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“Hannibal the Cannibal” Robert John Maudsley Pt. 1

2020-09-07

Abused by his parents from a young age, Robert Maudsley spent his childhood bouncing around orphanages and foster homes before running away in 1969. He spent years living on the streets of London, where he met a man with a dark secret… and decided that man couldn’t live.

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Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode include Discussions of murder, child abuse, assault, torture and pedophilia that some people may find offensive. We advise exe, we caution for children under thirteen Twenty year old, Robert John Maudesley, burst into tiny apartment in London and slammed door behind him, his clothes were soaked in blood and he clutched Al Gore Cupboard knife in one hand he stopped his bill. Buddy clothes into a plastic bag and stash them under his couch with the evidence hidden Robert port him. Of a cup of coffee and tried to calm down and let us he sipped Bitter coffee Roberts hands trembled addressed and still coursing through his body. He couldn't help, but we play the events of the previous, light. He knew what he did was wrong, but he had no choice in the matter? He could.
To get away with it. Maybe he start again. He thought there was tat to get his things together and leave London, but he couldn't do it. He had to face what he done. It was time to go to the police and tell them that murdered. A man pie Greg pulsing. This is serial killers apart, casterbridge annul every episode but we dive into the minds and madness of serial killers today, were exploring the life and murders of Robert John Maudesley. I'm here with my co host thus Richardson. I everyone you can find episodes of serial killers and all other Parkhurst originals for free on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcast Stream, serial killers for free on Spotify, just open, the app and type Serial killers in the search bar today we'll cover Robert Maudesley, traumatic early life and explore
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born in nineteen fifty three Robert John lots, Liese, earliest memories were abuse and neglect growing up in live, Pull England Robert had parents ill suited to raising children, and yet they had four of them his father, George, was of violent man who beat his children for the slightest mistake or disobedience. Meanwhile, Jean was on paired for motherhood, often ignoring her for children and turning a blind eye to her husband's brutality. The abuse so bad that when Robert was only six months old neighbours old social services, the monthly children were swiftly removed from their home for their own safety and placed in ass with house, a Catholic orphanage in Liverpool, the now with house nuns, provided the Maudesley children with something they never had at home, a sense of stability and safety sooner.
The children forgot all about the abuse they suffered at the hands of their parents. In fact, the more We siblings forgot. They even had parents in the first place over their six. Your stay, the children believed that they were orphans. Just like all. Other children at Nazareth in ninety sixty one roberts. Your brother was up for adoption and the other Siblings would be next in line aware of are troubled up, bringing the nuns worded. I to find a loving home for the children, unfortunately Georgian Jean Maudesley heard the news and emerged to reclaim their children for the first time. Visited the orphanage which greatly confused their children. Robert siblings no longer recognise the strangers claiming to be their parents. Which and Jean convinced authorities that they were changed people and deserve to have their children back. So so
we'll services stopped the adoption process and returned the Maudesley children to their family home. Unfortunately, not much has changed in those years except the size of the family Bert who was now nine now head, another younger sibling and despair would go on to have twelve children in total, but despite what they hold social services, the model He remained neglectful and as abusive ass ever life in the monthly home was a nightmare. All the children were crammed. Into a small house where they often slept on the floor. They face regular beatings from their father, who see two relish the violence he his children, with whatever he could find, Sticks Keynes. And even the butt of an air rifle while G never laid a hand on their children. She often instigated the violence by informing her husband of any misdeeds that deserved punishment and under the monopolies, proof so much qualified as bad behaviour, and yet the children weren't ray
to be law abiding, with so many miles to feed the Maudesley struggled to make ends meet, so the children sometimes went out into the town to steal whatever they could. If they came here empty handed. They went without if they were caught, their father beat them Robert as one of the younger children may have received the worst of the abuse. At one point, Robert claims that George locked him in a room for six months visiting to be him several times a day as well. Bert grew up. The abuse only escalated, same locked room. George is said to have sexually abused Robert. It was a trial the boy would carry with him into adulthood. Unlikely contributed to his later acts of violence, Vanessa went to take over unless psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note it is not a licence psychologist or a psychiatrist, but she I've done a lot of research, for this show thanks grand in it
thousand seven study early physical abuse and later violent delinquency. The others found the psychological trauma caused by childhood abuse can lead. Four years after researchers, so found that a child who suffers physical abuse before age five is more. Likely to respond to others, actions with aggressive and violent responses and more likely to engage in later criminal behaviour for now, He endured the abuse internalizing. His emotions lead them build Robert Chow. TAT was a nightmare from which he never seemed able to wake, but he didn't have to suffer Georgia's hand much longer within a year of being returned to his parents ten year old. Bird was again removed by social services. His parents didn't fight the decision for the night, six years, Robert wasn't foster care, it seemed after he left the orphanage Robert, never really found a place where he was safe and cared for, let alone love.
In nineteen sixty nine sixteen year Old Robert ran away from the foster care system and set off for London. He likely hoped that Big city would offer him a fresh start away from the darkness of his past. If that's what he searched for, they didn't find it London wasn't a safe haven. The troubled teen needed instead, the city. He He too was a rough cold place rife with drugs and crime. Barely a young man, Robert, was completely unprepared. Care of himself fell into drug addiction. He couldn't hold down a job so to pay for his drug habit. He turned to sex work off his services to men. He met in local bars throughout the few years. Roberts life was filled with violence and hardship, though that was hardly For somebody already knew at once and he was sexually assaulted. By an acquaintance. We don't know exam we would happen, but it was likely. All too familiar for Robert once again, he expire
it's humiliating violence at the hands of someone he knew with Little else going for him and continuing trauma. Roberts addicts and only grew stronger during as for years in London, Robert struggled not only with addiction but also emerging violent thoughts and impulses. He began to hear voices with spring troubling ideas to him from the darker corners of his mind to subdue these thoughts, Robert Self Medic hated with drugs and alcohol. Feeding the vicious a dick in cycle when it all got to He too much Robert tried to take his own life. It seems he attempted suicide at least two times around this time he went to a psychiatric hospital where he complained to doctors about the voices in his head. By now, the voices were commanding him to kill his parents, despite what the voices demanded Robert knew, he couldn't kill his parents, but he wanted to hurt someone. Anyone
far from feeling sorry for himself. He wanted revenge for this suffering he endured in his childhood. It was only a matter of time before that desire for justice forced him to violent action, some one had to pay up. Next Robert Maudesley takes revenge pie Greg Parkhurst has a brand new series sure to become your next podcast obsession. It's called medical murders and it exposes a dark and stir diagnosis that not every doktor wants to stand your life every Wednesday medics. Murders introduces you to the worst of the medical community has to offer men and women who took an oath to save lives, but instead use their expertise to develop more sinister specialities, joint host, Alistair, has he examined the formative years and motives of histories most infamous killers. Dissecting there met
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do old. Robert John Maudesley had already lived in incredibly troubled life after from his abusive childhood here I've been London hoping for a fresh start. Unfortunately, he fell into a deep She was the victim of sexual assault and attempted suicide. He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, but nothing ever lasted. Possible. He lost interest in seeking treatment or that the system deemed him not worth helping alone. Cause. It seemed not even the murderous voices in his head troubled authorities enough to offer Robert the help he needed oh, he was never publicly diagnosed with a mental illness. Robertson, mission that he heard, voices instructing him to kill, along with his repeated attacks, to take his own life suggests that he may have lived with skit, so effective disorder According to the dsl five people with skits
disorder suffers psychosis, delusions and hallucinations in addition to the symptoms of a mood disorder such as mania or depression, according to doctors, Tom Joshua, p. Why and Abdul raises, sought a body skit so effectively. Order, can have devastating effects if left untreated, including Isolation and inability to take care of oneself and the thoughts and actions Robert exhibited, these traits. What he spent time in the hospital following is suicide attempts, but again it seems he received neither an official diagnosis or the help needed. Instead, he returned to the streets and fell back into the cycle of drug addiction, abuse and self harm its hardest. What might have happened to Robert had he not met John Feral, but one night in the fall of nineteen. Seventy three he was approached on a client London treat by man and his thirties, John
Feral was a construction worker who lived in wood, green, a suburban area on the outskirts of London. There told Robert. He was recently divorced and looking for a companion for the evening but fairly, looking to pay. Instead, he wanted to pursue. A casual relationship with Robert. It was likely an unusual proposition for the twenty role for whom I've been sex, we're not related, so he Did the opportunity for a relationship such as it was with the EU. Wealthier man, it was a chance to get off the street at least temporarily and enjoy some amount of support, either financial or emotional. Before long, their meetings were a regular occurrence, one of the more stable pieces of Roberts life. Time they met Pharaoh met Robert in the city then went to there to his house in wood green. Would usually use drugs during their nights. Together, a habit feral tolerated
on one visit after they ve been seeing each other for about six months. Feral announced that he had a surprise for Robert as usual operate was under the influence of some substance or another and bear paying attention but still Feral was insistent he wanted. Robert in on a secret one. He hoped woods I saw. The relationship excited Feral pulled out us of photographs from his dresser and presented them to his young companion in is drug. Doubt State Roberts go to understand what he was saying. Wanting a reaction, feral prodded Robert to look closer, so he did his eyes. Focused on the photos and suddenly with horror. He realized what he was looking at church of young children being sexually abused in an instant
all of his childhood memories came flooding back the children in barrels. Photographs reminded him of his own trauma of being locked job, beaten and raped by his father. His mind, raced his thoughts, jumbled and foggy fur grinned, perhaps interpreting the silence as admiration he brag about what he done to the boys in the pictures he asked Robert If he liked what he saw. Robert did not the just disgusted him once more, he felt trade by somebody thought he could trust. Feral had turned out to be just another abuser like his parents and vat enraged, Robert stood up trying to process his anger through the drug induced haze. He couldn't look at the pictures or feral any longer. Confuse
used and annoyed by Roberts Reaction Feral asked again what he thought of the pictures. Finally, Pharaoh got to the point he studied I did Robert to do what the kids in the pictures were doing. Robert was horrified by the suggestion, and things began to move. The glee. The voices in his head screamed amplifying every aggressive, ambitious emotion. He felt They wanted him to take revenge. They wanted him to kill, Robert stood and paste around the room ass. The voices in his head demanded justice for the children in those photos and for himself his parents worn they're. So he couldn't make them pay for what they done to him, but he could take revenge on the child abusers standing in front of him. He would get vengeance for the boys in the photographs. Robert
oddly decided that John Feral deserved to die his eyes darted around the room until he found a suitable weapon. We can't be sure what Robert picked up, but it was likely at length. Break or road. When he saw it, the sinister Missus bird him on telling him to do next, he grabbed the rope and tackled feral onto the bed at first, the older man seem to think he was playing around, so he didn't resist as Robert wrapped the noose around his neck. Then Robert started to pull by that. Feral realised what was actually happening. It was too late. Robert didn't let go until feral was still weather, unconscious or dead, made no difference. Robert would make sure he couldn't hurt anyone ever again, he pulled out. Pocket knife and stabbed federal multiple times, but he was satisfied their need
to be more suffering, so he found a hammer. Smashed in the man skull to finish the job standing the body Robert thought about what he should do. Next, he could return to the London streets and carry on as if nothing happened or he could flee the sick, in find a safer home elsewhere. Try this again. He couldn't up his mind. But when the adrenaline wore off when the drugs left his system, Robert was horrified by what he done he realized that he'd lost control that here dangerous, like you abusers. He deserved to face the consequences of his actions. He decided not to run instead, he would turn himself in thinking about it, Robert Hope, the police I agree that the murder was a service to the community. After all, he killed a pedophile
when he spoke to would green police. He told them that he just killed a man and that he desperately needed help, but there was little help. Please could give him they took, Albert to an interrogation room where he laid out the events of the previous night. Meanwhile, officers went to John Perils home where they found his body exactly as Robert described after Robert Arrest, the court consulted with psychiatrist to determine whether he was fit to stand trial for murder in an attempt to bed, understand him. The court likely heard the full story of Roberts life there. The goal and sexual abuse, the foster homes, his drug addiction, the suicide attempts and the He says in his head, but Robert didn't expect to escape consequences of his actions. In fact, he won to go to jail. Perhaps he bought prison was a place he would find. Be taken care of protected, but the court, didn't send him to prison. Instead, the judge decline
that the twenty one year old was unfit to stand trial. So in one. Seventy four Robert was sentenced to life imprisonment at the broad, more psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane and unfortunately that was the last Robert needed the blow or a psychiatric hospital and bark sure was an intimidating structure with imposing brick architecture and barbed wire fencing it looked less like a house it'll and more like a maximum security prison, the courts and GO villages treated it as such, and the staff work much better, broad, more pain, were subjected to dehumanizing treatment from being kept an arm and a leg shackles to physical abuse from the nursing staff. The hospital itself extremely overcrowded and unsanitary, only Creasy the anguish felt by the patient's, though it was and common knowledge. At the time allowed,
sure of since emerged about decades of sexual abuse broad, more staff and leadership. Clearly, the was not a place where Robert Maudesley would find a healthy needed, but either We realise that or perhaps they didn't care just like in childhood, he was placed into an massive environment from which he couldn't escape his internalized anger, festered and his aggression, grew Robert it's just a number of high profile patients flowed in and out of Broadmoor, including infamous, Rio killers and gangsters Robert mostly cap to himself then in one seventy seven when he was twenty four Robert met, David Frances twenty six year old child molesters once he knew France's as crimes were the boy in Roberts head returned. They compelled him to take action. Frances deserve to die. They urged and Robber
was the one to do it by then Robert Bennett, broad more for nearly three years. The longest time spent confined in one place since the orphanage he knew HU, the ins and outs of a hospital, and he began planning away to kill Frances, but he needed help local he'd made friends with fellow patient thirty three year old, David Cheeseman facing a life sentence had broad more Cheeseman was desperate. To escape the nightmarish conditions, any figure Killing was an excellent way to do it. He hopes that after com, Ding murder authorities would send him to a real prison together. Bread and cheese men perfected their plan, they passed make ship knives out of plastic, spoons and brainstormed ways to be alone with David Francis or as long as they wanted Robert didn't just won a murder Francis. He wanted make it a spectacle. No one would ever forget up next Robert.
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aggression combined with impulsivity and a lack of behavioral control is a distinct, she trade of psychopaths cycle, ass, exhibit intense aggression which often leads to violence, reflecting a failure to control their impulses or understand the consequences of their behaviour. However, as Anderson and Keel also note Impulse aggression can be found in people with post, traumatic, stress, disorder, subs abuse issues, various other mental illnesses. The robber. Never received a diagnosis designating him as a psychopath. He exhibited some psychopathic tendencies: his pen, up anger and childhood trauma were so consuming that he couldn't stop himself from taking his aggression out on whoever angered him and sing, angered him like a pedophile on the morning of February, twenty sixth nineteen. Seventy seven Broadmoor pay since were allowed out of their cells for game of soccer in the yard. After the game, Robert
and fellow patient David Cheeseman approached Francis as the three men headed back to their cells before friend this realised. What was happening robber then Cheeseman grabbed him put a knife to his throat and threw him into an empty storage. Room nurses rushed over, but Robert held them back. Brandishing his makeshift blade when the news retreated Robert, followed Cheeseman into storage room and so the door shut cheese barricaded the door as Robert bound Francis to a chair with a cord taken from a record player with France. Restrained Robert and Cheeseman talk to the nurses through the door they demur. Did you see a psychiatrist or one of their fellow patients, perhaps hoping to take another hostage concerned about What the men would do with another person entered the room, the nurse denied that request, but that didn't add to Robert. He had He really wanted. He turned his attention.
Francis deciding what to do. First through the window in the door, the nurses watched helplessly as Robert began kicking Frances Stomach, but that Curbing show was cut short Cheeseman block the window as the abuse continued frantic than is trying to break down the reinforced door but stopped when she's been threatened to kill Francis if they continue the staff and patience in the hospital endured France's agonizing screams as Robert cheese, men tortured him. There was none in any one could do just like us There had done to him Robert tortured, for MRS inside a locked room. He did everything to Francis. He want to do too was parents. He stabbed him, kicked him and said. His head against the wall. The torture count you'd for the rest of the day, after nine excruciating hours, France shouted at Robert, why don't you kill. Me survey,
his work. Robert decided he by he was satisfied. He strangled branches to death and the hospital was quiet. Once more in the ringing silence, Robert and Cheeseman, unblock the window and held up dead that France's body for the staff to see then they are locked. The door odds, rushed inside to subdue Robert and Cheeseman. While the nurses examined Francis body, they didn't unable to imagine what was happening inside the small room. But now the full extent of the horror was revealed Frances. His skull had been cracked open, revealing his brain underneath there, Sir to be a large chunk of it missing and a spoon one wedged inside the nurse is recoiled and revulsion. Believing Robert had eaten the missing piece. The truth was that Robert likely didn't eat any part of Francis
The spoon lodged in his skull was one of Robert makeshift knives, which he stabbed into his victims ear. But by the time the autopsy report made that clear The story had already spread. The public was out aged and fascinated by the details of Francis is deaf and his support. Brain eating, murderer Robert quickly gain infamy throughout angle. Not as a murderer of pedophiles ass. He saw himself but us The ranged cannibal Robert Maudesley and David Cheeseman, were charged with the murder of David Frances. It's unclear why, but this time, courts I trust determined that Robert was fit to stand trial. Both men pleaded guilty and they may motives clear. They said they killed France in revenge for the sexual assaults he had committed. They wish to be sent. With conventional prison away from the inhumane treatment and the doctors
hated according to one account of the trial Robert stood up and loudly declared that if he were sent back to broad more, he would kill again whether about swayed the court or not Robert and These men got what they wanted. They were convicted of murder. And sentenced to life in prison, they would say their terms at Wakefield prison in Northern England, Robert finally escaped broad more, but us He learned already achieved of scenery didn't mean that his life was going to get any easier, Wakefield prison Maximum security facility meant only for the most dangerous prisoners had an worse reputation than Broadmoor. Thanks to its vicious inmate population, the prison had a colorful nick, Monster Mansion, despite wakefields less dangerous criminals. All eyes were on the now infamous Robert Maudesley. As he arrived stories about rob
latest murder had spread even to Wakefield, specifically the rumours that he'd eaten his victims, brain guards and inmates alike. Taunted Robert calling him spoons Cannibal and brain eater among Roberts tormentors were numerous sex offenders and pedophiles some worst in the country. Suddenly, Robert was surrounded by exactly the kind of people that set the voices in his head to talking. Robert made clear to authorities compulsion to kill sex offenders and said that he, posed a major threat to other prisoners, but warning such as it was fell on deaf ears, oh Robert decided he would strike back in the only way he knew how murder given the population of Wakefield, finding a suitable target. Wouldn't be a problem, there were plenty of time nurse who made Roberts violent impulses flare up, but he who that this time it wouldn't be enough
simply murder, another inmate. He D go big. He had to shock the sis So in the summer of nineteen. Seventy eight Robert me its least stepped out of his prison cell. With a plan he was going to kill as many people as he could thanks again for tuning into serial killers, we'll be back next time with part two of Robert John modestly story will cover model these crimes inside Wakefield prison and his life afterwards, as Britain most dangerous inmate. You can find more episodes of serial killers and all other park, hast originals for free on Spotify, not only this If I already have all of your favorite music, but now Spotify is making it easy for you to enjoy all of your favorite forecast. Originals likes you he'll killers for free from your phone desktop or smart speaker, just dreams
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