I don't always give content warnings, we tend to cover so much brutality.

It often seems redundant here.

And sometimes honestly, I just forget.

But today's episode is especially centered around extreme sexual violence.

On the level of the recent dating game killer,

and we get into moments of brutality almost immediately, if you would like to bail now.

You've been warned.

On May 23rd, 1981, 26-year-old Linda Sutton was abducted in a rigly field in Chicago.

10 days later, her mutilated dead body was found beaten, raped, both her breasts

crudely amputated, possibly when she was still alive.

More and more bodies began to turn up in similar conditions over the following 17 months,

some of them sex workers with histories of hard drug use,

others young women with no known history of hard drug use.

Women in quote unquote, normal jobs like real estate and finance.

Chicago police had no idea who's committing these murders.

With DNA testing, still not an available tool at their disposal, and many of the victims remains

found in advanced states of decomposition, the leaves were few and far between.

Until an eyewitness came forward, who clearly saw one of the Ripper crew members faces,

the harder police looked into these murders, the further away from arresting the Ripper crew,

they got actually.

The Wendy City had just seen the arrest of John Wayne Gasey.

Gasey, aka Pogo the Killer Clown, when 29 bodies were discovered buried in

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