72: Dark Shadows: The San Francisco Witch Killers

Corpus Delicti

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4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We've talked before about the rarity of a serial killing couple where the woman calls the shots, but this week we bring you the story of Suzan and Michael Bear, who are just that. The two started their own cult with one follower, but this follower suffered a brutal fate.
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Kai Engel
"Daemones"

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"Coal Miners"

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bear_Carson_and_Suzan_Carson
https://www.thedailybeast.com/witch-killers-family-keep-them-in-jail?ref=scroll
http://www.azcentral.com/news/columns/articles/0710montini0710.html
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BwowAAAAIBAJ&sjid=iPsDAAAAIBAJ&dq=keryn%20barnes%20murder&pg=5095%2C6079246
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AUBKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MSINAAAAIBAJ&dq=keryn%20barnes
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-witch-killers-eligible-for-parole/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jenn-carson-serial-killer-father_n_5ad4f388e4b0edca2cbcc29a
https://www.ocregister.com/2015/12/02/board-denies-parole-to-san-francisco-witch-killer/

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0:00.0	Hey delictibles. Hey Delectables, it's Jen.
0:25.5	And this is Lindsay.
0:26.9	And this is Corpus Delecti.
0:28.8	We're back.
0:29.7	We're back post-holiday.
0:30.9	Yay.
0:32.0	We survived.
0:33.2	Yeah, I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas.
0:35.8	I know we did, and I miss it.
0:37.3	I'm kind of sad.
0:38.7	Do you really?
0:39.7	I do.
0:40.3	Yeah, it just went by way too fast this year.
0:43.5	I'm still off of work, so I'm still enjoying.
0:46.4	But this time, we're going to come back with our dark shadow series.
0:51.5	And, Kinsey, Lindsay, I call you my daughter's name all the time. I hope you
0:56.6	know that. That's all right. They're close. But she sent this to me yesterday and I was like,
1:02.6	no way. So I got to dig in a little bit more and like totally watching days of our lives.
1:08.1	I cranked this thing out probably faster than I have ever done an
1:11.1	outline before my entire life. It didn't hurt that there's like so many YouTube documentaries
1:16.0	on this one that I kept just going back and watching them going, no, they didn't. But of course,
1:22.0	we're in the serial killer series, so they're all a little extreme, but this is a really interesting story. And also,
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