Throughout the lengthy interrogations on Aug. 4, 2006, Dale Hausner remained a cool customer as police investigators called him a serial killer dozens of times. They questioned his character, brought up his sick daughter and generally hit him with hard questions about his whereabouts during the shootings. He remained calm the entire time.
That is, until the investigators called him a pervert. Hausner became flustered for the first time several hours into the videotaped interrogations when his inquisitors began to ask whether he got sexually aroused after killing people. “Answer his question, Dale,” Phoenix police detective Darren Udd said at one point. “Did you get aroused?”
Hauser acted seriously insulted at the accusation. In fact, he clammed up, telling the detectives in the room he wanted a lawyer — which he didn’t get. The detectives apparently saw this as an opening and began attacking him on it, asking him about sexual perversions and pushing him on the subject. The once talkative Hausner decided, though, that he’d had enough. He said he wouldn’t answer any more questions.
“You’re being disrespectful,” Hausner told them. The detectives then left the room.
The detectives in the Serial Shooter investigation became increasingly intense with their questioning into the late morning of Aug. 4, 2006. By that time, they told Hausner, his suspected accomplice Sam Dieteman had begun to confess to his role in the shootings and also implicate Hausner in the crimes while being interrogated in another room. They even told Hausner that his brother, Jeff Hausner (pictured), had implicated him in the shootings, too. It’s not clear right now whether the detectives’ statements about the brother were true, or just a ploy to get Dale Hausner to talk. Either way, it didn’t work.
