Episode 268: The Dayton Christmas Killings

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Between Christmas Eve and Boxing Day 1992, four members of a group who called themselves “The Downtown Posse” committed 10 attempted murders, leaving 6 victims dead and 2 injured. Joseph Wilkerson, Danita Gullette, Richmond Maddox, Sarah Abraham, Wendy Cottrill, and Marvin Washington lost their lives for no reason other than 4 sadistic killers wanting to have some “fun”. This is the story of the 1992 Christmas killings in Dayton, Ohio.

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman a true crime podcast. Oh, Welcome back everybody. Welcome to a new episode. Today's episode is kind of Christmas themed. it's like in a horrible way because this is a true
0:36.0	crime podcast but yeah kind of Christmas theme I actually found a show called Homicide for the Holidays, which is like again
0:46.8	Crenge. Yeah, not good. That is Grinch, yeah. But I it, I was researching this case and found that it aired.
0:57.2	This case was talked about on that show and it actually is like a decently well done show in my
1:01.5	opinion at least the one episode I watched like it covered the details of the crime and all of that and it had one of the victims family members on it so like okay it was pretty well done but yeah that's the name of the
1:16.8	show if you want to watch it but today we were talking about the Dayton, Ohio Christmas killings.
1:27.0	And this is just crazy, so let's get into it.
1:36.3	Sometimes teenagers might be bored during the holidays, right? Their home from school, maybe wanting to avoid family,
1:39.6	avoid responsibilities, so they might do things like getting into trouble by you know
1:46.3	hanging out on private property you're like messing around somewhere not
1:49.4	somewhere they're not supposed to. Yeah, it happens. But what a group of teens and young adults would do in December
1:59.0	1992 in Dayton, Ohio was so beyond heinous that it haunted the community for years.
2:06.0	This is the story of the Dayton Christmas killings by a group who called themselves the posi.
2:14.3	Possi. Yeah. Okay. I think that that is very silly sounding. So this group, the main members of this group were
2:28.0	19 year old Marvellous Keene, his 16 year old girlfriend Laura Taylor and their friends another couple 19 year old
2:38.9	Demarkas Smith and 20 year old Heather Matthews.
2:43.0	Okay.
2:45.0	In December 1992 they were bored and out for blood and the worst part was they did not have a motive. They were killing for fun,
2:55.5	picking victims at random and doing it just because they wanted to.
2:59.7	That's so sick and maniacal and honestly almost makes it worse just to be so like haphazardly killing people
3:08.4	Yeah, and they would like later try to say that they were doing it to like,
3:14.0	rob people, but the amount of money slash things that they got
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