Snapped: Women Who Murder - BONUS: An Eye For Murder (Mark of a Serial Killer)

Episode Date: March 17, 2022

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You can also watch full episodes live or on demand on the free Oxygen app by clicking the link in our description. Enjoy. A woman that was shot and left for dead at that time in Dallas, that was not an anomaly. I'm doing this routine. I have to see. But the eye was gone. I got a call that another body had been found. There was no doubt in her mind that was our third victim.

We knew then that we had the serial killer. Why would a killer do it? To see somebody hunting down women on my beat made it very personal to me. When victims fight back, there's more DNA that we can utilize. We discovered there was a link. There were so many exacto blades and knives. Nobody had had this kind of case before. The

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The Early morning, December 13, 1990. The The Early morning, December 13, 1990, veteran homicide detective Stan McNier is asleep at his home in Dallas, Texas. I was awakened from a call from the dispatcher advising that a lady's body had been found in the street out near a cotton valley close to the Dallas County line. It was a residential area, kind of a rural area in Dallas. Small houses almost out in the country. When we arrived there was a nude body of a female lying in the street. A young lady probably in her 30s, it appeared that she had been shot in the head.

A woman that was shot and killed and left her dead, at that time in Dallas, that was not an anomaly. But the way the body was positioned with certainly abnormal. She was placed in a very vulgar way, showing her private parts with her hands up and her breasts exposed. We found no evidence of weapons or other paraphernalia that would be tied to the crime. I believe then that she was killed somewhere else and brought there.

One of the officers that responded to the scene identified the victim as Mary Pratt. Mary was a known prostitute, a 33-year-old white female. I remember me, Mary. She was sweet and she can be. She was so respectful to us. And she had a conspirit. And I warned her to get off the street. I'm doing this routine. I have to say, like, we've done dozens,

if not hundreds of times by then. I knew she had a gunshot wound at the head. She was shot one time in the head with a 44 caliber bullet from very close range. It was going to intimate crime. Possibly, she knew the killer. You document everything you find. Her length and color, teeth condition, piercings, tattoos, scars, eye color. In the case of Mary Pratt, I got open her eyes, but the eye was gone.

I'd go to open her eyes, but the eye was gone. There's no globe or eyeball present, but I knew she had a gunshot wound at the head, and occasionally a bullet path will disrupt an eyeball. It's not real common, but it's certainly not unheard of. I go and I open the lid of the other eye and it's gone too. I'd never seen anything like that at all. Police fan out through the neighborhood hoping to dig up more information. I was a police officer, a young rookie police officer. All the prostitutes, we knew them very well,

and we dealt with them on a daily, hourly basis. When you're working this street, it sounds strange, but officers develop relationships with the people they work with. John and I were talking to prostitutes, pimps, all of them gathering knowledge, just trying to get to the bottom of who this could possibly be. My partner and I felt very responsible for that area.

Appreciate it. We had the ability to go where we wanted to talk to the folks and build a relationship. folks and build a relationship. One day after the discovery of Mary Pratt's body, officer Regina Smith and her partner come across a local woman they know well. I ran into Veronica Rodriguez. Veronica Rodriguez was a regular prostitute

in the Oak Cliff area. She was working early that morning. When we first saw Veronica, she was cut up, she had pieces of dirt and mud in her hair. When you see somebody in that condition, you're like, what happened to you? Veronica said that she and Mary Pratt were doing a double out in the field with the style of trip. And she had been attacked and had to run for her life to get away.

Mary Pratt was down on her knees when she was shot. her knees when she was shot. Veronica said that she was able to escape into the darkness and that she ran. She ran to a neighbor's house. Veronica was so strong out on drugs, and she was well known for fabricating stories. Her word was not bond. We took every word down, as she said.

We had some doubts. Veronica Rodriguez is unable to provide a description of the murderer, and says she doesn't know the name of the neighbor who helped her escape. There was a lot of violent crime that was going on in Dallas, hundreds of murders a year. It was during a crime wave that went through all the major cities in the country. The homicide department can barely keep up with the number of murders. With little to go on, Mary Pratt's murder case goes cold.

I got a call from the dispatcher's office that another body had been found. When officers arrived on the scene, they saw the body of a female partially nude, bloody, this victim was shot multiple times in the torso and in the head. She was displayed in a very similar pattern as Mary. Partially nude, red showing, arms flailed out. Legs failed out in a very vulgar man. -♪ Money morning, there was another doctor, and he said, oh, remember that case you had with the eyes gone?

I said, yeah. He said, I had another one like that this weekend. Pulled up both cases and realized they were both found about eight blocks apart. He turned to her with a look of rage in his face and said, I'ma kill all of you holes. Another body had been found. MUSIC

Dallas police are working a unique murder case, where the killer has surgically removed victim Mary Pratt's eyeballs. Two months later, they have a second victim whose eyes have also been removed. This was the second case where they've been removed. And again, it shows there that they were probably removed by extreme precision. When you look at her from the outside, their eyelids look normal. There's no disruption of the eyelid, upper, or lower.

There's no cuts, tears, or anything unusual. This indicated some degree of care or skill being able to remove an eye from the front like that. We're not talking about a violent pulling of eyes out of a socket. We're talking about taking time and being very methodical and performing surgery after death to remove the eyes. Why would a killer do it? Why would a killer do it? What motivation would he have after he's already killed the woman to take the time? This is time that he could be getting caught.

The second victim's fingerprints are sent for identification, and the results come as a shock to officers Regina Smith and John Matthews. Once the fingerprints came back, Dallas County advised us that the second victim was identified as 27-year-old Susan Peterson. Like the first victim, Susan Peterson was a prostitute in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas. I knew Susan very well, and Susan was one of the more outgoing, more social women to see that there is somebody hunting down women on my beat made it very personal to me. I saw Susan Peterson before she was killed, and she told me that I would be proud of her

because she was clean now and that she was getting married. I said, well, I'm happy for you. She said, well, I just hope you find who killed Mary. The next day, Susan Peterson was killed. The next day Susan Peter Susan came. I was actually frightened that Susan had been killed because I knew that if he got Susan as tough as she was, that we were dealing with a very bad cure. We just had to find the person that was doing this.

Police now believe that the same killer has left his mark at both crime scenes. Dallas police reached out to FBI to say, we have two women that are killed in very similar circumstances, and both of them have had their eyes surgically removed. And the FBI checked their database. And they tracked most of the murder cases in the United States.

They'd not have a victim that had its eyes surgically removed. Nobody had had this kind of case before. They had no idea who to look for. The FBI's behavioral unit focuses on the killer's unique mark to help them build a psychological profile of their suspect. The victims had been shot with a gun. That would suggest that the offender wanted to kill the victim quickly because his goal, his whole purpose was to get at those eyeballs. The victim is left nude in a residential neighborhood that certainly implies that this is a sex

crime and the eyeballs were tied in somehow to the sexual pleasure. The idea of the eyeballs becomes very important to this crime. Offenders who take trophies, it enables them to relive the event. And it's very high-risk behavior. That's all exposure, not only to possible witnesses, but also to forensic evidence. That implies just an incredible sense of arrogance and ultimately maybe feelings of being godlike. Perhaps we had a crazy doctor or surgeon

because the taking of the eyeballs was done with such surgical precision. They said that he would be connected to the neighborhood where the bodies were found, someone that frequented prostitutes. My experience with serial sexual killers is that they will craft a lifestyle around themselves. And that can include the type of work that they do.

When they go to work, who they pick as a wife or partner, that won't question them when they go out late at night, all in an effort to continue this behavior that is so important to them. The police department has female officers who had been ordered to be prostitute decoys to try to pick up the John. There were undercover officers who were photographing license plates of any car going by. The girls still only talked to us. The girls knew that we cared about them, that we were looking out for them, and that we didn't want them to be the next victim.

They were scared. They were scared they were gonna be murdered and their eyes cut out. One month passes, and their war rooms are full of diagrams and maps up on the bulletin boards. They're doing everything they can to find a suspect, and they can't find one. The case seems to have gone cold.

About a month after Susan Peterson was killed, my partner and I ran into Veronica Rodriguez again. We knew that she was out doing a trick, and immediately Veronica ran to us and said, don't arrest him, don't arrest him. She said, he's the one that saved me. He's the one I told you about, referring to her previous story that she had told us

about escaping from possibly being murdered. It was a gentleman known as Axton Shindler. Investigators hope Axton Shindler might be able to tell them more information about Mary Pratt's murder. If Veronica Rodriguez's story is true, Schindler is a possible witness to a homicide. His nickname was Speedy, because he talked very quickly. Like someone on speed, he's a very strange guy.

I said, Veronica said that you saved her that night. Is this true? What went on that night? And he was very dismissive to me. He wouldn't even answer. He was like, I don't know. He never said yes or no. He just threw his hands up.

It seemed like he was more frustrated about being caught. Axton Schindler proves to be an uncooperative witness. Investigators don't know if he's just worried about being caught with a prostitute or if he might know something about the night Mary died. My partner and I just took all of his information. He gave me a driver's license with the address of 1035 El Dorado.

I knew that there was something funny going on. El Dorado was in North Oak Cliff, and I knew that where Mary's body was found was way south of Oak Cliff. So I knew the difference between where Veronica Rodriguez said she escaped in Rantia's house then to 1035 El Dorado way on the other side of town. My partner and I told the story of Veronica Rodriguez

to homicide division, but it's coming from two young rookie officers on the street, and I'm sure they did their job and tried to take it seriously, but at that time, we never heard back from them. Axtons Shinler remains a person of interest, but police are forced to let him go. Axtons Shinler Axtons Shinler

Axtons Shinler Axtons Shinler Axtons Shinler Month after Susan Peterson's murder in March of 1991, I got a call from the dispatcher's office that another body had been found in Oakley. Once I drove up, the way the body was displayed in the street, we knew that that was a similarity. Then once we got up to the body and looked at it, we knew then that we have a serial killer.

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A third body has just been discovered. We opened the eyes, the sockets, and saw that there were no eyes in the body. When we saw that the eyeballs were missing, we felt then we were looking for the same person that was responsible for all three of the killings. Patrol officers on the scene identified her as Shirley Williams. She was a prostitute who worked in that area of O'cliffe. Shirley Williams had a day job in housekeeping at a Dallas motel. She was married and had a daughter.

Shirley had family. She had a close family. They didn't know her lifestyle situation. You want to be able to give that victim's family some closure as to what happened. The medical examiner confirms that the eyeballs are again missing, but the killer has diverged slightly from his mark. In this case, the eyes have been removed with far less care. What was obvious on first looking at Shirley Williams,

as versus the other two, she had put up a fight. She was beaten up in the face. There were cuts around the eyes and face that we hadn't seen on the other victims. She had a grazed wound, so that was an indication her head was moving before she was shot in the cheek. Surely saw something happening at the last moment and tried to prevent it. He didn't anticipate that, and there was a struggle then ensued.

But even after a struggle like that, he's still going after her eyes. When victims fight back, there's more DNA that we can utilize. They may scratch the suspect, getting skin, hair, fiber under their fingernails, anything like that. She had a cut just to the right of her eye in this temple area that on X-ray, we had seen a little fragment of metal. We removed a small triangle of what turned out to be an X-acto knife. With the discovery of the X-acto knife and Betty in the skull,

that pretty much eliminated any doctor who is going to have scalpels and professional medical tools. We just knew from the evidence we were dealing with an amateur, for sure. Like a hobby of somebody that builds model airplanes or a carpenter or anybody that may use exacto knives in their work. So now we had somebody that had knowledge of anatomy, that had studied or learned how to remove the eyes, but was doing it in a very rudimentary way using exacto knives that you could buy just about anywhere. The suspect could have been anybody.

Also recovered from her body were two head hairs from her left hand, which means she probably grabbed his head before she was shot. There was also one intact pubic hair found back for neck. So now we have a transfer of evidence from the killer to the victim. And so you can try to tie it back to the killer. They have evidence but no suspect and no motive. Police have no idea who would leave such a grotesque mark on his victims or why. A few days later, a long time prostitute named Brenda White

agrees to speak with detectives. She shares a story that could break the case open. Brenda wouldn't normally talk, but with the three murders now occurring, Brenda wanted to let us know about somebody attacking her. She told them that she got picked up by a trick. She told him she wanted him to take her to a certain place. And he started driving a different direction and she said, let me out of the car.

He turned to her with a look of rage in his face and said, ah, hey, holes. I'ma kill all of you, holes! And she pulled out her mace in mace tamp. And even before he could stop the car, she bailed from his vehicle. She thought that was the only way she was gonna make it out alive. I said, well, Brenda, what did he look like? She said he's a white male,

with salt and pepper hair, muscular bill, and Mexican looking. He's not Mexican, but he has an olive skin tone. That's what she meant. The improved description doesn't match that of Axton Schindler. The only person of interest police have developed in the case. Officers Matthews and Smith decide to take this new piece of information and try out some new technology at the police department.

I said I'm going over to the Constable's office and I'm going to utilize their computers to try to find this John. The two beat cops enter in all the addresses they've come across in their investigation to see if any are linked to a man who matches the description of Brenda White's attacker. I was just putting in different property addresses and see if there was any commonalities that I could find. I put in that computer that driver's license from Extant Shinnler with the address of 1035 Elder Rottle and it pulled up Frederick Albray.

I said, well, who is that? Frederick Albray was Extant shinlars laying Lord. Upon searching the tax records, we discovered that there was a link. We discovered that Fred Albright owned property, both at 1035 Al Dorado and in Cotton Valley, close to where two of the girls' bodies were done. At 1035, Alderado and in Cotton Valley, close to where two of the girls bodies were done. Right there is what we call an affirmative link. And then I read his voting record

and then I saw his death certificate. And I went, something's not right. Dead people don't vote. One of the deputy constables, he overheard us talking about all-braids. He said, wait a minute, I know that name. He had said he had received a tip from a female several weeks before that said she knew an individual used to

date him. He became increasingly violent that he had a fascination for eyes, and that she even knew that he had exacto knives. She gave the deputy the name. The suspect she called about was Charles Albright. Within a couple of keystrokes, it was easy to determine that Charles Albright was the son of Frederick Albright. I had a funny feeling inside. Very quickly, he had multiple charges. He'd been a prison.

I was able to pull his picture. In the picture, we saw a 57-year-old man with salt and pepper hair and athletic build and olive colored skin. That almost exactly matched the description that Brenda White had given us. When I saw that, I had chills up and down my spine. I said, that's him. I got him. Police have a name for their suspect, the man who may be responsible for leaving his terrifying mark on three victims.

We found out that he had an overnight job as a part-time newspaper delivery man, which would excuse him from his house during the wee hours. We were certain that we were on the right track. Our next step was to go to a homicide division. They had no idea what kind of reception they're going to get when they bring their investigation to these veteran homicide doctors.

Well, they laid out the whole case of what these girls had told them and this Eldorado address and Charles Albright's association with it and Albright's past and how he matched the description. The detective in charge asked me to go to Brenda White and present a photo lineup with Charles Albright's picture. We met Brenda White, and as soon as I presented that photo lineup to Brenda White,

she said, that's him, without any hesitation. My partner and I decided to show Veronica Rodriguez a lineup, she identified him also as the person that she escaped and got away from. Once we had two positive identifications on all bright, we contacted the tactical squad and told them that we had warrants and that we were

going to run them at a residence on El Dorado in Ocliffe. in Oak Cliff. It was after midnight, probably two o'clock in the morning. Officer Smith and her partner were there, two FBI agents. They were probably eight or nine SWAT officers. That's when we told the SWAT people we were ready to go. They threw flashbangs through two windows. The Dallas SWAT team surrounds the house of Charles Albright, the man's suspected of killing three women and expertly removing their eyes. Once we got the signal that everybody was in position,

the house was breached, stunned grenades were thrown in, literally blowing the suspect out of his bed. He didn't offer any resistance, and his girlfriend didn't offer resistance. Took him both outside and split them up. I escorted his living girlfriend out of the house. She was a middle-aged lady. She was visibly shaken and had no idea what was going on. I gave her a cigarette, calmed her down,

because she had just been through other hell. And the next thing I saw was Charles Albright and Rambokini underwear. And then they brought him over to me and they said, off to Williams, is this the guy? And I said, yes, that's him. I can tell you one of my proudest moments as a police officer was when the sergeant of the tactical team called me inside

and said, you deserve this, and handed me Charles Albright. To take to the squad car, the arrest of a serial killer, and it was emotional. I still get emotional thinking about it. Police charge Charles Albright with murder.

Since Albright was in custody, we began building the case. Police sent Albright's DNA off to the lab and begin to interrogate him. Do you have any idea why they're accusing you? No, sir, no. He denied everything and said, I've never been with a prostitute. I don't know any prostitutes. I've never been with a prostitute. He denied everything. He got representation and refused to talk to us about any elements of the crimes.

After Albright is arrested, we begin to search his house. So I was looking for eyeballs. Zach Donives, I was looking for hair fibers, even collected the bag out of the vacuum cleaner to try and match up to see if any of those prostitutes had been there. The house was in a messy state, closing books and stuff like that everywhere. We found some books that had to do with serial killers.

And there was some newspaper clippings about the offenses before we learned who he was. And hundreds of pictures of these women, which he focused in on their eyes. These were women, He saw them all. He would take close-up shots of their faces as they walked by. And he focused on their eyes. We found a fireplace that had a trap door.

And down inside was a several gun. He was a convicted felony, wasn't supposed to have any bombs. We found another significant piece of evidence. He had exacto knives all over the house. Oh, my goodness, there were so many exacto blades and knives and all that kind of thing. Authorities dig into Albright's past, hoping to find clues as to what could have motivated him to kill these women and what he might have done with their eyes.

Albright was born in 1933. He was adopted by Dale and Fred Albright. His parents died in the 80s. Albright's adopted mother, Dale, was a strict person. Critical could be overbearing. There was great resentment that his mother tied him to the bed to take naps, forced him to play the piano. She sometimes dressed him up as a girl and girls dresses.

He sort of just resented that kind of controlling nature. Dell taught him in her particular special hobby of taxi journey. Then started working on small animals. One of the challenges was to take the eyes out, which he learned to do, scoop them out, that sort of thing. Charlie will always want to replace the eyes with these beautiful marble-like eyes that you could get at the taxidermy shop.

But they were expensive, and Dell was a very frugal woman. Instead, she got black sewing buttons and let him sew black button eyes over where the eyes were. That could have been one of those triggers. Not only am I going to kill women, but I'm going to do something that my mother never let me do. I'm going to get their real eyes, and I'm going to keep them." Among the mountains of circumstantial evidence

in Albright's house, detectives continue searching for the one concrete clue that would definitively close their case. There was very interesting evidence discovered in his house, but the fact is it didn't tie him to the crime at all. It was all circumstantial when we didn't have enough to file murder on him. The techers were hopeful that they might find the eyeballs

in that house that could connect them to our victims. They looked everywhere for it, but they didn't find it. Then investigators find what may be a crucial lead. We found information that led us to the place on Westmoreland where he had a storage unit. And we opened up the door and lowered the hose. It was like a scene out of a horrific movie. Digging into the information that we recovered, we discovered that Albright had a rental storage unit. We discovered that Albright had a rental storage unit. It was like a scene out of a horrific movie.

It had all of these animals preserved in Formeldehyde, jars and jars and jars and stacks of them. It was shelf after shelf of pickles, throats, salamanders, a noose. We started finding a lot of taxidermy stuff and stuff in Femalle de Hyde. We had learned that Albright had a fantasy for taxidermy.

That was a huge major clue that said, OK, this individual has the skills and knowledge and ability to remove eyes. Maybe even only using exacto knives, but he can do it. Black raised our eyebrows, using exacto knives, but he can do it. That raised our eyebrows, the exacto knives, and he'll be interested in taxidermy. We were looking for evidence that would connect him with some of the bodies. The storage unit is a huge find, but even then, the evidence is all circumstantial. Every time we found something like that, you know, the evidence is just building, the evidence is all circumstantial. Every time we found something like that,

I said, you know, the evidence is just building, the case is just building. I was convinced that we had the right guy. All these things were pointing at him as being a possible suspect, but there was nothing that we could use to point towards killing being the killer. There was more need to gather more evidence because we didn't have him really connected to the victims in the case. Our theory was if someone's going around serial killer, killing prostutes,

he's going to have a lot of contact with these women. And therefore, we wanted to find those witnesses that can connect them to our victims and make our case stronger. So Regina and her partner hit the streets this time with a full photo of Charlie. And they say, do you recognize this man? Word is spread that the guy responsible is in custody, so the prostitute started talking more freely

to Officer Smith and her partner. We take his picture and show it in a lineup to a dozen prostitutes and everyone picks him out and not only does everyone pick him out, they go, oh, he was one of my tricks, or he was one of my regulars. Some talk about how he would come by and give them hamburgers and clothes,

but they was a Mr. Hyde to his Dr. Jekyll. Some would talk about how he wanted to do sort of strange, sadomasticistic acts with them, like beating them with a rope. They would get paid extra money to take a pretty vicious beating and scream a lot because that's what he enjoyed. Everyone was very worried

whether we had sufficient evidence to convict Charles, all right. So there's a lot of pressure there to evil that evidence and get him convicted because there's a lot on the line. This guy gets away that he's going to commit these crimes again. We immediately went down there hoping to find evidence. Evidence that may have been from the night of Shirley's murder. It had blood and everything,

and I just knew that was Shirley Williams blood in there. Charles Albright is suspected in the murders of three women, leaving his mark by removing their eyes. Investigators are desperate for physical evidence to tie him to the murders. Then, officers Smith and Matthews find what could be the final piece of the puzzle. During that investigative process,

I encountered one prostitute in North Oak Cliff by the name of Tina Connolly. Tina Connolly was Shirley Williams' best friend. And the last time she saw Shirley Williams was the very night that she was killed. Tina Conley saw Charles Albright that night. She didn't want anything to do with him. She left Shirley Williams was the only other prostitute working when she got back. Shirley was gone.

Tina Conley had said the last thing I saw were a yellow raincoat. She told us of a field down the street from the motel where Shirley was picked up the night she was murdered. She used to take all bright on dates in this field. We immediately went down there hoping that she would be able to get where Shirley was picked up the night she was murdered. She used to take all bright on dates in this field. We immediately went down there, hoping to find evidence.

Evidence that may have been from the night of Shirley's murder. During our search for the field, there was a large pile of trash in the middle of the field with plywood, and it was just browning gray. But sticking out of that, Gina saw a yellow raincoat. It had blood and everything, and I just knew that was Charlotte Williams' blood in there. The yellow raincoat was a lot of dry blood,

but it had been exposed to the sun and the elements that there was no further DNA testing could be done on. They started to examine it and were able to take some hairs from the raincoat. There were these strange animal hairs found that it took a while for our forensic analyst the raincoat. There were these strange animal hairs found that it took a while for our forensic analyst to figure out.

It turned out it was squirrel tail hair. And Charles L. Wright's house investigators took his vacuum cleaner bag. The same squirrel tail hair was found in Charles L. Wright's vacuum cleaner. Also found in that vacuum cleaner were eight head hairs that had the same characteristics as Shirley Williams. It's exactly the piece of evidence they've been looking for.

And several weeks later, police kept results back from the lab that analyzed the hairs found on Shirley Williams' body. They were a match. They had enough evidence to charge them with the murders. There was a lot of pieces put together to build a case to convince a jury. As the trial begins, prosecutors decide their best strategy is to try all bright only for Shirley Williams murder.

The primary case was the murder of Shirley Williams. That's where we had the most evidence. We're final act to try to find for a life actually resulted in evidence that convicted or killer. Once we got the guilty verdict, we knew what the punishment would be. So, jury was going to give him life, and they didn't waste any time sentencing to life sentence. It was big news in Dallas, and the community were so thankful that we had caught him. Now, they could relax because this prolific killer has been captured. You know, I've heard this phrase from folks afterwards. How do you know you got the right guy?

It's simple. No more women died. Axton Schindler was cleared of any involvement in the murders. Albert died in prison on August 22, 2020. He was 87. For more information on Mark of the Killer, go to oxygen.com.