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Morning Cup of Murder

The Dangerous Side of a Friendly Man - January 24 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

January 24th: Anthony McKnight Arrested (1986) You never know what someone might be hiding beneath their friendly exterior. On January 24th 1986 a man who was described favorably was arrested for being a serial rapist. A man who, police believed, was actually the serial killer whom they had been looking for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McKnight, https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mcknight-anthony.htm, https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/18/east-bay-serial-killer-rapist-on-death-row-dies-of-unknown-cause/, https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/East-Bay-serial-killer-Anthony-McKnight-dies-on-14545901.php, https://www.abc10.com/article/news/crime/san-francisco-killer-dies-death-row/103-d28de2d0-fead-4832-b1e5-d311a97d456a Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.1

A cup of murder...

0:14.1

You never know what someone might be hiding beneath their friendly exterior.

0:19.6

On January 24, 1986, a man who was described favorably was arrested

0:25.3

for being a serial rapist, a man who, police believed, was actually the serial killer whom they had

0:32.5

been looking for. So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:41.1

Very little is known about Anthony McKnight's early life.

0:44.3

We know he was born sometime in 1954, that he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1982, that he also enlisted in the Navy,

0:52.6

and later served in a station in San Francisco, California,

0:56.0

and that in 1982, he was arrested by Oakland Police for trying to rape a girl who refused to have sex with him.

1:05.2

Not convicted and simply having to pay a fine, his information was, thankfully, entered into the sex offender database,

1:13.1

and his prints were placed in the U.S. criminal database. Settling down the following year,

1:19.5

Anthony got married, had a child, and was known by everyone as lively, friendly, and an extremely

1:26.2

popular man. A man who, no one knew, was a and an extremely popular man.

1:35.1

A man who, no one knew, was a registered sex offender and an active serial rapist.

1:40.4

The first woman he attacked was on the outskirts of one of the western districts of Oakland.

1:46.7

She was stabbed in the neck and chest, raped until unconscious, and left alone until someone happened upon the scene and took her to the hospital. A few days later, he raped another

1:53.1

young woman at a construction site, but thankfully, she was able to escape her attacker and hide

1:59.1

in a drainage ditch until he left and she could call the

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