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Dennis Farina: "Next, on Unsolved Mysteries..."

As he spoke, a clip began playing of a man stalking a woman who appeared to be a prostitute.

Farina: "Several murder sprees have occurred all over the United States and due to advances in technology, authorities believe that all of the murders have been committed by the same person."

A few more similar clips play.

Farina: "The only problem is that, despite the connections they've discovered, they aren't really any closer to figuring out who the killer is than they were when the first murder occurred over thirty years ago."

The show then cut to Dennis Farina himself, standing in the main communications area of the show.



Farina: "Tonight's episode will be a special one that will focus solely on identifying one person and in the process, hopefully provide some comfort to the friends and family of those that person has murdered. I'm Dennis Farina and this, is Unsolved Mysteries."



After the opening, they returned to Farina, who was still in the communications area.

Farina: "Over the years, Unsolved Mysteries has featured many segments involving murder, from the idea that the Son of Sam murders were committed by a cult to a woman who had dreams and visions of another woman who was murdered that eventually led to the arrest of her murderer. But the case we're about to present to you is one that the authorities consider to be even bigger than the mystery of the East Side Rapist, who's now known as the Original Night Stalker. The suspect in this case is known as the Chainsaw Killer, due to his choice in weaponry, and authorities hope that anyone watching can help finally bring this thirty plus year nightmare to a close."



A map suddenly appears on screen and zooms in to New York City.

Farina: "New York City, New York. In the summer of 1978, the city is still recovering from the Son of Sam murders that ended the previous summer."

Several shots of the city are shown.

Farina: "However, apparently not everyone felt the need to recover, because on July 22, 1978, twenty-seven year old Molly Sullivan was found murdered in her Brooklyn apartment. She'd been stabbed multiple times with a kitchen knife. She was six months pregnant at the time."

A photo of the woman and a reenactment of the police at the crime scene is shown as he continued speaking.

Farina: "The police immediately suspected her boyfriend of the murder, but he managed to provide an alibi, leaving the case at a dead end since there was no evidence left behind at the crime scene other than the murder weapon, no potential witnesses, and no other immediate suspects."

A photo of the actual murder weapon with the woman's blood streaked on it is then shown.

Farina: "Interestingly, after some testing was done with DNA samples collected from the unborn baby, it was discovered that the boyfriend hadn't been the baby's father. The boyfriend had been completely unaware of that fact beforehand. No one knew who the real father might've been and to date, the father still hasn't been identified."

The show shifts from the victim's apartment to a dark alleyway at night.

Farina: "Although they weren't thought to be connected at the time, over the course of several weeks before Molly Sullivan's vicious murder, four prostitutes turned up dead in the same city, all killed by what was thought to have also been a kitchen knife."

A new person then appeared on screen, his name showing at the bottom of the screen momentarily.



Farina: "With us for this episode, we have FBI Special Agent Stanley Corrigan. Ever since the connections between the many different murders was discovered and the cases were combined into one, he's been appointed as the lead investigator for the case. He's studied each murder thoroughly and knows everything there is to know about them."

Corrigan then began to speak.

Corrigan: "The reason that a connection was made between the murder of Ms. Sullivan and the murder of those four prostitutes is because of DNA evidence. Years after those murders, when DNA testing was widely available, the New York City police department was crosschecking different DNA evidence with unsolved murder cases and with the DNA samples from Ms. Sullivan's unborn baby and unidentified DNA samples from two of the four prostitute murder crime scenes and that's when a connection was made."

The map appears on screen again, this time zooming in to New Orleans.

Farina: "New Orleans, Louisiana. Over three years have passed since the murders in New York. And with a new city came a new string of murders."

Like with New York, areas of New Orleans are shown, some of the happier, partying areas of the city, others of the darker, seedier areas.

Farina: "During the months of September and October of 1981, residents of the city lived in fear as six prostitutes were brutally murdered. The probable weapon in each murder? A kitchen knife. There would've been a seventh murder, except the seventh prostitute managed to escape before any physical damage could be done to her. And when that happened, the murders stopped, at least there. We've interviewed that woman, but she's requested that her real name not be used and her face not be shown, so we'll call her 'Adele'."

The woman was shown in a room, the lighting done in a way that completely hid her face in shadow.

Adele: "He was tall and well-built. He was also somewhat handsome, so he appealed to me as a customer and I had no problem with him wanting to hire me. But I guess that just proves that looks can be deceiving, since after he drove me away from the city, claiming that we were going to his house, he pulled a knife on me."

As she spoke, the show cut from her to a reenactment of what occurred between her and the killer.

Adele: "He said that he was going to kill me and that's when I jumped out of his car. He wasn't driving very fast at that time, so I knew my injuries from jumping out wouldn't be severe. I actually only scraped up my hands and knees. There was a car behind us that stopped as soon as I jumped out and I know that if that other car hadn't been on the road, he would've done exactly what he said he was going to do."

A sketch that she had provided of the suspect was shown for a moment. It obviously hadn't been a great sketch though since no one had been able to identify him yet from it. Corrigan then appeared once again.

Corrigan: "As with the murders in New York, the connection between those murders and the ones in New Orleans was also made through DNA evidence. We feel that, at least in his mind, the murders in New York and New Orleans were amateurish. He was still honing his 'craft' then. I say that because with his murders in New York and even his first couple in New Orleans, he pretty much murdered his victims on the spot and ran away. Very little time was spent with the victims. But after a while, he started taking his victims away from where he first made contact with them and then murdered them in more private environments where he could take his time doing what he wanted to them."

The map came up yet again, going to Los Angeles.

Farina: "Los Angeles, California. An entire seven years have gone by this time, taking us to 1988."

As usual, the city is shown for a few moments.

Farina: "From the summer of that year to the spring of 1992, the killer roamed the streets of the city, claiming at least an astounding thirty-two victims during that time period and possibly several more. And he'd upgraded his weaponry from a simple kitchen knife to things like an axe, a machete, and even a chainsaw, which is when and where his nickname 'The Chainsaw Killer' came from."

A reenactment showed a man that fit the description given by 'Adele' walking down a dark, empty street with a gas powered chainsaw in hand.

Farina: "His victims included not only prostitutes, but also single women and even one man. And somehow, despite his rather absurd weapon upgrades, only a few people witnessed him during those years, none of whom could provide an accurate description of the suspect, and he managed to completely avoid the police."

The show went back to Corrigan.

Corrigan: "Once again, the murders were eventually connected through DNA evidence. It's hard to even try to explain why the killer changed his kitchen knife for much bigger and in the case of the chainsaw, noisier, weapons or how he managed to evade police that entire time. With the weapons, I personally think he was getting cocky. After all, he managed to get away with eleven murders previously. His change obviously worked, because he added at least thirty-two more people to his count and as far as we know, he's still on the loose. As for how he evaded police then, there's a few theories out there. A couple of the theories I'm not at liberty to mention, but one of the more popular theories was that a police officer or officers were giving him rides away from the crime scenes before he could be discovered and apprehended."

Farina returned.

Farina: "The Chainsaw Killer has struck several more times since then. Once again in Los Angeles in 1995, claiming twelve more victims. Then, San Francisco, California in 1996, claiming eight more. In 1998 and 1999, he was in Chicago, Illinois, claiming fifteen there. In 2003 to 2005, he was in Los Angeles yet again, claiming twenty-three more. And most recently, during late last year and this year so far, he seems to have made his way back to New York City, where he's claimed three more. Plus, police believe there's now a copycat killer of him also in New York. That's over a hundred victims in over thirty years. It's also highly believed that he's responsible for quite a few other murders over those years that authorities are simply unable to officially pin on him due to lack of evidence."

Corrigan came on one last time.

Corrigan: "Despite advances in technology with security cameras being located all over major cities now and the few eyewitness reports we've received, very little is really known about the suspect's appearance, other than that he's tall and well-built. He is considered extremely dangerous though, so if you spot him, do not under any circumstances attempt to approach him."

'Adele's' sketch was shown once again. Farina then appeared to do the show's closing.

Farina: "If you have any information about The Chainsaw Killer, please logon to our website."

The url appeared on the screen before the show began its end credits.