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Serial Killing : A Podcast

Melissa Baker & Penny Ansell

Serial Killing : A Podcast

Elissa Kerrill

True Crime

4.31K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Melissa Baker and Penny Ansell  

Two girls, 12 and 13 years old, decided to go hang out at the local video arcade together in 1988. They wouldn't be seen alive again.   





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0:00.0

From about 15 years on and up a great deal of my thoughts were basically unshareable.

0:16.1

We are all evil in some form

0:18.6

where you know that.

0:21.1

Yes, I am not a 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. This is serial

0:38.6

killing a podcast. Hello again and welcome to serial killing a podcast. My name is

0:47.7

A Lissa Carroll and I am your host and the creator of at serial underscore

0:52.0

killing on Instagram where we veer off the serial killer

0:55.4

path to delve into other topics within our beloved true crime community.

1:00.1

Special thanks to some of my patrons of course.

1:04.0

Aaron, Katoris, Catherine, Sam, Freddie, Linda,

1:08.0

Janice, Hammer, Catarina, Florence, Teresa, Sarah, Sophie, Nanette, to Emma. Arena, Thank you so much. You are truly appreciated.

1:24.0

So this week's podcast will be on the murders of 13 year old Penny Lee Ansel and 12 year old

1:30.9

Melissa Marie Baker. This podcast is dedicated to my friend Steph.

1:37.6

Penny Lee Ansel was born on January 9, 1975 and Melissa Marie Baker on December 5th, 1975 around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1:48.9

So let's get into some history for that time. This is the year that the Vietnam War ended as the Communist

1:56.2

forces took Saigon and South Vietnam surrendered unconditionally. The United States

2:02.4

involvement in the war ended as well after about 20 years as the last

2:07.3

American military members escaped in helicopters.

2:11.7

The U.S. also brought Vietnamese orphans back to the US in what they called

2:16.2

quote Operation Baby Lift.

2:20.8

Newspaper heiress Patty Hurst was found in a San Francisco apartment and subsequently arrested for armed robbery.

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