198: Tag Team: The Toolbox Killers, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris met in prison where they learned they had a lot in common, including sadistic fantasies. Once they were released, they began a brutal reign of terror that claimed the lives of several young women.

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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Sources:

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Lawrence_Bittaker_and_Roy_Norris
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bittaker-lawrence.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/serial-killer-bittaker-criminologist-execution-b1972389.html
LAWRENCE SIGMUND BITTAKER & ROY LEWIS NORRIS — "No; Further Danger" — Crime Library on truTV.com (archive.org)
Who Are Toolbox Killers Lawrence Bittaker, Roy Norris? | Crime News (oxygen.com)

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.3	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.5	And welcome back to Corpus Delicti the podcast.
0:28.8	We are in our tag team series, but I think this one's coming to a close.
0:34.7	Yeah, we are going to wrap this up in time for episode 200 because we're trying to do
0:41.4	something a little bit special, new, different, whatever for 200. So just know that this one is coming
0:49.1	to an end soon. And keeping with the theme, it just does not get much better.
0:54.8	This is another bad one.
0:57.6	So let's go ahead and jump right in.
1:00.3	They say California has been home to 10% of the nation's serial killers.
1:06.5	And this statistic ranges from 1950 to 2000.
1:11.1	Now, some people speculate, you know, yeah, it could be because of the vast populations
1:15.5	or how the interstates are kind of laid out or the large number of people who could go missing
1:24.2	without being noticed.
1:25.7	This week's episode, we are in California and we walk through
1:30.0	the toolbox killers in the horrific murder spree against teenage girls. So we're going to start off,
1:38.1	we know that this is a tag team. So we're going to start off with Lawrence Sigmund Bidiker.
1:43.3	Lawrence Biddecker was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but at the time, his mother just
1:48.7	could not care for him.
1:49.9	So he was a place for adoption, and he was adopted by George Bidicke.
1:56.3	George worked in aircraft factories, and this meant that they moved from Pennsylvania to Florida to Ohio
2:02.7	and finally settled in California. Now, Biddecker was not your average student by any stretch.
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