Benjamin Atkins

True Crime All The Time

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True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Benjamin Atkins was a serial killer and rapist who operated in the Detroit area in 1991 and 1992. He is considered by the FBI to be America's fastest serial killer because he murdered 11 women in such a short span of time. Atkins preyed on women along Detroit's Woodward Avenue and his M.O. remained consistent. He targeted sex workers because his mother was a sex worker who took him with her and he was forced to see things that no child should have to witness.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the horrific details of serial killer Benjamin Atkins. He took the lives of 11 women during an 8-9 month time span, but, it was his only victim that managed to escape who ultimately brought him down. Atkins experienced a terrible childhood, and his defense argued that it was this childhood that ultimately made him the predator he became.

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0:00.0	Obsessed with True Crime. So are we.
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0:10.0	Watch every twist and turn from our award-winning True Crime series and documentaries,
0:14.7	with fascinating first-hand insights from the experts who were there on the scene.
0:19.6	So pick up the remote and tune in to CBS Reality, with True Crime content every night from 9.
0:25.6	You'll find us on Freeview, FreeSatSky, or your Virgin Media Player.
0:55.6	Hello everyone and welcome, episode 238 of The True Crime All the Time Podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson,
1:09.9	and with me as always is my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson. Give me how are you?
1:13.7	Hey, man, I'm doing good about yourself. I'm doing really well.
1:16.6	Good.
1:17.2	You and I just taped a brand new Patreon episode, a very strange story about Joseph
1:24.7	Callinger, a man who believed he was on a mission from God to kill every person on the planet.
1:32.0	Yeah, I'll four billion or whatever.
1:34.3	Yeah, I think it was four billion at the time. Back then, we have a lot more people on the planet
1:40.1	today, but it's an interesting one for sure. We also have a brand new True Crime All the Time
1:47.7	Unsolved Episode out. We're talking about the Atlantic City 4.
1:53.0	Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good episode for women end up murdered behind a kind of a
2:00.0	city hotel and in a short period of time and then the investigation ensues and we kind of go
2:07.2	from there. Yeah, there's a possible tie-in with serial killer. Yeah, so a lot of times you'll see
2:13.3	the story referred to as the Eastbound Strangler. The Eastbound Strangler. But it's a good one,
2:19.4	make sure you check that out. Not to be confused with Eastbound down or whatever that show.
2:23.7	Eastbound, I love that. Eastbound and down. Yeah, we're seeing some great support on Patreon.
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