Lesser-Known Texas Terrors | Grope Goatman Forever!

Lock your doors and dim the lights because Ryan and Bob from No Redeeming Qualities are dragging you deep into the Lone Star State’s darkest corners for a Halloween special that’s equal parts ghosts, ghouls, and gut-wrenching real evil. From haunted hospitals crawling with shadow figures to the Goatman who just wanted to party (and grope), from satanic panic to the heartbreaking origin of the Amber Alert and serial killers who removed eyeballs with X-Acto knives—this is Texas after midnight. They laugh through the terror, argue over who’s the absolute worst monster, and agree the only creature they’d grab a beer with is the ...........

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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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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
46:44
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
49:51
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
50:26
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
52:03
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
55:37
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
55:50
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
55:57
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
56:16
Gator Halloween special production I think all the gam Gator uh podcasts are doing Halloween specials so I think to
56:23
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
56:48
beer with a goat man me too we're gonna go grab some
56:56
chicks man we're going to grope with the goat oh God I'm grope the goat
57:04
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
57:52
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
58:03
the servant girl Annihilator the best death metal song ever uh Angel of Death the nurse that killed babies guy that
58:10
chopped off heads in Houston of course the railroad the angel of the railroad so the railroad killer dude was
58:17
just straight up bananas it sounds like he's like a schizophrenic serial killer that's why and that you like it's
58:24
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
58:38
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
59:11
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
1:01:02
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
1:01:09
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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