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With your host, journalist and author, Dan Zupansky.

Good evening.

Joseph Weldon Brown confessed to more than a dozen murders across seven states.

He was convicted and sentenced for killing a woman whose body he dismembered and scattered across three Indiana counties.

In prison, he hogtied and strangled his cellmate, then asked the judge to lock him up for

life because if he was released, he would continue killing.

Police detective Rick Reed was on the scene when Brown led authorities to the scattered remains of Ginger Gassaway in 2000.

After Brown's arrest, he confessed to a shocking number of other heinous crimes.

The torture and murders of drifters and sex workers, the cold case of a naked

woman's body found in a roadside ditch, even the murder of his own mother.

Detective Reed was the one man Brown opened up to, and the only one to cut through the deceptions and lives and learn the

terrible truth. In this newly updated edition, now-retire Detective Reed reveals his personal

theories and insights into one of the darkest minds he ever encountered, and one of the most terrifying crime

stories ever told. The book that we're featuring this evening is Blood Trail, The Hunt for

a Serial Killer, with my special guest, retired detective sergeant and author, Rick Reed.

Welcome back to the program and thank you very much for this interview, Rick Reed.

Thank you, Dan.

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