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Episode 200: The Eastside Killer | Part II

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.72.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1990 the bar scene of Bellevue Washington was being stalked by a sadistic killer. Join me for part two of our two part episode as I tell John how this monster was caught.


Sources:

https://law.justia.com/cases/washington/supreme-court/1994/60673-1-1.html

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/8158272_The_Rarity_of_Unusal_Dispositions_of_Victim_Bodies_Staging_and_Posing

https://www.newspapers.com/image/738777312/?match=1&terms=Mary%20Ann%20Pohlreich

The News Tribune, Article by Michael Gilbert dated 1/10/1991 accessed through Newspapers.com 

The News Tribune, Article by the Associated Press 10/14/94 accessed through Newspapers.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to episode 200, part two of the true crime couple. I'm Kay. And I'm John.

0:06.7

So obviously this is the second of a two-part episode. So if you haven't yet listened to part one,

0:13.1

please go back and do so or you're going to be super lost. You are going to be lost. Part one is required.

0:20.3

It is. Now we know that you've been eagerly awaiting what happens next, so we're not going to be lost. Part one is required. It is.

0:26.6

Now, we know that you've been eagerly awaiting what happens next, so we're not going to make you wait a second longer.

0:29.9

So, John, are you ready to hear something crazy?

0:30.8

Of course.

0:38.8

Where we left off at the end of last episode, the East Side Killer had been stalking the bar scene of Bellevue, Washington,

0:47.9

in the summer of 1990. He had claimed the lives of 27-year-old Marianne Polarie and 35-year-old mother-of-two Carol Beathy. We established that the ammo of the killer was to use a hands-on

0:54.0

method of murder, which he did switch up,

0:57.5

and then depose the bodies in a sexually degrading way. The murders occurred 47 days apart,

1:04.7

and he seemed to be escalating in rage and violence. The friend of the first victim and the ex-boyfriend of the second were both considered early suspects.

1:16.8

However, their blood type did not match the blood type gained from the semen sample left at both scenes.

1:23.7

So the killer was still on the loose and ready to strike again.

1:28.3

Police say the suspect, 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer has confessed to the killings of 11 people whose remains were found in his apartment.

1:37.3

We are all evil in some form or another. Are we not?

1:42.3

Lock your doors, lock your windows. If you have the ability to provide additional security

1:47.4

devices, then by all means do so.

1:50.7

Now, something that is interesting about this person being dubbed the Eastside killer by the

1:56.9

media so quickly is the fact that he technically was not a serial killer yet.

2:02.9

Because to officially be called a serial killer, you have to have three victims.

2:07.7

And he only has two.

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