From about 15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

We are all evil in some form or another.

Yes, I am not 100%, but I am.

My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman.

I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

This is serial killing, a podcast.

Hello again, and welcome to serial killing a podcast.

This is Alyssa Carroll, and I am your host and the creator of At Serial underscoreilling on Instagram, where we go through the life

stories of serial killers to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they display their famous

vile and disturbing behaviors. This week's podcast will be about Bob Berdella, and I have to warn you,

it is going to be intense.

Bob was known as the Kansas City butcher and the collector.

He killed his first known victim at 35 years old.

He was a sadomasochist who suffered from sexual dysfunction and he was a narcissist.

His kill count was six. So Robert Andrew Berdella Jr. was born on January 31, 1949, making him an

Aquarius in Ohio. So as we always do, let's get into some history from that time.

In 1949, World War II was finally over, and life in the United States was beginning to settle down and prosper.

Factories could now concentrate on meeting the demand for the cars and televisions that consumers

wanted.

The first soap operas were beginning to premiere on daytime TV and, logically, advertising began

to boom because more and more people were beginning to own televisions and therefore

commercials were prime real estate in the broadcasting business.

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