Episode 29 - Melvyn John Otterstrom & Michael Burdell
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 20 August 2018
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:18.0 | Geographic restrictions and Ties and Ties and Sies apply 18 plus. The Oh, In April 1985, 1985, a man named Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was facing numerous felony charges and the possibility |
| 0:56.8 | of a death sentence, was meeting with his lawyers downtown in Salt Lake City at the Metropolitan Hall of Justice. |
| 1:05.7 | Having escaped prison before, another opportunity for breakout presented itself. |
| 1:11.6 | As Ronnie was led into the courthouse that morning, shackled at the waist, a female |
| 1:16.8 | friend approached him and handed him a loaded revolver. |
| 1:36.9 | Ronnie ran loose in the courthouse for several minutes, terrorizing bystanders with the gun. But before authorities could subdue him, he had fatally shot an innocent person in the face. Defense attorney Michael Burdell. |
| 1:47.0 | Ronnie also shot an unarmed bailiff Nick Kirk in the abdomen. |
| 1:54.8 | Join me now as we uncover the crimes committed by Ronnie Lee Gardner and the impact |
| 2:01.5 | his murders had on loved ones and friends. |
| 2:05.0 | We'll also take a look at Ronnie's upbringing and the extent to which traumatic emotional experiences in a brain injury may have contributed to the development |
| 2:16.2 | of his violent personality. |
| 2:19.6 | We'll also reveal the unusual choice Ronnie made regarding how he would face his death sentence. Oh, And then. In North Central Utah in the summer, the air can be sweet. Breezes come in from the east, dropping over the mountains that make up the Wasatch front, |
| 3:07.0 | cooling the numerous cities that line the interstate. |
| 3:10.0 | Among them, the sprawling state capital, Salt Lake City, and Draper, the home of the Utah State |
| 3:18.0 | Prison. |
| 3:19.7 | In October 1984, high on cocaine, Ronnie Lee Gardner shot a Salt Lake City bartender named |
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