“The Kansas City Butcher” Robert Berdella Pt. 1

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Inspired by a 1965 horror film called The Collector, Robert Berdella harbored dark fantasies about abuse and control. As a college student, he acted out his sadism on animals, and later, in the early ‘80s, on a teenager named Jerry Howell. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,
0:02.8	listener discretion is advised.
0:04.8	This episode includes discussions of child abuse, sexual assault,
0:09.0	drug and alcohol abuse, animal abuse, and death, torture and murder
0:14.1	that some people may find offensive.
0:16.4	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:24.5	In the summer of 1965, 16-year-old Robert Pradella
0:28.5	sat in a theater in his hometown of Kayahoga Falls, Ohio.
0:32.4	He leaned forward as the horror film The Collector
0:35.4	unfolded before him. He was captivated.
0:40.8	The movie was about a disturbed young man who kidnapped a beautiful woman
0:45.1	to keep captive in his basement.
0:47.6	He wanted his prisoner to fall in love with him,
0:50.3	but despite his best efforts, he's unable to control her.
0:54.7	After a failed escape attempt, the woman is killed,
0:58.8	and the young man, instead of learning any type of lesson,
1:02.0	focuses attention on another woman, hoping for a better luck with her.
1:07.7	Robert watched the film in utter fascination and desire.
1:12.9	He wanted to be like the man in the movie,
1:15.5	the idea of having his own captive,
1:18.1	somebody completely under his control, gave him a thrill.
1:23.3	He didn't realize it at the time,
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