Episode 3: Dead Ends and Copycats

Stranglers

SiriusXM Podcasts

Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Three months with no new deaths: investigators were beginning to believe that the Boston Strangler’s killing spree had ended. Then, on December 5, 1962, a roommate found the body of 20 year old Sophie Clark, and the case took a terrifying new turn. Had the killer changed his M.O.? Were two or more Boston Stranglers at large? Host Portland Helmich digs into the details surrounding Clark’s murder, and learns much more about the obsessive patterns serial killers usually follow. She also talks to Jane Caputi, an expert who studies the ways in which society turns some serial killers into outlaw heroes. This episode is brought to you by Blue Apron and First Day Back.

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0:00.0	The following program includes descriptions of graphic and sexually explicit violence.
0:09.8	This show may not be suitable for those affected by such descriptions or for young listeners.
0:14.9	Parental discretion is advised.
0:22.5	Previously on Stranglers, we had something really wild going on.
0:27.5	You needed to be living in a cave if you didn't realize when one was being killed.
0:33.6	In June of 1962, two women were found strangled in Boston, then came another in July, two more
0:41.4	in August.
0:42.4	You know, if you had five borders, you could expect there would be more.
0:47.3	The killer seemed to be selecting his victims at random.
0:49.9	I think everybody believed they were the next victim and I listened every night for
0:56.9	creeks on the stairs, something coming up to murder me.
1:02.2	The Boston police launched one of the biggest manhunts in the history of the city.
1:06.1	We've interrogated over 5,000 people.
1:09.8	We've screened over 2,500 sex offenders who have been released from mental hospitals and
1:16.8	jails and institutions.
1:19.1	But the interrogation still hadn't turned up a single solid piece of evidence.
1:23.5	We were desperate to close.
1:25.4	Now, it would be nice to be the devil, if you can give me the information that I'm looking
1:29.0	for.
1:30.0	5 borders, you could expect there would be more.
1:34.9	The summer of 1962 had the city on edge.
1:42.7	And then for months in the fall, nothing.
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