Psychopaths love a good riddle.

What better way to flaunt your intelligence to some hapless police officers

than by turning your crime spree into one big mind game.

One of the most famous examples is the son of Sam.

That killer fell victim to his own ego,

when the cops caught him by tracing the clues in his crime scene letters.

Today, we'll be looking at a lesser-known case of a murderer toying with the cops.

This one also went down in history, but for slightly different reasons.

In 1983, cops in Miami came up against one such devious intellect,

when the body of a foreign national turned

up in a car park.

What looked like an everyday act of violence soon turned into a game of intellectual cat

and mouse when a cryptic clue was found nearby.

So began a mind-bending hunt for the culprit, and what would come to be known as the Liquid

Matthew Murder.

Welcome to 10-minute murder, brief and bingeable true crime.

I'm Joe, the host, and thank you for joining today.

And I bet you cannot guess who's sick again.

I know it's extremely difficult to tell, but it's me.

I'm sick again.

I don't know how this keeps happening.

Nonetheless, I appreciate you being here, and please excuse any brain fog that I may have during this episode. I'm taking all the cold medicine, all of it that I can get my hands on. I've been taking it, trying to make it to where I can breathe and I can talk without sounding like the cookie monster. So here we are.

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