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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 terrorize 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
- 0:21Speaker 1: violence and a haunting ability to evade capture. And despite
- 0:25Speaker 1: years of investigation, shifting theories and modern forensic advancements, the
- 0:30Speaker 1: identities remain a mystery. Were 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. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers,
- 0:55Speaker 1: and murder. All things that I love to consume, and
- 0:58Speaker 1: I know you do too, you sick, beautiful, intellectually-minded freak.
- 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 40-year-old man watching this,
- 1:20Speaker 1: I'm calling you baby girl as well. All right. So
- 1:23Speaker 1: without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go mark five
- 1:25Speaker 1: down the highway, slam on the brakes, and bust through
- 1:28Speaker 1: this windshield into these four unsolved murder serial killer cases together.
- 1:47Speaker 1: All right, before I get started, I need to put
- 1:50Speaker 1: on my Freaking glasses because I can't see. Gather round
- 1:54Speaker 1: because now it's Chris Reads Screens. Wow. Oakland County, Michigan, 1976.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Tree lines, suburban streets stretched across affluent communities north of Detroit,
- 2:13Speaker 1: where children played freely in the parks and rode bicycles
- 2:17Speaker 1: without supervision. You know, the good old days. Not that
- 2:20Speaker 1: I was alive back then. And the area embodied middle-class
- 2:23Speaker 1: American security. Well-maintained homes with manicured lawns, good schools, and
- 2:29Speaker 1: a pervasive sense of safety that would soon become shattered.
- 2:33Speaker 1: And during this period before cellular phones and instant communication
- 2:37Speaker 1: and the interwebs, children regularly ventured out until dusk, expected
- 2:42Speaker 1: to return home when the street lights illuminated. In this environment,
- 2:46Speaker 1: a perceived safety created the perfect hunting ground for a
- 2:49Speaker 1: predator who would eventually launch what became the largest manhunt
- 2:53Speaker 1: in US history at the time, involving a task force
- 2:57Speaker 1: that would process over 18,000 tips and interrogate more than 1,500 suspects.
- 3:03Speaker 1: So in the quiet suburban neighborhoods of Oakland County, Michigan,
- 3:07Speaker 1: a chilling series of events unfolded between 1976 and 1977
- 3:12Speaker 1: that would forever change the community's sense of security. The area,
- 3:16Speaker 1: known for its affluent neighborhoods and family-friendly atmosphere, became the
- 3:21Speaker 1: hunting ground for one of America's most methodical child killers.
- 3:25Speaker 1: And the nightmare would begin on February 15th, 1976, when
- 3:30Speaker 1: 12 year old Mark Stebbins left the American Legion Hall
- 3:35Speaker 1: in Ferndale. And what should have been a routine walk
- 3:38Speaker 1: home turned into an irreversible tragedy. Four days after his disappearance,
- 3:42Speaker 1: Mark's body would be discovered in a Southfield parking lot,
- 3:46Speaker 1: carefully arranged on a pile of wood and dirt. And
- 3:50Speaker 1: the autopsy revealed a disturbing level of premeditation, which is
- 3:54Speaker 1: essentially planning the murder before it happened. Mark had been
- 3:59Speaker 1: strangled and essayed with a foreign object. And the rope
- 4:03Speaker 1: marks on his wrist and ankles indicated he had been
- 4:06Speaker 1: bound during his captivity, while two lacerations on his head
- 4:10Speaker 1: suggested violent trauma. Just, uh, uh. real, special place in
- 4:16Speaker 1: the depths of the asshole of hell for the person
- 4:21Speaker 1: who did this. It's just sickening. And obviously, police would investigate,
- 4:25Speaker 1: but they would come up with nothing. And less than
- 4:27Speaker 1: a year later, on December 22nd, 1976, another family's world
- 4:32Speaker 1: would collapse when 12-year-old Jill Robinson left home after arguing
- 4:37Speaker 1: with her mother. Her bicycle was recovered behind a hobby
- 4:40Speaker 1: store the following day, but Jill herself remained missing until
- 4:44Speaker 1: December 26th, when her body was discovered alongside Interstate 75
- 4:48Speaker 1: in Troy. And perhaps most disturbing was the evidence that
- 4:51Speaker 1: she had been cared for during the three days before
- 4:55Speaker 1: her murder, still wearing her backpack and fully clothed when found.
- 5:00Speaker 1: So the killer was obviously a monster, but there was
- 5:04Speaker 1: a side of him that had remorse for these kids
- 5:08Speaker 1: or felt like He still needed to treat them like kids,
- 5:11Speaker 1: like actually care for them. But it's just like, it's
- 5:14Speaker 1: not even like in the realm of okay. There's no like, oh,
- 5:17Speaker 1: that's kind of, no, no. He literally killed these kids.
- 5:22Speaker 1: And the pattern continued on January 2nd, 1977, when 10-year-old
- 5:27Speaker 1: Christine Millick vanished after visiting a 7-Eleven store. And her
- 5:31Speaker 1: ordeal lasted 19 days before her body was recovered on
- 5:36Speaker 1: a rural road in Franklin Village. And the killer had
- 5:39Speaker 1: smothered Christine less than 24 hours before the placement of
- 5:43Speaker 1: her body. which was positioned very carefully within view of
- 5:47Speaker 1: nearby homes. A signature of the perpetrator's methodical approach. He
- 5:52Speaker 1: wanted these kids to be found. The premeditation and planning
- 5:56Speaker 1: before these murders is just like insane. Like he thought
- 6:01Speaker 1: about how he was going to do it, when he
- 6:03Speaker 1: was going to do it. and exactly how they were
- 6:06Speaker 1: gonna be found and probably when they were gonna be
- 6:08Speaker 1: found as well. And the final confirmed victim, 11-year-old Timothy King,
- 6:13Speaker 1: disappeared on March 16th, 1977 during a trip to a
- 6:17Speaker 1: local pharmacy. And when found six days later in a
- 6:20Speaker 1: shallow ditch along Gill Road in Livonia, Timothy had been S.A.ed
- 6:25Speaker 1: with a foreign object as well as the first victim
- 6:28Speaker 1: and also suffocated. And most disturbingly, he had been fed
- 6:32Speaker 1: Kentucky Fried Chicken, his favorite meal, shortly before his death.
- 6:37Speaker 1: So it's like the killer is 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
- 6:46Speaker 1: in any way, shape, or form, when it's obviously not
- 6:51Speaker 1: the case. He deserves to be... Well, maybe I shouldn't
- 6:55Speaker 1: say 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 linked the cases through consistent physical evidence, including golden
- 7:24Speaker 1: carpet fibers and white animal hair found on all the
- 7:27Speaker 1: victims' 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 f * * * ing scum of the earth.
- 7:43Speaker 1: And as detectives pursued these forensic clues, they uncovered a
- 7:46Speaker 1: case far more complex than a lone predator, suggesting the
- 7:50Speaker 1: possibility of powerful figures working to ensure certain suspects remained
- 7:55Speaker 1: beyond the reach of justice. Just corrupt forensics. bullshit. So
- 8:00Speaker 1: Christopher Bush emerged as one of the most compelling suspects
- 8:04Speaker 1: in the investigation. The son of a wealthy General Motors executive,
- 8:08Speaker 1: Bush had already been convicted as a PDF aisle and
- 8:13Speaker 1: maintained connections to an organized child corn network operating in
- 8:19Speaker 1: North Fox Island. And the timing proved particularly suspicious. Police
- 8:24Speaker 1: had questioned Bush shortly before Timothy King's abduction. And more disturbingly,
- 8:28Speaker 1: evidence would link him to a child exploiting ring run
- 8:32Speaker 1: by Francis Sheldon, suggesting access to vulnerable children through an
- 8:36Speaker 1: established network, which is just like mind boggling and horrifying
- 8:41Speaker 1: to think about. And it's just, it's something that happens
- 8:44Speaker 1: every day and that people just, I mean, you know,
- 8:48Speaker 1: turn a blind eye to, and it's just so horrifying
- 8:51Speaker 1: because it happens every in other countries, but it is
- 8:55Speaker 1: also happening in our backyards. So, I mean, I think
- 8:58Speaker 1: it's an important topic, no matter what. And in November 1978,
- 9:01Speaker 1: investigators discovered Bush dead from what appeared to be sluice slide.
- 9:08Speaker 1: Just easy way out, piece of shit. And the scene
- 9:12Speaker 1: raised immediate red flags. Blood-stained ropes lay nearby, and a
- 9:17Speaker 1: hand-drawn image resembling victim Mark Stebbins hung on his wall.
- 9:22Speaker 1: And the suspicious circumstances intensified when the entire Oakland County
- 9:26Speaker 1: Task Force disbanded just days after Bush's death, having exhausted
- 9:32Speaker 1: a $ 2 million budget. And some investigators later suggested his
- 9:35Speaker 1: death may have been staged to prevent him from revealing
- 9:39Speaker 1: accomplices of power associates, which sounds... right to me. Yet
- 9:44Speaker 1: the case against Bush collapsed in 2012 when DNA testing
- 9:49Speaker 1: excluded him as a contributor to biological evidence found on
- 9:54Speaker 1: the victims. Bet you didn't expect that. And this forensic
- 9:57Speaker 1: setback occurred despite the wealth of circumstantial evidence pointing to
- 10:01Speaker 1: his involvement, which I still think he was involved in
- 10:04Speaker 1: some way. Absolutely. Other suspects presented equally promising yet ultimately
- 10:10Speaker 1: inconclusive leads. Ted Lamborghini. I know. A Detroit autoworker. I know,
- 10:17Speaker 1: who operated a pedo ring in the Cass Corridor during
- 10:21Speaker 1: the same period, became a primary suspect in 2005. And
- 10:26Speaker 1: convicted murderer Richard Lawson implicated Lamborghini during an interview, but
- 10:30Speaker 1: when offered a plea deal to reduce his sentence in
- 10:32Speaker 1: exchange for taking a polygraph regarding the Oakland County murders,
- 10:37Speaker 1: Lamborghini refused. Just scum of the earth. And DNA evidence
- 10:41Speaker 1: brought investigators to convicted PDF... aisle Ark Sloan in 2012,
- 10:48Speaker 1: when forensic testing revealed that hairs found on the victims
- 10:52Speaker 1: matched hair recovered from Sloan's vehicle. And curiously, the DNA
- 10:56Speaker 1: didn't match Sloan 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 Gunnels, who had actually been SA'd 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 1 to 150 proved too low
- 11:26Speaker 1: for conclusive identification. And Gunnels has consistently denied any involvement.
- 11:31Speaker 1: So time marched relentlessly forward while justice stood still. And
- 11:35Speaker 1: nearly five decades after the horrific killings that terrorized Oakland County,
- 11:41Speaker 1: the case remains unsolved despite remarkable advances in forensic technology.
- 11:46Speaker 1: And for Timothy King's father, Barry, the quest for answers
- 11:49Speaker 1: became his life's mission, which like, How could it not
- 11:53Speaker 1: being a parent? You know, I just like, ah, my
- 11:55Speaker 1: heart just goes out to all these families. And this
- 11:57Speaker 1: journey unfortunately ended in 2020 when he passed away without
- 12:01Speaker 1: ever learning who murdered his son. And the systemic investigative
- 12:05Speaker 1: failures point to disturbing possibilities. An exceptionally meticulous killer who
- 12:10Speaker 1: left minimal evidence... protection of connected individuals through institutional interference,
- 12:17Speaker 1: or fundamental errors in the initial investigation that can never
- 12:20Speaker 1: be remedied. But whatever the truth, the Oakland County child
- 12:23Speaker 1: killer case stands as a sobering reminder that even with
- 12:28Speaker 1: extensive resources, justice remains tragically elusive for some victims, leaving
- 12:33Speaker 1: their families to endure the cruelest of uncertainties. But my
- 12:37Speaker 1: heart goes out to the victims and the victims' families,
- 12:40Speaker 1: and whoever did this, I hope you're rotting in hell.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Let's move on. Glasgow, Scotland in the late 1960s was
- 12:53Speaker 1: experiencing the cultural upheaval common throughout Western societies at the time.
- 12:58Speaker 1: The city's working class population found escape at venues like
- 13:02Speaker 1: Burrowland Ballroom, a popular dance hall where young people gathered
- 13:06Speaker 1: to socialize. And against this backdrop, a series of murders
- 13:09Speaker 1: began on February 22nd, 1968, when 25-year-old Patricia Docker attended
- 13:12Speaker 1: the ballroom. And the young nurse and mother left the
- 13:18Speaker 1: venue alone and was discovered the following morning in a
- 13:22Speaker 1: doorway near Langside Place, strangled and partially clothed, and her
- 13:27Speaker 1: personal belongings missing from the scene completely. And Patricia Docker
- 13:31Speaker 1: balanced complex responsibilities as her life was cut short. The
- 13:36Speaker 1: 25-year-old auxiliary nurse managed night shifts while caring for her
- 13:39Speaker 1: four-year-old son. Sandy, during a period of separation from her husband,
- 13:44Speaker 1: who served with RAF in Lincolnshire. And on that fateful
- 13:48Speaker 1: February evening in 1968, Patricia told her parents she was
- 13:52Speaker 1: visiting the Majestic Ballroom, but instead went to Boroughland. Known
- 13:57Speaker 1: for its over 25 nights, where attendees often removed wedding rings,
- 14:02Speaker 1: seeking temporary anonymity from their complicated lives. Some shady shit
- 14:07Speaker 1: going on in the 60s, I tell you what. But
- 14:09Speaker 1: Patricia would go to this ballroom, and leave, and then
- 14:12Speaker 1: obviously lose her life, which is extremely horrible, but would
- 14:17Speaker 1: lead us to our second victim, which would be Jemima McDonald.
- 14:20Speaker 1: And Jemima maintained a household as a single mother to
- 14:23Speaker 1: three children, Elizabeth, who was 11 years old, Andrew, who
- 14:27Speaker 1: was eight years old, and Alan, who was seven. Described
- 14:30Speaker 1: by acquaintances as clean and well cared for, Jemima ensured
- 14:34Speaker 1: her children were properly looked after despite the challenges of
- 14:37Speaker 1: sole parenthood. And her murder in August of 1969 fractured
- 14:42Speaker 1: the family unit she had worked so hard to maintain.
- 14:45Speaker 1: And the aftermath proved additionally devastating as her three children
- 14:49Speaker 1: were separated and placed in different care homes, causing a
- 14:53Speaker 1: secondary tragedy that extended beyond the initial death. Just so heartbreaking.
- 14:58Speaker 1: And then we have Helen Puttick. Now, Helen Puttick would
- 15:01Speaker 1: be the final victim. And she had recently returned to
- 15:04Speaker 1: Glasgow with her husband, George, an army serviceman, and their
- 15:08Speaker 1: two young sons, David and Michael. And the night of
- 15:12Speaker 1: her murder in October, 1969, represented a rare evening of
- 15:16Speaker 1: personal freedom, a brief respite from maternal obligations while her
- 15:20Speaker 1: husband would remain home with her children. And the cruel
- 15:23Speaker 1: irony that Helen was killed steps away from the domestic
- 15:27Speaker 1: safety she had temporarily left behind, underscores the tragedy's senselessness.
- 15:32Speaker 1: But all three women shared significant commonalities beyond their connection
- 15:36Speaker 1: to Burrowland. Each was a mother seeking brief independence from
- 15:40Speaker 1: their demanding domestic responsibilities. And the over-25s night at Barland
- 15:45Speaker 1: offered a socially acceptable outlet for married women to experience
- 15:49Speaker 1: autonomy in an era of limited freedom. And perhaps most significantly,
- 15:54Speaker 1: each was menstruating at the time of death, which is
- 15:57Speaker 1: just so odd. But a biological detail that potentially influenced
- 16:02Speaker 1: the killer's victim selection? Maybe. But the bright lights of
- 16:06Speaker 1: Glasgow's Borland Ballroom concealed a methodical predator whose selection process
- 16:11Speaker 1: went beyond mere opportunism. This venue, where married patrons often
- 16:16Speaker 1: removed their wedding rings for anonymous encounters, provided the perfect
- 16:19Speaker 1: hunting ground for a killer whose approach suggested calculated religious motivations.
- 16:25Speaker 1: rather than random violence. So he was seeking these people
- 16:29Speaker 1: out specifically. People who were set out to be unfaithful
- 16:33Speaker 1: to their partners. He didn't like that. Not one bit.
- 16:37Speaker 1: So when investigators initially focused on the Majestic Ballroom rather
- 16:41Speaker 1: than the Borrowland following Patricia Docker's murder, They inadvertently compromised
- 16:46Speaker 1: crucial evidence collection during the critical early hours of the investigation.
- 16:51Speaker 1: And this error would prove significant as the pattern of
- 16:54Speaker 1: Boroughland connections became apparent with subsequent victims. And witnesses consistently
- 16:59Speaker 1: described the suspect as exceptionally well-dressed and articulate, attributes that
- 17:04Speaker 1: distinguished him from a typical violent offender. His polite, charming
- 17:08Speaker 1: demeanor allowed him to gain trust of women at the venue,
- 17:12Speaker 1: facilitating their willingness to leave with him. So this calculated
- 17:16Speaker 1: approach indicated premeditation rather than impulsive violence. This man was
- 17:21Speaker 1: a hunter. And the religious underpinnings of the crime emerged
- 17:25Speaker 1: most clearly during Helen Hedog's taxi journey, where her sister,
- 17:29Speaker 1: Jean Langford, heard the suspect quote scripture and condemned the
- 17:33Speaker 1: Barland as a den of inequity. And Jean further recalled
- 17:38Speaker 1: that he mentioned he did not drink but prayed instead,
- 17:42Speaker 1: suggesting a strict religious upbringing that would later contribute to
- 17:46Speaker 1: his infamous moniker. And forensic examinations revealed a disturbing ritualistic
- 17:51Speaker 1: element at each crime scene. The deliberate positioning of sanitary
- 17:55Speaker 1: items near the victim's body indicated the killer's harbored specific
- 17:59Speaker 1: fixations possibly connected to biblical notions of impurity. And this
- 18:04Speaker 1: consistent pattern combined with the strangulation method employed in each
- 18:08Speaker 1: murder pointed to a signature that evolved while maintaining core elements,
- 18:11Speaker 1: potentially indicating the killer's growing confidence or adaptation to avoid detection.
- 18:17Speaker 1: This guy was unfortunately smart and extremely calculated and extremely
- 18:25Speaker 1: judgmental to consenting adults. And as the ritualistic elements at
- 18:30Speaker 1: the crime scene became clear, Glasgow police mobilized in unprecedented numbers.
- 18:35Speaker 1: What began as a standard murder investigation transformed into Scotland's
- 18:40Speaker 1: most extensive manhunt. Yet it would ultimately fail despite groundbreaking
- 18:45Speaker 1: tactics and compelling witness testimony. And the investigation pioneered forensic
- 18:49Speaker 1: techniques never before seen in Scottish policing. Most notably, authorities
- 18:53Speaker 1: created and widely distributed the nation's first police photo fit
- 18:58Speaker 1: of a suspect in a murder case, plastering newspapers and
- 19:01Speaker 1: television broadcasts with the composite image. And the manhunt's scope
- 19:05Speaker 1: was extraordinary, with undercover officers dispatched to blend among Boroughland
- 19:10Speaker 1: patrons in what the press dubbed as Marine Formation Dance Team,
- 19:14Speaker 1: which is pretty awesome. plain clothed detectives scanning the dance
- 19:19Speaker 1: floor for anyone matching the suspect's description. And Jean Langford's
- 19:23Speaker 1: account for the taxi ride with her sister, Helen, and
- 19:26Speaker 1: the suspect provided investigators with extraordinary detail, a mixed blessing
- 19:31Speaker 1: that just shaped the entire investigation. And while her testimony
- 19:34Speaker 1: offered first-hand description of the killer's appearance, mannerisms, and religious rhetoric,
- 19:40Speaker 1: over-reliance on her singular account potentially narrowed the investigation aperture,
- 19:45Speaker 1: causing 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 needs 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 Barland continued for months,
- 20:08Speaker 1: until late October 1969, when it was abruptly terminated. The
- 20:12Speaker 1: cessation came not from any investigative breakthrough, but due to
- 20:16Speaker 1: complaints from proprietors about plummeting attendance figures as patrons avoided
- 20:21Speaker 1: the venue now associated with a serial killer. Basically, just
- 20:24Speaker 1: because a bunch of people were just bummed that other
- 20:27Speaker 1: people got killed and it ruined their f * *
- 20:29Speaker 1: * ing swinger party, I guess, because that matters more
- 20:34Speaker 1: than solving people's murders. I don't know. Decades later, in 1996,
- 20:38Speaker 1: investigators exhumed the body of John Irvin McClinnis for DNA testing,
- 20:43Speaker 1: a costly operation that yielded inconclusive results and triggered substantial
- 20:47Speaker 1: media backlash. And more troubling revelations emerged in 2022 when
- 20:52Speaker 1: the BBC podcast, Bible John, Creation of a Serial Killer,
- 20:56Speaker 1: alleged that McClinnis may have been protected due to the
- 20:59Speaker 1: familial connections with a senior officer involved in the original investigation. Gangesed.
- 21:05Speaker 1: corruption everywhere. But in exhuming John's body, it would give
- 21:10Speaker 1: this serial killer the name Bible John, mixing the scripture
- 21:15Speaker 1: with the murders. This is just what it became, but
- 21:19Speaker 1: it's not. conclusive. An even convicted murderer, Peter Tubbin, fell
- 21:24Speaker 1: under suspicion due to the striking similarities in methods and victimology,
- 21:29Speaker 1: but was ultimately eliminated because records confirmed he wasn't in
- 21:32Speaker 1: Glasgow during the murders. So we're left with another, I
- 21:37Speaker 1: don't know, another unsolved serial murder case, and hopefully this
- 21:42Speaker 1: bastard is f * * * ing dead. But that
- 21:44Speaker 1: brings us to our next killer. So in the mid-90s,
- 21:54Speaker 1: the Belgian city of Mons became the backdrop for a
- 21:57Speaker 1: series of gruesome discoveries. Women began vanishing without a trace,
- 22:02Speaker 1: only for their dismembered remains to surface in garbage bags
- 22:05Speaker 1: across rivers and roads with unsettling names like Path of
- 22:10Speaker 1: Worry and And the precision of the cuts and the
- 22:14Speaker 1: eerie choice of disposal sites pointed to a methodical and
- 22:18Speaker 1: deeply disturbed killer. And despite the formation of dedicated task force,
- 22:23Speaker 1: the investigation was plagued with mismanagement, lack of resources, and
- 22:27Speaker 1: dead-end leads. And as the body count grew, so did
- 22:31Speaker 1: the mystery. Was the killer a lone predator, a trained professional,
- 22:34Speaker 1: or something even more sinister? And over the years, investigators
- 22:38Speaker 1: pursued multiple suspects, some with disturbing ties to similar crimes.
- 22:43Speaker 1: But as time passed, justice slipped further away, leaving behind
- 22:47Speaker 1: a chilling question. Who was the Butcher of Mons? And
- 22:51Speaker 1: why was he never caught? So in January of 1996,
- 22:55Speaker 1: a pattern of disappearances began that would haunt the Belgian
- 22:58Speaker 1: city of Mons for years to come. Carmelina Rousseau, a
- 23:01Speaker 1: 42-year-old woman, vanished after visiting her imprisoned son on January 4th.
- 23:07Speaker 1: And her disappearance might have remained just another missing persons case, but...
- 23:11Speaker 1: 17 days later, fishermen made a grim discovery in the
- 23:16Speaker 1: Scheldt River in northern France. And it would be Rousseau's pelvis,
- 23:20Speaker 1: which was deliberately severed from the rest of her body.
- 23:24Speaker 1: And this would just mark the beginning of a series
- 23:27Speaker 1: of methodical dismembered victims. And six months later, Martine Bone,
- 23:32Speaker 1: a 43-year-old former fisherman, Sejual worker disappeared on July 21st,
- 23:37Speaker 1: and her dismembered torso was subsequently recovered from the Hain River,
- 23:42Speaker 1: and investigators noted a particularly disturbing detail. Her breasts had
- 23:47Speaker 1: been deliberately removed from her body, suggesting a sejual motivation
- 23:52Speaker 1: behind the killer's methodology. Stay safe. monster and the precision
- 23:57Speaker 1: of these cuts initially led authorities to consider medical training
- 24:00Speaker 1: as a prerequisite for the predator which would make sense
- 24:04Speaker 1: or some sort of butcher somebody who's worked with bodies
- 24:07Speaker 1: before and the pattern would continue into december when jacqueline
- 24:11Speaker 1: leclerc a 33-year-old mother of four, went missing on the 22nd.
- 24:16Speaker 1: And unlike the previous victims, her remains weren't discovered until
- 24:19Speaker 1: March of the following year, when Officer Oliver Mott recovered
- 24:23Speaker 1: garbage bags containing her severed arms and legs. And the
- 24:27Speaker 1: delay between disappearances and discovery raised questions about the killer's
- 24:31Speaker 1: storage capabilities. And by March 1997, 21-year-old Natalie Goddard became
- 24:34Speaker 1: the fourth victim. Though not involved in sexual work, investigators
- 24:41Speaker 1: noted she had been described as promiscuous, and was struggling
- 24:45Speaker 1: with personal issues, severe enough that her child had actually
- 24:49Speaker 1: been placed in protective care. And her torso was recovered
- 24:52Speaker 1: from the same waterway as Bond's remains, the Hain River.
- 24:56Speaker 1: And the killer's final known victim would be Begonia Valencia,
- 25:01Speaker 1: a 37-year-old woman with schizophrenia who disappeared from frameries during
- 25:06Speaker 1: the summer of 1997. And only her skull would be
- 25:09Speaker 1: recovered in the area of High Onn, suggesting an evolution
- 25:12Speaker 1: in disposal methods or decomposition that prevented further remains from
- 25:17Speaker 1: being located. He was just getting a lot better at
- 25:19Speaker 1: hiding the remains. And forensic analysis would reveal disturbing detail
- 25:23Speaker 1: that investigators initially overlooked. The preservation state of various body
- 25:27Speaker 1: parts differed significantly. Some remains appeared relatively while others showed
- 25:34Speaker 1: evidence of refrigeration, indicating the killer likely stored dismembered parts
- 25:39Speaker 1: for extended periods before the actual disposal. And this suggested
- 25:43Speaker 1: both access to suitable refrigeration facilities and a disturbing level
- 25:47Speaker 1: of planning. And perhaps most chilling was the killer's apparent
- 25:50Speaker 1: psychological signature, in the selection of the disposal sites. Locations
- 25:55Speaker 1: with macabre names became favored dumping grounds. Rue des Dipots,
- 26:01Speaker 1: literally Dump Street, Chemin de l' Équitude, which is Path of Worry,
- 26:06Speaker 1: and rivers with unsettling names like Paine, which is Hate,
- 26:11Speaker 1: and Très, which is Jitters. And this deliberate selection of
- 26:15Speaker 1: symbolically charged locations suggested a perpetrator who incorporated psychological elements
- 26:21Speaker 1: into their methodology. So the symbolically charged disposal sites just
- 26:24Speaker 1: reflected a killer with psychological sophistication. Yet the Belgian judicial
- 26:29Speaker 1: system response would prove remarkably insufficient. Despite establishing a specialized
- 26:35Speaker 1: investigative unit, authorities gradually abandoned their pursuit of the butcher
- 26:39Speaker 1: while dismembered bodies continued to appear throughout the region. And
- 26:43Speaker 1: in the aftermath of the killings, Belgian authorities formed the
- 26:46Speaker 1: Corpus Investigative Unit under Magistrate Pierre Pellet. and this represented
- 26:51Speaker 1: the nation's most concentrated efforts to identify and apprehend the
- 26:55Speaker 1: methodical killer, terrorizing Mons. However, from its inception, the unit
- 27:00Speaker 1: faced substantial institutional constraints. Despite the brutality and sophistication of
- 27:05Speaker 1: the crimes, Belgian officials classified the case as merely local,
- 27:09Speaker 1: failing to allocate adequate resources for what was clearly a
- 27:13Speaker 1: complex serial murder investigation. So the systemic dismantling of the
- 27:18Speaker 1: investigative effort became evident as years passed without an arrest.
- 27:22Speaker 1: And by 2007, What had begun as a substantial team
- 27:25Speaker 1: had been reduced to only four investigators. And the dramatic
- 27:29Speaker 1: reduction occurred even as the unit had examined nearly 1,000
- 27:33Speaker 1: complaints over 13 years, demonstrating a very troubling administrative indifference
- 27:38Speaker 1: to solving the case. And the lack of modern forensic
- 27:41Speaker 1: techniques available at the time further hampered investigators, limiting their
- 27:45Speaker 1: ability to extract DNA evidence or effectively share information across
- 27:49Speaker 1: international borders. And the investigation eventually developed significant international dimensions.
- 27:55Speaker 1: In 2007, Montenegrin authorities arrested Smael Tolja, who emerged as
- 28:00Speaker 1: the investigator's most compelling suspect. And Tolja's crime history included
- 28:04Speaker 1: a strikingly similar murder in New York in 1990, where
- 28:08Speaker 1: victim Mary Beale 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 Tolja 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 Tolja's
- 28:32Speaker 1: death in a Montenegrin prison in 2012 permanently foreclosed any
- 28:37Speaker 1: possibility of obtaining a confession or conducting additional DNA comparisons.
- 28:42Speaker 1: But good rhythms 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 Mons 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 wanting 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 Mon's case exposed system failures in Belgian
- 29:36Speaker 1: law enforcement, turning a major manhunt into a disjointed, under-resourced investigation.
- 29:42Speaker 1: An expert suggests that the killer's meticulous planning skills and
- 29:46Speaker 1: possible medical training allowed him to evade capture while preying
- 29:49Speaker 1: on society's most vulnerable. And the case is mishandling his
- 29:53Speaker 1: fuel discussions on understanding perpetrator psychology and underscored the need
- 29:57Speaker 1: for interagency cooperation and proper resource allocation. Though officially unsolved,
- 30:03Speaker 1: its legacy has influenced investigative reforms at least, ensuring greater
- 30:08Speaker 1: institutional accountability, changes that, while too late for the victims,
- 30:12Speaker 1: may help prevent similar failures in the future. And with that,
- 30:16Speaker 1: we move on to our last unsolved serial killer murder case.
- 30:25Speaker 1: San Francisco's foggy beaches and secluded parks became the hunting
- 30:30Speaker 1: ground for this methodical predator. Ocean Beach, with its desolate
- 30:34Speaker 1: stretches of sand shrouded in mist, served as the backdrop
- 30:38Speaker 1: for the Doodler's first confirmed murder. On January 27, 1974,
- 30:42Speaker 1: the body of Gerard Earle Kavanaugh, was discovered there, bearing
- 30:49Speaker 1: multiple stab wounds. The 49-year-old's death marked the beginning of
- 30:53Speaker 1: a pattern that would terrorize the city's gay community for
- 30:55Speaker 1: 18 months, leaving bodies scattered across Ocean Beach, Golden Gate Park,
- 31:01Speaker 1: and Lincoln Park. And the pattern linking these homicides together
- 31:04Speaker 1: emerged gradually as each new victim was discovered. What began
- 31:08Speaker 1: as seemingly unrelated crimes soon revealed a methodical perpetrator with
- 31:12Speaker 1: consistent targets and methods. And Kavanaugh's defensive wounds indicated a
- 31:16Speaker 1: violent struggle against his attacker. The 17 stab wounds demonstrating
- 31:21Speaker 1: a level of aggression that would become a characteristic of
- 31:24Speaker 1: the killer's approach. And the investigators initially treated this as
- 31:27Speaker 1: an isolated incident, failing to recognize the beginning of a
- 31:30Speaker 1: systemic campaign of violence. And only five months later, the
- 31:34Speaker 1: killer would strike again. Joseph Stevens, known professionally as J.,
- 31:38Speaker 1: was discovered near Spreckles Lake with five stab wounds. And
- 31:42Speaker 1: the location of his abandoned car suggested he had willingly
- 31:45Speaker 1: accompanied his killer to the secluded area of Golden Gate Park,
- 31:49Speaker 1: likely anticipating a sensual encounter. And as a performer 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 12 days after Stevens' death, so his
- 32:05Speaker 1: cool-down period has drastically gotten shorter, Klaus Christmann's body appeared
- 32:09Speaker 1: at Ocean Beach. The German visitor suffered what investigators described
- 32:14Speaker 1: as an extraordinarily vicious attack, with slashes to his throat
- 32:18Speaker 1: so severe they appear to be an attempt at decapitation.
- 32:21Speaker 1: And this marked a significant intensification in the killer's violence.
- 32:26Speaker 1: And then nearly a year would pass before Frederick Kappen
- 32:30Speaker 1: became the fourth victim. The decorated Vietnam veteran received 16
- 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: 20 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 4th, 1975 at Lincoln Park.
- 32:58Speaker 1: And the 66-year-old Swedish-American's body told a different story. He
- 33:03Speaker 1: had been dead for approximately two weeks and found with
- 33:06Speaker 1: his underwear removed and pants unzipped, further confirming the sensual
- 33:11Speaker 1: dimension of these crimes. But this wasn't even the end,
- 33:14Speaker 1: as police had no clue during the investigation if more
- 33:17Speaker 1: bodies turning up truly were from the same murderer or
- 33:20Speaker 1: just random acts of violence. But behind the gruesome murders
- 33:24Speaker 1: lay a method as distinctive as it was disturbing. The
- 33:27Speaker 1: doodler's artistic talent transformed ordinary bar encounters into deadly traps.
- 33:33Speaker 1: His approach demonstrated a calculated precision that set him apart
- 33:37Speaker 1: from other killers operating during the same period. The Doodler
- 33:41Speaker 1: prowled San Francisco's vibrant gay scene, primarily targeting establishments in Castro,
- 33:47Speaker 1: Pope Gulch, and Tenderloin districts. And popular venues such as
- 33:52Speaker 1: Cinch Saloon and Cabaret Club became his hunting grounds where
- 33:56Speaker 1: he implemented his signature strategy. Rather than relying on physical intimidation,
- 34:01Speaker 1: he disarmed potential victims through his artistic abilities. Sketching portraits
- 34:06Speaker 1: of men he encountered, as a non-threatening means of introduction.
- 34:11Speaker 1: One survivor actually recounted meeting the killer at a diner
- 34:14Speaker 1: where he was drawing animals on a napkin, using this
- 34:17Speaker 1: talent as a conversation starter. And this deceptively innocent approach
- 34:21Speaker 1: allowed him to establish trust with his targets, who would
- 34:24Speaker 1: just willingly accompany him to secluded locations, typically near water.
- 34:29Speaker 1: And these isolated areas known as gay hookup spots in
- 34:32Speaker 1: the 1970s provided both privacy for sexual encounters and the
- 34:37Speaker 1: perfect setting for murder. And the violence of the attacks
- 34:41Speaker 1: just indicated extreme rage, and the positioning of the bodies
- 34:45Speaker 1: followed a consistent pattern, with victims discovered in outdoor locations
- 34:49Speaker 1: near water. Furthermore, the killer would strip victims of identification completely,
- 34:54Speaker 1: making it more difficult for authorities to connect cases and
- 34:57Speaker 1: identify the deceased. But three individuals survived encounters with the doodler,
- 35:02Speaker 1: providing crucial details about his methodology. A European diplomat suffered
- 35:06Speaker 1: six stab wounds, but managed to escape with his life.
- 35:10Speaker 1: And another survivor, described as a well-known entertainer, fled when
- 35:14Speaker 1: a knife fell from the attacker's coat, revealing his deadly
- 35:17Speaker 1: intentions before an attack could commence. And the third survivor
- 35:20Speaker 1: left San Francisco entirely and refused to cooperate with investigators.
- 35:24Speaker 1: But the psychological profile that emerged suggested a perpetrator struggling
- 35:28Speaker 1: with his own identity. The extraordinary violence directed at gay
- 35:33Speaker 1: men indicated possible internalized homophobia. Perhaps a person unable to
- 35:38Speaker 1: accept his 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 19 and 25 years old, approximately six
- 35:56Speaker 1: feet tall, who demonstrated both artistic skill and capacity for
- 36:00Speaker 1: extreme violence. So the psychological assessment pointing to internalized homophobia
- 36:05Speaker 1: took on a disturbing new dimension in late 1975, a
- 36:09Speaker 1: psychiatrist contacted police about a patient who had confessed at
- 36:13Speaker 1: the Ocean Beach murders. And this revelation brought investigators tantalizingly
- 36:17Speaker 1: close to solving the case. Yet the doodler would ultimately
- 36:21Speaker 1: slip through their grasp due to circumstances that reveal as
- 36:24Speaker 1: much about 1970s America as they do about the killer himself.
- 36:28Speaker 1: And the investigation was led by a formidable team, Ortea
- 36:31Speaker 1: Guilford and Earl Sanders, African-American homicide inspectors nicknamed the Soul Brothers,
- 36:37Speaker 1: who had earned reputations for their meticulous work. They had
- 36:40Speaker 1: constructed a very detailed case file that included a police sketch,
- 36:44Speaker 1: and narrowing list of suspects. And when the psychiatrist came
- 36:47Speaker 1: forward with the information about his patient's confession, investigators believed
- 36:51Speaker 1: they had finally identified their perpetrator. These guys look badass.
- 36:54Speaker 1: These guys look badass as. That's awesome. And under questioning,
- 36:57Speaker 1: the prime suspect acknowledged his struggles with. identity, but denied
- 37:02Speaker 1: committing the murders completely. And without physical evidence definitively connecting
- 37:06Speaker 1: him to the crimes, authorities found themselves in an evidentiary stalemate.
- 37:09Speaker 1: The case now hinged entirely on testimony from the three
- 37:12Speaker 1: survivors who encountered and escaped the doodler. The socio-political climate
- 37:17Speaker 1: of the 1970s 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 1973, and the stigma persisted long after declassification.
- 37:33Speaker 1: Gay men face potential loss of employment, housing, and social
- 37:36Speaker 1: standing if publicly outed. And for the European diplomat, testimony
- 37:40Speaker 1: would have meant career destruction, basically. So their lives were
- 37:44Speaker 1: on the line with the doodler, but also their lives
- 37:46Speaker 1: were on the line with the public. And for the
- 37:48Speaker 1: entertainer and the well-known survivor, public identification as a homosexual
- 37:53Speaker 1: threatened their livelihoods and personal safety. And relations between law
- 37:58Speaker 1: enforcement and the LGBTQ plus community further complicated matters. Police
- 38:02Speaker 1: raids on gay establishments were common practice throughout the 1960s
- 38:06Speaker 1: and even early 1970s, fostering a deep institutional distrust. And
- 38:11Speaker 1: many gay men viewed police not as protectors but as persecutors,
- 38:15Speaker 1: making cooperation with authorities a fraught proposition, even where their
- 38:19Speaker 1: own safety was at stake. And Harvey Milk, who would
- 38:23Speaker 1: later become San Francisco's first openly gay elected official, captured
- 38:27Speaker 1: the impossible position of the survivors when he stated, quote unquote,
- 38:31Speaker 1: I understand their position. I respect the pressure society has
- 38:34Speaker 1: put on them. And this acknowledgement from one of the
- 38:36Speaker 1: community's most prominent advocates highlighted the devastating reality. Societal homophobia
- 38:42Speaker 1: had effectively granted the doodler immunity from prosecution, which is
- 38:46Speaker 1: just so f * * * ed up. So this
- 38:49Speaker 1: serial killer got away with it due to society being shit, basically.
- 38:56Speaker 1: Just a big, big society piece of shit. But despite
- 39:00Speaker 1: the advances in forensic science and investigative techniques, these cases
- 39:05Speaker 1: remain one of the most haunting unsolved crimes in modern history.
- 39:08Speaker 1: The Oakland County child killer, 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 lone 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, uh,
- 39:50Speaker 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's going to happen. But yeah, I'm tired. Tired of this,
- 40:04Speaker 1: of these people. They're not people, they're monsters. I hope
- 40:07Speaker 1: they're rotting in hell. And I hope you're just cozied
- 40:10Speaker 1: up with some popcorn and a snack or something. But
- 40:13Speaker 1: I hope you have a good rest of your morning, afternoon,
- 40:16Speaker 1: or night. And I will see you beautiful face in
- 40:18Speaker 1: the next video. Okay, stay safe out there. Bye.