74: Bob Motta

True Crime Binge

Bob Ruff

True Crime

4.8 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Bob Ruff interviews Bob Motta, criminal defense attorney and host of “Defense Diaries.” Season one of his podcast features never-before-heard audio from the pre-trial meetings between notorious serial killer John Wayne Gacy and his defense attorney, who also happens to be Bob’s father. The Bobs talk trial tactics and life as a criminal defense attorney before diving into the details of the killer clown and the horrible crimes he committed.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The internet's full of true crime podcasts.
0:05.7	More and more are added to the list every day.
0:08.7	Figuring out where to start or where to go next can be overwhelming.
0:12.3	But have no fear.
0:13.5	I'm Bob Ruff, and this is the place to find your next true crime binge.
0:20.8	Thank you. The place to find your next true crime binge.
0:42.9	All right. I'm joined today by... now, Bob, do you go by, I know you're Bob Mata Jr.
0:43.6	Right.
0:45.8	Do you go by on the podcast?
0:49.0	Do you tell everybody you're a junior, or are you just Bob Mata?
0:52.1	No, uh, that's a great question, actually, Bob.
0:59.4	Uh, no, I, I just go by Bob Mata, because that's primarily my father skipped protocol.
1:08.1	So technically it's supposed to be the second person named after the first person would actually be junior.
1:09.8	My dad didn't like junior.
1:11.8	He didn't think it sounded regal enough.
1:18.2	So he skipped that entirely and went right to the second. So, which is, technically would be the third. So it's a weird thing. My dad's just like that though. So yeah, so technically I'm
1:24.7	Robert Michael Mont of the second. And I just skipped the whole part because, as you can tell, that's a long story.
1:31.1	I'd have to tell people.
1:32.0	They're like, oh, yeah, you got another guy named Bob?
1:34.7	I'm like, no, just went right to me.
1:36.6	You just skipped junior.
1:38.6	I like the second.
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