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You're listening to an Ono Media podcast. Hey everyone, I'm just popping in here real quick because I forgot to tell you that I restocked into the dark merch for those of you who couldn't snag it last time. I know we had a lot of requests. It is so cute you guys. The quality is good. It is not your typical merch shirts. They are boxy, they are thick, thick collar, which is really nice. And then also cute enough that you can like wear it out, but it's also into the dark merch so it's spooky. I know a lot of you missed it last time because I didn't expect that many people to want into the dark merch so I went ahead and restocked it with a couple new designs. So check it out. The link is on Instagram and then also in the episode notes. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. I really, really just didn't want to forget again. I love you let's get to the episode. Hey, everyone, and welcome back to the into the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Peyton Moreland. I'm so happy you are here. If my voice sounds a little different, I woke up so sick today, and I decided I just needed to get out of bed and record this episode. My throat is swollen. I can't swallow. My ears are pounding. But you know, you know we're gonna get you and into the dark episode. But honestly, I feel like booty. I feel like booty. But honestly. Let's jump into my 10 seconds. If you guys saw on Instagram, Garrett and I took a little trip to St. George this last week, and it honest was so fun. And that's why I'm a little confused. I'm sick because I was just in the sun. I was just living my best life. And I don't know, I have this thing in my head where I'm like, if I'm in the sun, there's no way I could get sick because vitamin D. I don't know. Obviously that doesn't work, but it was great. Daisy finally got to swim in the pool, and she was just in heaven. She loved every second of it. Honestly, the vibes were just really good on that trip. It was really peaceful and, yeah, it was. It was so, so fun. But I'm gonna keep it short and sweet because my throat is hurting. So let's get into the episode. Trigger warning. This episode includes discussions of murder and animal abuse. So please listen with care, and I will warn you when we are getting to the animal abuse part. So you can skip now. If you drive every single day, it's easy to treat it as a boring chore, something that doesn't require your full focus, which, as we know, can be dangerous. Driving comes with many deadly risks. Every year, 42,000 people die in car crashes, which is a terrifying statistic, because even if you're a safe driver, the person in the vehicle next to you might be distracted or drunk. And even good drivers can lose control due to a mechanical malfunction or. Or bad weather. And there's one other danger that you face every time you get behind the wheel of a car. If you've listened to Murder with My Husband recently, you probably know what that danger is. It's that you might make someone in another vehicle irrationally angry. Road rage can be just as fatal as any accident or collision, and that's just one kind of violent crime that can happen while you're driving. Some attacks defy explanation. The worst part of all of this is that a deadly encounter on the road can happen very quickly. In some cases, it can be so fast that you don't even have time to process what's happened to you. And that was the case for Los Angeles resident Nicole Delamora. On August 20, 2014. She was on her way to work and she had to take the freeway to get there. Now, Nicole worked a very early shift in Los Angeles. She had to be clocked in by 6am, meaning that the sun hadn't risen yet when she was on the highway. It stuck out to Nicole when she saw another car on the freeway that didn't have its headlights on. Now, LA has its fair share of dangerous drivers, but it just struck Nicole as odd that this other vehicle would do something so dangerous while it is still dark out. So she kept an eye on the other car, worried about what else it might do. It was too dark for her to tell much about it. Like the make or model, all she could say for sure was that the vehicle was large. It was a van or a truck. Now, eventually she lost track of this large vehicle that had its lights off and she forgot about the other driver entirely. It didn't seem like something she had to think about anymore. So she got to her exit, and all Nicole could focus on now was her upcoming day of work. So Nicole pulled up to a stop sign and came to a halt. And that's when suddenly she heard a loud hop. But Nicole didn't know what the sound was or where it had come from. At the same moment that she heard the noise, Nicole also felt a wet sensation, like someone had thrown water over her. When Nicole looked down, she saw that she wasn't soaked in water. It was her own blood. She was bleeding enough that it was flowing down her shirt, drenching her. Now, you obviously probably know what happened here. You would freak out. But Nicole, she didn't freak out or panic. Instead, according to her, everything was surreal, Almost like she was dreaming. This was good because she was able to stay calm and think rationally about this bizarre situation. Nicole turned her head and saw a car had stopped next to hers. It was the same large vehicle as before, a large SUV with its lights off. The driver was someone that she didn't recognize, someone she'd never met before. But he had a shotgun poking out his window, aimed directly at her. He had shot her. Even though Nicole had never done anything, anything to this man before that she knew of. It wasn't even a road rage shooting because Nicole hadn't cut him off or been Aggressive on the road. Whatever his motive, he had obviously followed her off the freeway, pulled up next to her and shot her for no reason. So Nicole's first thought was that she needed to call 911 and get help. But her second thought was she couldn't call anyone here. The road was remote and empty. Other than her in the shooting, there were no witnesses around and no one stopped this man from shooting at her again. So rather than sit there and call for police or an ambulance, she put her foot on the gas pedal and turned the corner. Nicole headed toward a busier street where she knew there would be more people around. And the whole time she was driving, she was praying to God for help. She didn't know what else to do. Eventually she found a spot to pull over. It was in front of a busy building where there were already a lot of people outside. She hadn't lost the SUV by this point. It was still following her. But also, Nicole was getting so lightheaded, she knew she wouldn't be able to drive safely for much longer. She was already losing too much blood. As dangerous as the shooter was, she decided the risk of a car crash seemed even greater. So as Nicole put her car into park, she saw the SUV pull up beside her once again. And that unreal feeling was still in effect. So Nicole assumed that she was either hallucinating or dreaming. As she got out of the car and began talking to the man who had shot her, she asked him why he had hurt her and what he thought he was doing. It's hard to say what happened after that. Nicole's recollections of that day were never clear from that point onward. I do know that eventually she walked away from the SUV alive, and other people from the business saw her stumbling around covered in blood. She found a security guard who worked in the building and he called 911 while another man, a good Samaritan who Nicole had never met before, held her and told her she was going to be okay. And in no time at all, she was rushed away in an ambulance. When Nicole eventually woke up in hospital, there were police in the room with her because she had been shot. They told her she was very lucky to be alive. She'd just come out of a four hour surgery where she'd come very close to dying numerous times. The doctors also said that if she'd arrived in the emergency room just a few minutes later, she wouldn't have survived. She had been dangerously close to death by blood loss at the time that she checked in. Now, in spite of that Nicole's biggest worry at first was that she was late to work. It was hard for her to process everything she had been through because it just seemed so random and like there was no reason. So, out of just natural habits, she focused on mundane issues at first. So, anyway, the police asked her what she'd said to the man who'd shot her or if she knew his identity. And as it turned out, it hadn't been a dream at all. Maybe it was due to shock or something else, but Nicole had actually walked toward the stranger who tried to murder her and talked to him after he shot her. It was a miracle that he hadn't shot her again during that conversation. And at this point, the police knew what Nicole had done because everything had been caught on the building's security cameras. Unfortunately, they'd only captured the visuals, not audio. So the officers didn't know what Nicole or the man had said to one another. And she didn't remember it well, either. All of her recollections were hazy. Still, she was able to give a very detailed description of what had happened before that and of the SUV this man had been in. She even drew a picture of what the car looked like now. From there, Nicole's road to recovery was slow. For time afterward, she needed to use special medical equipment just to breathe. One of the bullets had damaged her neck enough that she couldn't inhale and exhale on her own. Needless to say, Nicole was a survivor of a crime that didn't even make sense. And the police wasted no time in trying to figure out who had attacked her and why. So after their preliminary investigation, they realized that, honestly, they didn't know much at all. Even though their victim had survived. If Nicole didn't recognize the man, then it didn't sound like he'd shot her due to a personal conflict. And none of the witnesses to the attack had seen anything that could explain the shooter's violent actions. Like I mentioned before, Nicole was right. Her attack didn't sound like a road rage incident. She and the SUV driver hadn't interacted at all until the moment he'd pulled off the freeway and fired at her. As near as anyone could tell, the shooting seemed completely random. Before long, the police realized something else that was even more grim. And honestly, it gave an explanation to what had happened Nicole earlier that morning. Nicole was not the only victim of this mysterious shooter in the suv. She was just the first at the start of a deadly spree. See, just one day after Nicole's attack, a man was killed under eerily similar circumstances. His name was Gildardo Morales and he was also on his way to work in the Los Angeles area. And while he was waiting at a red light on the morning of August 21, another car pulled up behind him and that driver fatally shot him. Now, by the time the police arrived at the scene, it was too late to help Gildardo. He was dead. His bagged lunch was sitting beside him in the passenger seat. And that detail really stuck out to the police. He was just going to work, minding his own business when his life was taken from him. The back windshield was full of bullet holes from the attack. 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That's Code Factor podcast@factormills.com Factor podcast to get 50 off plus free shipping on your first box. After that, another day went by and that's when the police got another report that was so similar. Felt like history was repeating itself and there was an emergency. There had been another unprovoked shooting and the attacker had been driving that same very distinct suv. This time the victims were a couple, Felipe and Karen Rueda. A stranger had shot at their car while they were waiting at a stop sign, but luckily Felipe and Karen survived because none of the bullets hit them but 23 year old Mariana Franco wasn't so lucky. She was a young adult who used a wheelchair and had other special needs. And she lived with her parents. They were all going to church together on Sunday, August 24th. This is just two days after the couple was shot at, but survived. And that was when a man, the same man, pulled up next to their car just before 6am Again, it was completely unprovoked when the guy lifted a shotgun, aimed into their car and fired. And sadly, Mariana died of a gunshot wound to the head. Her parents had to be hospitalized for several days because their injuries were so severe. They ultimately survived, but they now had to live with the pain and grief that came from knowing their daughter had been murdered at their side by a man they didn't know. Completely random. They told the police that the gunman had no reason to hurt Mariana. She hadn't done anything to upset him. None of them had met him before. They also reported that right before he had opened fire, he made a comment in Spanish. In English, it either translated to I'm gonna kill you or I'm killing you. And as devastating as that testimony was, this news was about to get even worse. Just to clarify, we've had multiple attacks in a span of just days and two people have died from these attacks. And this shooter was escalating. Just 40 minutes after Mariana's death, the attacker also shot and killed another man, 29 year old Michael Planels. Unlike the other victims, Michael wasn't in a car when he was murdered. He was actually standing in a parking lot collecting cans from the recycling bins there. But witnesses saw that same tan SUV pull up and the same driver shot him to death. And once again, it was completely unprovoked. And just 20 minutes after that, the man killed another woman on her way to her church. This is the third attack in one day. 59 year old Gloria Tovar was carpooling with a friend. She was idling in her car outside her friend's house when the gunman pulled up and killed her. That was four people murdered in just five days, three of them in the course of a single hour on Sunday morning. And seven more people were shot at or injured, but survived. Now, even with 70 detectives assigned to this rampage case, the police still didn't know who the shooter was or what his motive could be. It seemed completely random. So they decided to call him the Valley Killer. Because most of the attacks happened in an LA area neighborhood called the San Fernando Valley. Beyond that, the police had figured out a few details. First of all to all appearances, the Valley Killer was working alone. None of the witnesses had seen anyone in the car with him. There was no reason to think he had an accomplice. Second, it seemed like he didn't have any personal connection to any of the victims. He seemed to be picking his targets more or less at random. To be honest, this feels like a Criminal Minds episode to me, but I do say more or less, because there clearly was some intention behind his crimes. The police pulled security camera footage from as many of his shootings as they could, and they saw the same pattern time and time again. The killer would tell his victims for several blocks or more before pulling up and firing. It was like he was stalking them, working up some courage. Before the shooting, when he killed Michael, the man that was collecting cans in the parking lot, he had circled the same block over and over again. And then when he was ready to commit the murder, he pulled right up beside Michael and shot him at close range. So even though the killer didn't know his victims personally, he apparently had some kind of process he used to pick them and then hunt them down. The police realized a third thing, too. There was no apparent motive for the murders. The shooter wasn't robbing his victims. He wasn't getting revenge. He wasn't experiencing road rage. He seemed to be killing for no other reason than because he enjoyed it. And once they realized this, the investigators were more resolved than ever to find him and stop him. Now, sometimes solutions show up in the most unexpected places. And that was the case for the officers investigating this specific string of attacks. While they were focused on fighting the shooter, they also heard a seemingly unrelated tip from their animal cruelty investigators. See, those officers had just taken a report from another Los Angeles resident. His identity hasn't been made public, but for the sake of simplicity, I'm going to call him Steve. Now, according to Steve, one day he went outside to see an unfamiliar car pulled over right outside his house. It was a tan suv, and the man who owned it was nearby. That other driver introduced himself as Andy. So Andy is the man who's introducing himself in our tan suv. He said his battery had died and he needed help getting his SUV to start. So Steve helped Andy get his car jump started. And when the man drove away, Steve went back into his house. I mean, he kind of felt like he had done a good deed, except to his shock. Steve went outside a few days later. Trigger warning. This is the animal cruelty. I'm not going to go into detail, but three pets of his had been shot in his Yard. Two died and the third one pulled through. Now, understandably, Steve is horrified. This means someone just came and killed his pets. He couldn't understand why anyone want to hurt or kill his dogs. However, his home had security cameras, so he pulled the footage of the shootings to try and make sense of it. And he was even more appalled by what he saw in the video. The shooter was the same man who he had helped with his SUV a couple days earlier. Andy. Steve had done a kind favor for this guy, and Andy had come back and attacked his dogs. Well, Steve handed that security footage over to the police. When they reviewed the clips, they realized that they didn't only have the shooter's face on camera. They also had recorded his very distinctive tan suv, a broken front hood, custom spokes, and stickers on the back. I guess when you have a very distinct car going around and killing multiple people, it's kind of easy to then find a case with similar things that had happened. This obviously feels like escalation started with animals and moved on to people. So it was easy to say that the man who had killed Steve's dogs was the same shooter who was now attacking and killing Los Angeles people in the street all week long. Even better, the cameras from Steve's house had captured his license plate number. So the police were able to look up who owned the suv. And finally, they learned the killer's identity. Now, surprise. His name wasn't Andy. He had lied when he had introduced himself to Steve. It was actually a 34 year old named Alexander Hernandez. And he already had a long criminal record. He had served prison time before for meth possession and dealing, and for various illegal firearms counts. Alexander had never been linked to any homicides before. But just two months earlier, he was arrested in another violent crime. During a fight with his cousin, Alexander had allegedly pulled a knife and threatened him with it. That time, nobody had pressed charges against Alexander, but it showed a pattern. He seemed to be escalating, committing more violent crimes as time went on. So on August 24, the same Sunday when he killed Gloria, Michael, and Mariana, officers rushed to Alexander's home after identifying him to try and arrest him. Except when the police rang his doorbell, Alexander refused to come out or surrender to the authorities. Instead, he stayed inside. And he made it clear he was not willing to cooperate. He even set up barricades behind his front door to stop the police from breaking in. I mean, this man is on a mass killing spree. It's important to police that they get him in custody. So for the next hour, SWAT teams swarmed over the property while negotiators tried to lure Alexander outside. Finally, the officers did bring Alexander into custody. After this long standoff, they didn't disclose how they ultimately arrested him, if he eventually surrendered, or if they found a way into his home. I do know that Alexander had a gun on him when the investigators booked him. It was a gun that they were later able to match to the string of deadly shootings. I also know that initially, Alexander was only charged with animal cruelty, probably because they had him on video. The police took a few days to verify all of their information and make sure everything was accurate before they could charge him for the shootings. At first, all the investigators would say was that he was a person of interest in the Valley serial killer case. Should have been clear that he was suspected of a very serious crime, though, because his bell was set at $1 million. Now, when the police eventually announced that they thought Alexander was the shooter, they repeatedly referred to him as a serial killer in statements and press releases, which made a certain amount of sense. Alexander had already killed four people that the police knew about. But the shooting spree had been so violent and so intense that the investigators, they couldn't believe that this was his first brush with murder. They thought he must have killed someone else before this. So the detectives reviewed their old unsolved files and compared the details of the open cases with Alexander's shootings in August. They wanted to see if there were any similarities or signs that anything else might be connected. Sure enough, they found another homicide that seemed to be Alexander's handiwork, his M.O. if you will.