Serial Killer Documentary - The Doorstep Killer

On the 3rd of February, 1997, the bodies of a 35-year-old woman and a 10-year-old girl were discovered by firefighters as they responded to an emergency call in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois.

They knew that without an autopsy that they had been murdered. Their throats were slit.

The mother and daughter had become the fifth and sixth victims of a sexual sadist named Paul Runge.

The unique MO that he had used when he was killing his victims was using a guise or a ruse to lure them or to get inside their homes. And then, by the end, sexually assaulting, killing, and setting their homes on fire.

Years later, Runge would shock investigators with a detailed confession of his two-year crime spree.

Having him walk me through the crimes, how he did each one, how he basically cased the crime scenes, you know, the thought that he put into it, the premeditations, I mean, the guy was an absolute animal.

The barbaric killer had gone on record. Paul Runge had become one of the world's most evil killers. MUSIC Between 1995 and 1997, Paul Runge raped and killed six women and a young girl in Chicago, Illinois. The police had suspected him in the early investigation, but lacked the evidence to make an arrest. But in 2000, a DNA match taken from his youngest victim finally led to his conviction.

They were watching him. I mean, the FBI was involved. And that doesn't happen in local murders all the time. So they were on to him and they were watching him, but they needed a break. They needed a big break. And the big break came in the DNA.

When confronted, Runge confessed to killing 35-year-old Yolanda Gutierrez and her 10-year-old daughter, Jessica Muniz. and began to divulge the horrifying intricacies of many more murders.

He was almost, like, gratuitous in sharing the details of these crimes. Like, he was proud of himself. Like, he was bragging. And it was almost like he wanted to show police, you know, look how Look what I was able to accomplish.

This killer's story begins on the 28th of January, 1970. Paul Frederick Runge was born in Illinois and adopted as an infant.

He told me that he was raised in a very loving family in the south suburbs of Chicago, Oak Forest, Illinois. He was sent to good schools. He had a younger brother. He told me that his mother was very loving.

Paul Rungy was extremely close to his adoptive mother. When she was the person that chose to adopt him, I think he really took to that, and they had a very strong attachment.

As a young boy, Rungy displayed some troubling behavior while attending the local Catholic school.

Rungy had a history at a very.

Young age of, starting to show this sexual deviance towards other girls. He would grab them, touch them in inappropriate ways.

Around the age of eight, he was asked to leave the school.

The fact that a boy of this age is actually asked to leave an educational institution shows that his behavior really was off the scale in terms of being unacceptable.

The scales would be tipped again in 1984, when, at the age of just 14, Runge was accused of raping two girls.

Once they were questioned by police, they seemed to say that this was actually more consensual than they originally had claimed, and Runge was let go.

I think it sends a very significant message out to him, that actually, this kind of behavior isn't all that serious.

At the age of 17, a traumatic event in the teenager's life would trigger an escalation in his behavior that would lead to more serious consequences.

In 1987 comes probably the most significant moment in Paul Runge's life. His mother is suffering from cancer and she's dying.

He's actually at home with her on the day that she passes away.

This is extremely traumatizing, especially for a child that's already been, in some ways, abandoned by parents when he was put up for adoption.

But one thing that we need to remember is that he was engaging in inappropriate and abusive behavior towards girls before this event actually happened. So it doesn't explain why he went on to do what he did.

In August 1987, whilst grieving the death of his adoptive mother, Runge inflicted unspeakable torture on a schoolgirl three years his junior.

He called a 14-year-old girl at 1 o'clock in the morning. His father was out of town, and he enticed the girl to meet him.

But what she doesn't know is that he's going to keep her hostage for the weekend, and... Sexually abuse her throughout that time in the most vicious, premeditated and ruthless manner.

He's lured this girl to his house. He strikes her over the head. She becomes very disorientated. And what follows on from this is a sustained and violent and sadistic sexual attack. It really was incredibly depraved.

Eventually, he placed her in a sleeping bag and put her in the crawlspace of the house, you know, and taped up and told her to shut up and stay there. And she was able to escape, run out into the street and get some help from a passerby.

17-year-old Runge was arrested shortly after the attack and would later plead guilty to aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault.

He was sentenced to 14 years in prison, and in Cook County, you get day-for-day good times, so he was released seven years later in 1994.

I think this sends a very important message to him, again, that sexual violence towards women, especially of this nature, is not something that's really going to result in a massively long prison sentence.

After being released from prison, 24-year-old Runge met his girlfriend, Charlene, who was known as Sherry. In late 1994, he moved in with Sherry and her housemate, Dina Bartolini, who got on well with the couple. He was funny.

He was charming. You know, he laughed all the time. It was just... He was just, like, a really kind of fun guy to be around. He'd wake up in the morning, go to work... come home, we'd do dinner or order out or whatever, and he would help clean. It was just, he was a normal, everyday person.

Except he wasn't.

He most certainly was not.

On the 3rd of January, 1995, just months after his release from prison, Paul Runge killed for the first time. 24-year-old Stacey Frobell was an old friend who'd recently been reunited with Dina and Sherry, and the friends were looking forward to catching up.

She was a friend of ours from when we used to go to the bars on the weekends, and we used to go to the forest preserves, and we'd just hang out there, which was kind of like part of the group that we used to hang around with.

She was such a sweetheart.

She had come over earlier during the day, We were kind of going through old pictures, and she was having such a good time, she's like, well, let me go home. She's like, I want to come back, maybe, you know, have some drinks, whatever, and just, you know, continue this reminiscing.

Years later, when recounting the events of that night, Runge would claim that Sherry called him before Stacey returned.

Called me at work, and she said that she was going to have Stacey over, and that she probably would be a good candidate for having a three-week.

We're just laughing, having a good time. I was actually sick that night. I was, like, running 103 fever. I think I had one wine cooler. I'm like, all right, guys. My head kind of went really warm, and I went to bed.

And, uh.

Stacey was kind of sick or, you know, kind of really drunk and that stuff, and her and Sherry went upstairs, and Sherry came, and we went into our bedroom, and she said, well, Stacey, I'm going to spend the night.

That's how I remembered. I think I woke up to go to the bathroom, and Sherry said that she was going to, that Stacey was going to spend the night because she was drinking.

Runge later claimed that Sherry was angry with Stacey, and that led to him targeting his girlfriend's sleeping friend.

The weight was sitting on the table in our bedroom.

And I said, okay.

And I picked the weight up and I went to the room and she was laying on the bed, you know, kind of drunk.

I went into the room and I hit her on the head twice. And then we kind of were like, she's dead. You know, and then she's not alive anymore.

He's starting off with somebody he knows. It's almost a kind of warm-up killing. It's one that he feels confident that he can accomplish.

When Dina woke the next morning, she was surprised to learn that Stacey had not stayed the night.

I think I was halfway down the stairs, and I didn't see her. I figured she'd be sleeping on the couch, and Charlene came by, and she came towards me, and I'm like, where's Stacey, you know? Well, she's not here. She's like, oh, her husband wanted her home.

So she drove home. But Stacey hadn't made it home.

And when Dean went to work, I brought Stacey in the bathroom and put her in the bathtub.

I closed the door and I saw her in the number. After you'd finished, what did you do? She got me kitchen bags, other kitchen garbage bags.

That evening, Runge and Sherry asked to borrow Dina's car.

Mostly they just needed my vehicle to go to the store or something because theirs had no gas. And then they left and came back. So for me, it was no big deal to give them the key and say, go ahead.

Yeah, buying parts of their car.

The following day, the 5th of January, Stacey Frobel's husband reported her missing after she failed to return home from the Runge house. Police questioned all three housemates.

We found out that she never made it home, and then we found out that her car was found over in Hanover Park somewhere, I think in front of a bar, So that was really kind of creepy. It was like, wow, what happened to Stacey? We had people, we had, you know, police over asking us questions about, you know, Stacey being there that night and if we'd seen anything weird or, you know. And as far as I knew, of course, she went home because her husband wanted her home.

The housemates were shaken by their friend's mysterious disappearance.

We talked about it a lot, wondering where she went after she left our townhouse. I mean, she never made it home, so we used to discuss that and what happened to her. Maybe she met somebody at a bar. I mean, we had no idea.

He was so arrogant and confident about his lie and trying to put her housemate off the scent that he was able to get away with it. And that's just astonishing.

Two weeks after she was reported missing, police received a call from a dog walker who discovered body parts 20 miles away at the Illinois-Wisconsin border. It would be many months before DNA would identify the victim as Stacey Froebel. The news came as a shock to her friend Dina, who was no longer living with Runge.

So that was really, it's really quite upsetting. to find out that she or her body was found somewhere, just bits and pieces of it. I don't think they even found her whole body. So, yeah, it was weird. We didn't know. I didn't know what happened to her. Nobody knew what happened to her. Well, I didn't know what happened to her.

Runge married Sherry just weeks after killing Stacey Frobel, but when investigators learned of the newlyweds' previous conviction for the depraved attack on a teenage girl, he became the prime suspect in Stacey's murder.

They believed that Runge had committed the murder of Frobel, but they couldn't prove it to the amount they needed to arrest him and bring charges against him.

He may be a person of interest in an inquiry, but nothing certain, no hard evidence. So inspired or perhaps encouraged by that success, if you like, with Stacey Froebel, Runge kills again.

Years later, Runge described how in July of 1995... He and his wife had targeted two Bosnian sisters under the guise of setting up a fake cleaning company. Assistant State's Attorney General Bob Milan remembers the harrowing recollection.

So Janet and Amelia Pagan-Bevik came over to the United States from Bosnia to start a new life.

They'd been in the country about six months. They're 22 and 20, looking for work. keen to establish themselves in the community.

They found out through a friend that they worked with that Paul Runge and his wife were going to start a cleaning business. Runge and his wife eventually brought the girls over to their house on July 12th of 1995 under the ruse that they were going to interview them for this cleaning business.

But what they don't realise, and that's the horrifying part, what they don't realise is just how much danger they are both in.

The real reason for luring the women back to the house soon became clear when Runge made them a proposition of a very different kind, a foursome with him and his wife.

She kind of looks at me funny and says something to her sister about sex.

And she's like, what do you mean sex?

I meant the four of us having sex upstairs in the bedroom for money.

And, uh.

She looked back at her sister and said something to her sister, and her sister got.

Up and ran.

The one sister broke for the door. She actually ran and actually got outside the back door.

I caught her by the back of the hair and pulled her down to the ground.

Where did you pull her to?

The ground, the concrete, the driveway. Concrete driveway?

Yes.

What happened to her when you did that? She didn't put her hands back.

She went straight down to the ground, hit her head on the concrete.

She was hurt so badly that she was throwing up and almost unconscious, and he dragged her back in the house.

When the sister saw her injured sibling, she started screaming.

He took the sister that was screaming and he handcuffed her to a weight bench down in the basement. And then he started to assault the sister that was injured in front of the other sisters.

Afterwards, she said, she said, why are you doing this? You're a good looking guy, why are you doing this? What did you say to her?

I didn't say anything.

I hadn't thought about it, and I was kind of thinking to myself, you know, I don't understand this. You know, why does.

It turn out like this? And I couldn't.

She was right, and I didn't understand it.

This poor girl was screaming on the weight bench, trying to pull her hand away, screaming, you know, my sister, my sister, please don't do that to my sister. He eventually brought the injured sister upstairs and drowned.

Her in a bathtub.

When you go back downstairs, what happens? Sherry's down there, and the girl asks, what was that?

What was that? And I said, what are you talking about?

She goes, I'm talking about my sister. And I said, she drowned in the tub.

And she started screaming and.

You can just imagine the level of fear and just the violence that's gone on in this particular attack.

He then repeatedly raped the second sister in the basement while she was handcuffed to the weight bench. Eventually, he brought her upstairs and strangled her, put her in the bathtub and dismembered both of their bodies.

After you dismembered the bodies, what did you do with the body parts? It was a horrifying confession.

Yeah. It was a horrifying confession.

Later on that night, we drove to some apartments nearby and put the bags.

In the dumpster.

Detectives looking into the reported disappearance of Janet and Emila learned that a mutual friend of the Runge's and the sisters had helped set up a meeting about a cleaning job. This was later confirmed when investigators made a vital discovery in the couple's garbage.

They found in there the note that he or Sherry wrote out that connected them to the Bosnian sisters. Okay, their numbers were on there.

Hanover Park PD now had three women who were never seen alive again after visiting the Runge's. It was too much of a coincidence.

So now they knew. All right, the police, the police knew.

In search of the definitive evidence they needed to prove it, FBI approached Runge's former housemate, Dina, who was surprised to learn that he'd become a suspect.

I found out Paul was involved when the FBI came knocking on my door.

First off, I'm like, whoa, what do you guys want to do with me?

But it was, like they said, they said, you're not, you know, you're not in any trouble. We just want to talk to you. And basically they proposed that I try to help them, try to get some information from Charlene and Paul.

Dina agreed to wear a wire and visited the Rungees, who were now living with his father in Glendale Heights. The attempts proved unsuccessful.

I had a feeling they knew something was up, though. I mean, I'm not a very good actress, so. They were very, very quiet. They didn't give up any information.

The FBI and the police were convinced of Runge's involvement, but had no proof. Aware that he was being watched, the sexual sadist was about to change tactics and take his killing spree to another level.

Renji seemed to have a slight change in his MO, where he went from being almost responsive to the environment to actually going into the environment to pick his ideal victim.

In January 1997, Runge was working as a delivery driver when he noticed a for-sale sign as he drove past the house of single mother Dorota Dorothy Dubac. Now, he's a very sly operator.

He goes to a local payphone and rings her up and says, I see you're selling your house, I'd really quite like to see it. In a sense, endears himself to her. using that plausible manner. On surface, nothing to fear.

On the 10th of January, Runge called Dorothy to arrange a second viewing.

He was playing the part of a buyer that was trying to make a decision in a short time frame and needed to see the home twice. He could have used the time in between his two showings of the home to cool off, think about his decision, decide not to commit murder, but instead... I think that time in between actually served to get him more excited about the crime.

Her daughter wasn't home that day. So Dorothy called one of her very good friends. And she said, I got this guy coming over. He was here the other day. He's kind of weird. She said, if you don't hear from me in 15 minutes, and she was half joking, call the police.

As she showed Runge around, Dorothy explained that she was having problems with a furnace, and an engineer was due to visit that day to carry out repairs. Posing as the concerned buyer, Runge wanted to inspect it himself.

And I told her I thought I knew what was wrong with it, and she came over to look.

And when she came over to look, I pushed her on the floor. I know what happened.

Rungi was a very disarming guy, which made.

Him even more frightening. He talked his way into, he told me, over 100 houses.

If you met him and he came to your door and asked to use the phone.

Or ask for directions or whatever, you'd let him in. Very frightening guy.

After raping Dorothy, Runge claimed he forced her to shower before taking her back into the bedroom and tying her hands.

What'd you do then? Lay her on her bed.

What position did you lay her in? Lay her on her stomach.

Okay.

What'd you do then?

Uh, I got on top of her I leaned on her with my hands like this on the high part of the back, lower neck area.

And I was talking to her and I said, don't say anything.

Don't tell nobody.

Don't do anything.

I'm not going to come back. I'm not going to hurt you or your daughter or anything like that. That was pretty much it. Were you leaning hard or were you leaning soft?

I was leaning enough so I guess too hard.

And what do you mean by that? Because when I got up off her, she wasn't moving. She wasn't even breathing. I realized she was suffocating me cold.

Paul Runge had now cruelly taken four lives and was quick to make sure he left no evidence that might lead the police to his door.

I don't know.

As he ignited the closet, what did you do? I went to work.

A short while later, the furnace engineer arrived to find the house ablaze. The fire department raced to the scene and discovered Dorothy's body on the bed.

At first, determined that, you know, okay, well, maybe she died of the fire. She might have been smoking or something like that. However, when an autopsy was conducted, it was determined that, number one, she had no smoke in her lungs. which means she wasn't breathing when the fire was on. Two, they noticed signs of trauma.

The pathologist found evidence that suggested Dorothy had been tied up and strangled.

There are also signs of sexual assault. So what looked like a terrible accident is actually a cold-blooded premeditated murder.

Runge's previous victims had all visited his home and been killed there, but his change in tactics meant he was operating under the police's radar. In a new area, Cook County, Paul Runge had already killed. Unbeknownst to investigators, he was now stalking his prey.

Less than a month later, Runge strikes again.

Responding to a local selling ad for a children's reading program known as Hooked on Phonics, he posed as an interested father and visited the apartment of 35-year-old Yolanda Gutierrez and her 10-year-old daughter, Jessica.

Came over to her place to see it one morning early before Jessica went to school. And he actually saw Jessica, he saw Yolanda Gutierrez, found her attractive. and he looked at Hooked on Phonics and said he wanted to think about it, and he left.

Why should they not think this chap who's turned up isn't a legitimate buyer? It was to cost them their lives.

Runge had assessed his potential victims, reassured that she was single and that there would be no obstacles to his attack. Three days later, on the 3rd of February 1997, he returned to the apartment.

Tragically, Jessica was also home that day. Got him on the bed. He repeatedly raped them.

Jessica had been subjected to quite a sustained, sadistic sexual attack at the same time her mother had. So this tells us that this killer has no boundaries. He has no limits. The fact that there's a 10-year-old child there is not something that puts his brakes on or gets in his way or stops him from doing what he wants to do. If anything, she's part of the.

Appeal for him. Rungi slashed the throats of the mother and her young daughter. The 27-year-old killer once again set about covering his tracks. This time, he'd come prepared.

So he had his briefcase, and inside the briefcase, he had the duct tape, he had the knife, he had the flammable substance in there, and he poured the flammable substance all over both of them.

After you poured the liquid on them, what'd you do? I walked over to.

The bed, lit the match, and threw it on the bed. And it ignited real fast out.

Why did you do that? To hide the fact of what I did to their necks. Because it was... I can't tell you why I got the necks. I mean, I don't know why I did that.

The Chicago Fire Department arrived soon after being alerted by a member of the public. It was a harrowing scene.

They knew that without an autopsy that they had been murdered. Their throats were slit and they were partially nude.

Whilst Runge remained prime suspect in the investigation into the 1995 killings of three women who disappeared after visiting his home, nobody knew he was also responsible for the recent murders in Cook County. In March, investigators had another body on their hands when a female was found dead following a fire at her home.

I mean, there was no doubt when they got there that there was a crime that had been committed. that she had been murdered and that a fire had been set to cover her up.

The victim was later identified as Caimira Peru, and it soon emerged that just like the murder of Dorothy Dubac, the 45-year-old woman had been selling her apartment, and Runge had already been to recce the scene of the crime.

He would go over and case the place, which he did in all three cases. Cased it, looked it over... made sure nobody else was around, and then he'd return to those scenes and attack.

On the 14th of March, 1997, Runge returned to the apartment.

I was getting ready to leave, and I said, okay, thank you, and that kind of stuff. And I turned, and I turned back, she turned around the other way, and I grabbed her from behind and threw her on the floor.

And the back of the neck area pushed her down to the ground.

She started bleeding real.

Bad, profusely. And then what happened?

What happened in the bathroom?

We raped her. She did wake up and try to fight back.

She actually grabbed an iron that was.

Nearby and tried to hit him in the head. Then he strangled her.

And asphyxiated her on the floor after he raped her. Again, he took a flammable substance, poured it over her body and in the bathroom, and set it on fire and left the scene.

Kat Emira had been desperate to return home to her native Poland, but Runge had cruelly snuffed out her dream.

So the victims are all women who live without a male partner. They're all women who have something that they're selling, usually their home, their property. And this is just a pattern that is not going to emerge randomly. The killings are too close together, and it's just far too much of a coincidence.

Chicago PD investigators now knew they had a serial killer on the loose who'd murdered four people in the space of just three months.

The police were able to link the murders together because of how similar they were. They were all committed around the same time, in the same way. With the places being set on fire, the police were pretty certain that it was the same actor.

Investigators had no clue as to who this sadistic individual was. Meanwhile, detectives over in Hanover Park, investigating the murders of the three women that had visited Runge's home, were confident that he was their killer, but had yet to find the evidence to prove it. Unbeknownst to the two investigating teams, they were seeking the same man, Although without evidence connecting him to the murders of Stacey Frobel and sisters Amila and Janet Passenbegovich, Hanover Park had an ace up their sleeve that would get Runge off the streets.

He was still on parole for what he did to the little girl back in 87. In 1996, they conducted a search warrant on his father's home, and they found in their weapons, they found a stun gun, They found combat knives and some other weapons in their crossbows that he wasn't supposed to have.

The possession of weapons was a violation of his parole, and in May 1997, 27-year-old Runge was arrested.

They filed a petition called the Sexually Violent Persons Petition, where they have evidence that a person is sexually violent, and then he found these weapons, and that he should be taken off the streets so he could take our time and build a case.

If investigators couldn't find something new, Paul Runge would walk free.

They are left just thinking that this person almost certainly committed this crime, but they can't actually prove it. They couldn't prove it to the amount they needed to arrest him and bring charges against him.

In 2003 years after he was sent back to jail, investigators were running out of options. They turned to Runge's now ex-wife, offering her immunity if she testified against him. Charlene took the deal and admitted to luring the sisters to their home under false pretenses, cleaning up after all three murders, and helping Runge dispose of the bodies. Whilst Hanover Park geared up to put Runge on trial, scientists were reexamining evidence from the Chicago PD fire murders. They had a breakthrough that would finally expose the full extent of the killer's actions.

In September of 2000, there is a DNA match which emerges from the body of little 10-year-old Jessica, and it's a match for Runge's DNA.

The DNA, it's a game-changer. It was a game changer.

Runge is a killer who thinks he's incredibly smart, that he's just going to get away with it, that he's thought of everything. But the one thing that he hadn't anticipated would be that science would catch up with him.

Now investigators knew that Paul Runge was also responsible for the four fire murders. It was a memorable moment for Assistant State's Attorney Bob Milan.

I went in, gave him his rights, introduced myself. I said, I understand you want to hear it from me. Well, the DNA is yours, right?

He said, yeah.

I said, well, first off, you know it's yours, right? I mean, you know it's yours. You don't need me to tell you. You were there.

Why would we be talking to you.

About this unless we had your DNA, right? And I go, here it is.

Boom.

His head went down, and then he knew.

And so once I showed it to him and confronted him with that, He confessed to the Gutierrez Muniz murders.

Once the floodgates had opened, there was no holding back. Runge shocked investigators when, over the course of 10 hours, he went on to confess to all seven murders.

You indicated to me that you wanted to explain why you're telling us.

All about these cases.

Would you like to tell us that?

Yes.

I'm telling you these cases because I want to I think this.

Is because he realises that the game is up now and he's risking actually losing control of the story.

Around these crimes.

So this is when he starts confessing, because he's trying to get ahead of that. He's trying to claim the narrative for himself.

His demeanor was notable to Bob Milan, who listened to all the horrifying details.

I asked him, how difficult is it to dismember somebody's leg or arm? How hard is it to saw through? And I remember he told me, it's not that hard. It's like sawing through a small branch. That's how he answered the question. That's how he told me. There's no tears, no remorse, nothing.

He wanted to be known as being so bad, and that was one reason why he was willing to share all of the horrific details of the ways that he murdered these women. And I think it was really to almost get credit for it, to see himself in such a horrible manner but to know that he was almost like an evil villain and he was really the worst.

There is.

The full extent of Runge's past and his confession to the heinous murder of Stacey Frobell came as a huge shock to her friend Dina, who'd been in the house on the night of the murder in 1995.

I had found out that they had actually killed her in the room across the hall where I was that night, sleeping upstairs in the bedroom. He killed her and cut her up in the bathroom and then used my vehicle. To dispose of her body. I just can't believe, thank goodness I didn't hear anything, because I have a feeling if they knew I did, that I would have been dead too. I would not be sitting here talking to you guys today. What it did, it was, like I said, it was like an out-of-body experience, just even thinking that something like that could happen. right across the hall from where I was sleeping.

In January 2006, Paul Runge stood trial for the murders of Yolanda Gutierrez and her 10-year-old daughter, Jessica Muniz.

The case they elected on, which was the most evidence, was the Jessica Muniz-Gutierrez murders because they had the DNA plus the confession. I actually testified... not only to that case, but a number of the other ones. Runge was convicted by the jury. At the sentencing hearing, the other crimes came in to be taken under consideration, and the jury sentenced him to death.

Unbelievably, Runge was never tried for the other murders he confessed to.

How do you tell the families of the Bosnian sisters, we're not going to try this case? or we're not going to reach a conviction with it. How do you tell them that? I don't get it. And we had the note that connected him to those sisters and the people that connected him to those sisters, and then, of course, full confessions to the crime. So I don't get it.

I wasn't for it, but it wasn't my decision to make.

In 2011, capital punishment in Illinois was repealed. and Runge's sentence changed from the death penalty to natural life in prison. Later that year, it was announced that, as he had already been given the maximum penalty, the other cases against Runge had been dropped. In reality, he was a monster.

He used his charm and disarming ways to get into homes and rape and murder multiple women.

I think Stacy, her family, all the things that they've got to go through, and every single woman that he has murdered, their lives have been changed forever. They'll never be the same. Nobody will on this investigation. This whole entire thing with Paul Runge, he's just evil. He is just plain evil.

Paul Runge was a sexual sadist who took advantage of the trust that he was afforded by the young and vulnerable women who let him into their homes. A cold and calculated deviant, he inflicted unfathomable torture on his victims. He is a dangerous predator who will forever be known as one of the world's most evil killers.

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