The Worst of the Best Podcast

hi everyone Ryan here host of the worst of the best podcast thanks for
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downloading and I hope you'll still give us a listen it's not often that we talk about True Crime but this episode we are
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doing that so there are going to be some topics that we discussed today that involve horrific events that happen to
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some individuals and we don't go into great detail but we want to make it
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clear that we do describe some of the results of the crimes that happened to these people and if such content is
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something that would be upsetting to you feel free to not listen or skip such
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Parts as they come about it's not every single topic but they do come up so this
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is not necessarily not safe for work it's just a darker subject today other
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than that happy Halloween everyone be safe and let's take a listen to today's
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episode welcome to the worst of the best podcast you wanted the best well they
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didn't freaking make it so here's what you get from Canada and Texas Ryan and
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Bob [Applause]
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I'm ready okay yeah I know you're ready all right welcome to the worst of the
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best podcast I your host Ryan and with me is Bob from the no redeeming quality
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podcast yeah hey you know what this is the first time that you've been on my show right that is right at least this
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show wait did we go on the rocky podcast show you've been on twice on that one
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what I haven't have I I well I know you've been on at least once if not I think you just came on our show no I'm
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90% sure you guys came on mine at least zip has but I think you ran out of Rocky
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[ __ ] for me to wait are you swearing on this show don't worry about it I will edit accordingly I just just just I'll
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keep it to a minimum I'll try and keep it to a zero
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and then we'll do my best anyway so I think you ran out of Rocky before I
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could come on to that one we're on the Creed franchise now on that one oh God I
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was not a fan anyway no you don't have to be we're torn about the Creed franchise we are there's good things
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about all the good stuff in the Creed films happens to be when Stallone's on screen yes it is oh I said at least
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Michael B Jordan's still alive he's still alive yeah for sure well Stallone's still alive too yeah
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zip might jump in mid recording if he does great if not Bob and I are prepared
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to pick up the slack which is you know regarding zip that's pretty common we we often have to pick up his slack don't
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you think yeah we keep up the energy that's how it goes well I'm excited to
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riff with you all the same and this will be a I guess this is part of the gamber Gator
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Halloween do Halloween in Canada yeah we absolutely I don't know we get told it's
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only American all the time when it goes to the other commonwealth countries so I
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think it's even in some places in Europe and like England I think does Halloween and stuff like that uh but definitely
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Canada it's uh very well celebrated up here in fact we do like fireworks and firecrackers on Halloween what I'm Jelly
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I want some of that yeah it's amazing it's toned down a little bit over the years but when I was a teenager we would
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have like the Roman Candle Wars and firecracker Wars and get chased by the cops fireworks for us are like the same
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thing for handguns for you guys how cold is it on Halloween up
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there well it depends how North you are of course any City along the border it's
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normal fall weather it's chilly very rarely is it snowing but it just again it depends how far north you are not for
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the majority of the population it's just chilly and cold this is good cada talk for everybody hey why not hey that's
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okay we're an international podcast you know as stated in my intro the lers
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heard that you are from Texas and and funny enough we are going to talk about
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Texas today were there any of these stories or accounts that you anything that you were familiar with so I did
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know about the Amber Alert system at least a little bit and I knew about when to goes in general what's good because
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today's list is the top 10 lesser known Texas terrors it's good you didn't know
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them all or else that would kind of defeat the purpose of the list oh oh crap I did know about the railroad
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killer I remember when that was happening okay don't say anymore don't say anymore because I I don't want to spoil it okay okay so what we're going
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to do I would suspect I didn't know any of these and that's probably partially due to my geographical location I didn't
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know any of these but it's not surprising that you might have heard of some of these having been and having you
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are now a resident in Texas have you been in Texas your whole life oh ra baby
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in the Houston area yep htown all the way Texas as you know is a big state but
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I always thought it was the biggest but I guess Alaska takes out Alaska's the biggest now okay now what is a Texas
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German Germans were a huge population of immigrants whenever they moved here and
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there are still parts of the state like in Central Texas where Austin is located
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it's directly in the middle of the state outside of the city when you get into like the rural parts there is still
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small towns where people speak German and they'll hold church services in German and things like that okay
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interesting and what is Texas German do they actually mix some German with Texas or English it's a thing uh that's a big
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beer culture and like we still have beer gardens and things like that oh cool well cool well that's kind of the
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lighter side of Texas but unfortunately there is a dark side to Texas you
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probably know this and I'm sure listeners know this but Texas is huge it's uh got a rich history and because
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of that there's a lot of tales of uh ghosts and Ghouls and some of our Tales today might involve some ghosts and some
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of them are real life people that are I would say scarier than ghost this list
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will combine the real with the Supernatural and we're going to discuss those now what made you bring up Texas
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Germans I was just curious in in my research about Texas they were they were talking about there was thousands of
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German I wanted to hear your take on it that's all just okay yeah wondering okay
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cool yeah yeah yeah that's a thing well I mean there's pockets of other cultures everywhere in Canada too and and in the
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US but I'm just curious how the Germans ended up in Texas that's all yeah that's a big population that's where um Texas
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Del barbecue comes from it's the the Czech immigrant populations that's where that all okay there you go all right the
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German's like hey we want to go where uh being white is uh the way to be is there
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exactly there's a whole lot of whole lot of room geez all right so here we go
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number 10 Deep in southern Texas between the city of San Antonio and the Gulf Coast lies a town called Yorktown have
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you heard of this town no and that's a whole lot of area for them to to say
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yeah sure I don't know the area Yorktown had a hospital there that was built in
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the late 1800s and it closed down just the 1986 but it opened after 86 to 92
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strictly as a drug rehabilitation facility and it catered to patients seeking recovery from drugs and alcohol
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but it seems that the time though as you can imagine people that went there were sick maybe you could say they were U
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angry mental health issues whatever and during that time many people died there specifically between 1950 in 1980 2,000
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patients died there good Lord yeah that's common for hospitals and speaking of so we're talking about a haunting
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here at the Yorktown hospital so this is the Yorktown Memorial hospital I would say if you're into investigating
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hauntings and if that is something that you enjoy uh looking into abandoned
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hospitals are probably pretty common hot spots for hauntings just because of the
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the energy if you just want to talk about energy there's a lot of sadness sickness pain death so if there ever was
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and I would say jails would probably be number two for that kind of Haunting one of Houston's most famous
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ones is the Old Jefferson Davis Hospital there you go yeah to this day the uh
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it's owned by private privately owned now and it's now open to the public for people to go and experience the strange
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lights inexplicable sounds they people hear footsteps and toys start talking
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and all this stuff and I've actually went on YouTube today to see if anyone has recorded anything of course people have it's legit a really at the very
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least it is they did not do anything to upkeep it whoever bought that this place literally said we're going to buy it and
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we're not going to do anything to it and it's gross it looks terrible it's there's
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like some interesting photos and stuff uh people look what's your feelings on haunting do you think they're
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real oh man oh psychic energy strange
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you can really manifest a whole lot of stuff whenever you start believing in things you can really put a lot lot of
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emphasis into just the void my man really depends yeah I I I sometimes
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wonder about the to I wonder how much of it is US projecting our own fears they did film stuff there was if you're to
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believe the photos that I saw on YouTube some of the photos and film footage was pretty pretty convincing I've seen some
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stuff on the internet seems pretty convincing so am I being lied to maybe but at the same time yeah I wonder how
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much of our own personal energy goes out there cuz you have people like I don't believe in that stuff I don't believe it's it's all hogwash and then of course
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they'll never have anything happen to them because they just don't believe it yeah I also do know that there's weird like physical explanations for things
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like there's certain sound frequencies that are like the resonance frequency for your eyeballs that actually make you
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see gray things on like the fringes of your eyesight because it's the resonance frequency for your eyes also causes
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extreme paranoia or just fear and anxiety because it's this strange sensation that your brain isn't used to
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being able to handle cuz it's your eyeballs things like that so yeah it's up to
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interpretation would you ever visit a a place like this pay money if if you had the money would you stay overnight in a
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place like this oh man overnight dep like an abandoned hospital with with
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with a group of let's see it's it's you and zip an abandoned hospital
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no like haunted hotels sure definitely I would totally do that today i' go on
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hallow I'd take a date to a haunted hotel but like a dirty ass like abandoned hospital
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that's all groy and slimy and full of horrendous things absolutely not I'm not
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gonna pay money to go do that well this is a popular hotspot I did read some Google reviews and people if like again
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if you believe the reviews people have seen things they've seen uh musical sounds in the hallways they seen shadow
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figures with red eyes uh talking dolls yeah it's not for me that one that's
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what you said that made me say I've seen that already going around the talking toys is what said like absolutely not I
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would not be able to handle that oh if I saw that in reality I would immediately
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be out the door there you go all right let's move to number nine the Yorktown
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windigo okay okay in Yorktown same small little town according to eyewitnesses
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people of posted their experiences online Yorktown is possibly home to a
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wind too now Ryan do you know what a wind too is I don't I'm looking at the
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the artist rendition here I I would think it was like a dog but I guess it's not okay actually artist preditions of
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wind ghost can be freaking horrifying oh like dude some wind to go drawings and
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there's uh models and things they're terrif I do not like them they freak me out but a wind too is supposedly there's
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a lot of Native American Renditions what do they call Native Americans in Canada
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like First Peoples Aboriginal or First Nations yeah First Nations okay yeah
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yeah and there's a lot of folklore around windigo okay and a lot of what
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their interpretations was they were people that resorted to cannibalism and
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that's what happens when you resort to cannibalism is you become a wendigo like you know how a lot of
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religious practices were to prevent you from doing doing something like they say
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how a lot of Orthodox Jewish practices of kosher were Health practices like
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shellfish and things at the time and blah blah blah and pork and stuff like that it was like yeah don't be cannibals
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because you become a windigo things like that oh wow yeah I think there's an xfiles episode on this oh probably but
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they're gigantic like Walker things they're horrific and they're super pale
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skin and giant teeth and really long spindly appendages and stuff like that
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they're murderous and they can possibly turn other people into windigos and stuff like that but apparently outside
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of Yorktown Texas people have come into contact with the windigo boy Yorktown
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that's a bad place I've never heard of this Yorktown place and I need to look it up and
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possibly go out there but there's a whole Reddit page dedicated to the windo and if you want to look it up you can go
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to the Yorktown windo page and see what people have to say but apparently it's bald and has black eyes and you can see
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it on Misty Nights outside of Yorktown so oh that's
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crazy G yeah so for our listeners I forgot to say that's okay so what we're going to be doing here I haven't really
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figured out the criteria for this cuz this is the worst of the best so this is kind of a best of lesser known Texas
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Terrors so that's what makes them the best they're they're not a good thing but it's the best of the Lesser known
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Texas Terrors so we have to decide now don't say it now of course but at the end at the end of our list because I
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haven't made my pick yet we can figure out how we want to do like what is the worst thing you would want to face be a
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part of or you know what I mean or what you just think is the worst evil whatever you want well I'll make it whatever you want at the end uh yeah so
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it's kind of like if you had to come face to face with whatever this thing is whatever it is out of the list maybe
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that would count like what is the one thing you would want to face the least okay I got you I'm I'm down okay I'm
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picking up what you're putting down all right good all right number eight the goat man of Lake Worth have you ever
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heard of Lake Worth I have heard of a goat man so uh
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Lakeworth I do know Lakeworth okay yeah sure okay so you've heard of a goat man I've heard a goat boy from Saturday
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Night Live that's what I'm thinking of okay yeah by Jim Brewer yeah there we go
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that's what I was thinking all right so it all started in July 1969 across from Greer Island on the north side of
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Texas's lak worth a crowd of startled Spectators saw a creature that was neither a goat nor a man in fact as they
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claimed the creature was a fishy Goatman one member of the crowd had
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enough of their wits left to snap a photo of the monster and they captured a furry hazy and large white thing sing
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tall among s weed do you see it oh yeah uh that is a man
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wearing a [Laughter]
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carpet are you sure it's not a fishy Goatman what about the goat man is fishy
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is what I want to know are they saying it smells fishy or I don't know maybe
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because it was near the water that's my only guess later known simply as the lake Goatman this strange crypted is not
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America's only half goat monstrosity but it may well be its most documented after
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first appearing in an article in the Star Telegram newspaper the Goatman quickly be became a local celebrity with
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area residents invested in traps and bullets sounds like Texas in order to in
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order to capture or kill the creature Goatman Hunters are so numerous that the website for the tarant County Historical
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Journal felt it necessary to post a warning about going after G Island's most famous resident why is the first
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instinct to kill the thing I don't catch the goat man well they did
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have traps I guess there was some who had traps and some who had bullets I think so whatever whatever TR it so they
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could kill it that's funny so while it was written
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off as a hoax the Goatman which eyewitnesses claimed jumped on parked cars and grabbed at least one female on
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the night of July 9th 1969
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hell yeah goat man get it he was the center of several police
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reports for at least 2 months similarly one of the cars attacked by the monster was found to have an 18in gash on the
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side of its doors so local police investigated but came up empty several decades later in 2005 a reporter for the
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Star Telegram again received a letter lacking a name and forwarding address but the baz star letter offered a
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confession the writer said that they were once a student at Northside High School and on July 9th 1969 they went
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out to Lake Worth wearing a mask they did it just to scare their classmates the letter has never been verified but
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it's more than likely true that the goat man was some dumb teenager in a first suit or carpet like you're saying but on
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the off chance of a halfman half goat R's Lake Worth it would be a good idea to visit the location with a camera and
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a well oiled hunting rifle I now that we've gotten through that
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after you got to that part I do remember this story only because I do remember
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them sending in the letter but as we were getting to that I was just like wait a second in Broad day earlier at
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some point the goat man jumps on a car in front of people and grabs a woman
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like it tries to run off and people were just like oh no what a mystery and like
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just let the goat man get away maybe they should have changed his name after grabbing the woman it should have been
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the grope
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man oh God that kid is lucky he didn't get
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murdered by like did he know that everybody was going out to shoot him
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well sounds like it was just one night of groping and
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goating that just turned to a whole like let's get this guy but he never showed up
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again I hope that suit was easy to put together I mean it looks like it looks like he just put together a shag carpet
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I love it no man Goatman he's my favorite
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definitely not the worst he so far he's the best Goatman he should be a character on a comic book or something
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yeah I'd hang out with the goat man all right I've got the next one number seven rumors of the devil okay wa year were
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you born again 89 okay you don't remember this I was born in 75 so I do
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recall the 80s being much like what we're about to read here cuz I was 15 when 1990 hit so I was definitely of age
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to remember kind of the scare uh but kind of the paranoia behind sat yeah
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yeah so yeah the 1980s were the decade of Reaganomics Margaret Thatcher popular access cocaine and heavy metal which I
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would totally participate in and still do heavy metal and hard rock the 1980s were also the age of the satanic Panic a
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protracted hysteria that blamed everything from MTV to Dungeons and Dragons for the supposed upsurge and
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satanic crimes the good people of Texas were not immune to this virus truth be told one of the most infamous examples
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of the satanic Panic occurred in the small town of childis between 1988 and 91 so this is what happened one evening
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terrible Discovery was made Tate Roland a local teenager was found hanging from a tree now the sheriff's department
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interviewed everyone in the role in family and to and to a person they said that Tate was not suicidal however the
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one eyewitness in the case contradicted this saying that he saw Tate hang himself and that's about where things
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stood until May of 91 when so basically the the contradiction is that somebody said that yeah I saw him hang himself
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which is odd that his buddy was just like or his eyewitness is like yeah I saw a guy hang
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himself but the family was like I we never saw any mental health issues so understandable but all the same was
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ruled as suicide that's about where things stood until May of 91 when 27-year-old Terry Trosper Tate's older
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sister was also found dead in her bed so two deaths anywhere is alarming in a family but when it happens town of just
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5,800 people it might be more than a coincidence despite family surgeons to the contrary investigators learned that
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Tate's death was a suicide caused by a recent breakup with his girlfriend as for Terry an autopsy found that she had
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died after choking on her own vomit and Terry's Blood also showed a high levels of the drug elville which is most often
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used to treat anxiety and major depressive disorder so these official findings were not made public in time to
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stop a panic however so the rumor mill a chis went to work even before Tate
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Rolland was buried reports flood into the police saying that strange and unknown people attended Tate's funeral
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including one young male who chanted the word suicide suicide throughout the
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service this rumor ran in conjunction with several police reports filed in November of 1988 which claimed that a
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truck carrying unidentified persons was seen trying to pick up children from local schools some even said that Tate
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himself was a member of a satanic cult yeah there were even reports of people in Black robes hanging in out in
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abandoned buildings and one report went so far as to say a local teenager was
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seen eating the
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Bible yeah yeah that's what they do oh my goodness okay so things took a
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strange turn when Darwin wils a friend of Terry's tried to commit suicide by swalling between 25 and 30 tablets of
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alil his suicide note read I know something the cops don't know I know who
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kill Terry I can't live anymore so a new autopsy on Tate Roland's body discovered
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that he too had taken alil before his death even more shocking were the findings of the second autopsy on Terry
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which found that she had contusions on her inner thighs and in her mouth which is really bad that they found this on
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the second autopsy this is something you think you would automatically look for if you may have seen too many crime shows but the first thing you look for
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especially on female victims or any victim really is you're looking for sexual assault these wounds did indicate that
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she' been sexually assaulted by at least two men prior to her death so now this adds up a little bit but you could also
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argue that you had yeah she still could have committed suicide because of the sexual assault yep yeah yeah so in the
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wake of these findings the Texas r just put out a pamphlet outlining what to look for in ritual murder cases although
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Tate Rollins is still considered a suicide and even though no murder charges were ever brought in the case of Terry Trosper many people in that town
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think that dark Forces were at play back in those
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days pretty weird we have so many little towns out here that have their own weird
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little stories but how they think they're satanic Cults that used to be around back there and there's all sorts
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of abandoned little house is that there's little Satanist in there and you can see him at night there's Athens
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Texas which uh they still say they're Satanist out there it's embarrassing a
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little bit but no that's bizarre I would argue and correct me if I'm wrong I'm not
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shaming religious people here but I'm just saying I think Texas is kind of known for its religious
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Vigor oh you kidding me I'm trying to be polite
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yeah it's Bible Belt country around here so I wonder if there's a connection between blaming all this craziness just
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on yeah know some people are just have mental health issues oh no yeah uh this
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was at a time during the 80s when people still were refus to acknowledge depression and suicide and anxiety
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especially in young men I'm going to assume like weird that the boy was found
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with the Lille overdose I would think maybe the girls raped and murdered and
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they made it look like a suicide I don't know oh interesting too bad rest in
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peace to those poor families all the same geez all right you want to talk about the Amber Alert System yeah I I
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had no idea there was any any connection to Texas have that Canada no we have it but I didn't realize there's con a Texas
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connection yeah is that what it's called yeah yeah we call it that here do y have the Silver Alert not if we do I don't I
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I don't know I haven't heard of it a silver alert is for an elderly person
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Silver Fox kind of yeah exactly actually like an elderly person who may or may not
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have control of their mental faculties who like has driven away from their home
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yes just missing that's what it's called the Amber Alert system was born out of
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God I don't even know how to approach this Ryan because it's such a just a sad story it's not even a terror story why
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is this on the list Ryan I don't know I know it's it sucks but you didn't
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generate the list having not read what you're about to read I'm assuming something happened to a poor child and
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oh no you haven't read it have you no oh no I'm so sorry now you now you have to
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hear do we have to do we have to give a uh well we can edit it a little bit if we don't want to be too on the news it's
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not graphic or anything just want to give well I don't I don't like to I'm
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not trying to be glib here but if there's anyone that has a trigger warning about uh violence to Children
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you might want to skip this segment okay yeah it's very very unfortunate Amber Alert system came about was in
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1996 9-year-old Amber Hagerman of Arlington Texas Arlington is a town in
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between Dallas and Fort Worth she was playing or riding her bike in the parking lot of an abandoned grocery
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store when a man in a black pickup truck grabbed her and threw her in the cab of
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her of his truck an eyewitness who saw her get tossed into his truck called the
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police and then they began searching for with 50 other officers and
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unfortunately they were never able to find her and like after 5
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days somebody found her corpse in a creek four miles away
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and her killer had cut her throat in half and she was naked and bruised and
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they did find out that she had been sexually assaulted now that I again yeah
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after that in 1997 they created the Dallas Amber plan
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and that would later become the Amber Alert system in 2000 but to this day we
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still do not know who Amber hagerman's killer is and it is arguably Texas's
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biggest Cold Case I did not know that the Amber Alert system was not created
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until 2000 yeah I thought I thought it was early is this a is this a Mandela
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effect yeah I swear to God my mom told me about this when I was a kid yeah do
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you remember it from when he were younger it says here who was the Amber lert named after Amber lert was named after 9-year-old Amber who adducted
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killed in Texas okay so is this a Mandela effect I swear the
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Amber Alert was around when I was a kid I was born in 75 okay it was 96 when she died mhm yeah
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Canada system began in 2002 what yeah man yeah we do have an in
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Canada but I okay I don't know so listeners let us know out of this uh very terrible story kind of an
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interesting development is this a Mandela effect cuz we have two people think yeah man that's weird I swear it was
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before 2002 after this I was thinking like so you grew up like sentient
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through the 80s I was born in ' 89 were you around when they were actually
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photos of kids on milk cartons wait no y'all had bags in Canada no some parts
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do uh here here in Quebec we do uh there's milk bags um where I'm from
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British Columbia originally yeah there's a just your normal mil cartons maybe our
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brains are retroactively calling what we remember other but no but that doesn't make I anyways that's weird I thought I
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was older did they have pictures of kids on milk cartons though when you were growing up like in the 80s no I not that
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I remember maybe the post office or but we just didn't have that many missing kids I don't remember them happy I was
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wondering if that was just like a thing from the movies or not bless uh amber and her family but out of that tragedy
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you know it's helped find other children so I guess we move on to the eyeball
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killer now a much Li not yeah yeah it's a move on the eyeball Killers check him
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out you get the eyeball killer you get okay yeah I'll take all the light
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ones okay so beginning in late 1990 prostitutes in Dallas began dying
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at an alarming rate oh God okay so yeah
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happens beginning in late 1990 prostitutes in Dallas began dying in an
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alarming rate it was obvious that someone was doing the killing and that someone was a seriously sick individual
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the killer signed all of his handiwork with his gruesome calling card the removal of victim's eyes a man later
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known as the eyeball killer was born Charles Frederick Albright in Amarillo
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Texas in the depression year of 1933 man he was born in 33 and he started
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doing this in 1990 Jesus he was an old man yeah yeah okay yeah that's not that bad
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not that bad for a serial killer um a late bloomer a late
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bloomer adopted by the Albright family a few weeks after his birth young Charles
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grew up in a comfortable middle class life but underneath the surface there was trouble bre Dell Albright Charles's
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mother believed in harsh discipline when Charles were misbehaved Dell would tie him to the bed there were also times
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when Dell got pleasure out of making Charles wear girls clothing this is literally like serial killer soup here
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like this is how Works uh how can I make my child turn into a
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killer happen oh my goodness this is terrible continue oh my God then she
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enrolls in age 11 she enrolls him in a taxidermic class this can't be real
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theer so Charles took to Taxidermy like a natural no kidding and before long he
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was skinning and stuffing dead birds the only problem was that Dell would not pay
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for fake eyes for the dead animals so Charles was told to use buttons Instead
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This sounds like a Neil Gaiman novel like something out of Hellraiser Charles was an intelligent boy but prone to
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Mischief at age 15 in 1948 he contracted crabs after sleeping with the local
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prostitute a year later he stole $380 from a cash register
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two years later Charles was sent to jail for the first time after he was convicted of theft and receiving stolen
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property Charles would be in and out of trouble for the rest of his life in 51 he broke into the Arkansas state
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Teachers College and stole nude pictures from a female dormatory oh man yeah he
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could only imagine the the cell phones of 2020 are these artistic nudes that he
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got from the dorm or these like girls it's from the female dormatory I guess he just figured or knew that girls had
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to do photos of themselves in their drawers in their personal cubicles or something weird
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1951 how did he know who the risque girls in the were he must have got some
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Intel yeah on one of these pictures Charles
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glued the eyes that he had cut out of a picture of a friend's ex-girlfriend
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yep that was a nice Grumble it's crazy Charles continued to steal got
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married to a woman named Betty Nester in a 1981 was accused of molesting a 9-year-old girl of course four years
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later Charles admitting to molesting the pre-teen daughter of a church friend he received
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probation the first of the eyeball killer murders was discovered on December 13th 1990 the corpse belonged
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to a 33-year-old prostitute Mary Lou Pratt I remember that name oh yeah she
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had been found partially nuded in the field Albright had sexually assaulted Pratt before shooting her execution
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style in the back of the head the autopsy found that Brat's killer had removed her eyeballs with
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surgical skill two months after this homicide 27-year-old prostitute Susan
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Peterson was found dead about a mile away from the Pratt crime scene she to had had her eyeballs removed a third
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prostitute on March 19th 1981 there's some more eyeballs taken out with an
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xacto knife this dude yeah yeah it's okay let's go down the list uh he was
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only convicted of the murder of Shirley Williams today he is still behind bars
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in LEC Texas counting down the endless days of a life sentence W so how old is
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he now I mean he 33 so 1933 was when he was born he's
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near 100 wow man it's always the evil dudes who
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live forever okay yeah had multiple prostitutes and he was just big on the
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exact and knif taken out those eyeballs the interesting part of all this was just how his mother groomed him what
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what was her deal it's always that way if they're just super weird and strict like they're
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just like well the uh The Killing continues here we go with number four
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this is the servant girl Annihilator but we're going to go back in time Austin 1884 to
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1885 I love the name the serving the serving girl Annihilator that sounds
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like a great pornography okay well I was going to call it this would be a great song for
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like a death metal band you know also true the servant girl Annihilator this is our
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new track hit it boys Austin 1884 to 1885 a frightening
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serial killer roam the city no servant girl was safe the first murder came to light on December 30th
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1884 the victim was an African-American cook named Molly Smith now Smith was found in a rare patch of Texas snow I
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guess you know guys don't get a lot of snow there right no so her body showed that she had
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been stabbed in the stomach chest arm arms and legs and she had also been struck in the head with an axe the next
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victim Eliza Shelly was found dead on May 7th 1885 like Smith she was a black cook and also like Smith she had been
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struck in the head with an axe the attacks ramped up after the murder of Eliza Shelly Irene cross was stabbed
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several times with a knife and was almost scalped on May 23rd 11 year-old Mary Ry was raped and stabbed through
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the ear on August 30th to individuals were found bludging to death one report
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likened their heads to jelly on you ever think about how horrible it
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would be to get scalped yeah no K yeah I have well actually yeah I've seen a few
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movies and it's very uncomfortable to to see those scenes so the uh the killer named the annihilator now you know why
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he's called the annihilator right like yeah yeah yeah this is destroying the
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bodies Jo jeez the annihilator was still not done on Christmas Eve 1885 he struck
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twice in one night the victims were 17-year-old Ula Phillips and Susan Hancock these murders broke with the
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earlier pattern for both women cuz for both women were killed in their homes and both were
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white yeah no he's an equal rights killer so that's good oh it's a dude I
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thought it was a lady no I thought it was too it's no it it's a man doing this well we'll get to we're not too sure as
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quickly as the murders came to town he or maybe she vanished but I think the rape of the one is the one that gave it
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away that might be a man that makes sense by the end of 1885 the servant girl Annihilator was no longer
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committing crimes all told he killed eight people seven women and one man he mostly prayed on workingclass black wom
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and his weapons of choice were that of the knife and the axe at the time several suspects have been put forward
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author Shirley Harrison believes that Austin's servant girl Annihilator was none other than London's Jack the Ripper
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that's one of the theories that happens a lot in in a lot of True Crime stuff
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they'll go back to like American serial killers and they'll either say a this was actually Jack the Ripper coming over
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from England and doing this or B this was actually Jack the Ripper and then he
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went to England and there was Jack the Ripper over there like it's so dumb it's
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weird I mean you could argue the timelines maybe line up and because when one was happening the other one wasn't
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who knows or it could just be a copycat or it could just be another sick psycho
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who knows um but one plausible suspect was put forward by Texas monthly the
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paper uh by writer skip holsworth he said he claims that a 19-year-old black worker named Nathan Elgen committed the
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crimes elen worked near most of the crime scenes and in 1886 he was shot and killed by Austin Police while trying to
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attack a woman with a knife H I would assume the crimes ended after that
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killing that makes that's what I would assume yeah yeah like that's when it's done but further reports said that he
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wasn't holding a knife it was a cell [Laughter]
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phone Jesus oh boy yeah this is a fun
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fun are you regretting this one now all right you got the next one you
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got the next two you got the next two I think I've heard of these people actually go ahead yeah number three uh
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and I knew a little bit about this lady but beforehand but uh the angel of
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death angels of death are actually kind of like a type of what people would call a serial killer they're like a different
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one and they are serial killers involved in the medical industry they'd be doctors and nurses that are essentially
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euthanizing their patients against their will murder that would be called
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murdering involuntary euthanasia yeah murder this
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is one of the most notorious of them in American history this would be the Miss
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Janine Jones Miss Janine Jones between 1981 and
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1982 a string of suspicious deaths occurred at the Pediatric Intensive Care
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Unit of at Medical Center Hospital in San Antonio okay so Miss Janine Jones
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she was the adopted daughter of a nightclub owner and a former beautician one thing a lot of serial killers happen
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to be adopted that's because they had a lot of parent issues uhuh she quit her
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job as a nurse at the medical center hospital and Rec relocated to kville Texas kville middle of nowhere West
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Texas just FY is one of the larger towns in the middle of nowhere okay so Jones
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was arrested in charge oh yeah she was I like this yeah read this one Jones's former colleagues described her as an
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intelligent woman but very coarse and prone to making loud and lewd jokes so
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you know she sounds like she was related to you A big brassy
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broad exactly the kind of woman you want dealing with babies
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yeah Jones was arrested and charged with the murder of 15-month-old Chelsea melen
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in October 1983 investigators said that Jones had injected mclen with a toxic amount of a
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muscle reactant called suin coine less than a year later Jones was
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convicted of mlen murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison Texas does not
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take kindly to killing infants also in 1984 Jones was sentenced
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to 60 years for the attempted murder of rando Santos still despite these
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convictions San Antonio citizens felt betrayed after all over 60 toddlers had
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died at the hospital between 1981 and 1982 and most suspected Jones of being
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the culprit during a jailhouse interview in October of 1998 all but admitted to
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killing all of the children saying I really did kill those babies yeah that's
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admitting [Laughter] but in the same recording Jones
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backtracked a little by clarifying that it was the voices in her head that were
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truly responsible for the intentional overdose death she did it but also the
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voices in her head did too so you know figure out who did it Jones is set to
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stand trial once again September 2019 the 69-year-old convicted killer was
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officially accused of murdering Richard bricky Nelson Rosemary Vega Paul vill
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roale Joshua Sawyer and Patrick
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zala yeah shockingly this new trial comes two years after Jones was scheduled to be released from prison as
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part of new Statewide push to lessen prison overcrowding because that's who needs to be let out during the prison
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overcrowding the baby murderer that's so weird man like Texas
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overcrowding imprisons you know you're getting crowded when you're letting out the baby murders no that's not it just can't
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figure it out just let out the nonviolent drug offenders that
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you I'm my brains are gonna pour out of my ears anyway so you know speaking of
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brains yeah oh hey is this one me just so our audience knows we're doing Zips
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as well so he not with us he's supposed to be with us so we're kind of he's dead
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yeah yeah something may have happened to him maybe this nurse got to him yeah
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we're just uh so some of them were a little bit not as familiar with so we're kind of like yeah reading as we go yeah
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so it's fun so we apologize if we seem a little bit less a little bit more than less prepared as per usual but all right
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so here's number two number two 1979 was a boom year for oil in Houston yeah it
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was you wouldn't know about this but Houston pretty much exploded during the 80s 1979
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came around and then Houston blew up our entire Skyline 70% of it came up during
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the 80s like that's where the movie Urban Cowboy came from my dad was in that movie with John Travolta oh was he
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yeah anyway 1979 was a boom year for oil in Houston biggest city in the state
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also fourth biggest City in the nation what what
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Texas yeah we got a lot bigger in the cities the 70s thanks to American migrants who came from all over in order
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to get rich quick in East Texas yeah they came from Detroit my dad wasn't happy about it few of these migrants met
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something other than good luck in Houston in just two months in 1979 five people were murdered by a
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killer who took pleasure in decapitation 40 years later the killer
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remains caught and Houston Cold Case investigators don't have a single fingerprint to help them the first to
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die Elise Elaine Rankin 1979 Bob Smith
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one of Rankin's co-workers showed up at The Orchard Apartments oh yeah I know these murders
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located sorry located in the 5900 block of Glenmont in the gulon neighborhood of
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southwest Houston he was there to give Rank and a ride to work Smith noticing that the 33-year-old Rankin wasn't
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outside to meet him went up to her apartment inside Smith found Ranken in her bed she
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was naked and dead wow you really weren't mening words
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um she was naked and dead
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um oh boy huge disclaimer at the beginning of this
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episode oh please do not listen if anything offends you at
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[Laughter]
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all my mom will not be listening to this episode hey okay then I could just start
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swearing now yeah I guess so yeah cool her killer had tied her feet
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to the bed while he had placed a pillow on her upper body Smith removed the
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pillow and found that branken was missing her head um Jesus Christ homicide detectives
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would later add that Rankin had been sexually assaulted well at least he sexually assaulted her normal body and
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not we hope so wasn't yeah right oh God two weeks after the discovery of
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ranken's corpse another body was found this one belonged to Mary Michael
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Kolkata a new Houston resident originally from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 25-year-old woman was found dead in her
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bathroom there were differences between the ranking and Kolkata crime scenes namely Kolkata was found fully clothed
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and had her throat slit Kolkata had also fought her killer tooth and nail which was obvious by the fact that kolkata's
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body was riddled with defensive wounds however investigators could not Overlook the fact that kolkata's apartment was
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located only two floors above rankins K had also been sexually assaulted Jesus
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it was in the same apartment complex wow two floors oh God that's crazy how do you
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live in that place anymore you don't they didn't oh Jesus
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Christ oh God amazingly this was not the only weird thing about this case on the
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same day that kata's corpse was found an exterminator found the body of 26-year-old Doris Lynn threadgill inside
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of a townhouse Northwestern Houston threadgill's killer had cut her throat so bad that she had been virtually
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decapitated the next body found belonged to 16-year-old Joan Huffman
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who these are all Houston names oh yeah who was yeah yeah these are so weird who was found dead in sight of Wanga Park I
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literally went on a date with a girl at w Tona par just like a month ago on the same day at a used car lot the body of
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18-year-old Robert oh uh this is a a man that's kind of weird was a spangenberger
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was found inside the trunk of a white Dodge car spangen Burger's head had been removed Houston investigators are not
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uniform in their opinions about these crimes some argue that it was all the work of one madman besides the orchard
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apartment's connection between Rankin and Kolkata Huffman's body was found four miles away from the threadgill
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crime scene eyewitnesses also heard screams and gunshots near threadgill's house in the night before Huffman and
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spangenberger were found other homicide investigators discount the single killer Theory arguing that Ranken and kelut
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were killed by the same person but Huffman and spangenberger were killed by different people some even argue that
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threadgill's murder is unconnected to the other four sure yeah I was wondering about that I was gonna say that actually
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sounds bright because when you go serial killer looking down that hole they usually only kill of one gender and Etc
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and yeah yeah Dam Ryan yeah well we're going to end on a happy note we're going
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to talk about the angel of the railroad uh dude okay I know this guy I
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remember when this was happening and everybody was
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terrified okay let's go so America's rail world are still being used today by
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hundreds if not thousands of vagrants many of these Freight jumpers wind up in
51:43
Texas and one man who used the rails was a Mexican immigrant Angel rendes who
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frequented the rails in Texas and the Midwest in order to find farmw work besides farming Angel worked as a ser
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killer during his reign of terror he killed between 9 and 15 people thus earning him the nickname of the railroad
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killer not very original but very to the point of what he was doing and where he was from Angel began killing sometime in
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' 86 by that point he had illegally crossed into the US on several different occasions and it was after one such
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Crossing that he murdered an unnamed homeless woman Angel shot this woman four times before throwing her body away
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like trash inside of a farmhouse in that same year Angel was arrested in Loro
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Texas and convicted of using a fake us birth certificate he was sentenced to 18 months in jail he was arrested again in
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May of 91 and this time he was deported back to Mexico after being caught trying to forge social security cards and
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illegally purchase weapons and months after this deportation Angel slipped back into Texas and murdered 33-year-old
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Michael White on July 19th 1991 whose body was found full of bullet holes in the front yard of a San Antonio home in
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March 7 Angel Unleashed his blood lust on March 23rd 97 16-year-old Wendy Von
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huin a run away from Illinois was found strangled to death alongside 19-year-old Jesse Howell this crime scene Place
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angel in Florida for the pair were found along a pair of train tracks between Jacksonville and Tampa in 97 July It is
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believed that angel beat a man to death with a pipe in Colton California next on Angel August 29 1997 20-year-old
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Christopher Meyer a student at the University of Kentucky was hit in the head with a 50 lb Rock jeez yeah right
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how did he pick up a okay and I can do it but he was probably the guy was he was probably sleeping I bet he was
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sleeping yeah yeah Meyer died during the attack while his girlfriend was raped
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the pair had yeah the pair had been accosted after taking a shortcut that included walking over some railroad
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tracks subsequent victims included 87-year-old leafy Mason in Hugh Springs
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Texas 81-year-old Fanny Whitner buyers and Carl Georgia 45-year-old Claudia in
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Houston 73-year-old Josephine and fet Texas 26-year-old school teacher Naomi
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in Houston 80-year-old George and his 51-year-old daughter Carolyn in Goram
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Illinois and most of these crimes involved sexual assault even one was one was defiling of a dead body and the
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weapons that he liked to use were axes and pickaxes so after the last of these
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slains in Illinois Angel was placed on the FBI's most wanted list although he managed to escape back to Mexico but his
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family convinced him no you're going back he was turned over to the Texas Rangers and at his trial Angel pleaded
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Not Guilty by reason of insanity stating that he was an angel sent to Earth by God in order to kill the sinful Angel
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did ultimately ask for the death penalty and he got it he died via lethal injection on June 27th 2006 his last
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words were I deserve what I'm getting mm yeah man I remember the railroad
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killer holy crap I remember my mom talking about it it was SC it was weird
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it was the only serial killer I remember happening ACC at a time man was there
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any serial killer you remember happening like going oh man oh yeah you were born at 75
55:22
yeah Bunny and uh who's the other one um Jeffrey dmer yeah and so those are I remember those
55:29
when they were happening and we had one in Vancouver British Columbia I forget his name but he uh buried people in his pig farm and they were eaten by yeah
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robbert Picton yeah yeah yeah yeah you remember the name yeah I thank you I to
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so that was like next door to me in a weird way so that was kind of our local killer yeah oh man Houston had one of
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the worst we had Dean coral a lot of people forget he's where the name of the candy man comes from yeah God I'm the
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real Ro killer that dude is freaky but yeah man so that's Tech this is our special Halloween episode we kind of
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started off a little bit with a little bit of ghouls and goblins we went into the real evil which are humans but
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I but I I just want to say before we make our pick I think one of because this is a Halloween special it's a gam
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Gator Halloween special production I think all the gam Gator uh podcasts are doing Halloween specials so I think to
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celebrate this special Unity we might flip this episode this will be a special we're going to flip we're going to flip
56:30
a little bit because this is such a dark terrible story I think what we're going to do is we're going to pick the best of
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the worst on this one oh God what does that even mean it
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means the one that you would like to meet oh then then I'm gonna go have a
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beer with a goat man me too we're gonna go grab some
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chicks man we're going to grope with the goat oh God I'm grope the goat
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baby after hearing all these stories I am totally chilling with
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Goatman oh you don't want to go hang out with the eyeball killer oh they're just terrible this was
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uh this was rough I think I think I know why zip bailed on us he dude now that I think about it that
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eyeball killer might be the worst one like yeah for poops and Giggles an old J
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we really just say that I forgot you have
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kids oh man so what so all in all though what who is the worst oh I okay so oh
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let's look at this as per the show format I'll read quickly the headlines so we got the ghosts of Yorktown hospital we got the wind windo windo
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we've got the goat man we got people believing satanic that are causing crimes we've got the Amber
57:58
Alert origin story the eyeball killer uh we've got the servant girls that were
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the servant girl Annihilator the best death metal song ever uh Angel of Death the nurse that killed babies guy that
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chopped off heads in Houston of course the railroad the angel of the railroad so the railroad killer dude was
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just straight up bananas it sounds like he's like a schizophrenic serial killer that's why and that you like it's
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terrifying but it's not the worst to be so bad that you're just going to inject
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babies 30 to 60 babies that's pretty awful but scooping people's eyeballs out
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with xacto knives is pretty horrendous as well that's your pick for worst or
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the best I'm gonna go xacto knife okay that's good iBall killer I'm gonna go
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with Angel of Death the Nur because yeah it's one thing to kill prostitutes or uh
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there's a couple of the other serial kills had a couple of young people and yes but overall she killed the mo she
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killed the most she wins she she killed the most babies that servant girl
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Annihilator dude was pretty rank too that yeah he's like Rob Zombie violent
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got that guy you're just turning people into jelly oh man well there you go thank you
59:21
uh so much for coming on the show Bob but before we close do you want to plug your podcast where people can find you and
59:26
yes everyone please go and listen to uh me and zip over at no redeeming
59:32
qualities podcast you can find us wherever podcasts are found wherever you found uh the worst or the best you can
59:38
find us because we're on gamma Gator together that's right um yeah it's great
59:44
said of shows we want to give a shout out to all the shows on the gam Gator Productions and their Halloween spectacular episodes we've got State
59:51
your take that was with Ed and Aaron how would you say it they're like a not a not a political podcast but they were
59:57
current event they talk about entertainment Politics the State of Affair of the country yeah you know and
1:00:03
they obviously come from the black perspective it's uh so it's Unique to their their Viewpoint and how they see
1:00:09
things and I've learned so much through them on these issues and then we have cult 45 and they deal with movie reviews
1:00:17
and they're amazing with their with their reviews one big toilet with Tony that guy is a he kills me he makes me
1:00:24
laugh but he a he's a genius I force him to do positive
1:00:32
moments on the sh I love it yeah Tony's positivity corner is the best is is the
1:00:37
best I love it and then lastly we just got a new one as the time of this recording oh the week ended take that's
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going to be our new guys that's GNA be Terell and Derek they do a sports podcast on the week ended take so yeah
1:00:51
thank you and they just literally joined I just heard their episode where they were presented by uh by you guys and no
1:00:56
redeemed quality great set of shows everyone is so good and everyone's been on this show
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except for the new sports guys we have to get them on this show yeah anyways thank you so much for listening and remember in front of every silver Lon
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there is a cloud and we're here to help you find it happy Halloween yeah don't get turned into jelly keep your eyeballs
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in your head have a beer with
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Goatman sounds good stay off the tracks all right man thanks a lot for coming out we'll talk to you soon
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awesome later dude right fun cheers Gator Productions
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