When Nerds Attack: The Bellevue Murders

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We’ve said it before on True Crime Campfire: We’re nerds. And so are most of our friends. Nerds can be the very best people. All most of us want to do is to read our comics or cosplay our favorite characters from Final Fantasy VII, or learn to speak Klingon. We’re harmless. Most of us. But every category of person has its dark element. And for some people, fantasy is anything but harmless. For them, it can fuel a sense of superiority and separateness from ordinary life—provide a sort of storyline for them to follow, where they become the dark hero of their own little movie. When two such nerds come together, it can make for some toxic dynamics. Especially since human beings tend to do things in groups that they might NEVER have the nerve to do alone. Join us for the story of one of the Seattle area's most horrifying multiple murders--the 1997 slaughter of the entire Wilson family, by a pair of teenage killers who just...kinda wanted to see what it felt like.

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0:00.0	Hello campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:04.9	Wear your camp counselors, I'm Katie, and I'm Whitney.
0:08.4	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction, or roasting
0:12.5	murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.
0:23.6	We've set it before on true crime campfire.
0:26.2	We're nerds.
0:27.4	And so are most of our friends.
0:29.7	These can be the very best people.
0:31.7	All most of us want to do is read our comics, or cosplay our favorite characters from
0:35.7	Final Fantasy VII, or learn to speak Klingon.
0:39.1	We're harmless.
0:40.9	Most of us.
0:41.9	But every category of person has its dark element.
0:45.4	And for some people, fantasy is anything but harmless.
0:49.3	For them, it can fuel a sense of superiority and separateness from ordinary life.
0:54.9	Provide a sort of storyline for them to follow.
0:57.4	Or they become the dark hero of their own little movie.
1:00.6	When two such nerds come together, it can make for some toxic dynamics, especially since
1:05.8	human beings tend to do things in groups that they might never have the nerve to do alone.
1:11.5	This is when nerds attack, the story of the Bellevue murders.
1:29.3	So campers, for this one, we're in the leafy city of Bellevue, Washington, a Shishi suburb
1:34.4	just across the lake from Seattle, January 4th, 1997.
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