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Killer Psyche

John Katehis: A Craigslist Killer

Killer Psyche

Audible | Treefort Media

Exhibit C, True Crime

4.64.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Former FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong reflects back on her interview with John Katehis, one of the first ‘Craigslist Killers’. Back in 2009, John brutally murdered popular New York City radio host, George Weber, after connecting with him through Craigslist. Candice dives into the fetish world that both the victim, and possibly, the killer were into, and examines why the ferocity of John’s rage was placed onto a stranger.

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Music

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Imagine you're on the platform of a New York City subway and it's late at night. You look up and you see what appears to be a teenager stumbling.

0:40.0

And there's a trail of blood behind him. Would you rush in to help him?

0:44.0

That's exactly what happened in the spring of 2009. About a week before Easter, a young teenage boy staggered onto the platform.

0:54.0

He appeared to be waiting for the train except there was a trail of blood behind him.

1:00.0

A stranger saw him but the stranger was a transportation worker and he went up to him, he laid him down on the platform and then he called the paramedics.

1:08.0

He also applied pressure to the wound which it turned out was a severed artery in his right hand. When the menics arrived, they determined that this young man was close to death and rushed him to an emergency room.

1:23.0

The doctors were able to save him. That young man owes his life to the subway employee who went out of his way to help.

1:31.0

And yet, I wonder how that good Samaritan would have acted, had he known the truth.

1:36.0

The person he was helping was not a victim, not at all. In fact, his name was John Cateus and he was a killer.

1:46.0

He was fleeing from a crime scene where just minutes before he had savagely killed someone.

1:56.0

John had posted a Craigslist ad and in it he said he would do pretty much anything sexually for cash.

2:03.0

A man took him up on that offer and they agreed to meet at his place. So far so good, except that within 15 minutes, the man was dead and John was on the run.

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