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The First Degree

Episode 222: The River Parishes Serial Killer

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.510K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On October 17, 1996, a 41 year old repair shop owner and father of three is bludgeoned to death at his home in St Amant, Louisiana, by an intruder. The killer leaves a bloody baseball bat in the victims’ bathtub, but there appears to be little forensic evidence indicating who’s responsible. For detectives, without any leads or solid direct evidence, it seems a confession will be the only way to solve the case. It won’t be until over a year later, in November 1997, that law enforcement would apprehend the killer. Tragically, by this stage he’d killed another five people. In episode 222, Jac and Alexis detail the chilling case of Daniel Blank, a violent offender who became known as the River Parishes Serial Killer, and had older residents of this small region of Louisiana living in fear.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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First degree.

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Get on the grid.

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Get on the grid.

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He thinks there's supposed to happen in movies, not real life.

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He was a really distinct looking person.

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He's very skinny and he has these like amazingly pure skin.

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He's like amazingly piercing blue eyes.

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But like scary in a way.

0:32.0

Like they almost look like they're looking through you.

0:34.0

He's here about these people and they've done like horrific things.

0:38.0

These people have family, people who knew them.

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It's crazy to think about like digitality.

0:42.0

Sometimes you really just don't know what people are capable of and how they can just turn it off and turn it back on.

0:50.0

Welcome to the first degree.

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The True Crime Podcast that you might end up on.

0:54.0

My name is Jack Fianic.

0:56.0

I'm a singer.

0:58.0

How are we feeling today?

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