75: Dark Shadows: David Carpenter, the Trailside Killer

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, we discuss a serial killer whose activities made authorities consider him as the Zodiac not once, but twice. He operated opportunistically by targeting mostly females hiking in state parks. Find out how he was eventually caught and how this case helped renowned FBI profiler John Douglas's colleagues to buy in to the newly developed science.

Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"

Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"

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Transition Music by:
Nick Scarantino
Scarytino.com

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Carpenter
http://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/4th/21/1016.html
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-05-me-33339-story.html
https://www.aetv.com/tags/trailside-killer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvcwl3W3vds
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lisa-rinna-says-her-mother-lois-was-attacked-by-trailside-killer-david-carpenter-he-tried-to-kill-her

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0:00.0	Hey everyone is Jen.
0:11.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:24.7	And this is Lindsay.
0:25.6	And welcome to Corpus Delicti.
0:27.9	We're back from an unscheduled break.
0:31.0	Yeah, our bad.
0:32.1	We had issues.
0:34.0	Lots of them.
0:34.9	Surprise.
0:36.5	To be fair, I got a new microphone and I gave Jen, my old one, which was better than the one she was using.
0:45.0	We ended up having a learning curve with both.
0:47.7	Let's just put it that way.
0:49.5	I forgot to plug mine in.
0:50.8	And I was speaking into the wrong end of mine.
0:54.4	You would think after like a year we'd have this down.
0:58.3	But also, to be fair, mine looks very weird.
1:01.7	And so when you say spoken to the wrong end, it's not like, it's not what you're
1:06.4	thinking.
1:07.5	It's not where the plug is because I was looking, I was, I was texting Lindsay and I was like,
1:12.1	surely she's not talking into the place where it plugs into the wall, but maybe it's the place
1:18.7	where the cord meets the mic. I was like, surely she is not talking to the back of the microphone. No,
1:24.1	I wasn't. And surely enough, it was just rotated because it was one of the 1950 styles where you
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