15 Bible John (am i?)
Extraordinary Stories Podcast
Extraordinary Stories Podcast
4.9 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Don't you just love a crazy story? I do.
This episode looks at the mysterious Bible John killing in the 1960's and then moves forward to a monster of man still in prison today?
Are they linked?
Join Barry as he walks you through another Extraordinary Story.
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| 0:00.0 | It is hard for me to convey the loathing and the revulsion that ordinary people will feel for what you have done. |
| 0:10.0 | Your crimes must rank amongst the most evil and horrific acts that any human being could commit. |
| 0:18.0 | I am taking into consideration any risk that you may pose to the |
| 0:23.3 | public in the future. You have shown yourself to be an unfit human being, unfit to live in a decent |
| 0:32.7 | society. Welcome to the Extraordinary Stories podcast. |
| 0:38.3 | Star Hi, hello, welcome. How are you? |
| 1:08.0 | Are you well? Are you good? I am. Thanks for joining me on this new episode of |
| 1:15.3 | extraordinary stories. A couple of quick thank you to say to begin with and then we'll just |
| 1:20.7 | go on with the story. I'd like to say thanks to Hallie for your email and for the Twitter |
| 1:25.9 | support. That's been lovely. |
| 1:32.9 | Hello and welcome to new listeners as well. Welcome along. Thank you for the feedback. |
| 1:42.6 | This week's story is one of murder, intrigue, and it's a story which spans decades and is still being investigated. |
| 2:07.5 | Okay, let's go. When you hear the name Bible John, |
| 2:12.1 | in the same breath, you will hear three other things. |
| 2:22.5 | The Barreland killings, unsolved murders, and the name Peter Tobin. Now we'll get to him a little bit later. |
| 2:30.4 | Now all three of these things I'll do my best to break them down as we go through a case which for many people it's still as alive as it was in the 1960s when the very first part of |
| 2:37.9 | this event happened. In a way this is almost two extraordinary stories altogether. One leads |
| 2:46.0 | directly right into the next so I'll do my best to keep the story on track and join those two things |
| 2:51.7 | together. So let's set the scene. It's the 1960s and we're in Glasgow. Now it was a city |
| 3:00.1 | full of dance halls. So dance halls were party places for people to go at the weekend. So as well as pubs, you had these dance halls were party places for people to go at the weekend. |
| 3:09.0 | So as well as pubs, you had these dance halls which were big, large spaces. |
| 3:14.6 | Usually there was live music, there was a lot of alcohol. |
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