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This Is Monsters

William Michael Dennis : A Dad in Wolf's Clothing

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

William Michael Dennis was grieving and depressed, but instead of getting help for his problems, he blamed other people and tried to make them pay for his unhappiness.

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Transcript

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Try to get across that slice it just wider the post.

0:05.0

How have they done enough?

0:07.0

Can they pull it out the back?

0:09.0

Does the ref have a clue?

0:11.0

When you're shouting at the screen, blow your whistle!

0:16.0

There's no feeling like live TV.

0:19.0

However you watch, a TV licence is your must-have pass to over 400 live TV channels

0:25.0

and it also funds the BBC, such TV licence.

0:30.0

At 9pm on October 31, 1984, Doreen Herbert opened her front door

0:36.0

to a man standing on her doorstep with a wolf mask covering his face.

0:41.0

Being Halloween night, a person in a mask on her doorstep wasn't all that strange,

0:46.0

though Doreen thought it odd that the man was alone with no costume to children accompanying him.

0:52.0

She wasn't immediately frightened by what she saw,

0:55.0

but unbeknownst to her, she had more than one reason to be afraid.

0:59.0

At 9 months pregnant and with her 4-year-old at her side,

1:03.0

she realised the man inside the mask was none other than her ex-husband,

1:08.0

and he had much more than trick-or-treating on his mind that night.

1:12.0

This is Monsters.

1:29.0

William Michael Dennis was born in 1950 in San Jose, California to middle-class parents.

1:46.0

He was known as Mike to his friends, though there weren't many people in that group

1:50.0

due to his social awkwardness and quiet nature.

1:53.0

He also struggled to make friends due to suffering from significant hearing loss

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