My Friend, the Serial Killer | 1. Local Man

The Binge Cases: Baby Broker

Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.1 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Steve Fishman is an intern at his local Connecticut newspaper and a regular hitchhiker. When one of his hitched rides comes to an unnerving conclusion, Steve shrugs it off—until weeks later, when the news breaks that the driver he rode with has confessed to being a serial killer who preys on hitchhikers. Steve sees the chance to get the scoop of a lifetime: a killer’s story, Who better to tell it than someone who almost became one of his victims? Unlock all episodes of Smoke Screen: My Friend, the Serial Killer, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month thats all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click Subscribe on the top of the Smoke Screen show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. An Orbit Media & Sony Music Entertainment production in association with Rhyme Media. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to smokescreen, my friend the serial killer.
0:03.4	Before you dive in if you want to listen to the whole story
0:06.8	uninterrupted you can.
0:08.8	Unlocked the entire season, ad free right now with a subscription to the binge. That's all episodes, all at once. Unlike you're listening now by clicking subscribe at the Smokescreen Show page on Apple Podcast or visit get the binge
0:25.2	dot com to get access wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	The Bench.
0:33.0	A Benge.
0:34.0	A quick warning before we start.
0:39.0	This show contains descriptions of sexual violence and murder.
0:43.6	Listener discretion is advised.
0:46.6	Tell me about your first big break as a journalist.
0:54.0	Okay, well, it's 1975.
0:56.0	I'm a college dropout.
0:59.0	My dad has recently kicked me out of the house,
1:02.0	and I'm an intern at this small newspaper in Connecticut,
1:06.1	which means I get the pizza and the coffee, I work weekends, and do anything I can to get my byline in the newspaper.
1:16.2	Now I love being in the newsroom.
1:18.7	It's full of life.
1:21.4	I mean typewriters, police scanners, people shouting. And in the back of the newsroom,
1:27.3	there's a kind of closet with these newswire machines and all day and all night they found out breaking news stories and when
1:37.0	there's an important story bells ring one or two for a minorly important story to maybe a dozen bells for say the
1:47.6	invasion of a country or for big local news.
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