so, i passed isaac over to craig, and i ran up to charles malek.d i just remember i ran right into the middle of the road, just waving my arms until someone would stop. this gentleman stopped, and he--i just, i feel for him because he had his two young girls in the car, and i just think of how traumatized they must have been to see us. the poor things were crying. and as craig said, we wanted to get to one of the closer hospitals but, but it was impossible. he was like going down the wrong side of the road, gunning it as fast as he could. it was, you know, and i was--any time we got to an intersection, i was screaming at everyone to get out of the way. and then we arrived at the hospital, and they took him immediately. and because i was injured, i was--i had a lot of cuts all over my body, they took me straight away to another part of the hospital, and that was the last time i saw isaac, was the doctors taking him one way and me the other. craig: so sarah and i agreed that i should stay with isaac, just so that isaac would know that his parents wer

. >> reporter: terrence malek's 23i78 about charles stark weather, whose murder tree in 1957 and '58who had reported on that story in nebraska, and amazingly enough, she was still at the newspaper, and she was a lovely woman, and we talked for a half hour or so. and it just sort of focused me on the feeling of what i wanted to write about. ♪ they want to know why ♪ >> reporter: in a serial killer, springsteen had found a muse. ♪ i guess there's just a meanness in this world ♪ >> there's a meanness in this world. that explains everything stark weather's done. >> yeah. i tried to locate where the humanity was as best as i could. >> reporter: in a surge of creativity, he wrote 15 songs in a matter of weeks. >> this is pretty much the setup, i think. i had a little chair here. mike was over there with this tape player. >> reporter: and one january night in 1982, it was time to record. >> the acoustics of this room. >> not bad. the orange shag carpet makes it really dead. you know, there's not a lot of echo. >> not just beautiful to look at -- >> not only was it beautiful, it came in hand