Dennis Rader was also known as the BTK Killer o BTK Strangler. BTK stood for Bind, Torture, Kill because of how he killed his victims. Rader murdered 10 people from 1974 to 1991, including men, women, and children. The murders went unsolved for YEARS- obviously since they spanned a nearly 20 year period, but Rader wasn’t caught immediately after the last one in 1991, he wasn’t caught for another FOURTEEN YEARS, and only then after he started sending hints to the police that ultimately led to his arrest. SOURCES: https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/Profile-of-a-Serial-Killer-Part-5-Dennis-Rader-The-BTK-Killer https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/dennis-rader-the-btk-killer#:~:text=Rader%20was%20born%20in%201945,his%20head%20as%20a%20kid https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-bio-info.htm https://www.biography.com/news/btk-killer-meaning-dennis-rader-clues https://allthatsinteresting.com/dennis-rader-btk-killer https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a28859869/btk-killer-dennis-rader/ https://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/how_the_cops_caught_btk https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6669831/Son-BTK-killers-victims-tells-family-strangled-bound-age-15.html https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/rader-dennis-otero-family.htm https://survivingbtk.weebly.com/nancy-fox.html

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76 BTK Part 1

Tonight we’re talking about the Gulf Breeze alien sightings from the late 1980s. These sightings, so famous that even fucking FOX MOULDER from the X Files wrote a report about them at one point, still divide opinions among anyone that sees the photographs and the 1:38 video Ed and Frances Walters claim they captured over a six month period from November of 1987 through March of 1988. They claim these sightings plagued them for just these six months, then completely disappeared, and today whether or not it’s real or a hoax still has just about anyone familiar with the story divided.

74 The Gulf Breeze UFOs

Today we're covering the grisly murder of pregnant Shannann Watts and her two daughters- perpetrated by her own husband and their father. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the case where a man, supposedly desperate for a life with his mistress, perpetrated some of the most disgusting acts we've covered.     Sources: https://medium.com/honestly-yours/what-netflixs-american-murder-didn-t-tell-you-about-chris-and-shanann-watts-2a90a9a88745 https://www.insider.com/chris-watts-murder-timeline-2018-12#february-18-2019-chris-speaks-to-three-investigators-at-the-federal-prison-where-he-is-serving-his-sentence-and-finally-tells-them-the-whole-story-of-how-he-killed-his-wife-and-kids-44 https://www.reddit.com/r/ShannanWatts/comments/acx36c/comprehensive_case_timeline/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/16JKE6DEzoOBQUGhiyjJqzX-ZhKLn9R9o/view https://www.biography.com/news/chris-watts-wife-daughters-murder-mistress-confession-timeline https://www.reddit.com/r/Chriswatts/comments/a6gb76/question_about_bella_and_celeste_illnesses/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ShannanWatts/comments/9zk4l7/question_about_shananns_lupus/ https://www.denverpost.com/2018/08/16/who-is-christopher-watts-frederick-murders/  

74 The Murders of Shannann, Bella, and Celeste Watts

Bourbon tasting and open until 14 mins in, so if you're just here for the creepy fast forward. Tonight we're doing a light episode, we have two stories to cover for you, both about cryptic beings with no real answer- The Expressionless and the Rougarou. Come hang, enjoy, and try some McKenna 10 with us tonight. Cheers!  

73 The Expressionless and Rougarou

This is our final episode of our six part series on Jonestown. In this episode we cover Jones moving to Jonestown and the downfall of Jonestown and his followers. 

71 Jonestown Part 6

In the fifth episode of our SIX part series on Jonestown, we're covering the time period immediately preceding the Peoples Temple's relocation to Guyana. This covers Jones's growing paranoia, increased control over his congregation, and the growing sense of crisis he was fostering within his fellowship as he planned their move.

70 Jonestown Part 5

In Part 4 of our series on Jonestown, we take a deep dive into the era when Jones began abusing sex and drugs in the years leading up to his preparation to leave for Guyana. This episode takes us up to the year 1973 as we talk through the impact his addictions took on his family and the church.

69 Jonestown Part 4

In the third part of our deep dive into Jonestown and the events leading up to the catastrophic mass casualty event associated with it, we dive deeper into the work Jones did in Indianapolis from the time Peoples Temple was officially formed in their new building all the way up to their move to California. This is likely the halfway mark because it's looking like our "4 parter" is morphing into a 6 part deep dive. Source for this episode is Jim Guinn's Book, ' The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple'

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In the second part of our deep dive into Jonestown and the events leading up to the catastrophic mass casualty event associated with it, we dive deeper into Jim Jones early life from high school, through college, and up until he formed his first church and moved it into a permanent home in Bloomington.  Source for this episode is Jim Guinn's Book, ' The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple'

67 Jonestown Pt. 2

Welcome to part 1 of a 4 parter on The People’s Temple, it’s founder Jim Jones, and the supposedly idyllic town called Jonestown Jim Jones convinced his followers to follow him to in Guyana. As many of you know we’re located in Indiana, so there are some localish implications with this story that begin in Indiana, transferred to San Francisco to set up it’s home base, and finished in the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, commonly referred to as Jonestown, all the way to South America, where the members of the People’s Temple, a religious organization that began with Jim Jones preaching about Jesus and social reform in 1955 and ended with the mass murder of 918 people in Jonestown on November 18, 1978, in the single largest mass casualty event involving US citizens at the time.

66 Jonestown Part 1

We're covering a few short stories about cannibalism this week, and we have ONE QUESTION- Oklahoma, are you guys ok? Because there are red flags. Everywhere.

E65 A Cannibalism Mini-Sode

Our hiatus is over! We come back this week to bring you the joyous tales of Sasquatch sightings! Last week we told you alllll about the Squatchman, this week we bring you some of the feel good stories he's put out to the world. From our mouths, to your earholes. Enjoy.

Squatch Tales

So who is the big guy? None other than Mr. Sasquatch himself, the Yippee Kayay Yeti, Big Foot, Swamp Ape, all of the above? Stories about a large, apelike creature roaming the world dating back all through history. Different cultures have given it different names, but they all describe a creature that walks on two legs, is covered in hair, and oftentimes is accompanied by a strong, foul smell. Today’s episode is going to focus on the sightings reported throughout the US of what we call BigFoot. Speculation on whether this creature is real runs the gamut from being an unidentified ape species that’s just really clever and hiding, to being an alien, to something even stranger. Join us today, as we introduce you to the folklore around him and start talking through whether or not he’s fact, fiction, or something in between. SOURCES: https://www.history.com/news/bigfoot-fbi-file-investigation-discovery https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sasquatch https://www.livescience.com/24598-bigfoot.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephilim https://www.janson.com/rights/the-bigfoot-alien-connection-revealed https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?msa=0&mid=1PX4dE4ZRFR8pEnc2xHATGQe1rDA&ll=39.3539761955298%2C-96.36148005167384&z=6 

E63 The Big Guy - Big Foot

***Audio alert- we had an issue with audio on this one, recorded it through the MacBook microphone, so bear with us. Quality will be back to normal next week*** Patty Hearst, granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was a young heiress, living with her boyfriend Steven Weed in Berkeley in the winter of 1974 when a knock at the door changed her life. After her boyfriend escaped a group of intruders sent from the Symbionese Liberation Army, Patricia was thrown into the trunk of their escape car and then held hostage for nearly two months, until she finally released a recording stating that she had joined the SLA to fight. Two weeks later she was caught on video in the middle of a bank robbery where she clearly had joined with the SLA to commit the crime. She would later be tried, sentenced, released, and eventually pardoned.    Sources: American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin https://www.britannica.com/topic/Symbionese-Liberation-Army https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/what-is-the-symbionese-liberation-army.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/guerrilla-rise-and-fall-symbionese-liberation-army/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

E63 The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst Part 2

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