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The Woodford Slasher · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  Discretion, is it by, it's maybe murder. In nineteen eighty three,
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  the Woodford Slasher was terrorizing residence of Bellevue, Nebraska. Two boys had been
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  brutally murdered and the community was terrified. The playgrounds were abandoned, bikes laid
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  unused in yards, and the local scout master gathered his troop for a lesson
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  on how to stay safe in hopes of preventing another victim. The assistant scout
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  master shared, as long as we look out for one another, we'll have
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  nothing to worry about. That assist scoutmaster was John Jubert. John Joseph Jubert
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  the Fourth was born in nineteen sixty three in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was
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  an extremely intelligent child, reading by the age of three. At age six,
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  his parents got divorced. Staffter's father tried to strangle his mother. Perhaps
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  it's here where his sadistic fantasy started, since it was around that age that
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  he would later recall thinking about stabbing his babysitter. He even admitted to having
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  thoughts about biting off parts of her flesh, pretty unusual thoughts for a six
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  year old. In nineteen seventy four, his mother moved them to Portland,
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  Maine, where he had a difficult time getting along with the kids at school
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  and was considered a vicious bully. Although he was charismatic and knew how to
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  manipulate adults to avoid trouble, except for at home, his mother was controlling
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  and often humiliated him. She even spanked him until he was almost as big
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  as she was. Considered an outcast, Jubert joined the Boy Scouts of America
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  to meet people, and he excelled in the program. He reached the highest
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  achievement and became an Eagle Scout, something less than five percent of members have
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  accomplished. Yet all the skill sets that he learned would not necessarily be used
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  for good. By thirteen, his sadistic fantasies were sliding into the real world.
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  He stabbed a nine year old girl with a pencil. The incident was
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  so intoxicating to him that the next day he slashed another kid with a razor.
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  He felt sexually stimulated by the events. He later attacked two boys,
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  brutally beating and robbing them. In the midst of the chaos. He managed
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  to maintain his normal life, but was getting bolder with every attack. In
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  nineteen eighty one, he graduated from Cheverus High School. Soon after, he
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  enlisted in the United States Air Force. He had succeeded in the Boy Scouts,
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  and the military seemed like a great career choice. He was stationed at
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  the Bay near Bellevue, Nebraska, although the area would soon not be safe
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  as it once was. On September eighteenth, nineteen eighty three, thirteen year
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  old Danny Everley disappeared while on his newspaper route. It was discovered that he
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  was missing after customers started complaining that they had not yet received their newspaper.
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  Danny's bike was found at a house on his route with all the undelivered papers.
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  His brother, who usually worked with Danny, had no idea where he
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  would have gone, but did report seeing a white male in a tan car
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  driving around. Since it was considered a child abduction, the FBI was called
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  in. They immediately started searching in hopes that they would find Danny alive.
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  After three days of searching, his body was found in tall grass off a
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  gravel road about four miles from where his bike was found. Danny was in
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  his underwear, his feet and hands were bound with rope. His mouth was
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  covered with tape. He had been beaten, choked, bitten, and stabbed
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  nine times. His heart, liver, and lungs had been punctured. A
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  starlike marking had been carved into his chest. The local authorities feared that this
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  was the beginning of a nightmare. They started investigating known pedophiles that lived around
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  the area. They brought in one man that had molested two young boys.
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  He not only failed the polygraph, but his alibi did not hold up due
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  to lack of evidence. He was released. A couple months went by and
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  the authorities had no new leads. However, an FBI head profiler had started
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  putting together a profile. He also thought the rope used on Danny was crucial
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  to the case. The FBI had never seen that rope. It was so
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  distinctive, with twenty six fibers and one hundred six colors, they knew that
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  they could find the rest of the rope, they would probably find their killer.
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  On December second, nineteen eighty three, twelve year old Christopher Walden went
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  missing while walking to school. He disappeared three miles from where Danny Everley's body
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  was found. His family had very little hope that he would be found alive,
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  and their worst fears were confirmed. Christopher's body was found three days later,
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  five miles from town. His body, discovered by hunters, had been
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  better concealed than Danny's, but the crime scene did have some differences. His
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  throat was slit so deeply that he was almost decapitated, and he was not
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  bound. Other than that, there were too many similarities to not connect the
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  crimes. He was found in his underwear and had a star like marking carved
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  into his chest. The media was calling the killer the Woodford slasher. An
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  elderly woman saw Christopher on the news. She called and reported seeing a boy
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  that looked like him abducted by a white male in a tan car. She
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  didn't really believe that she saw such a horrible thing happen until she recognized the
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  boy on the news. On January eleventh, nineteen eighty four, a daycare
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  teacher noticed a man and circling the area. She found it suspicious and went
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  outside to get a better look at the car. The man noticed that she
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  was riding down his license plate and parked the vehicle. He started to approach
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  her and acted like he needed directions. However, as he got closer,
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  he pulled out a knife She took off running back to the building and managed
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  to get inside and called the police. The license plate belonged to a rental
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  car. The car was currently rented out to John Jubert. His car was
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  in the shop his tan car. With a search warrent in hand, the
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  FBI approached Jubert's barracks. They found a hunting knife and the exact rope they
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  were looking for. They also found hair and pieces of the rope in his
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  car. The rope had been made in Korea for the US military. Jubert
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  got the rope from the scout master he served under. Jubert was also an
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  exact match for the FBI's profile. While being questioned, John Jubert admitted that
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  he planned on Robbie the teacher, and acknowledged that he had heard of the
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  boys, but denied anything else. When he was then shown pictures of the
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  crimes, he was noticeably aroused, even eventually admitted I did it. I
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  killed those boys and what may or may not be shocking. He admitted that
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  if given another chance, he would kill again. Even though Jubert confessed to
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  the murders, he intended to plead not guilty. After psychiatric evaluations, they
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  decided that he was in his right mind when the crimes were committed, although
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  he was characterized as having obsessive compulsive disorder, sadistic tendencies, and schizoid personality
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  disorder. But since he couldn't claim insanity, he changed his plea to guilty,
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  hoping to get mercy from the court. The court in Nebraska did not
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  show mercy and sentenced him to death. The case of the two boys from
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  Nebraska was used in a training session at the FBI Academy in Quantico. It
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  was there that an officer from Portland May noticed similarities with an unsolved case in
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  his jurisdiction. On August twenty second, nineteen eighty two, eleven year old
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  Ricky Stetson went for a jog on the Back Cove Trail. His parents called
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  the police when he wasn't home by dark. That was the rule for many
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  kids before the days of cell phones, be home by dark. When he
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  didn't show up, they started to worry. The next day, a motorist
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  discovered his body off the side of Interstate two ninety five. He was dead
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  and bloodied. Originally they thought he must have been hit by a car,
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  but upon further inspection they knew that the cause of death was much more sinister,
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  and the autopsy confirmed it. He had been stabbed multiple times in the
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  stomach, strangled, and had bite marks on his body. A suspect was
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  apprehended and spent a year and a half in jail before they confirmed that the
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  bite marks did not match his teeth. The officer was able to confirm that
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  Jubert lived in Maine at the time of the crime, and the bite marks
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  on the victim did match Jubert. They were actually able to link him to
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  several unsolved crimes and identified him as the Oakdale Slasher, a killer that they
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  had been looking for. Jubert stood trial in main and received a life sentence,
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  maybe only because they didn't have the death penalty. He was then sent
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  back to Nebraska, where he faced the electric chair. He appealed multiple times,
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  but his sentence was never overturned. He sat down in that electric chair
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  on July seventeenth, nineteen ninety six. Apparently, some people believed he should
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  be shown more kindness than his victims were, despite the fact that Jubert committed
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  such horrifying crimes on children. After his death, activists said the electric chair
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  was unusually cruel and called for action to be taken Nebraska now administers lethal injection.
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  At the hands of John Jubert the fourth at least three boys met a
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  tragic and painful death, not to mention all the other people he harmed physically
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  and mentally over the years. Even though he never sexually molested at any of
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  his victims, he was aroused by the cutting and the biting, and the
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  questions remain. Was he trying to satisfy abnormal sexual desires or was it more
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  about power and control? Did it come from trauma and his childhood? Aristotle
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  argued that morality must be taught. Could it be that he was never taught
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  good? No, he was an eagle scout and went to Catholic school.
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  Maybe he was a master manipulator, a chamellion that could thrive in any setting.
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  By twenty years old, Jubert had already terrorized two communities, becoming both
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  the Woodford Slasher and the Oakdale Slasher. He was a man that signed up
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  to serve his country and parents trusted with their young boys. Had he not
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  been caught so soon and moved to more air force bases, who knows how
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  many communities could have been affected. Evil doesn't always wear horns. Sometimes it
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