A Friendly Stranger with A Terrifying Secret - My Friend the Serial Killer

The Binge Crimes: Finding Mom's Killer

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if someone you knew turned out to be a serial killer? In the 1970s, Steve Fishman was an intern at his local newspaper. One day, he hitched a ride back home from Boston with a kind stranger who graciously picked him up and dropped him off at his destination. What Steve didn’t know however, was that this stranger was hiding a dark secret: by the time he picked up Steve, he had already killed three people - all hitchhikers. But this fateful ride was just the beginning of Steve’s story. While this may have been the first time Steve met the man he’d come to know as Red, it wouldn’t be the last… Featuring exclusive interviews and never-before-heard tapes, join Steve as he tells his chilling story for the first time and unravels the lingering questions surrounding this wild chapter of his life. Why did Steve get spared by the killer during their first meeting? And what could have possibly driven Steve back to the same killer he had just escaped? Find out on Smoke Screen: My Friend, the Serial Killer - available now wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribers to The Binge can listen to all episodes right now, completely ad-free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Witness listeners, Sean Flynn here.
0:03.0	While our story of the Manhunt in Austin has come to an end, another wildly gripping podcast
0:07.4	has just dropped on the Binge channel.
0:09.4	Smokescreen, my friend the serial killer.
0:12.0	In the 1970s,
0:14.0	host Steve Fishman was an intern at a small newspaper in Connecticut
0:17.0	when he hitchhiked home from Boston one day.
0:20.0	Steve got dropped off and didn't think much about the trip after that until his newsroom got a bulletin
0:26.7	that that same driver had been arrested by Florida police and had confessed to a number of disturbing murders of hitchhikers.
0:36.6	It was a bone-chilling brush with death that shook Steve to his core.
0:41.3	That was only the beginning.
0:43.0	Because that close call with the serial killer,
0:45.0	that was the first time Steve would meet the man he came to call Red.
0:48.0	But it wasn't the last.
0:50.0	Join Steve Fishman himself as he unravels and recounts this harrowing tale that is as terrifying as it is fascinating
0:57.2	uncovering new revelations all these years later. Here's a sneak peek.
1:03.0	So now I fall into the routine of the newspaper and also I keep it jacking.
1:10.0	Sometimes the rides are great. You would get these mothers who would have their children in the backseat.
1:17.0	Or young hippies and mini buses who would offer me drugs and also, you know, dreams of changing my life like buying a van and painting it purple and driving across America.
1:30.0	And then there were other kinds of rides.
1:32.0	One time a couple of guys took me to the end of a dirt road.
1:36.0	And right before they steal my backpack, one of them says to me,
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