Speed Freak Killer Describes Cindy Vanderheiden's Final Moments Alive On Video
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - New on Monday, CBS13 obtained chilling video footage of Loren Herzog, one of the Speed Freak Killers. It was recorded just after he was arrested.
It's been 13 years since the interrogation, but it's chilling to hear Loren Herzog detail the deaths. And he's blaming Wesley Shermantine for all of it.
Herzog: He had her like this or not, I don't know if it was like this. And he went like that.
Detective: Okay
Herzog: And that's when I kind of turned over the other way.
Detective: And so it was more like this then, all right, and he continued to do that?
Herzog: Yeah, and he took her to the ground.
Herzog calls Wesley Shermantine a cold-blooded killer, claiming Shermantine murdered more than two dozen people, including two hunters.
Detective: Which side did he walk up to first?
Herzog: Driver's side.
Detective: Okay, and then what happened?
Herzog: He started shooting.
Detective: How many times do you think Wes shot totally?
Herzog: I think he emptied his gun, because he used mine.
Detective: Okay, once he's done shooting, then what happens?
Herzog: He took 'em out of the car and emptied their pockets.
They got $11 from that robbery and murder. Herzog details the killing of Cyndi Vanderheiden, the first remains investigators recovered recently.
Detective: Did she ever ask you for help?
Herzog: Yeah
Detective: What did she say to you?
Herzog: She used to call me by a nickname, and she had asked you know…that nickname to help her.
Detective: What was the nickname she called you?
Herzog: Slim
Detective: What did she say?
Herzog: Slim, help me. Slim, do something.
He didn't do anything.
Herzog: I really wish I hadn't seen what I've seen.
Herzog: I mean, not only because I'm sitting here, it's just…Got Cyndi on my mind for the rest of my life, man.
Detective: Yeah?
Herzog: That ain't something I like picturing, you know?
Convicted killer Wesley Shermantine sent a new one-page letter to bounty hunter Leonard Padilla. He refers to one of the possible victims of the Speed Freak Killers, Joanna Hobson, who is feared to have been killed by one of the men. Shermantine says his partner in crime, Herzog, is responsible for her murder.
