“The Pennsylvania Passion Slayer" Peter Kudzinowski

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.6 • 30.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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His family says that a traumatic brain injury when he was 13 changed Peter Kudzinowski's behavior. But alcohol always made him aggressive. When he was 25 years old, he was found intoxicated on the street in Detroit and put in the drunk tank. He hinted at committing horrible crimes — and the police wanted to know more. 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, listener discretion is advised.
0:08.0	This episode includes discussions of alcoholism, violence, and child murder and dismemberment.
0:13.7	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:25.3	On a fall day in 1928, 25-year-old Peter Kudzenowski sat in a beautiful movie house
0:31.3	where a comedy film played.
0:33.5	Joseph Sterelli, just seven years old, giggled in the seat beside him, eating cherry
0:38.3	drops.
0:39.5	To other audience members, they must have seemed like father and son.
0:44.0	They weren't.
0:46.3	Peter watched the screen, but he wasn't focused on the film.
0:50.1	His mind drifted elsewhere.
0:52.3	He pictured taking Joseph's hand and leading him out of the theater into the Manhattan
0:57.0	streets.
0:58.0	They'd walk to the river.
1:00.4	That's when Peter would take out his knife.
1:05.2	Suddenly, the house lights flipped on, jolting Peter out of his daydream.
1:10.6	calmly, he took the boy's hand, let him up the aisle and threw the front doors.
1:16.3	Maybe now, they'd go to the river.
1:26.3	Hi, I'm Greg Pulsing.
1:34.2	This is Serial Killers, a Spotify original from podcast.
1:38.1	Every episode, we dive into the minds and madness of Serial Killers.
1:41.6	Today, we'll explore the crimes of Peter Kudzenowski, known as the...
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