Exposed

A "CSI: Miami" Actress Crosses Paths With A Real Serial Killer

(CBS)  Rockwood zeroed in on a tattoo barely visible on the woman’s left ankle. He flashed on the location of the patch of skin that had been removed from Jane Doe No. 60: it was in the exact same spot.

"They went to Bill Bradford 'Who is this girl?' 'Her name’s Shari Miller,'" explains Bozanich.

Using fingerprints, detectives quickly established that Jane Doe No. 60 was Shari Miller. And her picture yielded yet another important clue.

"In the picture of Shari Miller, she’s standing in front of a distinctive rock formation," says Bozanich.

Detectives figured if they could find that rock, they might unravel the mystery of what happened to Tracy Campbell. A buddy of Bradford’s led cops out to Bradford’s favorite camping spot in the desert.

Sgt. Dick Adams, now retired, was one of dozens of police officers who in 1984 traveled to Antelope Valley, a desert region north of Los Angeles, searching for evidence.

The police set up a command post and fanned out, some on horseback, in search of the unique rock formation. Finally, they found it.

Adams says within 100 yards of that rock, searchers found the body of Tracy Campbell. The teen, like Shari Miller, had been strangled to death.

"This was his killing ground," Adams says.

But the killer made a terrible mistake, leaving behind a devastating piece of evidence. "When they found Tracy Campbell, she had a blouse wrapped around her head that belonged to Shari Miller," Bozanich explains.

That, she says, tied them to Bradford. "No one else could have done this."

Bozanich was determined to convict Bradford and convinced a judge to tie the murder cases together. Bradford was convicted of the murders of Shari Miller and Tracy Campbell. Then, at sentencing, Bozanich brought in a parade of women who said they had been raped by Bradford.

"We had six victims lined up to testify," Bozanich remembers. "Six rape victims and he didn’t just rape ‘em. He tortured ‘em."

But Bradford wasn’t finished with them. He fired his lawyers and questioned the women himself, including ex-wife Cindy Horton, who told jurors what it was like to live with Bradford.

Pam Bozanich argued Bradford should be put to death and he didn’t disagree: he shocked everyone in the courtroom by telling the jury: 'Think of how many you don’t even know about,'" implying he killed other women.

The jury sent Bradford to death row but the question lingered: how many others did bill Bradford kill?

Once Bradford was sent to San Quentin’s death row, the hundreds of photos he took of young women seemed to disappear along with him.

"They just got lost in the shuffle. For years, we’ve been looking for the photos," says Bozanich.

But by a lucky accident, the photos were found in the summer of 2006 in an unmarked folder in the back of a filing cabinet.

Some of the pictures were of nude women, others were in bikinis, explains Captain Ray Peavy, "Some looked like professional models that he had picked up."

The goal now, says Peavy, is very simple. "We wanna find out who these women are. We wanna find out if they’re alive. We wanna find out if they’re not alive. Could these possibly have become victims of Bradford?"