Top 5 Horrifying & Creepy Unsolved Murders
Scary Mysteries
Scary Mysteries
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🗓️ 2 October 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scary Mysteries brought to you by New Don Films. |
| 0:10.0 | Every Monday we'll tell you about topics that range from serial killers and UFOs |
| 0:14.8 | to unexplained mysteries, ghosts, and everything in between. If it's scary and it's mysterious, |
| 0:20.8 | then we've got you covered. And check us out on YouTube as well if you want to watch each episode. |
| 0:26.0 | Thanks for tuning in. Top 5 horrifying and creepy unsolved murders. |
| 0:37.0 | Murder is a sinister act no matter how you look at it. However, there are certain cases that stand |
| 0:48.6 | out not just because of the grizzly circumstances involved, but more so because they remain unsolved. |
| 0:55.7 | Here are five of the most horrifying and creepy unsolved murders. |
| 1:05.0 | Number five, the Black Dudeler. |
| 1:16.8 | San Francisco was a different time in the 1970s, while today the gay lifestyles more accepted. Back then, the men generally had to keep their sexuality a secret. From January 1974 to September of 1975, a deranged man was tied to 17 total attacks, 14 of which |
| 1:30.2 | resulted in murders. Three victims survived their wounds but they are |
| 1:35.3 | refused to testify for fear of outing themselves to friends, family, and |
| 1:39.3 | coworkers. Hence the Black Doodler remains at large. |
| 1:44.0 | As to why he was called the Black Doodler, his main MO was to frequent gay bars in the Bay Area and chat up guys and transvestites, which he would eventually offer to take home and sketch. |
| 1:57.3 | And after that was over, he would stab them multiple times all over their bodies. Transvestites were mutilated a bit further and often had their throat slashed. |
| 2:08.4 | Among the victims were Gerald Kavanaugh, who was believed to be the first victim, Joseph J. Stevens, who was a female impersonator and comedian, and Frederick Capin, a former United States Navy nurse. |
| 2:22.0 | Those who survived included a popular entertainer and diplomat, but as to their |
| 2:26.7 | actual identities, those have been kept a secret. A potential suspect was arrested relating to the crimes. |
| 2:35.0 | He was a formal mental patient who freely discussed the case with the police, |
| 2:39.0 | but stopped short of admitting to the stabbings. |
| 2:42.4 | Because the survivors never testified or would even identify. to the believed the killer was a closeted homosexual who was so ashamed of himself and his natural |
| 2:54.9 | desires that it drove him to kill those he had sexual relations with. |
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