Rod Matthews

True Crime All The Time

Emash Digital / Wondery

True Crime, Truecrime, Podcast, Documentary, Murder, Exhibit C, Serial, Killers, Society & Culture

4.7 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Rod Matthews was once the youngest inmate in the state of Massachusetts. When he was just 14 years old, he beat another teen boy to death “just for the heck of it.” Rod planned the murder for at least a month, and he targeted Shaun Ouilette, a fellow freshman who was new to town and didn’t have many friends.

Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss Rod Matthews. Rod claimed that he had a bad childhood that began after his father left the family. He also claimed that he was obsessed with starting fires. But, according to Rod, it was after watching "Faces of Death" that he became obsessed with wanting to know what it was like to kill someone. Experts disagreed on Rod's mental health status and whether or not he knew right from wrong at the time of the murder.

You can help support the show at patreon.com/truecrimeallthetime

Visit the show's website at truecrimeallthetime.com for contact, merchandise, and donation information

An Emash Digital production

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, I'm Anna. And I'm Emily. We're the hosts of Wondere's podcast, Terribly Famous, a show where we bring you
0:07.1	outrageous true stories about our most famous celebrities. Our latest season is all about
0:12.2	the Catwalk Queen Naomi Campbell.
0:15.0	For years Naomi had to fight to be treated barely in an industry that was overwhelmingly white.
0:21.0	That drive saw her breakdown barriers and reached the pinnacle of high fashion, but it also got
0:25.8	her into some dangerous situations when it spilled over into an anger she couldn't control.
0:32.4	In our new season, Naomi Campbell's model behavior, we tell the story of how a young girl from South London
0:38.5	became a trailblazing black icon, but had some very public falls of how she stood up to the British
0:44.7	tabloids and won and the length she had to go to to be the first black woman in
0:49.5	history to make the cover a French vogue. but she risks losing it all when her explosive behavior lands
0:56.3	are in court.
0:58.3	Follow terribly famous wherever you listen to podcasts or listen early and ad free on Wondery Plus on Apple Podcasts or The Wondery App. Oh, Hello everyone and welcome to episode
1:44.4	three sixty nine of the true crime all the time podcast
1:47.7	i'm mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in true crime
1:51.7	mike Gibson give, how are you?
1:53.2	Hey, I'm doing okay, how about you?
1:54.5	I'm doing very well.
1:56.0	You and I just got done recording our weekly Patreon thing that we do.
2:00.6	We did.
2:01.2	And we played this little game where I had you try to guess
2:05.4	celebrities and whether they were born in the year that I was born or the year that
2:11.1	you were born and And I nailed it.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Emash Digital / Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Emash Digital / Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.