Jody Plauche On One of the Most Surreal Murders of Our Time

Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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#STSNation, Welcome to another episode of Surviving The Survivor, the podcast that promises to bring you the best guests in true crime. We examine the story of Jody Plauche. Jody Plauche from Baton Rouge, Louisiana made national headlines in March 1984 when he was abducted by his karate teacher and taken 2,000 miles away from home to Los Angeles, Ca. FBI officials rescued Jody and his abductor was arrested. Upon his karate teacher's return, Jody's father Gary, shot and killed him. The shooting was captured by WBRZ news crew, a local ABC affiliate. #BestGuests: Jody has worked in the field of violence prevention since 1995. While attending Louisiana State University, he served on the executive board for Men Against Violence, a campus organization aimed at preventing campus violence, including sexual assault and other physical violence. For seven years, Jody worked at Victim Services Center of Montgomery County, a comprehensive crime victim center in Norristown, PA. At Victim Services , Jody worked as a sexual assault counselor as well as a prevention educator, and eventually became the Supervisor of Community Education Programs. You can find Jody Plauche's book where he details his own story on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Why-Gary-Jody-Plauch%C3%A9-Story/dp/B0BL1ZY35X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=why+gary+why+jody+plauche+book&qid=1679526126&sprefix=WHY+GASRY+%2Caps%2C114&sr=8-1 Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess is an internationally recognized pioneer in the assessment and treatment of victims of trauma and abuse, and author of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind. Among her many awards and accolades, in 2016 she was named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing She has also worked with FBI Academy special agents to study serial offenders, and the links between child abuse, juvenile delinquency, and subsequent perpetration. You know the super successful Netflix show Mindhunters about the FBIs first days of criminal profiling — she worked with the real-life agents the show is based on. Dr. Brucato is presently a Visiting Scholar at Boston College, where he collaborates with Drs. Ann W. Burgess and Victor Petreca on forensic research. They have examined crimes, such as murder, including serial killing; sex offenses; mutilation and dismemberment; and the insanity defense. He is currently serving as a consultant on a grant-funded project by Burgess and Petreca, analyzing murders involving asphyxiation by strangulation and other means. He is a member of Dr. Burgess' Super Sleuths group, in which experts from diverse forensic disciplines convene to provide consultation on various cold cases. Gary studies among other things …how violent thoughts and actions emerge in psychotic versus non-psychotic persons He's the co-author of The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime #JodyPlauche #GaryPlauche #JeffDoucet #SexualAssault #SexualViolence #Murder #TrueCrime #TrueC

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0:30.0	Jody has made meaning out of what happened to him and I think sort of was able to
0:34.1	compartmentalize it and then go out and turn it into altruism which try to decrease the horror
0:40.3	out in the world and I think that takes an exceptional person.
0:44.4	Welcome to the global phenomenon surviving the survivor
0:48.4	where we're all just trying to survive in a rough world.
0:52.4	What's up SDS, and welcome to another episode of Surviving the Survivor, the
0:57.7	podcast that promises to bring you the very best guest in true crime and today we deliver in a big big way.
1:07.0	Tonight a unique STS experience as we examine the story of Jody Plauche.
1:14.0	From Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jody made national headlines in March 1984
1:19.0	when he was abducted by his karate teacher and taken 2,000 miles away from his home to
1:25.5	Los Angeles. FBI officials rescue Jody and his abductor was arrested. Upon his karate teacher's return, Jody's father, Gary shot and killed the perpetrator.
1:39.0	The shooting was captured by WBRZ News crew crew a local ABC affiliate in Baton Rouge since then countless tens of
1:48.4	millions have witnessed the murder on TV or now online. Best guest tonight. Jody Plauche himself. He has worked in
1:57.9	the field of violence prevention since 1995 while attending Louisiana State University.
2:04.6	He served on the Executive Board for Men Against Violence,
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