S1 Ep.2: Investigating Murder

Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Criminal psychologist Dr Michelle Ward tracks the early stages of the investigation. As detectives identify human remains discovered on a mountain near Santa Cruz, a young student disappears, and a series of seemingly random killings dumbfound law enforcement. They’re forced to think the unthinkable… could there be a serial killer in town?

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0:00.0	Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat. His company was worth half a billion dollars.
0:05.1	His research promised groundbreaking treatments for HIV and cancer. But the brilliant doctor was hiding a secret.
0:12.1	You can listen to Dr Death Bad Magic, ad free by subscribing to Wundry Plus
0:17.0	in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts. This podcast explores themes of murder and rape.
0:27.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:29.0	Why all these murders here?
0:32.0	Why? Well, one reason is that we have a homicidal maniac who has been running around and we know he's killed 10 people.
0:39.0	It was clear that he'd been beaten to death about the head.
0:42.8	She's gonna hitchhike.
0:44.7	She was hitchhiking.
0:45.9	Mullin immediately started stabbing him to death. From 1972 to 1973 locals in Santa Cruz California were terrorized by not one but two serial killers
1:10.0	Their names were Edmund Kemper and Herbert Mullen.
1:13.5	They operated independently and over the course of 11 months
1:18.0	claim the lives of 21 individuals.
1:21.0	Young children, teenagers, female hitchhikers, even a priest was
1:27.2	slain. No one was safe. I'm Dr. Michelle Ward and this is Mind of a
1:32.4	monster, the co Coed Killer and Herbert Mullen.
1:36.2	Episode 2, investigating murder. On May 7th, 1972, two students, Anita Luchesa and Mary Ann Peesh go missing after hitchhiking a ride.
1:54.2	They're never seen alive again.
1:56.1	But three months later, Santa Cruz investigators
1:58.5	make a macabre discovery on the Loma Prieta Mountain, the remains of a human skull.
2:05.0	Terry Medina was a detective with the Sheriff's Department at the time.
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