S3 Ep8: Stefano Brizzi
What Makes a Killer
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4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What makes a killer contains graphic details of sexual assault and violence and is not intended |
| 0:05.2 | for all audiences. Listener discretion is strongly advised. |
| 0:13.1 | April 7, 2016. Police are called to the Peabody Estate in South London after receiving complaints |
| 0:20.4 | from tenants about a putrid smell. He got the letter box and he said, can you spot it now? |
| 0:26.9 | And I'll say to him, do you know where it smells like? It smells like a dead body. |
| 0:31.3 | The two police officers knock on the door of 49-year-old Stefano Breetz's apartment. |
| 0:37.6 | He greets them with an alarming statement. He said, I've killed a police officer. |
| 0:43.2 | Satan told me to do it. I promised Satan that I would kill her the first opportunity. |
| 0:48.1 | And awaiting them inside was a gruesome sight. |
| 0:52.4 | They go into the bathroom and the bath is full of globules of fat and they find remnants of the |
| 0:58.4 | body. The body belonged to 59-year-old police officer Gordon Semple. |
| 1:04.1 | The officers would soon find out that Semple had met his killer while using a dating app. |
| 1:10.4 | They were essentially both looking for somebody to hook up with and have sex with. |
| 1:14.8 | And the speed at which this happens, which they meet, with which Gordon Semple loses his life |
| 1:21.2 | really is quite incredible. This is what makes a killer, a series that chronicles the lives |
| 1:27.4 | and crimes of the world's most notorious killers. I'm your host, Jennifer Natozo. |
| 1:33.6 | In every episode, we'll trace a killer's origins, examine their behavior, |
| 1:38.5 | and follow their path to bloodshed. In this episode, we'll discuss Stefano Breetz. |
| 1:51.6 | Stefano Breetz was born into a devout Catholic family in San Marcello de Pisto Yezzi in the Italian |
| 2:04.3 | region of Tuscany on June 26, 1966. He was aware of his sexuality from an early age, |
| 2:13.0 | according to former criminal psychologist Chris Carter and author Jeffrey Wonsull. |
| 2:18.6 | He knew he was an almost like show, but Breetz also knew he was a Catholic, and they're not only |
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