Creep Me Out: A Podcast of True Crime, Urban Legends, & the Weird

For the season 3 finale, Morgan concludes the telling of the heinous crimes of the prolific serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer.

Citations:

-Lionel Dahmer, A Father's Story (Out of Print)

-Jeffrey Dahmer. (n.d.). In Federal Bureau of Investigation, Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts (No. 7-MW-26057-Section 2). Retrieved June 19, 2024 https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer-part-03-of-20

-Masters, B. (2020). The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer [Print]. Hodder Paperbacks.

-Norris, J. (1992). Jeffrey Dahmer [Book]. Constable Limited.

-Rosewood, J. (2017). Jeffery Dahmer: A Terrifying True Story of Rape, Murder & Cannibalism (The Serial Killer Books Book 1) [Audiobook].

-Sullivan, C. (2022, January 27). Jeffrey Dahmer Biography: The Cannibal Killer. Biographics.

https://biographics.org/jeffrey-dahmer-biography-the-cannibal-killer/

-Inside Edition. (2018, November 27). Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer’s Chilling Jailhouse Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjYsxaBjBI

-Jordan, J. (2022). Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. Netflix. 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81408930?trackId=14170290

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan tells the first part of the story of one of the most notorious serial killers in history, Jeffrey Dahmer.

Citations:

-Lionel Dahmer, A Father's Story (Out of Print)

-Dvorchak, R., & Holewa, L. (1992). Milwaukee Massacre: Jeffrey Dahmer and the Milwaukee Murders.[Kindle]. Dell Publishing.

-Festival that Dahmer victim was planning to attend 6/18/78. (1978, June 17). Newspapers.com.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal-festival-that-d/38114889/

-Jeffrey Dahmer. (n.d.). In Federal Bureau of Investigation, Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts (No. 7-MW-26057-Section 2). Retrieved June 19, 2024

https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer/jeffrey-lionel-dahmer-part-03-of-19

-Jujjavarapu, A. (2024, May 23). Who Is Jeffrey Dahmer’s Brother David Dahmer & Where Is He Now? Yahoo. Retrieved June 19, 2024

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeffrey-dahmer-brother-david-dahmer-122616166.html

-Masters, B. (2020). The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer [Print]. Hodder Paperbacks.

-Norris, J. (1992). Jeffrey Dahmer [Book]. Constable Limited.

-Rosewood, J. (2017). Jeffery Dahmer: A Terrifying True Story of Rape, Murder & Cannibalism (The Serial Killer Books Book 1) [Audiobook].

-Sullivan, C. (2022, January 27). Jeffrey Dahmer Biography: The Cannibal Killer. Biographics.

https://biographics.org/jeffrey-dahmer-biography-the-cannibal-killer/

-The Tuscaloosa News - Google News Archive Search. (n.d.).

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JTUdAAAAIBAJ&pg=6988,58204

-Why Jeffrey Dahmer Waited Almost a Decade After Killing His First Victim, Steven Hicks, Before Murdering Again. (2022, October 12). A&E. Retrieved June 19, 2024

https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/steven-hicks

-Inside Edition. (2018, November 27). Inside the Mind of Jeffrey Dahmer: Serial Killer’s Chilling Jailhouse Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWjYsxaBjBI

-Jordan, J. (2022). Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes. Netflix. 

https://www.netflix.com/watch/81408930?trackId=14170289

-What happened to Jeffery Dahmer's Army Career? Sarah Sicard

https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/2022/09/28/what-happened-to-jeffrey-dahmers-army-career/

-Soldiers, sexual abuse – and the serial killer: The US military’s secret sexual assaults

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/soldiers-sexual-abuse-and-the-serial-killer-the-us-military-s-secret-sexual-assaults-8679271.html

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari tells Morgan the history of a past time of a bygone era, Freak Shows.

Citations:

-CIRCUS HISTORY: FREAK SHOWS AND SIDESHOWS, Kim Hart

https://www.aaastateofplay.com/circus-history/

-Freak Shows in the United States (1840-1940), Combined sources article 

https://disabilityhistory.org/2021/12/29/freak-shows-in-the-united-states-1840-1940/

-Freak Shows in the United States (1840-1940), Michael M Chemers

https://www.britannica.com/art/freak-show

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari and Morgan share the different customs, rituals, and beliefs from around the world surrounding the one thing we all can't avoid, death.

Citations:

-5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Funeral Industry

https://evermore.org/5-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-funeral-industry/

-HOW THE FUNERAL INDUSTRY HAS EVOLVED

https://www.funeralwise.com/resources/funeral-industry/

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the saddest, most pathetic serial killer in American History, Dennis Radar better known by his self appointed moniker, BTK.

Citations:

-Katherine Ramsland, Ph. D Confessions of a Serial Killer

-FBI Records: The Vault

https://vault.fbi.gov/dennis-rader/dennis-rader-part-01/view

-Matthew Crawford, Dennis Rader, The BTK Killer: Psychology of a Psychopath

https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/Profile-of-a-Serial-Killer-Part-5-Dennis-Rader-The-BTK-Killer

-Michael Ruiz,Serial killer’s daughter confronts him behind bars over explosive diary entry that suggests she too was victim

https://www.foxnews.com/us/serial-killers-daughter-confronts-him-behind-bars-over-explosive-diary-entry-suggests-she-too-victim

-Scott A Bonn Ph. D,The Extreme Narcissism of Serial Killer BTK

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/202402/the-extreme-narcissism-of-serial-killer-btk

-Scott A Bonn, Ph. D, Evolution of a Serial Killer: Dennis Rader, BTK

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/202202/evolution-serial-killer-dennis-rader-btk

-Quote Catalog

https://quotecatalog.com/quote/dennis-rader-those-three-dud-8abQ3Mp

-Elena Nicoladu, Read The BTK Killer's Shocking Letters For Yourself

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/08/240763/btk-killer-letters-victims-mindhunter-season-2

-Netflix, Catching Killers, S2:E1

https://www.netflix.com/title/81264650

-American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Stitistical Manual of Mental Disorders V

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari tells Morgan the story of the notorious

English monarch, Henry VIII.

Citations:

-The Wadsworth Book of the Kings and Queens of Britain, Dr. G.S.P Freeman-Grenville. 

-The Tudors: The Crown, The Dynasty, The Golden Age., Alison Weir

-Henry VIII: King of England, Geoffrey R Elton, John S Morrill 

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-VIII-king-of-England

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari, and Morgan each dive deep in the history of Vampires, and the man, the myth, the legend who started the modern fasciation with the bloodsuckers, Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad the Impaler.

Citations:

-Dracula Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Times, Radu R. Florescu & Raymond T. McNally

-Vampire History

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/vampire-history

-Inside The Bloody History Of Vampires, From Ruthless Rulers To Medical Mysteries, Kaleena Fraga

https://allthatsinteresting.com/vampires

-Lichtheim, Miriam (2006) [1976]. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume Two: The New Kingdom. University of California Press. pp. 197–199.

-Decomposing Bodies in the 1720s Gave Birth to the First Vampire Panic, Karina Wilson 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/decomposing-bodies-1720s-gave-birth-first-vampire-panic-180976097/

-How vampire lore emerged from shadowy medical mysteries, Bella Isaacs-Thomas

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-vampire-lore-emerged-from-shadowy-medical-mysteries

-The past stinks: a brief history of smells and social spaces, William Tullet

https://theconversation.com/the-past-stinks-a-brief-history-of-smells-and-social-spaces-121383

-The Last American Vampire, Christopher Klein

https://www.history.com/news/the-last-american-vampire

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the internet's favorite cryptid, Point Pleasant WV's very own Mothman!

Citations:

-An Ode to a Hometown Creature: Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, Gwen Mallow

https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/mothman-point-pleasant-west-virginia

-Mothman Festival

https://www.mothmanfestival.com

-Point Pleasant Register

https://web.archive.org/web/20071011230219/http:/www.westva.net/mothman/1966-11-16.htm

-Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols: A Handbook, Cassandra Eason

https://books.google.com/books?id=s4AP30k4IFwC&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PR15&hl=en&source=newbks_fb

-From Disaster to Prevention, T. R. Witcher

https://ascelibrary.org/doi/epdf/10.1061/ciegag.0001250

-American Society of Civil Engineers 1993-11: Vol 119 Iss 4

https://archive.org/details/sim_american-society-of-civil-engineers-collected-journals_1993-11_119_4/mode/2up

-Gray Barker's Book of Bunk, John C. Sherwood

https://skepticalinquirer.org/2002/05/gray-barkers-book-of-bunk/

-The Portsmouth Times, Claims in Disaster Denied

https://news.google.ca/newspapers?id=cJ1eAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MVMNAAAAIBAJ&pg=4537,3056163

-The Blackbird of Chernobyl: Was it a warning? Lauren Dillon

https://www.historicmysteries.com/unexplained-mysteries/chornobyl-blackbird/35908/

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Ari tells Morgan the story of America's first reported serial Killer, H.H. Homes, and his murderous reign during the 1885 Chicago World's Fair.

Citations:

-Devil In the White City, by Erik Larson

-H. H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer, 2004 documentary now on Prime. 

-H.H. Holmes American serial killer, John Philip Jenkins

⁠https://www.britannica.com/biography/H-H-Holmes⁠

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina

This week Morgan tells Ari the story of the mysterious Men in Black of ufology lore.

Citations:

Justin Sablich

https://www.history.com/news/men-in-black-real-origins

-Men in Black" Captured on Surveillance Video Entering Sheraton Hotel in Niagara Falls - FindingUFO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVMEYaQiOBo

-The Editors of Publications International, Ltd.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/men-in-black.htm

-The Coming of Saucers, Kenneth Arnorld and Raymond Palmer

https://archive.org/details/TheComingOfTheSaucers/page/n5/mode/2up

-CANADA: Strange lights spotted over the falls

https://www.lockportjournal.com/news/local_news/canada-strange-lights-spotted-over-the-falls/article_cdbc1861-58cb-5b78-bc08-afb69913809c.html

Credits:

Album art: Ben Harrison

Hosts: Morgan Benek and Ari Graves

Producer: Nick Kizina