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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

MURDEROUS MINDS: Oscar Pistorius Pt. 2

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Crime House

True Crime

4.5712 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

After Oscar Pistorius fatally shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013, he claimed he'd mistaken her for a home invader. But the authorities weren't so sure. As they looked into Oscar's past, they realized there were a lot of things people didn't know about him... and they wondered if he was capable of murder.


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0:00.0

Hi, Crime House community. It's Vanessa Richardson. Looking for another Crime House original podcast to add to your rotation, you will love Clues with Morgan Absher and Kalyn Moore.

0:12.8

Every Wednesday, Morgan and Kalin dig into the world's most notorious crimes, clue by clue, from serial killers to shocking murders.

0:21.5

They follow the trail of clues, break down the evidence, and debate the theories.

0:26.3

It's like hanging out with your smart and true crime-obsessed friends.

0:29.8

Listen to clues on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:46.3

Music. or wherever you listen to podcasts. This is Crime House. Fight or flight.

0:51.3

It's an instinct that survived our evolutionary process from millennia.

0:57.0

In a moment of life or death, it can show us who we truly are.

1:02.0

Do we stay and face our greatest fears?

1:06.0

Or do we run in the other direction?

1:08.0

Well, when it came to Oscar Pistorius, his entire career was centered

1:13.3

around flight. He broke world records as the first ever paraplegic athlete to compete in track

1:20.5

during the Olympic Games. So it was ironic when Oscar found himself in what he deemed an unsafe situation, because he didn't choose

1:31.3

flight. Instead, Oscar chose to fight, a decision that led to the death of his girlfriend,

1:39.3

Reva Steencamp, which is when Oscar's true nature was called into question, was the Blade Runner really

1:47.5

who he said he was? Or was there another darker side to Oscar Pistorius, one that proved

1:55.2

he had the instincts of a violent fighter all along.

2:14.1

The human mind is fascinating.

2:20.3

It controls how we think, how we feel, how we love, and how we hate. And sometimes the mind drives us to do something truly unspeakable. This is killer minds,

2:28.3

formerly known as Mind of a Serial Killer, a Crimehouse original. Every Monday and Thursday, we'll be taking deep dives into

2:36.0

the minds of history's most notorious serial killers and murderers. The show is still the same.

2:42.0

The name just changed. And if you're interested in more true crime stories from this week in

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