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The first known victims of Dennis Rader, and the birth of B.T.K.

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From the dismantled CRIME MACHINE podcast.

Hill UFO Encounter. September 19-20, 1961.

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At 6'9, Edmund Kemper literally stands out. His intelligence, and long list of murders do the same. Hop in and take a ride with Big Ed. Don't mind his reach. That passenger door needs a slam.

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Sources: Edmund Kemper: The True Story of the Co-Ed Killer - Jack Rosewood.

Documentary - Edmund Kemper in his own words.

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A visit to early Bedlam, after a short stroll through Jack Luna's childhood.

*In this ep I speak of patients dying from Multiple Sclerosis, which is inaccurate. I should have said “from complications related to severe M.S”.

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Sources:

The Madness of Bedlam - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc_tfPWAq-8

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The Killing Machine Finale.

Research - Hagar Barak

Music - Tyler Jakes, Psycho Killer (Talking Heads Cover) www.tylerjakes.com

Additional Vocals - Beth Brown

Sources:

Video

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/dating-game-killer/ Investigation Discovery stays classy by making a non-documentary TV show about Alcala, starring a dude from Seinfeld and Scandal. I should not assume the show is cheesy, but the poster sure is☺

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-rodney-alcala-the-killing-game/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12PXvKfWdZs (this is Alcala’s appearance on ‘The Dating Game’

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Serial-Killer-Rodney-Alcalas-Photos-Released-Can-You-ID-Any-Of-These-Women-91752849.html video montage of pictures of women found among Alcala’s belongings, which the police asked for the public’s help in identifying

Print

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/flashback-serial-killer-appears-on-the-dating-game-mid-spree-192077/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-serial-killer-new-killing-20160921-snap-story.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdpn9j/the-haunting-photography-of-a-serial-killer

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2018/06/rodney-alcala/

http://www.ibtimes.com/rodney-alcala-dating-game-killer-psychological-profile-2623321 as the link says, this is a psychological profile of Alcala that appeared, for some reason, in international Business News. This is a collection of highlights from an interview given by UK psychologist, research and writer Dr. Nicola Davis, to Pick Me Up! Magazine. The subject of the interview is why did Alcala end up Alcala.

Books

Stella Sands, The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of A TV Dating Show, A Violent Sociopath and A Series of Brutal Murders (St. Martin’s True Crime, 2011) There are several books on Alcala, but as far as I can tell this one is the only one published by a known publishing house, as opposed to self-published.

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Better known as The Dating Game Killer. But you can call him Rodney…

Music - Psycho Killer (Talking Heads Cover) Tyler Jakes. Visit www.tylerjakes.com

Research - Doctor Barak

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SOURCES

Video

• https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-­‐‑shows/dating-­‐‑game-­‐‑killer/ Investigation Discovery stays classy by making a non-­‐‑documentary TV show about Alcala, starring a dude from Seinfeld and Scandal. I should not assume the show is cheesy, but the poster sure isJ

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-­‐‑killer-­‐‑rodney-­‐‑alcala-­‐‑the-­‐‑killing-­‐‑game/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12PXvKfWdZs (this is Alcala’s appearance

on ‘The Dating Game’

• https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Serial-­‐‑Killer-­‐‑Rodney-­‐‑Alcalas-­‐‑ Photos-­‐‑Released-­‐‑Can-­‐‑You-­‐‑ID-­‐‑Any-­‐‑Of-­‐‑These-­‐‑Women-­‐‑91752849.html

video montage of pictures of women found among Alcala’s belongings, which the police asked for the public’s help in identifying

Print

• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-­‐‑news/flashback-­‐‑serial-­‐‑killer-­‐‑ appears-­‐‑on-­‐‑the-­‐‑dating-­‐‑game-­‐‑mid-­‐‑spree-­‐‑192077/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala

• http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-­‐‑me-­‐‑ln-­‐‑serial-­‐‑killer-­‐‑new-­‐‑killing-­‐‑

20160921-­‐‑snap-­‐‑story.html

• https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdpn9j/the-­‐‑haunting-­‐‑photography-­‐‑of-­‐‑a-­‐‑ serial-­‐‑killer

• https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-­‐‑goad/2018/06/rodney-­‐‑alcala/

• http://www.ibtimes.com/rodney-­‐‑alcala-­‐‑dating-­‐‑game-­‐‑killer-­‐‑psychological-­‐‑ profile-­‐‑2623321

as the link says, this is a psychological profile of Alcala that appeared, for some reason, in international Business News. This is a collection of highlights from an interview given by UK psychologist, research and writer Dr. Nicola Davis, to Pick Me Up! Magazine. The subject of the interview is why did Alcala end up Alcala.

Books

• Stella Sands, The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of A TV Dating Show, A Violent Sociopath and A Series of Brutal Murders (St. Martin’s True Crime, 2011)

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A fast paced episode to match the in and out style of the infamous Stopwatch Gang.

SOURCES:

Documentary - The Fifth Estate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM34e4N-tMw&t=1672s

Articles:

• https://magazine.atavist.com/the-life-and-times-of-thestopwatch-gang

• https://todayinottawashistory.wordpress.com/2016/06/12/the-stopwatchgang/

Today in Ottawa History

• https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/stopwatch-gang-bank-robber-andauthor-stephen-reid-denied-full-parole/article23274831/n

• http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,186513218651331865212,

• http://redrocknews.com/news/13-top-news/6369-1970s-stopwatch-gang-hid-in-oak-creekcanyon

http://articles.latimes.com/1995-10-08/news/mn-547101fast-bank-robber

Dark Topic Research - Hagar Barak

Dark Topic Designs - Jesse Marshall

Music for this episode provided by Tyler Jakes. Visit Tylerjakes.com

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Uncle Jimmy woke up with a hangover and headed downstairs. His brothers beautiful family had filled his Mothers house. It was Easter. An occasion that always overshadowed Jimmy’s birthday. But not this time.

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“I am a man of passion. You don’t know what that means, unless you are my kind. At the orphanage where they put me just before Garfield was assassinated, there were some older boys that caught a horse in a slopping field. They got the horse up against a fence down at the bottom of the field and tied him up.

An old horse.

They put kerosene on his tail and lit it and cut the rope and away went that old horse busting through fences to get away from the fire. But the fire went with him.

That horse, that’s me. That’s the man of passion. The fire chases you and catches you and then it’s in your blood. And after that, it’s the fire that has control, not the man.

Blame the fire of passion for what Albert H. Fish has done…"

Writing Credit - Tyler Bell. Visit www.westsidefairytales.com

Research Credit - Dr. Hagar Barak

Sources:

Robert Keller, Confessions of a Cannibal, 2015

John Borowski, Albert Fish in his own words, Waterfront Publications 2012

https://www.nytimes.com/1936/01/17/archives/slayer-of-budd-girl-dies-in-electric-chair-albert-fish-65-pays.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/05/archives/man-67-seized-here-as-budd-kidnapper-wife-accuses-caretaker-as.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1935/03/26/archives/fish-is-sentenced-admits-new-crimes-death-in-electric-chair-fixed.html https://local.theonion.com/[object%20Object]

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/police-try-to-link-budd-girls-slayer-to-3-other-crimes-fish.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html

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You might think of hell as a hot place. That’s how it's depicted, in old films and cartoons. A sweltering abyss full of ghouls thrusting pitchforks, and inflicting bloody debauchery upon the recently damned. I'm not a believer in such places... but if i were... I'd be more inclined to go with the Dante’s Inferno depiction. Where hell is a cold, forgotten place. The darkest point of the universe, furthest from God, where sinners are trapped unmoving beneath the ice, and Satan mindlessly flaps his wings, trying to escape. 

But then...there are Devils among us. Devils who become immortalized in movies, books, television shows and podcasts... . The types contained within the Dark Topic Catalogue. The types who raise the bar of how evil and savage we can be... who inspire future psychopaths to pursue their own dark dreams and satiate their enormous appetites. The worst of which, I can almost believe were sent from an evil place … maybe spawned from a cold corner of the cosmos…, a spore that crashed here via asteroid eons ago…… eventually morphing into something unfathomable…. And burping up from the bottom of the ocean to take the form of something hideous …like an Angler Fish…. Or worse …Like an Albert Fish.

Writing Credit - Tyler Bell of the Westside Fairytales Podcast. www.westsidefairytales.com

Research Credit - Doctor Barak  

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Sources:

Robert Keller, Confessions of a Cannibal, 2015 

John Borowski, Albert Fish in his own words, Waterfront Publications 2012

https://www.nytimes.com/1936/01/17/archives/slayer-of-budd-girl-dies-in-electric-chair-albert-fish-65-pays.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/05/archives/man-67-seized-here-as-budd-kidnapper-wife-accuses-caretaker-as.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1935/03/26/archives/fish-is-sentenced-admits-new-crimes-death-in-electric-chair-fixed.html https://local.theonion.com/[object%20Object]

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/police-try-to-link-budd-girls-slayer-to-3-other-crimes-fish.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html

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