Steven Ray Thacker
True Crime All The Time
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🗓️ 15 June 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Steven Ray Thacker had a fear of rejection and abandonment. He suffered quite a bit of it during his childhood. He turned to drugs and alcohol and racked up a long rap sheet by the time he was in his twenties. After one stint in prison, he met and fell in love with a woman who had two children. Thacker now had a ready made family and he craved their attention and approval. But, when he lost his job, and couldn't provide for them, he made a fateful decision that would lead him to commit three murders in three different states.
Join Mike and Gibby as they discuss the life and crimes of Steven Ray Thacker. Thacker's killing spree began just before Christmas 1999 when he feared that he wouldn't be able to provide the Christmas that his family deserved. Was it the fear of rejection and abandonment of his new family that drove him to rob and commit murder? What part did his diagnosed mental illness, for which he refused to take his prescribed medication, play into his decision making?
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| 0:00.0 | !" |
| 0:30.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 187 of the True Crime All the Time podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and with me is always |
| 0:42.1 | my partner in True Crime, Mike Gibson. Give me how are you? Hey man, I'm doing good. How about you? I'm doing well. Yeah. I'm doing well. You and I just got |
| 0:50.4 | done recording our weekly Patreon video and audio. We did. We should put out separately. Yeah. This time a little different. It is. We spent pretty much the entire |
| 1:01.9 | episode and it was long. It probably went 30, 40 minutes. Right. Talking about what's going on in our country right now. We did. The social |
| 1:13.0 | injustices, the racial injustices, Black Lives Matter. We talked about it all. We did. We laid it out there. And you and I knew we wanted to talk about these |
| 1:24.2 | issues, but we didn't want to spend 30, 40 minutes on the beginning of a T-cat episode during it. So we came up with the idea that we put it out on |
| 1:34.1 | Patreon. Yeah. But unlike our other videos and audio that we do, this one is made available for anyone. Yeah. So any T-cat listener can go out and I urge you to if you want to |
| 1:47.8 | hear, you know, what we have to say on the subject, you can go to patreon.com slash true crime all the time. And this is unlocked. Anybody can either watch the video or |
| 1:59.8 | listen to the audio. Right. So for you, we continue to have a tremendous amount of Patreon support and just support in general gives it blows me away. Let's give some shout outs. We had |
| 2:12.9 | Lindsey, Sarah. Hey, Lindsey. Laura. What's going on, Laura? Diana Jones. Hey, thanks Diana. Andrea Lukescu. |
| 2:20.2 | Yeah. That's what I'm going with. Debbie Esquilant jumped out of our highest level like that. Esquilant. Kale of Dawes. What's going on, Kale? Ashley Zirkowski. Hey, Zirkowski. |
| 2:30.9 | Carrie McGinty. What's up? McGinty sounds like a drink or something or a or an Irish pub. You want to go down the McGinty's and get a pint. That's good. McGinty's. And Bjorn ball. Hey, Bjorn ball. Carrie. What's up, Carrie? |
| 2:46.4 | Sean Sol. Hey, Sean. Jana Hart. What's going on, John? Miss Princess Jess. Hey, Miss. |
| 2:53.4 | There's no ours in there. It's all W's. Yeah, makes it kind of hard to say. It does. Amanda Gross jumped out of highest level. Hey, Amanda. Carolyn Murphy. Hey, thanks, Carolyn. Barb Hodges. What's going on, Barb? |
| 3:06.0 | Barbara Klein. Thank you, Barbara. Dorah Turgeon. Hey, Turgeon. Christine Ross. Thank you, Christine. Tracy. Hey, you |
| 3:13.1 | appreciate that, Tracy. Leslie English. Hey, Leslie. Hope and Sean Copeland. Hey, what's up, Copeland? And last but not least, Chris jumped out our highest level. Thank you, Chris. Then if we go back into the vault, Gibbs, |
| 3:28.1 | this week we selected Alyssa. Just like that. Mm-hmm. Just Alyssa. Been with us a long time. Big time supporter. We really appreciate it. We had some great paypal donations as well. Peter Preyhar. Hey, Peter. Lisa O'Neill. Thanks, Lisa. |
| 3:42.2 | Donnie Reed. What's going on, Donnie? Darryl Hassel. Hey, Darryl. Analyze Defenbach. Hey, Defenbach. So just amazing support all the way around. Yeah, amazing. |
| 3:53.9 | Gibbs, right now we have an episode out on True Crime All the Time Unsolved. We're talking about the murder of Christa Bramlett. Yeah. |
| 4:02.9 | So we're headed down to Tennessee. We'll be in Tennessee a little bit in this episode as well. I know this is one of those unsolved cases that it's very close to being solved, potentially. Right. |
| 4:15.9 | You know, there is a suspect. There's DNA. You know, this case goes back quite a ways. But for people that don't like the unfinishedness, if that's the right word, of unsolved. I think they'll like this episode. |
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