157 • The Tattoo Man
Dark Topic
Jack Luna
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Peter John Peters has gone by many names. In the late eighties London, Ontario, locals knew him as the Tattoo Man. After his sadistic 1990 crime spree he should have become something more permanent. A dead man.
But this is Canada. So now, in his mid-sixties, he’s already back out there… under his new name. John Ross Cody.
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Man who killed two gets day parole on Island - Victoria Times Colonist
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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. |
| 0:29.4 | It's the late 80s in a Canadian city named London when a shirtless stud and cut-off jeans |
| 0:32.2 | begin strutting around the downtown, |
| 0:34.9 | turning heads with his good looks, |
| 0:36.7 | and tan muscular build, marked by tattoos. |
| 0:41.1 | Most notably a cobra on his left forearm, a cross and dragon on his right arm, |
| 0:47.3 | talons on his chest, a sloppy Pegasus on his back. |
| 0:51.6 | These make up most of the collection that can be seen, above the belt. |
| 0:56.0 | In the hot sun, all of these poorly done pieces appear to be melting, but still they |
| 1:01.0 | managed to elicit the same effect on the young girls who spot it. |
| 1:05.0 | The tattoo man. |
| 1:07.0 | He's new. |
| 1:08.0 | He's different. |
| 1:09.0 | And he exudes the sexual confidence of a guy who claims to already have betted 200 women plus. |
| 1:15.2 | Many of them older, but hey, he'll take him. |
| 1:19.2 | Anyway, he can get him. |
| 1:21.1 | In this time and place, tattoos are still somewhat taboo. |
| 1:26.5 | A sign that the man has probably been to prison. |
| 1:29.9 | And in this case, the stereotype fits as 28-year-old Peter John Peters has a rap sheet as long as his dirty blonde mullet, swinging in the breeze. |
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