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Corpus Delicti

188: Foreign Fatalities: Peter Tobin

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.4608 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the Bible John episode, we discussed a man named Peter Tobin as a suspect, as there are a few similarities between the two killers. There are also some differences. Peter Tobin was found guilty of 3 murders, but authorities are quite confident he killed more - a claim Tobin doesn't deny.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
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Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tobin
https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/tobin-peter.htm
BBC News - Timeline: Peter Tobin
Serial killer Peter Tobin admits to prison pal 'I am not Bible John but I did kill others' - Daily Record
Scottish Serial Killer Peter Tobin’s Ex-Wife Speaks Out | Crime News (oxygen.com)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:07.0

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

0:23.6

And this is Lindsay.

0:25.8

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti.

0:28.0

We are in our final episode of the series of foreign fatalities.

0:32.6

So this week, like Jen said, is the last episode of Foreign Fatalities.

0:39.0

Then we are off for, I think it's three weeks, but we're back the second week in January.

0:45.9

And that's when we'll start our new series, which is still unnamed, but it's about teams who kill.

0:52.1

Not necessarily couples, because we've already done that, but teams.

0:56.1

But until that point in time, we're going to talk to you guys this week about something

1:01.6

that we touched on at a very, very high level in the Bible John episode, and that is

1:07.8

the Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin, who is now serving a life sentence in HM Prison in Edinburgh.

1:16.4

Now, he was charged with three murders, but many believe that there are more victims that have not been officially linked to him.

1:24.3

Now, he was born in August of 1946, John Stone, Scotland. He was the youngest of eight kids,

1:32.5

so his household must have been very, very busy. He had four older sisters and three older

1:39.5

brothers, but he was often violent towards the siblings, and pretty soon he just began stealing.

1:48.3

He was a challenging kid at a young age. At the age of seven, he actually had to go to a different

1:54.6

school because of it. And this was a reform school for children. Later in life, he joined the French Foreign Legion, but he deserted.

2:04.3

So that ended as well. But it just, you can kind of start to see where there's a pattern of first

2:10.6

the violence, then the stealing, behavior issues, deserting, just kind of carrying into adulthood.

2:16.6

But it wasn't.

2:17.9

Yeah, that reform school is very similar to what Americans would refer to as military school

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