S1 Ep.3: The Bodies Pile Up

Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Criminal psychologist Dr Michelle Ward takes us beat by beat as the killings and disappearances escalate and Santa Cruz becomes the focus of the national media. Students are warned not to hitchhike. But with families massacred in their own homes, is anyone safe?

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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 in the
0:17.2	Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:19.5	This podcast explores themes of murder and rape.
0:26.0	Thener discretion is advised.
0:28.0	Why all these murders here?
0:31.0	Why?
0:32.0	Well, one reason is that we have a homicidal maniac, apparently, he has been running around and we know he's killed Tim Pete.
0:38.0	He had been murdered by a man named Herbert Mullen.
0:41.0	This was an act against women. It was a declaration of war and I was ready for it. From 1972 to 1973, locales in Santa Cruz, California were terrorized by not one, but two serial killers.
1:08.0	Their names were Edmund Kemper and Herbert Mullen.
1:11.0	They operated independently, and over an 11 month period claimed the lives of 21
1:16.6	individuals. Young children, teenagers, female hitchhikers, even a priest was slain.
1:25.0	No one was safe.
1:27.0	I'm Dr. Michelle Ward, and this is Mind of a Monster,
1:31.0	the Coed Killer and Herbert Mullen.
1:33.7	Episode 3, The Bodies Pile Up.
1:36.6	It's early January 1973.
1:42.4	It's early January 1973 and as locals in Santa Cruz California pack away their Christmas
1:48.3	decorations, students return from the holidays and ready themselves for a new semester.
1:55.1	One such student is 18-year-old Cynthia Ann Shaw, who works as a live-in babysitter while she studies
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