Manny Cortez was convicted of killing two 11-year-old friends, but recordings of his sessions with Dr. Al Carlisle suggest the California native could have even more victims.
“This is an opportunity to tell some stories that we don’t normally tell on Dateline. Because these stories don’t have an ending yet,” Dateline reporter Josh Mankiewicz said of the podcast Dateline: Missing in America.
Before disappearing, John and Linda Sohus had lived on the same property as a mysterious tenant calling himself Christopher Chichester — but after the couple vanished in 1985, detectives would learn Chichester was not the man he claimed to be.
Through his work with Dr. Al Carlisle, Manny Cortez was able to trace his violent roots to a book he found as a child that depicted violent acts against women.
When reliable rancher Jake Millison disappeared, his friends were immediately concerned, but his family insisted he was fine and may have had secrets of his own.
Don York claimed to have no memory of shooting his wife Pat or her new love interest, but under hypnosis, York revealed some startling claims about the night of the shootings.
"Danny" was trained to kill as a marine in the Vietnam war, but as the veteran would tell psychologist Al Carlisle, that killing instinct never left him.
While prosecutors painted Lyle and Erik Menendez as spoiled, self-serving liars who killed their own parents to inherit their millions, the defense argued they were traumatized victims of sexual abuse who feared for their lives.
Ted Bundy performed well on standard psychological tests during a 1976 evaluation, but one clever psychologist decided to dig deeper into Bundy's past to uncover the truth.
“I think in my own mind, it’s killed once. Can you go to hell anymore for killing twice?” serial killer Arthur Gary Bishop explained of how easy it was to take the lives of five young boys.
