Episode 213: Terry Barron

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On August 22, 1992, a 40 year old woman and her 41 year old boyfriend are brutally attacked in a motel room in Tampa, Florida. The couple is beaten unconscious and hacked at with a knife before their attacker does something unimaginable to his male victim. The seeds of malevolence are sown in this perpetrator long before he gets to this point. But what was his ‘sliding doors’ moment? People don’t just evolve into criminals in a social and environmental vacuum. There’s a tipping point for everyone, a point of no return. When it comes to criminality, is there such a thing as genetic predetermination? When it seems like the world is against us from a young age is there truly hope for us to have the freedom to choose our own path? In episode 213, Jac and Alexis detail the incomprehensible case of Terry Barron, a serial abuser whose desire for control and vengeance knew no bounds.

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0:00.0	Hey firsties, I wanted to jump on here real quick and tell you about our Patreon.
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0:13.8	degree.
0:14.8	And we've got a mix.
0:15.8	We've got some traditional true crime story telling over there as well as some episodes
0:19.4	that we're having a good time, having some cocktails, talking shit, you know the drill.
0:23.1	Plus it's uncensored.
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0:33.2	First degree.
0:36.2	First degree.
0:37.2	First degree.
0:38.2	The first degree.
0:39.2	Get on the news.
0:40.2	Get on the paper.
0:41.2	Get on the paper.
0:42.2	Get on the paper.
0:43.2	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:52.6	I just got this random letter in the mail from him with no return address.
0:57.9	But it was postmarked to Hillsboro County, Florida.
1:01.9	And all the letter said was, I've gotten myself in some trouble.
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