S20 Ep33: The Crack City Strangler: The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins w/B.R. Bates
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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Summary
Benjamin "Tony" Atkins' reign of terror in Detroit spanned less than a year in the early 1990s. Known for targeting vulnerable women in Detroit's most dangerous neighborhoods, Atkins attacked at least 13 women along a mile-and-a-half stretch of Woodward Avenue, one of the city's most iconic streets.
Known as "the nation's fastest serial killer," Atkins' crimes were brutal and relentless, leaving victims abandoned in the dark corners of the Cass Corridor and Highland Park. Only when the lone survivor of his horrific spree came forward did law enforcement begin to connect the dots and ultimately capture the monster behind the killings.
On today's TCT, B.R. Bates joins the show to talk about the specifics of the case, What motivated Benjamin Aktins to attack and strangle sex workers, and we answer the question, "Would Benjamin had become a serial killer if he had a fighting chance at life to begin with?" This story will make you feel conflicted as to whether you can truly hate a serial killer!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.7 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.7 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.5 | We have an exciting show today, folks. |
| 0:30.7 | Got to read an extremely interesting book this weekend. |
| 0:34.9 | As a matter of fact, it's the second in the series, Murders in the Motor City. |
| 0:39.5 | Our guest today is B.R. Bates, and she has written, again, a compelling book that I think |
| 0:45.7 | once you pick it up, it's going to be hard to put this thing down. We find serial killers |
| 0:51.2 | incredibly interesting on this program. This one is no exception. |
| 0:56.1 | Benjamin Atkins was an interesting study in what happens when you abandon a child. |
| 1:03.7 | We're going to get into it today, folks, and it's going to be a scary road we're going to travel today. |
| 1:09.2 | The Crack City Strangler is the name of the book, |
| 1:11.2 | The Homicides of Serial Killer Benjamin Atkins. |
| 1:13.7 | Again, murders in the Motor City book two. |
| 1:16.4 | B.R. Bates is our guest. |
| 1:18.0 | B.R. Bates is a longtime author and journalist |
| 1:20.0 | whose career includes 10 years in the daily newspaper business, |
| 1:23.5 | as well as writing and editing work in the corporate health care ministry and government sectors. |
| 1:29.3 | She graduated from Michigan State University's accredited school of journalism. |
| 1:33.1 | Ladies and gentlemen, let's jump into it right away today and welcome back to True Crime Tuesday, |
| 1:37.9 | BR Bates. |
| 1:39.1 | BR. Thank you so much for being with us. |
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