Mike DeBardeleben (Part Five: Sadist)

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

"... Mike DeBardeleben is the best-documented sexual sadist since the Marquis de Sade. He's the one I used as the standard for all others."

Awaiting trial for the litany of crimes he'd committed over several years, Mike DeBardeleben couldn't do anything as authorities continued to dig around in his background. They'd learned about all of his failures - his familial relationships, his schooling, his marriages, his business - but now began trying to figure out how that resulted in this career criminal, who stood accused of not just counterfeiting, but assault, rape, kidnapping, and murder.

As investigators around the country began linking DeBardeleben to more than a dozen unsolved crimes, members of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit began analyzing the strange counterfeiter. What they learned was that this was not just a run-of-the-mill criminal. Rather, he was one of the most sadistic individuals they'd ever observed...

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages.
0:45.0	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:48.0	If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
0:52.0	Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 Lifeline.org.
0:58.3	Those outside of the US reach out to someone at your local crisis center or hotline.
1:03.3	Please do not suffer in silence.
1:05.6	Following his arrest for counterfeiting, investigators from around the country began trying to tie their unsolved cases to Mike DeBar de laubin, who, as it's been pointed out throughout the series, had been traversing the country for several years at this point in 1983,
1:28.0	distributing his bogus $20 bills as the mall passer.
1:32.0	The first non-counterfeit crimes DeBar de laubin was connected to were a series of rapes
1:37.4	from just north of where he had lived for several years, in Ocean City, Maryland, where two women recalled being abducted by a man matching his description,
1:46.2	then bound, gagged, and blindfolded them before driving them roughly two hours away.
1:51.6	There, presumably at his home in the Washington DC area, he kept them captive and brutally raped them for an entire day, before returning them north to isolated areas in Maryland.
2:02.4	As investigators in that state connected these unknowns, north to isolated areas in Maryland.
2:02.7	As investigators in that state connected these unsolved rapes to Mike DeBarlauman,
2:07.2	authorities and other states connected him to some unsolved, which were separated
2:12.4	by not only a great amount of time, but also distance.
2:16.0	First, he was linked to the unsolved murder of Jean McPhall from Bozier City, Louisiana,
2:21.6	a crime that took place in 1982, a year before DeBarlaibbon's counterfeiting arrest.
2:27.0	McFarle was a real estate agent who was lured to a home by a prospective client using a fake name, who then strangled and stabbed her to death
2:35.3	before promptly disappearing.
2:38.0	After that, De Bartelaben was then linked to the murder of Terry McDonald, a realtor that was killed in Rhode Island in similar circumstances to Jean Mcfall, but more than a decade earlier, 1971. Her body was found hanging in the basement of the home she had also shown to a prospective client who was later determined to be using a fake name.
2:58.0	As investigators would note years later,
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