S1 Ep6: Bob Berdella: The Serial Killer Known as the Kansas City Butcher

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

To his neighbors, Bob Berdella was a proactive citizen who helped launch a neighborhood watch group. Sure, he was a bit condescending, but he seemed to have a big heart, using his Kansas City home as a safe haven for young men in trouble. But then, in 1988, a young man jumped from a second-story window of Berdella's house wearing nothing but a dog collar, prompting police to scour the innocuous-looking home on Charlotte Street. What they uncovered would lead to the quaint home being labeled a "House of Horrors," and to a case that both shocked the nation and changed state law.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:00.0	Sometimes you just need to get away.
0:02.8	And for the Aglewall family, it was well over June.
0:05.5	They wanted to know exactly what they were getting,
0:08.0	like knowing their kids stay and eat a delicious breakfast for free.
0:11.6	Yes!
0:12.6	And no need to look heavy bags, with free parking at over 500 hotels.
0:17.4	Enjoy the same feeling whatever the trip.
0:19.8	Creme it in, rest easy.
0:21.9	Only available to book at cremierin.com.
0:24.6	A season sees a ply of two kids stay and eat breakfast free with a full-paying adult.
0:36.6	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.
0:44.8	But the stories that made headlines in decades past,
0:47.6	don't necessarily remember today.
0:52.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.
0:56.4	And in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today,
1:02.0	but was huge when it happened.
1:05.5	This is crimes of the centuries.
1:25.0	There's been an enormous amount of research on certain serial killers from the 1970s and
1:30.3	80s.
1:31.3	The era produced some of the most notorious murderers, men whose names are synonymous
1:36.8	with death, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz.
1:42.6	Before less attention has been given to today's killer.
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