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John Getreu, known as the Stanford Killer, was 74 when police tricked him out of his house with a fake car accident. Sitting in the back of the police car, he complimented them on it. In the video below you see his arrest and the interrogation that followed. An undercover officer knocked on his door and said she had hit his car. He walked outside to take a look and ended up face down on the hood. "Good line for coming out of the house," he told the deputies. In 1973 and 1974, two 21-year-old women were killed in the hills near Stanford University. One was a Stanford graduate. The other was the daughter of Stanford's former athletic director. For 45 years nobody knew who did it. Getreu became a husband, a father and a Boy Scout leader. In 2018 detectives traced his DNA through a public family tree database. In the interrogation he first says he has never been arrested. A few minutes later he admits he was arrested in Germany. "I killed a chaplain's daughter," he says. He was 18 back then and spent about five years in a German prison for it. When the detective tells him he must have known this day was coming, he answers, "Yeah, I knew that. But why it took so damn long." He was convicted of both murders and died in prison in 2023 at 79. Was he surprised they caught him, or surprised it took them 45 years? He reminds me of Gary Hilton. Two old men who talk about murder like it's paperwork. Hilton's interview is already on my profile.