When Serial Killers Surrender: The Case of Mack Ray Edwards

Killer Psyche

Wondery | Treefort Media

True Crime, Exhibit C

4.6 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Retired FBI agent and criminal profiler Candice DeLong examines the case of Mack Ray Edwards. Between 1953 and 1970, Edwards killed at least six children in Los Angeles County, California, using his career in highway construction to hide their bodies – and his trail of murder. He ultimately turned himself in for his crimes, citing a guilty conscience…but was that truly the case? Candice explores how Edwards went undetected for so long, why he targeted children, and what the actual motive behind his confession could have been.

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0:25.0	Please be advised. Most people, even if they have not studied Greek mythology, have heard of the Greek God Zeus.
0:42.0	Maybe even some of his brothers and sisters who were also gods.
0:47.1	But before Zeus ruled the heavens, there were primordial beings that were personifications of abstract ideas and places.
0:56.0	Two of those deities, Gaya, the Earth Goddess, and Uranus, the Sky God, gave birth to 12 children that are known as the Titans.
1:07.5	One of the male Titans, Kronus, seized power from their parents. He and his older sister Rhea became the king and
1:16.0	queen of the Titans and ruled the world during a time that was known as the Golden Age.
1:22.2	During that time people that was known as the golden age.
1:23.1	During that time, people did not need laws or punishments.
1:28.0	They always chose a moral path.
1:31.4	It was truly golden. That was until Cronus learned of a prophecy that said he
1:39.1	would be overthrown by his own children. So when Rhea gave birth to the first five of their children,
1:46.0	he promptly swallowed them to prevent the prophecy from being fulfilled.
1:52.0	After the birth of their sixth child, a male known as Zeus,
1:57.0	Rhea tricked Kronus into swallowing a stone instead of the child.
2:04.0	Ria hid the child until Zeus was old enough to save his brothers and sisters
2:09.8	from their father's stomach.
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