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The Oddcast Podcast

Surviving A Serial Killer - Handsome Devil and the Cook Brothers (Airdate 6/10/2024)

The Oddcast Podcast

Now! Media | Bob & Sheri

Comedy

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Today's Oddcast - Surviving A Serial Killer - Handsome Devil and the Cook Brothers (Airdate 6/10/2024)

 

 Sherry Hopson and Annette Lazar were lucky enough to survive the handsome, yet deadly murderer Bruce Lindahl. Cheryl Bartlett Fann found herself face-to-face with a pair of serial killers who were also brothers. Alicia Dennis, PEOPLE Magazine's Editorial Director, joins Sheri to talk about the final episodes of "People Magazine Investigates: Surviving A Serial Killer," now airing on Investigation Discovery and streaming on Max.

 

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0:00.0

Those big blue eyes, those shiny brown curls. He seems so friendly and charming and safe, but he's not. And those two brothers, neither one of them are coming to your rescue. Not ever. We always have an odd one in the crowd. So it's kind of odd. I'm excitedly odd. Isn't that strike you as a little bit odd? No, it doesn't strike me as a little bit odd.

0:21.6

It's the Bob and Sherry Oddcast with stuff we wouldn't, couldn't, or shouldn't do on the regular show.

0:26.6

Now, here's the odd cast.

0:29.6

People Magazine Investigates surviving a serial killer, new episodes dropping on investigation discovery.

0:36.6

You can binge the series

0:38.3

streaming on Max. And once again, we sit down with our friend Alicia Dennis with People

0:43.3

Magazine to take a deep dive, not into the psychology of these perpetrators, but into the

0:49.8

incredible courage and resourcefulness of the women who survived.

0:55.8

When I think about the 1970s into the 1980s, I mean, even the FBI acknowledges, that was like the peak heyday of the American serial killer.

1:09.8

And in some ways, it was their time to shine because we didn't really have DNA the way

1:15.5

that we have now.

1:16.4

We didn't have the same level of forensic science that we have now.

1:20.8

So when I think about a perpetrator like Bruce Lindle, I mean, it was really after his death that many of the people who had

1:33.6

brushed up against him realized that they had brushed up against a serial killer.

1:39.2

So let's talk about Bruce Lindell.

1:41.1

This happened in the Chicago area.

1:43.6

And during the time period that he was

1:46.6

active, I think more than 70 women and girls were murdered. Now, not all of those have been

1:54.9

able to be attributed to Bruce Lindel, but he certainly was incredibly prolific and not the household name that some of these

2:04.7

perpetrators are. You know, most people will be able to name like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy.

2:12.0

Very few people will go, oh yeah, and Bruce Lindle in Chicago. And People Magazine Investigates

2:17.4

takes a deep dive into that case and the woman who survived

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