What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 8
Creepy Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz is one of those wonderful, sleepy destinations in the mountains of Northern California. Known for its Boardwalk and being close to the Redwoods--it is both a travel destination and the home for over 270,000 in a truly diverse population. The tension between the Mexican heritage and modern “progress” is a part of the culture that really changed when the University of Santa Cruz opened there creating a youth population in the 1960s which changed the area from being seen as a tourist destination in the summer and a religious/conservative to the hippie culture.

In the early 1970s, it was, for a time, known as “The Murder Capital of the World” with several mass killers and serial rapists who preyed on the population with victims as young as four and up to the elderly.

Today we talk about the history of the region, the most famous crimes of the 20th century, and why you should still visit if you ever get the chance.

Trigger Warnings: Murder, sexual assault, & basic creepiness

Sources for this episode:
· Santa Cruz Wikipedia
· Herbert Mullin Wikipedia
· John Linley Frazier
· Edmund Kemper Wikipedia
· Netflix Mindhunter
· Salon.com” Ronald Regan’s Shameful Legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness”
· Santa Cruz Waves
· Murder Capital of the World by Emerson Murray
· Haunted Santa Cruz by Maryanne Porter
· Serial Killers of Santa Cruz by Aubrey Graves
· Real Crime “Was Herbert Mullin Born to Kill?”
· Edmund Kemper Audiobooks “Flowers in the Attic” (40 seconds)
Capitola Birds Attack 1961 (San Jose Mercury News)

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What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 7
Belle Gibson

Belle Gibson is the creator of The Whole Pantry app and author of its companion cookbook, “The Whole Pantry.” She had claimed that she had been given only months to live after she was diagnosed with an incurable form of brain cancer. But she was able to skip chemotherapy and cancer treatments and heal herself with “nutrition and holistic medicine." You’ll be surprised to learn that’s not true. She’s such a creep.

Sources for this episode

BBC
The Cut
Elle Magazine
The Guardian
The National Library of Medicine
“60 Minutes Australia”
Sydney Morning Herald
Washington Post
“The Woman Who Fooled The World” (book)
Who Magazine
Wikipedia

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What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 7
Charles Starkweather
Charles Starkweather was 19 when he took his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate through Nebraska and Wyoming in January 1958 on a murder spree that ultimately took 11 lives (including her baby sister). Starkweather was obsessed with James Dean and loved the media attention and infamy this brought him. Caril Ann maintains to this day that she was an innocent victim of a psychopath.
Charles was executed on June 25, 1959, and Caril Ann served 18 years in a Nebraska prison. Their story has inspired films like Badlands, Kalifornia, and Natural Born Killers. Today we are talking about the controversy over who was the real killer and who were the real victims here.
Trigger warnings; Murder, coercive control, and sexual assault.
Sources:
· Wiki Caril Ann Fugate
· Wikipedia Charles Starkweather
· Biography Charles Starkweather
· Wyoming History
· The Twelfth Victim: The Innocence of Caril Ann Fugate in the Starkweather Murder Rampage By Linda M. Battisti & John Stevens Berry
· Serial Killers & Mass Murderers: Profiles for the World’s Most Barbaric Criminals By Nigel Cawthorne
· Murder in the Heartland (1993) with Tim Roth, Fairuza Balk, & Brian Dennehy
· A Crime to Remember “Teenage Wasteland” Season 4, Episode four
· Deadly Women Season four episode four
· Most Evil: Spree Killer (2007)
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What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 6
The Duggar Family

You probably know the Duggar family from their various shows on TLC, including “17 Kids and Counting,” “18 Kids and Counting” and - you guessed it - “19 Kids and Counting” where they were portrayed as a loving, hard-working, religious family.

The Duggars are creeps for a lot of reasons. They’re homophobic and transphobic, and for over two decades, the Duggar parents dismissed their eldest son Josh’s sexual abuse of his younger sisters and a babysitter, choosing faith-based programs over counseling and failing to do really anything about it.

Sources for this episode

Arkansas Times
Buzzfeed
Cafe Mom
The Duggar Family website
Gawker
In Touch Weekly
Jezebel
The New York Times
People Magazine
Slate
The Sun
Time Magazine
Us Magazine
“19 Kids & Counting” Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Child sexual abuse

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What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 5
Max Landis (Replay,) the Amazing Jen Kirkman & Alice Hamilton with a Smidge of Chris D’Elia Grossness (Enjoy!)

Today's ep is an update show because one of our former Creeps put out a video about another Creeps return to stage. Comic Alice Hamilton recently released her comedy special on You Tube called “Cex Kriminal” about Chris D’Elia and wow, does he have reasons why you should ignore his history of being accused of booking up with teenage girls using social media.

Jen Kirkman just released her last full on stand up album (she is moving on the writing full time) OK Gen X, when Louis CK won a grammy lying about his past actions. I mean, for comedically looking at his continual harassment of women in work situations.

Guess took his video of his shitty defense? Max Landis!

Sources for this section:
Twitter link for Alice Hamiton
Twitter Link for Jen Kirkman
Charges against Chris D’Elia
Charles Manson 1987 Today show interview
Juice Scoop interview with Jen Kirkman episode 643
Clip of Chris D’Elia at the LA Improv
Jen Kirkman podcast Anxiety Bites
Alice Hamilton “Cex Kriminal” YouTube

Notes from our previous episode about Max Landis.
If Max Landis’s name sounds familiar it’s because his father is John Landis, and he is best known for directing films like “Animal House,” “An American Werewolf in London,” “Blues Brothers,” and “Coming to America.”

Max Landis is known for writing a bunch of movies you’ve probably never seen like “Chronicle,” “American Ultra,” and “Bright.” But that’s not why Max Landis is a creep. On top of being the son of a famous director and a middling talent himself, Max Landis is also known as a rapist, gaslighter, body shamer, and a physical and psychological abuser.

We put this episode together with a little help from our friends at:

The Daily Beast
Buzzfeed
Heavy
The Los Angeles Times
Vulture
Medium post titled “I Submit The Following to the Court of Public Opinion”
IMDB
Wikipedia

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What a Creep “The Pied Piper of Tucson”
Season 15, Episode 4
Charles “Smitty” Schmid

Life magazine wrote a cover story about Charles “Smitty” Schmid in March 1967 describing teenagers as basically animals that race, do drugs, have sex, and will never “snitch” on anyone--even a 22-year-old pedophile Creep who wears heavy makeup and killed one of their schoolmates. This story is about a man dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” who acted like a murderous Wooderson.

Trigger warnings: murder, sexual assault, and animal abuse

Sources for this episode:
Life Magazine March 4, 1966, http://altsclass.weebly.com/uploads/3/8/8/0/38808759/lifemagazinepiedpiper.doc.pdf
Life Magazine with photos https://www.vintag.es/2015/06/friends-of-murderer-charles-schmid-1965.html?m=1
Mel Magazine: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/charles-schmid-murders-pied-piper-tucson
Charles Schmid Wikipedia
Once Upon a Crime Season 2, Episode 4
The Pied Piper Bloodlands by Harold Schecter
I, A Squealer: THE Insider’s Account of the Pied Piper of Tucson Murders: Richard Bruns
History Channel: https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/a-killer-who-cant-keep-his-mouth-shut
Tucson Citizen: http://tucsoncitizen.com/morgue2/2005/07/11/69875-vicious-pied-piper-butchered-in-prison-in-75/
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What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 3
Kid Rock

Kid Rock sucks, and we're not just talking about his new music. When he's not dropping homophobic slurs at his concerts and slut-shaming famous women, he's kissing disgraced former President Trump's ass and singing the praises of the Confederate flag. What a creep!

Sources for this episode:
Biography
Billboard
Complex
Consequence
The Guardian
People
Rolling Stone
USA Today
USA Today timeline
Vulture
Wikipedia

Trigger warnings: Homophobia, misogyny, and shitty music

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What A Creep
Elizabeth Holmes
�Hey everyone!
It’s time to get creepy! It’s season 1, episode 3 of “What a Creep” starring Elizabeth Homes, the former CEO of the totally bullshit-worthy company Theranos. There is so much creepiness to go around here. Including her former COO and boyfriend Sunny Balwani as well as the plethora of older men who had no problem throwing millions at her and never seeing a prototype of the Edison or the MiniLab. (Geniuses!)
This week Margo is the presenter and here are her main sources:
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The Inventor by Alex Gibney
Fortune and the New Yorker 2014 (glowing articles)
The Dropout podcast from ABC reporter Rebecca Jarvis
The Behind the Bastards podcast from host Robert Evans (no, not that one)
And then we will finish this ep with Sonia announcing our “Who’s NOT a creep” this week.
Have a listen!
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What a Creep “The Murder of Kitty Genovese”
Season 15, Episode 2
The Real Details & the Aftermath of One of the Most Famous Murders in New York City

The murder of 28-year-old Kitty Genovese made national news when The New York Times on March 27, 1964, claimed that 37 people watched as she was stabbed to death and did nothing to help her. The expression “Bystander Syndrome” was developed partly because of her crime and her death became a symbol of apathy and a lack of community on the rise. None of what we were taught turns out to be true. Today, I will talk about the real Kitty Genovese, police work in the 1960s, the terrible reporting by the Times and other news outlets, and what we can learn from this travesty.

Trigger warnings: murder, sexual assault, and rape.

Sources for this episode
Kitty Genovese WIKI
Bystander Effect
AM Rosenthal
American Psychological Association
The Daily Beast
Chicago Tribune
New York Times Winston Moseley Death
The New Yorker
A Crime to Remember Season 2 Episode 1
The Witness (William Genovese) by James D Solomon & Jessica Robinson
New York Times Sophia Farrar Obit
The Guardian
Original NY Times article March 27, 1964
Thirty-Eight Witnesses by A.M. Rosenthal
Kitty Genovese by Catherine Pelonero
Fifty Years After Kitty Genovese by Peter Hellman & Albert A. Seedman

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What a Creep
Season 15, Episode 1
Loveline creeps: Adam Carolla & Dr. Drew Pinsky

Adam Carolla is a radio personality, comedian, actor, and podcaster. He’s also a poster boy for toxic masculinity and is a misogynist creep. Dr. Drew Pinsky is a doctor, addiction medicine specialist, and media personality. He’s also kind of a creep who recommends drugs without disclosing he’s on the big pharma payroll.

And these two creeps used to host a popular syndicated radio show called “Loveline.”
Eventually, they left “Loveline”, and they did creepy things apart, but they still like to be creeps together on the podcast, “The Adam and Drew Show.”

Sources for this episode

ABC News
The Atlantic
Calling Out Carolla Tumblr
The Daily Beast
Jezebel
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
New York Post
SFGate
Adam Carolla’s Twitter
Dr. Drew’s Twitter
United States Department of Justice
Vulture
Washington Post
Wikipedia (Loveline)
Wikipedia (Dr. Drew Pinsky)
Wikipedia (Adam Carolla)

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