Curiosity Kills

It's hard to believe that serial killer,

Edmund Kimber, once lived in my town.

I used to walk past this bar every day

to go to and from school.

I used to have to hold my nose

because the sidewalk smelled like piss.

And this place was Edmund Kimber's favorite hangout.

Edmund Kimber worked with California Highway Department.

He dumped the bodies of his victims here,

as he new place, where they would never be found.

Now, almost 50 years later,

our college dorms are only a rock throw away

from this haunted graveyard of a serial killer.

And now, almost 50 years later,

we are once again talking about a serial killer

who has roamed the streets

of our small town here in Alameda.

I wonder where he would actually hide

the bodies out here?

Under those rocks, in those shrubs?

Maybe even in the water.

Welcome back truth seekers.

Blonde hair, don't care.

For those of you watching for the first time,

I'm Frankie Fisher.

And I'm a journalism student here, in Alameda.

And on this, my "True Seeker" channel,

I address local crimes that affect us all.

So first, I wanna say thank you so much

for all the great comments that I got

on my last episode, where I uncovered a hacker

who changed his friend's grades

so that they qualify for law school.

You know, sometimes criminals need to brag

about their exploits so that other people

can think that they're smart,

which proves that they're not really smart,

but very insecure.

For those of you who have been following my journey,

um, for me to discover who my biological parents are,

I did find out some news from the state this week.

Um, and it turns out that they are both dead.

Um, and in my next video,

I'm going to reveal their names,

but I just wanted to get a little bit

more information on them first.

So, thank you guys so much though,

for all your love and financial support

and legal advice, you know,

through this journey with me for the last year.

Um, but, in other news,

moving on to my new two series,

I'm going to be talking about

how people become serial killers

and the effects that they have

on the people closest to the victims.

So the girls at the Beta PI sorority,

right here in Alameda,

have agreed to let me talk to them

about their late friend, Veronica Lake,

who was killed in their sorority house,

allegedly by the serial killer who

was operating right here on our campus.

And police claimed that that person

also died that same night.

Damn it.

The Cross-Country Killer, so called by local media

because he was known for targeting women

on the running team.

He was actually implicated in five murders

in the last two years, operating under the same MO.

Does anyone watching live know what that means?

Right, modus operandi, in Latin,

or method of operation.

That's the who and how they intend to kill,

when speaking of a serial killer.

You know, the very rare element

about the Cross-Country Killer

is that he never raped any of

his exclusive female victims.

Now, I have a trivia question for you all.

And the FBI actually uses this question

to identify psychopaths,

because only a self-identifying psychopath

can get it right?

And this is actually a true story from a case file.

So, at her mother's wake and funeral

a woman meets a man who says he's a friend

of a family, and the woman falls instantly

in love with him.

He gets a call on his pager and he says

he'll be right back to make a phone call,

however, he never returns back to talk to her.

And the woman, she has no idea

what his name is and nobody can tell her.

So, she had no way to contact him.

Now, three days later, she kills her own sister.

The question is, why did she kill her sister

who she said she loved dearly?

Send out your comments down below,

and I'll reveal the answer on my next stream.

But don't feel bad if you don't get it right,

because that just means you're not a psychopath.

The official police report

on the Cross-Country Killer said,

"That though not ever a suspect

in serial murders, Timothy Luke Booth

was a janitor who worked at the college athletic center."

And reports made to police after he was killed.

"There were claims that he was known

to leer at and try to make conversation

with members of the women's cross country team,

which made them feel very uncomfortable.

And every day after practice,

he was sure to happened to

"be cleaning near their locker room doors."

On this day, Booth saw, who would be his last victim,

film student, Veronica Lake.

Who, it was later discovered,

had submitted complaints about him to faculty,

but they were somehow lost and not processed

until after it was too late.

She quickly called her friend, and sorority sister,

Janet Jameson, for support.

As proved by the records from the phone company

and the call record app that Veronica used.

So we know that that call actually happened

and what exactly was said.

Hello, Veronica.

Janet, I just came out of the locker room,

he's here again, waiting for me.

He just smiled at me. What I do?

Just smile back and wave back

and move on like he means nothing

to you and you're not afraid.

We're told that soon after Veronica arrived home

that night, her and her housemates heard

the sorority door swing open from the wind,

which apparently has happened a few times before.

But, Veronica being a first year student,

and only have living there for a few months,

had no idea about the fussy door lock.

The front door swung open again,

gotta close it, bitches!

Who was the last one in?

Veronica was.

Veronica, honey, you gotta push the door hard,

until the magnet catches.

Okay! Sorry!

We're already getting ready for bed.

Booth, allegedly, surprised Veronica

and mortally stabbed her.

But, she was able to shoot him once

in the head while he was standing,

and in her panic state,

twice more while he was lying on the floor,

using a gun that was registered to Janet Jameson,

who gave it to Veronica for security

when she found out that Booth was stalking her.

Even though Janet claims that she never knew

the true extent of how much of a threat he was.

But this is all contradictory,

and many people have questioned

the police reports anyway, so.

But, I plan to find out the answers.

See you next week, truth seekers.

Big brother checking up on me?

What are you doing, Frankie?

How do you mean?

You know, I've been watching these videos,

and it's, it's crazy.

You know, what are you doing?

I told you to stay off my social media.

No, no, look, whatever you post

on Facebook or YouTube, that's my business too.

This is not healthy, okay?

Our father is dead.

Murdered.

You gotta stop obsessing about it.

Don't worry about me, Matt,

I know what I'm doing.

This is where it all happened.

Where are you guys?

Honestly, all this scares me.

Reading stories about murders makes me

wanna become a reclusive and not leave the house.

Violence scares the shit out of me.

But I'm morally curious about stories like these.

Especially the ones where the victims

were someone like me.

Veronica Lake was me or you, or you.

If you're cute, young, college woman.

Veronica shot Timothy in the head,

right through the eye.

The bullet in his brain killed him instantly.

But in her panic state,

she shot him three more times just to be sure.

Just act natural.

But why?

We have to go through this all over again?