Ep. 1 | Meet Dr. Kermit Gosnell
Serial Killer: A True Crime Podcast
Unreported Story Society
4.3 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
It was a routine drugs investigation until it wasn't. Drug investigators were targeting a Philadelphia drug ring pushing opioids. It was the biggest in the city and they believed it was being supplied by Dr Kermit Barron Gosnell - a much liked and respected physician operating the The Women's Medical Society Clinic.
Listen to the wiretaps, the secret recordings, and the dealer-turned police informants as investigators get closer to the source of the drugs flooding the city streets. But suddenly, one curious cop gets new information. The informants talk about a filthy clinic with unqualified staff and vague details about a dead woman. It's enough to make Detective Jim Wood want to investigate further. What is really going on behind those doors? Listen to the jailhouse interviews of Dr. Gosnell maintaining his innocence as investigators slowly realize that they might have accidentally uncovered a serial killer.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Serial Killer, a true crime podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | My name is Anne McElheney and I'm a journalist. |
| 0:08.0 | I've covered a lot of strange stories in my career, |
| 0:11.0 | from the mystery of a body discovered in a suitcase in a |
| 0:13.8 | canal in Dublin to a Romanian child adopted and then abandoned by a rich |
| 0:18.6 | Canadian family. I've even infiltrated a baby trafficking ring in Indonesia, but I've never covered a story like the case of Philadelphia's Dr. Kermit, Baron, Gosnell. |
| 0:30.0 | He is America's most prolific serial killer, but you've probably never heard of him. |
| 0:35.0 | The Gosnell's story first emerged to me as a truly grotesque true crime story. |
| 0:42.0 | What we experienced was far beyond anything. a truly grotesque true crime story. |
| 0:42.6 | What we experienced was far beyond anything |
| 0:45.0 | I could ever have imagined. |
| 0:46.7 | I often refer to him as like a Hannibal Lecter type person. |
| 0:51.6 | America is obsessed with crime and serial killers. |
| 0:55.0 | Fictional and true crime shows dominate the TV listings and the podcast charts. |
| 1:00.0 | But few people know about Dr. Kermit GosGosnell's crimes, yet he killed hundreds, perhaps |
| 1:05.8 | thousands. His crimes are horrific. Most of his victims were babies. He also killed and mutilated many, many women, mostly |
| 1:15.8 | minorities. He gathered trophies of body parts. He took intimate photos of |
| 1:22.0 | his victims. |
| 1:23.0 | He recruited others to kill. |
| 1:25.0 | And according to his victims and staff |
| 1:28.0 | seemed to take pleasure in his crimes. |
| 1:30.0 | Gosnell was also one of Philadelphia's biggest drug dealers. |
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