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MURDERED: Shari Smith and Debra Helmick

Crime Junkie

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When a Killer Calls by John Douglas

The man slips up by using don's name instead of sherry's. This makes investigators worry that he might be starting to shift his hyper fixation from sherry. Dan keeps the man talking for a while after and their conversation goes back and forth between him pitying himself and then obsessing the time line of the crime. He does admit to sexually assaulting sherry, although the way he frames it is like its concentral, which obviously is absolutely not true. And he also describes her death, saying that once he realized she had to die, he gave her three choices.

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