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Episode 168 - The Kansas City Butcher: Robert Berdella

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Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

One April afternoon in 1988 a man named Chris Bryson jumped from the top floor window of 4315 Charlotte St in Kansas City, Missouri.

He was battered, bruised and completely naked - except for a dog collar and lead hanging from his neck. He had been held captive for days, tied to a bed and brutally tortured by Bob Berdella (aka The Kansas City Butcher) - and Chris was not his first victim.


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0:00.0

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0:14.7

I'm Hannah, I'm Sruti and welcome to Redhanded and also spooky season. It is October now, the most wonderful time of the year.

0:24.0

We love October, it's both of our birthdays, mine is tomorrow and Netflix drops their scariest offerings.

0:29.7

Shudder is probably doing something and best of all, spooky bitch merch is back.

0:34.0

It's back. I tried to do an Instagram story and I just was like, bitch, merch, back. That's just all I could manage to get out of my mouth.

0:42.0

Fantastic, that's the effect that October has on us here at Redhanded, but Hannah is correct. The spooky bitch merch is back out.

0:48.4

We are also bringing out other merch. So if you have already officially indoctrinated yourself into the spooky bitch clan by going and buying some spooky bitch merch in previous runs, don't worry.

0:59.0

We heard you guys and we heard that you wanted some not-in-this-economy merch. So some of that's coming out in like two weeks, three weeks? I don't know, it's on the 23rd of October.

1:07.8

Some amount of time from now. In some amount of time within this month and with also got some really, I think, beautiful fan art merch

1:17.0

that's going up as well on the 23rd of October. Yeah, it is beautiful. It's really, really stunning.

1:22.4

We'll tag the artists and everybody in their Instagram when we put it out so you guys can go follow her because she's super cool.

1:28.0

And you can also get those on sweat shirts because again, people are like, where are the sweat shirts, bitches? I don't need a hood. I'm not going outside.

1:35.6

So that's also coming. So yeah, stay tuned for all of that good stuff.

1:39.7

And also shout out to Beth who we were both on dates at the same pub on the same table a couple of weeks ago.

1:46.0

And I said I'd shout out on the show so I'm doing it now. I hope your date went better than mine, Beth.

1:49.8

That's so funny. Oh, dude. Well, anyway. We'll save our episodes of Empty Handed for Under the Duve, which if you are a $5.00

1:59.2

and not patron, you can listen to you immediately after this show over on patreon.com slashreadhanded.

2:04.3

Yeah, there's all sorts of crazy shit going on on there. Some of it is much more scary than what we're about to talk about today.

2:09.5

And that's saying something. Yeah, terrifying fear of being alone.

2:13.0

Terrifying dating in London. Terrifying. Oh my god. Right. Those of you who have been with us for a while will know that we go out of our way in October to find the most fucked up shit

2:23.2

we possibly can. And we round it all off with two Halloween specials. And then we fuck off with our entire lives into November and pretend that none of it ever happened.

2:31.1

Especially this year. Yes. And this case that we're doing this week has actually been on our episode list, like our two cover lists for about

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