to vanessa's

boyfriend and ordered her

to undress

he was calling me every name in the book

cussing me out

calling me a [ __ ] you know a [ __ ] just

whatever i was making him mad because i

kept opening my eyes

at one point he started to choke me i

couldn't breathe i was just gasping for

air until he finally stopped

after the sexual as*ault he told

vanessa's boyfriend

to remove all of his clothes i was

terrified

i really thought he was going to k*ll us

i don't even know how to explain it you

can't explain something like that

he demanded the keys to the couple's car

then

made his getaway and he told us not to

get up

until we heard him start the car

unfortunately because of the mask

neither of the teenagers was able to

provide a detailed description

he was covered up from head to toe what

caught my attention was his mask that he

was wearing

it was the devil when we're teenagers we

don't think anything's gonna happen to

us until it happens

the as*ault was similar to the stevie

green case except

vanessa roach's case was more brazen

i have never read about or talked to

anyone that had worked a case

where two people were abducted and

totally controlled stripped down

in front of each other with a girl being

sexually assaulted

it very seldom do you have an attack

take place with a witness present

attackers in most sexual assaults don't

want any other witnesses

a r*pe test kit collected biological

evidence

and the result showed it was the same

perpetrator in both cases

the next morning investigators found the

teenager's car

just a few blocks from where vanessa was

assaulted

we realized he didn't keep the car long

and at that point we really started

focusing in that

he did live in that area and

that was his area of comfort where he

was acting from

just to give him an easy route to get

home wherever that was

unfortunately police found no foreign

fingerprints or other trace evidence

inside the car

the very next night two women were

walking home from a nightclub around 2

a.m

when they were approached by a masked

man brandishing a p*stol

they were both abducted at gunpoint he

took them to a secluded area behind the

school in like a little cul-de-sac one

suspect taking

two into control and totally humiliating

one in front of the other

he sexually assaulted one of the women

but not the other

again a brutal sexual as*ault took place

very brazen very cocky in the presence

of the

witness who was there again a very angry

very demeaning a very control freak

type of activity that took place both

women described a young black male

all they could see was his eyes and

mouth

but they noticed something distinctive

the assailant

had a gold front tooth police

finally had something besides his dna

profile

that might identify him

in the oil refinery town of texas city

texas

three r*pes within five weeks of each

other

had some striking similarities

the r*pist used masks or clothing

to cover his face it appeared he didn't

know

any of his victims before he att*cked

them

his r*pes all happened within a radius

of

two miles and most alarming

the crime showed an unmistakable

arrogance it indicates a very

strong-willed

angry cocky arrogant individual who

wants to play games with the police

thinks he's better than the system and

can beat the system

and it's a it's a game for him

a dna test was conducted on r*pe kits

from

every similar crime i was able to look

at these three cases and say yes

this was the same person that was in the

sperm fraction of all these extractions

police had a serial r*pist on their

hands

and worried about what he would do next

we were all concerned about the

escalation of these offenses

oftentimes a serial r*pist will turn

into a serial k*ller

or injure their victims much more

severely than he was injuring his

victims so we were very concerned about

it

the only clue to the r*pist identity

was a description by a witness that he

had

a gold front tooth

investigators scoured files for people

in the area who fit

this description and one did

chad price a 29 year old construction

worker

chad price was a father married seemed

to be actively participating with his

wife and children in different things in

the community

he had developed a reputation in the

community of being just that bold

taunting in your face catch me if you

can type a guy

price had never been arrested but had

been a suspect in a series of robberies

a year

earlier the robberies were unique

because

the perpetrator would call reporters to

brag about his crimes

sometimes he would call and say he was

going to rob a building

and sometimes he would call and thr*aten

the lives of the reporters

during one particular attack actually

called the police department

and started telling them that he was

watching them

actually investigate the crime the

audacity of the robberies

mirrored the audacity of the r*pes

police brought chad in for questioning

we didn't felt we had enough to get a

search warrant for his dna

for his blood and that he understood

that name there was nothing concrete

to connect him to any of the sexual

assaults and he basically denied

everything

price also refused to provide his dna

detective getchas wanted to get price's

dna legally

without him knowing it i have learned

from tv shows like forensic files that

you can't obtain a dna sample from a

coke can

or cigarette butt and it's lawfully

obtained

during chad price's interrogation

detective getchas offered him a can

of soda

we got through with the interview chad

he had not finished the

mountain dew i had an empty trash liner

in the trash can new and he was going to

throw it out

i said no don't spill it don't get it

all over there leak out

investigators knew they had to drain the

soda by making a hole

in the bottom of the can that's probably

the best thing to do is to go ahead and

drain the can so that there's no chance

that

anything that spills out of that can

could possibly

affect that dna that's on the mouth of

the can

then dna testing could begin

the very next day before the dna results

were in

there was another r*pe 10 miles away

a 17 year old girl and her 22 year old

boyfriend were parked

at the dickinson bio boat ramp when they

encountered trouble

two people were present girlfriend and a

boyfriend

and out of nowhere came the assailant

opened the door

produced a g*n had him removed from the

pickup truck and then the terror began

the man sexually assaulted the girl at

gunpoint

while her boyfriend stood by helplessly

he picked the perfect people

just a couple young kids out there uh

making out in a desolate area

investigators were convinced this was

the work of chad price

at the dna lab christie wimsat swabbed

the opening of the mountain dew can

with a sterile swab

i'm looking for a transfer of saliva or

skin cells from the mouth

onto the opening of the can a dna

profile was produced

and it matched the dna from all

of the r*pe cases i called texas city

police department to let them know that

this was the guy the guy that drank out

of this can was the guy that

was committing these r*pes in that area

on september 12

2000 chad price was arrested and

charged with the crimes they cut a

search warrant

for a storage shed where price had items

they found a duffel bag and in the

duffel bag they found some tremendous

evidence that supported

all the other evidence in the case

including the dna

everything from ski masks to the

halloween mask of a devil

to a g*n when i learned that the dna

test came back that it was him

i was excited i was just i was happy

i i couldn't wait to come to court to

testify

despite the evidence price continued to

deny

any involvement and he insisted that the

dna test on the soda can

was falsified he told me that he was not

the r*pist

that the mountain dew can never touched

his lips so therefore they

the police did not have his dna and that

he was going to be required to take

another blood sample

and that when the results of that blood

sample were made available it would show

that it was his dna was not at any of

the crime scenes

in a shocking development chad price

turned out to be right when price was

arrested

a sample of his blood was collected and

sent to an independent lab for dna

testing

this time his dna did not match

the biological evidence from the victims

i was in disbelief

i couldn't believe that we had the wrong

person

and that all the testing we had done had

been wrong

and i wanted to if it wasn't him let's

get him out of jail

no matter what i thought of him but what

went wrong investigators were determined

to find out

a dna test conducted by texas law

enforcement indicated

chad price was the serial r*pist

terrorizing

texas city texas but his defense

attorney insisted

on an independent dna test

and when a private lab performed their

test

it showed chad price wasn't

the r*pist i was mortified i was

immediately short of breath just trying

to remember what i had done in the case

trying to figure out

you know what did i do what was switch

what was different

prosecutors couldn't believe they had

the wrong man

the blood sample for the independent lab

had been drawn from price while he was

in custody

at the galveston county jail a

technician went into the prison

checked his identification took his

blood

then wrote the inmate's name on the vial

containing his blood when samples are

taken

there is a fingerprint that goes with

the vial of the sample of

blood the individual who gave this blood

obviously put their fingerprint on this

file so prison officials compared the

print

on chad price's blood vial to chad

price's fingerprint

the expert said that's not chad price's

fingerprint on the vial

great the next step

whose fingerprint is it the unknown

print

was run through aphis or the automated

fingerprint identification system

and there was a hit

the print belonged to 36 year old

derrick perry derek perry was

another inmate being detained or held in

the galveston county jail on unrelated

charges

he was also a not a cell mate

but he was in the same pod as chad price

and in each pod there must be 50 or 60

inmates

two jailhouse informants told prison

officials

how chad price switched the dna sandals

they admitted to me that they witnessed

and have personal knowledge of the

conspiracy between

chad price and derek perry to switch

armbands

for the blood sample chad price

had a mindset of someone who really

believed he was smarter than everyone

else

he had a real sense of power he had a

sense that he could control situations

i don't know where that comes from the

medical staff

does not look at faces they don't know

chad price from derrick perry

they call the name chad price instead of

chad price standing up and walking

forward to get blood

it was derek perry who came forward

another dna

test confirmed what investigators had

long suspected

the dna from their r*pe cases

was from chad price he was

just as brazen in the r*pes as he was in

his attempt to get away with them

i think chad price believes he can beat

anything the system will give him

and that that he is smarter than we are

and

and just anything is the limit for him

you actually had a criminal who thought

he was smart enough to outwit

the investigators and play this game

with his own dna

on may 24 2001 a jury

took just two hours to find chad price

guilty of aggravated r*pe

kidnapping and robbery for the attack on

stevie green

he was indicted on the other r*pes and

the jury was informed of his involvement

during

the penalty phase they sentenced price

to life in prison plus 60 years

he got a life sentence and i found that

to be surprising

because i really i really thought he

would he

might get the death penalty i was just

ecstatic

uh knowing that he was going to be there

just

for life i mean there's no that i can't

even explain the way i felt you know

just

i don't have to see this man i have to

worry about this man ever coming for me

i'd love for him to admit it that was

the only thing out of the whole trial

that i think that's why i felt so robbed

was because i wanted him to admit it i

wanted him to say yes

i did this derek perry

who was due to be released from prison

the day after he switched wristbands

with price

was charged with fabricating evidence

and got

an additional five years in prison

the galveston county jail has since

changed its procedures

for drawing blood but the lesson for

investigators

and for chad price was that criminals

may lie

but forensic technology doesn't

without that mountain dew can to link

him to these sexual as*ault cases

they might not have ever been able to

get a warrant to get the actual known

sample

to compare to the sexual as*ault case so

i would say the dna

was was key in this case we take a lot

of pride in putting a person like chad

price

behind bars it's nice to get someone who

is that arrogant

and that cocky and that brazen behind

bars as quickly as possible

chad price thinks he can beat whatever

the system has to present

technology is foolproof given the best

circumstances we had those best

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circumstances