‘Oh, that’s why they got in the car’: The charm of serial killers

Matt Murphy, who has built a reputation as one of the most formidable prosecutors in the country, says he didn’t fully understand serial killers until he came face-to-face with them in the courtroom.

Murphy shares how the mixture of charm and hyper-intelligence when in contact with serial killers like Rodney Alcala, the so-called “Dating Game Killer,” was “surreal.”