EP36: Killing the Man in the Mirror

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In the summer of 1984, 14-year-old Kenny Myers left his home to go for a bike ride when he failed to return, his mother reported him missing. His strangled body was found 30 miles away in a park. A year later, 13-year-old Shawn Moore disappeared while riding his bike and like Kenny, his body was found decomposed two weeks later, 150 miles from his house. Other teen boys reported being kidnapped in a similar fashion, but after their assaults, they were released. Tips began pouring in and eventually the killer, 26-year-old Ronald Bailey, was arrested. His background showed a history of kidnapping and homosexual rapes, starting when he was only 13 years old. Eventually, Ronald opened up to FBI forensic profiler John Douglas about how he chose his victims and his method of murder. Ronald killed boys that reminded him of his younger self. He rationalized that If he could kill his teen self, then he could prevent the monster he grew up to be from hurting others. No one will know the true count of Ronald’s murdered victims, but authorities are convinced Shawn and Kenny weren’t the only ones.

Looking for our missing episodes? They are available free on our website www.tntcrimes.com

Get Exclusive Members Only, Ad-Free episodes at www.tntcrimes.com or www.patreon.com/tntcrimes
IG & Facebook: @hardcoretruecrime

Sources: The Livingston Daily Press
The Livingston PostJourney into Darkness by John Douglas

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature including descriptions of physical and sexual violence against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:13.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tilia and I'm Tanya.
0:16.0	And together we are T&T Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Crimes and Consequences. I'm Tlaia and I'm sitting here with my lovely co-host and confident Tanya. How are you?
0:47.0	I'm doing great today, Talya. How are you? I am doing really well. I'm excited to share with you and our listeners this episode.
0:56.4	You know I just want to take one second and this is not a commercial at all but I want to think
1:00.8	our friends at Podcast Guru which is this app and I want to think our friends at Podcast Guru, which is this app, and I want to think Joe, because they
1:06.8	featured us this week.
1:09.8	So a shout out to Podcast Guru, it's an app, and we're not getting any money for this.
1:15.6	But thank you guys for actually featuring a little indie podcast like ours.
1:21.6	Okay, today's true crime story is a local true crime story that I couldn't find another
1:27.2	podcast on and I couldn't find a lot of information on it but I found enough to share with everybody and I think it's a really interesting story.
1:35.0	And for those of you who are new to listening to us, when I say a local story, it's the Detroit area
1:41.0	because we are from the D. So let's begin. On July 16 in 1984, 15 year old
1:50.6	Kenneth Myers, known as County, lived in Ferndale, Michigan.
1:55.0	Kenny decided to go bike riding on his 10-speed bike.
2:00.0	He was kind of small for his age.
2:02.0	He was only 5 feet. He weighed 90 pounds and he wanted to go for a bike ride.
2:06.0	His mom said that's fine. So out he went on a typical summer day.
2:11.0	When he failed to return home for dinner, his mom reported him missing. A
2:17.4	witness came forward saying she had seen a beat-up brown station wagon with a white top approach Kenny in a parking lot.
2:27.2	The driver of the station wagon got out, pushed Kenny off his bike and grabbed him and threw him in the car.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crimes and Consequences, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Crimes and Consequences and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.