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Robert Berdella Part 2: "The Kansas City Butcher"

True Crime Kent

Kent Chungus

True Crime

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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0:00.0

This is True Crime Kids. The And we are back when we left Robert Bedella at part one.

0:31.1

He hadn't killed a single soul joke.

0:34.1

He was just some pudgy, eccentric, insufferable, pompous closeted gay man who enjoyed killing animals in front of his peers as art.

0:42.5

What else had he done?

0:43.6

He dropped out of the Kansas City Art Institute, dropped out of college, and had moved into what will soon be his House of Horrors located at 4315 Charlotte Street there in Kansas City's Hyde Park District in Missouri.

0:59.2

And he had started focusing on, he kind of dropped out of trying to be an artist and started focusing on being a chef, Joe.

1:07.3

And it turns out he was pretty good at it.

1:09.5

Now, I'm going to do something here that I haven't done since Pee We Gaskins.

1:17.4

Right.

1:18.3

Almost two years ago, I did a first in TCK in that I gave a warning, heads up before entering an episode.

1:28.4

And I haven't done that since.

1:29.8

Oh, God damn it.

1:31.9

I'm going to do that this episode.

1:35.7

Okay.

1:36.7

Because this is going to get graphic.

1:38.8

It's going to get bad.

1:40.2

Really, really bad.

1:42.9

Berdela did a lot of stuff that was not groovy.

1:46.7

And you're getting ready to hear about it, Joe.

1:49.2

All right.

1:50.5

Now, like I said, Robert begins working as a short-order cook in various classy Kansas

1:56.7

city restaurants.

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