This week, we're back for the third instalment of the Randy Kraft story, and to be honest, this is another rough episode. This time, we'll talk about Kraft's victims, why we'd take a Robert Pickton over a Randy Kraft any day, bad liquor, eyeball torture, terrible psychics, and why you should never trust a computer programmer. As always, it's a lot.

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This week we're back for part two of the Randy Kraft story, and this one is a little heavy... which happens when you cover a guy who may have killed 60+ men. This one has serial killer craft time, airplane hill stories, and so, so many murders. Just remember, if you make it to the end, you're halfway through this four parter.

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This week, we're diving into one of the most awful, vicious and prolific serial killers in American history, and of course, most of his murdering career took place in the 1970's (because the 70's were nuts). So get ready as we try to get a handle on one of the worst men we've covered so far, it's part one of Randy Kraft!

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This week, we're back to finish the story of Locusta, who some claim is history's first recorded serial killer. And we get to talk about power crazed people, poisoned feathers, hot wine, first century epileptics, the sliding scale of Roman incest, and, of course, Nero. It's a short one, but a lot of fun.

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This week, Gina's back and we're covering a subject she picked. And she picked quite the story, full of schemes, poisonings, murders and plots, all set in one of the most cut throat societies in history, old school Rome. So put on your tunic and grab your toilet sponge, we're talking about Locusta, a high end poisoner from 1st century Rome who may have been histories first serial killer.

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/14/how-nasty-was-nero-really

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This week, we switched it up a bit in two ways; Gina had to take a week off because of allergies, so we had Bill from Crimes, Killers, Cults and Beer sit in for the episode. This episode is also sports related, but don't let that put you off, we still packed in an attempted homicide, a traumatic shooting, plane crashes and literal governmental blood theft. So get ready, this is the ultra long episode about the psychological phenomenon known as The Yips, where the human brain just decides to stop doing common activities it formerly had no problems doing.

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This week, we're off to Texas to cover one of the grand daddy's of the mass shootings we see nearly everyday now. In 1991, a human dirt pile slammed his pickup truck into the dining room of a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen Texas, and proceeded to kill 23 people and wound a further 27. And we're gonna talk all about it!

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https://people.com/archive/a-texas-massacre-vol-36-no-17/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luby%27s_shooting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanna_Hupp
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This week, we're covering the story of a true POS who made his name as a hate spewing bigot during the Civil Rights Era. This asshat was involved in nearly every type of segregationist cause in the south at the time, culminating in his run to be governor of Alabama. And then, after a humiliating loss, he disappeared for awhile. And you won't believe the new persona he picked for when he reappeared. Get ready, it's the story of Asa Earl Carter.

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https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/nat-king-cole-was-beaten-on-a-birmingham-stage-65-years-ago-today.html
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https://www.al.com/spotnews/2010/09/rev_fred_shuttlesworth_and_fam.html






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This week, we're off to the USSR to make fun of everything Soviet! Nikolai Dzhumagaliev was a Soviet era serial killer who killed at least eleven women in order to consume their meat. He had his very messed up reasons for this, and we'll get into all of them as we dive into his crime spree(s) and his cannibal ways.

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http://www.serial-killers.ru/karts/jumagaliev.htm
https://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dzhumagaliev.htm
https://www.peoples.ru/state/criminal/manyak/jumagaliev/
https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/cannibal-nikolai-dzhumagaliev-metal-fang-escapes-asylum-in-kazakhstan/news-story/98d1717ab5ddb2fa55a30093892bc74c
https://the-line-up.com/metal-fang-Nikolai-Dzhumagaliev




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After missing our first week, we're back, and we've brought a really fun episode (for a change). McArthur Wheeler was an American bank robber, and he found a new and unique way to gain infamy. You see, McArthur is infamous for dousing his face in lemon juice before robbing two Pittsburgh area banks with the belief it would obscure his face from the security cameras.

Wheeler was very wrong about this, and when he was arrested, he was astounded the police had found him. In his own words, 'but I wore the juice, I wore the juice.' And the press this story received spurred one psychologist to look into how this had happened. His research would lead to the formation of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes that low performer's rarely know how badly they perform, and the problems that arise from this.

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