S14 Ep8: The Bayou Strangler
Blood Ties Podcast
Peter Shevlin
4.4 • 668 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In the shadows of Louisiana’s bayous, a predator operated almost unnoticed for nearly a decade.
Ronald Joseph Dominique, later dubbed The Bayou Strangler, confessed to the murders of at least 23 men and boys between 1997 and 2006. He lured vulnerable victims with false promises of work, then subjected them to unimaginable violence. For years, his crimes slipped beneath the radar, receiving little national attention even as the death toll climbed.
When Dominique was finally arrested and convicted in 2008, investigators revealed the true scale of what had happened. The FBI would later describe it as one of the most significant serial murder cases in modern American history, both for its duration and the number of lives lost.
So how did a killer responsible for so many deaths remain largely invisible for so long? And why were his victims so easily overlooked?
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| 0:00.0 | This week on Blood Ties. |
| 0:12.6 | He would meet them on walks or driving around in his pickup or in gay bars. |
| 0:17.5 | He would offer them alcohol or drugs or housing or group sex. He was particularly |
| 0:22.4 | fond of saying to men, oh, I've got this girlfriend and would you like to come home have a threesome |
| 0:27.8 | with us? |
| 0:33.3 | But then lure them to his trailer where that said girlfriend was reputed to be. |
| 0:48.3 | Overpower them. I mean, you have to say there must have been some element of drugs in this because he wasn't a huge man. |
| 0:57.0 | And some of his victims were quite big. Tie them up and rape them. Hi, I'm Molly Wonsall. |
| 1:18.6 | And I'm Geoffrey Wonsall. |
| 1:20.6 | We're a father and daughter, as those of you who listened to Blood Ties in the past will remember, |
| 1:24.6 | and we meet every week and often our conversation has turned to murder, |
| 1:29.0 | which is why we originally launched Blood Ties and why we've now decided to bring it back |
| 1:33.9 | in its new fresher form. |
| 1:36.2 | We're really excited to be back and we would love it if you could also check out our Patreon. |
| 1:41.2 | Just search Blood Ties on Patreon. |
| 1:43.2 | Thanks so much. |
| 1:44.0 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:48.6 | Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Blood Ties podcast. I'm Molly Wansall and I'm here with my father, |
| 1:54.7 | Jeffrey Wansel. Hello. Welcome back everyone to Blood Tides 2.0. The return. |
| 2:02.3 | It's been quite a long return now, actually. |
| 2:03.9 | We can back quite a long time. |
| 2:06.6 | Yeah, I can't even remember how long. |
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