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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

The Vancouver Child Killer

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

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

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

By his late 20s, Westley Allan Dodd had sexually assaulted almost 50 children. His crimes began when he was only thirteen years old…and by the time he turned 28, he was ready to escalate to murder.

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0:00.0

Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder. I'm Wesley Allen Dodd began sexually harassing the other kids in his neighborhood in 1974 when he himself was only 13 years old.

0:42.6

At first he was just exposing his genitals to them, causing them to feel uncomfortable and go and complain to his parents.

0:50.7

At first he was just exposing his genitals to them, causing them to feel uncomfortable and go to his parents and complain.

0:58.0

Wesley's father, Jim Dodd, later admitted that he was aware of Wesley's harassment of the other kids, but he decided to ignore it.

1:06.0

His reasoning was that, apart from the indecent exposure,

1:10.0

Wesley was, quote, a well-behaved child who never had problems with drugs, drinking, or smoking.

1:16.9

So I guess let's just ignore the other deeply troubling and completely inappropriate behavior on Wesley's part.

1:23.8

Right?

1:24.9

So Wesley never saw any consequences for his actions, and it allowed him to begin to escalate his crimes. Right. So Wesley never saw any consequences for his actions, and it allowed him to begin to

1:29.7

escalate his crimes. By the time he was in high school, he had started to molest younger children.

1:36.0

He began with his cousins and his father's girlfriend's young children, and then made an effort to

1:41.4

advertise his babysitting services around the neighborhood.

1:46.1

At his babysitting gigs, he would assault the children that he was paid to look after.

1:51.9

Now, being a parent myself, I don't know how you can entrust Wesley with looking after your kids,

1:57.5

knowing that he's the neighborhood flasher.

2:00.4

So you have to think that these parents

2:02.1

had no idea that this was the kind of kid they had looking after their children. When Wesley was

2:07.8

15 years old, somebody called the cops on him for exposing his genitals in public yet again. He

2:14.1

was arrested, but then quickly released with a recommendation that he should attend some

2:19.0

counseling sessions.

2:21.0

And Wesley's crimes continued.

2:23.7

He tried to kidnap two young girls a few years later, but the girls escaped and contacted

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