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December 11th, 2008, 1:39 pm by Nick R. Martin
Earlier this week, Dale Hausner was heard on a secret audio recording saying he shot somebody “at 27th Avenue in the yard.” In a videotaped interrogation after his arrest, which is being played in full today for the jury, he vehemently denies having shot anybody and says the remarks were just a sick joke.
“Maybe I was drinking. That’s troubling. I haven’t shot anybody anywhere,” Hausner tells detective Clark Schwartzkopf on the videotape. “I have a sick sense of humor, so I joke about certain stuff.”
“I could never have shot anybody in my life,” he said at another point. “I never have and I hope I never will.”
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December 11th, 2008, 1:21 pm by Nick R. Martin
 A videotape has been playing for hours of Dale Hausner’s lengthy interrogation by Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf, which took place shortly after he and his roommate were arrested in August 2006 on suspicion of the Serial Shooter killing spree.
Just before the lunch break today, Hausner turned to the gallery, where this reporter was sitting, grinned and gave a thumbs up.
This action came after some pretty bizarre footage of Hausner talking about his fascination with infamous American serial killers, as well offering up alternate theories about who was behind the killings. Hausner said nothing when he flashed the thumbs up, only nodded up and down. A short time later, a deputy led him calmly out of the courtroom into a holding cell.
It’s not clear why Hausner made this motion of approval. Prosecutors have accused him of being a narcissist. So it’s possible he just likes the attention.
Submitted photo. Dale Hausner, the Serial Shooter suspect, is shown here in this undated photo, wearing a tuxedo and flashing a thumbs up.
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December 11th, 2008, 11:45 am by Nick R. Martin
  
“I find it interesting,” Serial Shooter suspect Dale Hausner told Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf during a videotaped interrogation. “It’s very fascinating.”
Not only did Hausner closely follow the Serial Shooter and Baseline Killer cases through news reports, he told the detective he also had read a lot about infamous American serial killers like BTK, Son of Sam and Jeffrey Dahmer. In fact, he told Schwartzkopf he would even like to meet some of them personally.
“I would like to sit down with a real life Jeffrey Dahmer, and say, ‘Why the hell would you eat all those people?’” Hausner said.
Pictured from left to right: BTK killer Dennis Rader, Son of Sam killer David Berkowitz and serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.
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December 11th, 2008, 11:25 am by Nick R. Martin
Soon after his arrest, Dale Hausner was placed in a police interview room for a lengthy interrogation with Phoenix police Det. Clark Schwartzkopf. Early in the interview — a videotape of which is being played today — Hausner says he has been following the Serial Shooter case extensively. “I’ve been following everything that’s in the newspapers,” Hausner told the detective. “I cut them out and save everything.”
 Then, he begins to offer some possible theories about the shootings. “The Baseline Rapist could also be doing the shootings,” he said, referring to man who was raping and killing women throughout the Valley in 2006 at the same time as Serial Shooters. “The guy’s sick…It could easily be him,” Hausner said. “Or it’s gang related.”
Throughout the grainy black and white video being shown in court, Hausner maintains that he has no personal knowledge of the shootings. When asked if his roommate, Samuel Dieteman, could be behind the shootings, he repeatedly replies, “I don’t know.”
The video of the interview is expected to play for hours today, so stay tuned for more updates.
Photo shows Mark Goudeau, the suspect in the Baseline Killer serial killings.
Posted in: Dale Hausner • Prosecution • Samuel Dieteman • Baseline Killer • Clark Schwartzkopf • Mark Goudeau • phoenix • Serial Shooter | Post a Comment »
December 3rd, 2008, 11:57 pm by Nick R. Martin
As many as 24 people were being eyed in the summer of 2006 as potential suspects in the Serial Shooter killing spree until a secret informant led police to zero in on two men in Mesa.
That informant, since identified as Ron Horton, called police tip lines three times in July 2006 telling investigators that they should be looking at a man named “Sammy” for the killings.
In the first two calls, Horton kept his own name out of the messages. He also failed to provide a last name for Sammy.
But in the third call on July 25, Horton spilled everything he knew. The suspect’s name was Sam Dieteman, and he left his own name so he could be contacted.
It was a major break in the series of dozens of random shootings that had put the Valley on edge that year.
During testimony Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court in the trial against Dale Hausner, Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf told how he and the other investigators came across Dieteman and Hausner as the main suspects in the Serial Shooter case.
Before Horton first called the Silent Witness tip line on July 16, investigators were having little luck figuring out who was behind the series of killings and other attacks that already left seven people dead.
Read full story…
Tribune file photo. Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon speaks during an August 2006 news conference announcing the capture of Serial Shooter suspects Samuel Dieteman and Dale Hausner. Programming note: The trial is off for the weekend. It will resume on Monday.
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December 3rd, 2008, 3:08 pm by Nick R. Martin
 If you were one of the hundreds of people who went to community meetings about the Serial Shooters killing spree in the summer of 2006, chances are you were recorded and tracked by the police.
Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf, the lead detective in the case, testified this afternoon that the license plates of every attendee were recorded and investigated by the Serial Shooter task force. It wasn’t clear from his testimony how deep the investigation into the license plates went or how long the information was kept.
“You were running the license plates of the vehicles that were coming to the town meetings. Is that correct?” asked defense attorney Ken Everett.
“Yes,” replied Schwartzkopf.
“The thinking there was that the actual perpatrator of these shotgun shootings might be so brazen that they might show up to the meeting,” Everett said.
“Yes, sir.”
Update (3:35 p.m.): Schwartzkopf just testified that every license plate at four separate town hall meetings was recorded. While he gave no estimate of how many cars were investigated, he said each meeting was “crowded.”
Update (4:06 p.m.): A review of previous Tribune stories, linked above, puts the number of attendees at these meetings as well above 1,000.
Tribune file photo. Cecilia Perez, right, of Mesa, holds her daughter, Priscilla, 10, while attending a meeting Mesa police held about the Serial Shooter on Aug. 1, 2006 at Longfellow Elementary School in Mesa.
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December 3rd, 2008, 2:17 pm by Nick R. Martin
  Did Dale Hausner and Sam Dieteman know authorities were closing in on them? According to Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf, the pair made at least two unusual moves in the weeks before their arrests.
First, they moved their attacks eastward from eastern-central Phoenix into the Scottsdale and Mesa areas. This came after a July 12, 2006 town hall meeting in which police gave detailed information about the attacks to the public in order to keep Valley residents safe. At the meeting, police talked about the pattern of the attacks, and that information was widely broadcast through the local and national media. Afterward, Schwartzkopf said, “The shooters went east to the city of Mesa with the shootings of Raul Lopez-Garcia and Robin Blasnek.”
The next unusual thing took place Aug. 2, 2006, just days before the men were arrested at their Mesa apartment. While the men were being watched by undercover police officers, Dieteman was seen throwing away a bag of trash. That bag, seized by police, was filled with evidence that has become key in the trial today. Inside it, Schwartzkopf said, was a map with dots all over it. Many of the dots coincided with shooting sites. “Some of them were close to shootings. Some of them were specifically on top of shootings. And some of them I couldn’t correlate to anything,” Schwartzkopf said.
Another item was a Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper can with a used shotgun casing stuffed inside it. The third item was a piece of paper that read “Robin Blasne 7-70-06 11:20p,” which perhaps was a reference to the shooting of Robing Blasnek, a Mesa woman who was killed at about 11:20 p.m. on July 30, 2006.
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December 3rd, 2008, 11:46 am by Nick R. Martin
In July 2006, the Valley was dealing with two sets of serial killers. One, the Baseline Killer was targeting and raping women in south Phoenix. The other, the Serial Shooters, were randomly shooting pedestrians in the east Phoenix area.
Because of the danger and tension gripping the Valley, Phoenix police, along with Silent Witness, set up tip lines and asked the public to help find these serial killers. On the witness stand this morning, Phoenix police detective Clark Schwartzkopf said that some 2,000 calls came in during a single two-day period in mid July.
Because of this, “there were a lot of mix ups between task forces,” Schwartzkopf said. Some of the tips intended for the Baseline Killer case were being routed to the Serial Shooter investigators and vice versa.
On top of it, there were a lot of off-the-wall calls that weren’t helping. “I had one person call and say they thought it was the Zodiac Killer, the infamous Bay Area serial killer,” the detective testified. “I had psychics. I had people with crystal balls. I had all kinds of people calling in to tell me who they thought it was.”
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