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The Wicked Ones Podcast has a little something NEW for you this week! In this very first BONUS episode, Jen & Tara discuss the differences between Male and Female serial killers. We did this one a little differently & had a lot of fun with it! It’s not as structured as our typical “stories” or Episodes…but if you’re interested in learning about how differently men and women serial killers have approached killing their victims and more on the how & why…this ones for you! Jen talks about a recent study she found that gives very interesting statistics on both genders and comes up with a theory that we found incredibly interesting! If you geek out on the science behind it all….Jen’s your girl. She loves those numbers and breaking them down. If you enjoy bits of trivia and random interesting facts…that’s where Tara comes in. She enjoys throwing in bits of crazy info here and there that hopefully intrigue even the most well read on these topics and if you’re already an expert…we hope you still enjoy being part of the conversation anyway!

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The Wicked Ones Podcast hosts, Tara and Jen, discuss one of Chicago's most infamous cases and the fact that an innocent boy may have gone to prison for murders he didn't commit. Guilty or Not? You be the judge. We're talking about the Lipstick Murders, William Heirens, a few other suspects that may have been a better fit for a guilty verdict & a very intriguing theory proposed by a retired police officer in connection with the case. Interested in the Black Dahlia? Elizabeth Short comes into play near the end of our story this week as well, and if you aren't familiar with the connection...it will give you chills.

The Wicked Ones Podcast hosts, Jen and Tara discuss the insane story behind serial killer, Eugene Carl Watts, AKA “The Sunday Morning Slasher.” We have a feeling you will shake your head throughout as you learn about certain aspects of the case in relation to our judicial system. Unfortunately certain rules, regulations and loop holes tend to work against the greater good and in favor of those who don’t deserve ANY favors. In the case of Mr. Watts…we can all agree that as a society we still have much room for improvement.

Charles Raymond Starkweather was executed June 25, 1959 in Nebraska

Charles Raymond "Charlie" Starkweather (November 24, 1938 – June 25, 1959) was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was 19 years old.  He killed ten of his victims between January 21 and January 29, 1958, the date of his arrest. During his spree in 1958, Starkweather was accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.

Both Starkweather and Fugate were convicted on charges for their parts in the homicides; Starkweather was sentenced to death and executed seventeen months after the events. Fugate served seventeen years in prison, gaining release in 1976. Starkweather's electrocution by electric chair in 1959 was the last execution in Nebraska until 1994 when the people of Nebraska demanded the return of capital punishment.

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The Wicked Ones Podcast hosts, Jen and Tara discuss Nannie Doss, AKA “The Giggling Granny” or “Jolly Black Widow.” You may also remember her as “The Lonely Hearts Killer.” Doesn’t ring a bell? Well…listen in, because you may want to cancel your match. com account after this one. Nannie may have been unlucky in love, but not as unlucky as the men, women & children that came into her care. For a romantic at heart…hers was as black as they come.

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The Smiley face murder theory (variations include Smiley face murders, Smiley face killings, Smiley face gang, and others) is a theory advanced by retired New York City detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte, and Dr. Lee Gilbertson, a criminal justice professor and gang expert at St. Cloud State University. They allege that a number of young men found dead in bodies of water across several Midwestern American states from the late 1990s to the 2010s did not accidentally drown, as concluded by law enforcement agencies, but were victims of a serial killer or killers.

The term "smiley face" became connected to the alleged murders when it was made public that the police had discovered graffiti depicting a smiley face near locations where they think the killer dumped the bodies in at least a dozen of the cases. Gannon wrote a textbook case study on the subject titled "Case Studies in Drowning Forensics."  The response of law enforcement investigators and other experts has been largely skeptical.

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A killer used his friendship to lure in a little girl to her death. In doing so, he killed not just one girl, but the spirit of Halloween.

Halloween night 1973, 9-year-old Lisa French wanted to wear a butterfly costume, but her mother convinced her to wear something a bit warmer for the Fond du lac, Wisconsin weather. Lisa ended up dressing like a hobo.

After eating dinner, she ran out of the door and started to trick-or-treat. She made plans to meet up with her friend and go to the Pumpkin Place, a safe area some of the parents had put together for the children. But her friend had gotten in trouble and wasn’t allowed to go. Lisa was left to go out alone.

She only made it to three houses that night. The first two, a teacher and a classmate’s homes. They her candy and sent her on her way. The third held more sinister motives.

Gerald Miles Turner Jr, would open that third door for Lisa and invite her inside.

Turner used to share a duplex with Lisa’s family, so she knew him quite well. When he lived next door, she was fond of talking with him. So nothing would have seemed strange for him to invite her inside that night.

After he had Lisa inside, he took her back to his bedroom, where he sexually assaulted her. He claimed that at some point, he realized she wasn’t breathing and tried to resuscitate her. But his girlfriend came home and interrupted him. So he put socks on his hands and moved Lisa’s body into the master bathroom to deal with later.

He went out wrapped in a bathrobe, telling his girlfriend he didn’t feel well. While she was there, he kept returning to the bedroom, was he revisiting Lisa’s body?

His girlfriend ended up leaving again to go to her mother’s. After she left is when Turner put Lisa’s body in a trash bag and her belongings in another. He took both bags a few miles out of town and dumped them in a field.

Lisa was to be home by 7 pm, and when she didn’t return, her mother started to worry. By the time 10 pm arrived, the neighborhood had already begun searching for the little girl.

The neighborhood rallied together, posting signs in their windows, telling others that Lisa was missing. Police started a search party that lasted all night. The next day over 5,000 people joined in and widened the search area.

The national guard was called in, and private plane owners volunteered to search from the sky. All-terrain vehicles drove through the marshes, creeks, and fields. All the bodies of water around town had been dragged.

A local photoshop printed 6,000 copies of Lisa’s school photo that was passed around and posted throughout town. Gas stations were giving free gas to anyone using a vehicle to search for Lisa.

Eventually, a farmer on his tractor found two garbage bags on his property. He stopped and inspected them, finding the body of Lisa French.

When the news circulated that Lisa had been found dead, the whole community seemed to mourn her loss. They all came out in support of her family for the funeral.

Myron Medin Jr spoke to the mourners who had gathered. “We are here . . . the entire city in spirit is here . . . to share your sorrow.”

Turner had been questioned starting the day after Lisa had been reported missing. By elimination, they could prove she had gone to two homes before coming to his, then no one else had seen her. At first, he denied any involvement.

But finally, after nine months of being pulled in for questioning, he cracked and confessed. He would change his story during the trial, saying he only confessed to stop the police from harassing him, that he was completely innocent.

During the trial, the medical examiner testified about the cause of death. Lisa French died from asphyxiation. But she wasn’t smothered or strangled. She had died due to shock while she was sexually assaulted.

The jury found Turner guilty of second-degree murder, enticing a child for immoral purposes and acts of sexual perversion.

Robert Owens, the chief psychologist at Taycheedah Correctional Institute, had met with Turner. “He has a cold disregard for people, mainly females. He does not have conscience control to inhibit his impulses for pleasure and to conform to society’s laws.”

During his sentencing, Circuit Court Judge Milton saw Turner for who he was. “He impressed me as showing no remorse . . . no feeling of repentance.”

After everything he did, and with a total lack of remorse, Turner was paroled in 1992 after serving only 17 years. He went to live at a halfway house.

Outrage erupted that this killer was back on the streets so soon. The citizens of Fond du lac brought a civil lawsuit for releasing Turner. They said the state erred in how they calculated his mandatory release date.

Turner was put back in prison when the state admitted their error. He was then set to be released in 1994. This time the state sought to have him held in a secure mental institute instead of being released.

In 1998 Turner got his day in court again. This time fighting for his right to be freed, claiming he was not a sexual predator and should not be held in a mental institute. A jury agreed and set him free.

While out free, he lived at another halfway house. But when a routine check of his computer in 2003 showed it was filled with pornographic and sexually explicit videos that violated his parole conditions, he was sent back to prison.

Currently, Turner is being considered for parole again. But I think it’s already been proven that he will not follow the rules. If he’s re-released, how long until he finds another young victim?

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Gary Michael Heidnik (November 22, 1943 – July 6, 1999) was an American murderer who kidnapped, tortured, and raped six women, killing two of them, while holding them prisoner in a pit in his basement in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Heidnik was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999.

Heidnik was born on November 22, 1943, to Michael and Ellen Heidnik and was raised in the Eastlake suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. He had a younger brother, Terry. His parents divorced in 1946. The Heidnik children were then raised by their mother for four years before being placed in the care of their father and his new wife. Heidnik would later claim that he was often emotionally abused by his father. He suffered a lifelong problem of bed wetting, and claimed his father would humiliate his son by forcing him to hang his stained sheets from his bedroom window, in full view of their neighbors. After his son's arrest, Michael Heidnik denied that he abused his son.

At school, Heidnik did not interact with his fellow students, and refused to make eye contact. When a well-meaning new female student asked, "Did you get the homework done, Gary?", he yelled at her and told her she was not "worthy enough" to talk to him. Heidnik was also teased about his oddly shaped head, which he and Terry claimed was the result of a young Heidnik falling out of a tree. Nonetheless, Heidnik performed well academically and tested with an I.Q. of 148.  With the encouragement of his father, 14-year-old Heidnik enrolled at the since-defunct Staunton Military Academyin Staunton, Virginia, for two years, leaving before graduation. After another period in public high school, he dropped out and joined the U.S. Army when he was 17.

Heidnik served in the Army for 13 months. During basic training, Heidnik's drill sergeant graded him as "excellent". Following basic training, he applied for several specialist positions, including the military police, but was rejected. He was sent to San Antonio, Texas, to be trained as a medic and did well through medical training. However, Heidnik did not stay in San Antonio very long and was transferred to the 46th Army Surgical Hospital in Landstuhl, West Germany. Within weeks of his new posting in Germany, he earned his GED. In August 1962, Heidnik began complaining of severe headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, and nausea. A hospital neurologist diagnosed Heidnik with gastroenteritis, and noted that Heidnik also displayed symptoms of mental illness, for which he was prescribed trifluoperazine (Stelazine). In October 1962, Heidnik was transferred to a military hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was diagnosed with schizoid personality disorder and honorably discharged from military service.

Shortly after his discharge, Heidnik became a licensed practical nurse and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, only to drop out after one semester. He worked at a Veterans Administrationhospital in Coatesville, but was fired for poor attendance and rude behavior towards patients. From August 1962 until his arrest in March 1987, Heidnik spent time in and out of psychiatric hospitals, and had attempted suicide at least 13 times. In 1970, his mother Ellen, who had been diagnosed with bone cancer and was suffering the effects of alcoholism, committed suicide by drinking mercuric chloride.  His brother Terry also spent time in mental institutions and attempted suicide multiple times.

In October 1971, Heidnik incorporated a church called the United Church of the Ministers of God, initially with only five followers. In 1975, Heidnik opened an account under the church's name with Merrill Lynch. The initial deposit was $1,500. Heidnik eventually amassed over $500,000 (US$ 1,166,000 in 2010). By 1986, the United Church of the Ministers of God was thriving and wealthy.

Heidnik used a matrimonial service to meet his future wife, with whom he corresponded by mail for two years before proposing to her. Betty Disto arrived from the Philippines in September 1985, and married Heidnik in Maryland on October 3, 1985. The marriage rapidly deteriorated after she found him in bed with three other women. Throughout the course of their brief marriage, Heidnik forced his wife to watch while he had sex with other women.  Disto also accused him of repeatedly raping and assaulting her. With the help of the Filipino community in Philadelphia, she was able to leave Heidnik in January 1986. Unknown to Heidnik until his ex-wife requested child support payments in 1987, he had impregnated Betty during their short marriage. On September 15, 1986, Disto gave birth to a son, who she named Jesse John Disto.

Heidnik also had a child with Gail Lincow, a son named Gary Jr.  The child was placed in foster care soon after his birth. Heidnik had a third child with another woman, Anjeanette Davidson, who was illiterate and mentally disabled.  Their daughter, Maxine Davidson, was born on March 16, 1978, and immediately placed in foster care. Shortly after Maxine's birth, Heidnik was arrested for the kidnapping and rape of Anjeanette's sister Alberta, who had been living in an institution for the mentally disabled in Penn Township.

On November 25, 1986, Heidnik abducted a woman named Josefina Rivera. By January 1987, he had kidnapped another four women, whom he held captive in a pit in the basement of his house at 3520 North Marshall Street in North Philadelphia. The captives, who were all black women, were raped, beaten, and tortured.

One of the women, Sandra Lindsay, died of a combination of starvation, torture, and an untreated fever. Heidnik dismembered her body but had problems dealing with the arms and legs, so he put them in a freezer and marked them "dog food". He cooked her ribs in an oven and boiled her head in a pot on the stove. Police came to the house due to the complaints of a bad odor, but left the premises after Heidnik's explanation: "I’m cooking a roast. I fell asleep and it burnt."

Several sources state that he ground up the flesh of Lindsay, mixed it with dog food, and fed that to his other victims.  His defense attorney, Chuck Peruto, said that upon examination of a Cuisinart and other tools in his kitchen, they found no evidence of this. Peruto said that he made up the story to support the insanity defense. The defense attorney said that he started the rumor of cannibalism in public and that in fact there was no evidence of anyone eating human flesh.

Heidnik used electric shock as a form of torture. At one point, he forced three of his captives, bound in chains, into a pit. Heidnik ordered Rivera and another woman to fill the hole with water and then forced Rivera to help him apply electric current from a stripped extension cord to the women's chains. Deborah Dudley was electrocuted, and Heidnik disposed of her body in the Pine Barrensin New Jersey.

On January 18, 1987, Heidnik abducted Jacqueline Askins. The youngest of the six victims, Askins was only 18 years old at the time of her abduction. During a TV interview for the May 5, 2018, special report "Gary Heidnik's House of Horrors, 30 years later",  Askins stated that Heidnik wrapped duct tape around the mouths of the victims and stabbed them in their ears with a screwdriver.

On March 23, 1987, Heidnik and Rivera abducted Agnes Adams. The next day, Rivera convinced Heidnik to let her go, temporarily, in order to visit her family. He drove her to a gas station and said he would wait for her there. She walked a block away and called 9-1-1. The responding officers, noting chafing from chains on her leg, went to the gas station and arrested Heidnik. His purported best friend, Cyril ("Tony") Brown, was also arrested. Brown was released on $50,000 bail and an agreement that he would testify against Heidnik. In part, Brown admitted to witnessing Lindsay's death in the basement and Heidnik dismembering her.  Shortly after his arrest, in April 1987, Heidnik attempted to hang himself in his jail cell.

Heidnik was executed by lethal injection on July 6, 1999, at State Correctional Institution – Rockview in Centre County, Pennsylvania, and his body was cremated.  As of 2020, he is the last person to be executed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Dean Arnold Corll A.K.A.: "The Candyman"

Indiana born, on Christmas Eve of 1939, Dean Corll grew up in a combative home, his parents quarreling constantly. They were divorced while Corll was still an infant, then remarried after World War II, but Dean's father provided no stabilizing influence, regarding his children with thinly-veiled distaste, resorting to harsh punishment for the smallest infractions. 

When the couple separated a second time, Corll and his younger brother were left with a series of sitters, their mother working to support the family on her own. Rheumatic fever left Dean with a heart condition, resulting in frequent absence from school, and he seemed to welcome the change when his mother remarried, moving the family to Texas. A part-time business making candy soon expanded to become their livelihood, and Corll was generous with samples as he sought to win new friends. 

In 1964, despite his heart condition, Corll was drafted into military service, where he displayed the first signs of flagrant homosexuality. On turning thirty, in December 1969, he seemed to undergo a sudden shift in personality, becoming hypersensitive and glum. 

He had begun to spend his time with teenage boys, like David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley, passing out free candy all around, hosting glue and paint sniffing parties at his apartment in Pasadena, a suburb of Houston. At the same time, he displayed a sadistic streak, leaning toward bondage in his sexual relationships with young men and boys. 

On one occasion, during 1970, Brooks entered the apartment to find Corll nude, with two naked boys strapped to a homemade torture rack. Embarrassed, Corll released his playmates and offered Brooks a car in return for his promise of silence. Later, as his passion turned to bloodlust, Corll would use Brooks and Henley as procurers, offering $200 per head for fresh victims.

The date of Corll's first murder is uncertain. Brooks would place it sometime in mid-1970, the victim identified as college student Jeffrey Konen, picked up while hitchhiking. Most of Corll's victims were drawn from a seedy Houston neighborhood known as the Heights, their disappearances blithely ignored by police accustomed to dealing with runaways. Two were friends and neighbors of Henley, delivered on order to Corll, and sometimes the candy man killed two victims at once. 

In December 1970, he murdered 14-year-old James Glass and 15-year-old David Yates in one sitting. The following month, brothers Donald and Jerry Waldrop joined the missing list, with Wally Simineaux and Richard Embry slaughtered in October 1972. 

Another pair of brothers -- Billy and Mike Baulch -- were killed at separate times, in May 1972 and July 1973, respectively. Corll's youngest known victim was a nine-year-old neighbor, residing across the street from Dean's apartment.

On August 8, 1973, a tearful phone call from Elmer Henley summoned Pasadena police officers to Corll's apartment. They found the candy man dead, six bullet holes in his shoulder and back, with Henley claiming he had killed his "friend" in self-defense.

The violence had erupted after Henley brought a girl to one of Corll's paint-sniffing orgies, driving the homosexual killer into a rage. Corll had threatened Elmer with a gun, then taunted his young friend when Henley managed to disarm him. Frightened for his life, Henley insisted that he shot Corll only to save himself. But, there was more.... 

That afternoon, he led detectives to a rented boat shed in southwest Houston, leaving authorities to unearth seventeen victims from the earthen floor. A drive to Lake Sam Rayburn turned up four more graves, while six others were found on the beach at High Island, for a total of 27 dead. 

Henley insisted there were at least two more corpses in the boat shed, plus two more at High Island, but police called off the search, content to know that they had broken California's record in the Juan Corona case. (In The Man with the Candy, author Jack Olsen suggests that other victims might be buried around Corll's candy shop, but authorities show no interest in pursuing the case further.) 

In custody, Brooks and Henley confessed their role in procuring victims for Corll through the years, with Brooks fingering Henley as the trigger man in at least one slaying. "Most of the killings that occurred after Wayne came into the picture involved all three of us," he told police. "Wayne seemed to enjoy causing pain."

Convicted of multiple murder in August 1974, Henley was sentenced to life imprisonment, with Brooks drawing an identical term in March 1975. A year later, Houston authorities announced that recent investigations of child pornography had linked other local pedophiles with Corll's murder ring, but no prosecutions were forthcoming. 

Elmer Henley's conviction was overturned on appeal in December 1978, based on the issue of pre-trial publicity, but he was convicted and sentenced a second time, in June 1979.

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Hollywood Ripper… AKA - “The Boy Next Door Killer”

Michael Thomas Gargiulo (born February 15, 1976) is a convicted American serial killer.  He moved to Southern California in the 1990s and has been nicknamed The Hollywood Ripper.

Description of crimes

Gargiulo is a native of Glenview, Illinois, where he may have stabbed his neighbor, 18-year-old Tricia Pacaccio, to death on her backdoor step. Her body was found by her father the morning after on August 14, 1993. Gargiulo moved to Los Angeles in 1998, allegedly to escape the scrutiny of police in Illinois,  and committed two murders and an attempted murder in Southern California between 2001 and 2008.

On February 21, 2001, he stabbed Ashley Ellerin 47 times to death in her home in Hollywood. Ellerin's injuries included a neck wound that nearly severed her head, and deep punctures to the chest, stomach, and back that in some cases were up to six inches deep. According to detective Tom Small, one stab wound "actually penetrated the skull and took out a chunk of skull like a puzzle piece." On the night she was killed, Ellerin had planned dinner, then drinks with her then boyfriend, actor Ashton Kutcher.

On December 1, 2005, Gargiulo stabbed his neighbor to death at her home in El Monte, California.  She was stabbed 17 times.

Gargiulo attempted to murder his neighbor in her home in Santa Monica on April 28, 2008.  She fought off the attack, and blood matching Gargiulo's DNA was found at the scene.

Arrest and prosecution

Gargiulo was arrested by the Santa Monica Police Department on June 6, 2008. On July 7, 2011, the Cook County State's Attorney charged Gargiulo with the first-degree murder of Tricia Pacaccio.  Although Gargiulo is charged in the two California murders as well as the Pacaccio murder in Illinois, police have not linked him to any other murders.  Gargiulo allegedly told authorities in the Los Angeles County Jail that just because 10 women were killed — and his DNA was present — does not mean he murdered anyone, leading investigators to believe that there are more victims.

Media in Los Angeles dubbed Gargiulo the "Hollywood Ripper" as well as the "Chiller Killer."  Gargiulo was held at Los Angeles County Jail while awaiting a capital murder trial.  A pre-trial hearing was held June 9, 2017, in Los Angeles Superior Court with his trial scheduled to begin in October 2017.  After delays, his trial began on May 2, 2019.  In May 2019, actor Ashton Kutcher testified about the crimes.

On August 15, 2019, Gargiulo was convicted on all counts. The penalty phase of his California trial started on October 7, 2019. He faced either a death sentence or life in prison without the possibility of parole. Once he is sentenced, Gargiulo faces extradition back to Illinois to face the first-degree murder charge relating to Tricia Pacaccio. If convicted in Illinois, he will face a sentence of 25 years to life. On October 18, 2019, a jury recommended the death penalty for Michael Gargiulo after several hours of deliberation.  But as of March 2020, sentencing of Gargiulo in California continued to be delayed by defense motions.

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