“KILLER KIDS AND MURDEROUS MINORS” and More Horrific True Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: As a listener of true crime podcasts, you likely are more than familiar with names like H.H. Holmes, Richard Ramirez, and Gary Ridgeway. But what happens when the serial killer hasn’t even reached adolescence? We’ll look at some chilling murders that were carried out by children, which will change the way you look at youthful adolescents from now on. (Killer Kids) *** Are there traits you can look for in a child that might indicate if they will become a killer later in life? We’ll look at three traits believed to be indicators. (Predicting a Killer) *** You can teach a dog to roll over and fetch. You can teach a cat to use the toilet. Lions and tigers have been trained to jump through hoops of fire to thrill spectators at circuses worldwide. And even a gorilla has been taught some basic sign language. But would you believe there was once a horse that could do arithmetic? (The Horse Who Could Do Math) *** William Stead was a newspaper editor and journalist in the 1890s. His beat wasn’t the fashion scene or stock market, nor was it the arts district or even politics. He covered the paranormal. And it wasn’t hard to come up with stories, because all he had to do was to call up someone from the underworld for an exclusive interview. (Words From Beyond The Grave) *** If you move into an old house, it always feels awkward at first. After a while though, it begins to feel like home. For some people, if the house is a bit older, perhaps that odd feeling of being watched never really goes away. But if your house was built 270 years ago, you probably should just assume you’ve got a spook or two already residing there before you sign the mortgage. (1750’s Horror Home) *** (Originally aired June 08, 2020)
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
BOOK: “Homicidal Threats” by J. M. MacDonald: https://amzn.to/3f4CcGi
BOOK: “After Death or Letters From Julia” by W.T. Stead: https://amzn.to/2Ydk9qp
BOOK: “The Blue Island: Experiences of a New Arrival Beyond the Veil” by W.T. Stead: https://amzn.to/2XKCbS4
“Killer Kids” by Abbey White for The Line Up: https://tinyurl.com/yd7wbqw7
“Predicting a Killer” by CWS for The Line Up: https://tinyurl.com/yaxza9ju
“The Horse Who Could Do Math” by Kaushik Patowary for Amusing Planet: https://tinyurl.com/yb3zn423
“Words From Beyond the Grave” by Marc Hartzman for Weird Historian: https://tinyurl.com/ya3tk8rv
“1750s Horror Home” by Virulent Peach for Your Ghost Stories: https://tinyurl.com/y7vl59da
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OTHER PODCASTS I HOST…
Paranormality Magazine: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag
Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors
Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio
Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead
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| 0:27.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Stories and is content in weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is intended for mature |
| 0:53.9 | audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised. If cop shows and forensic dramas have taught us one thing, it's that serial killers |
| 1:11.9 | are a breed apart from other human beings. |
| 1:15.0 | They're the monsters that hide in the shadows, |
| 1:18.0 | the diabolical predators of otherwise peaceful times. |
| 1:22.0 | But it's extremely rare... of otherwise peaceful times. |
| 1:23.1 | But it's extremely rare for a child to commit any serious crime, even rarer for that act |
| 1:30.4 | to be outright murder. So when cases of homicide committed by children make the news, they |
| 1:37.2 | fascinate the viewers and stay in the public consciousness long after the trials have ended. |
| 1:43.0 | Murder itself is such an extreme crime that even what motivates adult killers can remain mysterious. |
| 1:51.0 | Getting to the bottom of what pushes a child to commit the heinous |
| 1:55.7 | act is even more difficult. Many such crimes involve children attacking those younger |
| 2:02.4 | than them, usually with an age gap of six to |
| 2:05.6 | eight years. |
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