True Crime Deep Dive: Toledo Ohio's Worst Serial Killer Up For Parole скачать в хорошем качестве

True Crime Deep Dive: Toledo Ohio's Worst Serial Killer Up For Parole

Could Toledo Ohio's worst serial killer of all time really be set free right before Christmas? WTOL 11 Investigates takes a true crime deep dive into the slayings and the legal system to see what will happen next for the serial killer who is one half of the infamous Cook Brothers. MORE: https://www.wtol.com/article/news/inv... THE VICTIMS: Vicki Small. Tommy Gordon. Connie Sue Thompson. Dawn Backes. Denise Siotkowski. Scott Moulton. Stacey Balonek. Darryl Cole. Peter Sawicki. At least nine murder victims between May of 1980 and September of 1981. Anthony Cook is the most prolific serial killer in Toledo history. And on Dec. 5, a parole board will decide if the now-75-year-old should be returned to the streets of Toledo. As Cook was stalking young couples, he was being hunted by the Toledo Police Department and Detective Frank Stiles. “He’s just a cold-blooded killer. If they let him out on parole, it wouldn’t be hardly any time at all before he would kill somebody,” Stiles said. “I don’t have a question in my mind.” On May 13, 1980, Sandra Podgorski and her boyfriend, Tommy Gordon, were sitting in Gordon’s car in the drive of Podgorski’s Utica Street home. Anthony Cook approached the couple on the driver’s side. On the other side was his younger brother, Nathaniel, who smashed in the passenger-side window with the butt of a rifle. The men forced their way into the car, drove the couple to a remote area, and after Gordon escaped and began running, Nathaniel shot him multiple times, killing him. Podgorski was raped and stabbed dozens of times by Anthony and left for dead. She did not die, however, and would later be key in convicting both brothers. Gordon’s killing was the first of three that the brothers committed together. All the murders were brutal, but the Feb. 21, 1981, killing of 12-year-old Dawn Backes seemed to affect Nathaniel to the point that he stopped killing and blended into society without any interaction with police until he was arrested in early 1998. As she was walking home near the University of Toledo, Dawn was spotted by Anthony, who followed her in his truck, drove to an intersecting street, then jumped out and grabbed her and put her on the floor of the front seat. He then drove to an apartment to pick up Nathaniel and the men drove her to the abandoned State Theater. Both men raped her in the basement and crushed her with a blunt object. Twelve-year-old Dawn Backes' body was found in the basement of the abandoned State Theater in Toledo's Old West End in February 1981. The theater, which had been vacant since the 1960s, remained vacant until it was torn down on Dec. 16, 1994. “It doesn’t get much worse than the little 12-year-old. He picked her up off the street … and to do that to her,” Stiles said, his voice briefly trailing off. “They were cold-blooded, mostly Tony. I handled thousands of cases and I’ve had a lot of murders, brutal murders. I’ve never seen anything like that.” Subscribe to WTOL 11 - https://bit.ly/32odAkM Connect with us on social media: Go 419 Facebook -   / go419   Facebook -   / wtol11   Twitter -   / wtol11toledo   Instagram -   / wtol11toledo   WTOL 11 newsletter - https://wtol.com/email WTOL 11 News app - https://interactive.wtol.com/appredir... WTOL 11 Weather app - http://onelink.to/wtol11weather