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Gangland Wire

Bob Berdella Serial Killer Part 4

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6645 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

In this fourth and final episode of our interview with Troy Cole, we learn about Berdella’s frantic efforts to avoid the death penalty. First, he tries to plead guilty to one count of murder. The father of one victim attacks Berdella at a hearing. The prosecutor quickly moved and avoid Berdella from controlling any of the court procedures. He makes a last ditch attempt to save his house from state confiscation. Finally, a deal is struck and in exchange for the prosecutor not asking for the death penalty, Berdella agrees to cooperate and tell the authorities the names of all his victims reveal what he did with the bodies. Troy Cole and his main detective along with the Chief Prosecutor and trial prosecutor meet for hours with Berdella. He reveals in gleeful detail exactly what happened inside his house of horrors. he will explain all the codes in the torture logs he kept. In the end, Berdella goes to the Missouir State Pen for several life terms. In a few years, after creating as much administrative haqvoc as possible, Berdella dies from a heart attack in 1992. the ironic fact about his death was he had written to a Kansas City minister and complained many times about how the Prison authorities withheld his heart medicine. He was taken back to his home town of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and buried with his father. Click here to see gravesite.  To go to the store click here To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To subscribe on iTunes click here, give me a review and I will send you a link to see the film for free.

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former kansas city police department intelligence detective and now attorney gary jenkins produced four

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documentary films most recently gangland wire creator of smartphone app entitled Kansas City Mob Tours. Download it now.

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If you like what you hear, go to ganglandwire.com. Navigate to the shop page. We need you to put

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a hit out on our donate button. Gangland Wire True Crime Stories is produced at the Big Dumb Fun Show Studio 4.

0:42.9

And now here's Gary Jenkins.

0:48.7

Well, good evening, folks.

0:50.4

Welcome back to the Big Dumb Fun Show Studio 4 in and midtown kansas city and the old ice house

0:57.7

building has been remodeled into some lofts and other businesses kind of a cool old building i'm here

1:03.7

with my good friend and co-host aaron say hello aaron hello aaron we're also here with my good friend

1:09.4

and guest tonight troy cole. Say hello, Troy.

1:12.6

Hi, Gary.

1:14.6

So, we are back again for our fourth and maybe final episode. I'm not sure. I think it probably will be of the Robert Berdala serial killer investigation.

1:27.3

Troy Cole was the sergeant in charge of that investigation and lived and breathed this thing

1:31.3

for, I don't know how long, six months or so, I believe, Troy.

1:35.3

30 years.

1:36.3

Yeah, you're still living and breathing.

1:38.3

Still living it.

1:39.3

Still won't let you go, will they?

1:41.3

Well, and Troy has a book out.

1:44.9

Buy the book.

1:45.9

Help him get a little money out of this.

1:47.9

He did get paid for his time at the time, but, you know, it wasn't enough.

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