Thats how we finished it. Narrator this was the final sketch. Just one hour after it was released to the media, a Prison Guard called police. He said he was sure it was an inmate once housed at one of the local prisons. The Inmates Name . Daniel lee corwin. Merillat ive seen a lot of composites in 40 years of police work, and never seen one that good. That looks just like him. Narrator in the mid1970s, when corwin was in high school, he was found guilty of assaulting and attempting to murder a fellow student. Her name was brenda evans, and like wendy gauntt, she also survived by playing dead. When shes in the ambulance, she can barely speak cause her throats been cut, and she said, Daniel Corwin did this. Narrator the attack on brenda was virtually identical to the attack on wendy, on mary risinger, and the other two cases in which the victims did not survive. In all those cases, the killer used a knife,
Get them out the back door, get them out as fast as possible. Narrator after his release, corwin went to work for a local cabinet maker. Corwins employer, ben pruitt, had taught a Carpentry Class at the prison. He knew of corwins past and wanted to give him a second chance. But when local women started getting attacked, mr. Pruitt suspected corwin might be responsible. After the highly publicized attack on wendy gauntt, mr. Pruitt remembered something strange from right after the murder of mary risinger. Ben pruitt recalls Daniel Corwin coming to work the day after halloween 1987 with cuts on his hands. Narrator could daniel Lee Corwin be the man who was attacking local women . It looked that way, but in the absence of any physical evidence and there was none there was no way to be sure. Police procedurals look so simple on tv, and theyre just not. You know, even when you know its somebody,
Back then, they mailed the print in a letter. It took two days. When it finally came back, it matched. Narrator Daniel Lee Corwin was immediately arrested for the Attempted Murder of Wendy Gauntt. Investigators were eager to know what drove corwin to kill. To their disappointment, he really didnt know himself, or at least couldnt explain it. Okay. Faced with the evidence against him in the Wendy Gauntt case, corwin pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 99 years. But the open Murder Cases for Which Corwin might be responsible still begged for resolution. Hidalgo when youre a Homicide Detective or you investigate homicide, you speak for the dead. Theres No One Else thats left. Narrator at times, corwin seemed remorseful
Narrator texas investigators were familiar with daniel lee corwin. When Debra Ewing was raped and murdered back in 1987, corwin was brought in for questioning. Just hours before debras murder, corwin had been installing cabinets at the Vision Center where debra worked, and as an excon who served time for a sexually motivated attempted murder, he was a potential suspect. Burrough what really struck the people who interviewed danny that Monday Morning in huntsville was there was no sense of what they thought a killer would look like or act like. There was no sense of anxiety. There was no sense of, oh, they got me. He was just flat. He was just without emotion
Dave Benson, a co-founder of First Night Honolulu and the Honolulu Symphony Fun Run fundraiser, Race Director of the Honolulu Marathon from 1980 to 1984, and 30-year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, died April 2 after a short battle with ALS. He was 82.