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009 - The Vampire of Czinkota · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: You're listening to an air wave media podcast. Hi, and
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Speaker 1: welcome back to Hooded What Now? The history podcast with
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Speaker 1: your egregious host Kerry Charlwood, gift giver and reader with books.
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Speaker 1: So if you hear the sound of knocking on the door,
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Speaker 1: it's just a cat. And so Valentine's Day is coming up,
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Speaker 1: and I thought, what says romance more than somebody who
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Speaker 1: steals money from women, murders them and drains their bloods Okay,
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Speaker 1: so let me just have a little look here. So
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Speaker 1: today I thought, let's talk about the Laciche, the Vampa
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Speaker 1: of Sunkota. Now I did talk about this briefly on
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Speaker 1: TikTok and and I pronounced his name is kiss instead
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Speaker 1: of Keish because I'm an idiot who sometimes does not
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Speaker 1: pronounce things correctly. And I was quickly corrected twice. Good
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Speaker 1: good for you. I was quickly corrected twice regarding my
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Speaker 1: mispronunciation of Keish. But it looks like kiss and English,
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Speaker 1: so and I thought, well, that's actually pretty funny because
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Speaker 1: it's kiss. But also nobody learned to kiss and tell.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm sure I had a pun in
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Speaker 1: there somewhere. So my sources are the Encyclopedia of serial
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Speaker 1: Killers Brian Lane and Wilwood greg from nineteen ninety two,
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Speaker 1: world famous murders Colin Wilson, Damon Wilson, Rowan Wilson, lots
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Speaker 1: of Wilson's on nineteen ninety three, and Murderpedia and a
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Speaker 1: word Press. Sinkota, Hungary, Europe, between East and West Bella
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Speaker 1: Caiche is known as the Vampire of Sinkota and the
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Speaker 1: Monster of Sinkota because he was a serial killer. So
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Speaker 1: how do I tell you about Bella Caish. Here's the thing.
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Speaker 1: The beginning. His origins are a little bit fuzzy because
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Speaker 1: you know, nobody really pays attention to somebody until after
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Speaker 1: they start doing crimes, so people weren't really keeping too
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Speaker 1: much of a record of what was going on beforehand.
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Speaker 1: But this is the best we got. So Bellakish was
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Speaker 1: born in eighteen seventy seven. Where he came from nobody knows.
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Speaker 1: We don't really know much about his life before nineteen twelve,
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Speaker 1: but in nineteen twelve he moves to Sinkota, which is
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Speaker 1: part of Budapest, with his young wife. In eighteen seventy
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Speaker 1: seven to nineteen twelve is forty thirty five thirty thirty
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Speaker 1: five thirty five, So he's about eh. Beila is born
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Speaker 1: in eighteen seventy seven and he is tall, blonde, handsome.
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Speaker 1: He has striking blue eyes and a glorious mustache by
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Speaker 1: all accounts. And this man had a trade. He was
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Speaker 1: a tinsmith, which does exactly what it says in the ten.
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Speaker 1: He smith's ten and other light metals. So we had
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Speaker 1: this trade. But but he is also reported as being
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Speaker 1: as a voracious reader, and you know what that means.
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Speaker 1: That's like that guy you know who's red capturing the
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Speaker 1: rye for fun, even though it's fucking boring and we
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Speaker 1: all know it's boring. But anyway, so he could talk
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Speaker 1: to anybody, so he would. He could charm the higher
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Speaker 1: the elites in the upper circles with conversations on literature,
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Speaker 1: art and history, even though he had like no formal schooling.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, he could basically gab with the best of them.
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Speaker 1: You know, he could basically talk about anything gap with
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Speaker 1: the best of them, you know, on with you know,
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Speaker 1: the intelligence and the edge you get to them, the
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Speaker 1: leading them. You know. You know what here reminds me
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Speaker 1: of you know those guys, those those people who own
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Speaker 1: the complete works of Shakespeare. Like they don't just own
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Speaker 1: the books separately or the plays separately, or like small selections.
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Speaker 1: It's like those big, motherfucking huge bricks of books. Nobody
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Speaker 1: reads those, there is nobody reads those. I love reading,
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Speaker 1: I do. I love book as much as the next person,
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Speaker 1: But have you ever tried to physically hold one of
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Speaker 1: those books open. It's like, there's a reason that the
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Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings you buy it in the three
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Speaker 1: separate volumes, or the Chronicles of Narnia are granted, they're
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Speaker 1: all like blah blah blah, but the one is there's
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Speaker 1: a reason that, like in general, when they release like
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Speaker 1: collections of books, they only really do like three at
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Speaker 1: a time because it's too heavy to hold in your hands.
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Speaker 1: So when somebody buys those fucking coffee table books, they're
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Speaker 1: doing it just to be a pretentious shit. And Bella
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Speaker 1: Caish is a fucking pretentious shit, you goddamn tart. Anyway, m.
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Speaker 2: Clearly I have some deep seated issues with Beila Caish
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Speaker 2: now anyway, So by the early nineteen hundreds, about February
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Speaker 2: nineteen twelve, Bailla Cash moves into a house in nine
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Speaker 2: Cossath streaked coutieth and nine goutcheth streetsuthkushy, kushoth cushthh.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume that it's either koshuth or kots youth,
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Speaker 1: and I've I've probably stopped pronounce that wrong. Anyway, it's
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Speaker 1: he moves into a street in the outskirts of sin Kota,
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Speaker 1: which is on the outskirts of Budapest in Hungary. There
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Speaker 1: we go. When he moves, he moves with his young wife.
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Speaker 1: So he's about thirty five, so she's fifteen years younger,
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Speaker 1: so she's twenty. And you know, we don't know what
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Speaker 1: that marriage was like, but in general I find that
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Speaker 1: marriages of the past with men with incredibly terrifying mustaches
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Speaker 1: probably weren't the most enlightening of situations. Well, all I
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Speaker 1: know is clearly this marriage was not going well because Marie,
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Speaker 1: his young wife, was having an affair, was having an
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Speaker 1: affair with Paul Bikery. Well I say she was having affair,
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Speaker 1: We only have Keisha's word that she was having an
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Speaker 1: affair with Paul. By December of nineteen twelve, Marie has
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Speaker 1: disappeared and then a crazy random happenstance, so has Paul
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Speaker 1: her So called lover. Now, I wouldn't blame her. Clearly
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Speaker 1: that mustache wasn't doing anything for Bayla's there. He's telling
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Speaker 1: all his neighbors, Ah, she left me with him. They
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Speaker 1: fled to the Americas. She clearly did not appreciate this mustache.
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Speaker 1: But it's okay. She clearly wanted something else, and he
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Speaker 1: was like, he basically gave off the impression that he
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Speaker 1: pitied her for leaving him, and did I get it?
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Speaker 1: But also, you know when someone's just that bit too
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Speaker 1: eager to explain away a situation. But so not long
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Speaker 1: after his wife's disappearance, he starts collecting these metal drums. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you know, you know, people in the neighborhood, they're like,
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Speaker 1: why the fuck does he have so many metal drums?
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Speaker 1: He says that he's collecting gasoline and oil because you know,
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Speaker 1: there's there's rumblings of a war coming, and so some
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Speaker 1: people are like, okay, cool, he's just really prepared, and
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Speaker 1: other people think he's just making his own hoitch and
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Speaker 1: that's why he's keeping it in the metal drums. He's like,
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Speaker 1: ayes probably making his own booze. That's that seems fair,
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Speaker 1: you know. And also during this time, a few women
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Speaker 1: are reported missing in Budapest. The only clues the police
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Speaker 1: have are they were going to meet a man called Hoffman.
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Speaker 1: But you know, I couldn't find this person. He just
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Speaker 1: disappeared overly prepared or you know, making his own booze.
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Speaker 1: And you know which either way during the war, you
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Speaker 1: either want to have booze or you want to have gasoline.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's fair enough. But they also they are
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Speaker 1: they seem as a friendly dude. He's nice, he's polite,
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Speaker 1: he's hard working. He throws parties at a local hotel
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Speaker 1: for the village so they can all come and party
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Speaker 1: and hang out and have a swell time and just
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Speaker 1: revel in this wonderful fellow's generosity. He's so kind, he's
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Speaker 1: so considerate. He's you're that lovely neighbor. He has a
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Speaker 1: masterful mustache. So he's seen as the town's most eligible bachelor.
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Speaker 1: You know, whether he gets a divorce or not, nobody
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Speaker 1: really knows. But they used to assume, you know, abandonment whatever.
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Speaker 1: So Keith, you know, doesn't have a woman around the
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Speaker 1: house anymore because you know, as far as everyone is concerned,
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Speaker 1: she's fucked off to the continent. The other continent, a
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Speaker 1: different continent with his uh with her her boyfriend. So
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Speaker 1: he's all alone, you know, at a home needs a
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Speaker 1: woman's touch, obviously, because it's the early nineteen hundreds AnyWho.
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Speaker 1: So he hires an elderly woman called missus Jacobec as
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Speaker 1: a housekeeper to basically do all domestic juries, to get
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Speaker 1: the dusting done, to wash his dirty linen's, make his food.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, general shit like that. So yeah, missus Jacobec,
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Speaker 1: she does all of the domestic juries that you know
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Speaker 1: a wife would normally do. Again, because it's the nineteen
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Speaker 1: hundreds anyway, the eligible bachelor becomes the gossip of the
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Speaker 1: town and he's a lady's man, man's man, man about town,
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Speaker 1: and you know, all of these women are coming. There's
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Speaker 1: like a conveyor belt of women just going through Bellakaisha's house.
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Speaker 1: And his housekeeper she's like, I'm just going to keep
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Speaker 1: myself to myself. It's nothing to do with me. You know,
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Speaker 1: he's my boss, regardless of whether I approve or not
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Speaker 1: of this behavior. It's nothing to do with me. Whatever.
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Speaker 1: Fair enough you do you, honey, So you know, the
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Speaker 1: gospel the town goes. They're like the curtain twitchers. The
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Speaker 1: curtain twitchers. They are aware. It's like a constant stream
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Speaker 1: of women. They don't really stay very long. You never
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Speaker 1: see the same woman twice, you know, that sort of way.
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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. He never introduced anyone to these women,
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Speaker 1: like even as housekeeper, Like I mean, she was kind
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Speaker 1: of like doing her own thing anyway, but like she
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Speaker 1: never knew the names of anybody who came into that house.
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Speaker 1: And so this happens. You know, this goes on for
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Speaker 1: a couple of years. Nineteen fourteen comes along and it's
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Speaker 1: the outbreak of World War One. Yeah, so Austria Hungary,
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Speaker 1: they were on the side of the Allies in World
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Speaker 1: War One. So Keisha's conscripted and he leaves his house
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Speaker 1: in the care of missus, missus jacobc one of it's
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Speaker 1: yakobc honor of it's is it Jacobec or is it Yakobec?
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Speaker 1: Maybe I've pronouncing her name wrong this entire time. So
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixteen rules around and reports come back to Sinkoda.
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Speaker 1: Incorrect reports come back to and go to that Belakeish
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Speaker 1: has been you know, killed in action, and the landlord
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Speaker 1: or so they say, the landlord probably thought two years
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Speaker 1: this is long enough. I need to get some money.
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Speaker 1: So he goes down, you know, he's like, I need
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Speaker 1: to get the place ready, make sure, you know, make
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Speaker 1: sure it's all clean and stuff, and I'll get a
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Speaker 1: lieutenant and you know, no harm, no will. There was
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Speaker 1: like one account which said the soldiers were like marching
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Speaker 1: through and we're looking for supplies for the war. Some
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Speaker 1: people in the village were like, hey, that bella kish
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Speaker 1: stood yead I had some you know, gasoline stockpiled that
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Speaker 1: we thought was hooch. But yeah, you can just go
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Speaker 1: go grab that because he ain't coming back, we don't think.
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Speaker 1: But by most accounts, but most versions that I've read
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Speaker 1: regarding this say that it was the landlord. So he
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Speaker 1: goes in, takes a wee look, you know. Some say
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Speaker 1: he had a clean clue crew, some saves on his own.
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Speaker 1: We don't know this exact bit of it information, you know,
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Speaker 1: and he wants to go, you know, see what repairs
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Speaker 1: need done in case like the house has fallen into
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Speaker 1: disrepair or other sort of stuff's gone wrong. And so
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Speaker 1: he gets to the property and outside the property there's
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Speaker 1: like he sees like a good few large metal drums,
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Speaker 1: and he's like okay. So he's like, I wonder if
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Speaker 1: it's oh, never is gasoline, because he's thinking, oh, great,
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Speaker 1: I can make you know, some money off of that.
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Speaker 1: Curiosity gets the better of him and he's like, ah,
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Speaker 1: i'm a I'm as roping Pandora's box here. So he
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Speaker 1: punctures one of the drums and he is overwhelmed by
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Speaker 1: this repugnant smell and it was just nauseating and disgusting,
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Speaker 1: and he's like, right, okay, And you know, there's a
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Speaker 1: chemist that live next door. So the chemist comes over
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Speaker 1: and he's like, mate, what the fuck is this smell?
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Speaker 1: And the chemist is like, dude, this is not verbeat him.
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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing. He's like, dude, ah, that is the unmistakable
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Speaker 1: stench of death. So Landlord Uh naturally freaks out and
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Speaker 1: phones the detective chief of the Burdapest Police, doctor Charles
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Speaker 1: Nagge Nagi Nage. I realize I don't know how any
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Speaker 1: Hungarian name is pronounced, Uh, how to pronounce nage? Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go with the internet. It says
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Speaker 1: his name is pronounced nag yakubit Ya Kubet, missus Yakubet,
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Speaker 1: I will I will say it correctly from now on.
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Speaker 1: Thank you Internet. Anyway. So doctor Charles Nag, the detective
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Speaker 1: chief of the Buripest Police, he gets the call from
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Speaker 1: the landlord in Skoda. He's like, think there may have
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Speaker 1: been a murder. He says, the house is rented out
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Speaker 1: to this soldier and and the lace has lapsed, but
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Speaker 1: he may also be like a prisoner of war or
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Speaker 1: dead or whatever. So I went having a wee look
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Speaker 1: and for the stuff, and I really and he begged,
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Speaker 1: you know, and he's like, can you please investigate us
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Speaker 1: because I cannot go back into this property until this
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Speaker 1: is figured. The fuck out Sonig basically grabs two of
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Speaker 1: his best detectives and fucking and you know, needs for
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Speaker 1: speeds down to the town and that, you know. So
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Speaker 1: they get there and the landlord's like, thank god here,
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Speaker 1: he's very excited. He greets them, and missus Yakobit, the housekeeper,
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Speaker 1: is less than pleased, and she straight up shouts. She
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Speaker 1: straight up shouts at the at the at the at
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Speaker 1: the policeman because she's like, she promised to safeguard like
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Speaker 1: all his stuff and you know, protect the house and
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Speaker 1: she's like, you should you should leave my master's property alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: So now has one of the metal drums opened, and
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Speaker 1: it confirms the you know, the suspicions that the awful
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Speaker 1: smell of human decomposition was in fact human decomposition. So
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Speaker 1: they open up the drum and hit with that just
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Speaker 1: cloud of stench, and then they face a sack and
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Speaker 1: the preserved body of a young woman, long dark brown hair,
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Speaker 1: the rope that she had been strangled with, and she
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Speaker 1: had been perfectly preserved by this weird alcohol pickling mix.
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Speaker 1: So naturally they're suspicious of missus Jakobit and they question
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Speaker 1: her about the metal canisters, about the big metal drums,
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Speaker 1: and she said, you know, people were talking about them,
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Speaker 1: you know that people had been talking and they thought
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Speaker 1: that he was like, yeah, it's homemade hooch in there,
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Speaker 1: some illegal booze. But like the town constable had come
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Speaker 1: to chat Doom, and he told the constable that it
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Speaker 1: was that he was just stocking up on gasoline for
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Speaker 1: the war. So a mertician is called in because they
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Speaker 1: have to, you know, collect the bodies of the victims.
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Speaker 1: So there's seven that are just out and about and
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Speaker 1: each one has a perfectly preserved naked women in them. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: in Dedictive nig he's like, Okay, we're gonna be like
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Speaker 1: super thorough. And he's like, we're gonna be thorough. So
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Speaker 1: they start digging up the grounds around the house and
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Speaker 1: they find seventeen more drums, and sixteen have a perfectly
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Speaker 1: preserved body of a naked of a woman who is nude,
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Speaker 1: and one man Paul, And every single one of these
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Speaker 1: victims had been strangled, so these bodies were so well
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Speaker 1: preserved that they were still easy that they were easily wrecking,
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Speaker 1: and the actually thought it was going to be quite
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Speaker 1: and so it wasn't actually going to be that tough
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Speaker 1: to identify them even by like nineteen fourteen sixteen standards.
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Speaker 1: Immediately and Like is hitting the ground running. He notifies
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Speaker 1: the military that by Lakeish, you know, if he's still around,
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Speaker 1: that he has to be arrested immediately. So the military
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Speaker 1: is out looking for Bay Lakeish, but it's kind of
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Speaker 1: tough because Keish is a really popular surname and Beyla
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Speaker 1: is a really popular forename, so he's actually pretty hard
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Speaker 1: to track down in general. So I also there's a
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Speaker 1: war going on. So it's very complicated. But anyway, So
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Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, he interrogates missus Yuki bit
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Speaker 1: because they think, oh, well, maybe he's gotten accomplice, maybe
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Speaker 1: she's been helping them, that's why she was so mad
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Speaker 1: at us. Blah blah blah blah blah. The first thing
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Speaker 1: they do is they're like, you know, they're like, we
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Speaker 1: need to identify these victims. They managed to find like
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Speaker 1: pieces of clothing and hang like a little bit of
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Speaker 1: a handkerchief with like initials on them, like kV on
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Speaker 1: one on another inside the house. So missus Zachbet sitting
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Speaker 1: there like freaking the fuck out, as one would when
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Speaker 1: you find out that there are literally dozens of bodies
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Speaker 1: in the garden in the place where you work anyway,
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Speaker 1: and that your boss is quite probably the one who
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Speaker 1: killed them. So she's sitting there, she's freaking out. She says,
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Speaker 1: she doesn't entered about it. She just knew be like
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Speaker 1: he says, you know, the dude who paid her well,
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Speaker 1: he was so kind and pleasant, so on and so forth.
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Speaker 1: So they're going through the house and it's spotless, like
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Speaker 1: she kept this place tip top, you know, because she's
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Speaker 1: good of what she does respect the drip Karen. And
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Speaker 1: so their detectors are going to their house and they
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Speaker 1: notice that this one door is locked and like, mate,
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Speaker 1: what is this And you know, she says, oh, that's
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Speaker 1: oh that's his private room. He told me never to
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Speaker 1: enter it into it and never to let anyone in.
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Speaker 1: And he's like, okay, well you kind of have to
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Speaker 1: let us in, and so she takes this key unlocks
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Speaker 1: the door and it's like an office. So the room
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Speaker 1: is lined with the bookcases and books and like in
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Speaker 1: the center of the room there's a desk and a chair,
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Speaker 1: very minimalist, and so they open the desk and there's
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Speaker 1: literally hundreds of letters. So there's alle hundreds of letters
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Speaker 1: all this list. So like there's just this massive volume
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Speaker 1: of correspondence, like this huge massive letters between Blacash and
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Speaker 1: like all these other people, except it doesn't have the
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Speaker 1: name Keish on it. It has the name Hoffmann. There's
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Speaker 1: also this photo album with like photos of more than
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Speaker 1: one hundred ladies. I mean you would have to like
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Speaker 1: set for a photo, you know what I mean, you
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Speaker 1: would have to like take the time, like it was
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Speaker 1: a big deal to get a photo back in the day.
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Speaker 1: So like, you know, that's a lot of effort. So
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Speaker 1: back to the fucking so yeah, back to these letters,
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Speaker 1: and you know, they see all these letters and they're like,
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Speaker 1: oh shit, one, if there's more victims than what is
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Speaker 1: outside what we've just dug up. And they go through
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Speaker 1: all these letters and so there's like seventy four packets
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Speaker 1: and each packet was all the male, all the correspondents
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Speaker 1: from like one woman, So seventy four separate packets of correspondence.
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Speaker 1: So there's like seventy four women that they could know of.
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Speaker 1: So bail Cash, as it turns out, also had a home,
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Speaker 1: had an apartment in Buruapest, but we don't really know
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Speaker 1: anything about that one the sivin. So what he would
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Speaker 1: do is he would post an ad in a lonely
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Speaker 1: Hearts column with like very particular sort of buzzwords to
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Speaker 1: try and get rich women to respond. And so basically
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Speaker 1: he was doing a onnely heart for marriage, and like
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Speaker 1: as they were going through these packets, there was like
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Speaker 1: a marriage proposal, so he got offered marriage. Yeah, so
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Speaker 1: he basically proposed to them. Throughout this. The only hard
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Speaker 1: thing it became really really clear to them that Bilakeish
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Speaker 1: was basically committing fraud. He was just stealing money from
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Speaker 1: these women on the promise of marriage and basically taking it,
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Speaker 1: like their savings, their financial resources, all that kind of jazz.
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Speaker 1: And these letters, some of them actually went back to
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Speaker 1: nineteen oh three, so before he actually got married himself.
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Speaker 1: Not only that, but and as they're looking around this office,
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Speaker 1: you know, they take a look at you know, what
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Speaker 1: are these books that are on the bookshelves, and they're
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Speaker 1: like poisons. They probably like poisons and string and methods
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Speaker 1: of strangulation and more poisons like oh okay, okay, and
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Speaker 1: you know it's it's just hmmmmmm. The head of police
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Speaker 1: is like, how, like how how was he doing this
23:08
Speaker 1: for so long and not getting caught. So again he
23:11
Speaker 1: goes back to missus Jakabit interviewer, well, interrogate her. So
23:16
Speaker 1: again she's like me, I'm a simple woman, and she's like,
23:20
Speaker 1: please don't send me to prison. He talks about how
23:23
Speaker 1: nice he was. There was a dog, you know that
23:26
Speaker 1: he was so kind of considerate. There was like a
23:28
Speaker 1: dog that broke his leg and she made us he
23:30
Speaker 1: made a splint for the dog. Couldn't kill it. He
23:33
Speaker 1: couldn't have killed these women when when mate, he he
23:36
Speaker 1: clearly killed these women. And as it turns out that
23:40
Speaker 1: Keish actually left his housekeeper like a decent amount of money,
23:45
Speaker 1: and as will cool, that's nice. But yeah, so she's like,
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Speaker 1: I knew nothing of this. I didn't know he left
23:52
Speaker 1: many money. I didn't know anything shit was going on.
23:55
Speaker 1: And she's just like overwhelmed with emotion as one would
23:58
Speaker 1: in this situation, and she just like straight up just
24:02
Speaker 1: starts solving and he's like, okay, now, if she knew
24:06
Speaker 1: anything about this, like we would know. So so Keish
24:11
Speaker 1: never gave any sort he never used his real name.
24:14
Speaker 1: He would call himself her Hoffmann. Keith would place carefully
24:18
Speaker 1: awarded advertisements in the matrimonial columns in the newspaper, and
24:24
Speaker 1: he would always ask questions about financial resources. He was
24:26
Speaker 1: always really careful to like cover his tracks as much
24:28
Speaker 1: as possible from going through like the letters and everything
24:32
Speaker 1: that was there and contacting other police departments where you know,
24:35
Speaker 1: he felt the women were from, and it would basically,
24:38
Speaker 1: you know, the letters would inquire basically what the letters
24:42
Speaker 1: were asking was how much money do you have? And
24:44
Speaker 1: also when anyone noticed if you went missing, like how
24:46
Speaker 1: many family members you got, like what's going on there? So,
24:50
Speaker 1: you know, and Keish would go visit them. He would
24:52
Speaker 1: spend money, and he would lavish attention on her and like,
24:57
Speaker 1: you know, make her feel like she was the Besney,
25:00
Speaker 1: like she was the apple of his eye, and other
25:03
Speaker 1: terms of endearment. I cannot think of the top of
25:04
Speaker 1: my head. I'm sorry, I'm losing my voice. I'm losing
25:07
Speaker 1: my voice. I'm so sorry. They were just going through
25:10
Speaker 1: everything with a fine tooth comb and like if he
25:13
Speaker 1: was and if there was like a reason that you know,
25:19
Speaker 1: if it looked like, you know, the woman was going
25:21
Speaker 1: to contact the police, he would just you know, he
25:23
Speaker 1: would just remove the problem, eliminate the issue in the situation.
25:28
Speaker 1: So they get their first break and it's Madam Catherine Varga.
25:33
Speaker 1: So the kV were the initials they found. And Catherine
25:37
Speaker 1: Varga was a young widow from Budapest and had a
25:42
Speaker 1: profitable dress making business and she sold it so she
25:45
Speaker 1: could meet with her profit because she had, you know,
25:49
Speaker 1: a new husband on the way, so she was like,
25:50
Speaker 1: I don't need to work now I got a husband.
25:53
Speaker 1: And when she disappears, no one, no one would miss her,
26:00
Speaker 1: No one notices that she's gone, and the good thing
26:02
Speaker 1: is like people made their own clothes and stuff like that,
26:04
Speaker 1: so like their names would be imbroid on it. So
26:07
Speaker 1: they find something else with has like Julianne Pastrick stitched
26:11
Speaker 1: in it. So then they go through stuff and they
26:13
Speaker 1: see that two women had actually sued Bailakeish for taking
26:18
Speaker 1: money on the problems of marriage, Julian Pashak and Elizabeth
26:22
Speaker 1: Coomermi surprisingly didn't show up to court, you know, which
26:27
Speaker 1: was very lucky. What do you know, nobody thought was
26:31
Speaker 1: suspicious anyway, So at this point they have enough evidence
26:35
Speaker 1: to prove that Keith had murdered thirty women, but at
26:40
Speaker 1: the up point, only one of the victims in the
26:42
Speaker 1: metal drums had actually been identified. They're able to identify
26:46
Speaker 1: Marie and they're able to identify Paul because they're known
26:50
Speaker 1: by the town, so they were actually pretty easy. And
26:52
Speaker 1: then so as it turns out, this woman shows up
26:56
Speaker 1: to the detective missus Toff and she goes, listen, my
27:01
Speaker 1: daughter was supposed to marry this dude bi Lakeish. He was,
27:05
Speaker 1: you know. She told me to give him money so
27:06
Speaker 1: they could get married. I gave him money. They did
27:09
Speaker 1: not get married, and Margaret said, you know, they'd gone
27:12
Speaker 1: back in the promise of marrying her. So I go
27:15
Speaker 1: to visit the dude, and when I go visit her,
27:18
Speaker 1: go visit him. He says that he only wanted to
27:20
Speaker 1: delay it, you know, for reasons, and and off she goes,
27:26
Speaker 1: and he says that Margaret has run off to America.
27:31
Speaker 1: Where have we heard the story before? This sounds familiar
27:34
Speaker 1: to anybody else, the same bullshit he said about Marie.
27:37
Speaker 1: Where he's going to save it Marie because this is
27:39
Speaker 1: like nineteen oh six anyway, So basically the way the detective,
27:42
Speaker 1: so the detective basically figures out that you know Margaret.
27:46
Speaker 1: Basically Kish gets Margaret to write a letter saying that
27:50
Speaker 1: she could not bear the shame of rejection by Bayla
27:53
Speaker 1: and that she was going to look for new love
27:55
Speaker 1: in America. So they have allways murders. Effectively, what he
27:59
Speaker 1: would do is steal money, and if he thought they
28:02
Speaker 1: were going to do anything report him or whatever, he
28:04
Speaker 1: would strangle them or poison them or maybe both. So
28:09
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Like the reason he's called the Vampire
28:12
Speaker 1: of Singoda is because he would ensanguinate the body, so
28:16
Speaker 1: he would drain the bodies of blood before placing them
28:19
Speaker 1: in the burrow. But it's find it so strange though,
28:22
Speaker 1: because like where did the blood go? What did he do? Anyway,
28:25
Speaker 1: So by you know, October in nineteen sixteen, Dr Nag
28:29
Speaker 1: basically receives a message from a Serbian hospital claiming that
28:34
Speaker 1: a soldier called Baila Keish died of typhoid in nineteen fifteen.
28:39
Speaker 1: Then he gets another message saying that Keish was alive
28:44
Speaker 1: and he was at the hospital. So he bolts it
28:46
Speaker 1: off there. So they get to the hospital and you know,
28:50
Speaker 1: by the time they get there, it's night, and they
28:52
Speaker 1: go in, you know, to see where bela Cash's is,
28:55
Speaker 1: you know, recuperating. So they get in there and the man,
29:00
Speaker 1: the man in Belakisha's bed is dead. However, that's not Belakish. Somehow, somehow,
29:09
Speaker 1: either Kish was warned or he had some premonition. I
29:12
Speaker 1: don't fucking know what the dude has ah maybe and
29:15
Speaker 1: he basically he basically does what the demented version of
29:20
Speaker 1: putting stuffing pillows in your bed to make it look
29:23
Speaker 1: like you're there. That's that's what he did. How this
29:27
Speaker 1: person died, we don't know if that, you know, the
29:29
Speaker 1: soldier died of like natural causes or whether you know,
29:32
Speaker 1: Kish strangled him and replaced him. Either way, he is gone. So, yeah,
29:38
Speaker 1: the vampire of Sincora is gone. But there are sightings
29:44
Speaker 1: of him for literal decades after this. Yes, so he's seen. Supposedly,
29:52
Speaker 1: Kish is sighted on the Market Bridge in Budapest, which
29:55
Speaker 1: was Hoffman's hunting grounds pre war. He's then in nineteen twenty,
30:03
Speaker 1: a member of the French Foreign Legion goes to the
30:06
Speaker 1: police and he's like, there's this legionnaire who I think
30:10
Speaker 1: might be Kish because you know, he says his name's Hoffman,
30:14
Speaker 1: and he keeps talking about how good he is with
30:16
Speaker 1: a girl and honestly kind of creepy. So they go,
30:24
Speaker 1: you know, the police are like, they go, they want
30:25
Speaker 1: to go check out this dude, Hoffman. They go to
30:28
Speaker 1: visit the unit. And also in addition, furthermore, they discover
30:35
Speaker 1: that Hoffman has deserted the French Foreign Legion. Okay, ah,
30:43
Speaker 1: there's reports of these, you know, these Hungarian soldiers, and
30:47
Speaker 1: they're like, ah, no, by Lakeish in prison in Romania
30:50
Speaker 1: for a burglary. Oh he was, he died of yellow
30:54
Speaker 1: fever in Turkey. Ah. So nineteen thirty two, so that's
30:59
Speaker 1: like another sixteen years later, Detective Henry Oswald, also known
31:04
Speaker 1: as Camera Eye because he has such a great memory
31:09
Speaker 1: for faces, was convinced that he saw by Lakeish walking
31:14
Speaker 1: out of a subway station in Times Square. So basically,
31:18
Speaker 1: people had this whole theory that you know, he would
31:20
Speaker 1: have been in the sixties at that point and living
31:24
Speaker 1: in New York, and rumors, you know, keep circulating, and
31:29
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty six, you know, the gossip was that
31:33
Speaker 1: he was working as a as a janitor in this
31:36
Speaker 1: apartment building. And so the police are like, okay, we'll
31:38
Speaker 1: go drig out. Nineteen thirty six, the wars just started,
31:42
Speaker 1: but we're not in it yet, so we'll go have
31:43
Speaker 1: a look. And when they go to interview the janitor,
31:47
Speaker 1: bim janitor has just disappeared. A lot of this is
31:50
Speaker 1: like they went to go chat to this suspicious dude,
31:53
Speaker 1: and this suspicious dude with a foreign accent has just
31:57
Speaker 1: fucked off for whatever reason. I mean, there's plenty of reasons,
32:00
Speaker 1: you know that people might be one of reasons why
32:03
Speaker 1: somebody might when I run away from place and that.
32:06
Speaker 1: But here's the thing, right, so there's all this supposed
32:10
Speaker 1: travel by Beila cash like all over the world. But
32:14
Speaker 1: there are no more crimes apart from these that have
32:16
Speaker 1: been attributed to him. So either a he was killed
32:20
Speaker 1: at war, or he was killed shortly after war, or
32:25
Speaker 1: b he was injured so severely in the war that
32:30
Speaker 1: he did not have the means, that he did not
32:33
Speaker 1: have the means or the ability of capability to continue killing.
32:38
Speaker 1: Or c he just kept killing but he just wasn't caught.
32:44
Speaker 1: Ohso this whole thing about camera eye is, as far
32:46
Speaker 1: as I know, the so called photo which is like
32:50
Speaker 1: the soldier with a mustache in the hat that is
32:52
Speaker 1: attributed to being Beilakeish is I think a sketch as
32:57
Speaker 1: far as I know, I don't know if it's actually Yeah,
33:00
Speaker 1: it's a sketch, it's not quite a Also, in addition, furthermore,
33:09
Speaker 1: why did he keep them Like here's the thing, like,
33:13
Speaker 1: why did he keep the bodies so close when they
33:17
Speaker 1: could be easily detected? But yeah, hmmm, So that that
33:24
Speaker 1: was the story of bi Lakeish, the vampire slashed monster
33:29
Speaker 1: of Senkota. So what did we learned today? One do
33:34
Speaker 1: not trust men with mustaches. I think that's clearer for everybody.
33:38
Speaker 1: Do not trust men with mustaches. The bigger the mustache,
33:42
Speaker 1: the more dangerous they are. So you know that mixologist,
33:45
Speaker 1: you know in that bar with the with the vintage
33:49
Speaker 1: style lights and they've got the tuxedo one, don't trust them. No, no, no,
33:53
Speaker 1: no no. I don't care how John Taylor's mustache is.
33:56
Speaker 1: It is not worth it, don't. So the past is frightening.
34:01
Speaker 1: I feel like as another another thing we should take
34:05
Speaker 1: on board recommendations. Guess who's finally reading a book that
34:13
Speaker 1: isn't about history. Nope, I'm reading Women Don't Owe You
34:17
Speaker 1: Pretty by Florence Given. So I'm gonna have a wee
34:21
Speaker 1: look over that and see how we get on. I'm
34:24
Speaker 1: pretty excited to read it, actually, especially considering I've ordered
34:29
Speaker 1: so many books and they've only started to arrive and
34:31
Speaker 1: they're all like delayed and stuff. So that's not fun,
34:34
Speaker 1: I must add. But anyway, that's not the point. So
34:38
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34:57
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34:59
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35:19
Speaker 1: eating as much cheese as physically possible, and possibly I know,
35:23
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Speaker 1: that'll that'll do. That's fine, that's fine, it's fine.
35:31
Speaker 2: Oh.
35:32
Speaker 1: I have started listening to podcast recommendation. Actually, I started
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Speaker 1: listening to I started listening to Small Town Murder, and
35:39
Speaker 1: those guys are so funny. They're so funny. I am.
35:43
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35:47
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Speaker 1: this talking at you. No, I actually so, I usually
36:03
Speaker 1: don't buy new things in general. I tend to wear
36:07
Speaker 1: pre loved stuff. But this girl showed up on my
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Speaker 1: TikTok and she's on Deep Hop. It's Radiohead one two three.
36:18
Speaker 1: Radiohead one two three. She made these ear rings that
36:24
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Speaker 1: I wast frying pans. Yes, the frying pans. So then
36:29
Speaker 1: I had to go instet up a deepop so I
36:31
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36:36
Speaker 1: I bought the frying pan ear rings. Yeah, when I
36:39
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Speaker 1: excited about that. That's my good news of the week,
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