In October of 1992, a hunter in a remote area of Knoxville, Tennessee, came across a disturbing sight. He saw the body of a bruised and beaten woman under a dirty mattress and called police. The woman, whose name was Patricia Anderson, had been a local sex worker. Pretty soon, three more female corpses were found in the same wooded area, two of whom were also in the sex trade. The police immediately thought that the murders were the work of a serial killer.Which led them to Thomas Dee Huskey, a known john who had had many complaints from the sex workers. They called him the "Zoo Man" because of his penchant for taking the women out behind the Knoxville Zoo before tying them up, having sex with them, and sometimes beating  and torturing them.But the case was not that open-and-shut. Thomas Huskey claimed that it was not he who had committed the murders, but his alter ego, Kyle. He also admitted to having multiple other personalities and claimed to have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder. He used this diagnosis in a court of law to defend himself, making him one of the first and only in history to do so. But when Thomas Huskey/Kyle went on trial for the murders of the women, the nation would be stunned at the outcome...Show Notes: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/shadow-boxing/202005/the-zoo-man-murdershttps://open.spotify.com/episode/7tbOLaiIPPYnZmPHVT3rmthttps://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9792-dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorderClick on this link to get tickets to The True Crime Podcast Festival in Dallas August 26th-28th!https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/Smells Like HumansLike spending time with funny friends talking about curious human behavior. Listen on: Apple Podcasts   Spotify