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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

S9 Ep6: Kansas City Butcher w/ Justin Evans

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Bob is joined by the host of the Generation Why podcast, Justin Evans. The guys discuss the reign of terror of one of America's most horrible serial killers. Robert Berdella kidnapped, raped and tortured at least 6 men from 1984-1987. Out of the tragedy of his brutal killings rose a hero that finally managed to bring him to justice.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

From NBI Studios, this is Truth Injustice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.

0:15.9

I'm Bob Run.

0:30.0

For those of us intimately familiar with the current practices of forensics, law enforcement,

0:38.7

and the justice system, the 80s seemed like a time written in the pages of a Stephen

0:43.4

King novel.

0:45.2

These were the days of the Satanic Panning.

0:47.5

DNA testing didn't exist.

0:50.1

Law enforcement agencies weren't connected through vast chains of governmental networks.

0:54.8

Victim blaming was a common practice.

0:57.2

In homophobia was not only an acceptable viewpoint back then, it was actually the norm.

1:03.0

These sad sets of circumstances opened the door for people like Jeffrey Dahmer to reap

1:07.4

havoc amongst a population that was considered to be undesirable.

1:11.8

But Dahmer wasn't the only serial killer taking the lives of the innocent in the 80s.

1:16.7

Today, we're going to talk about one of the most horrific serial killers in American history.

1:22.8

This man and his victims have been all but forgotten about.

1:27.5

The victim's memories have been lost in the shadow of Dahmer's reign of terror.

1:32.7

This is season 9, episode 6.

1:35.8

The case of the Kansas City butcher.

1:45.2

Texas Ranger James Holland is a legendary interrogator.

1:48.8

They call him the serial killer whisperer.

1:50.8

You can't hide those indications and that's why yesterday I knew that you did it.

1:54.8

But now shocking interrogation tapes reveal how the super cup really operates.

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