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The Man Who Displayed Skulls: Kansas City's Quiet Butcher Revealed
The Man Who Displayed Skulls: Kansas City's Quiet Butcher Revealed
A city volunteer and court-appointed youth advocate hid skulls in a shop window and kept boiled vertebrae in a closet while neighbors passed without alarm. Between 1984 and 1988 he photographed and cataloged victims with Polaroids and written notes - how did he avoid detection for nearly four years?
In this episode, we trace the facts of what police found after a barefoot twenty-two-year-old escaped a home in April 1988 and led investigators three blocks to a house with restraints and human remains. We follow the discoveries…
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