PART 2: Six Days, Six Victims, One Connection | The Scottsdale Killing Spree

August 31, 2026

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Six different lives ended in six days, all connected by one man. There were warning signs for years, but no one stopped what was coming. This is the second part of a two-part series on the Scottsdale killing spree, picking up after three murders have already been committed in under 31 hours.

By the morning of June 2nd, investigators had opened a tip line and hundreds of calls were coming in. At the scene of Marshall Levine's murder—a 72-year-old counselor and former psychology professor described by everyone who knew him as "the sweetest person"—police collected .40 caliber shell casings identical to those found at the previous two crime scenes. They now had three connected murders and no solid link between the victims.

Retired detective Rick English had been following the news obsessively. When he heard about Dr. Stephen Pitt's murder, followed by the double homicide at the law firm where Laura and Valeria worked, he knew exactly which case connected them. He called the tip line at 9:30 PM on June 2nd and told investigators the link was attorney Elizabeth Elman. Rick believed she was the real target, not the two paralegals who died in her place. The reason: revenge from a divorce case Elizabeth had worked on nearly a decade earlier.

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2 (00:03) **Introduction: Six Lives, One Killer** - The episode opens by framing the tragedy: six different people connected in death by one maniac, with signs that were missed.
3 (01:55) **Marshall Levine's Murder - Scene Investigation** - Police connect Marshall's killing to the earlier homicides and begin interviewing his landlord, Karen Colby.
4 (05:59) **Community in Fear - Fourth Murder Confirmed** - With four professionals murdered in under 31 hours, the city is terrified and tip lines are flooded.
5 (09:10) **The Gold Mercedes Clue** - Security footage near Dr. Pitt's office captures a gold Mercedes driving erratically, but the image is too grainy to identify the driver or plate.
6 (10:44) **Attorney Elizabeth Elman's Memory** - Investigators ask the law firm to review past clients; one case from 2009 involving a man named Dwight Jones stands out to Elizabeth.
7 (12:12) **Retired Detective Rick English Connects the Dots** - Former detective Rick English, now married to Connie Jones, realizes the murders are linked to a divorce case he worked on a decade earlier.

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Over the course of just a few days in 2018, six people were killed across the Phoenix area, and at first, the victims seemed to have nothing to do with one another. A nationally respected forensic psychiatrist, gunned down outside his office. Two paralegals. A counselor. A couple in a quiet suburban home. Different people, different places, no obvious link. A community was left terrified, and investigators were racing against the clock as the body count climbed.

But these killings were not random. Someone had chosen these victims carefully and deliberately, and hidden beneath the chaos was a single, disturbing thread connecting them all. The question was whether police could uncover it before anyone else died.

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