460: Murder Has Two Faces: Good Guys Gone Bad

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🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The two cases shared a checklist of similarities - a conventionally handsome perpetrator preying on sex workers behind closed hotel doors. But the difference in how the media and investigators handled the two serial killers who took the lives of Robin West, Sarah Butler, Joanne Brown, Mawa Doumbia, and Julissa Brisman could not have been more stark.
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0:00.0	I think the people should know that we're doing six episodes this week.
0:02.5	Yeah. We're recording six episodes this week. We're recording six episodes this week. We used to record one episode a week. That's insane. Back in the day. Can you remember? No. Like, what were we doing? That feels fake. Who is she? Who is that? I know. Hi, Julie Bethelopelly. I love Patrick Hines. Also, we're saying that with love.
0:23.9	We are thrilled that we get. Hi, Julie Bezavali.
0:21.4	I love Patrick Hines.
0:22.3	Also, we're saying that with love. Oh, yeah. That we get to do this. And gratitude. It's a lot. By Sunday, my voice, because we're recording on Saturday this week, too. So we're doing a Monday, Wednesday, Saturday moment. I get to see you over the weekend. I know. Usually we're Tuesday, Thursday, girlies. Yeah. We have a whole lot going on.
0:35.7	Anyway, we love you.
0:36.3	Hi.
0:36.7	Hi.
0:37.2	All right, what are we talking about today, girl?
0:38.5	This is our 15th bonus episode.
0:40.6	This is that series. Thursday, Thursday, Girlies, but we have a whole lot going on. Anyway, we love you. Hi. Hi. All right, what are we talking about today, girl?
0:38.5	This is our 15th bonus episode.
0:40.5	This is that series that we love, murder has two faces. This is the third and last episode of the series. What years is this from? Do you know? Like, it just came out this year. So maybe they'll make more? Maybe, yeah. But it's only three episodes out, and this is the third one.
0:52.9	It's called Good Guys Gone Bad.
0:55.7	Being the Craigslist this is the third one. It's called Good Guys Gone Bad.
0:55.7	Between the Craigslist killer and the tagged killer.
0:59.0	They're eerily similar.
1:01.0	They were these nice guys that had conventional good looks from these regular middle-class homes,
1:06.3	and they both have been living double lives.
1:09.9	Now, sources do tell me that the suspect comes from a law enforcement family.
1:15.1	They had a side of violence.
1:16.8	Nobody saw coming.
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