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The Trenton Strangler - July 9 2023

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Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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July 9th: Anthony Balaam Born (1965) Not all serial killers raise red flags. On July 9th 1965 a man was born who would go on to kill for years. A man who, according to those who knew him, was polite, kind, and completely unassuming.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Balaam, https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/balaam-anthony.htm, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird hummus.

0:12.7

Not all serial killers raise red flags.

0:18.3

On July 9th, 1965, a man was born who would go on to kill for years. A man who,

0:25.1

according to those who knew him, was polite, kind, and completely unassuming. So if you like your

0:32.9

coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:39.2

Anthony Belom, born July 9, 1965 in Trenton, New Jersey, was, during the 1994-1996 period, living with a roommate and in a 10-year-long relationship with a woman who bore him two children.

0:53.7

A known drug user and known by police for a woman who bore him two children. A known drug user, and known by

0:56.4

police for a handful of drug and burglary offenses, Anthony was described as unassuming, polite, and

1:03.1

soft-spoken. He kept himself, and though he temporarily moved to Detroit from July of 1995

1:09.5

to January of 1996, he was a Trenton man

1:13.7

through and through. He was also a man who, unbeknownst to the people who knew him, was

1:19.1

secretly going by another name, one given to him by the press, the Trenton Strangler.

1:26.8

According to the sources, the unassuming man would troll through the streets within two

1:30.9

miles of his home and look for the victims who he knew walked through the night.

1:35.5

Approaching a sex worker around the time the sun started to rise, Anthony would offer them crack

1:40.5

in lieu of money, and if they agreed, he would take them to an isolated location.

1:46.5

Once there, he would pull out a knife, rape the woman, and then strangle them to death

1:51.6

before abandoning them in a vacant lot, or in one case a rundown hotel, for the police to find.

1:59.1

In total, between 1994 and 1996, Anthony Belom took the lives of four different women.

2:06.4

There was 41-year-old Karen Denise Patterson, killed October 24th, 1994, 29-year-old Valentina

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