John Crutchley: The Vampire Rapist Who Walked Free
10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories
Joe Kuner
4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A government contractor with top-level security clearance. A resume that included ties to the FBI, CIA, and NASA. A man who, on paper, looked like the kind of person you’d trust with national secrets. But John Crutchley had another side—one that involved restraints, syringes, and a disturbing obsession that earned him the nickname “The Vampire Rapist.”For years, Crutchley moved from state to state, collecting classified information and evading suspicion. But his real crimes weren’t against intelligence agencies. They were against women. And if not for one survivor who refused to be his next victim, he might have kept getting away with it.In this episode, we break down how Crutchley’s twisted double life finally came to light, the evidence that suggests he was far more than just a rapist, and why the FBI’s top profiler was convinced they had a serial killer in custody.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture a guy with a shiny resume that includes working for top-tier intelligence agencies, |
| 0:05.7 | a steady job, and a picture-perfect family. |
| 0:08.6 | That was John Crutchley on paper, the sort of man who seemed to have his life neatly squared away. |
| 0:14.2 | Behind the scenes, though, he was busy swiping classified documents, |
| 0:18.4 | conveniently hopping states whenever something important went missing, |
| 0:21.6 | and engaging in a very offbeat pastime, one that involved syringes, restraints, and actual human blood. |
| 0:29.6 | Then came Thanksgiving weekend when a young woman decided to trust Crutchley for a ride. |
| 0:34.6 | What happened next was so mind-boggling that even veteran detectives |
| 0:38.5 | weren't sure what they just stumbled into. Was he simply a twisted sadist, or was there something |
| 0:44.0 | far darker at play? And the real question, how many more victims were out there? They called |
| 0:50.3 | him the vampire rapist. But before we dive into that story, |
| 0:56.7 | if you like your true crime brief and bingeable, |
| 0:58.1 | you're in the right place. |
| 1:01.2 | Hit follow now for at least two new episodes every week. |
| 1:03.3 | This is 10-minute murder. |
| 1:04.7 | Let's get into it. Thank you. In October 1946, in Clarksburg, West Virginia, William Crutchley and Mildred Burnside welcomed the new baby into the world. |
| 1:37.3 | But this wasn't just any birth. |
| 1:39.1 | It was supposed to be a do-over, a cosmic correction to the tragedy that had struck the year before when their daughter, Donna June-Crutchley, went in for emergency surgery and never came out. |
| 1:51.0 | Losing Donna shattered Mildred. When she learned she was pregnant again, she clung to the idea that this was fate's way of making things right. |
| 1:59.0 | She didn't just hope for another daughter. She expected |
| 2:01.7 | one. So when the nurses handed her a baby boy, the moment that should have been filled with |
| 2:07.2 | relief and joy was replaced with something else entirely. From the second, John Brenning |
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