Halloween Special 2024

Listener discretion advised: explicit content involving children under the age of 18, including mutilation, sexual abuse, mutilation of dead corpses, rape and assault. Please listen with caution.

 

Case #1: A fun and innocent holiday turned bloody and dark. Find out who is arrested for the brutal murder of Sister Tadea Benz, a Catholic Nun murdered on Halloween morning back in 1981. Is who was arrested the person who actually did this heinous crime? What if there is no evidence linking him to the crime scene? Did we execute an innocent man? Let’s talk about it.

 

Case #2: Picture this: a halloween afternoon. You’re 16. What are you doing? Are you getting ready for a Halloween party with your friends? Are you passing out candy? What if you came home and found your entire family massacred by someone else in your family…. Tune in to see what unfolds 

 

Case #3: When you read the words: Ice pick… pliers…screwdriver…sledgehammer. What comes to mind? These may sound like the names of ordinary tools you have scattered throughout your home, but for Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris these tools served a much darker purpose. They used an ice pick, pliers and screw driver as a way to torture and murder their prey. Their usual suspects were young women under the age of 18, some of whom were simply hitchhiking when they became one of the deadly duo’s next victims. Join us this week as we go back to the 1970’s where Bittaker and Norris used the roads of California to hunt their victims and the remote areas of the San Gabriel Mountains as their murder grounds to brutalize, kill and dump the bodies of innocent young women. 

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Dziemianowicz, Joe. “Ohio Man Targets His Family in ‘Real-Life Horror Story on Halloween.’” Oxygen Official Site, Oxygen, 18 July 2024, www.oxygen.com/homicide-for-the-holidays/crime-news/bj-liske-kills-3-family-members-in-halloween-murders. 

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