All humans are capable of making errors, but some errors have particularly more dangerous

consequences than others.

Like what if that mistake puts an innocent person in jail, or maybe gets someone killed?

On today's countdown, we're looking at the missteps and blunders made during the investigations

of deadly crimes.

Some of these oversights have allowed killers to continue their murder spree for years, or

even on occasion go completely undetected.

The latter is especially true for the diabolical killer at number one on today's list.

Hey all you weirdos, welcome to Crime Countdown, a Spotify original from Parkast, I'm Ash,

and I'm Elena.

Every week we'll highlight ten fascinating stories of history's most engaging and unsettling

crimes, all picked by the Parkast Research Gods.

This episode we're counting down the top ten murder investigation blunders.

So I do a lot of older cases on our show morbid, and those cases are always rife with bad

investigatory work.

Mainly because they literally never used to secure crime scenes, like not even a little

bit.

It's bonkers.

They would literally like grab someone from the local pub and be like, we stand outside

the front door tonight and just make sure no one comes in.

Like that was their idea of securing crime scene, that person would let millions of people

in.

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