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Serial Killer Documentary - The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer

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Serial Killer Documentary - The Self-Proclaimed Serial Killer

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1:06In September 2003, on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Richard Paul White was arrested on suspicion of killing his closest friend. That was a cold-blooded murder, bloody shooting. Detectives who questioned White quickly realized he'd more than just one crime to get off his chest. And you guys, my sober, I'm caught, because I've had girls running down the street the way it from me and handcuffs them. Richard Paul White was happy to describe his brutal murders in graphic detail. When I take you to that parking lot, I made this punch in my face and handcuffed my entire nut to get up off the ground. I think he enjoyed what he was doing. The more that he'd do it, the less he would have feelings about it. White blamed his violence on his childhood, on God, and on the innocent women he abducted and attacked. He had a real issue with women who didn't watch the straight narrow.

2:10With four confirmed murders and many more traumatized survivors, Richard Paul White had confessed to being one of the world's most evil killers. In September 2003, when Richard Paul White made his detailed and disturbing confession to Colorado detectives, it sparked a statewide search for the people he claimed to have killed. He gave us a very detailed description for the murder. I think I got it the whole time. It's like July, I'd be hours with somebody in your car.

3:10He goes into detail about two bodies and where is disposed for 30. He also maintains another two bodies have been dumped in a canal in La Junta. We had these bloodhounds from Douglas County come down and it's sniffed. I can't tell you if there were two other women that he killed or if this is just something that he made up. Some of White stories checked out, others may have been nothing more than fantasy. Joel Humphrey was one of the Denver detectives tasked with separating truth from fiction. There was no record that we could find if anyone being dragged to death behind a car and of course that is such a horrific act that would certainly be investigative records about it. Investigators soon realized that both the crimes White committed and the ones he imagined were the products of an incredibly dark and twisted mind.

4:15This killer story begins on the 29th of October 1972 in Denver, Colorado. Richard Paul White and his two younger sisters had a miserable childhood. Their mother and father's volatile marriage broke down when the children were still small. His parents got divorced and then his mother took up with a drunken abusive man. Who abused everybody, beat up his mother. Kids would see the beatings and then he would force her to have sex, those kinds of things. Along with violence and neglect, White and his sisters suffered psychological torture at the hands of their stepfather. He would engrave the initials of, you know, the children onto bullets and then hold a gun to their head. That's sadistic, controlling abusive behavior. White's role with his sisters was he was kind of the protector and he would do anything

5:20to protect those two girls as they were growing up. White and his sisters did not enjoy a settled, stable childhood. He moved around a lot, but I think he attended 23 elementary schools. And that would have created an awful lot of instability and inability to make friends at school to build relationships with the teachers. In his teens, Richard Paul White lived with his father in the isolated town of Macita in Castilla County about five hours drive from Denver. The house there was poor with dirt floors. As White entered adolescence, those around him noticed signs that all was not well with his mental state. White got his sisters pet parakeet and twisted its head off and threw it on the ground so the cat could eat it.

6:20The cruelty to animals in children is just one of those flags that says there's something wrong here. White was later to claim to the police that he committed his first rape when he was a young teenager in eighth grade. If this was true, it was just one indicator of the unhealthy attitude White was developing towards women, perhaps as a result of his experiences at home. Watching his mother be abused, staying in the relationship she was in, you know, step father would beat her and then he would rape her and the next day they go drinking again. Makes it look like violence can be a normal part of relationships. In 1998, at the age of 26, Richard White met 22-year-old Hazel at a bar in South Denver. And he wasted no time in demonstrating to her his twisted attitude towards women.

7:22He was just charming and nice to me and asked me out on a date a couple times before I went. The first date that we had, we went out to drinking at the bars and we came back to his house and he was violent that first night by like smacking something out of my hand. That really angry with me, but then the next morning he like drew me a bath and got me flowers, which is I guess kind of a typical thing for abusers to do, but I didn't know that at the time because I'd never been in an abusive relationship. So I forgave him and we kept on dating. Hazel moved in with White, whom she called RP. When I moved in there is when it got the abuse with that worse and the control. And there was a very abusive relationship. He would beat her. I thought that it would, like it was just like a one-off thing. Maybe he's just got angry and it won't happen again.

8:22But it continued to happen and escalated to the point where, you know, he would, if I left him, he was threatening to, you know, kill my family or do something to my dad or my sister. That was scared to leave. He probably would have absolutely meant that. But it tells us what a controlling individual he is. He sees relationships as something he is an owner of. Control and violence became part of Hazel's daily life. It was pretty much an everyday thing that he beat me. At first it was maybe in the face and places where people could see and then he got better at hiding the bruises, like punched me on my legs or my back or he'd point guns at me all the time. He'd make me, you know, give him, you know, sexual favors with the gun pointed at me. He raped me over and over too.

9:25In 2002 the couple moved into Hazel's father's vacant house in North Denver. Four years into the unhappy relationship Hazel was doing what she could to cope. I was smoking pot so that I could block out what was going on in my life and drinking. He drank a lot. Usually he was a little happier when he was drinking, but sometimes it would escalate. That point I was working from like 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. and then going to college until 11 p.m. just so I could be away from the house as much as possible. Hazel's fear of her boyfriend was made worse by his obvious fascination with violence and murder. R.P. used to read a lot of books about serial killers that was kind of a hobby of his. He'd like to learn about the specifics about how they got away with it. When he would read them or tell me about him, he always had this look in his eye that was really scary.

10:26He was obsessed with one particular awful film that had been banned, in fact. He used to make Hazel watch this film. It was awful I hate watching that. Maybe think about what kind of person he was or what kind of person would listen or watch those kind of things. White also revealed to Hazel that he'd given more than a passing consideration to the practicalities of getting away with murder. He would tell me about how he thought it would be so easy to pick up people who like prostitutes, who didn't have family members looking for them or, you know, no one would miss them. And he could do whatever with them. He would kind of have this excitement about him when he talked about it. Though Hazel was terrified of white, she never suspected that his fantasies might become a reality. In January that year, a young woman whom we're calling Tracy

11:28went missing from East Colfax Avenue, less than three miles away. She was the mother of two children, she lived with her grandmother, and she was last seen at a bus station on Colfax. The disappearance of 25-year-old Tracy, who was blind in one eye, left a hole in her family's life, especially her young children. We had a little girl that was wanted to know what happened to her mother. She thought she'd been abandoned by her mother, that her mother had just left town, didn't care about her birthdays, didn't care about ever seeing her again. In the late summer of that year, another woman went missing from the same stretch of highway. Victoria Tarpon was a girl that lived in Denver on East Colfax with her sister. East Colfax is the longest street in the United States.

12:29The portion that goes through Denver has deteriorated. It has deteriorated to the point that it really, that it is a place you would not want to go. It is prostitutes, people purchasing drugs, and people selling drugs. Victoria Tarpon was from Salt Lake City. She had a criminal history, she was working as a sex worker. She went out, told her sister she's gone out for cigarettes. But she decided then that she had the opportunity to make some money. As the mother of two approached a potential client, a woman she knew a fellow sex worker want her not to go. She advised Victoria Tarpon that the individual that was picking her up had a reputation among the sex workers for being violent. She was willing to take that risk in order to get the quick money. So she could buy drugs. She never came back. Victoria was last seen on the 29th of August 2002.

13:34She failed to turn up to her 33rd birthday party in September. Victoria's sister reported her missing, but in reality, it was not unusual for Victoria to disappear from time to time. The sex workers in Denver would frequently go missing, or do frequently go missing, and it attracts no attention. It is part of their lifestyle that they may disappear for a while. They may find another area to work. They may find an individual to live with, may be arrested and incarcerated. The other people that they work with are not particularly concerned about this because it is such a regular fact of life. Ness than a month after Victoria Tarpon got into a client's car and vanished, another woman disappeared in similar circumstances. Annelysha Gonzalez was picked up at Cole Fax and Pearl. He was 26 years old.

14:35She had had a very troubled life. She was certainly loved by her family. She met people that introduced her to drugs. She became a drug addict, and then she turned to prostitution to find a means of getting the money for drugs on a regular basis. After a short stint in prison and a month in rehab, in the summer of 2002, Annelysha moved in with her mother and tried to stay clean. But then, in August, she told her mother she was going to go out and party. Just weeks after returning to a life of drugs and sex work, Annelysha Gonzalez seemingly vanished into thin air. Her sister became concerned after she spoke to her on September the 9th and then never heard from her again. There were things like birthdays and things like that that her mother would not have, thought she would have missed and her mother was concerned she was missing. While the families of the missing women hope for their safe return,

15:39in the autumn of 2002, in a house just a few miles away, 26-year-old Hazel was in the process of breaking away from her abusive boyfriend, Richard Paul White. Finally, I got the courage to talk to people about it, start talking to people about his abuse. I called the safe house here in Denver, and then I told my dad about it, and I told RP that I had told these people. I think he was worried of being found out that he was an abuser. And finally, he said that one night, if I didn't want to be with him, it was okay that he would leave. It was not a clean break. For months, White refused to leave the home they shared, a house which belonged to Hazel's father. He didn't have a place to go. He didn't have a whole lot of friends, and he didn't have a job at that time anymore. And when he left, he kept calling me.

16:41He was calling me at work, he was calling me on my cell phone, you know, at home. I had to get a restraining order against him. But by May 2003, Hazel's ordeal at White's hands appeared to be over. He stopped calling and stopped making threats. While Hazel attempted to move on with her life, Whites appeared to have stalled. I think RP was staying with his sister some of the time, and also was just homeless. Might have been staying in his car. He didn't really call me. Hazel heard nothing of her ex-boyfriend for four months. Then one evening in September 2003, she learned that one of White's only friends, Jason Reichart, had died unexpectedly. Jason Reichart worked at a printing company with Richard White at one time. Their friendship began there. White met Jason in the late 1990s at a print shop in Denver.

17:42He introduced his friend and coworker to his then girlfriend, Hazel. We hung out with him. We go over to his house and hang out and drink and, you know, have barbecues and stuff like that. Jason was a really sweet and giving man. He was fun to be around. He was always nice to everyone. I've never seen him like in a bad mood or be rude to anyone. I know Jason was close to his family. He owned his own house and he had a nice truck and, you know, his friends with his neighbors. He had a good job. When Richard White left the printing company, the friend stayed in touch. In August 2003, White turned up on Jason's doorstep in Aurora, a city just outside Denver. He was now single and jobless. And he kind of was living in his truck. And I think that Mr. Reichart took pity on him, took him in,

18:44gave him a place to stay. And then he also got him a job at the printing place where he was working. This happy domestic arrangement lasted just a few weeks. On Monday, the 8th of September, 2003, 27-year-old Jason failed to turn up for work. He was one of those employees who never missed. And when he was late, didn't show up, his boss got concerned. He tries to call him, can't find him. And eventually, contacts the police. They did a welfare check at his house and upstairs. In a bedroom they found Jason's body. They find Jason Reichart dead in a pool of blood in his bedroom. The sudden death of good Samaritan Jason Reichart was a shock to those who knew and loved him. Investigating officers work quickly to make sense of the scene.

19:47He was shot in the forehead, one shot right in the middle of his forehead. He was shot with a pistol. The pistol was there, still at the crime scene. And at one point there was a question, was this a suicide? Or was this a homicide? But there was no suicide note, no shell casing. Nothing. What is also significant is that his car, his Dodge car, is missing. Things like credit cards, ATM cards, those kind of things were gone. Things had been wiped down. There had been an attempt to hide things like fingerprints on the door knobs, that type of thing. So there was some indication that was possibly a robbery. There was no sign of Jason's temporary housemate, 30-year-old Richard Paul White. The following day, local media reported Jason's death as a potential suicide.

20:47Hours later, however, white sister contacted the Aurora Police Department with a different story. White sister knew it wasn't a suicide. White had told her it was an accidental shooting, that he had killed Jason while they were inspecting the gun. And so she took him to a place in the Pine Forest. He told her he was going camping there, but he was really hiding out, trying to avoid being arrested. It didn't take him that long. I think it was a few hours before they captured Mr. White. Back at the Aurora Police Headquarters, Richard Paul White stuck to his story, that the Jason Reichart's death had been an unfortunate accident. He initially stated that they were cleaning pistols and that it was an accidental discharge. I think it's bread, I think, my cloth. One minute, we're sitting there talking to Latin.

21:49And next night, I think that I'll go on the ground. White insisted he had no reason to want his friend dead. You know, there's Jason and Jason that helped me out. He'd let me stay on the couch, he'd help me get a job, you know? He was my only friend. I did not mean to kill him. The question in that investigation is whether that gun shot was fired by accident, whether it was fired deliberately. There were a number of inconsistencies. He initially stated it happened in one room. He later changed that to stating that it happened in another room. Homicide detectives interviewing White did not believe his story of the gun going off accidentally, especially when he told them what he'd done immediately after Jason's death. I jumped in this truck and he said it caught me in there. I went to an ATM machine and I took out $240 and then I ran around and picked up some hookers.

22:55White had used Jason's money to cruise the red light district of East Kohlfax, picking up three different women before he called his sister and went on the run. This was a robbery. He was taking advantage of somebody who would help him out and he killed him. And then he took his belongings, he took his money, took his truck, clearly was not an accident. As Aurora detectives probed Richard White's story to get to the truth, they had difficulty keeping him on the topic of Jason Reichart. Several occasions he interrupted them and said, I've done this before. Don't you want to talk to me about the other ones? I could give you the world, I could make your day. And finally they told him, okay, we'll talk about the other ones. When the police officers finally allowed White to expand on his claims, nothing could have prepared them for what he had to say. He tells the police he's killed at least three times.

23:59He also admits to abducting, torturing, and hurting other women as well. Can't start doing things, can't start cruising the bags, I can't start. I need this to start, I need to die or to be away forever. Richard Paul White told the police that he'd been abducting sex workers from Denver's East Colfax Avenue. In horrifying detail, White outlined his murderous routine. He stayed in each case, he picked up his victims off the street. Once they arrived at his house, he would punch them and knock them down, at which point he would begin sexually assaulting them. White described putting his victims through a prolonged sadistic all-deal. These women weren't just strangled to death. They were tortured for hours, 24 hours sometimes.

25:03They were handcuffed, they were forced to pray with him. He would go through these states of rage, where he would beat them, where he would strangle them almost to death, and he'd let them come back. The whole time, raping them. At some point then, he would strangle each of them, and then he would dispose of them in a manner that he thought they wouldn't be found. During that conversation, that initial conversation, the number of three became five. He didn't know any of his victims, and they didn't know him. The officers were shocked at the possibility that a serial killer could have snatched multiple victims without anyone noticing. Denver detectives, including Joel Humphrey, took over the investigation to find out if White's confession held water. He advised us that the first individual that he killed was blind in one eye, had a scar under left arm. He stated that he had abducted her, taken her to his house.

26:06Originally, his only intention was to rape her. He stated that first it was desire, then it was power, and then after he had raped her, he became concerned that she would inform the police about that, and out of fear, he killed her. White told detectives he'd committed his first murder in January 2002. He said he'd then driven the young woman's body 280 miles to Costaea County, where he'd once lived with his father. He left her body in a shallow grave in the remote desert. He did that with the intention of her body being eaten by animals. Something Colorado in that location is not a lot of people. Nobody's going to go hiking over her body or that kind of thing. White claimed he'd made the five-hour drive to check on the body a number of times. It's been after so many times, it's been after so many times, it's been after so many times.

27:10Richard White stated that the last time he viewed her body, the only thing that was left of her body was her pelvis. Four days after White's confession, Detective Joel Humphrey went to Mazita to search for the woman's remains. They found only animal bones. Still having no idea if Richard Paul White was a serial killer or a fantasist, investigators set out to verify another of his claims. He says two bodies are buried in the backyard of a house that he and Hazel shared. Richard White had told them that he had buried the victims in the flower bed that ran along the north wall of the house. Consequently, the homicide unit went out and excavated that area. In September 2003, Mitch Morrissey was Denver's chief deputy district attorney. He attended the dig at the house where Richard Paul White once lived with his former girlfriend, Hazel.

28:15White had since moved out. So I walked up to the men as they were working in the trench digging and they said they already had one body out of the ground. And right next to me was a wheelbarrow. And in the wheelbarrow was a half-opened suitcase, a bag. There was clearly a body in the bag, but it was packed in really tightly and it was discolored. I've been to hundreds of crime scenes and I've never seen anything like this. The female body was exactly who homicide officers had expected to find. 26-year-old Analysha Gonzalez. She was immediately identified because Richard White had kept property of hers. And he had remembered the name and he gave the name to the police when he made his confession. White had explained to police what he'd done after murdering Analysha in September 2002.

29:21She was bleeding and he put a plastic bag over her face to try to contain the blood. I tied her up so he could put her in a suitcase. He then buried her in the flower bed that ran along the north wall of the house. There was still some remnants of that on her body when they did the autopsy. There was still ropes and things that tied her feet to her hands. Richard Paul White's graphic confession was being proven to be true. And the grizzly discoveries at his former home did not stop there. They had a map that had been drawn by Mr. White and they were told there were two. So they were obviously looking for the second victim. She was in the ground with concrete on top of her. With some difficulty, the second woman in the yard of Richard Paul White's former home was disinterred. While efforts began to identify her, her body was taken for an autopsy.

30:26And it became clear that she and Analysha had met a similar end. The question was how did these women die? And that was pretty clear. The cartilage in their necks were broken. And they had clearly been strangled to death, not manually, but with a ligature. What the autopsy could not show was how both the women had suffered at White's hands. Their bodies were too decomposed, but the killer was more than happy to supply the details. He would talk to them about their lives, but he would describe his life to them. And it basically would be an ongoing process of sexual assault, casual conversation, sexual assault, more casual conversation and praying, sexual assault, more casual conversation and pray. Detectives couldn't believe what they were hearing.

31:27An interview that had begun with White confessing to accidentally killing his friend, Jason Reichart, had turned into an horrific tale of a serial killer and the demise of at least two victims. White's former partner, Hazel, was confronted with the fact not only that her ex-boyfriend was a murderer, but also that he'd taken his victims' lives in the home that she and Richard Paul White had shared. I was I was freaking out. I was scared. I didn't have any. I was just freaking out. Like how could that happen? How could that happen without me knowing as well? I suppose how could he do that like in my own house? At least one of the victims had been held in the house when Hazel was at home. He tied her up and placed her underneath the stairs in a storage area that they had that was walled off underneath the stairs. He kept her there all night.

32:29I got out of the whole plan. Now that's what I'd like to have your girlfriend come home and leave that 10-pounder, you know? Along with she and my boss and Richard Tyra. A day? Or so it was a longer. But I don't know because Rick and Mortis didn't leave yet. So I'm thinking the more than 24 hours. I knew he was capable of that and if he had said that he had done those things to other women, I knew that that was very possible to be true because he did you know he did pretty horrible things to me and I was pretty close to death in a lot of the situations and maybe because he had some kind of feelings for me that I was spared. I was very lucky to be spared. On the 12th of September, the search moved three hours south of Denver to Lahanta in Otero County. Local under Sheriff Ken Kimsey found himself drawn into white story.

33:34Two of them he allegedly brought down to Otero County and dumped him. We found out that his grandmother lived in Lahanta. From visiting there, his grandmother there, he knew some of the places to go and ended up going to that canal and dumped him. I don't say to be there, I don't kind of rural. I think it's an irrigation shelter. It's deep and it's fast, it's well fast. This canal is one of the bigger canals and that runs in Otero County and it's 114 miles long, runs towards the Kansas. So we brought some dogs out of Douglas County and they were dogs that would sniff like for bodies. Over a year had passed since white had allegedly thrown his victims off a bridge to dispose of their bodies. We weren't really able to find anything because of the time span, but I truly believe you did dump them there. Why would you lie about that now?

34:38On the 17th of September, while Kennedy's team continued to search in Otero County, white was formally charged in Aurora with his friend Jason Reichard's death. He'd not yet been charged in relation to the women found buried in his backyard. He was in the Arapaho County jail and he was going to be there until he got convicted or acquitted in a trial. So we had some time to put together our case. Once it broke in the media, once there were pictures of Mr. White in the newspaper on TV, women that had gotten away from him started to come forward and they had been raped to buy him. They had been tied up by him. Some of them had been taken back to the same house where we found the other victims, but had escaped him. During the initial interview of Richard White, Richard White stated that he had abducted one woman sexually assaulted her multiple times

35:45and that when he was taking her out of the house, he had her handcuffed and she ran from him. In fact, a split second, she ran down the street screaming from my house with handcuffs and they'll come up short. So I grabbed the AR-15, you know, and I'm thinking, okay, there's a bit, there's a bit of the end. He initially thought about shooting her, it's not better of that. And she ran off and got away. We were eventually able to identify her and we interviewed her. Three women would eventually come forward to tell police they had been abducted and violently attacked by Richard Paul White. One was able to successfully identify him from a lineup. Another led officers to the house where she'd been kept prisoner for almost 24 hours. She attempted to appease him and make it appear as if she really had emotional feelings towards him.

36:49She also talked to him about music and how she liked hard rock and he liked hard rock. After the multiple sexual assaults concluded, he drove her back and dropped her off and she survived. In White's interview with police, he said that God would often determine the outcome for the victims. Then we have to pray together because two people come together and guard me and he'll listen. I told her I was in the camera. She was terrified. You know, she went straight to help him because we prayed, we prayed before I killed her. In December 2003, investigators were able to identify the second woman found in White's former garden in North Denver. Her picture was released and her sister came forward and advised us that her sister Victoria Turpin had been missing. A DNA match between a family member and the remains confirmed the victim was 32-year-old mother of two Victoria Turpin who disappeared in August

37:542002 after going out to buy cigarettes. In May 2004, Richard Paul White was charged with 53 offenses, including the Kidnap, Sexual Assault and Murder of Annalysia Gonzalez and Victoria Turpin, as well as the Sexual Assault Kidnap and attempted murder of the three survivors. When it came down to settling this case, either through a trial, seeking the death penalty, any of those kind of things, there was a plea bargain that was made. The deal related to locating the remains in Costa Rica County of the woman White had admitted killing in January 2002. The DI suggests that if he shows them where the first body was buried, they won't proceed with a claim for the death penalty. White's cooperation would also mean he would not be charged with a woman's murder. He eventually took them to where the body was.

38:59What I remember is basically a section of her pelvis and part of her backbone and that was about it and obviously there was nothing to indicate who's body this was. The remains that were found in September 2004 matched White's description of what was left of the victim's body. That same month Richard Paul White pleaded guilty to the murders of Jason Reichart, Annalysia Gonzalez and Victoria Turpin. On the 29th of November 2004, White is indeed sentenced to two life terms without parole and 144 years for the attacks on the women who are lucky enough to survive him. In early December 2004, he's given life without parole for the murder of Jason Reichart. Richard Paul White will spend the rest of his days at the Supermax Centennial

40:05Correctional Facility in Fremont County, Colorado. It's just a sense of relief, I guess, knowing for a fact that he would never be out. He did write me a letter and almost in him, almost with mocking, mockingly told me that I don't even like saying the word but he said, I'm sorry, I killed those hookers in your house and buried them in your yard. He might have written the words down but I know that wasn't he wasn't sorry. After his sentencing, White sat down with a police artist to describe the victim whose partial remains he'd led police to in Macita. White remembered clearly the facial disfigurement of the woman he'd murdered in January 2002 when the drawing was finished a local detective recognized her immediately. He looked at the composite and he goes, I know who

41:09this woman is. This woman was a eyewitness to a homicide that I had about six years ago. He figured out her name. They were able to go back to her family and contact her children, contact her grandmother and she had been missing for all that time. The body was confirmed as Tracy, the mother of two who disappeared from East Colfax early in 2002. With this final identification, there was some closure for the women's families as well as for Hazel who had to process what her sadistic ex-boyfriend had done right under her nose. I just felt horrible for those women and their families and remembered how he said that no one would ever miss them or know that they were gone, but obviously people do and their families did. We contacted the families later on and did like a candlelight vigil and the families came over to the house and they were able to

42:12light candles for that which was good. While White's surviving victims continue to try and make sense of his devastating crimes, the killer himself has expressed ambivalence, saying that while he feels anger towards sex workers, he also feels sorry for them. He expressed remorse. He described himself as an evil person and he stated that God was telling him to commit these crimes. Serial killer Richard Paul White's worldview was dominated by ideas of good and evil, people who were worthy of respect and good treatment, and people whose lifestyle meant they were deserving of brutality and pain. This belief along with his own sexual deviancy

43:13led to white torturing and killing at least three innocent women and likely even more. White has never explained why he shot dead his friend Jason, but with four confirmed murders and many survivors who suffered at his hands, there is no doubt that Richard Paul White is one of the world's most evil killers.

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