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911 Calls Podcast - Episode 04

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911 Calls Podcast - Episode 03

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911 Calls Podcast - Episode 02

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911 Calls Podcast - Episode 01

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27 • Charlie Brandt pt.2: The Fisherman

The disturbing tale of Charlie Brandt. A man who likely killed many, but cut his teeth terrorizing his family one stormy night. At the age of 13.Part 1 of 2.SOURCES:Invisible Killer: The Monster Behind the Mask, by Diana MontaneRESEARCH - Doctor Hagar BarakSPONSORS - Casper. Go to www.casper.com/luna and use Promo Code - Luna. For $100 bucks of select mattressesShudder. Go to www.shudder.com and use Promo Code - Luna. For a 30 day free trialMERCH - www.darktopicpodcast.comPATREON - www.patreon.com/darktopicpod  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

26 • Charlie Brandt - Part 1

The relentless finale.Sponsor - www.shudder.com - Promo Code - Luna for 30 days freeResearch - Doctor Hagar BarakSources:BOOKSThe Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker, Philip Carlo, Citadel Press, 1996YOUTUBEA Conversation with Richard Ramirez--The Night Stalker--Reported by Mike Watkisshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC5huwZoPZARichard Ramirez ( The Night Stalker ) - Serial killer documentaryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtEOzX8V6yII'll See You in Disneyland" - Richard Ramirez, sentenced to deathhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcmIPjl7AOQ  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

25 • Richard Ramirez pt.2: The Night Stalker

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24 • Richard Ramirez pt.1: Cemetery Child

Herb Baumeister, using the alias "Brian Smart", is on the hunt. . He drives his blue Buick out to the city most evenings, and brings home men whenever his wife and kids aren't home. Which, as a result of his deteriorating facade, is quite often these days.Sourceshttps://www.thoughtco.com/herbert-richard-baumeister-973121http://www.peoplespressindy.org/2018/12/29/herb-baumeister-the-fiend-of-westfield/https://people.com/archive/while-julie-was-away-vol-46-no-26/https://www.learning-history.com/herb-baumeister/https://www.ranker.com/list/herb-baumeister-murder-facts/jessika-gilberthttp://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Baumeister,%20Herb%20-%20fall,%202005.pdfhttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/21146253/the_indianapolis_star/VideoHerb Raccoon - Wish TV Archive Files -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQuj30TsMQ0Paranormal - Knocker "BUG" (19:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXdr4AsJxAk&t=1167sGhost Adventures -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQVScfTTI1w&t=318sBooksWhere the Bodies are Buried, St Martin’s True CrimeYou Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm/Ryan Green, Ryan Green PublishingStay Paranoid  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

23 • Herb Baumeister pt.2: Fox Hollow Farm

Part 1 of the strange case of Herb Baumeister, and his likely prolific killing career. Part 2 covers his misdeeds doled out on the infamous grounds of Fox Hollow Farm.Research - Doctor Hagar BarakMusic - Tyler Jakes - www.tylerjakes.comSponsor - www.nativedeoderant.com Prom Code "Luna" for 20% off.Patreon - www.patreon.com/darktopicpodWebsite - www.darktopicpodcast.comSourceshttps://www.thoughtco.com/herbert-richard-baumeister-973121http://www.peoplespressindy.org/2018/12/29/herb-baumeister-the-fiend-of-westfield/https://people.com/archive/while-julie-was-away-vol-46-no-26/https://www.learning-history.com/herb-baumeister/https://www.ranker.com/list/herb-baumeister-murder-facts/jessika-gilberthttp://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Baumeister,%20Herb%20-%20fall,%202005.pdfhttps://www.newspapers.com/clip/21146253/the_indianapolis_star/Books-Where the Bodies are Buried, St Martin’s True Crime-You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm/Ryan Green, Ryan Green PublishingStay Paranoid  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

22 • Herb Baumeister - Part 1

Dark Topic will return with new content on April 2nd. Until then, back by popular demand, I present the inaugural case of this podcast. Originally released in early February of 2017 by a nervous drunk guy with zero experience. Hopefully after listening, those of you who have been critical of my decision to drop the first season will finally understand why I did so. Thank you for your patience. Back with a vengeance soon. Stay ParanoidSources:Blood Stained: When No One Comes Looking - By Dory Maust  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Inaugural Case - Crazy Dave

The Zed Team. An unholy crew of misfits, who turned on one of their own.
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SOURCES :

i. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jimmy-prout-murder-facebook-injuries-13206066

ii. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-40324334

iii. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/03/cultish-neighbours-tortured-and-killed-tyneside-man-jury-told-jimmy-prout

iv. https://metro.co.uk/2017/06/27/killers-jailed-for-life-for-boiling-mans-testicle-and-forcing-him-to-eat-it-6738376/

v. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-39794370

vi. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-35907061

vii. https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/20/ex-wishes-she-could-say-sorry-to-dad-forced-to-eat-his-own-testicle-8157848/

viii. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6406371/Cult-victims-ex-girlfriend-reveals-agony-not-able-save-him.html

ix. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7722572/dangerous-uk-cults/

x. https://genwhypod.com/blogs/the-generation-why-podcast-blog/the-murder-of-jimmy-prout

xi. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jimmy-prout-murder-trial-live-13006731

xii. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/police-increasingly-concerned-man-woman-11099701

xiii. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/jimmy-prout-murder-trial-live-12978134

xiv. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/story-jimmy-prout-dad-two-13206598

xv. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/truth-cult-killer-zahid-zaman-13218270

xvi. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/he-like-poison-estate-residents-13205442

xvii. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/wheelchair-bound-puppetmaster-behind-jimmy-13205337

xviii. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/north-shields-death-cult-how-13205619

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21 • The Zed Team

The Killing Machine Finale.
Research - Doctor Hagar Barak

Music - Tyler Jakes, Psycho Killer (Talking Heads Cover) www.tylerjakes.com

Additional Vocals - Beth Brown

Sources:

Video

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-shows/dating-game-killer/ Investigation Discovery stays classy by making a non-documentary TV show about Alcala, starring a dude from Seinfeld and Scandal. I should not assume the show is cheesy, but the poster sure is☺

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-rodney-alcala-the-killing-game/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12PXvKfWdZs (this is Alcala’s appearance on ‘The Dating Game’

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Serial-Killer-Rodney-Alcalas-Photos-Released-Can-You-ID-Any-Of-These-Women-91752849.html video montage of pictures of women found among Alcala’s belongings, which the police asked for the public’s help in identifying

Print

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/flashback-serial-killer-appears-on-the-dating-game-mid-spree-192077/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-serial-killer-new-killing-20160921-snap-story.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdpn9j/the-haunting-photography-of-a-serial-killer

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2018/06/rodney-alcala/

http://www.ibtimes.com/rodney-alcala-dating-game-killer-psychological-profile-2623321 as the link says, this is a psychological profile of Alcala that appeared, for some reason, in international Business News. This is a collection of highlights from an interview given by UK psychologist, research and writer Dr. Nicola Davis, to Pick Me Up! Magazine. The subject of the interview is why did Alcala end up Alcala.

Books

Stella Sands, The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of A TV Dating Show, A Violent Sociopath and A Series of Brutal Murders (St. Martin’s True Crime, 2011) There are several books on Alcala, but as far as I can tell this one is the only one published by a known publishing house, as opposed to self-published. It is also more than twice the length of the other books on Alcala. It’s not a great book, not because it’s inaccurate or biased, mostly because it’s very slow.

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20 • The Killing Machine - Final

Better known as The Dating Game Killer. But you can call him Rodney…
Music - Psycho Killer (Talking Heads Cover) Tyler Jakes. Visit www.tylerjakes.com

Research - Doctor Barak

www.patreon.com/darktopicpod for extra content, and to support DT.

www.darktopicpodcast.com for links to merch.

SOURCES

Video

• https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/tv-­‐‑shows/dating-­‐‑game-­‐‑killer/ Investigation Discovery stays classy by making a non-­‐‑documentary TV show about Alcala, starring a dude from Seinfeld and Scandal. I should not assume the show is cheesy, but the poster sure isJ

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-­‐‑killer-­‐‑rodney-­‐‑alcala-­‐‑the-­‐‑killing-­‐‑game/

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12PXvKfWdZs (this is Alcala’s appearance

on ‘The Dating Game’

• https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Serial-­‐‑Killer-­‐‑Rodney-­‐‑Alcalas-­‐‑ Photos-­‐‑Released-­‐‑Can-­‐‑You-­‐‑ID-­‐‑Any-­‐‑Of-­‐‑These-­‐‑Women-­‐‑91752849.html

video montage of pictures of women found among Alcala’s belongings, which the police asked for the public’s help in identifying

Print

• https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-­‐‑news/flashback-­‐‑serial-­‐‑killer-­‐‑ appears-­‐‑on-­‐‑the-­‐‑dating-­‐‑game-­‐‑mid-­‐‑spree-­‐‑192077/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala

• http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-­‐‑me-­‐‑ln-­‐‑serial-­‐‑killer-­‐‑new-­‐‑killing-­‐‑

20160921-­‐‑snap-­‐‑story.html

• https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vdpn9j/the-­‐‑haunting-­‐‑photography-­‐‑of-­‐‑a-­‐‑ serial-­‐‑killer

• https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-­‐‑goad/2018/06/rodney-­‐‑alcala/

• http://www.ibtimes.com/rodney-­‐‑alcala-­‐‑dating-­‐‑game-­‐‑killer-­‐‑psychological-­‐‑ profile-­‐‑2623321

as the link says, this is a psychological profile of Alcala that appeared, for some reason, in international Business News. This is a collection of highlights from an interview given by UK psychologist, research and writer Dr. Nicola Davis, to Pick Me Up! Magazine. The subject of the interview is why did Alcala end up Alcala.

Books

• Stella Sands, The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of A TV Dating Show, A Violent Sociopath and A Series of Brutal Murders (St. Martin’s True Crime, 2011)

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19 • The Killing Machine

This is an episode pilfered from the Padded Room of Patreon. Hopley is due for release in November 2018.
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18 • The Curious Case of Randall Hopley

Sources: Bad Boy from Rosebud - Gary Lavergne
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Best of Early DT - The Broomstick Killer

“I am a man of passion. You don’t know what that means, unless you are my kind. At the orphanage where they put me just before Garfield was assassinated, there were some older boys that caught a horse in a slopping field. They got the horse up against a fence down at the bottom of the field and tied him up.
An old horse.

They put kerosene on his tail and lit it and cut the rope and away went that old horse busting through fences to get away from the fire. But the fire went with him.

That horse, that’s me. That’s the man of passion. The fire chases you and catches you and then it’s in your blood. And after that, it’s the fire that has control, not the man.

Blame the fire of passion for what Albert H. Fish has done…"



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Writing Credit - Tyler Bell. Visit www.westsidefairytales.com

Research Credit - Dr. Hagar Barak

Sources:

Robert Keller, Confessions of a Cannibal, 2015

John Borowski, Albert Fish in his own words, Waterfront Publications 2012

https://www.nytimes.com/1936/01/17/archives/slayer-of-budd-girl-dies-in-electric-chair-albert-fish-65-pays.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/05/archives/man-67-seized-here-as-budd-kidnapper-wife-accuses-caretaker-as.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1935/03/26/archives/fish-is-sentenced-admits-new-crimes-death-in-electric-chair-fixed.html https://local.theonion.com/[object%20Object]

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/police-try-to-link-budd-girls-slayer-to-3-other-crimes-fish.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html

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17 • The Silent Angels of Albert Fish - Final

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Closer to Shore - Update

You might think of hell as a hot place. That’s how it's depicted, in old films and cartoons. A sweltering abyss full of ghouls thrusting pitchforks, and inflicting bloody debauchery upon the recently damned. I'm not a believer in such places... but if i were... I'd be more inclined to go with the Dante’s Inferno depiction. Where hell is a cold, forgotten place. The darkest point of the universe, furthest from God, where sinners are trapped unmoving beneath the ice, and Satan mindlessly flaps his wings, trying to escape. 
But then...there are Devils among us. Devils who become immortalized in movies, books, television shows and podcasts... . The types contained within the Dark Topic Catalogue. The types who raise the bar of how evil and savage we can be... who inspire future psychopaths to pursue their own dark dreams and satiate their enormous appetites. The worst of which, I can almost believe were sent from an evil place … maybe spawned from a cold corner of the cosmos…, a spore that crashed here via asteroid eons ago…… eventually morphing into something unfathomable…. And burping up from the bottom of the ocean to take the form of something hideous …like an Angler Fish…. Or worse …Like an Albert Fish.

Writing Credit - Tyler Bell of the Westside Fairytales Podcast. www.westsidefairytales.com

Research Credit - Doctor Barak   

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Sources:

Robert Keller, Confessions of a Cannibal, 2015 

John Borowski, Albert Fish in his own words, Waterfront Publications 2012

https://www.nytimes.com/1936/01/17/archives/slayer-of-budd-girl-dies-in-electric-chair-albert-fish-65-pays.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1930/09/05/archives/man-67-seized-here-as-budd-kidnapper-wife-accuses-caretaker-as.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1935/03/26/archives/fish-is-sentenced-admits-new-crimes-death-in-electric-chair-fixed.html https://local.theonion.com/[object%20Object]

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/police-try-to-link-budd-girls-slayer-to-3-other-crimes-fish.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1934/12/15/archives/exwife-unconcerned.html

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16 • The Silent Angels of Albert Fish - Part 1

The Truck Stop Killer.
This episode was co-written by Tyler Bell of The Westside Fairytales Podcast. Visit www.westsidefairytales.com for some horror fiction in podcast form.

Research Credit: Doctor Barak

Music Credit: Tyler Jakes - Woodchips & Pouty Lips. www.tylerjakes.com

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Sources:

ARTICLES:

 https://www.gq.com/story/truck-stop-killer-gq-november-2012

The author of this article was a teenage runaway hitchhiking at truck stops during the time when Rhoades was active. She had a scary encounter with a man who she later came to suspect was Rhoades, and she goes to attempt to verify her suspicion. It’s a good read with lots on insights into hitchhiking in the ‘80s

https://www.truckdrivingjobs.com/faq/the-haunting-case-of-robert-ben-rhoades-truck-stop-muderer.html

honestly, I cannot attest to the journalistic credentials of truck driver jobs, but they do have a refreshing angle, in that they don’t assume that truck drivers are, in general, a bunch of creepy psychos.

https://www.monstersandcritics.com/smallscreen/truck-stop-killer-robert-ben-rhoades-ex-wife-recounts-time-with-serial-killer-and-rapist/

basically, a link to the ID interview

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-trucker-traveling-torture-chamber-admits-murders/story?id=16037743

on the 2012 trial

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2223778/The-night-I-murdered-truck-stop-serial-killer-One-woman-tells-story-survival.html

Vanessa Veselka, who wrote the GQ article, got covered in the DM! so you know it’s true

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9175140/Torture-chamber-trucker-sentence-to-life-in-prison.html

summary of the case on after the 2012 trial

https://healthpsychologyconsultancy.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/making-of-a-monster-robert-ben-rhoades/ An interview with a psychologist who specialized in childhood abuse (who did not interview Rhoades but did review the material) on the events that may have contributed to create this serial killer.

http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Rhodes,%20Robert%20Ben%20spring%202007.pdf

 Behold a timeline of his life events (that are related to his murders) recorded by students at the psychology department at Radford: (I will be checking this against the other sources to ascertain its reliability, since, just to start with, they misspelled ‘Council Bluffs, Iowa’)

VIDEOS:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x21lu4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj1H3_aQhTg

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