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Originally Posted by minka1 ↗

If it’s a known serial killer...is there really a need to censor his name?

You can contribute rather than criticize. But you choose to not do anything but the latter. How many posts have you started? Exactly.

[kilyurselph]

What a creepy looking fucker. It's just incredible that there's this many evil people out there. I could never, ever, do something like that to another human being. Yet there are apparently a massive amount of people who could, would, and do, do this to others. Chilling, it really is, and I'm sick of having to share this world with scum like them.

[Omegas3]

Why is his name censored?

[NoelPuppet]

Killer is Ronald Porter.

Subject of Season 1 Episode 10 of Forensic files.

Medical Detectives (Forensic Files) - Season 1, Ep 10 : Insect Clues


https://www.yousubtitles.com/Medical...ues-id-1377760

Here is the transcript of the show:


[music playing]

NARRATOR: Between 1985 and 1988,
18 transients, hitchhikers,

and prostitutes we're
choked, sexually molested,

and left for dead in the
desert mountains of California.

The only witnesses, the
insects of the desert.

And they also turned
out to be extremely

important pieces of evidence.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: The women who
had been choked unconscious

and sexually molested
were all dumped and left

for dead in the high
desert mountains

near San Diego, California.

Not all of the victims died.

And those who survived, all
described the same scenario.

JEFF DUSEK: Several of them had
their pants undone and pulled

down, bras were moved up
exposing their breasts.

One lady had a
nipple ring removed.

So we thought there had been
some sort of sexual activity.

But because they
were unconscious,

we had no proof of it.

NARRATOR: Betty Bass
was one of the victims.

BETTY BASS: Nice
seeing you too, love.

Bye bye.

NARRATOR: She's had a
history of mental problems

and is currently homeless.

But she can vividly recall
the night, eight years ago,

when she accepted a
ride from a stranger.

After leaving this motel
on El Cajon Boulevard,

she looked for a ride going
towards Ramona, California.

A man in a silver car
pulled up and offered

to take her part way.

-I can take you as
far as El Centro.

-Good enough.

He had a clean
car, so I thought,

you know he was a pretty
good guy, a pretty nice guy.

I just thought he was OK.

NARRATOR: As they drove
over the mountains,

the driver said he
needed to pull off

the highway to take
a bathroom break.

When the driver
walked around the car,

he asked Betty to grab
something from the back seat.

As she did, he wrapped his arm
around her neck and choked her.

The last thing she remembers
was losing consciousness.

When she woke up, she walked
up this hill looking for help.

BETTY BASS: So I walked
and I walked and I walked.

Well, I finally crawled
over this fence.

I crawled to the other
side of the street.

Some family came by and
put me in their motor home

and aid me up a little bit.

And then they took
me to the hospital.

-The scene of the
attack is right here

in the dirt, right
by this little knoll.

The car tire tracks stopped
back here a few feet.

And then you could see
footprints up into this area.

Her clothing-- some of her
clothing was found here.

[photo click]

NARRATOR: Police photographed
the shoe and tire prints

and also recovered two
Marlboro cigarette butts.

On Betty Bass' shirt,
detectives noticed

a tiny red carpet fiber.

This attack sounded
identical to another

in the same vicinity
just one month earlier.

Two young girls were
hitchhiking together

at a restaurant near
the interstate highway.

A silver, compact
automobile pulled up.

And a middle-aged man
offered them a ride.

-Where you girls going?
-We're heading to Tucson.

[horns honking]

-I'll take you as
far as El Centro.

-Great.

-Sounds good to me.

-Hop in.

NARRATOR: It was a ride
they'll never forget.

[scream]
[music playing]

911 DISPATCHER (ON PHONE): This

-It was my friend.

He strangled her.

-Do you have any idea who he is?

-Uh-uh.

A guy who picked
us up hitchhiking.

NARRATOR: This
girl was fortunate.

She survived her attack.

And her friend, whom
she feared was dead,

was later found in the
desert, frightened but alive.

The victims all provided
a similar description

of their attacker.

JEFF DUSEK: He was about
early 40's, short hair,

blondish-grayish color, glasses.

That's how they
all described him.

Obviously these
were people who are

going to take a
rides from anyone.

But many of them
told us that they

felt comfortable getting
in the car with him.

NARRATOR: And there
were other similarities

with all of these attacks.

ROGER BOHREN: The things
he said to these women,

it was almost like
he had a script.

It was almost the
same type of scenario.

I can only take you 40 miles.

I'm only going to El Centro.

JEFF DUSEK: The type of
people he was victimizing

were the vulnerable
people in society.

Some people who were
having mental problems,

drug addicts, street
people, hitchhikers.

NARRATOR: Police had a
description of the suspect,

some tire tracks, and shoe
print evidence but little else.

A sexual predator was loose in
the mountains of California.

San Diego's El Cajon Boulevard,
where prostitutes, runaways,

and transients have
congregated for years.

The reason, location.

It's close to a highway entrance
ramp convenient for hitchhikers

looking for a ride.

And it was here where many of
the victims were picked up.

JEFF DUSEK: We had a
series of live victims.

And we also had dead
victims out there

who we thought were
part of the pattern.

We had what we thought was
a pretty consistent pattern,

common footprints, common
tire tracks, the same type

of victims being victimized, and
certainly the same area where

there were being
picked up and dumped.

NARRATOR: When detectives were
called to Sheep's Head Mountain

on July 21, 1988,
they feared another

in the series of
choke and dump cases.

This time, the victim was dead
and nude from the waist down.

ROGER BOHREN: She was found
laying on the road here.

This was more dug
out at the time.

The graders come in
here every so often.

And she was more in the
ditch type of thing.

NARRATOR: The victim had been
dead for quite some time.

Her skin was brown and
blistered from the sun.

Her legs and feet were
covered with blood.

It appeared the victim was alive
before falling into the ditch

because impressions
of her arms flailing

were found in the dirt.

Detectives noticed a blood
trail and her bare footprints

leading almost a
mile up the mountain.

At the top of the
mountain, detectives

found a pair of
shoes, some clothing,

two sets of footprints,
and signs of a struggle.

The footprints led
detectives to a parking area

where they noticed a tire track.

It looked as if a
car had turned around

before leaving the scene.

The victim's bare footprints
led from the clearing

into the brush.

ROGER BOHREN: Somehow she
gets herself out of this area

and then comes back
up, and then finds

her way down the main road.

NARRATOR: On the
body, investigators

discovered some tiny clues.

Hundreds of live,
worm-like creatures.

They were carefully
collected and preserved,

then taken to the
forensics lab for analysis.

Was it possible these
tiny insects could tell

forensic scientists something
about the victim's last moments

alive or even when
she was killed?

The autopsy revealed that
the victim had probably

been choked, but strangulation
wasn't the cause of death.

JOHN EISELE, MD:
The cause of death

was actually a
laceration of the vagina.

The mechanism would
have been blood

loss from that laceration.

NARRATOR: The victim was
identified as Sandra Swick,

a 43-year-old
transient from Florida.

Swick's body was found in the
same general vicinity as many

of the other choked
and dumped victims.

All were found the same distance
from the interstate highway,

usually near a V in the road
where the attacker could

park without being
seen by others.

Detectives still
didn't have a suspect.

But three months
after Swick's murder,

detectives got an
unexpected break.

While patrolling
in the mountains,

Sheriff's Deputy, Larry
Daley noticed a car

driving out of a deserted side.

--As I cam around the bend here,
I could see the car coming out.

NARRATOR: Daley turned
onto the side road

and saw a woman
lying in the dirt

unconscious but still alive.

LARRY DALEY: I saw the victim
lying on the ground, pants down

passed her knees, her
shirt pulled up to her neck

as if someone had choked her.

NARRATOR: Daley immediately
called for an ambulance

and put out a
description of the car

he saw driving from the scene.

After three years
of frustration,

could this be the break
investigators were hoping for?

After finding the body
of an unconscious woman

in the desert, Sheriff's
Deputy, Larry Daley

rushed to his vehicle
and called for help.

LARRY DALEY: I also called out
the description of the vehicle

that I saw coming down
the road towards me.

NARRATOR: A short time later,
this silver Honda was stopped

by an officer who
heard the call.

FRANK KLIMKO: What
I wanted to see

was I wanted to see a monster.

I wanted to see this monstrous
man, maybe someone with three

arms, who came out
and was abducting

women and strangling them.

NARRATOR: The driver was
41-year-old Ronald Porter,

an automotive mechanic with
a history of sexual offenses.

The woman found unconscious in
the desert survived her attack

and was able to identify
Porter as her attacker.

Porter confessed to the
attack but would not

admit to any of
the other attacks

over the past three years.

Investigators believe
Porter was responsible.

And they also suspected
that Porter had murdered

Sandra Swick three
months earlier.

To find out if all these
crimes were the work of one

individual, San
Diego authorities

sought help from the
FBI and their unit which

specializes in studying
serial murders.

LARRY ANKROM: Another
offender would choose

to abduct the same
type of victim,

bring her to the same
type of location,

do the same types of acts with
them in the same locations,

in the almost exact locations,
it became pretty evident to us

that the probabilities
favored it being one person

NARRATOR: Larry Ankrom
identified the remote desert

dump sites as the signature
element of all of the crimes.

The attacker invested
lots of time and effort

into finding these
remote locations.

Another signature element was
the type of women he chose.

LARRY ANKROM: He's making an
assessment before he decides

he's going to go ahead and
ask her if she needs a ride.

And when he's made that
initial impression, then

once he's decided, yeah,
I can control this victim,

then she gets in the car.

And then it becomes
somewhat of a game with him

to get her where he wants to go.

NARRATOR: The FBI was convinced
that all of these crimes

were, indeed, the work
of the same individual.

The next step was for
San Diego authorities

to prove that Ronald Porter
committed these crimes.

The carpet fibers
in Porter's car

were microscopically similar
to the red carpet fiber

found on the blouse
of Betty Bass.

Tire tracks found at
some of the crime scenes

were similar to the print
on the spare Michelin

tire found in the
trunk of Porter's car.

And when searching
Porter's apartment,

police found shoes and
boots with tread marks

consistent with
those found at some

of the choke and
dump crime scenes.

A walkie-talkie discovered
in Porter's storage

shed belonged to a
woman who was choked

and dumped in the desert
mountains a few years earlier.

And the blouse, worn
by that same victim,

contained a semen stain.

A DNA analysis of
Ronald Porter's blood

matched the semen
stain from the blouse.

But despite all
of this evidence,

prosecutors faced a
major legal problem.

By the time police
arrested Ronald Porter,

the statute of limitations on
most of these assault cases

had run out.

If prosecutors were
going to send Porter

to jail for any
length of time, it

would have to be for the
murder of Sandra Swick.

But the Swick murder
was their weakest case.

Investigators found no semen,
no blood, no hair or clothing

fibers, which could
link Ronald Porter

to the Swick crime scene.

A tire track found at the
Sandra Swick attack site

was to faint for analysis.

However, some of the tennis shoe
prints found at the Swick crime

scene were similar to
a pair of tennis shoes

found in Ronald
Porter's apartment.

But Porter's attorney says,
a similar tennis shoe print

is inconclusive.

JERRY KOLKEY: But
5,000,000 other people

with similar shoes,
with similar treads,

could also have made the print.

NARRATOR: And the prosecution
faced another problem.

They weren't exactly sure when
Sandra Swick was murdered.

JOHN EISELE, MD: Time of death
determination by a pathologist

is a very inexact science,
if it's a science at all.

There are certain changes
the body undergoes.

And we can predict general
time frames for those.

But there's a lot of different
variables that affect it.

NARRATOR: If prosecutors
wanted to convict

Ronald Porter of murder,
they needed more.

Could the tiny insects
found on Swick's body

tell forensic scientists
when Sandra Swick died?

And tie Ronald
Porter to her murder?

When detectives found Sandra
Swick's body on Sheep's Head

Mountain, it was
badly decomposed.

The hot desert air and
sun had taken it's toll.

And hundreds of tiny
worm-like creatures

were feeding on her
decomposing flesh.

Investigators wondered if these
tiny creatures might offer

some clues about when
Sandra Swick died.

Detectives collected about
100 of these creatures

and sent them to the
laboratory of David Faulkner.

He's a forensic
entomologist, an expert

on insect activity
on dead bodies.

DAVID FAULKNER, MS:
They can tell you lots

about where they've been,
where the victim's been,

how old the victim
is, conditions

of the body following death.

And those are the things
that are interesting.

NARRATOR: Faulkner's
first task was

to determine the age
of these creatures,

or maggots as they're called.

So he preserved some in
alcohol at the exact stage

of development as
when they were found.

Eventually, the
maggots would shrink

and develop a hard shell.

And a week later, emerge
as a winged adult.

Once Faulkner had an
adult, he could compare it

to the hundreds of different
flies, which inhabit

the California Desert where
Swick's body was found.

After hours of
study and analysis,

Faulkner identified them.

The flies were Sarcophaga,
also known as flesh flies.

DAVID FAULKNER, MS: All the
things this particular group

of flies will do is, they'll
fly in very bad weather.

So if it's foggy, or rainy,
or overcast they'll be active.

And they'll be searching
out a potential host.

Whereas, other flies will
probably settle and wait

until the sun comes out
or until it gets warmer.

NARRATOR: Once Faulkner
knew they were Sarcophaga,

he could study the exact time
frame of their life cycle.

The preserved specimens were
in their third, or final,

stage of larval development.

DAVID FAULKNER, MS: Once
you have them identified,

you know what stage
of development

the most developed ones are.

Then you go backwards
and say, OK, this

was the temperature
regime at that time.

This is how long this
particular insect

takes to develop to this stage.

Therefore, that
body was available,

to these insects, for
this amount of time.

Usually, that indicates how
long a person's been dead.

NARRATOR: In normal
weather conditions,

it takes a week for
the baby maggots

to develop to their third stage
But the weather conditions

in the desert are
far from normal.

During the week Sandra
Swick's body was discovered,

the daytime temperatures
averaged 92 degrees.

In 92-degree weather, it
would take only 3 and 1/2 days

for the freshly laid
maggots to develop

to their third and final stage.

And Faulkner was able to tell
investigators something else.

The Sarcophaga never deposit
their maggots in the dark.

They only do so in daylight.

-I'm going to Florida.

NARRATOR: This meant that
Sandra Swick was still alive

when the sun set on
Sunday evening, July 17th.

But she was dead by daybreak
on Monday morning, July 18th.

At the first sign of
light, these flesh flies

were attracted to the chemical
scent of Swick's decomposing

flesh and immediately
laid they're maggots.

DAVID FAULKNER, MS:
The maggots would not

have done as developed if
she had been alive longer.

If she had been alive
Monday afternoon,

Monday evening, there's
no way that these flies,

under those
temperature conditions,

could have developed
to that stage.

NARRATOR: Faulkner's
conclusions provided police

with a scientific time
frame for Swick's murder.

Now, detectives could
investigate Ronald Porter's

whereabouts during the
time of Swick's death.

Porter worked as a mechanic at
this automotive chain store.

When his time sheets
were subpoenaed,

they revealed he was not at
work on Sunday, July 17th.

In addition, Porter
provided no alibi

regarding his
whereabouts on that day.

JEFF DUSEK: And it matched up.

We had a time period were Ron
Porter was available to drive

from the north
part of the county

down to pick up Sandra Swick and
transport her to East County.

NARRATOR: Based on the insect
clues and the similarities

between the Swick murder
and the other cases,

Ronald Porter was charged in
the murder of Sandra Swick.

Prosecutors believe Ronald
Porter picked up Swick

as she hitchhiked somewhere
near an entrance ramp

to Interstate 8.

-I'm going to Florida.

-Jump in.

I can take you about
40 miles to El Centro.

-That'd be great.

-How you doing?

-Good.

NARRATOR: As the car traveled
East into the mountains,

Porter pulled off
the main highway

onto a dark, deserted road.

He may have used some excuse, as
he did in other cases, possibly

the need to take
a bathroom break.

As he walked around
the back of the car,

he surprised Swick from behind.

Grabbing her around the neck,
in a military-type choke hold,

he pulled her from
the car and choked

her until she was unconscious.

[choking sounds]

NARRATOR: He threw her to the
ground, removed her clothes,

and sexually assaulted
her with his hand.

He then returned to
his car and fled.

[car starting]

Sometime later, Swick
regained consciousness.

Dizzy, disoriented, and bleeding
heavily from the attack,

Swick walked barefoot down
the dark, deserted road,

walking almost a mile
before collapsing.

The blood trail was
almost one mile long.

And she bled to death
from lacerations

suffered during the assault.

JEFF DUSEK: Her death
had to be a tough one.

A very difficult, long dying
process that she went through.

NARRATOR: And the
insect clues were

able to provide detectives
with the time of death.

Something they were unable to
determine by any other means.

JURY FOREMAN: We find the
defendant, Ronald Elliott

Porter, guilty of
the crime of murder.

NARRATOR: Ronald
Porter was convicted

of second-degree murder in
the death of Sandra Swick

and was sentenced to 28
years to life in prison.

Ronald Porter continues
to maintain his innocence.

The insect clues were
an important element

in their case against
Ronald Porter.

And they told David Faulkner all
he needed to know about Sandra

Swick's brutal
attack and murder.

DAVID FAULKNER, MS: You get a
lot of information from them.

Whether a body's been moved,
how long the person's been dead.

Or how long the body has
been available to insects.

Whether the body
has been buried,

whether the person took drugs,
whether they had been poisoned.

All these different
sorts of things

could be in the insects
that are collected

or removed from the body.

[Razorhead]

Interesting case, thanks.

[imbok]

He should have gotten the death penalty.

[kellyhound]

can't even imagine what she went through

[Lindemann]

That guy looks creepy af, it's exactly what I imagine when I think of a serial killer.

[Willy Wonka]

RIP indeed...

[-NocturnalPulse-]

That is crazy. I have never saw those photos before