Hey guys, welcome to episode 218 of the True Crime Couple podcast. I'm Kay and I'm John.

Police say the suspect, 31 year old Jeffrey Dahmer has confessed to the killings of 11 people

whose remains were found in his apartment. We are all evil in some form or another. Are we not?

Lock your doors, lock your windows. If you have the ability to provide additional security devices, then by all means do so.

In 1995, the Campbellden Road neighborhood of Southwest Atlanta was plagued by a series of interconnected social and economic factors

that made the parents of the area fear for their children. Throughout the 1980s, many factories

and other industrial employers were forced to shut their doors in the city, leading to high

unemployment rates among the population. Because of the shutdowns,

the families that could afford to leave the area had, which left behind a concentration of

impoverished citizens, a factor which led to the disenfranchisement of the community, particularly

the schools and their extracurricular and after-school programs,

which made children more prone to drop out and join the gangs that were openly recruiting children to help them take advantage of the crack epidemic that hit the United States hard in the 1990s. This left them in a

systematic poverty cycle that plagued them and the generations before them, and left them to rage

against the American industrial prison complex.

In the Campbellden Road neighborhood, many apartments or multifamily homes had been constructed in the 1960s and 70s to give the workers at the nearby factories a close and convenient place to live

with their families due to its proximity to work

and major roads and transportation hubs. However, as the residents of the neighborhood lost

their jobs and were forced to get by the best ways they could, the once beautiful and bright complexes

fell into disrepair, due to neglect from landlords or tenants who could no longer afford any extras in life.

These neglected properties and wooded shortcuts to major roads that surrounded them quickly became a dangerous place to be.

And this is why, on the morning of June 7, 1995,

when Nicole Smith and her sister Nikita asked their mother,

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