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Dark Topic episodes

  • 117 • The Ripper of Ypsilanti

    www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusive content. This ep is from the growing DT+ library of Patreon and Apple +.

    John Norman Collins. The Ted Bundy Prototype.

    Sources:

    Sheriff Harvey Interview

    https://youtu.be/4kgSecWW9Nk

    The Michigan Murderer

    https://youtu.be/duhjKn4aGIA

    Detroit Free Press

    https://www.freep.com/in-depth/news/local/michigan/2019/11/11/michigan-murders-john-norman-collins-letter/2521102001/

    Midwest Crime Files

    The Ypsilanti Ripper: The Victims of John Norman Collins



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    53 min
  • 116 • A Bad Actor

    www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusives.

    This ep starts off a little odd for DT. I had a loss in my family that I shouldn't speak publicly about yet so I cut it. Also, this is a previously released on Patreon, but unreleased public ep of DT. Thanks for understanding. Although, this is confusing no doubt.

    July 12th 2013. A Friday afternoon in the quaint village of Richfield Wisconsin. A young woman attempting to walk her dog through a nature park is accosted by a would be rapist who jumps out from behind a van in the secluded spots parking area. Daniel Bartelt - a bad actor - would run away to regroup. And get it right in a repeat performance.



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    39 min
  • 115 • A Crazy Story

    For Exclusive Content www.patreon.com/darktopic

    Emanuel Kemp Jr. Texas Death Row Inmate, and his crazy story.

    Sources:

    Faces of Death Row 

    Faces of Death Row | The Texas Tribune

    Fort Worth Star Telegram 

    https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article219481385.html

    Murderpedia

    Emanuel Kemp | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

    Newspapers.com 

    Apr 24, 1988, page 18 - Fort Worth Star-Telegram at Newspapers.com



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    35 min
  • 114 • The Boiler

    Dr. Melissa Ketunuti had a rodent problem. Jason Smith, a local Philly exterminator, turned out to be an expensive solution.

    Thanks to our old Philly friend Shore on research.

    ABC news source of interest.

    https://youtu.be/Elz--ou8l3w?si=f2DTX92uG3eG0PDC



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    1 hr 7 min
  • 113 • The 7th Shadow

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    David Shearing crept through the darkness of the old prison camp, to the fire-lit campsite of two grandparents, two parents, and two children. When the father of the girls that Shearing had come to see, got up to meet the approaching shadow - two hands gripping a .22 pump action rifle made this family camping trip all about one. 

    Sources:

    The Seventh Shadow by RCMP Sgt. Michael Eastham and Ian McLeod

    Vancouver Sun

    B.C. man who murdered a family of six reveals chilling details in parole hearing | Vancouver Sun

    Crime Beat TV

    https://youtu.be/fZkNSn41Hww?si=QsPYEVOupEBqJR_x



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    42 min
  • 112 • Stinky Dirty

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    Nineteen year old Brian Cohee JR, went for a cruise late one Saturday night in February of 2021. He wore coveralls, three pairs of gloves, and had a Michael Myers mask and large kitchen knife at the ready. When he found what seemed to be the perfect victim in sixty nine year old Warren Barnes - a homeless man well known in Grand Junction, Colorado - Cohee struck without mercy. The rest is a mess. Some of which his mother would discover in her strange son’s closet. 

    Sources:

    The Colorado Sun

    A sculpture will pay tribute to the murdered reading man of Grand Junction

    Explore With Us

    https://youtu.be/pvrp87VXtD4?si=c5MVaAovlkzzDrXU



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    30 min
  • 111 • The Poacher

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    Alex J. Mengel was a poacher of human beings. This widely unknown killer has a terrifying, yet barely mapped out history despite an actual map being found tucked into the dash of his ghostmobile. 

    Sources:

    Unearthing a Serial Killer (Book)

    UNEARTHING A SERIAL KILLER: Paul, David, McMurray, Kevin F.: 9781519348821: Amazon.com: Books

    Unearthing a Serial Killer (Podcast)

    https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/unearthing-a-serial-killer/id1583990190

    Arrest of Mengel

    https://www.toronto.com/news-story/6197127-book-on-serial-killer-mengel-recalls-his-arrest-by-toronto-police-30-years-ago/



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    43 min
  • 110 • I hope she's happy

    From Dark Topic Plus - with purpose.

    This episode is about domestic violence. It is pretty heavy, and I said i'd not release it. But I am because I was told it might help. Thank you!

    Sources:

    911 Call (6:30)

    https://youtu.be/2AWKhij9IV8

    Articles Michigan Live

    Fatal shooting of Nancy Kovach in Comstock preceded by argument over cooking a meal, police say - mlive.com

    Son, 10, testifies John Kovach said he 'did her family a favor' by shooting his wife - mlive.com

    Nancy Kovach, victim in Comstock slaying, remembered as great mother, 'smiley, happy' - mlive.com

    John Kovach to spend at least 20 years in prison for murdering his wife, Nancy Kovach - mlive.com



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    33 min
  • 109 • Gore

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    In the early eighties David Alan Gore along with his cousin Fred Waterfield, stalked and terrorized Vero Beach - AKA Zero Beach, Florida. Thanks to letters written by Gore in prison, we know more than we’d like to know about just how brutal the serial killer life can be. Listener beware.

    Sources:

    Music - Tyler Jakes - Tylerjakes.com

    Book - The Serial Killer Whisperer by Pete Earley

    Book - The Killing Cousins by Jack Rosewood

    Crime Stories - https://youtu.be/N_qj6fYxlrg?si=uBvfpmmnFQuyswoB



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    47 min
  • 108 • The Walrus

    www.patreon.com/darktopic for exclusive content.

    Larry Gene Bell was a suspected serial killer who only became known as a result of calling in his crimes - to one victims family.

    Sources:

    Book - When A Killer Calls. By John Douglas and Mark Olshaker.

    https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/when-a-killer-calls-a/9780062979797-item.html

    Trial Records

    BELL v. EVATT (1995) | FindLaw

    State v. Bell :: 1990 :: South Carolina Supreme Court Decisions :: South Carolina Case Law :: South Carolina Law :: US Law :: Justia

    Forensic Files S7E42

    https://youtu.be/nZ33ptQ7wyA?si=oIFKmuHK2jmxLmRo

    FBI Files S2E3 Cat and Mouse

    https://youtu.be/hhMCb6Tp3C4



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    57 min

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