meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

The Santa Claus Strangler

Gruesome: Horrific True Crime

Gruesome Podcast

True Crime

4.6932 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What do 4 murders and 2 confessions have in common? Santa Claus. Adolph Laudenburg appeared to be a generous old man that his community likened to Santa. When he confessed to 4 murders in 1975, he was let go for 27 years due to a lack of physical evidence. Meg takes you through this very true crime Christmas story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

The Welcome to Grusam, your horrific true crime podcast. I'm Connie along with Martha Stewart's

0:26.7

number one apprentice Meg. She's gonna tell us about the Santa Claus strangler.

0:32.4

Have I ever told you about tell us about the Santa Claus Strangler.

0:33.1

Have I ever told you about how I want to get a Martha Stewart tattoo?

0:37.2

Yeah, and I fully support that.

0:40.3

I want to get her as a saint like St Martha. I know you do. I thought about how much she loved Martha Stewart tonight when I was

0:51.6

I know these are extreme first world problems but I'm about to complain about.

0:55.9

But I had to go to Meyer tonight like the grocery store to get like all of the things to make I decided I was going to like give out

1:04.8

cookie boxes and then I realized like shit this is kind of a way bigger

1:09.2

undertaking than I thought I got I have to go get more ingredients. So I go to Meyer and I had this like nice

1:17.3

cookie scoop and I know you don't need a cookie scoop but the way my brain works I have to follow directions to a tea so

1:25.6

it has been used the cookie scoop for ice cream and like obliterated it because you know

1:32.4

you can't even get scoops big enough no that was the problem yeah what the heck and he had told me like a month ago that he would order me another one but I didn't want him to because I knew he would order either an

1:48.2

wrong one yeah and it would be extremely expensive and ridiculous and not exactly what I needed.

1:54.8

So at Meyer today they had the Martha Stewart brand that I looked at but I ultimately went with

2:01.6

the kitchen aid because hashtag kitchen aid for life so not

2:06.5

sponsored it's not a nap.

2:09.7

We it's Christmas week. So, cookies, it's fair that you had to go buy new stuff to make cookies,

2:18.0

because if you're going to be serious about making cookies,

2:22.0

this is the week to do it. I also need to know who in Ohio bought all of the white chocolate chips. You left all of the chocolate chips, but there was not no I went to two different places I know that's not a lot but

2:36.2

That's maybe it's a shortage thing like how there's you have you called it

2:48.4

You never know what's going to come up sure. I just wanted to bake these like white chocolate peppermint cookies like with candy canes crushed on top because I saw on Pinterest.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gruesome Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Gruesome Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.