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🗓️ 3 February 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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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 homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator is reminiscent of a weird... |
0:12.9 | A cup of murder... |
0:14.8 | Two is not always better than one. |
0:17.9 | On February 3, 1969, a man was born who, when paired up with another dangerous man, |
0:24.9 | took the lives of at least five young women. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, |
0:32.1 | sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Stephen Dean Gordon, born February 3, 1969 in Linwood, California, moved with his family |
0:42.5 | to Norwalk shortly after his birth, a place where he spent most of his childhood and youth |
0:48.7 | living in poverty, and due to some health issues, skipped one whole year of schooling. |
0:55.9 | When he did attend class, he was considered an unpopular boy and was often bullied due to his short stature, |
1:04.1 | which eventually led to the young boy developing what is called a Napoleon complex and was |
1:10.4 | considered overtly aggressive in nature. |
1:13.9 | Eventually graduating from the Santa Fe High School in 1988, the now 19-year-old decided not to pursue |
1:20.5 | any higher education and instead began working as a handyman at Disneyland. |
1:26.5 | It was there that he met L'nai Lewis, another cast member at the park, and the pair began a |
1:32.7 | relationship. |
1:34.1 | Now, while working at Disney, Stephen actually seemed to turn some things around a bit, and, |
1:39.1 | well regarded by the local community, he began playing softball as a core member of the local Walt Disney |
1:45.6 | Parks and Resorts team in the early 1990s. Then things took a massive turn when in 1992, |
1:54.6 | his own sister accused him of sexually assaulting her young daughter, and as a result, he was charged with the molestation of a minor. |
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