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Bonus Patreon Upcycle - Joe Metheny: Hate, Heroin & Human Hog Roasts

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

There aren't many true crime figures bigger than Joe Metheny. The 450-pound killer cook, who rampaged his way through south Baltimore's homeless community in the early 90s, claimed to have taken the lives of at least 10 victims...

But how does someone go from a quiet, high-achieving young boy to a homeless crack addict with a taste for murder?

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0:00.0

Happy New Year, everyone! We hope that you are filled with festive cheer and ready to grab the new year by the balls.

0:06.0

We are still on our little ball-grabbing break, so we have another one of our very best picks from our Patreon bonus episodes from last year 2022.

0:14.0

And this one is one of our most requested cases of all time. But, before we get to Burger Boy, we have a little reminder for you all.

0:22.0

An North American reminder. Shake off those holiday hangovers because Red Handed is coming on tour in just a couple of months. It sounds like it's a long time away. It is not. And you can catch us in.

0:33.0

Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, Royal Oak, Toronto, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York City.

0:44.0

And we will be there in March and April 2023, as I said, really not that long away at all. And a couple of people who came to UK shows have been messaging us, asking us if it's going to be the same show that we toured in Europe in 2022.

0:57.0

Absolutely not. As a brand new show never before been seen by anyone anywhere in the world. As a time recording, we haven't even written it.

1:04.0

It's been handcrafted just for you.

1:07.0

Links for all their news are available directly from our website, which is of course redhandedpockers.com. Tickets are flying out of the door, so make sure you get yours as soon as humanly possible.

1:17.0

Do not sit on this, do not sleep on it. You will miss out and we probably will not come to North America again on tour for many a year.

1:23.0

So we would hate for you to miss out.

1:25.0

Do the right thing. Go to redhandedpockers.com and make sure you don't get lost along the way.

1:30.0

Now you better put down that sandwich though, because it's time to separate the cannibal man from the cannibal myth. We've all seen the picture of this terrifying looking heavy hitter. But who was the real Joe Methany?

1:40.0

I'm Hanna and welcome to your bonus episode for Patreon for the month of April.

1:56.0

That sounds like it's probably right. We're going on holiday in two days, so we've been recording things back to back to back to back for stuff that's going out in like three weeks' time.

2:08.0

So we have no idea about the passage of time. The Chronicles of the episodes, we've just been behind these mics.

2:14.0

And it doesn't matter because this, friends, is an evergreen show. So, wherever you are, whenever you are, whoever you are, enjoy all the horrible things we're about to tell you.

2:25.0

Because we've said it before, and we'll say it again, when it comes to the world of true crime.

2:30.0

Fact is often far stranger and far more fucked up than fiction. I really think that if this story was presented to you in like a true crime drama, everyone would watch it.

2:42.0

But you'd be forgiven thinking that it was all just a bit unbelievable.

2:45.0

Yeah, far-fetched.

2:46.0

Yes, and actually, as I say that, they have used this story in a non-true crime, in a fake crime drama.

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