D.C. Snipers Part 1
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
“If you’re black, you can’t get work as a serial killer even if you’re manifestly qualified.” Mike tells Sarah how a military veteran became an abuser, a murderer and, eventually, a footnote in his own crime spree. Digressions include Jim Jones, the Addams Family and “The Gillooly Gang.” The episode gets super dark about two-thirds in, but brightens just before the big twist. We describe—again, unfortunately—domestic abuse in great detail.
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| 0:00.0 | I watched the Little Mermaid the other day for the first time since I was a kid and I was like, wait, did Ariel |
| 0:05.6 | guess fall in love with the first human male she ever saw? Close. |
| 0:18.4 | Welcome to You Wrong About the show where there is one moral panic and a thousand doors. |
| 0:24.1 | I plagiarized that line in a really wonderful piece by Helen Rosner. She wrote, there is only one |
| 0:31.0 | olive garden but it has a thousand doors and I've been thinking about that line ever since and I would |
| 0:36.2 | say that similar to that and in an equally American way, there's only one moral panic but it has |
| 0:42.9 | a thousand doors. Is that true of this episode? Not really because this was a moral panic that kind of |
| 0:48.4 | people should have been panicked about in some ways. Interesting. Okay. Well, delete that. |
| 0:57.2 | I thought I did a good job but it doesn't matter. I am Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for the |
| 1:01.4 | Huffington Post. I'm Sarah Marshall and I tried to do a tagline today but I couldn't. It was fine. |
| 1:09.6 | I was not about the satanic panic. It was fine. And we are on Patreon at patreon.com slash |
| 1:15.6 | You Wrong About and lots of other places with links in the description. And we are learning about |
| 1:21.2 | you have been describing them as the DC snipers. I remember hearing the description beltway |
| 1:26.2 | sniper when this happened, which I believe was when I was 13 years old. 2002. A lot of things |
| 1:31.6 | happen in America when I was 13 and 14. That was the season of September 11th and the anthrax scare. |
| 1:39.4 | And the beltway slash DC snipers. And I remember a feeling in white suburban America at the time |
| 1:46.2 | that this was all part of the same phenomenon somehow. Yeah. It was 13 months after 9, 11 and anthrax. |
| 1:55.5 | And I mean the cops who investigated it talk about it as one of the most effective terror |
| 2:01.0 | campaigns in US history that they essentially paralyzed an entire region. I mean gas stations were |
| 2:09.6 | putting up tarps. So nobody could see you getting gas because a lot of people had been shot at gas |
| 2:14.6 | stations. Schools were having parents come and escort kids off the buses like form human shields. |
| 2:22.3 | People were zigzagging through parking lots because a lot of people had been shot in parking |
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