Sort and scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences

listener discretion is advised

I remember

someone started screaming and

At one point I heard like a and then some of the screaming stopped

This is sword and scale episode 116 a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real

Hey, don't let the music fool you. We got a bad one coming. I mean probably not of the stirring the mom brains variety, but still pretty bad

You see a lot of the stories we tell here are pretty predictable. There's a lot of

Lovers quarrels or issues with money or just some sort of

Extreme mental illness that's been untreated. This one is arguably

much more horrifying because

It's like there's none of those things. It's just a random, senseless, incredibly violent act

Well, let me not give away the story. Listen for yourself and hopefully you're not alone tonight

We've all heard the statistics before

We know that the vast majority of murder victims have some sort of connection to their killers

Maybe it's a coworker an ex lover a relative or a spouse

These are the stories that we've become accustomed to hearing

But what about the rest?

What about the small percentage of murders carried out at the hands of strangers?

Cases in which a killer takes another life not out of anger or passion or revenge

But simply for the thrill of it

On the evening of Saturday, October 3rd 2009

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