SANTA ANA, Calif. — Steven Dean Gordon spent hours methodically telling a police detective how he and an accomplice randomly chose five women to rape, strangle and throw into trash bins.
He grew agitated when the detective failed to ask about the women in the order in which they were killed, according to a grand jury transcript unsealed Monday.
During the 13½ hours of interrogation, Gordon told Anaheim police Detective Julissa Trapp that there was one victim that she didn’t know about. He also referred to a picture in a local newspaper article about a string of missing women, Trapp told the grand jury.
“He would actually stop me and tell me he wanted to talk about them in order,” Trapp said. “I mean, he had actually rearranged the photographs I had shown him and put them in order.”