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Beast of Jersey - Edward Paisnel · Wicked and Grim: A True Crime Podcast

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  Speaker 1: In the nineteen fifties, sixties and seventies, the peaceful island
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  Speaker 1: of Jersey, located in the English Channel between England and France,
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  Speaker 1: was gripped by fear as a shadowy figure stalked its residence.
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  Speaker 1: Known as the Beast of Jersey, this unknown man wore
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  Speaker 1: a homemade mask as he attacked and sexually assaulted all
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  Speaker 1: of his victims, leaving behind a trail of fear and
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  Speaker 1: unanswered questions. This is the story of the Beast of Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: My name's Ben, I'm Nicole, and you're listening to Wicked
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  Speaker 2: and Grim.
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  Speaker 1: A true crime podcast. The following podcast, a material intended
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  Speaker 1: for a mature audience. Listener discriptions every single one of
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  Speaker 1: us in this house this morning is not awake. We're
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  Speaker 1: just all groggy, and the dogs. Well, look on Ripley's
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  Speaker 1: face is just why are we up right now? Like
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  Speaker 1: this is too early. It's not even that early. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's almost eight o'clock. It's seven forty five, and we.
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  Speaker 2: Often are up at this time. But she seems she
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  Speaker 2: seems more tired than usual.
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  Speaker 1: Oh she do, so do we, Yeah, honestly, so do we.
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  Speaker 2: But hey, I've been having trouble falling asleep at night,
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's my deal. But once I get
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  Speaker 2: to sleep, it's a pretty solid sleep.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's good. My deal is I just I just
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to bed. I just like waking
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  Speaker 1: up naturally, you know, like we all do on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: But it is Friday, So happy Friday. Hopefully you got
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  Speaker 1: a good weekend ahead of you, and we got an
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  Speaker 1: interesting story ahead of us today.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, what was the tagline? The Beast of Jersey?
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  Speaker 1: The Beast of Jersey?
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  Speaker 2: That sounds daunting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an interesting one. There is no murder in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh shit, it's simply I just assumed. Yeah, I know, right,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no murder in this one. It is simply
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  Speaker 1: an individual who for years dawned an outfit and a
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  Speaker 1: homemade mask and terrorized the people of Jersey and would, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just attack and sexually assault and that was that.
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  Speaker 2: So still ruined people's lives? Oh for sure?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this dude fucked people up for sure. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there was people lived, thankfully, but yeah, he fucked
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  Speaker 1: with him for sure. Really, I'm sure there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of PTSD in a lot of people's minds after something
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  Speaker 1: like this occurred to him, Okay, you should see a
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  Speaker 1: picture of this dude's mask, which I'll show you at
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  Speaker 1: the end.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that it's like when you describe it as
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  Speaker 2: home made, I'm like, that's kind of interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, the whole it is it almost think.
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  Speaker 2: It more creepy. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: You have no idea on how creepy is fucking marriage.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't get to know and see it until
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  Speaker 2: the end, correct, Ah, So you just get to picture
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  Speaker 2: what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you don't like paper mache, no, I'll show you now.
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  Speaker 2: I was envisioning like a paper mache mask for some reason.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be putting a picture up on our social media
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  Speaker 1: is if you guys want to take a look at it,
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  Speaker 1: so over on Instagram, Facebook and stuff. But yeah, i'll
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  Speaker 1: show Nicole right now. I'm googling it. So Beast of
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  Speaker 1: Jersey my usk. Oh, you just google Beasts of Jersey
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  Speaker 1: and it's it comes up pretty pretty easy.
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  Speaker 2: That's oh shit, what the fuck is that?
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  Speaker 1: That is the Beast of Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: Hair his own are part of the mask.
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  Speaker 1: It's a it's a wig.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is straight out of a nightmare.
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  Speaker 2: This is so basically what I had pictured in my
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  Speaker 2: head was not as bad as that. Right, Wow, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of like wishing I didn't see that, because
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  Speaker 2: that is that is super nightmare material.
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  Speaker 1: It's if you're like driving or you can't look it
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  Speaker 1: up at the moment. A quick little description, is it
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  Speaker 1: kind of looks like leather face, you know, leather face
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  Speaker 1: the chain wielding dude. Yeah, kind of looks like leather
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  Speaker 1: face where he's got like other people's face face put
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  Speaker 1: on his own. Yeah. Kind of looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, what like this weird shaggy ass hair that's yeahing
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  Speaker 2: up all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the individual we're about to talk to or
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  Speaker 1: talk about today. Are you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I don't know, kind of wishing I just listened
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  Speaker 2: to you and looked at it at the end, But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Well, we're gonna start off talking a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about Jersey, because it's not the Jersey that we're that
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  Speaker 1: most people might be thinking over in the United States. Jersey,
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  Speaker 1: as I mentioned, is in the English Channel between England
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  Speaker 1: and France. Okay, So Jersey is the largest of the
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  Speaker 1: Channel islands, and it sits between England and France with
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  Speaker 1: a population of around fifty five one thousand to seventy
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  Speaker 1: thousand that it was estimated that the population at the time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, this is at the time, right, So fifty
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  Speaker 1: five to seventy thousand. Now it is estimated probably sixty
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  Speaker 1: thousand is where we're going to be sitting at population wise,
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  Speaker 1: and it is relevant and it is a picturesque in
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  Speaker 1: quiet place. It's known for scenic views, low crime rate,
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  Speaker 1: and famous ice cream.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently, Oh my gosh. Instantly, I'm like, I gotta go,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta go there now.
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  Speaker 1: Even during World War Two, when German forces occupied the island,
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  Speaker 1: life on Jersey it had never been as terrifying as
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  Speaker 1: it was about to become with this individual stalking around.
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  Speaker 1: You ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 1: On a cold November of nineteen fifty seven, a nurse
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  Speaker 1: stood at a bus stop waiting for her ride home,
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  Speaker 1: as she had finished a long shift and was just
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  Speaker 1: simply mining her own business. Out of nowhere, a man
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  Speaker 1: attacked her. He threw a rope around her neck and
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  Speaker 1: began to drag her off of the road into a
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  Speaker 1: nearby field. There, he brutally attacked her and sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 1: her before fleeing the scene. The woman was left severely injured,
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  Speaker 1: requiring numerous stitches. Despite the trauma, she bravely reported the
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  Speaker 1: attack to the police. Now. Unfortunately, her attacker had covered
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  Speaker 1: his face with a scarf, leaving little for investigators to
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  Speaker 1: go on. The only clue he spoke in a strange,
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  Speaker 1: exaggerated Irish accent, which she believed to be fake. Oh okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: now this was just the beginning. Only a few months later,
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  Speaker 1: on March nineteen fifty eight, another woman was walking home
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  Speaker 1: from a bus stop when a man suddenly appeared. He
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  Speaker 1: grabbed her and tightened a rope around her neck, just
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  Speaker 1: like before, and drug her out into a field. She too,
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  Speaker 1: was violently attacked before the man disappeared into the night.
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  Speaker 2: Jeuz, I don't know, maybe it turns into this, but
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  Speaker 2: I kind of was thinking it was like in their
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  Speaker 2: homes and shit. But just like they're walking around or
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  Speaker 2: waiting at the bus and this shit happens.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, it does turn into that. Okay, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know for now, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I don't. I mean, I guess in your
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  Speaker 2: home is worse, but it's just like crazy that you're
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  Speaker 2: just like outing a boat and that happens, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean think of it this way though,
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  Speaker 1: like many cases with serial killers or people who are
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  Speaker 1: assaulting and they're getting away with their crimes, they bolden
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  Speaker 1: over time and they their actions. Don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: when I use this word still absolutely horrific and evil,
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  Speaker 1: they become a little more sophisticated in the way that
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  Speaker 1: they do their things.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Well, yeah, they learn, they learn exactly what to say.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what this individual does. He does begin
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  Speaker 1: to learn, he does begin to change things up, and
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  Speaker 1: he does become that that beast of burden. It was
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  Speaker 1: Beast of Burden, Beast of Jersey. I got a song
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, the Beast of Burden. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: I mean for now he's only attacking with this scarf
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  Speaker 1: right on his face. So yeah, he he does evolve,
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  Speaker 1: let's put it that way. In July of that same year,
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  Speaker 1: a third woman would fall victim to the same horrifying pattern,
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  Speaker 1: a rope being drug into a field and a brutal assault. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I do say a brutal assault, I do want
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  Speaker 1: to clarify each one of these assaults is of course
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  Speaker 1: both like a physical assault and a sexual assault. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so by now the island's residents were terrified. It was
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  Speaker 1: clear that this was not a one time attack. This
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  Speaker 1: was a serial predator with a methodical approach. He struck
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  Speaker 1: at night. He targeted women walking alone, and always use
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  Speaker 1: the same chilling tactic, a rope around that before dragging
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  Speaker 1: them into an isolated area and doing what he wanted
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and it is at night, hey, I was wondering that. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now. In August of nineteen fifty nine, the attackers struck
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  Speaker 1: once again, but this time his intended victim fought back
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  Speaker 1: and managed to escape. For the first time, the Beast
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  Speaker 1: of Jersey had failed. Investigators were convinced these crimes were connected.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, of course they had to be, and survivors
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  Speaker 1: described the attacker as a man around forty years old,
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  Speaker 1: with a strong musty odor and that same odd, forced
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  Speaker 1: Irish accent. Police also noted a strange detail there was
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  Speaker 1: empty cigarette packets, often found at crime scenes. But despite
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  Speaker 1: these clues, the Beast of Jersey remained at large.
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  Speaker 2: What is an old musty smell exactly, hey, like what
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  Speaker 2: an addict would smell like?
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  Speaker 1: Actually, that might be a good way of putting it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm thinking I'm thinking like, yeah, like clothes that are
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  Speaker 1: like being stuffed away for a long time. Maybe not
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  Speaker 1: washed or clean. Maybe we're damp a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I'm not certain, but yeah that whatever your
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  Speaker 1: picturing in your mind is old and musty. That's probably it.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this guy smells like.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, girl, say yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now. By the nineteen sixties, the Beast of Jersey took
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  Speaker 1: his reign of terror to a new level. No longer
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  Speaker 1: satisfied with just attacking unsuspecting women on the streets. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he now began breaking into people's homes, targeting those who
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  Speaker 1: would be fast asleep. On the night of February fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, a twelve year old boy was suddenly jolted awake.
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  Speaker 1: A bright light was shining directly into his eyes, making
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  Speaker 1: it difficult for him to see who was standing at
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  Speaker 1: the foot of his bed. He's still half asleep and disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: and he struggled to make sense of what was happening.
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  Speaker 1: But before he had a chance to react, he realized
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  Speaker 1: the horror, the horrifying truth. It was the Beast of Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: The attacker wasted no time he overpowered the boy with ease,
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  Speaker 1: tied a rope around his neck, and dragged him out
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  Speaker 1: of his home, pulling him into a nearby field. There,
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  Speaker 1: he subjected to the child to a brutal assault, including yes, sexual.
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  Speaker 2: Assault a twelve year old boy. Correct, what the fuck?
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  Speaker 2: Because the other three were like, were like women kind
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  Speaker 2: of as an adult age? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: WHOA I was like, did I mist hear that? No?
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  Speaker 1: I definitely, And I told you he wasn't just satisfied
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  Speaker 1: with attacking and suspecting women. He's yeah, he's broadened his horizons.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'm a child.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. After the assault, After the assault, sorry, just as
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  Speaker 1: he appeared, he led the boy back to home and
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  Speaker 1: disappeared into the night. Investigators later determined that the intruder
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  Speaker 1: had climbed through the boy's bedroom window, and it was
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  Speaker 1: a terrifying revelation that not only was a beast of
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  Speaker 1: Jersey still on the loose, but now many more people
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  Speaker 1: could POTENTI beat targets. Only a month later, in March
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty, the attacker struck once again. This time
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  Speaker 1: he targeted a twenty five year old woman walking in
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  Speaker 1: a bus stop. A car pulled up beside her and
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  Speaker 1: the driver, A man who claimed to be a doctor,
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  Speaker 1: offered her a ride. He explained that he was on
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  Speaker 1: his way to pick up his wife and could drop
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  Speaker 1: her off along the way. I mean, this was nineteen sixties,
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  Speaker 1: a time when hitchhiking was a little more common and
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  Speaker 1: generally safe. Right, So she trusted the man's stories story,
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  Speaker 1: and she accepted his offer and hopped into his car.
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  Speaker 1: She realized almost instantly that she had made a terrible mistake,
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  Speaker 1: though before she could react react, the man grabbed her,
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  Speaker 1: overpowered her with brutal force, and tied her up. He
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  Speaker 1: beat her, and, just like before, would drag her out
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  Speaker 1: into a field and subject her to the same horrific
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  Speaker 1: assault as his previous victims. However, unlike the others, this
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  Speaker 1: time he didn't at least didn't simply leave her behind.
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  Speaker 1: He forced her back into the car and drove away
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  Speaker 1: once again. Now during this drive, the woman refused to
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  Speaker 1: give up. She fought back with every ounce of strength
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  Speaker 1: that she had, thrashing and struggling against her attacker in
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  Speaker 1: the car as it was driving away for the second time,
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  Speaker 1: and eventually she managed to break feet, break free, and
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  Speaker 1: she threw herself out of the moving car. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as she hit the ground, she screamed as loud as
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  Speaker 1: she could for help, desperate for someone to hear her. Panicked,
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  Speaker 1: the attacker knew someone would arrive soon. She's drawing too
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  Speaker 1: much attention, and he had no choice but to abandon
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  Speaker 1: his victim, and he sped off.
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  Speaker 2: Gosh, what was he clinding to do there?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question. That's a big question in fact.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. And also I love how you're well
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  Speaker 2: you said, like the nineteen sixties, right when hitchhiking and stuff,
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  Speaker 2: But it's like also when people trusted each other more. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: now we're just like noah no.
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  Speaker 1: So not long after that, the beast Of targeted yet
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  Speaker 1: another victim. This time he went after a mother and
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  Speaker 1: her fourteen year old daughter who lived in a remote
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  Speaker 1: part of the island. Around midnight, their phone suddenly rang.
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  Speaker 1: The woman got up out of bed and answered it,
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  Speaker 1: but on the other end of the phone no one spoke. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: all she could hear was an eerie clicking sound on
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  Speaker 1: the other end of the line. Confused, she hung up
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  Speaker 1: and went back to a bed, just kind of assuming
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  Speaker 1: it was a prank call or missdial or something right.
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  Speaker 1: But moments later, a loud noise echoed from her downstairs
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  Speaker 1: in her home. Oh gosh, followed by the entire house
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  Speaker 1: going dark. Yep, the power had been cut. Realizing something
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  Speaker 1: was very, very wrong, the woman tried to call for police.
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  Speaker 1: She picked up the phone line again, but the lines
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  Speaker 1: were dead. Before she had time to react, a man
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  Speaker 1: burst into her bedroom and grabbed her in the pitch darkness,
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  Speaker 1: But this time the attacker had picked the wrong She
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  Speaker 1: fought back. She fought back with everything she had, managing
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  Speaker 1: to break free, but she only had the choice of escape,
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  Speaker 1: so she ran out of the house and went to
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  Speaker 1: the neighbor's house for help. Remember though, she wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: only person in the home. As she ran for safety,
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  Speaker 1: the Beast of Jersey made his way upstairs, where he
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  Speaker 1: found the fourteen year old daughter alone and defenseless. She
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  Speaker 1: became his next victim. He followed the same disturbing pattern
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  Speaker 1: attacked her before disappearing into the night. By the time
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  Speaker 1: police arrived, the man was long gone, and once again
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  Speaker 1: he vanished without a trace. The following month, another terrifying
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  Speaker 1: attack took place, one that would mark the first time
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  Speaker 1: the Beast of Jersey wore what would later become his
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  Speaker 1: infamous mask. The mask was homemade, crafted from rubber, and
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  Speaker 1: had a slick, fleshy kind of color tone to it,
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  Speaker 1: had hollowed out of eye sockets, long pointed nose, and
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  Speaker 1: exaggerated features that gave it a very disturbing, almost inhuman appearance,
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  Speaker 1: similar to what I would describe as a mutilated mannequin
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  Speaker 1: face plasted over his own. To make his appearance even
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  Speaker 1: more nightmarish, he wore a messy, unkept wig resembling a
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  Speaker 1: cheap Halloween disguise on top of it, but that wasn't all.
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  Speaker 1: To further intimidate and overpower his victims, He often more
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  Speaker 1: spiked wristbands made of nails.
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  Speaker 2: Holy shit, Yeah, this is just the creepiest thing.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, is it ever? It's terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, the visuals that were getting from this, and
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  Speaker 2: I this is no joke.
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  Speaker 1: This individual is something you would expect to find in
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  Speaker 1: a horror film.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have they made a movie from the shit?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they should, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I'm not certain, but they probably should.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Now on this particular night, and he wore this get
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  Speaker 1: up for the first time a fourteen year old girl
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  Speaker 1: was fast asleep in her bedroom. She was completely unaware
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  Speaker 1: of the horror looking in the darkness. She woke suddenly,
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  Speaker 1: startled by an unfamiliar sound, and as she sat up,
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  Speaker 1: trying to shake off her drowsiness, she locked eyes with
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  Speaker 1: a figure standing right at the foot of her bed. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: a man wearing a mask, staring at her in silence.
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  Speaker 1: Panic surged through her, and she let out a blood
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  Speaker 1: curdling scream. Fortunately this time it was enough to send
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  Speaker 1: her intruder running before he could harm her. But the
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  Speaker 1: Beast of Jersey was far from done.
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  Speaker 2: That's still even enough to just like traumatize the shit
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  Speaker 2: out of her, really without even like touching her. I
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  Speaker 2: just can't even I can't fathom waking up because yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're always like, you know, you take a hot minute
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  Speaker 2: to wake up, like it's not like instantly you're alert,
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  Speaker 2: and to just focus on something like that, Oh my gosh, no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, when you do it, if you you look
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  Speaker 1: up this photo, think about what Nicole just said there,
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  Speaker 1: look at the photo of this individual and think about
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  Speaker 1: waking up with that in the darkness standing at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of your bed looming over you. That's what these
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  Speaker 1: individuals are going through at the very least of the
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  Speaker 1: matters because he then does generally attack assault and yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I've often woken up and you've been
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  Speaker 2: staring at me or ripley and that's enough.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's fun to do that well, because you
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: like toss and turn in the night sometimes and then
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you wake me up and I know you're about to
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: wake up, so I'm just like, Eh, this is gonna
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: be funny, and I'll just stare at you.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Wasn't there one time though, where I like was still
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: asleep and I kind of like perched myself up and
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: looked to see if you were actually staring at me,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: and then you went back to sleep.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And then I talked to you about it in
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the morning. You did not recall whatsoever.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I was just like, wow, it's weirdo.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you would recall if this individual was going
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: up for shit.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't just roll over and go back to sleep.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: No. Now. In the months that followed, he continued to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: use the same terrifying method of breaking into homes, attacking,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: assaulting his victims in the dead of night. Between July
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty and April of nineteen sixty one, four
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: more children, ranging in age from just eight to twelve,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: were taken from their beds, drug into isolated fields and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: would suffer the same fate as previous victims. By now,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the Beast to Jersey had been terrorizing the island for
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: more than three years. Women and children had just been
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: brutly attacked, homes invaded, and like all of this, and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: this man still just remained completely elusive. The police were desperate.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: No matter how hard they worked, this man seemed to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: disappear without a trace after every assault. It was clear
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: they needed outside help at this point. That's when they
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: turned to the Scotland Yard, which are the Scotland Police.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Among those that were brought in was a highly respected
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: detective named Jack Manning, a skilled investigator with experience in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: homicide cases. With fresh eyes and new strategies, the hope
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: was that Manning and his team would be able to
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: do what no one else was unable when no one
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: else was able to do, unmask the Beast of Jersey
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and bring him to justice for his crimes. But catching
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a predator this cunning wasn't going to be easy. The
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: nightmare was in fact still far from over. Police poured
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: over every piece of evidence they had, questioning thousands of people,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: including unknown sorry, including known criminals that were living on
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the island. They were desperate to find the man responsible.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: The information they had on the beast was, you know,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: it's kind of not a lot. Whatever they did had,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it still painted a disturbing picture. He was
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: described as around five foot six inches tall, with an
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: average build, and he spoke with an odd, exaggerated Irish
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: accent that was believed to be fake. Survivors also noted
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a very musty, unpleasant odor, and he was said to
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: have a mustache. He always wore a long coat or raincoat,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a peaked cap, gloves, and of course the grotesque mask
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: under it all that has become his signature. Adding to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the fear, Some victims recalled that during their attacks a
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: beast claimed to have even killed someone before. Whether this
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: is true or just another way to further terrorize the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: women and children that he attacked, it's unknown and unclear,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: but the very possibility only heightened the public spear.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't even think that's far f fetch though,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: that one of these attacks could have gone like a rye,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: and you know, if he's like you, literally using a
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: rope at the start right around their neck and stuff.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I feel like he could have easily killed one of them.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Well, and there is the one victim who already was
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: assaulted in the field like the rest, but he didn't
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: leave her behind, right, He went to drag her in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: his car again, right, and she up a fight and escaped.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: So who's to say that wouldn't have been that escalating
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: point of him killing her as well?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Totally?
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now where am I here? Oh right? Police warned
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the islanders to stay alert, especially between the hours of
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: ten pm and three am, the hours when the beast
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: was known to strike. In response, locals formed neighborhood watch groups,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: hoping that the extra vigilance might help prevent another attack,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: and in a bold and unpredicted move, investigators requested fingerprints
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: from every single man on the island. Really yeah, Now,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: remember I said that the population was relevant to this story.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The target estimate is around sixty thousand individuals living on
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the island. So you know, there's women, there's children, there's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: all the aboves. So let's say it. There's an approximately
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: twenty thousand adult males on the island at the time. Now,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: this wasn't something that they could force on anyone.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Okay, I was just going to say, because you did
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: say requested yes, so it would.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Have to be a voluntary act right now. Amazingly, almost
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: every single one of them complied.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Well, well, I mean, of course, I mean they want
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: this sol too.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Right, Exactly, Only out of the sixty thousand population, only
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: thirteen men did not submit their fingerprints.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So what does that mean? Are those thirteen men the
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: one that they're looking into now? Well, but that is
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: also incredible that it's only thirteen, Yes, that anyone else
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: did it.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Now, there's not a lot of information after that fingerprint
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: request and only thirteen did not submit. I mean some
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: people maybe could have left the islands, right, someone could
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: be on a work trip. Excuse me, who knows? Right? Yeah,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: but there's no information on who those individuals were who
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: did not submit their fingerprints or anything like that. It's
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: just like, oh, thirteen didn't didn't submit their fingerprints. Maybe
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: they don't even know who they are or where they're located.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but for whatever reason, they did not
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: track down those thirteen individuals. Instead, the police turned their
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: attention to a man named Alphonse.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: M Okay, so they still had had their little pause
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: on someone they did interest they did so.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Alphonse was an older man known to be a recluse.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: He had a habit of wandering the island at night,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and he happened to own a raincoat similarly described in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: these attacks. Now, in the minds of many of the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: public people, this made him quite a prime.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Suspect because he had a raincoat.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Well, he's wandering the island at night. I guess he's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a bit of a strange individual, and he has a
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: coat matching the description. Right. Okay, So police questioned him
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: multiple times and actually even eventually searched his home extensively
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: for any signs of the Beast of Jersey. But despite
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: their efforts, they found absolutely no evidence linking him to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the crimes.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And well, he's just a hermit that wants people to
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: leave him alone, and no one is.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Basically, eventually, even the authorities had to admit that it
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was highly unlikely he was the man that they were
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: looking for. But the people of Jersey weren't so easily convinced,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and in their eyes, Alphons was the guy. He was guilty,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Frustrated and terrified by the ongoing attacks, a group of
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: locals decided to take justice into their own hands. They
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: burned Alphon's house to the ground.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Now homeless, okay, I was like with him in it,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: like I'm just like waiting for him here.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Now homeless and fearing for his life, Alphons had no
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: choice but to flee. With angry Islanders ready to take
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: justice in their own hands, he went into exile, settling
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: on a small island seven miles away from Jersey. Now,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: after Alphons left, strangely, the Beast went quiet.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: Really yes forever? What the shit? No, because I'm like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I'm I was so upset about this. I liked this man.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Well, the attack stopped, and for the first time in years,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the people of Jersey could finally breathe again.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Oh so then it's just like justifying what the fuck
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: they did.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Life slowly returned to normal, and as time passed, many
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: began to believe that perhaps a nightmare was truly over.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: But just when the islanders let their guard down, the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Beast of Jersey struck again. The Beast of Jersey is
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: not Alphonse.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, man, you were just like smiling at me, like, yes,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I'm dragging this on.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: It was awesome. But I will go on to say, yeah,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: alphons Uh lived on that island happily for his remainder
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of his life, and yeah he dubbed himself the king
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of that island. He was just a happy individual now
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: living his little recluse life on his little island.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: So that's such bullshit though, That's so sad that they
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: like basically made him after restart his whole life.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: I know, and leave society and all that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I don't love that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I know. That pissed me off too. But two years
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: had passed since the last attack. Then in April of
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three, a nine year old boy was attacked
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: by the beast. The shock rippled through the community. People
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: had convinced themselves that the terror was behind them and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that maybe, just maybe that the beast was gone for good.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: But here they were, back in the middle of it all. Then,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: in November of that same year, the attacker targeted an
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: eleven year old boy, and not long after that he
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: assaulted a ten year old girl and then a sixteen
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: year old boy. Each of the attacks followed the same
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: pattern as before, and then, just like before, the attack stopped.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: More than two years passed again, without a single incident.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: It was yet another eerie silence, one that left people
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: wondering if the Beast was truly gone this time or
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: simply just lying in wait for the police. This period
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: of calm was both a relief and frustration. They'd spent
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: years trying to track him down, and now, with no
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: new leads, all they could do was hope that the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: nightmare was truly finally over this time. But that was
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: just wishful thinking.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I just have to say, though, two years is such
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: an interesting time frame because I feel like that's just
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: enough time to sort of let your guard down, you know, yep,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: and then boom.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I agree, And I do think that that was done
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: on purpose. Yeah, I don't think it was oh, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the individual got busy or blah blah blah whatever. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: you know, I specifically think he went into hiding for
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: that time period specifically to let things cool off.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Out of nowhere, a chilling letter arrived at the police station.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: The sender claimed to be the Beast of Jersey himself.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: The letter goes like this, my dear sir, I think
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it is just the time to tell you that you
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: are just wasting your time. As every time. I have
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: done as I always intended to do. And remember I
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: will not stop at this, but I will be fair
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to you and give you a chance. I have never
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: had much out of this life, but I intend to
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: get everything I can now. I have always wanted to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: do the perfect crime. I have done this, but this time,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: let the moonshine very bright in September, because this time
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: it must be perfect. Not one, but two. I am
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: not a maniac by a long shot, but I like
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to play with you people. You'll hear from me before
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: September and that will give you all the clues just
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: to see if you can catch me. Yours, very sincerely,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: wait and see.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Oh that is quite a letter, right what an asshole? Like?
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Just awful?
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Now he's toying and threatening.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, this guy is just a piece of work.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Once again, as I mentioned, this is straight out
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of a horror movie. Yeah, because I can literally picture
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: like the authorities who've been tracking this guy and everything
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: and hoping that he's finally gone, and then two years
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: later they received this letter that I'm going to strike again,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: and he's got some like cryptic messages about September and
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: potentially two victims and that he's going to strike before
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: September as well. So I can just see this being
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a movie and like this being the rising action and
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like getting to that climax.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And yeah, when I'm sure they're already, like, you know,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: working the little butts off, trying to figure this out.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: And yeah, and then just to get that it just
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: like lights the fire under your ass. But what else,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: like you're already doing what you can.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Do exactly now. The Beast of Jersey initially followed through
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: on the chilling promises that he made in this letter.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: In August of nineteen sixty six, a fifteen year old
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: girl became his next victim. He attacked her, brutally, beating
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: and assaulting her, but this time he took his cruelty
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: one step farther her with disturbing threats. Throughout the attack,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: he repeatedly whispered to her, do you know how long
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it takes to kill a woman? Five minutes?
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Oh? Gosh, what the shit?
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a terrifying claim, and one that left
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: police wondering if the Beast had already taken a life
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: or if he was just planning to or simply using
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: this as a threat. Despite it, though, the other attack
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that he promised in September never happened, and once again,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: just as mysteriously as he returned, he disappeared into silence.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: But in August of nineteen seventy, after four long years
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: of quiet, the Beast of Jersey struck once again. This time,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the victim was a thirteen year old boy who'd been
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: falling or sorry'd been fast asleep in his bed like
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: other victims before, he was suddenly jolted awake by an
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: intense beam of light shining directly into his face. Before
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: he could react, the Beast attacked. He drug the boy
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: from his home, assaulted him in his usual horrific manner,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: and then, in a final act of terror, brought him
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: back home before vanishing into the darkness. But before he left,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the Beast leaned in close and whispered something to the boy, saying,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: if you tell anyone what happened, I'll come back and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: kill your parents.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, this guy. Holy shit.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: The next morning, the boy tried to stay silent.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Oh well yeah, how oh that is just okay.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But his parents, though, knew immediately that something was
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: very wrong. He looked shaken withdrawn, just basically like a
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: shadow of himself. Right, So when they asked him and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: pressed and everything, the boy finally broke and he broke
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: down and told his parents everything.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: And he like he'd already been through like so much, right,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: just have how that happened, and then to be trying
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: to hide it from your parents like I know, oh
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: my goodness, my heart.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: By now, the Beast of Jersey had been preying on
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: victims for well over a decade, with of course, some
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: breaks in between. Police had questioned thousands of people, followed
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: endless leads, and yet the man behind these horrific crimes
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: had always managed to slip through their fingers. And then,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: by sheer chance, the case cracked wide open.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank god, because I just literally had this thought.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: I was like, this shit better be solved. If this
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: shit is one of those that's not solved, I'm in
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: a rage. No, it's a solid kis okay, thank god.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: On July tenth, nineteen seventy one, two police officers were
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: out on some routine patrol. They're driving through the island,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: you know, in the evening. When they pulled up to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a red light. As they waited, a car suddenly sped
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: past them at high speed, acting erratic. Now, it's unclear
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to me if they you know the car sped through
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: a red light. It's potential that you know the the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: cop car was waiting to make a left turn and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: the green light for sure. I don't know if it's
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: through a red light. But the car was definitely like
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: speeding through, acting erratic and not driving the best right.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: So it was enough that officers definitely got attention on
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: this vehicle and immediately turned on their sirens to give chase. Now,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the driver was clearly desperate to escape the cop car
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: following him. He took dangerous risks, swerving into the wrong
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: lane and nearly losing control multiple times, but the officers
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: stayed close behind. Now, the chase was short but very intense,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: and it ended with a speeding car losing control and
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: crashing head on into some hedges. The driver wasn't ready
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: to surrender. The moment his car came to a stop,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: he jumped out and took off on foot, sprinting into
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: the night. The officers, though, chased him down and quickly
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: tackled him to the ground before he could get away.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: At first, it seemed like just another reckless driver trying
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: to avoid a ticket or for whatever reason, you fleeing
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: on foot. But soon the officers noticed something deeply unsettling.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: The man they had just arrested was wearing a long
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: trench coat, one that looked eerily similar to the coat
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: described by the Beast's victims, and even worse, the coat
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: reeked that same musty odor survivors described. And then they
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: saw his wrists. Wrapped around each wrist were wristbands with
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: large metal spikes or nails protruding out. They searched his
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: pockets and they found his jacket was also lined with spikes,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in an apparent effort to make it impossible for anyone
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to grab or restrain him.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Holy shit.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Then they searched his car, and that's when they made
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: the most chilling discovery of all. Inside they found a flashlight,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: a wig, and the terrifying rubber mask that everyone was
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: very well known for, very well known of. Yeah, the
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Beast of Jersey mask.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, here, I was thinking there could be possibly have
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: been like a victim in there too, though, because if
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: he would have just drove like a normal person he brought,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't even noticed him. Yeah, so that just seems
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: so odd.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the man in custody was a man by the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: name of Edward Paisnel, a forty six year old lifelong
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: resident of Jersey. To the outside world, he was just
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: another member of the community, a husband, a stepfather, and
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: even a beloved figure among local children holy but behind
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: closed doors, he was something far more sinister. Edward had
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: met his wife, Joan, while working at a foster home
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: for children, which had been founded by Joan's mother. There
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: he took odd jobs as a handyman and was known
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: for his kind and generous demeanor. He brought children gifts
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: and sweets, played games with them, and even dressed up
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: as Santa Claus for Christmas. To the kids, he was
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: affectually known as Uncle Ted.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Ah, you're kidding me, dead serious?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but his marriage to Joan was far from a
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: happy one. Wasn't a toxic one, I guess, or a
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: malice relationship. I guess it wasn't a malice relationship. Their
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: relationship was distant. Let's say they didn't really get along
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the greatest, and they weren't exactly intimate. But in fact
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Edward did actually even sleep in a different part of
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the house. There was a suite attached to the home
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: that he lived in while she lived in the main house. So, yes,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: they were married, Yes they were technically together, but they
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: weren't together, you.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Know, so very easy for him to be leaving, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: she probably completely unaware.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: He had his own house basically though they were his
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: own apartment attached to the house.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: She probably thought he was a creepy motherfucker too.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Probably inside this separate suite he lived his own life.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: That was honestly, like you just said, it's kind of
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: shrouded in mystery enough that he can go do what
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: he wanted without her noticing. But now with him in custody,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: police had no doubt. They just finally caught the Beast
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: of Jersey. They just needed to prove it. I mean,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: who's to say someone didn't make a mask for Halloween
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: like something like that, you know, just for devil's advocacy here,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: just because you found a mask in a trench coat
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: in a flashlight, I guessn't.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: I know you need more than that, But still it
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: does seem like pretty obvious, right yeah.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Now, when they questioned Edward about his mask, outfoot or
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: sorry outfit and actions that night, Edward refused to cooperate.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: He stayed calm, defiant, offered no explanations, and when they're
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: like when the police are like, we know that you're
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: the beast of burden, all he said was prove it.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: M h.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: So that's exactly what the police set out to do.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Just prove it. Hey, yeah, oh man.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Their first step was to search his private suite, his property,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: his home, and looking for anything that might connect him
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to the crimes. They set their sights on any little
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: detail that might stand out. What they found was far
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: worse than they could have imagined. In his room, behind
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: a false wall, they uncovered a hidden room. The moment
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: they stepped inside, a putrid, musty odor filled the air,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the same unsettling stench that victims described lingering on their attacker.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: So this is what makes me to believe that it's
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: kind of almost like a moldy, wet, musty smell, unwashed clothes,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Yeah, so I'm sitting here thinking,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: like a room that's like sealed off, no ventilation, no airflow,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: maybe mold starting in some of the corners he hasn't
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: seen yet, something like that, giving a very like damp,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: musty smell. Inside this disturbing secret space, police found a
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: collection of wigs, masks, and raincoats, many of which were
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: stained with what I found described as body fluids. It
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: was immediately clear that Edward had put meticulous planning into
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: each of his attacks, because on the walls they discovered
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: photographs of each of the victims' homes. Edward had studied
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: his targets, carefully memorizing the best entry points in their homes,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the weakest spots, and the perfect time to strike. These
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: photos weren't just research, they were also trophies, some sick
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: mementos that he wanted to keep next to an altar.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: There was an altar. Sitting in the center of the room.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Was a makeshift altar covered in books on the occult
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: and black magic. Scattered across the surface were ritualistic objects,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: including a wooden sword mounted on the wall. Some reports
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: even suggested that Edward performed animal sacrifices on the altar
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: before going on his attacks.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yeah, wow, Okay, that is something eh.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then there was something they figured out about Edward.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: There's more.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Edward doesn't smoke. Okay, there was often cigarette yeah, cartons
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: left behind its Yeah, yeah, he did that on purpose,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: trying to put out false trails. It was a red herring.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: He didn't speak in an Irish accent. He put on
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: a thick fake Irish accent during his attacks, and he
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: dropped these cigarette packs behind on purpose.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: You know, I find I'm having trouble believing that, Like
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: he was such a cocky asshole, like prove it. But
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: then he has this whole thing in his house, Like
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: did they think that he would not they wouldn't find
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: this just it was a hidden room.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I kidding me right, Like fuck off, dumb ass. But
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Edward Paysanel was formally charged and his trial began in
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: November of nineteen seventy one. Prosecutors wasted no time painting
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: a very disturbing picture of a man who was terrorizing
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Jersey for over a decade. They highlighted his obsession with
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the occult, clearly found by these books in the shrine
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: and all that pointing to the ritualistic altar in his
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: hidden room, the books on black magic, all that sort
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: of stuff, and even more in settling, Edward had a
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: deep fascination with an individual named Giles Draeus. Now this
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Giles is a fifteenth century French nobleman who is infamous
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: for luring children into his castle, where he allegedly sacrificed
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: them to Satan and attempted to summon a demon. Edward
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: claimed to be one of his descendants.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my goodness, gracious, Like just imagine that's the
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: person you like kind of look up to or whatever.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Right. The prosecution also laid out how carefully he had
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: planned his attacks, showing the photographs of his victims' homes
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: found in the hidden room. These image ofs proved that
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Edward had stalked his targets, studied their routines, and planned
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: each assault meticulously. This was premeditation. Then came a frustrating revelation,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: one that suggested that the case had been solved could
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: have been solved much sooner. Earlier investigation police had requested
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: fingerprints from every single man on the island, and only
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: thirteen refused to comply. Edward was one of those thirteen.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, you never know though, right, I know. Oh my
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: thought initially was, oh my goodness, look at those men.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: But yeah, also, these people are so twisted that often
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: they would just give their fingerprint, you know, to like, yeah,
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: try to get the heat off them too.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, as you're saying though too, Like you don't know,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and there was no reason to suspect Edward. I mean,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: his only previous conviction that he had, like his background,
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: if they did a background check on him, a previous
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: conviction that he had was actually when the Nazis occupied
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: the island of Jersey. So we're talking a time when,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: like his crime honestly wasn't even a fucking crime, because
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: he was in prison for stealing food from the German
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: forces and distributing it to starving locals. Okay, so even
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: if they did find him, that crime on his record
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: makes him look more like a hero than a criminal.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, and like he had a good reputation. What
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: do they call him, like uncle Ted or whatever?
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, exactly, Oh gosh, he was very well liked
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: in the community. Yeah, he participated in charity events, helped
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: his wife run the Foster home. Was known as that
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: uncle Ted to those kids. Honestly, like this led investigators
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: and prosecutors and everyone to basically compare him to a
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: real life Doctor Jekyll and mister Hyde situation.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because even if they did look into him,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: they probably like it. I don't think they would have
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: even discovered it. No, they wouldn't, right so at that time.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: No. Now, in the end, the jury would find Edward
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: guilty on multiple accounts of physical and sexual assault and
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: was sentenced to thirty years in prison. However, and a
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: decision that outraged many, he was released in nineteen ninety
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: one after serving just nineteen years. My goodness, the authorities
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: deemed him a model prisoner and allowed him to walk
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: free and even to return to Jersey. Now, of course,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: when the people of Jersey found out about this, I
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: mean they had not forgotten right now. They forced him
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: off the island basically, and he eventually settled on the
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Isle of Wight, where he lived in isolation until his
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: death from a heart attack in nineteen ninety four three
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: years later.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm like, are you about to tell us more
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: shit that he did? Because that okay, I was terrified there.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, Edward was officially charged with thirteen different attacks,
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: and it's widely believed that he had more victims who
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: who never came forward.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, because to me, thirteen almost seems slow.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Some speculate that he may have actually even been
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: responsible for an unsolved murder that took place on Jersey
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty.
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: Six, don't doubt it.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: A woman named Tula Hook, a twenty year old woman,
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: had first arrived in Jersey during the summer of nineteen
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: sixty five and had fallen in love with the island.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: After returning the next year, she planned to make a
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: home there. On the evening of December thirtieth, nineteen sixty six,
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: at around seven thirty pm, she left to catch a
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: bus to meet some friends. Several witnesses saw her waiting
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: at the bus stop, but she never made it onto
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: the bus. The next morning, her body was found. She'd
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: been brutally bludgeoned, her head and face crushed by a
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: heavy object. Investigators believe that she accepted a ride from someone,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: and many suspect that someone may have been the Beast
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: of Jersey at aka Edward Paisnell. The circumstances certainly fit
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: his pattern. A woman alone at a bus stop, you
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: know at his earlier time, an attack out of nowhere,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: and of course, multiple victims had reported that he boasted
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: about killing someone.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: To this day, though her case remains unsolved.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: Hmm, that's too bad, because yeah, it does well. And
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: then you wonder too if he also was convicted of
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: a murder. If he would have been in jail for longer.
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, he would have been most likely, Yeah, because his
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: sentence would have been much greater, which means his parole time,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: like getting parole would have been much more difficult. And
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: he died of a heart attack in ninety four, so
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: he most likely would have died in jail, which he
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: fucking should have anyways, Like.
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: The fact that he got out is just, Yeah.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: You attacked brutally, assaulted physically and sexually, like he's raping
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: everyone for years. I was very light on the description.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: He's he's raping and sexually assaulting each and every one
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: of his victims horrifically, and that's all he got.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that you're like reformed after nineteen years.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he got to walk free, Are you fucking kidding me?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: And go back to where he like tormented all these
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: people because those lots of were kids and stuff. They
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: would still be a lot I've been living there and exactly,
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, like imagine passing this fucker on the
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: street or something.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, his victims are still living today, Like we're talking
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: like sixty seventies, Like that's that's you're putting forty fifty
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: years old. Some of those sixty years old, maybe not
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: quite forty fifty.
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, it like your mouth is a little old, a.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Little we're talking like sixty years old here, like yeah,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: so I mean he had some victims as young as eight.
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, there's definitely I'm sure some that
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: are still alive.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: So so yeah. Anyways, that is the story of the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Beast of Jersey aka Edward Paisnell. And I hope that
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: I didn't say Beast of Burden too many times in
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: there without noticing, because.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: Well I didn't notice that you did. Actually, Okay, good,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: But I could have just missed it too.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: Kay, because it's just the there is that song Beast
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: of Burden. That's just like, that's what I want to
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: say every time I say Beast of Jersey.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: But but yeah, okay, that was that was an interesting
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: one for sure. That was like a ride and a half.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And I highly suggest you go take a look at
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: this guy's fucking mask.
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: Don't know if I suggest that to be honest, No,
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like it was. It's pretty alarming,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: but yeah, it is, though everyone's gonna go look, you
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: might as well.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: The reason I think you should go look is not
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: because I want you to go and be like, hey,
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: this is what this guy looks like. Oh my god,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: he's creepy, Oh my god, he made this mask. What
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: a fucking piece of shit. None of that. The reason
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: why I want you to go to look at this
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: mask is to understand, if for a fraction of what
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: those victims went through.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: I guess one of the things that we want to
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: aim for in this podcast is of course, trying to
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: bring as much light as we can to victims when
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: at all possible, and stop the fear mongering of these individuals.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: So to put yourself in their shoes and even understand
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: that little bit helps, you know, understand what he put
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: people through. And you know what, the more people who
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: can be against this fucker and you know, be on
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: the side, be on the side of the victims.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I mean yeah, when I looked at that,
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: it threw me off. I wasn't expecting that. And then well, yeah,
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: I made the story. You kind of could put yourself
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: in their shoes a little bit more, I guess, Yeah,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: And that's what that's fucking terrifying that mass to me.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then just know that that fucking goof was caught.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: He rotted behind bars. He did. He didn't get as
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: much time as he should have. But those nineteen years
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: in jail, by the sounds of it, he wasn't very
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: active because he had a heart attack in nineteen ninety four.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: I mean that is making presumption, so I'm assuming he
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: wasn't very active. So I'm assuming that, yeah, jail time
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: did eventually kill him.
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: I also have to just say, really quick too, I'm
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: impress those police caught him, not like the fact that
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: he you know, was driving like a maniac, but then
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: also like ran off on foot and shit, right, like
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: I feel he I don't know, I envisioned him sort
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: of being a little bit in shape, maybe because he's
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: like used to being a weirdo, like I don't know,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: like running, and he would be fleeing from his life,
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: and like the police caught him, Like, good on them.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Even if they didn't catch him though, say he ran
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: off into the night, they have his fucking.
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: Well yeah, I know they still would have yeah, but
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: I good for them.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had his car registered to him. They had
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: the fucking Beasts of Jersey mask in that car. That
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: guy would have ran away they would have had that
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: car found the mask, be like, oh shit, we need
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: to find whose vehicle is is run the plate, find
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: his name, immediately, go to his house, probably arrest him
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: an hour later.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well or yeah, I feel like though he
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: might not have ever returned home though.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Potentially where's he gonna go.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: He's on a flea.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: He's on an island to shay in the middle of
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: the night right now, because this was a night time thing,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: right this is the evening, so all the police, the
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: police have all fucking night to make sure that fairies
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: and stuff going off the island. Flights are not letting
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: this individual on. True, he's not getting off the island.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: He would have been captured, put out an APB. He
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: ain't leaving. Lock down the fucking island find him.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: He got like a little boat and just got off himself.
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: There, you know, I mean, potentially very far fetched.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: But there. I mean, if there is a will, there's
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: a way.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: In my opinion, true, I don't know what the waters
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: of the isle are like, so I don't know if
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: he would have survived that or what it's potential. Let's
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: just say that, but he would have been caught. I
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: wholeheartedly believe. No matter if he got away, he was
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: he was fucked.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, rightfully so.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: But like you say though too, if he was just
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: driving normally, he probably would have gotten away with it
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: and never have been caught.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is interesting. Yeah, you remind me of this, Like,
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: it's interesting why he was driving like that, you know,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe that was another thing he liked,
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: like riskful driving, I don't know, like grand theft auto
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: kind of thing.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: He's getting off on it, tugging himself behind the wheels.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's not what I was meaning. Holy shit. Okay,
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: we're ending it there.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: All right, we're ending it there. Gosh, check the description
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: for all this stuff. You know, there's stuff in the
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: description of the podcast Patreon answer blah blah blah. You
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: know it all. You guys are amazing. Thank you for
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: being here, and until next time.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Stay wicked. I'm still so disturbed by that. Stay Wicked.