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Waiting on Death: The Many Crimes of Serial Killer Joe Ture

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True Crime, Murder, Unsolved Case, Killing, Murderer, Cold Case

3.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the late seventies and early eighties, a serial killer stalked waitresses in Minnesota. In this episode of the Murder Sheet, we'll speak to true crime researcher and author Robert M. Dudley about the disturbing crimes of Joseph Ture.

  • "Justice for Marlys A Family’s Twenty Year Search for a Killer" by John S. Munday: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/justice-for-marlys
  • Here's Robert M. Dudley's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RobertMDudleyAuthor/
  • Robert's Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-M.-Dudley/e/B01N0VZRFK%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
  • A link to Robert's book on the Wetterling case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N8TO98S/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0
  • And a link to the book on Stearns County cases: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BCSQR1Q/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
  • Here's the 2021 "Tipping Point" study: https://onefairwage.site/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/OFW_TheTippingPoint_3-1.pdf

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0:00.0

Content warning, this episode gets into topics like murder, including the murder of children,

0:08.1

as well as rape, violence against women and children, and suicide.

0:14.1

There's also some profanity.

0:19.0

Weight staff have to put up with a lot of nonsense.

0:23.5

If you've ever worked at a restaurant, you know.

0:27.6

If not, then, well, the numbers don't lie.

0:31.9

In the tipping point, a 2021 study conducted by activist group One Fair Wage and the UC

0:40.3

Berkeley Food Labor Research Center, professors Catherine A. McKinnon and Louise F. Fitzgerald

0:48.7

uncovered some pretty disturbing trends in the food service industry.

0:53.8

The study found that 71% of female respondents, who were all restaurant workers, were sexually

1:00.3

harassed at least once on the job.

1:03.8

Researchers reported that this percentage is higher in restaurant work than in virtually

1:07.8

every other industry.

1:10.6

Those respondents mostly reported that customers were the main culprits, although some suffered

1:16.1

harassment from their bosses too, and the situation is far worse for restaurant workers who

1:21.4

make most of their money through tips.

1:24.2

They quote, experience sexual harassment at a rate far higher than their non-tipped counterparts.

1:31.7

That rate is 76% of tip workers, compared with 52% of non-tipped workers.

1:38.7

Among tip workers, weight staff were less likely to say the situation was corrected than

1:43.4

their non-tipped counterparts.

1:46.3

So here's the breakdown.

1:48.8

Weightresses working for below minimum wage, who rely on tips to get by, can't always

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