250. Unspeakable Horrors: Gary Heidnik

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Today, we are headed to North Philadelphia. It is March 25, 1987, and police are about to enter a run-down home on North Marshall Street. Even though officers were told what they were about to encounter, there was no way anyone could ever prepare for what they saw. The smell hit them first before they even got into the residence. Officers were gagging as they made their way inside, trying desperately to concentrate on the task at hand. A sign outside the home indicated that it was a place of worship, claiming to be the United Church of the Ministries of God, but it was far from that: it was a severely demented man’s torture chamber.
Join Jen and Cam for this episode of Our True Crime Podcast, “Unspeakable Horrors: Gary Heidnik.”
Listener discretion by the smooth-voiced talent Edward Octoberpod @octoberpodVHS
All music is by our executive producer Nico @theinkypawprint

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Edward October.
0:02.6	Over the years I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows, and creepy pastas than I can count.
0:08.0	And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not
0:16.0	suitable for children or the faint of heart. If you are such a person go ahead and
0:20.1	switch off this podcast. Listen to something else.
0:24.0	Are you still with us?
0:26.0	Well, we've warned you. So, Hi Jen!
0:45.0	Hey Kim, how are you?
0:50.0	I'm pretty darn good, how are you?
0:52.0	I'm doing fantastic. The weather's getting nicer is it's nice outside I know
0:56.5	it's down right warm I know ready for spring let's go whoa let's go
1:01.5	let's go let's go I got a case for you today and this is a little gruesome.
1:04.6	It's a little graphic.
1:06.0	Just give you a little heads up at there at the top.
1:08.2	As we often do not choose to do, I don't go into the details very graphically. There are a couple that I needed in there just so that you can see what we're dealing with.
1:20.0	So I just want to give our listeners that little heads up.
1:23.0	Okay.
1:24.0	Okay.
1:27.0	Today we are headed to
1:30.0	today we are headed to North Philadelphia. It's March 25th, 1987, and police are about to enter a run-down home on North Marshall Street.
1:41.0	Even though officers have been told what they were about to encounter,
1:45.2	there was no way anyone could ever prepare for what they would see.
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