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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

THE KILLING SPREE-Anita Paddock

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

John Edward Swindler never learned to read or write and instead became a bona fide criminal at the age of fifteen. His crimes quickly advanced from car theft to arson. At three hundred pounds, with long, fuzzy red hair and pimply skin, his appearance was so frightening that he intimidated fellow inmates into performing crimes from their jail cells. He sodomized other convicts, who dared not refuse him. He was moved in and out of solitary confinement in an attempt to break him of his violent ways. It failed. Released from prison because he was uncontrollable, he began a multi-state crime spree that culminated in the rape and murder of three young people and the shocking assault on a Fort Smith, Arkansas, policeman named Randy Basnett. In a matter of days, Swindler’s lust for death grew into an unforgettable KILLING SPREE.
On September 24, 1976, two men—John Edward Swindler, a force for evil, and Officer Randy Basnett, laying his life on the line for good—came together. The result altered their lives, and the lives of many others. This is their story. THE KILLING SPREE: A True Story of a String of Brutal Murders, Rapes, and the Cop Who Tried to Stop It-Anita Paddock

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You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,

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and the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Domer, the Night Stocker, BTK,

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every week another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous killers

0:55.8

in true crime history. True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufantke.

1:02.8

Good evening. John Edward Swindler, never learned to read or write and instead became

1:18.3

a bonafide criminal at the age of 15. His crimes quickly advanced from car theft to

1:24.0

arson. At 300 pounds with long fuzzy red hair and pimpley skin, his appearance was so

1:29.4

frightening that he intimidated fellow inmates into performing crimes from their jail cells.

1:35.1

He sawdemized other convicts who dared not refuse him. He was moved in and out of solitary

1:41.0

confinement in an attempt to break him of his violent ways. It failed, released from prison

1:46.4

because he was uncontrollable. He began a multi-state crime spree that culminated in the

1:51.6

rape and murder of three young people. And the shocking assault on a fortsmith, Arkansas

1:56.8

policeman named Randy Bassnet. In a matter of days, Swindler's lust for death grew into

2:02.2

an unforgettable killing spree. On September 24, 1976, two men, John Edward Swindler, a

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