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  • S11, Chapter 5: Killing Binge

    S11, Chapter 5: Killing Binge
    Dec 30 2025
    "We've all heard women scream in horror films ... still, we know that no-one is really screaming. Why? Simply because an actress can't produce some sounds that convince us that something vile and heinous is happening. If you ever heard that tape, there is just no possible way that you'd not begin crying and trembling. I doubt you could listen to more than a full sixty seconds of it."

    Roy Norris, describing his recollections of the audio tape the pair had created of Shirley Ledford's rape and torture.

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    20six Hundred
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    Augusta Treverorum
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    25 mins
  • S11, Chapter 4: Lucinda Lynn Schaefer

    S11, Chapter 4: Lucinda Lynn Schaefer
    Nov 12 2025
    It was the summer of 1979. The last vestiges of the 1970s were set to expire and welcome in the rip and roar era of the 80s. This chapter takes place in Torrance, California, a coastal town where the air smells faintly of salt and sun-baked asphalt. The streets glow soft orange beneath the high pressure sodium streetlights.

    Sixteen-year-old Lucinda Lynn Schaefer walks those streets often, the kind of girl who never seems out of place anywhere. Her friends call her Cindy. Blonde hair, bright blue eyes, always with a book tucked under her arm or a quick smile ready to disarm a stranger.

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    Music Credit:
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    • 20Six Hundred - https://20sixhundred.bandcamp.com/
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    20 mins
  • S11, Chapter 3: Murder Mac

    S11, Chapter 3: Murder Mac
    Oct 10 2025
    No credits this week because I didn't want to delay this episode any longer.
    For their plan to work, Larry Bittaker knew they couldn’t rely on just any car. They needed something bigger… something that could trap a victim inside. In February of 1979, with money from Norris, he bought it—a silver-gray 1977 GMC Vandura.

    The van was windowless on one side, with a sliding door large enough to swallow someone whole. Bittaker later admitted that when he first saw that door, he knew. They could pull up close to a girl, slide it open, and drag her inside without anyone noticing.

    The pair gave the vehicle a name. To them, it wasn’t just a van. It was their “Murder Mac.”

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    21 mins
  • S11, Chapter 2: California Men's Colony

    S11, Chapter 2: California Men's Colony
    Sep 11 2025
    Two men are locked inside the California Men’s Colony — a medium-security state prison tucked away in the rolling hills of San Luis Obispo.

    It wasn’t a fortress like San Quentin.

    It didn’t house the state’s most violent criminals.

    And its reputation was far from what you’d expect of a place that would soon become a breeding ground for one of the most sadistic criminal partnerships in modern history.

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    BABY-DOLL-BEATZ
    https://www.youtube.com/@baby-doll-beatz
    https://www.youtube.com/@lovechapo
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    28 mins
  • S11, Chapter 1: Genesis of Evil

    S11, Chapter 1: Genesis of Evil
    Aug 8 2025
    Two men. Five girls. One summer of calculated, incomprehensible cruelty.

    This is the story of The Toobox Killers. (If you think you already know this story you might be surprised.)

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    Music Credit:

    Augusta Treverorum
    https://linktr.ee/trvrrm

    BABY-DOLL-BEATZ
    https://www.youtube.com/@baby-doll-beatz
    https://www.youtube.com/@lovechapo
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    52 mins
  • Joel the Ripper

    Joel the Ripper
    Jul 9 2025
    In the suburbs of Long Island, behind the quiet streets and manicured lawns, something dark was festering. Joel Rifkin, a man with a soft voice, thinning hair, and a passion for gardening, harbored a secret—one that would horrify the nation.

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    21 mins
  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct

    Unsportsmanlike Conduct
    Jun 18 2025
    (00:00:00) Unsportsmanlike Conduct
    (00:00:19) chapter 1
    (00:04:38) chapter 2
    (00:13:07) chapter 3

    Three tales of rage and ruin in the sports world.

    Chapter 1 = The Gruesome Death of Otavio da Silva
    Chapter 2 = Bruiser Brody
    Chapter 3 = Snook

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    BABY-DOLL-BEATZ
    https://www.youtube.com/@baby-doll-beatz
    https://www.youtube.com/@lovechapo
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    18 mins
  • Twice Dead: The Tragic Tale of Becky Thomson

    Twice Dead: The Tragic Tale of Becky Thomson
    Jun 9 2025
    Eighteen-year-old Becky Thomson Brown grabbed her keys and asked her 11-year-old half-sister, Amy Burridge, if she wanted to come along for a quick grocery run.

    It was a trip that would ultimately change both of their lives forever.

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    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-23-mn-7229-story.html

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/08/13/a-crimes-lasting-wounds/f4cd227d-d5dc-422f-bf3c-99ccbcd5ad3b/

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    19 mins