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The Strength to Keep Moving Forward · The World Knowledge

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Speaker 1: Well, good evening, listeners. Thank you again, as always. I'm
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Speaker 1: so grateful for all you guys who have built this
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Speaker 1: podcast up, who listen, who watch. And I've just been,
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Speaker 1: you know, falling across so many different stories this year,
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Speaker 1: and they're so different. But I came across Dawn Wilcox,
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Speaker 1: who's on the screen, and then for those listening, you'll
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Speaker 1: hear her voice.
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Speaker 2: I think that a lot of times people... have this
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Speaker 2: idea that serial killers or it's presented that there's some
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Speaker 2: sort of geniuses, you know, and, and what is more
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Speaker 2: true is that they target and, and, and, and go
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Speaker 2: off who they think nobody cares about. So that especially
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Speaker 2: speaks to women who are vulnerable because of their, you know,
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Speaker 2: racial group or because they are, maybe have substance abuse
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Speaker 2: problems or they struggle with housing and are housing insecure,
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Speaker 2: or maybe they have a history of being, you know,
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Speaker 2: in commercial sexual exploitation. So those women, you know, are
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Speaker 2: especially vulnerable to violence. To, you know, being targeted. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's one of the things I've talked about
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Speaker 2: many times is like when you look at Gary Ridgway,
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Speaker 2: who was, and I hate monikers, but the Green River
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Speaker 2: Killer in Seattle. And then you look at, you know,
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Speaker 2: some of the others, Ted Bundy and some of the other,
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Speaker 2: you know, serial killers that are more well known. they
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Speaker 2: killed and you think, okay, what would happen if 67
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Speaker 2: postal workers were murdered or 67 lawyers or 88, you know,
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Speaker 2: any other group of people. And it just seems like,
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Speaker 2: you know, something's going terribly wrong when you have one man,
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Speaker 2: one man kill, you know, dozens and dozens of women
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Speaker 2: and it go either unnoticed or unnoticed. It's not very
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Speaker 2: aggressively investigated. All of those kind of things are very,
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Speaker 2: you know, sad to think about that these are women
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Speaker 2: who were basically forgotten. And certainly, you know, when we
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Speaker 2: look at cases that are cold cases and solved, you know,
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Speaker 2: in some of those cases, women went missing and were
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Speaker 2: never reported missing. So they were missing, missing, you know.
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Speaker 2: And this whole concept of, you know, like the husband
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Speaker 2: did it. I'll go back and look at cases from,
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Speaker 2: you know, the 60s, the 70s. And it wasn't unusual
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Speaker 2: for a husband to just say she left and she
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Speaker 2: ran off with her boyfriend and moved to Brazil. And
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Speaker 2: nobody looked into it. Like they just kind of took
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Speaker 2: his word for it. And in the meantime, mommy's buried
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Speaker 2: in the backyard, you know. Um, so, uh, it's just
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Speaker 2: baffling how, you know, how many women are murdered that
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Speaker 2: we don't even know that they're murdered, that they're missing.
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Speaker 2: We haven't, you know, they were either not reported missing
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Speaker 2: or they've been missing for decades. There's been no sign
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Speaker 2: of life. Um, and, uh, somebody's gotten away with it.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, I think about the fact that women
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Speaker 1: and children, you know, throughout history, and this is not
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Speaker 1: to say that men have not suffered, they have, and
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Speaker 1: their suffering is very individual and different. And men have
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Speaker 1: been killed and murdered too by other men, by women.
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Speaker 1: But over, you know, history, whenever you think about children
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Speaker 1: and women, they're just, and when I say this, I
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Speaker 1: say this in the sense of physically weaker women. Emotionally,
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Speaker 1: they're easier to be manipulated because emotions for women are
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Speaker 1: very strong. Women have a keen sense of caretaking, of nurturing,
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Speaker 1: and that can be very easily twisted and used.
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Speaker 3: Women also, I think we naturally doubt that we're right.
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Speaker 3: we're kind of just kind of like, maybe I'm seeing
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Speaker 3: this the wrong way. Maybe we're quick to want to
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Speaker 3: give the benefit of the doubt to other people in
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Speaker 3: situations and maybe just go, maybe I was just overthinking that.
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Speaker 3: That wasn't really the case. And so I think women
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Speaker 3: and children just naturally become victims of more violence in
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Speaker 3: part because physically they can't fight if they're going to
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Speaker 3: be strangled by a guy, yeah, they can try. Some
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Speaker 3: women make it, but I mean, I mean, they're not strong, strong.
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Speaker 3: So they're already, there's a loss there. And on top
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Speaker 3: of it, there's, if, especially when you're mentioning, if there's
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Speaker 3: a sexual connection between a man and a woman in
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Speaker 3: the man's one, I mean, there's, that's just so complicated.
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Speaker 3: and complex, you know, maybe in the back of their mind,
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Speaker 3: they're also thinking, oh, you know, this will, this will end.
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Speaker 3: They'll stop doing this. They'll realize. Um, and I just think,
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Speaker 3: you know, throughout history, women and children just being victims
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Speaker 3: of great crime because they're just easy to target. They're
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Speaker 3: easier to, um, dispose of.
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Speaker 1: They're easier to