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240: This "Witch-Killing" Couple Is Trying To Get Out of Prison

Lights Out

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True Crime, News, History

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🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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0:00.0

Light out.

0:11.4

What's up, everybody?

0:13.4

Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.

0:17.7

I'm your host Josh.

0:18.9

And I'm your host Austin.

0:20.0

And I'm the producer Daniel.

0:22.1

And we're back with another one. One, uh, just gets crazier. I feel like every week.

0:27.5

Yeah. Just when I think I've seen the worst of humanity. No. Somebody's always out there

0:33.1

breaking more records of how to be a terrible person. And that's exactly what we're talking about

0:39.1

today. Mr. Michael Bear Carson or his birth name James Carson, and we'll explain the name change

0:46.2

later because it's a little confusing. But he was back in the, you know, the 60s, the hippie movement.

0:54.9

You know, it was a good time for many and not so good time for others.

0:59.5

But Mr. Carson, he, I'd like to think that he wasn't always a bad person.

1:09.1

I think so, too, yeah.

1:10.2

You know what I mean?

1:10.7

I'd like to think that, you know, and based on what his daughter has said, because his daughter

1:15.1

is very, very outspoken about what she went through growing up.

1:19.3

But this case anyways is called the San Francisco witch killers.

1:23.7

And this is the name that the media gave Michael and this woman Susan and their subsequent

1:31.2

crime spree that they went on and basically they went on this holy war and went after people they

1:38.6

believe were witches in the early 1980s and they murdered at least three people in cold blood in

1:44.1

very brutal ways but not

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