EP75: The Kansas City Butcher

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Warning: This episode is extremely gruesome.
From 1984 to 1988 there was a serial killer loose in the streets of Kansas City. The victims were mostly male sex workers, street kids, and drug addicts and the killer knew, after getting away with the first murder, that the police were not quick to solve these crimes involving this often forgotten about population. Fueled by his fantasies, Robert Berdella brutally tortured and murdered six men. His would-be seventh victim was able to escape and expose the world to a horrifying story, unlike anything you may have heard.

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Sources:
Robert Berdella: The True Story of the Kansas City Butcher by Jack Rosewood

Transcript

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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.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya. And I'm Tlaia. advised.
0:12.8	Hi everyone, I'm Tanya.
0:14.3	And I'm T Leah.
0:15.4	And we are Crimes and Consequences, a true crime podcast. I'm going so great. How are you today? I'm doing so great. How are you? I am doing great too. The episode that I'm going to do today was a former
0:46.9	members only episode because it's one of our most popular I thought that we could
0:51.8	re-record it and re-release it for the masses.
0:56.0	Oh, sounds good. All right.
0:58.0	So you've heard this one, but it's been a long time.
1:00.0	It has been a long time and I remember it being a 10 on our gruesome scale. Yeah, this one's pretty bad. So I'm just warning everybody ahead of time. I still have PTSD from it. I don't remember all the details so let's go ahead and
1:15.2	just traumatize me again. I know I just remember it was horrible so that being sad that
1:20.1	being said let's do it. The story today is about the serial killer, Robert Birdella.
1:28.0	And I'm going to refer to him as Bob throughout the episode.
1:30.8	He was born January 31st, 1949 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. His family, they were very
1:37.6	religious, they were Catholic, Italian Americans, so they went to mass regularly.
1:42.4	His dad worked for Ford. Americans, so they went to mass regularly.
1:43.0	His dad worked for Ford Motor Company.
1:46.0	When he was a child, he had to wear really thick glasses.
1:50.0	He took medication for high blood pressure, and he had a speech impediment so of course he was the
1:56.3	target of many bullies at school. And often serial killers have speech impediment.
2:01.5	Do they really? Yeah. I didn't know that.
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