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🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Not much is known about John's very early life. His father was British military and was stationed in India during India's struggle for independence. John contracted a very serious illness as a toddler that is believed to have affected his complete mental health.
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0:00.0 | From about 15 years on and |
0:05.0 | 15 years on up, a great deal of my thoughts were, |
0:11.0 | basically unshareable. |
0:16.1 | We are all evil in some form or in nothing. |
0:21.1 | Yes, I am not 100 hundred percent, but I am you. |
0:25.0 | My mother was a sick, angry, hungry, and very sad woman. I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother. |
0:37.0 | This is serial killing, a podcast. |
0:42.0 | Hello again and welcome to serial killing a podcast. This is Alyssa Carroll and I am |
0:49.1 | your host and the creator of at serial underscore killing on Instagram where we go through the life stories of |
0:56.4 | serial killers to see if we might catch a glimpse of why they displayed their |
1:01.9 | famous vial and disturbing behaviors. |
1:05.0 | This week's podcast will be on John Straffin. |
1:10.0 | John Straffin was born on February 27th, 1930 in Borden Camp, Hampshire, England. |
1:19.0 | So let's get into some history for that time. In 1930 the United States was |
1:27.1 | experiencing its very first year of the Great Depression which began with the |
1:32.2 | stock market crash of 1929, and it was made |
1:36.6 | exponentially worse by the 1930s, as well as the dust bowl. |
1:43.8 | In India, the 200-mile march began with Mahatma Gandhi as they walked to the salt beds |
1:50.2 | of Jalalper. This was a nonviolent protest and the first of his acts of |
1:57.1 | civil disobedience against the British rule of India. |
2:11.5 | Uruguay won the very first FIFA World Cup defeating Argentina, but news from Argentina was, the government was overthrown by a coup in September. The president was forced out of |
2:16.7 | power and the opposition was met with very little resistance. |
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