THE MURDER GENE-Karen Spears Zacharias
True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History
Dan Zupansky
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🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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As a young recruit, Luke was taunted for being a virgin who didn't cuss, drink, or smoke pot. That all changed when Luke met Casey Byrams, a fun-loving musician and fellow Marine from Cullman, Alabama. Their friendship set off a series of events that would eventually lead Luke to Pendleton, Oregon, where he brutally murdered nineteen-year-old Amyjane Brandhagen in August 2012. When Luke attempted to kill another woman almost a year later, Pendleton Police knew they had a serial-killer wannabe on their hands.
Some forty years prior to Amyjane's murder, Luke's maternal grandfather, Gene Dale Lincoln, murdered a young Michigan woman and attempted to abduct a twelve-year-old girl. The similarities between the violent actions of grandfather and grandson compels the question: Is there such a thing as a murder gene? THE MURDER GENE: A True Story-Karen Spears Zacharias Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com
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| 0:37.3 | You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history, |
| 0:42.8 | and the authors that have written about them. |
| 0:45.5 | Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stocker, DTK, every week, another fascinating author talking |
| 0:53.5 | about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history. |
| 0:57.6 | True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufantke. |
| 1:02.6 | Good evening. As the soft-spoken highly intelligent son of missionaries and morgans on North |
| 1:09.6 | Carolina, Luke Chang gave no indication of the killer he would become, but after hacking |
| 1:16.6 | into a teacher's computer at his school, a stint in the Marines was his only option. |
| 1:21.6 | As a young recruit, Luke was taunted for being a virgin who didn't cuss, drink or smoke pot. |
| 1:26.6 | That all changed when Luke met Casey Byrams, a fun-loving musician and fellow young men |
| 1:32.6 | who were not in love with him. |
| 1:34.6 | That all changed when Luke met Casey Byrams, a fun-loving musician and fellow Marine from |
| 1:40.1 | Coleman, Alabama. |
| 1:41.9 | The friendship set off a series of events that would eventually lead Luke to Pendleton, |
| 1:46.6 | Oregon, where he brutally murdered 19-year-old Amy Jane Brandhicken in August 2012. |
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