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Corpus Delicti

184: Foreign Fatalities: Eric Edgar Cooke

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.4608 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Eric Edgar Cooke was arrested for murder of a man shot during a killing spree. However, once he was behind bars, it was learned that he was responsible for much more than that.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
Eric Edgar Cooke, ‘The Night Caller’ was one of Australia’s worst serial killers in 1960s trials | Herald Sun
Wayback Machine (archive.org)
Eric Edgar Cooke | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
Eric Edgar Cooke - The Night Caller (unsolvedmysteries.com)
Eric Edgar Cooke the Night Caller serial killer became the last man hanged in Western Australia | Daily Mail Online
Button v The Queen [2002] WASCA 35 - BarNet Jade - BarNet Jade
‘The Night Caller’ Eric Edgar Cooke audio files reveal he ‘just wanted to hurt people’ | PerthNow
Serial killer Eric Edgar Cooke's voice heard 53 years after his execution - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, it's Jen, and this is Lindsay.

0:26.7

And welcome back to another foreign fatalities episode of Corpus DeLicti, the podcast.

0:32.4

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween.

0:35.9

I know we both enjoyed it. And now the Thanksgiving and Christmas

0:41.2

season is quickly approaching. Quick update on that. The last two weeks of November, we will not

0:49.6

have an episode. I'll be moving. I will not have my staff. But we are going to do still in November

0:56.2

the Patreon because I can do that from anywhere. I can do that on my phone if I don't have

1:00.5

everything unpacked yet. So we will still be doing that. We'll have December time off as well,

1:06.4

but we haven't looked at that yet. But other than that, this week, let's go ahead and jump into our story.

1:13.5

We are going to the land down under.

1:16.2

Now, this is going to be a trend for the next couple of weeks.

1:18.9

We are going to visit Australia.

1:21.3

You've heard it said that Australia is home to all sorts of creepy, scary bugs and other creatures, especially their spiders.

1:30.2

And did you know they had flying snakes?

1:32.7

Nope, I'm out.

1:34.3

They have jumping snakes.

1:35.7

I saw that on TikTok today.

1:37.0

No, ma'am.

1:37.7

Well, surprised me, but they actually have their fair share of serial killers.

1:44.1

And unfortunately, this story has victims who suffered physically, obviously, but other

1:49.7

indirect victims as well.

1:52.7

This Australian serial killer earned two nicknames.

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