A Pharaoh Entombed in Emotional Wounds

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

True Crime

3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

The most difficult part of examining true crime is often the gruesome, fatal injuries associated with extreme physical violence, but beneath those gratuitous offerings of gore lies a deeply enlightening and fascinating emotional context that tells us everything we need to know about the pain the killer felt inside psychologically, and why he transferred that horrific and prolonged suffering to the unsuspecting victims.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a neurodivergent journey through our evolutionary narrative as we endeavor to understand why a murderer chooses a particular method or weapon in the act of killing.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Cold Case Murder Mysteries, I'm your host, Ryan Kraus,
0:11.9	returning for another descent into madness.
0:14.7	In this episode, we're going to veer from the normal path of examining a case, and instead,
0:20.3	go deep inside one of the more horrifying and taboo aspects of true crime, which is
0:25.6	the creation of wounds rendered during a murder.
0:29.4	We understand these wounds in the context of physicality, and so the extreme to which
0:34.4	the perpetrator went to mutilating the victim becomes a false barometer for how bad the
0:40.2	death was, so to speak.
0:42.1	So in most true crime stories, there's usually some kind of bullshit mentioned early
0:47.4	in the narrative where somebody in law enforcement says the crime was the worst they've ever
0:53.0	seen.
0:54.0	And it's ridiculous.
0:55.0	I mean, if you clubbed me over the head with a hammer, and the scene isn't as bloody
1:00.3	as if you used a knife, there is nothing to substantiate the notion of the murder being
1:06.4	worse.
1:07.4	It's not as though getting bludgeoned to death is a pleasurable alternative to getting
1:11.8	stabbed.
1:12.8	Yet, as the audience, we are constantly seeking to identify one crime as being worse than
1:19.6	the others due to the nature of the damage caused by the wounds.
1:24.4	And so the reason we can't make sense of that logic and physicality is because it's
1:30.3	truly an emotional idea.
1:32.9	The real horror associated with these crimes is specifically the blood, and that's due
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