Can you get untied?" Craig Sorrell: Somewhere around May or June of 1999, I got a call from ViCAP, which was the national database that we put the info in. And then I had to deal with being raped. He was sometimes referred to as The Railway Killer or The Railcar Killer. She has led our family in how we have recovered from this and it could have gone a completely different way where our family was devastated by this, but instead, we are so happy for how she's led her life. Condemned serial killer ngel Maturino Resndiz, the drifter dubbed the Railroad Killer, being escorted from a Houston courtroom after receiving an execution date. On the day of his execution, he asked forgiveness from the family members of his victims in attendance, and from God, for allowing the devil to deceive me.. She's really just an amazing person individually. A lot of people did not want to believe - you have to be crazy to do that to someone. United States government records show that he had been deported to Mexico at least four times since first entering the U.S. in 1973. Having also confessed to eight other murders, Resndiz was sentenced to death, following an automatic appeal. Holly's House is a child and adult advocacy center that provides a safe reporting location for victims of intimate crimes. Resndiz took sentimental items and also laid out the victims' driver's licenses to learn about their lives. Do you have a family? and what I would want for them is to be proud of, you know, me. Do you want credit cards? His mother, Virginia de Maturino. Holly Dunn's belt lies discarded along the railroad tracks in Lexington, Ky. Holly Dunn: I remember Chris in a lot of ways. Holly Dunn: They repaired my jaw. The Railroad Killers innocuous five-foot, 190-pound appearance belied the monstrous acts hed committed. So he's like the boogeyman coming into your house. What if someone wanted you dead but you lived to tell? He was not tried for any other crimes. That gave me a small sense of satisfaction, that he was scared. He did not deserve to live among us. One of Holly Dunn's sandals lays in the ditch near the railroad tracks where Resendiz brutally attacked her and Chris Maier. ", I was staring at every scar he had, every tattoo he had. Holly Dunn: They got to the moment in the trial when they say, "Is the person who attacked you in the courtroom today?" Two weeks after the murders of the two women in Texas, Resendiz would move his killing grounds north. I think I put my hand up to block it. I was thinking, "Let me remember everything about you that I can, because we'll get you at some point. The FBI task force was stunned to find that ngel Maturino Resndiz had been rounded up and deported eight times in a mere 18 months most unbelievably on June 2, 1999, when state and federal warrants were out and intensive efforts were underway to catch him. No one was stopping him. He was tried for first-degree murder with damning evidence to back the charges up, found guilty and sentenced to death. Det. The electrical box Resndiz hid behind before attacking Maier and Dunn. Most of his victims were found covered with a blanket or otherwise obscured from immediate view. Just feeling so thankful that she was alive and that she was there. In 2006, she received the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for public service, one of the nation's highest honors for humanitarian work. Holly Dunn: I started speaking about two years after the attack. Drew Carter: Detective Sorrell called and we compared details about the cases. Resendiz is escorted from a Houston courtroom after receiving his execution date on Jan. 6, 2006. And there's three people in that ol' pickup truck. An FBI handout depicting the face of the Railroad Killer, ngel Maturino Resndiz. By illegally jumping on and off trains within and across Mexico, Canada and the United States, generally crossing borders illegally, Resndiz was able to evade authorities for a considerable time. His last words were: "I want to ask if it is in your heart to forgive me. After each murder, he would linger in the homes for a while, mainly to eat. At the time of his arrest, Resendiz was suspected in nine slayings near railroad tracks in Texas, Kentucky and Illinois. The Terrifying True Story Of Railroad Killer ngel Maturino Resndiz. Holly and her husband named their first born son William Christopher in honor of Chris Maier. "ANGEL MATURINO RESENDEZ: THE RAILROAD KILLER". It was held here in Houston. On the way, we learned her name was Holly Dunn. Angel Maturino RESENDIZ A.K.A. I don't deserve to cause you pain. I thought he would come back and get me. Shortly before his execution on June 27, 2006, Resendiz confessed to other murders in addition to the known nine at the time of trial. And the pastor and his wife were murdered in their bed with a sledgehammer that was found in a tool room there at the house. Copyright 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The students were walking along some railroad tracks when they were assaulted. Police found her Jeep Cherokee in San Antonio with Resendiz' fingerprints on the steering column. Devon Anderson: It was early in the morning, and Drew was on one side of the International Bridge, waiting. We knew that he was extremely violent. Devon Anderson: It was devastating. Holly Dunn: And I did keep saying to him, "My friend's still out there. By the time of his execution, Resendiz was linked to at least 15 murders in six states. Am itinerant Mexican serial killer who illegally rode freight trains across the U.S., ngel Maturino Resndiz hopped on and off at will to target victims he found close to the railroad. Lawsuits claim it wrecked their teeth. And so, I just stopped. Resndiz was pronounced dead at 8:05p.m. CDT (01:05 UTC) on June 27, 2006. In his final statement, Resndiz said, "I want to ask if it is in your heart to forgive me. But me, as a person, I'm eternal. Watch Live: Closing arguments begin in double murder trial of Alex Murdaugh, Ex-Georgia star Jalen Carter was racing in deadly crash, arrest warrants allege, Watch Live: Garland testifies amid ongoing special counsel investigations, Fiery train crash in Greece kills dozens, many of them students. Ninety miles away in Fayette County, Texas, Josephine Konvicka, 73, was killed by a blow of the same pickax used to kill Noemi Dominguez. And I could not figure where all the blood had come - was comin' from. I wanted to put him down. He promised her that Resndiz would be granted personal safety in jail, regular visitation rights for his family and a psychological evaluation. Nobody else could speak out against him in first person. Det. I said, "He's wearing a white button-down shirt." Holly Dunn: I was really trying to remember every detail about my attacker. Drew Carter: At the time of his arrest, Resendiz was linked to six murders in Texas, two in Illinois and one in Kentucky. One of his aliases, ngel Reyes Resndiz, was very close to the name ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis given on his birth certificate from Izcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico. And for the 1st time there was an indication of sexual . I thank God for having patience in me. I don't even remember exactly what I said or how long it took. This dental device was sold to fix patients' jaws. The room was dark and she woke up [at University of Kentucky Medical Center]. So by the time she took the stand, the jury had heard the gruesome details of all the other murders we had solved at that point. Resndiz found his victims, all of whom were randomly picked, while travelling by stowing away on trains. Prior to surrendering at the El Paso bridge, the U.S. Border Patrol had arrested Resndiz and deported him back to Mexico. I know I allowed the Devil to rule my life. Look at me. ", On June 21, 2006, a Houston judge ruled that Resndiz was mentally competent to be executed. ngel Leoncio Reyes Recendis was born in Izcar de Matamoros, Puebla, Mexico. Resendez was in the United States illegally. There was not a shred of humanity about this man. Det. When we first started working it, we approached it from the standpoint of a fugitive investigation and that was trying to learn as much as we could about the subject at hand. It's not fair that - that I'm still alive and that Chris isn't. DAVID J. PHILLIP/AFP via Getty Imagesngel Maturino Resndiz enters a federal courtroom in July 1999. And he just, like, reintroduced me to the world. Railroad tracks wind their way through Weimar, Texas, past the Weimar United Church of Christ. They didn't know where he was. [Emotional] I don't think Jacob even knows like how much he helped me by just listening to me. Resndiz was evaluated as mentally disturbed but not insane at trial, and on May 18, 2000, with survivor Holly Dunn having testified, was convicted for the capital murder of Claudia Benton. He died on June 27, 2006 in Huntsville, Texas, USA. Local news report: The dragnet for the suspected rail riding serial killer now stretches from Ohio to the Mexican border. We were so close. Prison officials allowed the condemned killer to speak his final words before the lethal cocktail of drugs was plunged into his veins. Or her reason to help people. What do you want? I wish I could've seen his face when he knew she was comin' to testify against him. In 1991, he committed his first known murder on U.S. soil, killing 33-year-old Michael White in Kentucky by beating him to death with a brick. Devon Anderson: I read an account of the execution, and it said that right before they injected him, his feet were shaking under the sheet. Resndiz had many aliases but was chiefly known and sought after as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez. Some also involved sexual *ault. She was covered in blood from head to toe. At the age of six, he was sent to live with his maternal uncle, who raped him, and was also sexually assaulted by a local pedophile. He had gotten the ultimate penalty. The same month, a Texas Ranger, Drew Carter, contacted Manuela, Resndiz's sister who lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico and to whom he was close. In adulthood, he spent a total of 11 years in American prisons for crimes such as assault, auto theft, firearm possession, and burglary. Much of the jewelry was sold or melted down. Maturino Resendiz is a native of Mexico who crossed illegally into the United States for years, hopping on trains to get around the country. They took a motorcycle trip together, bringing a gun along to fire for target practice. I realized, at that point, that he was going to rape me. This is what he did to me." He was executed in the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 27, 2006, by lethal injection. She said that - he wasn't muscular, but he seemed somewhat wiry. All the murders took place near railroad tracks,. She spent five days in a hospital before returning home to Indiana to recover. At the time, he had been tracked down to Mexico. He had like this smug look on his face. But it was near railroad tracks. Criminal Minds Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. [Aug. 29, 1997] I didn't get to hear the answering machine until I got home that night. They couldn't even, you know, cut her hair. I don't know how long I laid there. A drifter beaten to death with a piece of plywood in a rail yard. Between nineteen eighty six and nineteen ninety nine percent is murdered. Four days later, he's in a different state. 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