332 - Patrick Kearney: The Trash Bag Killer

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Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 132 minutes

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Summary

This week we investigate the life and crimes of one of the Freeway Killers. Patrick Kearney, the Trash Bag Killer, was convicted for 21 murders, confessed to 32, and is suspected of up to 43 killings of both boys and young men between 1962 and 1977 in Southern California.

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0:00.0	Patrick Kerney once said,
0:01.5	when I was eight years old,
0:02.7	I had a feeling I was going to do these things.
0:05.5	He was referring to the many horrible murders
0:07.6	of both men and boys as young as five years old
0:10.4	that he would later commit as an adult.
0:12.5	Patrick Wayne Kerney was one of the infamous freeway killers
0:15.2	lurking around Southern California in the 1970s,
0:17.9	also nicknamed the trash bag killer,
0:20.2	because he dismembered some of his victims
0:22.0	and put the remains in trash bags,
0:23.9	which he then often dumped alongside
0:25.6	various California highways and freeways.
0:28.6	And as the story goes with most of these dirt bags,
0:31.1	no one saw it coming with Patrick.
0:33.2	Everyone was shocked when it turned out that he was a serial killer.
0:37.2	By day, Patrick was a hardworking engineer.
0:39.2	His small stature, he was five five and slightly built
0:42.1	in his high intelligence and friendly demeanor,
0:43.9	led most people, maybe even all people,
0:46.3	to lower their guards when they were around him.
0:48.6	No one it seems suspected that anything was seriously wrong with him,
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