Hi and welcome once again to History Dwebs. I am Tim, the topic of our podcast. This afternoon is the Chicago Rippers, or also known as the Ripper Crew, a group of four men who formed a satanic cult in Chicago in early 1980s and end up abducting, raping, torturing,

mutilating, and murdering 18 women in Illinois in 1981 and 1982.

But before we talk about their dastrally deeds, let me introduce our panel.

I'm joined to my left

by the lovely and talented.

The mistress of mean,

the Empress of Evil,

and Satan's dirty little secret,

Brandy. How are you today, Brandy? I'm all right, Tim brandy how are you today brandy I'm

all right timmy how are you I am fine yours you're breaking news your son's school is on

locked down it's evacuated it's evacuated it's evacuated it's evacuated they called the day they

called it for the day they had a threat third day in a row third day in a row and then they evacuated him to the junior high and then day. They had a threat. Third day in a row. Third day in a row.

And then they evacuated him to the junior high, and then the junior high got a threat. Oh, man. So they, he is gone, but I can't find my mother. Have you? But no, I mean, there was no actual event that we have. There was, I mean, nothing that's blown up or anything, but they've not said that anything was false or whatever.

Have you checked your son's call history on his cell phone? I'm kidding. I know. I have asked. I have asked. Yeah, I mean, you know, fool around. You know, but back in the day, we could, when I was a kid, you could set the, you know, you had the fire alarm.

Yeah. And you went out of class, but man, they don't play with that. No. They do not play. And I see all these people that, you know, went to my high school. And I guess they went there before whatever I did. And, you know, oh, we had bomb threats every other day. And we didn't have to evacuate and blah, blah, blah. And I'm thinking, I never had a bomb threat.

A kid set off a cherry bomb in his locker outside my classroom we didn't evacuate

yeah it was Marco Cardona we continued on in Buckeyes class I mean it was Marco I mean he blew

he accidentally blew up his own locker. So it happens. It happens.

And we didn't evacuate, but, you know, I can't be too careful.

Right, because it's a different world.

I'm, you know, I'm glad my son's safe and my mother's probably just not picking up the phone just because she's spiteful and mean.

Well, you know what happens?

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