S20 Ep60: Depraved Obsession: Law Enforcement's Hunt for A Sadistic Serial Killer w/Rod Sadler
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🗓️ 20 May 2025
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Summary
What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer?
During his nearly fifteen-year reign of terror, Ronald Lloyd Bailey’s depraved obsession with sexual sadism held communities across southeast Michigan in a shroud of fear. From the early 1970’s to the mid-1980’s, the former patient at one of Michigan’s foremost psychiatric hospitals, abducted as many as fifteen teens and over time became a sadistic serial killer.
In this shocking, fast-paced account, retired police officer and true crime author Rod Sadler examines law enforcement's dedicated efforts in connecting the dots to stop an unknown killer, and he poignantly chronicles the determination of the victims' families to triumph over tragedy. Sadler also examines Bailey’s insanity defense that centered on the alleged abuse he endured at the hands of his psychiatrist. In doing so, the bestselling author of KILLING WOMEN asks and answers the question: What drove the inconspicuous sociopath to become a ruthless killer?
In Today's episode, we sit down with Rod and discuss where Ron Bailey went wrong, the fateful day he met Shawn Moore, how the community came together to finally catch Bailey. and some of the deeper, darker secrets that Bailey was holding onto while he was trying to convince the court, and the public that he was someone else!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting. |
| 0:25.1 | This is True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.2 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.4 | Got a great show today, folks. |
| 0:29.5 | You know, we had a program on probably about, I want to say it was a few months, more than a few months ago, maybe six months ago. |
| 0:35.9 | By the name of Obsessed, I know the book was called Obsessed. |
| 0:38.8 | If you remember that program, it was about child abduction and sexual abuse in the New |
| 0:44.9 | England area. |
| 0:46.0 | And I know a lot of you responded to it. |
| 0:48.0 | You were abhorred by it. |
| 0:51.4 | It shocked a lot of you. |
| 0:53.7 | And I know you responded to it in the fact that you wanted more. |
| 0:59.9 | You wanted to bring a lot of it to light. |
| 1:05.6 | Well, I have more for you today. |
| 1:07.6 | I have more for you from the Michigan area with a good friend of ours |
| 1:10.4 | and an excellent author by the name of Rod Sadler. I'm more for you from the Michigan area with a good friend of ours and an |
| 1:11.1 | excellent author by the name of Rod Sadler. I'm glad Rod came back in the program. I actually |
| 1:15.0 | came back quickly with this book of his, this brand new book, which is an excellent book, |
| 1:19.5 | Depraved Obsession, the Gripping True Story of a Law Enforcement's Hunt for a Sadistic Serial Killer. |
| 1:26.8 | I just got done reading it over the weekend. |
| 1:29.5 | And boy, I'll tell you, for me, it was a fast read. Lots of great information. Rod's always great |
| 1:34.2 | about putting together an excellent, excellent book. Let me tell you a little bit about Rod. |
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