PARTNERS IN TRUE CRIME

SAN QUENTIN IS CLOSING DEATH ROW AND MOVING SERIAL KILLERS TO OTHER PRISONS. LAURA BRAND HAS BEEN UP THERE FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY RACING AGAINST THE CLOCK TO HAVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE SERIAL KILLERS BEFORE THEY ARE MOVED. SHE IS WORKING ON COLD CASES FOR HOMICIDE DEPARTMENTS TO HELP FIND MISSING VICTIMS. THIS WEEK WE CATCH UP WITH HER AFTER SHE JUST MET WITH NOTORIOUS SERIAL KILLER CHARLES NG WHO HAS BEEN THREATENING TO LAURA BECAUSE SHE WAS REFUSING TO GET IN THE CAGE WITH NG FOR HIS INTERVIEW. LAURA HAS A GOOD REASON TO BE CAUTIOUS. SEVERAL OF THE OTHER SERIAL KILLERS SHE DOES INTERVIEWS WITH HAVE WARNED LAURA THAT CHARLES NG HAS BEEN SAYING SOME THREATENING THINGS ABOUT LAURA INSIDE THE PRISON. #AD https://amzn.to/49lNL7N https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/

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IT'S BEEN A YEAR SINCE WE RELEASED AN EPISODE OF THE PODCAST ON WHAT HAPPENED TO MOLLY MILLER AND COLT HAYNES. IN THAT TIME WE HAVE EXPLORED MANY OF THE THEORIES SURROUNDING THIS CASE. RIGHT BEFORE WE TOOK A BREAK ANOTHER THEORY WAS INTRODUCED TO US POINTING THE FINGER AT COLT'S BROTHER, JESSE HAYNES, AS A POSSIBLE SUSPECT. WE LOOKED INTO THAT THEORY AS WELL AS SOME LAW ENFORCEMENT WHO ARE STILL INVESTIGATING THE CASE AND WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS. SO WE WENT TO THE SOURCE AND ON TODAY'S PODCAST JESSE HAYNES WILL BE ANSWERING THOSE QUESTIONS. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ #AD https://amzn.to/49lNL7N

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TODAY WE ARE GOING TO HAVE LAURA ANSWER SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT LISTENERS HAVE SENT IN ABOUT LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS. #AD https://amzn.to/49lNL7N. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/

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THE SADISTIC KILLING SPREE OF LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS ENDED WITH THE TRAGIC MURDER OF 16-YEAR-OLD LYNETTE LEDFORD ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN 1979. TODAY WE WILL TALK TO A CHILDHOOD FRIEND OF LYNETTE LEDFORD WHO HAS THE SAME FIRST NAME. LYNETTE SHIRER WAS AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL WHO LOOKED UP TO LYNETTE LEDFORD AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH HER A YEAR BEFORE SHE WAS MURDERED. SHE REVEALS WHAT AN AMAZING YOUNG WOMAN LYNETTE WAS AND TO THIS DAY SHE CRIES AT THE THOUGHT OF HER BRUTAL DEMISE. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2

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ROB DICK IS A BOUNTY HUNTER WITH OVER 30 YEARS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT EXPERIENCE. ROB HAS BECOME PASSIONATE ABOUT MISSING VICTIMS AND HE IS DOING WORK THAT IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT LAURA BRAND DOES. ROB HAS AN IMPRESSIVE RESUME WORKING ON HIGH PROFILE CASE SUCH AS THE CASEY ANTHONY CASE AND THE SPEED FREAK KILLERS WESLEY SHERMANTINE AND LOREN HERZOG. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/

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TODAY WE ARE REPORTING LIVE FROM SAN QUENTIN DEATH ROW. THIS IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING BECAUSE WE ARE WITNESSING THE DISMANTLING OF THE COUNTRY'S LARGEST DEATH ROW POPULATION. BY THE END OF FEBRUARY 2024 DEATH ROW WILL BE NO MORE AND THE INMATES WHO ARE SERVING DEATH ROW SENTENCES WILL BE DISPERSED TO OTHER PRISONS AROUND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. TODAY WE WILL ALSO BE TALKING TO JAMES MARLOW "THE WOLF OF FOLSOM" WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 5 MURDERS IN 1986. HE WAS CONVICTED ALONG SIDE HIS GIRLFRIEND CYNTHIA COFFMAN, WHO ALSO RECEIVED THE DEATH PENALTY. JAMES GIVES A BRUTALLY CANDID INTERVIEW ABOUT HIS CRIMES, THE ELECTRO SHOCK THERAPY THAT HE RECEIVED INSIDE THE PRISON, AND ALSO REVEALS TO THE WORLD A STATEMENT ABOUT HIS GIRLFRIEND THAT WILL SURPRISE EVERYONE. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2

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KITTI MCDOWELL VANDAHLEN WAS JUST A TEENAGER WHEN HER DEAR FRIEND JACKIE GILLIAM WAS MURDERED BY LAWRENCE BITTAKER AND ROY NORRIS IN THE LATE 1970'S. KITTI STILL VIVIDLY REMEMBERS WHAT A BEAUTIFUL AND HAPPY PERSON JACKIE WAS JUST LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. KITTI SHARES HER THOUGHTS ON THE TRAGIC EVENT THAT EFFECTED HER LIFE. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2 https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/

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IN PART 1 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH CARLO DOUGLAS REVEALED HIS INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE TOOLBOX KILLER LAWRENCE BITTAKER WHILE BEEN LOCKED UP IN THE SAME TIER INSIDE LA COUNTY JAIL.  IT WAS THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT LED TO CARLO TESTIFYING AGAINST BITTAKER IN OPEN COURT TO SECURE HIS DEATH SENTENCE.  IN PART 2 OF OUR INTERVIEW WITH CARLO, HE REVEALS TO LAURA SOME OTHER LOCATIONS WHERE BITTAKER BRAGGED ABOUT DUMPING SOME OF HIS VICTIM’S REMAINS THAT THE POLICE HAVE NEVER SEARCH FOR. DUE TO THE SENSITIVITY OF THIS INFORMATION, WE WILL BE BLEEPING OUT SOME OF THE LOCATIONS OF THESE PLACES OUT OF RESPECT OF THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. ACCORDING TO CARLO, BITTAKER TOLD HIM THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE VICTIMS OUT THERE. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2

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THIS WEEK WE HAVE AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CARLO DOUGLAS WHO WAS THE KEY WITNESS IN THE TRIAL AGAINST BITTAKER AND NORRIS. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN 40 YEARS THAT HE'S SPEAKING PUBLICLY ABOUT HIS TESTIMONY. CARLO WAS 19 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED FOR MURDER. AFTER HIS CONVICTION HE WAS HOUSED IN LA COUNTY JAIL'S HIGH POWER WING NEXT TO LAWRENCE BITTAKER. BITTAKER, BEFRIENDED THE YOUNG MAN AND BRAGGED TO CARLO ABOUT ALL OF THE MURDERS AND THE GORY DETAILS. CARLO DIDN'T BELIEVE HIM UNTIL THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE MET WITH HIM AND TOLD CARLO THAT EVERYTHING THAT BITTAKER HAD TOLD HIM WAS TRUE. CARLO, WITH NOTHING TO GAIN AND A LONG PRISON SENTENCE AWAITING HIM PUT HIS LIFE IN JEOPARDY AND TESTIFIED IN OPEN COURT AGAINST BITTAKER WHICH SECURED A DEATH SENTENCE FOR THE TOOLBOX KILLER. #AD https://amzn.to/3VGiau2 https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/

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FOR THE PAST DECADE, LAURA HAS BEEN INTERACTING WITH THE SERIAL OFFENDERS ON SAN QUENTINS DEATH ROW AND OTHER PRISONS AROUND THE COUNTRY TO INTERVIEW THEM, STUDY THEM, BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM SO THEY TRUST HER ENOUGH TO GIVE HER INFORMATION ABOUT MISSING VICTIMS WHO LAW ENFORCEMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE. TODAY WE ARE GOING TO RELEASE AN AUDIO RECORDING OF LAWRENCE BITTAKER IN THE DAYS BEFORE HIS DEATH TO ILLUSTRATE LAURA'S METHODOLOGY. WE WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THIS RECORDING: WE ARE NOT EMPATHIZING WITH LAWRENCE BITTAKER FOR THE HORRIFIC CRIMES THAT HE COMMITTED. OUR EMPATHY HAS ALWAYS AND WILL ALWAYS BE WITH THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES. WE DO FEEL THAT IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE INNER WORKINGS OF THESE SERIAL KILLERS AS A SOCIETY TO START MAKING CHANGES. https://partnersintruecrimeblog.com/ #AD https://amzn.to/3xr8g5q

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