True Crime Vault: The Monster Among Us

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True Crime

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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A killer terrorizes idyllic California neighborhoods in the 1970s and 1980s, evading authorities as he lives among his victims for over four decades. Originally broadcast: October 30, 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.
0:02.3	Hiya.
0:02.9	So, Benny has really blossomed this term.
0:05.6	You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.
0:09.6	Oh, that's not quite what I meant.
0:11.1	It's free to sell on there?
0:12.3	Free to sell?
0:13.4	Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.
0:16.8	You sold my guitar?
0:19.9	Shall we talk about Benny?
0:22.1	When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.
0:26.7	Things people love. T's and Cs apply, exclusive vehicles.
0:31.4	Welcome back to the 2020 True Crime Vault.
0:40.3	Joseph DiAngelo was in the Navy.
0:42.3	He was a police officer.
0:44.3	He was married.
0:45.3	He was like a Hannibal Lecter,
0:47.3	highly intelligent, highly sadistic, master manipulator.
0:51.3	His first rape attack that we know of, he was 30 years old. This was a man who was
0:57.4	clearly living a double life.
1:10.2	A man in a leather hood entered the window of a house in Citrus Heights
1:14.3	and sneaked up on a 16-year-old girl watching television alone in the den.
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