A Serial Killer with a Genius IQ - August 4 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:12.0	One of a murder...
0:14.9	One change can completely alter the course of someone's life.
0:19.5	On August 4, 1976, a man committed his first of what would be five murders.
0:26.2	A man who, when speaking with police, blamed his actions on a change in his life that occurred when he was seven years old.
0:34.5	So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a
0:39.6	morning cup of murder. Monty Ralph Riesel, born November 28, 1958, grew up in an unstable home that
0:48.7	saw his father leave when he was just seven, and his mother, marry, and divorce twice by the time he was 12.
0:56.1	Living for the first seven years of his life in Wellington, Kansas, with his two older siblings,
1:02.2	Monty, from a very young age, exhibited antisocial behavior.
1:08.0	He did things like right obscene graffiti on his school's walls and once shot his
1:13.4	cousin with an air rifle, earning himself quite the beating from his ex-military stepfather,
1:20.0	who hid him so hard with the gun, it broke against his small body. After his mother and stepfather divorced when he was 12,
1:29.4	Monty's crimes seemed to escalate.
1:32.6	He committed his first burglary, was caught driving without a license,
1:37.2	stole a car, and when he was just 14,
1:40.5	was arrested and convicted of the rape and robbery of his neighbor, whom he attacked at knife point while wearing a mask.
1:49.9	For this crime, Monty was sent to a reform school, where they diagnosed him with a multiple personality disorder and, quote, adjustment reaction of adolescence.
2:01.6	He spent the next few years in and out of institutions,
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