Episode 92

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4 • 61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The love of a mother is something many of us take for granted, but when it's not present during the early formative years the results can be disastrous. This is what Edmund Kemper suggests happened to him. A serial killer who enjoyed murdering coeds in the early 70's, Kemper is not your average lunatic. He has the IQ of a genius and has spent years self-analyzing his actions. We hear from his own words and delve into the extreme nature of his crimes.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Right, she hits me across the face with this belt, says,
0:15.0	Shut up, the neighbors are going to think I'm beating you.
0:23.0	Welcome to season 4, episode 92 of Sword and Scale,
0:28.0	a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real.
0:50.0	Ah, it's a lovely day for a new episode of Sword and Scale on this Fathers Day.
0:56.0	But the story we're telling you today isn't about Fathers,
0:59.0	it's about a mother actually, and her son.
1:02.0	You know, we rarely like to tell stories about serial killers.
1:06.0	I just don't find them quite as interesting as stories about regular people who just snap.
1:11.0	But this one is different.
1:13.0	It's so extreme and has so many bizarre turns that I couldn't stop reading about it.
1:20.0	I think you'll like it.
1:22.0	So let's just dive right in.
1:24.0	Here we go.
1:54.0	There is a Jewish proverb that states, God could not be everywhere, so therefore he made mothers.
2:13.0	The Victorian poet Robert Browning wrote,
2:16.0	Womanliness means only motherhood.
2:19.0	All love begins and ends there.
2:22.0	A particularly humorous Chinese proverb states,
2:25.0	There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.
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