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Killer Psyche

Encore - The East Hampton Murder

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong delves into the East Hampton murder and its major players, Danny Pelosi and Generosa Ammon. The murder made national headlines due to the very wealthy victim and the over the top behavior of its main suspects. Candice also uses her own personal experience from her interview with Danny Pelosi to explore the psychological factors that led to this murder.

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The village of East Hampton is a Tony retreat on the far eastern end of Long Island, New York.

0:32.0

It's a favorite summer playground for the Uber wealthy. And since it's only a two hour car ride or a 20 minute helicopter flight from Manhattan,

0:41.0

it's also a popular place for New York millionaires to keep second homes where they can quickly get away from the city for a few days.

0:51.0

But in October of 2001, the East Hampton news that was making headlines was not about an A-lister social calendar. It was about the brutal murder of one of its own.

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52-year-old Wall Street financier Ted Ammon lay sleeping in bed when someone entered his Hampton's home through an unlocked door and stunned him into submission with a taser.

1:21.0

After several hours of horrific torture, the intruder took a heavy metal object and bludgeoned Ted over and over again until he mercifully died.

1:36.0

Ted had been a golden boy on Wall Street, his slaying, stunned New York and made front page headlines.

1:44.0

For months, theories flooded the tabloids and New York's high society, but with only circumstantial evidence, tabloid rumors and a prime suspect who was close to death, proving who killed Ted Ammon would take years.

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From Wondery and Tree Fort, I'm Candace DeLong and this is Killer Psychie.

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I've spent five decades studying people's minds through my work as an FBI profiler and psychiatric nurse.

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