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- 0:00Speaker 1: Imagine a killer so meticulous, so careful, that even decades later,
- 0:06Speaker 1: investigators are still baffled. Four ruthless murderers terrorized their communities,
- 0:12Speaker 1: leaving behind horrifying crime scenes and unanswered questions. And each
- 0:17Speaker 1: one had a very distinct method, a chilling pattern of violence,
- 0:22Speaker 1: and a haunting ability to evade capture. And despite years
- 0:25Speaker 1: of investigation, shifting theories in modern forensic advancements, the identities
- 0:31Speaker 1: remain a mystery. More these crimes the work of singular,
- 0:34Speaker 1: calculating individuals, or is there something more sinister lurking beneath
- 0:39Speaker 1: the surface. Today we explore four of the most perplexing
- 0:43Speaker 1: unsolved serial murder cases, killers who disappeared into the shadows
- 0:48Speaker 1: and perhaps are still out there. Crime, conspiracy, gaults, serial killers,
- 0:55Speaker 1: and murder. All things that I love to consume and
- 0:58Speaker 1: I know you do too, sick, beautiful, intellectually minded break
- 1:03Speaker 1: And today we are doing just that. We are talking
- 1:05Speaker 1: about serial killers that have evaded capture and that could
- 1:08Speaker 1: possibly be still out there, which is absolutely horrifying. And
- 1:12Speaker 1: that's why I'm telling you today because I want you
- 1:14Speaker 1: to be safe, my little baby girl. I want you
- 1:16Speaker 1: to be safe. Okay, if you're a forty year old
- 1:19Speaker 1: man watching this, I'm calling you baby girls. Well all right,
- 1:22Speaker 1: so without further ado, I'm muckle say bout's go mack
- 1:25Speaker 1: fad down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust
- 1:28Speaker 1: through this windshield into these four unsolved murder serial killer
- 1:32Speaker 1: cases together. All right, Before I get started, I need
- 1:49Speaker 1: to put on my freaking glasses because I can't set
- 1:54Speaker 1: around because now is Chris Read screams wow. Oakland County, Michigan,
- 2:06Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, tree lined suburban streets stretched across affluent
- 2:12Speaker 1: communities north of Detroit, where children played freely in the
- 2:15Speaker 1: parks and rode bicycles without supervision. You know, the good
- 2:19Speaker 1: old days, not that I was alive back then. The
- 2:21Speaker 1: area embodied middle class American security, well maintained homes with
- 2:27Speaker 1: manicured lawns, good schools, and a pervasive sense of safety
- 2:31Speaker 1: that would soon become shattered. And during this period before
- 2:34Speaker 1: cellular phones and instant communication in the interwebs, children regularly
- 2:40Speaker 1: ventured out until dusk, expected to return home when the
- 2:43Speaker 1: street lights illuminated, and this environment of perceived safety created
- 2:47Speaker 1: the perfect hunting ground for a predator would eventually launch
- 2:51Speaker 1: what became the largest manhunt in US history at the time,
- 2:55Speaker 1: involving a task force that would process over eighteen thousand
- 2:59Speaker 1: tips and interrogate more than fifteen hundred suspects. So in
- 3:03Speaker 1: the quiet suburban neighborhoods of Oakland County, Michigan, a chilling
- 3:07Speaker 1: series of events unfolded between nineteen seventy six and nineteen
- 3:11Speaker 1: seventy seven that would forever change the community's sense of security.
- 3:15Speaker 1: The area, known for its affluent neighborhoods and family friendly atmosphere,
- 3:20Speaker 1: became the hunting ground for one of America's most methodical
- 3:24Speaker 1: child killers, and the nightmare would begin on February fifteenth,
- 3:28Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six, when twelve year old Mark Steppins left
- 3:33Speaker 1: the American Legion Hall in Ferndale, and what should have
- 3:36Speaker 1: been a routine walk home turned into an irreversible tragedy.
- 3:40Speaker 1: Four days after his disappearance, Mark's body would be discovered
- 3:44Speaker 1: in a south Field parking lot, carefully arranged on a
- 3:48Speaker 1: pile of wood and dirt, and the autopsy revealed a
- 3:51Speaker 1: disturbing level of premeditation, which is essentially planning the murder
- 3:56Speaker 1: before it happened. Mark had been strangled and said with
- 4:01Speaker 1: a foreign object, and the rope marks on his wrist
- 4:04Speaker 1: and ankles indicated he had been bound during his captivity,
- 4:08Speaker 1: while two lacerations on his head suggested violent drama. Just
- 4:12Speaker 1: a real special place in the depths of the asshole
- 4:19Speaker 1: of hell for the person who did this. It's just
- 4:22Speaker 1: sickonding And obviously police would investigate, but they would come
- 4:25Speaker 1: up with nothing, and less than a year later, on
- 4:28Speaker 1: December twenty second, nineteen seventy six, another family's world would
- 4:32Speaker 1: collapse when twelve year old Jill Robinson left home after
- 4:36Speaker 1: arguing with her mother. Her bicycle was recovered behind a
- 4:39Speaker 1: hobby store the following day, but Jill herself remained missing
- 4:43Speaker 1: until December twenty sixth, when her body was discovered alongside
- 4:47Speaker 1: Interstate seventy five in Troy. And perhaps most disturbing was
- 4:51Speaker 1: the evidence that she had been cared for during the
- 4:54Speaker 1: three days before her murder, still wearing her backpack and
- 4:58Speaker 1: fully clothed when found. So the killer was obviously a monster,
- 5:04Speaker 1: but there was a side of him that had remorse
- 5:07Speaker 1: for these kids, or felt like he still needed to
- 5:10Speaker 1: treat them like kids, like actually care for them. But
- 5:13Speaker 1: it's just like it's not even like in the realm
- 5:16Speaker 1: of Okay, there's no like, oh, that's kind of no. No,
- 5:19Speaker 1: he literally killed these kids. So and the pattern continued
- 5:23Speaker 1: on January second, nineteen seventy seven, when ten year old
- 5:27Speaker 1: Christine Millick vanished after visiting a seven to eleven store,
- 5:31Speaker 1: and her ordeal lasted nineteen days before her body was
- 5:35Speaker 1: recovered on a rural road in Franklin Village, and the
- 5:38Speaker 1: killer had smothered Christine less than twenty four hours before,
- 5:42Speaker 1: the placement of her body, which was positioned very carefully
- 5:46Speaker 1: within view of nearby homes, a signature of the perpetrator's
- 5:50Speaker 1: methodical approach. He wanted these kids to be found. The
- 5:54Speaker 1: premeditation and planning before these murders is just like insane,
- 6:00Speaker 1: like he thought about how he was going to do it,
- 6:03Speaker 1: when he was going to do it, and exactly how
- 6:05Speaker 1: they were going to be found, and probably when they
- 6:08Speaker 1: were going to be found as well. In the final
- 6:10Speaker 1: confirmed victim, eleven year old Timothy King, disappeared on March sixteenth,
- 6:15Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven, during a trip to a local pharmacy
- 6:18Speaker 1: and when found six days later in a shallow ditch
- 6:21Speaker 1: along Gill road in Livonia. Timothy had been sayed with
- 6:25Speaker 1: a foreign object as well as the first victim, and
- 6:28Speaker 1: also suffocated, and most disturbingly, he had been fed Kentucky
- 6:33Speaker 1: fried chicken, his favorite meal, shortly before his death. So
- 6:37Speaker 1: it's like it's like the killers trying to make up
- 6:40Speaker 1: for everything that he did at the end of it,
- 6:43Speaker 1: just thinking that that's going to wipe his slate clean
- 6:47Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, when obviously not the
- 6:51Speaker 1: case he deserves to be. Well, maybe I shouldn't say
- 6:55Speaker 1: what he deserves because I'm thinking a lot of things
- 6:58Speaker 1: and I don't think I could legally say it on
- 7:00Speaker 1: the internet. But what distinguished these murders from other serial
- 7:03Speaker 1: killers was the meticulous attention paid to the victims. Each
- 7:07Speaker 1: body was found in public areas, meticulously cleaned and dressed,
- 7:11Speaker 1: and the unnerving level of care to the perpetrator, being
- 7:15Speaker 1: dubbed the babysitter killer. And despite the different causes of death,
- 7:19Speaker 1: investigators link the cases through consistent physical evidence, including golden
- 7:24Speaker 1: carpet fibers and white animal hair found on all the
- 7:27Speaker 1: victim's clothing, and those golden carpet fibers and white animal
- 7:31Speaker 1: hair would lead investigators down a very disturbing path directly
- 7:35Speaker 1: to a network of wealthy individuals with connections to child exploitation,
- 7:40Speaker 1: just the scum of the earth. And as detectives pursued
- 7:44Speaker 1: these forensic clues, they uncovered a case far more complex
- 7:48Speaker 1: than a lone predator, suggesting the possibility of powerful figures
- 7:52Speaker 1: working to ensure certain suspects remained beyond the reach of justice.
- 7:57Speaker 1: Just corrupt bullshit. Christopher Bush emerged as one of the
- 8:02Speaker 1: most compelling suspects in the investigation. The son of a
- 8:06Speaker 1: wealthy General Motors executive, Bush had already been convicted as
- 8:10Speaker 1: a edf aisle and maintain connections to an organized child
- 8:16Speaker 1: corn network operating in North Fox Island, and the timing
- 8:21Speaker 1: proved particularly suspicious. Police had questioned Bush shortly before Timothy
- 8:26Speaker 1: King's abduction, and more disturbingly, evidence would link him to
- 8:30Speaker 1: a child exploiting ring run by Francis Sheldon, suggesting access
- 8:34Speaker 1: to vulnerable children through an established network, which is just
- 8:37Speaker 1: like mind boggling and horrifying to think about. And it's
- 8:43Speaker 1: just it's something that happens every day and that people
- 8:46Speaker 1: just I mean, you know, turn a blind eye too,
- 8:49Speaker 1: and it's just so horrifying because it happens in other countries,
- 8:54Speaker 1: but it is also happening in our backyards, So I mean,
- 8:58Speaker 1: I think it's an important topic no matter what. And
- 9:01Speaker 1: in November nineteen seventy eight, investigators discovered Bush dead from
- 9:05Speaker 1: what appeared to be slewer slide just easy way out,
- 9:10Speaker 1: piece of shit and a scene raised immediate red flags.
- 9:14Speaker 1: Bloodstained ropes lay nearby, and a hand drawn image resembling
- 9:19Speaker 1: victim Mark Stebbins hung on his wall, And the suspicious
- 9:23Speaker 1: circumstances intensified when the entire Oakland County Task Force disbanded
- 9:28Speaker 1: just days after Bush's death, having exhausted a two million
- 9:33Speaker 1: dollar budget, and some investigators later suggested his death may
- 9:36Speaker 1: have been staged to prevent him from revealing accomplices of
- 9:40Speaker 1: Power associates, which sounds right to me. Yet the case
- 9:45Speaker 1: against Bush collapsed in twenty twelve when DNA testing excluded
- 9:50Speaker 1: him as a contributor to biological evidence found on the victims.
- 9:54Speaker 1: Bet you didn't expect that. And this forensic setback occurred
- 9:58Speaker 1: despite the wealth of circumstantial evidence pointing to his involvement,
- 10:02Speaker 1: which I still think he was involved in somewhat absolutely
- 10:06Speaker 1: other suspects presented equally promising yet ultimately inconclusive leads. Ted Lamborghini,
- 10:14Speaker 1: I know a Detroit autoworker I know who operated a
- 10:19Speaker 1: pedo ring in the Cast Corridor during the same period,
- 10:23Speaker 1: became a primary suspect in two thousand and five, and
- 10:26Speaker 1: convicted murderer Richard Lawson implicated Lamborghini during an interview, but
- 10:30Speaker 1: when offered a plea deal to reduce a sentence in
- 10:32Speaker 1: exchange for taking a polygraph regarding the Oakland County murders,
- 10:36Speaker 1: Lamborghini refused. Just scum of the earth and DNA evidence
- 10:41Speaker 1: brought investigators to convicted pdf Aisle Arc Sloane in twenty twelve,
- 10:49Speaker 1: when forensic testing revealed that hares found on the victims
- 10:52Speaker 1: matched hair recovered from Sloane's vehicle, and curiously, the DNA
- 10:56Speaker 1: didn't match Sloane himself, suggesting someone who had been in
- 11:00Speaker 1: his car, or that he let borrow his car for
- 11:03Speaker 1: you know, nefarious, murderous reasons. But perhaps most telling was
- 11:08Speaker 1: James Vincent Gunnals, who had actually been essayed by Christopher
- 11:13Speaker 1: Bush as a teenager, and forensic testing found his DNA
- 11:17Speaker 1: potentially matched a hair on victim Christine Miliak, though the
- 11:21Speaker 1: statistical probability being only one to one hundred and fifty,
- 11:25Speaker 1: proved too low for conclusive identification, and Gunnals has consistently
- 11:29Speaker 1: denied any involvement. So time marched relentlessly forward while justice
- 11:34Speaker 1: stood still, and nearly five decades after the horrific killings
- 11:38Speaker 1: that terrorized Oakland County, the case remains unsolved, despite remarkable
- 11:44Speaker 1: advances in forensic technology. And for Timothy King's father, Barry,
- 11:48Speaker 1: the quest for answers became his life's mission, which like,
- 11:52Speaker 1: how could it not being a parent? You know? I
- 11:54Speaker 1: just like, oh, my heart just goes out to all
- 11:56Speaker 1: these families. And this journey unfortunately ended in twenty two
- 12:00Speaker 1: twenty when he passed away without ever learning who murdered
- 12:03Speaker 1: his son, and the systemic investigative failures point to disturbing
- 12:07Speaker 1: possibilities an exceptionally meticulous killer who left minimal evidence, protection
- 12:13Speaker 1: of connected individuals through institutional interference, or fundamental errors in
- 12:18Speaker 1: the initial investigation that can never be remedied. Whatever the truth,
- 12:22Speaker 1: the Oakland County child killer case stands as a sobering
- 12:26Speaker 1: reminder that even with extensive resources, justice remains tragically elusive.
- 12:32Speaker 1: For some victims, leaving their families to endure the cruelest
- 12:35Speaker 1: of uncertainties. But my heart goes out to the victims
- 12:38Speaker 1: and the victims' families and whoever did this, I hope
- 12:41Speaker 1: you're robbing in hell. Let's move on. Glasgow, Scotland in
- 12:51Speaker 1: the late nineteen sixties was experiencing the cultural upheaval common
- 12:56Speaker 1: throughout Western societies at the time. The city's working class
- 12:59Speaker 1: population found escape at venues like Borrowland Ballroom, a popular
- 13:04Speaker 1: dance hall where young people gathered to socialize, and against
- 13:07Speaker 1: this backdrop, a series of murders began on February twenty second,
- 13:12Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, when twenty five year old Patricia Docker
- 13:15Speaker 1: attended the ballroom and the young nurse and mother left
- 13:18Speaker 1: the venue alone and was discovered the following morning in
- 13:22Speaker 1: a doorway near Langside Place, strangled and partially clothed and
- 13:27Speaker 1: her personal belongings missing from the scene completely and Patricia
- 13:31Speaker 1: Docker balanced complex responsibilities as her life was cut short.
- 13:35Speaker 1: The twenty five year old auxiliary nurse managed night shifts
- 13:38Speaker 1: while caring for her four year old son, Sandy, during
- 13:41Speaker 1: a period of separation from her husband, who served with
- 13:45Speaker 1: RAF in Lincolnshire, and on that fateful February evening in
- 13:49Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, Patricia told her parents she was visiting
- 13:53Speaker 1: the Majestic Ballroom, but instead went to Borrowland, known for
- 13:57Speaker 1: its over twenty five nights, where at ten dees often
- 14:00Speaker 1: removed wedding rings, seeking temporary ananimity from their complicated lives.
- 14:06Speaker 1: Some shady shit going on in the sixties, to tell
- 14:08Speaker 1: you what, but Patricia would go to this ballroom and
- 14:11Speaker 1: leave and then obviously lose her life, which is extremely horrible,
- 14:16Speaker 1: but would lead us to our second victim, which would
- 14:19Speaker 1: be Jemimah McDonald and Jemima maintained a household as a
- 14:23Speaker 1: single mother to three children, Elizabeth who was eleven years old,
- 14:26Speaker 1: Andrew who's eight years old, and Allan who was seven.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Described by acquaintances as clean and well cared for, Jemima
- 14:33Speaker 1: ensured her children were properly looked after, despite the challenges
- 14:37Speaker 1: of soule parenthood, and her murder in August of nineteen
- 14:40Speaker 1: sixty nine fractured the family unit she had worked so
- 14:44Speaker 1: hard to maintain, and the aftermath proved additionally devastating, as
- 14:48Speaker 1: her three children were separated and placed in different care homes,
- 14:52Speaker 1: causing a secondary tragedy that extended beyond the initial death.
- 14:57Speaker 1: So heartbreaking, And then we have Helen. Now, Helen Putdock
- 15:01Speaker 1: would be the final victim, and she had recently returned
- 15:04Speaker 1: to Glasgow with her husband George and army servicemen and
- 15:08Speaker 1: their two young sons, David and Michael, and the night
- 15:11Speaker 1: of her murder in October nineteen sixty nine represented a
- 15:15Speaker 1: rare evening of personal freedom, a brief respite from maternal
- 15:19Speaker 1: obligations while her husband would remain home with her children.
- 15:22Speaker 1: And the cruel irony that Helen was killed steps away
- 15:26Speaker 1: from the domestic safety she had temporarily left behind underscores
- 15:30Speaker 1: the tragedy's senselessness. But all three women shared significant commonalities
- 15:35Speaker 1: beyond their connection to Borland. Each was a mother seeking
- 15:39Speaker 1: brief independence from their demanding domestic responsibilities, and the over
- 15:43Speaker 1: twenty five's night at Barland offered a socially acceptable outlet
- 15:48Speaker 1: for married women to experience autonomy in an era of
- 15:51Speaker 1: limited freedom. And perhaps most significantly, each was menstruating at
- 15:56Speaker 1: the time. Damn, which is just so odd, but a
- 16:00Speaker 1: biological detail that potentially influenced the killer's victim selection. Maybe
- 16:05Speaker 1: the bright lights of Glasgow's Barroland Ballroom concealed a methodical
- 16:09Speaker 1: predator whose selection process went beyond mirror opportunism. This venue,
- 16:14Speaker 1: where married patrons often removed their wedding rings for anonymous encounters,
- 16:18Speaker 1: provided the perfect hunting ground for a killer whose approach
- 16:22Speaker 1: suggested calculated religious motivations rather than random violence. So he
- 16:27Speaker 1: was seeking these people out, specifically people who were set
- 16:31Speaker 1: out to be unfaithful to their partners. He didn't like that,
- 16:36Speaker 1: not one bit. So when investigators initially focused on the
- 16:40Speaker 1: Majestic Ballroom rather than the barrow Land following putrisa Docker's murder,
- 16:44Speaker 1: they inadvertently compromised crucial evidence collection during the critical early
- 16:49Speaker 1: hours of the investigation, and this error would prove significant
- 16:53Speaker 1: as the pattern of Barroland connections became apparent. With subsequent
- 16:56Speaker 1: victims and witnesses consistently described the suspect as exceptionally well
- 17:02Speaker 1: dressed and articulate attributes that distinguished him from a typical
- 17:06Speaker 1: violent offender. His polite, charming demeanor allowed him to gain
- 17:10Speaker 1: trust of women at the venue, facilitating their willingness to
- 17:14Speaker 1: leave with him. So this calculated approach indicated premeditation rather
- 17:18Speaker 1: than impulsive violence, this man was a hunter, and the
- 17:22Speaker 1: religious underpinnings of the crime emerged most clearly during Helen
- 17:26Speaker 1: Headock's taxi journey, where her sister Jeene Langford heard the
- 17:30Speaker 1: suspect quote scripture and condemned the barland as a den
- 17:35Speaker 1: of inequity, and Jane further recalled that he mentioned he
- 17:39Speaker 1: did not drink but raid instead, suggesting a strict religious
- 17:44Speaker 1: upbringing that would later contribute to his infamous moniker and
- 17:47Speaker 1: forensic examinations revealed a disturbing ritualistic element at each crime scene.
- 17:53Speaker 1: The deliberate positioning of sanitary items near the victim's body
- 17:57Speaker 1: indicated the killer's Harbord specific fixations, possibly connected to biblical
- 18:02Speaker 1: notions of impurity, and this consistent pattern, combined with the
- 18:06Speaker 1: strangulation method employed in each murder, pointed to a signature
- 18:09Speaker 1: that evolved while maintaining core elements, potentially indicating the killer's
- 18:13Speaker 1: growing confidence or adaptation to avoid detection. This guy was
- 18:18Speaker 1: unfortunately smart and extremely calculated and extremely judgmental to consenting adults,
- 18:28Speaker 1: and as the ritualistic elements at the crime scene became clear,
- 18:32Speaker 1: Glasgow police mobilized in unprecedented numbers. What began as a
- 18:36Speaker 1: standard murder investigation transformed into Scotland's most extensive manhunt, yet
- 18:42Speaker 1: it would ultimately fail despite groundbreaking tactics and compelling witness testimony,
- 18:47Speaker 1: and the investigation pioneered forensic techniques never before seen in
- 18:51Speaker 1: Scottish policing. Most notably, authorities created and widely distributed the
- 18:55Speaker 1: nation's first police photo fit of a suspect in a
- 18:59Speaker 1: murder case during newspapers and television. Broadcast with the composite
- 19:03Speaker 1: image and the manhunt scope was extraordinary, with undercover officers
- 19:08Speaker 1: dispatched to blend among Borrowland patrons in what the press
- 19:11Speaker 1: dubbed as Marine Formation Dance Team, which is pretty awesome.
- 19:17Speaker 1: Plain clothed detectives scanning the dance floor for anyone matching
- 19:20Speaker 1: the suspects description and Jean Langford's account for the taxi
- 19:24Speaker 1: ride with her sister Helen and the suspect provided investigators
- 19:28Speaker 1: with extraordinary detail, a mixed blessing that just shaped the
- 19:32Speaker 1: entire investigation. And while her testimony offered first hand description
- 19:36Speaker 1: of the killer's appearance, mannerisms, and religious rhetoric, over reliance
- 19:41Speaker 1: on her singular account potentially narrowed the investigation aperture, causing
- 19:45Speaker 1: detectives to dismiss leads that didn't precisely match her recollection,
- 19:49Speaker 1: which is damaging in investigations. I mean, obviously it's good
- 19:52Speaker 1: to have that testimony, but I mean we're not built
- 19:56Speaker 1: to remember somebody perfectly, you know, like it need to
- 20:00Speaker 1: be broader than that, and we know that now. But
- 20:02Speaker 1: that was all they had, so that is what they
- 20:04Speaker 1: went for, and the undercover operation at Barlin continued for
- 20:07Speaker 1: months until late October nineteen sixty nine, when it was
- 20:11Speaker 1: abruptly terminated, And the cessation came not from any investigative breakthrough,
- 20:16Speaker 1: but due to complaints from proprietors about plummeting attendance figures
- 20:19Speaker 1: as patrons avoid at the venue now associated with a
- 20:23Speaker 1: serial killer. Basically just because a bunch of people were
- 20:25Speaker 1: just bummed that other people got killed and it ruined
- 20:29Speaker 1: their swinger party. I guess, because that matters more than
- 20:34Speaker 1: solving people's murders. I don't know. Decades later, in nineteen
- 20:37Speaker 1: ninety six, investigators exhumed the body of John Irvin mclinis
- 20:42Speaker 1: for DNA testing, a costly operation that yielded inconclusive results
- 20:46Speaker 1: and triggered substantial media backlash, and more troubling revelations emerged
- 20:50Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two when the BBC podcast Bible John,
- 20:55Speaker 1: Creation of a Serial Killer alleged that mclinis may have
- 20:58Speaker 1: been protected due to the familial connections with a senior
- 21:01Speaker 1: officer involved in the original investigation. Again, just corruption everywhere,
- 21:07Speaker 1: but in exhuming John's body it would give this serial
- 21:11Speaker 1: killer the name Bible John. Mixing the scripture with the murders. Uh,
- 21:17Speaker 1: this is just what it became, but it is. It's
- 21:20Speaker 1: not conclusive, and even convicted murderer Peter Tubbin fell under
- 21:24Speaker 1: suspicion due to the striking similarities in methods and victimology,
- 21:29Speaker 1: but was ultimately eliminated because of records confirmed he wasn't
- 21:32Speaker 1: in Glasgow during the murders. So we're left with another,
- 21:37Speaker 1: I don't know, another unsolved serial murder case and hopefully
- 21:42Speaker 1: this bastard is dead. But that brings us to our
- 21:46Speaker 1: next killer. So in the mid nineties, the Belgian city
- 21:55Speaker 1: of Mons became the backdrop for a series of gruesome discoveries.
- 21:59Speaker 1: Women began vanishing without a trace, only further dismembered remains
- 22:03Speaker 1: to surface in garbage bags across rivers and roads with
- 22:07Speaker 1: unsettling names like half of Worry and Hate River, and
- 22:12Speaker 1: the precision of the cuts and the eerie choice of
- 22:15Speaker 1: disposal sites pointed to a methodical and deeply disturbed killer,
- 22:20Speaker 1: and despite the formation of dedicated task force, the investigation
- 22:24Speaker 1: was plagued with mismanagement, lack of resources, and dead end leads,
- 22:28Speaker 1: and as a body count grew, so did the mystery.
- 22:31Speaker 1: Was a killer alone, predator, a trained professional or something
- 22:35Speaker 1: even worse sinister? And over the years investigators pursued multiple suspects,
- 22:40Speaker 1: some with disturbing ties to similar crimes, but as time passed,
- 22:44Speaker 1: justice slipped further away, leaving behind a chilling question who
- 22:49Speaker 1: was the butcher of Mons and why was he never caught?
- 22:52Speaker 1: So in January of nineteen ninety six, a pattern of
- 22:55Speaker 1: disappearances began that would haunt the Belgian city of Mons
- 22:59Speaker 1: for years. To Carmelina Russo, a forty two year old woman,
- 23:03Speaker 1: vanished after visiting her imprisoned sun on January fourth, and
- 23:07Speaker 1: her disappearance might have remained just another missing person's case,
- 23:11Speaker 1: But seventeen days later, fisherman made a grim discovery in
- 23:16Speaker 1: the Shelt River in northern France, and it would be
- 23:19Speaker 1: Russo's pelvis which was deliberately severed from the rest of
- 23:23Speaker 1: her body, and this would just mark the beginning of
- 23:26Speaker 1: a series of methodical dismembered victims, and six months later,
- 23:31Speaker 1: Martine Bone, a forty three year old former sensual worker,
- 23:35Speaker 1: disappeared on July twenty first, and her dismembered torso was
- 23:39Speaker 1: subsequently recovered from the Hein River, and investigators noted a
- 23:43Speaker 1: particularly disturbing detail her breasts had been deliberately removed from
- 23:49Speaker 1: her body, suggesting a sensual motivation behind the killer's methodology.
- 23:54Speaker 1: A monster and the precision of these cuts initially led
- 23:58Speaker 1: authorities to consider metical training as a prerequisite for the predator,
- 24:03Speaker 1: which would make sense or some sort of butcher, somebody
- 24:06Speaker 1: who's worked with bodies before. And the pattern would continue
- 24:09Speaker 1: into December, when Jacqueline Leclurk, a thirty three year old
- 24:13Speaker 1: mother of four, went missing on the twenty second, and
- 24:16Speaker 1: unlike the previous victims, her remains weren't discovered until March
- 24:20Speaker 1: of the following year, when Officer Oliver Mott recovered garbage
- 24:23Speaker 1: bags containing her severed arms and legs, and the delay
- 24:27Speaker 1: between disappearances and discovery raised questions about the killer's storage capabilities,
- 24:33Speaker 1: and by March nineteen ninety seven, twenty one year old
- 24:35Speaker 1: Natalie Godart became the fourth victim. Though not involved in
- 24:40Speaker 1: sensuable work, Investigators noted she had been described as promiscuous
- 24:44Speaker 1: and was struggling with personal issues severe enough that her
- 24:48Speaker 1: child had actually been placed in protective care, and her
- 24:51Speaker 1: torso was recovered from the same waterway as Bonds remains,
- 24:55Speaker 1: the Hain River, and the killer's final known victim would
- 24:59Speaker 1: be beg Valencia, a thirty seven year old woman with
- 25:02Speaker 1: schizophrenia who disappeared from frameries during the summer of nineteen
- 25:07Speaker 1: ninety seven, and only her skull would be recovered in
- 25:10Speaker 1: the area of high On, suggesting an evolution in disposal
- 25:13Speaker 1: methods or decomposition that prevented further remains from being located.
- 25:17Speaker 1: It was just getting a lot better at hiding the remains,
- 25:20Speaker 1: and forensic analysis would reveal disturbing detail that investigators initially overlooked.
- 25:25Speaker 1: The preservation state of various body parts differed significantly. Some
- 25:30Speaker 1: remains appeared relatively fresh, while others showed evidence of refrigeration,
- 25:36Speaker 1: indicating the killer likely stored dismembered parts for extended periods
- 25:40Speaker 1: before the actual disposal, and this suggested both access to
- 25:44Speaker 1: suitable refrigeration facilities and a disturbing level of planning. And
- 25:47Speaker 1: perhaps most chilling was the killer's appearance psychological signature. In
- 25:52Speaker 1: the selection of the disposal sites, locations with macabre names
- 25:57Speaker 1: became favored dumping grounds rue de depot literally dump street,
- 26:03Speaker 1: chemen de lakitude which is path of worry, and rivers
- 26:07Speaker 1: with unsettling names like Pain which is eight and Tully
- 26:12Speaker 1: which is jitters and this deliberate selection of symbolically charged
- 26:16Speaker 1: locations suggested a perpetrator who incorporated psychological elements into their methodology.
- 26:22Speaker 1: So the symbolically charged disposal sites just reflected a killer
- 26:26Speaker 1: with psychological sophistication. Yet the Belgian judicial system response would
- 26:31Speaker 1: prove remarkably insufficient. Despite establishing a specialized investigative unit, authorities
- 26:36Speaker 1: gradually abandon their pursuit of the butcher, while dismembered bodies
- 26:41Speaker 1: continued to appear throughout the region and in the aftermath
- 26:44Speaker 1: of the killings, Belgian authorities formed the Corpus investigative Unit
- 26:48Speaker 1: under Magistrate Pierre Plette, and this represented the nation's most
- 26:52Speaker 1: concentrated efforts to identify and apprehend the methodical killer terrorizing Monts. However,
- 26:58Speaker 1: from its inception, the unit faced substantial institutional constraints. Despite
- 27:03Speaker 1: the brutality and sophistication of the crimes, Belgian officials classified
- 27:07Speaker 1: the case as merely local, failing to allocate adequate resources
- 27:12Speaker 1: for what was clearly a complex serial murder investigation. So
- 27:16Speaker 1: the systemic dismantling of the investigative effort became evident as
- 27:20Speaker 1: years passed without an arrest, and by two thousand and seven,
- 27:23Speaker 1: what had begun as a substantial team had been reduced
- 27:26Speaker 1: to only four investigators, and the dramatic reduction occurred even
- 27:31Speaker 1: as the unit had examined nearly one thousand complaints over
- 27:34Speaker 1: thirteen years, demonstrating a very troubling administrative indifference to solving
- 27:39Speaker 1: the case, and the lack of modern forensic techniques available
- 27:42Speaker 1: at the time of further hampered investigators, limiting their ability
- 27:45Speaker 1: to extract DNA evidence or effectively share information across international borders,
- 27:50Speaker 1: and the investigation eventually developed significant international dimensions. In two
- 27:55Speaker 1: thousand and seven, Montenegrin authorities arrested Smail Toldjak, who emerged
- 28:00Speaker 1: the investigator's most compelling suspect and Tulja's crime history included
- 28:04Speaker 1: a strikingly similar murder in New York in nineteen ninety,
- 28:08Speaker 1: where victim Mary Bill was dismembered and placed in garbage bags,
- 28:12Speaker 1: a methodology nearly identical to the butcher's signature, and additionally,
- 28:16Speaker 1: evidence against Tulsia included his confirmed presence in Belgium during
- 28:20Speaker 1: the Mons murders, his romantic connection to the New York victim,
- 28:24Speaker 1: and bloodstain discovered in his apartment. Yet investigators never secured
- 28:28Speaker 1: conclusive proof linking him to the Belgian killings, and Tulsia's
- 28:32Speaker 1: death in a Montenegrin prison in twenty twelve permanently foreclosed
- 28:37Speaker 1: any possibility of obtaining a confession or conducting additional DNA comparisons,
- 28:42Speaker 1: but good riddans anyway, but other suspects emerged throughout the investigation.
- 28:47Speaker 1: Jacques Antoine, a French doctor, became a person of interest
- 28:51Speaker 1: after his son wrote letters to police accusing him of
- 28:55Speaker 1: carrying black trash bags while living in monts during the
- 28:58Speaker 1: murder period, but these accusations ultimately held very little weight,
- 29:02Speaker 1: undermined by inconsistencies and the son's peculiar focus on his
- 29:06Speaker 1: father's firearm collection rather than behaviors related to dismemberment. Basically,
- 29:11Speaker 1: just a kid wanted to get rid of his father
- 29:13Speaker 1: and British citizen John Sweeney, convicted of dismemberment murders in
- 29:17Speaker 1: both Amsterdam and London, represented another plausible suspect based on
- 29:21Speaker 1: his potential presence in Belgium between his known killings. However,
- 29:25Speaker 1: authorities never established a definitive connection between Sweeney and the
- 29:29Speaker 1: Mons murders. Just another piece of shit, I guess. But
- 29:32Speaker 1: the Butcher of Mons case exposed system failures in Belgian
- 29:36Speaker 1: law enforcement, turning a major manhunt into a disjointed, under
- 29:41Speaker 1: resourced investigation. An expert suggests that the killer's meticulous planning
- 29:45Speaker 1: skills and possible medical training allowed him to evade capture
- 29:48Speaker 1: while braying on society's most vulnerable and the case is
- 29:52Speaker 1: mishandling his fuel discussions on understanding perpetrator psychology and underscored
- 29:56Speaker 1: the need for interagency cooperation and proper resource allocation. Though
- 30:02Speaker 1: officially unsolved, its legacy has influenced investigative reforms, at least
- 30:07Speaker 1: ensuring greater institutional accountability, changes that, while too late for
- 30:11Speaker 1: the victims, may help prevent similar failures in the future,
- 30:15Speaker 1: and with that we move on to our last unsolved
- 30:18Speaker 1: serial killer murder case. San Francisco's foggy beaches and secluded
- 30:28Speaker 1: parks became the hunting ground for this methodical predator. Ocean Beach,
- 30:33Speaker 1: with its desolate stretches of sand, shrouded and mist, served
- 30:37Speaker 1: as the backdrop for the Doodler's first confirmed murder. On
- 30:42Speaker 1: January twenty seventh, nineteen seventy four, the body of Gerard
- 30:46Speaker 1: Earl Cavanaugh was discovered there, bearing multiple stab wounds. The
- 30:50Speaker 1: forty nine year old's death marked the beginning of a
- 30:53Speaker 1: pattern that would terrorize the city's gay community for eighteen months,
- 30:57Speaker 1: leaving bodies scattered across Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park, and
- 31:01Speaker 1: Lincoln Park, and the pattern linking these homicides together emerged
- 31:05Speaker 1: gradually as each new victim was discovered. What began as
- 31:08Speaker 1: seemingly unrelated crimes soon revealed a methodical perpetrator with consistent
- 31:13Speaker 1: targets and methods, and Kavanaugh's defensive wounds indicated a violent
- 31:17Speaker 1: struggle against his attacker, the seventeen stab wounds demonstrating a
- 31:21Speaker 1: level of aggression that would become a characteristic of the
- 31:24Speaker 1: killer's approach, and the investigators initially treated this as an
- 31:27Speaker 1: isolated incident, failing to recognize the beginning of a systemic
- 31:31Speaker 1: campaign of violence, and only five months later the killer
- 31:34Speaker 1: would strike again. Joseph Stevens, known professionally as Jay, was
- 31:39Speaker 1: discovered near Spreckel's Lake with five stab wounds, and the
- 31:42Speaker 1: location of his abandoned car suggested he had willingly accompanied
- 31:46Speaker 1: his killer to the secluded area of Golden Gate Park,
- 31:49Speaker 1: likely anticipating a sensual encounter, and as a farmer in
- 31:53Speaker 1: San Francisco's nightlife, Stevens represented a more visible target within
- 31:57Speaker 1: the gay community, and the brutality escalated drastically with the
- 32:01Speaker 1: third victim just twelve days after Stephen's death, so his
- 32:05Speaker 1: cool down period has drastically gotten shorter. Clouds Christman's body
- 32:09Speaker 1: appeared at Ocean Beach. The German visitor suffered what investigators
- 32:13Speaker 1: described as an extraordinarily vicious attack, with slashes to his
- 32:17Speaker 1: throat so severe they appeared to be an attempt at decapitation,
- 32:22Speaker 1: and this marked a significant intensification in the killer's violence.
- 32:26Speaker 1: And then nearly a year would pass before Frederick Kappan
- 32:30Speaker 1: became the fourth victim, the decorated Vietnam veteran, received sixteen
- 32:34Speaker 1: precisely delivered stab wounds that pierced vital organs, including the heart.
- 32:39Speaker 1: Evidence at Ocean Beach revealed his body had been dragged
- 32:42Speaker 1: twenty feet through the sand, suggesting the killer was becoming
- 32:46Speaker 1: more methodical in positioning his victims. And the final confirmed
- 32:50Speaker 1: kill was Harold Gulberg, who was discovered in an advanced
- 32:54Speaker 1: state of decomposition on June fourth, nineteen seventy five, at
- 32:57Speaker 1: Lincoln Park, and the sixty six year old Swetish American's
- 33:00Speaker 1: body told a different story. He had been dead for
- 33:03Speaker 1: approximately two weeks and found with his underwear removed and
- 33:08Speaker 1: pants unzipped, further confirming the sensual dimension of these crimes.
- 33:12Speaker 1: But this wasn't even the end, as police had no
- 33:15Speaker 1: clue during the investigation if more bodies turning up truly
- 33:19Speaker 1: were from the same murderer or just random acts of violence.
- 33:22Speaker 1: But behind the gruesome murders lay a method as distinctive
- 33:26Speaker 1: as it was disturbing. The doodler's artistic talent transformed ordinary
- 33:31Speaker 1: bar encounters into deadly traps. His approach demonstrated a calculated
- 33:36Speaker 1: precision that set him apart from other killers operating during
- 33:39Speaker 1: the same period. The Doodler proud San Francisco's vibrant gay scene,
- 33:44Speaker 1: primarily targeting establishments in Castro Pope, Gulch and tenderloin districts,
- 33:50Speaker 1: and popular venues such as Cinch Saloon and Cabaret Club
- 33:54Speaker 1: became his hunting grounds where he implemented his signature strategy.
- 33:58Speaker 1: Rather than relying on physical intimidation, he disarmed potential victims
- 34:03Speaker 1: through his artistic abilities, sketching portraits of men he encountered
- 34:08Speaker 1: as a non threatening means of introduction. One survivor actually
- 34:12Speaker 1: recounted meeting the killer at a diner where he was
- 34:14Speaker 1: drawing animals on a napkin, using this talent as a
- 34:18Speaker 1: conversation starter, and this deceptively innocent approach allowed him to
- 34:22Speaker 1: establish trust with his targets, who would just willingly accompany
- 34:26Speaker 1: him to secluded locations, typically near water, and these isolated areas,
- 34:30Speaker 1: known as a gay hookup spots in the nineteen seventies,
- 34:33Speaker 1: provided both privacy for sensual encounters and the perfect setting
- 34:38Speaker 1: for murder, and the violence of the attacks just indicated
- 34:42Speaker 1: extreme rage in the positioning of the bodies followed a
- 34:45Speaker 1: consistent pattern, with victims discovered in outdoor locations near water. Furthermore,
- 34:50Speaker 1: the killer would strip victims of identification completely, making it
- 34:54Speaker 1: more difficult for authorities to connect cases and identify the deceased.
- 34:58Speaker 1: But three individuals survived encounters with the doodler, providing crucial
- 35:03Speaker 1: details about his methodology. A European diplomat suffered six stab
- 35:07Speaker 1: wounds but managed to escape with his life, and another survivor,
- 35:11Speaker 1: described as a well known entertainer, fled when a knife
- 35:14Speaker 1: fell from the attacker's coat, revealing his deadly intentions before
- 35:18Speaker 1: an attack could commence. And a third survivor left San
- 35:21Speaker 1: Francisco entirely and refused to cooperate with investigators. But the
- 35:24Speaker 1: psychological profile that emerged suggested a perpetrator struggling with his
- 35:29Speaker 1: own identity. The extraordinary violence directed at gay men indicated
- 35:34Speaker 1: possible internalized homophobia, perhaps a person unable to accept his
- 35:38Speaker 1: own homosexual desires and projecting that self hatred onto others,
- 35:43Speaker 1: which we've seen in multiple other serial killer cases involving
- 35:47Speaker 1: the gay community. And witness descriptions consistently depicted a young
- 35:52Speaker 1: black man between nineteen and twenty five years old, approximately
- 35:55Speaker 1: six feet tall who demonstrated both artistic skill and capacity
- 36:00Speaker 1: for extreme violence. So the psychological assessment pointing to internalized
- 36:04Speaker 1: homophobia took on a disturbing new dimension. In late nineteen
- 36:08Speaker 1: seventy five, a psychiatrist contacted police about a patient who
- 36:12Speaker 1: had confessed at the Ocean Beach murders, and this revelation
- 36:15Speaker 1: brought investigators tantalizingly close to solving the case. Yet the
- 36:19Speaker 1: doodler would ultimately slip through their grasp due to circumstances
- 36:23Speaker 1: that reveal as much about nineteen seventies America as they
- 36:26Speaker 1: do about the killer himself. And the investigation was led
- 36:29Speaker 1: by a formidable team ROTEA Guilford and Earl Sanders, African
- 36:33Speaker 1: American homicide inspectors nicknamed the Soul Brothers, who had earned
- 36:37Speaker 1: reputations for their meticulous work. They had constructed a very
- 36:41Speaker 1: detailed case file that included a police sketch and narrowing
- 36:45Speaker 1: list of suspects, and when the psychiatrists came forward with
- 36:47Speaker 1: the information about his patient's confession, investigators bleed they had
- 36:51Speaker 1: finally identified their perpetrator. These guys looked badass. He's guys
- 36:54Speaker 1: look badasses. This is awesome and under questioning the prime
- 36:58Speaker 1: suspect acknowledged his struggles with identity, but denied committing the murders.
- 37:02Speaker 1: Completely and without physical evidence definitively connecting him to the crimes,
- 37:06Speaker 1: authorities found themselves in an evidentiary stalemate. The case now
- 37:10Speaker 1: hinged entirely on testimony from the three survivors who encountered
- 37:14Speaker 1: and escaped the Doodler, and the socio political climate of
- 37:17Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies created an insurmountable barrier to justice. Basically,
- 37:22Speaker 1: homosexuality remained classified as a mental illness by American Psychiatric
- 37:27Speaker 1: Association until nineteen seventy three, and the stigma persisted long
- 37:31Speaker 1: after de classification. Gay men faced potential loss of employment, housing,
- 37:36Speaker 1: and social standing if publicly outed, and for the European diplomat,
- 37:40Speaker 1: testimony would have meant career destruction. Basically, so their lives
- 37:44Speaker 1: were on the line with the Doodler, but also their
- 37:46Speaker 1: lives were on the line with the public, and for
- 37:48Speaker 1: the entertainer and the well known survivor, public identification as
- 37:53Speaker 1: a homosexual threatened their livelihoods and personal safety, and relations
- 37:57Speaker 1: between law enforcement and the LGBTQ community further complicated matters.
- 38:02Speaker 1: Police raids on gay establishments were common practice throughout the
- 38:05Speaker 1: nineteen sixties and even early nineteen seventies, fostering a deep
- 38:09Speaker 1: institutional distrust, and many gay men viewed police not as
- 38:13Speaker 1: protectors but as persecutors, making cooperation with authorities a fraud proposition,
- 38:19Speaker 1: even where their own safety was at stake. And Harvey Milk,
- 38:22Speaker 1: who would later become San Francisco's first openly gay elected official,
- 38:27Speaker 1: captured the impossible position of the survivors when he stated,
- 38:30Speaker 1: quote unquote, I understand their position. I respect the pressure
- 38:33Speaker 1: society has put on them, and this acknowledgment from one
- 38:36Speaker 1: of the community's most prominent advocates highlighted the devastating reality
- 38:41Speaker 1: societal homophobia had effectively granted the Doodler immunity from prosecution,
- 38:46Speaker 1: which is just so dub so this serial killer got
- 38:50Speaker 1: away with it due to society being shit. Basically just
- 38:56Speaker 1: a big, big society piece of shit. But despite the
- 39:00Speaker 1: advances in forensic science and investigative techniques, these cases remain
- 39:05Speaker 1: one of the most haunting unsolved crimes in modern history.
- 39:08Speaker 1: The Oakland County childkiller, Bible John, the Butcher of Mons,
- 39:12Speaker 1: and the Doodler each left behind not just a trail
- 39:16Speaker 1: of victims, but an enduring sense of unease, their identities
- 39:19Speaker 1: obscured by time, speculation, and incomplete evidence. While theories abound
- 39:26Speaker 1: from loan predators to potential conspiracies, justice has never been
- 39:30Speaker 1: fully realized for the victims. And as cold cases continue
- 39:33Speaker 1: to revisit with new technology, one pressing question remains. Could
- 39:37Speaker 1: one of these elusive killers still be alive today, hidden
- 39:41Speaker 1: in plain sight. I don't know, But all I do
- 39:43Speaker 1: know is that I care about you and I want
- 39:46Speaker 1: you to stay safe. So be safe out there, and
- 39:49Speaker 1: let me know what other cases you would like me
- 39:52Speaker 1: to go over down below. The cold cases are always good,
- 39:56Speaker 1: I think to shine a light on them. You know,
- 39:57Speaker 1: you never know who's going to see you, never know
- 39:59Speaker 1: what it's going to happen. But yeah, I'm tired tired
- 40:03Speaker 1: of this of these people. They're not people, they're monsters.
- 40:07Speaker 1: I hope they're rotting in hell. And I hope you're
- 40:09Speaker 1: just cozied up with some popcorn and a snack or something.
- 40:12Speaker 1: But if you have a good rest of your morning, afternoon,
- 40:16Speaker 1: or night, and that was see you beautiful face in
- 40:18Speaker 1: the next video. Okay, stay safe out there. Bye.