Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode includes discussions of rape murder. Salt and attempted suicide that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children. Under thirteen July, thirteen Nineteen sixty six was a scorching summer day in Chicago, as night fell back Austin residents of twenty three nineteen EAST one hundred street turned in for the evening desperately seeking relief around ten thirty p m chorus I'm a row a twenty three year old nursing student walked into the upstairs. Bedroom. She shared with her roommate more led her. She locked the door behind her and ready for bed, a moral one, turn the light off, but Marlita told her to keep it on. She wanted to do her nightly prayers before going to bed

Amera side and climbed to the top bunk and lay down trying to fall asleep, despite the light about a half hour later, I'm ROE head just closed her eyes when she heard for or soft knocks on her door. Melita he'll praying, but a morale I'm down from her bunk. She opened the door expecting see one of her housemaids, but it was stranger on the other side of the door. Whole man with combed back hair and a badly pockmarked face. He was drunk all in black and in his right hand he held gone hi, I'm Gregg Colson this is serial killers. Spotify original from park asked every episode we dive into the minds and madness of serial killers. Today, discussing Richard Speck, I'm here with my co host a Richardson hi everyone. You can find

episodes of serial killers and all other originals from podcast for for free on Spotify or wherever listen to podcasts. In today's One part episode we're talking about Richard Speck, one of the most infamous mass murderers in american history in nineteen. Sixty six. He killed. Eight nurses in one night in Chicago got all that in more coming up stay with us. Looking for your next obsession between episodes check out big sky on ABC it's a pulse pounding throw right from

that he Kelly, you know the guy behind big little eyes and this show is gonna suck you and it's about two sisters who go missing under the wide open skies of Montana private detectives, Cassie encoding team up which any Cody Ex wife to find them before it's too late, but soon Del unravel and even deeper mystery full of twists and turns to the very end fix guy premiers, Tuesday November seventeenth on ABC, don't miss had Richards back once remarked that the day after he was born, all hell broke loose and it has stopped It's that day was December. Seventh. Nineteen forty one, the attack on Pearl harbor that pushed the United dates and a world war. Two, so you could say that the beginning, Richard specks life, was stained with violence even after the war. Silver. Young speck was haunted by tragedy when he was Ex his father died of a heart attack. Speck had shared

close relationship with his father and was devastated by his passing three years after his father's death when speck was nine mother remarried a traveling salesman named Carl Lindberg. She moved the Molly to Lindbergh Home outside Dallas Texas, pulling hung spec into a tornado of chaos and violence in An alcoholic with a long rap sheet, reportedly convey of crimes ranging from drunk driving to forgery. He was also extremely abusive to a step change. For some reason, young speck bore the brunt of his step, bothers bullying. He could instantly insulted and taunted spec and see two relish in telling the young boy how worthless he was, the bullying, profoundly affected speck and destroy with his self esteem. Two years after the move to Texas the family experienced tragedy. Once again, one of specks older brothers died in a car accident. It only made specks

the retreat into his shell through me, the school in high school. He failed to make friends and could barely bring himself to participate in class. He suffered from terrible acne, which exist his insecurity. He truly believed what his stepfather had told him that he was a worthless loser and world would reject him Vanessa going to take off the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note Vanessa is Eliza, psychologist or a psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research for this show thanks Gregg acquitted to a two thousand five study published by doctors, M Brent, Donaldson, Kali, H, trusts, Nevsky, Richard Robbins, Terry Moffit and Absalom me there's a significant Coralie in between low self esteem and aggressive and anti social behaviour especially among adolescents, low self esteem miss highly predictive of later aggression as those who struggle with self hate will

and to externalize those feelings and lash out in ways that go against societal norms. As speck grew older same self esteem issues that made him meek as a child trends, armed him into a combative young, adult quick to anger and violence he into an angry young man who wanted to fight back at a world that hated him in his tea nag years. Speck felon with a tough older crowd who, like a stepfather, were petty criminals. He drank stole jewelry and burglarized homes. He was always looking for a fight and more often than not got one throughout his youth. He suffered several injuries while fighting including multiple concussions that may have caused lasting brain damage, but he didn't those injuries deter him. He just kept throwing punches in the summer of nineteen sixty one when he was nineteen speck met. If tee

you're old, surely alone at the Texas State, fair, not long after initial meeting, realized. She was pregnant under pressure from surely parents The young couple married in January of nineteen sixty two. They move de surely mothers home in EAST Dallas and prepared to start a family, but specks new domestic life did Stop is criminal behaviour in the slightest a few months after his wedding speckless arrested after a night out drinking with his friends, he served weeks in jail for disturbing the piece missing the birth of his daughter when he returned home specks behind here is a husband and father resembled far more his step farther than his biological one. He was vial an unstable free cheating on his wife and sexually assaulting her on several occasions, Spec also terrorized, attacked his mother in law. To the point of threatening her with his collar

should have knives and guns, but still for the sake of her family. His there are long, never had him arrested and tried to help him get a job to do. What is new family inside or of nineteen sixty three twin one year old speck took his criminal antics too far. He and on a miniature crime spree stealing beer, cigarettes and cash from a store speck was sent to prison during his incarceration by far his longest stint. Yet speck finally made some no progress. He was well behind then began attending church services regularly Speck claimed he wanted to find out to work as a carpenter. He was ready to leave this criminal behaviour in the past. The prison psychologist wasn't so sure in a report prepared for specks parole hearing this the college is determined that speck was emotionally and socially under developed and would like relapse if released instead

of being released. The psychologist recommended that speck remain in maximum security prison. That advice was ignored and speck Released on January. Second, nineteen sixty five after serving sixteen months almost immediately. He proved the prison psychologist. Correct. On January, ninth nineteen sixty five twenty three year olds back was loitering in the dark parking lot of an apartment building in Dallas. Just after two, a m he'd been drink king and was carrying a long knife with him. He was looking for a fight or thing worse, specks bought it young woman across the lot she Parker Car and headed towards the apartment, building speck watched her from the darkness and ready the knife ass. She walked past He pounced the woman screamed as spec tackled her and held the knife to her throat. He told her now. To scream, but she was too terrified to do.

Anything, but an though screams got the attention of a neighbour as the neighbour approached specks led into the surrounding alleyways. Trying to slip away in the darkness scars around the scene within minutes and begin combing, the area speck tossed the night through the bushes and tried to walk naturally, but the cops had already spotted him before speck had a chance to run for it the police, cornered him in an alley and arrested him at First Spec claimed complete innocence, but the woman had clearly described him to the police, so he, he was in a drunken haze and couldn't remember the attack. None of the excuses worked and speck was found guilty of alt and parole violation. He was sentenced to four hundred ninety days in prison, but served less than half that time, somehow speck slip through the cracks again after his release,

Speck felt emboldened he'd, seemingly beaten, multiple felony charges over the previous years. In fact, speck wore his criminal past as a badge of honor proof of his rebellion against the world so his violent behaviour only escalated his wife, how Four had had enough of Richard Speck and left him by the end of nineteen. Sixty five speck wasn't surprised by failure of his marriage. It was another example of the world rejecting him, even if he caused it. In the immediate aftermath of his divorce, speck went out looking for trouble. Meeting to release his internalized anger. He is to gain an argument with another drink or at a bar which quickly escalate into a full on fight. It ended when speck pulled out a switchblade and stabbed his rival speck knew he'd crossed align with now else left in his life. He turned to his mother for help.

She hired a lawyer who successfully frame the stabbing in the context of a good old fashioned bar fight. The assault charge was reduced To disturbing the peace. Speck was fined ten dollars, specks brush the potentially serious felony didn't scare him straight it only emboldened him to continue pushing his luck. Too months later, he stole seventy cartons of cigarettes from a grocery store try to sell them in a nearby parking lot. Speck managed to get the cigarettes and flee before the police arrived. But an arrest warrant was issued. Spec worried that the cops and courts might have a personal grudge against him. After failing to imprison him for the stabbing. If they caught him, they would throw the book at him so I decided to run on March ninth nineteen sixty six as the police search for him space. Boarded a bus headed north. He wanted

go back to the beginning. Back to the last place, he felt happy and accepted his home town in Illinois, but speck was longer a quiet, lonely child. He was now a one man, storm of aggression and crime and when he turned home. Violence inevitably followed coming up. Richard spat and his chaos and violence returns to Illinois listeners, here's a new show. I can't wait for you to check out comes to love. Every story is unique: some play out like fairy tales, seemingly meant to be others find the odds to achieve. Happily, ever after an hour love story. The newest, Spotify original from Parkhurst you'll discover the many pathways to love, told by the actual couples who found them every

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They made a habit of skipping work to spend time at the bar speck tried to reconnect with his older sisters, who still lived in Monmouth, but now of them wanted much to do with their troublesome younger brother, the black sheep of their family suspect found himself living the same life. He had back in Dallas floating between odd jobs, drinking heavily and committing acts of violence. He also picked up a reputation as a braggart and alive in bar conversations. He claimed that he left Dallas because he killed a man and spent time smuggling drugs. The country from Mexico Spec was, quickly known in Monmouth as a CD, dangerous character and as the and went on he lived up to that reputation. Just after me, night. On April, second, nineteen sixty six speck broke into the home of Virgil. Harris. A sixty five year old woman, while right,

in through the empty house. Spec heard Harris return home. He rushed to the front door and grabbed the woman. He pushed a night to her throat and threatened to kill her if she screamed Harris complied and tried to reason with spec, but he wasn't receptive, spec, pulled Harris into the bedroom and ordered her to remove her clothes before all assaulting her. Then he tied her up and fled Harris managed to free herself and get to a hostile little, where she reported the crime and described her assailant as a pole A man with a southern drawl a week later speck struck again Mary K, Pierce of thirty You you're old Barmaid, was found behind the tavern where she worked she'd been killed by a sin. Blow to her apt, amended by a blunt object which ruptured her liver.

Within two days the police focused their investigation on Richard Speck, who frequented the bar, where Pierce worked and according to pierce his friends had an interest in her. when they discovered he was from Texas. Two gaiters realised that speck was probably the perpetrator of the Harris assault as well the police summons back to the police station, where they questioned him about both crimes, but their interrogations ended abruptly when speck complaint. He was feeling say He asked to reschedule their questioning for a different day and the police obliged as soon as he left the police station, he skipped town. It remains unclear to this day if speck was actually responsible for the murder of Mary K, Pierce or if you, simply didn't want to take any chances with the Monmouth police either way speck wanted out of the small town he ran.

He showed up unannounced at the Chicago home of his older sister, Martha specks, but a story for Martha and her husband claiming he had to escape Monmouth because a gang of drug dealers was out to get him. That was automatically skeptical of everything. Speck said Martha had already grown up by the time her mother remarried and move the family to Texas. So didn't really know her brother very well and, like her other siblings, she viewed speck as the act. Sheep of the family, the product of an alcohol, and violent stepfather they all disliked still out of a sense of family obligation. Martha tried to help her wayward brother. She and her huh and successfully secured speck a job as a deck hand on a steel freighter travelling the Great Lakes Martha hope that the selection and discipline of working on a boat might straightening out it didn't his drinking and violence continued and after birth,

two months aboard, the freighter speck was fired for fighting Sister and brother in law were reaching the end of the rope. They again tried to get back a steady job, bringing him to the National Maritime Union to pick up that can't work but speck to get his life together because he had no trust in living a normal life he just wanted to. Rincon fight. He could no longer. Stay at his sisters House got a room at a nearby boarding house and waited for work on July. Twelve so received an assignment on an oil tanker. He packed his things and drove to the dark only to find that the job has already taken with no other choice. He returned to the Union hall without enough money to pay for a room. Speck spent the night on a park bench outside the hall. The next day sat outside for hours, waiter for another deckhands position to open up, but as the day wore on no

jobs came and his mood turned sour, he was fear, set the menu for giving away a job they had assigned to him at his family for a getting him at the world for his part. In modern life he felt trapped by his fire yours and his dwindling options late morning, with temperatures approaching one hundred degrees, specks frustration finally, boiled over, he gave up on getting a deck hand, job and opted for another path. He convinced his brother in law to loan him. Twenty five dollars for a room at the inn, then immediately went to a nearby tavern to begin drinking as he knocked back drink after drink, brooded on the rage and dejection that were beginning to overwhelm him, and there was one way: Speck new to express those emotions with violence

later that night speck was walking between bars when he spotted fifty three year old Ella May Hooper Speck made a few awkward advances towards Hooper who tried to keep her distance from the strange man. Thirty years, her junior spec was furious at the rejection he caught up to Hooper and pressed a knife against her back. He told her. They were going to have a drink together. If she refused he'd stab her Hooper. Osen. In fear complied, he told her that he wasn't going to hurt her or rob her. He just wanted to talk. He led shaking panicking Hooper back to his room at the Inn where he saw her down on the bed and offered her a beer bends back after a series of bizarre questions. Did she have children? Did she like younger men? Would she sleep with him willingly speck wasn't just look for a victim to assault in his own violent strange way. He was look

for someone to simply accept him, while the rest of the world rejected him, Hooper tried to be what's I wanted to avoid angering him. She even said she would sleep with him, but Spect didn't believe her, so he ordered her into bed and raped her afterwards. He rifled through her purse and found a twenty two caliber gun which It took four himself speck now. Armed with a knife and gun walked, Hooper downstairs back out to the street speck told her meet him later that night at the bar and threatened to kill her and her family. If she stood him up, or told anyone about what happened. It was just past. Eight o clock and speck still wasn't at a slide, but the damage had already done. The night was still young and he had more. He wanted to do. He returned to the tavern where he continued drinking. He nearly instigated another fight by pulling out the gun, but cooler heads prevailed speck

to do do something else to his his violent appetite. Ten p m spec left the tavern in returned to his room after a day of drinking heavily speck had worked up enough liquid curve. To do what it always wanted to do. Get Revenge on the world get revenge on the people who hated him. He collected his hunting knife and changed into an all black outfit. Then he left the room walked in the direction of the enemy hiring hall. The weather had down by eleven p m. As Richard Speck approached the hall a mile and a half away from the tavern but spec had another their destination in mind, a row of town houses across the street, speck knew that many of the residents were nursing. Students from the South Chicago Community Hospital speck crept into the owl way that ran behind the town houses and approached this target. Twenty three nineteen EAST one hundred street, unlike the other town house, The lights inside were off the nurse

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Around eleven p M on July Thirteenth nineteen sixty six twice. Four year old Richard Speck broke into the town house, said twenty three nineteen EAST one hundred street in Chicago He was armed with a gun and two knives. He'd alright He robbed and raped a woman earlier in the evening, but he wasn't satisfied. Speck stepped deeper into the dark town ass. The women who lived inside all nursing students had already retired to their upstairs bedrooms, so speck ascended the stairs and walked up to the first bedroom door. Inside the room were to filipino exchange. Students in their early twenties correspond morale and merely till gargoyle low. Our moral was asleep in her bed, while gargoyle lower. Cited her nightly prayers when they heard four quiet knocks on their door. I'm around didn't think thing was odd about the knock, so she opened the door. She was shocked

to find a shadowy man standing on the other side, dressed all in black The man raised his hand, revealing a gun and inside the bedroom, a mirage. Turned away from speck. Terrified speck took another step towards her demanded to know where the other housemaids were, but neither nurse said anything too scared to speak speck, grabbed Amaro's arm and ask the question again: She couldn't bring herself to say a word as tears. Trickled down her face frustrated speck order, the nurses to walk out of their bedroom, they fearfully complied speck the gun into into Amara, back as he walked her and Gargiulo to the large bedroom. At the end of the hallway inside the dark bedroom, speck, turned on the light to see three other nurses sleeping in the room as they began to gradually wake up. He stared down at them

momentarily lost in his own dark thoughts. While speck was briefly destroy a Amara and Gargiulo took their chance. Grabbed one of the waking nurses and bolted into the bedrooms closet slamming the door shut behind them and angered speck tried to pull the closet door open, but the three desperate nurses managed to hold a closed for the moment. They were safe, see things back held his gun at the other. Two nurses heads and instructed them to get their housemaids to come out of the closet. Speck promised that he wouldn't hurt anyone They calmly did what he asked telling imo role that it was safe to come out. There the other women at their word. They stepped out of the closet and back into the clutches of Richard Speck, motioning with his gun. He made the nurses sit on the ground in front of him. He tried to speak softly and calmly. He only therefore money enough to supposedly

get him to New Orleans. This nurses offered speck what little cash they had in their purses spent well Does the nurses gathered their money, then froze ass? He heard footsteps coming up the stairs, Another student nurse Gloria Davy had returned from a date with her fiance when she approached the master. Bedroom door speck burst out of the room and grabbed her. He threw Gloria onto the floor with the rest of the hostages. And slit his knife out of his pocket. The nurses sat quietly aspects sliced up their bedsheets into strips which he used to tie his hostages. Up with Nazi learned ass, a sailor, they were all bound. Speck chose his first victim PAMELA welcoming he pulled her the floor and marched her down the hallway and into an empty bedroom using the bedsheets speck tied Wilkins, to the floor and prepared to rape her when he heard the front door opened,

two more nursing students, Marian Jordan and Suzanne Farris, were happily chatting as they walked up the stairs completely unaware of what was happening. They walked down the upper dares hallway to the master bedroom where they were suddenly greeted by horrifying site, other housemaids tied up, and then Richard Speck emerged from one of the bedrooms. Knife and gun held high Jordan and Ferris screamed and turned to run, but speck chased them down and blocked the exit shoving the gun in their faces. Speck ordered them into the room with PAMELA welcoming inside specks, violent desires burst out fully he killed to sound Paris and Marion Jordan stabbing and strangling them both. Then he turned his attention back, PAMELA weakening, but he abandoned his initial plan. Instead of raping her, he stabbed her to death accord.

To a two thousand to study by doctors. Eric Beauregard and and John Preux. Sexual murders tend to fall into one of two criminal profiles. The sadistic profile and the anger profile seduced, Murderers are driven by a desire to dominate and control and their crimes are often carefully premeditated anger driven sexual murderers, like Richard Speck, are more often driven by personal problems like loneliness, family difficulties and employment failure, as they want to lash out at the world for perceived societal rejection and are often fuelled by drugs and alcohol speck. It's not about any intention of killing when he entered the town house that evening, but he to put himself in a dangerous situation where his anger could take over bids. Taking three lives, didn't save his anger, it fuelled it here. Wanted more speck, stumble

back into the master bedroom to select his next victim in its focus on killing. He did notice that one of his hostages court so now. Morale had rolled her so of underneath one of the beds and out a view. Spectrum nine ash mail. He untie her and let her out of the room at gunpoint back into another empty bedroom where he repeated what he done to PAMELA, welcoming over the next three hours speck took each nurse one by one out of the master bedroom and killed them Corso. Now morale laid silently under the bed watching as well friends and roommates were dragged out of the room. She was helpless to fight back and too afraid to run at three thirty, I am, the master bedroom was seemingly empty speck, never know. Is Amara hiding under the bed. She listened ass. He went through the remaining clothing and purses stealing every law,

sent. He could then she heard him walk back down the stairs and leave the townhouse. Spec walked home. Having had his fill of violence for the EU, meaning he'd. Finally, taken out his anger on the world. He tossed his bloodied knife. Into the river and returned to his room at the inn. Just before dawn He laid his head on the pillow and peacefully drifted off to sleep back in the nursing townhouse, Corona Moral was shaking and silently crying underneath the bed. Still we dinner, hiding spot as the sun rose at five. Thirty am amoral, finally worked up the courage to undo her bindings and pull herself out from under the bed. She left the bedroom and saw the carnage that speck left the bodies of her fellow nurse left in the other bedrooms horrified and in shock. Corizon opened a second floor window with shaking hands and crawled out

to the ledge. Then began to scream, and both English and her native to Gallagher for anyone to hear they're all dead. My friends are all dead The police arrived soon after reporters from Chia Paco Tribune and other papers, were close behind. This wasn't just front page news. This was the crime of the century, fortunate only for the police, Corazon Amoral gave them a good description of the killer six feet. Tall short blonde hair. And unusual for Chicago a southern drawl within a few hours. Thus, the gaiters had asked around town and discovered that several p he had seen or spoken to a man that fit that exact description. Richard speck above I'm the investigators had discovered his name speck had started his day. He woke up and went down to the tavern to order his first train seemingly without a care in the world as speck. Happily,

drank his way into the afternoon. The police tried make their move. They and am you agent, calls back and ask him to report to the Union Hall for a job opening on a ship, but spare somehow knew it was a setup and instead of walking king into a trap. He hopped into a cabin headed to the north side of Chicago, having put some distance between himself and the police spec wandered into yet another bar and continued drinking. Meanwhile, the gaiters pressed on using fingerprints and FBI records, the police place spam inside the town House when shown a photo Horizontal morale confirmed that speck was there man within three of the murders. Spec saw his own name and face printed across the front page of the Chicago Tribune. The updated description of the suspect included an account of specks tattoos, including the words born to raise hell.

Estates left forearm, the police were closing in and it wouldn't be long before they found him spec locked into a low Rand hotel in skid row where the rooms- symbol, jail cells and tried to plan has next move he had nowhere to go, no money and no options. Speck could only see one way out. So am I it of Saturday July Th Spec cut his wrists open with a broken wine bottle neighbouring hotel guests. Speck covered in his own blood and called the police speck was rushed to the hospital where doctors work to save his life. As one of the doctors worked on specks injured arm, he noticed a tattoo born to raise hell. He reckoned it from the newspaper. The doctor asked his patient. What his name was the patient. Still in shock drunk and delete. Yes, replied His name was Richard Speck. The police place beckoned,

like shackles, even before the doctors, finnish, saving his life when he had recovered speck, was booked and sent to the Cook County chow. Where he was evaluated by a panel of psychologists. They determined he he was fit to stand trial highly publicized trial began on April three rd nineteen sixty seven, the press and general public were fascinated and disturbed by the crime and the seemingly inhuman sociopath a killer This trial speck remained motionless and cold. Even when zone morale took the stand and dramatically declared without a doubt that he was the killer speck claimed he blackout to the alcohol and drugs that were in his system, even if he did commit the crime. His attorneys argued he wasn't responsible for his actions, doktor the poor in the jail psychiatrist who examined and treated speck supported this theory. He claimed that speck had suffered Syria.

Head trauma as a teenager leading brain damage that caused violence when mixed with alcohol and drugs in recent years. There's greater evidence for that hypothesis, according to two thousand eighteen study study by researchers, Hugh Hugh Williams, budgets, a basin Dianna Fazel Tom Mcmillan Nathan, Hughes, Michael Parsonage, and James Tramell Brain injury at an early age is associated with criminality and violence, but the argument told water in court. After two, we try in forty nine minutes of jury deliberations, Richard Spec was found guilty. The jury recommended the death penalty, Richard Spec spent six years, on death row in nineteen. Seventy two, the United States Supreme Court, declared the death penalty. Illegal and speck was resented Hence to serve eight consecutive sentences of fifty to one hundred.

Fifty years in nineteen, seventy eight. After more than a decade behind bars. Thirty six year old, Richard Speck gave his first interview. He admitted to killing the nurses and claimed he felt sorry for what he done, but still couldn't exe Why he done it. He seemed to blame is behaviour on his abusive childhood saying parents ought to be careful with their kids. I don't know why it happened to me, but any kid can end up just like me. Ten years later, a forty year old speck was asked again why he'd killed the nurses. He responded. It just wasn't their night. The real motivation behind specks killings remains a mystery to this day. At the time, authorities include The board of psychologists consulted at his trial deemed speck, a sociopath who killed for his own gratification

Specks murders made a lasting mark on american culture in his obituaries journalists noted that speck was the first person in american history call the mass murderer, sparking an era of mass violence. In the interview he gave in nineteen. Seventy eight speck was asked if he had any final thoughts for the american people. He responded just tell him to keep up their hatred. For me, I know it keeps up their morale and I don't know what I do without it. Richard spec spent his entire life. Believing the world hated him, punishing him with tragedy, abuse and isolation. As a team your and adult he lashed out returning that perceived hate with violence. Finally After committing one of the bloodiest crimes in american history, Speck felt vindicated the world. Finally truly hated him as much

is, he always thought it did. Thanks again for tuning into serial killer we'll be back soon with the new episode from Information on Richard Speck amongst the many sources we used we found crime of the century. Richard speck in the murders that shocked a nation by Dennis L, Brio and William J Martin, extremely to our research, you can find more episodes of serial killers and all other originals from park asked her free on Spotify see you next time. Serial killers is a Spotify original from park. Cast producers include MAX and wrong. Cutler sound designed by Brendan Hawkins, with production, assist by RON Shapiro, Carly, Madden and Bruce Katoi Episode of serial killers was written by Ryan Lee with writing assistant. By Abigail Cannon and stars

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