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Eye of the Beholder: Serial Killer Charles Albright, Pt. 1

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In the early 90s, the city of Dallas was thrown into a nightmare. Women started turning up murdered, with a bizarre signature facial mutilation unlike anything detectives had ever seen before. As fear grew in the streets, the killer moved confidently among his pool of potential victims—savvy but vulnerable women who had turned to sex work to survive. No one could have predicted that the predator they were hunting was anything but the typical profile of a killer. A Renaissance man, a brilliant pianist and painter with a reputation as an old-school gentleman…and an astute student of human anatomy. This is the story of one of the most unexpected monsters in U.S. history.

Sources:
Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/see-no-evil-3/
Mara Bovson, Daily News: https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dallas-eyeball-killer-murdered-women-removed-eyes-article-1.3769218
https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/albright-charles.htm
https://www.oxygen.com/mark-of-a-killer/charles-albright-eyeball-killer-serial-killer-sex-workersdallas-texas-90s
British true crime show "Born to Kill," episode "Charles Albright"
Oxygen's "Mark of a Killer," episode "An Eye for Murder"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Albright

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0:00.0

Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

0:04.9

Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.

0:08.4

And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting

0:12.5

murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

0:23.8

In the early 90s, the city of Dallas was thrown into a nightmare.

0:28.4

Children started turning up murdered with a bizarre signature facial mutilation unlike

0:32.7

anything detectives had ever seen before.

0:35.6

As fear grew in the streets, the killer moved confidently among his pool of potential

0:39.7

victims, savvy but vulnerable women who had turned to sex work to survive.

0:45.1

No one could have predicted that the predator they were hunting was anything but the typical

0:49.2

profile of a killer.

0:51.1

A Renaissance man, a brilliant pianist and painter, with a reputation as an old school

0:55.7

gentleman, and an astute student of human anatomy.

1:00.2

This is the story of one of the most unexpected monsters in U.S. history.

1:04.4

I of the Beholder, serial killer Charles Albright.

1:21.8

So campers for this one were in Dallas, Texas, December 13th, 1990.

1:27.5

The body of a young woman was found in a grassy vacant lot.

1:31.2

She'd been badly beaten, then shot in the back of the head.

1:34.7

She was mostly naked, and her body seemed to have been posed, legs spread in a conspicuously

1:39.7

sexual way.

1:41.4

The neighborhood resident who found her body had been so upset seeing her degraded like

1:45.1

that he'd run back to his house for a sheet and covered her body from the waist down,

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