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Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

84: Moorhouse Murders

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Oh man Cult Babes, this week we’re diving into a killer couple from Perth Australia. Australian Cult Babes where you at?! David and Catherine Birnie are pure evil giving Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka a real fun for their money. SPEAKING OF MONEY, today’s episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit BetterHelp.com/CultLiter for 10% off your first month. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

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0:30.0

Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry. What is up Cult Babes?

0:43.0

I'm finally home and the past few days have been crazy as per usual in 2020. I feel like something bad just has to happen every day.

0:51.0

But I was really sad to hear about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She was such a fucking legend. She did so much during her time with the Supreme Court.

1:01.0

And I know that these times feel really uncertain. I think a lot of us are kind of like, what's going to happen? What does this mean?

1:08.0

I did want to tell you guys that if you text RBG to 50409, it automatically signs a petition basically to say that there's no voting until after the inauguration of a new president.

1:21.0

So I highly encourage you guys in the States to do that. But I mean also if shit hits the fan, we are a cult. We will just have to get started on that compound or get some of these international babes to take us in.

1:34.0

In other news, great news. Netflix released a new series from Ryan Murphy called Ratchet.

1:40.0

Was I literally not telling you guys like two weeks ago how bummed I was that there was no new season of American Horror Story this year?

1:47.0

I'm on episode four I think, but I only really paid attention honestly to the first two because I was unpacking and trying to organize stuff.

1:55.0

But visually stunning cast stunning watch it. Let me know what you guys think.

2:01.0

And also I'm working on a few little videos for spooky season. I know I talked about it on an Instagram live last week.

2:08.0

So I will keep you posted. Make sure you're following along at Spencer Henry at cold leader podcast and last but not least in last week's episode on Robert the Doll.

2:17.0

Olivia came up with a challenge where she asked you guys to send in pictures of your own creepy dolls. And she picked one that was submitted by at Hannah underscore rose underscore Marie.

2:28.0

So if that's you, I will be DMing you for your address. Thank you, but also not thank you to all of you who submitted these horrifying doll pictures. I hated them.

2:38.0

But I'm so excited because now I can delete them off of my phone onto the episode today. We are going to be talking about one of my favorite areas of true crime the 80s. And we're talking about a couple so gruesome they give Paul and Carla a good run for their money.

2:54.0

We're going to start this story on November 10th 1986 when a hysterical 17 year old runs it to a vacuum repair shop in Perth, Australia where she tells the owner she had just been raped.

3:05.0

The owner notifies the authorities and when the police arrived she tells them this crazy story about how she'd been abducted at ninth point by a couple taken back to their house where they held her captive and the cops don't believe her.

3:18.0

They pass her off to their 22 year old colleague who is on her first day of duty and basically tell her listen you can take notes but also maybe write the girl up for lying and the cop is like hey wait there's actually a lot going on here because the victim told the officer details that just made a deal.

3:34.0

That just made a lot of sense once they were pieced together she tells them how she was taken at ninth point where she was taken to this house on more house street nearby how she was chained up and how she escaped the following morning that day by busting out a window.

3:50.0

The police had no idea what can of worms was truly about to be open. So let's talk about the couple in question.

3:58.0

We have David Bernie he was born on February 16th of 1951 in the rural suburb of Waddle Grove in western Australia. The oldest of five children born to two severe alcoholics Margaret and John.

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