156 • Dugan
Dark Topic
Jack Luna
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The life and crimes of serial killer Brian James Dugan.
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| 0:00.0 | Can we talk something else? |
| 0:02.0 | Can we talk about something else? |
| 0:05.0 | Hello. |
| 0:15.0 | Out there. |
| 0:32.2 | Brian James Dugan was born prematurely on September 23rd of 1956, |
| 0:34.7 | though not in the traditional sense, |
| 0:38.2 | a nurse of the New Hampshire hospital that Baby Dugan was attempting to come squalling into didn't want to deal with it. The doctor was late, and because |
| 0:44.0 | the attending nurse wasn't comfortable doing the delivery herself, she shoved Dugan's head |
| 0:48.6 | back into the womb, then strapped his mother's legs together. Some would later say that the |
| 0:53.9 | nurse had the right idea. |
| 0:56.2 | Put it back. |
| 0:58.0 | Of course, it was the wrong idea. |
| 1:00.1 | In fact, those first moments Brian Dugan spent trying to enter the world, |
| 1:05.0 | using his baby brain as a battering ram, |
| 1:07.8 | probably had a lot to do with what happened later. Welcome to Dark Topic. I'm your host, |
| 1:13.7 | Jack Luna. This is a true crime happening. Dugan. Brian Dugan, the second of five children, |
| 1:30.3 | would be remembered as a major problem throughout his childhood. As a toddler, he'd bang his head off of his crib constantly, this being the way he'd learned to get out of an uncomfortable situation. |
| 1:39.3 | He was a bedwetter, a condition apparently shared by his father, a violent alcoholic. Dugan's |
| 1:46.0 | mother drank too much as well and was a strict disciplinaria. No doubt about it, Dugan took |
| 1:51.2 | more than a few shots to the head growing up, maybe a thousand or more. Dad was on the road as a |
| 1:57.1 | traveling salesman most of the time, leaving mom to care for five kids. |
| 2:01.7 | The bed wedding pissed her off big time. |
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