Real Monsters

4 installments of our shows on cults, including the Satanic Panic.

Journalist and dogged student of all things forensic, Wess Haubrich, examining the nitty, gritty details you didn't know about famous crimes and their unseen motivations. Likes, comments, and subscriptions to the channel are always appreciated! Or, help the podcast run! Make a donation here:

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Kelly Evans drops by to take a look at it crimes related to art: art forgery, art theft, and the history of the Third Reich pillaging Europe's museums.

Journalist and dogged student of all things forensic, Wess Haubrich, examining the nitty, gritty details you didn't know about famous crimes and their unseen motivations. Likes, comments, and subscriptions to the channel are always appreciated! Or, help the podcast run! Make a donation here:

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The darkest spawn of hell can sometimes be lurking in harmless, safe, innocent, social disguises. Such was the case of 17-year-old Elisabeth Friztl who was kidnapped, raped 3,000 times, and kept as a sex slave by her own father for 24 years. She would rear several “basement” children by him in the mean time.

Her harrowing escape from her private hell and the incredible gravitas she showed in the face of her abuser is something we can all learn from.

The 17-year old opened her eyes in the pitch black. Her head spun like the wheels on the bus she had hopped to Vienna some time ago. Pain coursed through every vein, muscle and neuron as she attempted to steady herself and get off the cold concrete floor; it’s grit soiling her beautiful rust-colored hair.

She could not see in the dark, humid cellar. When she blindly tried to get up, she was yanked back down with a tremendous force echoed by the cacophonous clank of chains attached to a metal loop in the floor. She heard the slow dripping of water in another room, and the scurry of rats and roaches somewhere close.

Then the cellar’s lock slowly started to turn. The sound of heavy steps on the creaking wooden stairs filled her with profound terror as a flash light beam blinded her… causing her adrenaline to pump 100 miles an hour, not knowing exactly what to expect.

Little did Elisabeth know what happened next was but the start of her 24 year personal hell at the hands of the man she loathed most in the whole world: her own father, the Monster of Amstetten, Josef Fritzl...

https://medium.com/the-true-crime-edition/josef-fritzl-87eac97c0837

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The sky rained lead for Ken Rex McElroy that morning of July 10 in front of the D & G Tavern in the tiny town of Skidmore, Missouri.

Three different calibers were present at the scene. One round went through the rear window of the chevy, striking Ken Rex in the head; another round penetrated his neck; two more found their mark in his back. At least 30 people saw the shooting.

Not a single witness has said a word about the shooting since. Neither state nor federal law enforcement, subpoenas, or empaneled grand juries could turn a single Skidmorite into state’s witness.

Not even FBI agents — swarming like the plague of locusts the preachers give wrath-of-God sermons about at the two churches in this “buckle of the Bible Belt” town — could get a word out of them.

But these stories aren’t about Ken Rex. Or the witnesses. Or the shooters.

These stories are the tip of the iceberg of something stranger, more nihilistic, and deeply existential — something echoing through the generations into something primordial, something karmic — something just as visceral as the rifle round penetrating Ken Rex’s brain that July day in 1981...

https://medium.com/chameleon/a-history-of-violence-the-little-covered-around-skidmore-2c8b12589c63

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