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111 • The Poacher

Dark Topic

Jack Luna

True Crime, Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

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Alex J. Mengel was a poacher of human beings. This widely unknown killer has a terrifying, yet barely mapped out history despite an actual map being found tucked into the dash of his ghostmobile.

Sources:

Unearthing a Serial Killer (Book)

UNEARTHING A SERIAL KILLER: Paul, David, McMurray, Kevin F.: 9781519348821: Amazon.com: Books

Unearthing a Serial Killer (Podcast)

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/unearthing-a-serial-killer/id1583990190

Arrest of Mengel

https://www.toronto.com/news-story/6197127-book-on-serial-killer-mengel-recalls-his-arrest-by-toronto-police-30-years-ago/



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Can we talk about something else?

0:04.8

Can we talk about something else?

0:08.8

Hello! Hello. Alex J. Mengel is a name you're

0:36.0

J. Mangle is a name you likely aren't familiar with, but his crimes and methods of death dealing were inspiration for author Thomas Harris in his writing of the Silence of the Lambs, which you no doubt know quite well.

0:45.8

What nobody knows is how many people.

0:48.6

Women, girls, men, Mengel poached before his shocking death in April of 1985.

0:56.0

There's not a whole lot that I could find about Mengel.

1:00.0

I'll share that he looked a little bit like Ricky from the trailer park boys.

1:04.7

I know he was from Guyana and that he hung out with shady types from his homeland.

1:10.4

His trade was as a tool and dye maker, but he also worked as a security guard.

1:15.6

I know that he often lied about being sick and collected disability checks, so he could

1:20.8

do whatever he wanted in his mysterious life that was anchored in the Bronx of New York.

1:27.0

Mango lost his wife and child after having become so abusive, breaking his wife's jaw actually that his wife's name

1:35.4

was changed his son's name was changed and they were relocated leaving

1:40.2

Mangel to live out of his car and with friends, and at times in the woods of the cat skills,

1:46.5

practicing the skills of a cat, stocking, pouncing, then dragging his prey away to be toyed with and maimed, eventually murdered.

1:58.1

The details are hazy, but from what we can see, it's probably better that way.

2:05.0

Welcome to Dark Topic, I'm your host, Jack Luna.

2:09.0

This is a true crime happening.

2:11.0

The Poacher. February 24th, 1985, 7 PM, Westchester County, New York.

2:24.8

Alex J. Mengel, recently turned 30.

2:28.6

Had probably been up to no good for a while,

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