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More Bloodshed on Streets of Baghdad; Update on Search for Three Missing Hikers in Oregon; Anti-Immigration Rally in Russia

Aired December 13, 2006 - 12:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: A familiar tactic, a familiar target. Nearly two dozen Iraqi day laborers meet their deaths when a pair of car bombs explodes in Baghdad.
HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: English police track a killer on the loose, a murderer who is stalking prostitutes and may have already claimed five victims.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And I'm Becky Anderson, live in Moscow, taking a look at the growing sense of pride and the rise of extremism here in Russia today.

GORANI: Welcome. It's 8:00 p.m. in Baghdad, 5:00 p.m. in Ipswich, England.

Hello and welcome to our report broadcast around the globe.

I'm Hala Gorani.

CLANCY: I'm Jim Clancy.

From Beirut, Lebanon, to St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow, to Beirut, wherever you're watching, this is YOUR WORLD TODAY.

GORANI: Well, as President Bush mulls over a new strategy in Iraq, there's more bloodshed on the streets of Baghdad, with news of a new plan to secure the Iraqi capital.

Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson sorts out these developments and starts with yet more violence today -- Nic.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hala, a car bomber at 9:00 in the morning in the east of Baghdad in a market killed 10 people, wounded 26. Among the casualties, day laborers. That follows after a bombing of day laborers yesterday that killed 71.

About two hours later, in the north of Iraq, not far from the town of Kirkuk, where there was an Iraqi army base, two suicide truck bombers drove into that base, detonated their explosives, killed seven Iraqi army soldiers, wounded 10 others. That clearly an attempt to get into the base to kill as many of the soldiers as possible.

Now, those particular Iraqi army soldiers involved in guarding the oil facilities in and around that town. And a couple of hours later in Baghdad, 1:00 in the afternoon, again on the east side of the city, two suicide car bombs detonating in quick succession, killed five people, wounded 10 others. Those killed and wounded all day laborers looking to get work, looking desperately to feed their families -- Hala.

GORANI: Now, Baghdad often the epicenter of all of this violence. We're hearing of a new plan by the national security adviser of Iraq to pacify the Iraqi capital. Yet another plan. What are they saying makes this one different -- Nic.

ROBERTSON: Well, the notion of this plan is something that Iraqi politicians have been talking about for some time, which is that the U.S. troops should pull out of the city, remain in bases and not patrol the streets of Baghdad, and let Iraqi troops do that. And let Iraqi troops run the security in Baghdad.

Now, there are some areas, and I was visiting one of those areas this afternoon, where the Iraqi army is effectively doing that already, where they only have a very small number of U.S. military trainers with the Iraqi army. But this particular area is an area that is predominantly Sunnis.

Where there are mixed communities, where there are Sunnis and Shias living in mixed communities, where there have been extremely high tensions, such a notion seems unlikely to work at this time. A military spokesman for the Iraqi ministry of defense...

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We want to take you now to a live news conference where we're getting an update on the search for the three missing hikers in Oregon.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... mission planning for the operation that's going on.

Just to -- kind of an update where we're at now, we had a strategy session last night. We got all the players involved, Clackamas County, Portland Mountain Hood River Crag Rats, and of course the 304th.

With the sheriff -- the strategy this time, we realize we have a ceiling at about 7,000 feet with weather and conditions that just -- man and machine are at their limits there. So that's the rescue that we want to do. That's the -- you know, what we've been attempting now is trying to get through up there, get to that known point where we had that cell phone call.

We can't get there. So what we're doing is, we're going to focus on the search. And we're going to look for those -- the other two missing climbers. And our resources are going to go to the lower elevations and search what we can and put mass effort into that.

We do, however, are going to have two climbing teams on the north end, the south side, that are going to be in a standby, ready mode should we get a break in the weather and should they be able to get to that elevation, approximately around 10,000 feet. And they're going to be ready to go. Some of the other things today, I'm going to be working -- we have Arawak (ph) -- get that right -- excuse me, ARACOR Corporation, UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles. We're working with them today. We're going to utilize that technology and see if that can assist us in the search.

Iomax (ph) is another corporation that stepped forward. And they are cell phone hunters. They look for bad guys and utilize technology tracking cell phones. And they've offered their assistance. They're going to do that today.

And then the 304th Rescue Squadron has brought up -- they're called mat (ph) tracks, and basically they're ATVs that operate in the snow. They're going to increase their range on the trails and some other points of interest that we're going to hit today.

And that's pretty much the plan. I have a family member here, Frank. He also wants to make a statement. And I'll turn it over to him.

FRANK JAMES, BROTHER STRANDED ON MOUNT HOOD: Yes. I'm Frank James. It's my brother Kelly James who is on the top of the mountain. And a couple of things I wanted to mention.

I have a statement from the family this morning. I also have an updated photograph of Jerry "Nikko" Cooke. And after -- after we finish here, I will make that photograph available to you so that you'll have it.

Let me read the statement from the family this morning.

"Speaking on behalf of the families of Kelly James, Brian Hall and Jerry 'Nikko' Cooke, we would like to thank everyone who continues to work tirelessly to rescue our loved ones."

I want to mention in particular the family members who are gathered here: Kelly's wife, Karen James (ph), his four children, Jason (ph), Ford (ph), Katie (ph) and Jack (ph).

Brian's parents are here, Dwight (ph) and Clara Hall (ph), and his sister Angela (ph) are here.

And Kerry "Nikko" Cooke's wife Mikhaila (ph) is here. And Jerry's mother is on her way, as I understand it.

"The family wants you to know that we have renewed hope today as the search effort is receiving help from two companies offering their services free of charge. The families want particularly to thank ARACOR and Iomax (ph) for their generosity and commitment to help in this rescue effort."

A person note. This is of enormous encouragement to us, that these companies would volunteer their resources in this search. That gives us renewed hope.

"We would also like to thank the Mountain Waves (ph) who were part of the team that helped identify the signal of Kelly's cell phone and for continuing to facilitate communications between the search and rescue teams on the mountains and the base camp. The assistance of these organizations has been tremendous, and it does keep our faith alive."

"The families have remained strong. They are supporting each other and looking forward to welcoming Kelly, Brian and Nikko home again very, very soon."

A couple of comments that I wanted to make.

We're getting phone calls and e-mails from all over the United States. And we want the people, the thousands of people out there who are praying, we want them to know they have encouraged us. We are most grateful for those.

And I think this says something about our country, about Americans, standing up and rallying to the cause of three of their own. And I just want you to know that we're very grateful.

One other note from me personally. As I've spoken to reporters these last couple of days, any number of you have come up to me privately and said you are praying for my brother and for Brian and for Nikko, and so I want you and the media to know how grateful we are for your personal concern for us at this very difficult time.

But we remain strong. We remain hopeful that the rescue teams will be able to get to my brother and to locate as well Brian and Nikko.

This is an effort where all three families have come together. And we are holding strong right now.

If you have any questions, I'm happy to take them at this point.

Yes.

QUESTION: Clearly, your brother is a real pro and a really fit guy, and may very well be hunkered down in a snow cave.

JAMES: That's right.

QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about the frustration or feelings you have over the fact that they can't get to him at this point because of the weather.

JAMES: Yes. That's very frustrating, as you can imagine.

Kelly is experienced. It's my understanding that even on this -- on Mount Hood back in the '80s, there were other situations along these lines where individuals survived in a snow cave for seven or eight days. And so that, for us, is very much encouraging.

Kelly is a professional in that sense. He knows what he's doing. He did exactly the right thing to do. And I'm sure -- I feel reasonably sure that Brian and Nikko have done the same thing, probably hunkered down in a snow cave until the weather passes over.

So I think their experience will serve them well in these very difficult circumstances. So, our feelings, you can imagine that there's a great deal of concern on the part of the families.

I just left all of the families this morning, and we all sat around and talked, and we talked about how we need to be there for one another and to support one another. And I want to assure you all that the families are very, very hopeful. We have not given up hope in the least.

QUESTION: Frank, how concerned are you about the big storm (INAUDIBLE)?

JAMES: Very concerned. That has a lot to do with our prayers this morning.

We were praying that the lord would work in such a way as to give us a window of opportunity, that the helicopter would get up, and that we could use some of this new technology that these two companies -- corporate America coming to be involved in this is just a great encouragement. So if they can get up and use that technology, it's my understanding they can pinpoint, in my brother's case, almost exactly where he is within just a few feet.

So if we can just get a break in the weather -- and again, that's what our prayers are about primarily, for a break in the weather.

QUESTION: Frank, how do you guys comfort each other?

JAMES: Yes.

QUESTION: You're sitting in that room, you're all going through the same thing.

JAMES: Yes.

QUESTION: Tell us about the conversations that are going on.

JAMES: Yes. Well, it's emotional. I think everyone is kind of numb at this point.

We're all holding on. There's a lot of hugging. There is a lot of praying. We are trying to stay focused on the topic at hand; namely, that the rescue efforts continue.

I have been very, very encouraged by the sheriff, by his determination and commitment to keep pressing forward with the rescue efforts. So, you know, we're strong.

This is -- we've talked a lot about how strong the climbers are there. These are three extraordinary men. I can't emphasize that enough. Very determined, strong-minded people, but they come from strong-minded families. And the families are remaining strong, just like they are. QUESTION: Have you or Kelly ever talked about the dangers of these climbs? I mean, he's been doing it for 20-some years. He's well aware of the situation with climbing.

JAMES: Yes. Yes.

QUESTION: Have you ever talked about it?

JAMES: I have. I have. We've talked about it. I've expressed my views to my little brother about these things.

I know that there is a spirit in him, an adventurous spirit. And I think all three of these men had that.

They took all the precautions, I think, that they could reasonably take. But, yes, I've talked to him about it. And, you know, I'm not -- I'm not nearly as adventurous as my brother.

I'm more of the bookish type. As a teacher, I write books and teach. And so that's sort of my adventure. But Kelly is different. And so, I've -- yes, we've had those talks.

QUESTION: Tell us a little bit about the logistics. Yesterday, you kept talking about a ping, receiving a ping. And the question is, is it because Kelly may be turning on and off his cell phone, or is he leaving it on constantly?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, as far as I know, right now we have the one cell phone call that we've all talked about that we were able to triangulate. Now, that was due to the fact that the single hit more than one tower.

The other cell phone call that we had, and the ping, or whatever, only hit one tower. So, thereby, it was unable to triangulate and get a position lock on that -- on that cell phone call.

Some of the other (INAUDIBLE) we have been testing the system with T-Mobile. T-Mobile has put a lot of effort into this search. And they actually tested their theories and made sure that they were accurate. And they were.

And with this new corporation coming in, they think that they can even be more accurate, and may be able to utilize a single ping and a single signal from a cell phone. So we're real hopeful about that.

QUESTION: And you mentioned...

QUESTION: If you do -- if you do get the ping today (INAUDIBLE)?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I think so. You know, it's condition- dependent, of course. We always have to balance what we're going to do with the safety of our climbers.

Something like that, you know, is, you know, something that might push that little extra effort or whatnot. So, yes, we're hoping -- you know, that's what we need. We need a break on this. We need some new information. That's what we're hoping for today.

QUESTION: Just to clarify, you believe that Kelly is about 10,000 feet up?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Approximately, yes. That's based on the triangulation of the cell phone

QUESTION: And your rescue crews are, what, 7,000 to 8,000?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Depending on, you know, the slopes and the side of the mountains. But the upper limits are right around, on average, about 7,000-foot elevation.

QUESTION: (OFF-MIKE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Actually, I'm putting that together this morning. I'm not sure. I've got to check with the corporation itself and see...

HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: All right. We have been listening to an update on the three missing hikers in Oregon. This is coming from us from Cooper Spur ski area. Again, Mount Hood, Oregon.

The news here as we hear from the commander and from the brother of Kelly James, is that there's a bit of renewed hope. They are excited about some new technology coming in. We mentioned this earlier today, about a drone, a heat-seeking aircraft, coming in from Colorado that might help them detect some sort of heat. Obviously, these three individuals higher up on that mountain than they are able to get physically with their search crews there.

HARRIS: OK. So we will have, of course, much more on this. Sort of parse out the press conference a little more at the top of the hour when you join Don and Kyra in the "NEWSROOM" at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

But right now, let's send you back to YOUR WORLD TODAY.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And people, they didn't know really what (INAUDIBLE) identification, right? What they could think about themselves.

ANDERSON (voice over): We talk about the definition of Russian pride beginning with understanding a country caught between two cultures, East and West.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But in good moments, we are sitting on two chairs, having East and West in our soul. But (INAUDIBLE) we are sittings between two chairs. And I think the last 20 years, we were sitting between two chairs. And finally, slowly, we are starting to put these chairs together. ANDERSON: Back at the club, the beat is still thumping. Crowds still dancing, and young people thinking more of the moment than tomorrow. Yet, when tomorrow comes, and they find their own place in the world, have no doubt that they'll do so, proud to be Russian.

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ANDERSON: And a good excuse for me to go clubbing on a Friday night, Jim. But it was an absolutely fascinating weekend.

Back to you for the time being.

CLANCY: You know, Becky, you've been there many times. And it seems that the Russians have undergone a transformation from, you know, the immediate post-Soviet times, and it goes all the way back to the Beatles and, you know, "Back in the USSR."

Do you see that confidence?

ANDERSON: Yes. No, you absolutely do.

When I was here when I was a kid, back in the '80s, just looking around, Moscow is completely different now. There was a real sort of sense of grayness. There was no advertising, there were no lights, there was no neon. So, yes, when you see those pictures of clubbing, it's completely different from what people were experiencing in the Soviet era under communism.

We talked to Victor (ph), the author there. He was an absolutely fascinating man. I talked to him about this sort of growing sense of national pride and whether he thought that it could go too far, that it was sort of -- you know, it could reach these sort of extremes that you do hear spoken here, the sort of over-arching sense of nationalism. And he's concerned about it.

This is a man who has been a dissident writer in the past. He's now a big talk show host. And he said, yes, he does understand that and he does understand why the word "fascist" is bandied around about the state of Russia these days and about those -- some of those who live there.

But he put it down to this, Jim -- he said that it's all about sort of growing pains. He said it's like the early morning of national consciousness. That's how he described it. I mean, the guy is a great intellectual.

So, yes, growing pains of national consciousness. Not everybody, though, agrees with that, Jim. There are some pretty nasty situations here. Some of them get deadly.

Ryan Chilcote explains.

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RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Thousands of Russian nationalists defy the last-minute pleas of authorities to stay home and show up for an anti-immigration rally. Their chant, "Russia for Russians," a phrase some public opinion polls show more than half of Russians agree with.

At first, the government banned this march. But the demonstrators say they would march anyway, so the authorities allowed it under certain conditions, only to wind up clashing with the protesters when they ignored the rules.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think what's happening is that for quite a long time the authorities were actually (INAUDIBLE) with nationalistic and xenophobic attitudes, trying to make themselves popular in that way. And now things got so much out of control that they can't exactly handle the situation.

CHILCOTE: There are others who want to see the ultra- nationalists stop and take a more violent approach.

You're seeing an example of a gang that calls itself anti- fascists, attacking a skinhead group that night. There is a growing wave of xenophobia in Russia, hatred aimed at immigrants and those not ethnic Russians. It is a wave the government appears to be allowing, and sometimes even participating in.

Critics of the Kremlin point to a highly-publicized government crackdown on illegal immigrants that kicked off this fall. Police raided the country's vegetable and meat markets, rounding up people they said were illegal immigrants, herding them through airports and deporting them.

Russia's state-controlled television aired reports like this one, depicting the illegals as criminals squeezing native Russians out of jobs. The government's crackdown appeared to start by targeting immigrants from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Just days after that, the country's leadership embarrassed the Kremlin by announcing the arrest of what they called four Russian spies.

VYACHESLAV POSTAVNIN, FEDERAL MIGRATION SERVICE (through translator): Of course our law enforcement officials overdid it, focusing exclusively on Georgians and not at natives (ph). We have condemned that. And our society has condemned that.

CHILCOTE (on camera): By April 1 of next year, the foreigners who occupy nearly all of the jobs at Russia's markets will be banned from working at them. Kremlin critics calls it a populist move designed to appease an increasingly xenophobic society. The government calls it sound immigration policy.

(voice over): 2006 has been a very violent year of racial and ethic hatred in Russia. Human rights observers say skinhead groups have killed almost 50 foreigners and ethnic minorities and wounded more than 400 others. Activists who call themselves anti-fascists say their government shares the blame.

In this context, we can't just be silenced like nothing happens. It's -- like, we think that it's a kind of fascism. CHILCOTE: This week, the Kremlin announced a crackdown on extremist groups behind the violence. But many here wonder if it's only rhetoric and too little, too late.

Ryan Chilcote, CNN, Moscow.

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ANDERSON: And for our international viewers, I'll be back in the next hour -- Jim.

CLANCY: All right. Thank you very much for that.

Becky Anderson. She looks like she's finally warming up. I think it's part of her enthusiasm.

GORANI: Right. And maybe, you know, the warmer temperatures have something to do with it as well.

We have a lot more ahead when YOUR WORLD TODAY returns. We'll head to New York for a check of the financial markets.

CLANCY: Also ahead, he kept a horrifying secret from the world for five decades. Why is a confessed killer finally coming clean in a TV documentary?

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HARRIS: Hello, everyone. I'm Tony Harris at the CNN Center in Atlanta.

More of YOUR WORLD TODAY in just a few minutes. But first, a check on stories making headlines here in the United States.

Input on Iraq. That's what President Bush is getting. The White House says the president called Iraq's president, Jalal Talabani, to get this thoughts on the way forward. The two leaders also talked about their shared vision for the future of the country.

The president getting more advice from the military's top brass. President Bush talking with leaders at the Pentagon as part of his listening tour. He's expected to announce his new plan for Iraq after the new year.

Veteran actor Peter Boyle has died. Best known for his role as the lovable but cantankerous father on "Everybody Loves Raymond." Boyle called Frank obnoxious, but in a nice sort of way.

Boyle also appeared in many films -- "Young Frankenstein" and "Taxi Driver," to name just a couple. The actor had been sick for a while now battling cancer and heart disease.

Critical weather worries in the search for three missing climbers in Oregon. Rescuers are braving blizzard conditions and the threat of avalanches on Mount Hood. They're hoping to get help from unmanned aircraft that can detect heat. Plus, they're trying to track a cell phone signal.

Well, the brother of the one of the missing hikers said moments ago that everyone is hoping for a break in the weather.

Rob Marciano, is that break coming anytime soon?

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You know, it's going to -- not really.

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HARRIS: Got wrinkles? Tough transition, but it looks like you don't need to spend a fortune on those wrinkle stoppers.

"Consumer Reports" says the expensive creams don't work any better than the cheap stuff. Its study finds Olay Regenerist is the most effective at reducing wrinkles, and it costs about $19 at your nearest drugstore. Incredibly, the most expensive cream costing about $335 an ounce was among the least effective. But the real wrinkle in all of this, none of the products made a significant difference in the skin's appearance.

British cops think a serial killer is prowling for prostitutes. And they're warning sex workers to stay off the streets.

Kyra Phillips and Don Lemon have the latest on the case and much more coming up at the top of the hour in the CNN "NEWSROOM."

Meantime, YOUR WORLD TODAY continues after a quick break.

I'm Tony Harris.

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GORANI: A lot of news out of Africa today. A U.N. court has convicted a former catholic priest for his role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Atanay Serumba (ph) ordered the destruction of a church. Inside of it, 2,000 ethnic Hutus hiding.

Africa correspondent Jeff Koinange has been following the trial and joins us now from Johannesburg -- Jeff.

JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Hala, and a significant ruling today, because it's the first time a priest, make that a Roman Catholic priest, has been sentenced on genocide charges. There were four charges against Father Serumba. Although he pleaded innocent to all of them, the judge found him guilty. Although the judge gave him credit for four of these years. So he'll only serve out 11 of those years.

But again, Hala, very significant, the first time very in the history of these trials that have been going on for several years that a Roman Catholic priest has been convicted on genocide charges.

GORANI: Well, we're also hearing, Jeff, some accusations that French troops serving as peacekeepers at the time may have been guilty of crimes, or at least accused of certain crimes during that time?

KOINANGE: That's right. There's a lot of back and forth, a lot of fist fighting going in between Paris and Kigali. The latest there's a commission going on in Kigali, and a couple of witnesses have said that some Tutsi women who were fleeing Hutu militias during the genocide, and the French soldiers allegedly raped them, some of them gang raped them, and so these accusations flying back and forth about a month ago. A judge in France ruled that Rwanda President Paul Kagame should stand trial for the downing of that aircraft that killed the president of their country, and in fact contributed to genocide.

So accusations, as always, flying back and forth. We'll know in the coming days, weeks and months how this unfolds -- Hala.

GORANI: All right, and quick last question, and this is regarding Botswana this time, and a victory for the little guy, I think we can say, bushmen who said they were evicted from their ancestral land so that the government could mine the land for diamonds actually won a court ruling. That was quite unexpected, wasn't it?

KOINANGE: Quite unexpected, and very significant. Bushmen waited two years and seven hours, and it went right down to the wire, because the chief justice ruled against the bushmen, and then another judge ruled for them. It went down to one last judge, who in the end ruled that the bushmen were forcibly removed from their land.

In fact, we spent quite a bit of time from one of those bushmen in one of those reserves, if you will, where they had been relocated 150 miles from the Kalahari Desert. He told us, if the ruling goes in their favor today, he would pick up his grandson and literally walk the 150 miles back to that reserve. All they want is to live the lifestyle of their ancestors, who've been living there, Hala, for more than 20,000 years.

GORANI: All right, Jeff Koinange with the latest there on that ruling implicating a Catholic priest in the killing of those 2,000 Tutsis in that church.

Thank you very much, Jeff Koinange.

We're going to take a short back.

CLANCY: And when we come back, police in eastern England warning that a suspected serial killer could strike again.

GORANI: Well, coming up ON YOUR WORLD TODAY, we'll go live to Ipswich, where authorities are warning prostitutes to stay off the streets.

Stay with us.

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GORANI: Welcome back.

CLANCY: You are watching YOUR WORLD TODAY. We're trying to bring CNN's international and U.S. viewers up to speed on some of the most important international stories of the day.

GORANI: Well, one of them is in the U.S. Imagine revealing a decades-old secret, not just any secret, but one that could alter lives. It happened to a university professor in the U.S. state of Arizona, where a respected teacher and pillar of the community, and now an admitted killer.

Gary Tuchman has his story.

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GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): For more than three decades, Bob Bechtel has taught at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He's a psychology professor, a well-respected scholar in this community.

TUCHMAN (on camera): Are you ashamed of what you did?

BOB BECHTEL, Oh, worse than that. Ashamed is too -- I mean, it's loathsome. I mean, this is just terrible.

TUCHMAN: Professor Bechtel has kept a horrifying secret about his own college days. The year, 1955, the place, Pennsylvania Swathmore College. Bechtel claims he was bullied by classmates in his dorm.

BECHTEL: I just decided to go home, get my guns, and wipe them out.

TUCHMAN: A documentary called "The Killer Within," a film about Bechtel's secret, complete with the re-enactment of his 1955 shooting spree, will soon be released.

BECHTEL: I had a Mossberg .22 caliber, a lever action rifle, and I had a Smith & Wesson K-22 Masterpiece Revolver. And then I fired without aiming. And I heard this noise, and I knew I -- see, it's funny. I knew I killed him, yet I wished I hadn't. I just thought, OK, that's it.

TUCHMAN: Bechtel had killed 21-year-old Holme Strosser, as he slept. He continued firing additional shots into a door in the hallway. He then decided he was --

BECHTEL: Just going to go turn myself in, get electrocuted, be done with it.

TUCHMAN: But that didn't happen.

(on camera): The sanity commission ruled you were incurably insane?

BECHTEL: That's right, incurably insane.

TUCHMAN: His sentence, life at a state-run sanitarium. The family of Holm Strosser was relieved Bechtel would never again be on the street. But five years later his brother, John Strosser, recalls visiting home and being handed a newspaper clipping by his father.

JOHN STROSSER, VICTIM'S BROTHER: He just gave it to me, to read. And I read it. And he just said, don't ever tell your mother.

TUCHMAN: The 1960 clipping said Bob Bechtel had been freed, that he was cured. His legal obligations complete.

Bechtel decided to hide his past, except to the woman he met and married. But that all recently changed when he decided to tell his daughter Kara, who is featured in the documentary.

KARA BECHTEL, DAUGHTER: So I worry about him in the sense that his character will be maimed forever, and his dying legacy will not be that he was a loving, amazing father. It will be that he was a killer.

TUCHMAN: Kara Bechtel convinced a filmmaker that her father's story could help people understand bullying and school shootings. The film shows the professor breaking the stunning news to students, and to family members.

BECHTEL: I love every one of you, every single one of you. But what I'm going to say to you is going to be very troubling.

I killed another student.

TUCHMAN: Bob Bechtel is now quite public about his past.

BECHTEL: The bullies always pick on someone who can't fight back. And once people saw that I was paralyzed, this was an attraction.

TUCHMAN: Bechtel has diagnosed himself as a victim of post- traumatic stress disorder. He says regrets killing Holme Strosser, but he doesn't come across as a particularly sympathetic man.

TUCHMAN (on camera): You aren't very emotional about what happened back then.

BECHTEL: Well, I've had 50 years to adjust to it.

TUCHMAN (voice over): But this man cannot get used to it.

STROSSER: The victim is my brother. He's the one he killed.

That's Holmes, and that's me.

TUCHMAN: John Strosser says his brother, who would have been 70 years old now, was a wonderful person, the star of the family.

STROSSER: He probably more, than anything else, was a leader.

TUCHMAN: Strosser never knew what happened after Bechtel's release. He tried not to think about it, until another newspaper headline caught his eye.

STROSSER: I found out about it, and saw the headline in the paper, "I killed my tormentor." I mean, it was just unbelievable.

TUCHMAN: One thing Strosser is sure of --

STROSSER: My brother was not a bully. And so he's taking this sort of example of murder, and then using it as an excuse to explain why he did this. And I think that's just absolutely outrageous.

TUCHMAN: I asked Bob Bechtel if the man he shot was one of the people he claims bullied him.

BECHTEL: I kind of think so, but I'm not really sure.

TUCHMAN (on camera): So, you don't know?

BECHTEL: You see, I think they all were --

TUCHMAN: I mean, he was a random victim of your -- your --

BECHTEL: I assumed that they all were, OK? That they were all on that floor, they were all in on it.

STROSSER: He was not bullied at Swarthmore. He was not harassed at Swarthmore.

TUCHMAN (voice over): In the movie, Bechtel's daughter shows she is still having a difficult time getting over the shock of the secret.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He had planned a mass murder. I mean, he planned to kill everyone. He was going to kill everyone in the dorm.

I'm thinking about this now. It's like, my god, he would have been like one of the greatest mass murders in America's history, and that seems so weird to me. That that's not my father.

TUCHMAN: As it is, he did kill a fellow student. And by doing that became one of the first well-documented school shooters. In addition to the movie, Bob Bechtel is writing a book he's entitling, "Redemption."

BECHTEL: When I was young, people used to get me to cry for amusement. So I'm not interested in crying anymore.

TUCHMAN: Gary Tuchman, CNN, Tucson, Arizona.

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CLANCY: We're going to look in depth right now in a murder mystery that has put the English port town of Ipswich on edge. Five women, all believed to be prostitutes, have been killed isn't just ten days. Police now warning others in the red light district, stick together, stay indoors.

It all began when police were -- and they found the bodies of three local prostitutes. Then the gruesome discovery of two more bodies yesterday may support the theory that this is the work of one killer. More on that later. Right now, CNN's Adrian Finighan joins us live from Ipswitch to give us the latest on the investigation -- Adrian.

ADRIAN FINIGHAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jim, many thanks. As you said, five women are dead. Their naked bodies dumped in the countryside, a community is in shock. And the small county police force is under strain at the moment as it copes with the sheer scale of this investigation.

With me now is the man who is leading the murder hunt. It's Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull. Thanks for being with us again on CNN. What's the latest on the two bodies that you found about this time yesterday?

STEWART GULL, DET. CHIEF SUPT, SUFFOLK POLICE: One of the females found at that location not far from here at Levington has now been recovered. We've worked on the scene, one of those scenes today with forensic experts and the pathologist in order to maximize the evidence available to us before recovering her from that scene. She's now gone to a local hospital where she'll be subject to the home office post-mortem.

FINIGHAN: What are you able to tell us about the condition in which the body was found?

GULL: I haven't got any details at this stage. Identification hasn't taken place yet. Clearly, we're hoping for a cause of death and I'll be able to provide details later.

FINIGHAN: So two women are still missing. Are you linking yet that missing person's inquiry to the two bodies you found yesterday?

GULL: As I indicated yesterday, I fear for the worst. Annette and Paula are still outstanding, they haven't made contact with us. In all probability, the two girls that we found at Levington are Annette and Paula. But still identification to be confirmed.

FINIGHAN: Tell us something about the forensic investigation. How do you go about investigating a crime like this? Who is it that's actually carrying out the forensic examination?

GULL: OK. We engaged the forensic science service, a separate body to the police. But we have our own scenes of crime offices, our own crime scene managers and scientific support staff. So it's a partnership. And we work with other external experts who are able to assess and collect and exploit the evidence that may be available to us in quite hostile environments like the sort of rural area where these girls are being left.

FINIGHAN: You told us earlier that you were very pleased with the response that you've had to the public in your appeal for information. Do you still need more information, more help?

GULL: We do. We had a tremendous response yesterday in excess of 2,000 calls and I suspect there will be a similar number today. Those calls need to continue. If anybody has any information, in particular, in relation to the final movements of Annale (ph) and Paula or Annette, they need to contact the Suffolk police.

FINIGHAN: What about the scale of the investigation? It has put the Suffolk police under a considerable deal of pressure hasn't it?. Are you coping with this investigation?

GULL: Yes. I mean, this is clearly a significant inquiry. Three murders, two unexplained deaths, possibly murders. That sort of pressure could happen to any force, not just Suffolk, but we're receiving tremendous regional and support from across the U.K. And that's welcomed.

FINIGHAN: OK. Detective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull. Thanks for updating us here on CNN.

So there Jim you have it. A community in shock -- Ipswich. A very ordinary English town east of England. People here stunned to say the least, that something on this scale could be happening in their community -- Jim.

CLANCY: All right. Our man on the scene there, Adrian Finighan in Ipswitch. And the murders, bringing back memories of a pair of notorious British serial killers back in the 1970's. Peter Sutcliffe was known as the Yorkshire Ripper. He murdered 13 women and most of them were prostitutes. That was between 1975 and 1980.

He was caught in a famous DNA case. He was then tried and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. To date now, he's served 25 years of that sentence.

Now historically, of course, and this is a familiar one, the most notorious serial killer in Britain was Jack the Ripper. He murdered some five east London prostitutes back in 1888 -- at least five. He was never caught and speculation about his identity continues to this very day.

While police are painstakingly scouring rural, wooded areas for clues, they're also trying to get inside the mind of the killer. What is his motive? Did he know the women? Does he follow a typical serial killer profile?

Well to help us with those questions, let's bring in David Canter, he's the director of the center for investigative psychology in Liverpool. David, so good to have you with us. What do we know about this man, and is he acting alone?

DAVID CANTER, DIR. CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Well, there's a lot that's not known at the moment, of course, because we don't know the cause of death and there's still a lot of information to be sifted through and it's very -- we really have to be very careful not to speculate too wildly before we have all of our information available.

It's also important to realize that the police really in a sense don't need to get into the mind of the killer. It's much more important that they really get in the killer's shoes so that they can follow his path, follow his trail and see how that will lead back to locations of which he may be found.

And this may also take them into police records so that they can see whether or not there's anybody who really fits, in some way, what they may expect to be the characteristics of this individual.

CLANCY: But the police certainly knew that he was active. There were suspicions. A serial killer is there, and yet he continued to kill, to abduct women.

CANTER: Well, the problem you always have with any serial killer investigations in the early stages, they're not aware it's a serial killer. Some women go missing and they're street-level prostitutes. They live a tremendously vulnerable life. They risk violence every time they get into a car with a stranger.

And so there isn't the awareness of the possibility of this being a serial killer in the early stages. And it's only now that they have five bodies and they're beginning to piece this all together, that it seems very likely indeed that it's one offender who has committed all these different crimes.

CLANCY: Some elements of the British media, they're blaming the police, the community themselves, saying that these women were forced to the darkest areas, the darkest edges of society. They weren't allowed to stand in the lights and that that contributed to this situation.

CANTER: Well, that's right. This sort of crime always brings to public view and -- the tremendous difficulty and problems there are with street-level prostitution. These women are on the streets at night. They are desperate, usually, to get some sort of money to pay for drugs. And they'll go into a car with any stranger who approaches because they're so desperate for drugs.

They try to keep in touch with each other in some way, to protect themselves. But if the police are driving these women into dark corners and really not allowing them to operate in any way that will allow them to sort of protect themselves, then, of course, it does increase the whole risk and the whole problem associated with it. But, of course, the real problem is the man who uses women.

CLANCY: David, what's the chance? I mean, there's a lot of pressure on this guy. He's out there. He knows the police are after him. Is he going to dare -- is he going to taunt the police and the community by trying to kill again? What's your best guess, and that's all it could be, I'm sure.

CANTER: Well, I think the processes, the psychological turmoil that leads him to commit these crimes, will still be present. And he'll still be wanting to somehow or other destroy these women in the way he's done up to now.

But what you must realize is, in Britain, the amount of resource that goes into the average murder inquiry is phenomenal. I mean, it's something like $2 million is spent on every murder inquiry. A major inquiry like this, they'll be bringing hundreds of police officers into it. It will be a vast team of people investigating it. So I think there's a very strong chance they'll get to this man very quickly now.

CLANCY: All right, David Canter I want to thank you very much for being with us and giving us an expert's view on the psychological profile here.

Well as you can see, this is a case that's literally gripped all of Britain right now as they are looking and hoping that, as David Canter says, the police are going to get their man and soon -- Hala.

GORANI: All right. Well, we're going to take a short break on YOUR WORLD TODAY.

Just ahead, the Vatican decks the halls in a major way. It's their biggest Christmas tree ever. Stay with us.

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GORANI: Well, Vatican officials are proudly displaying their biggest Christmas tree ever.

CLANCY: Well, it certainly took a lot of effort to get it there, Hala. Every year, the tree comes from a different region of Europe.

GORANI: Well, this one comes from Italy, Calabria -- am I saying that right?

CLANCY: Yes.

GORANI: It took a helicopter to bring it down from the mountain, a truck to bring it to the Vatican, and a lot of lifting to plant it firmly in St. Peter's Square.

We're out of time. I'm Hala Gorani. Thanks for watching.

CLANCY: I'm Jim Clancy. This has been YOUR WORLD TODAY on CNN.

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