S1 Ep.4: Catching a Serial Killer

Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, the net finally closes in on murderer Herbert Mullin. But with body parts still being discovered, Dr Michelle Ward details how elation turns to despair as law enforcement realize there must be a second serial killer operating in Santa Cruz.

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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. 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 has been running around and we know he's killed 10 people.
0:38.0	He was contemplating pulling the gun out and killing both of us.
0:42.0	We're digging bullets out of a tree. From 1972 to 1973, locals in Santa Cruz, locals in Santa Cruz were terrorized by not one but two serial killers. Their names were
1:06.6	Edmund Kemper and Herbert Mullen. They operated independently and over an 11-month
1:11.7	period claimed the lives of 21 individuals.
1:16.0	Young children, teenagers, female hitchhikers, even a priest was slain.
1:22.0	No one was safe.
1:23.7	I'm Dr. Michelle Ward, and this is Mind of a Monster,
1:27.0	the Coed Killer and Herbert Mullen.
1:29.9	Episode 4, catching a serial killer. It's February 10th, 1973, where five days after college students Rosalind Thorpe and Alice Lou were
1:50.9	kidnapped and murdered, and two days before their decapitated bodies are discovered at Eden Canyon.
1:57.0	I want to take you to Henry Kowl Redwood State Park in Santa Cruz.
2:02.0	On this night, out in a wooded area seldom used by
2:04.8	locals, there's a makeshift tent, held together with plastic sheets and tree branches.
2:09.8	Here, four teenage boys, David Allen Ollaker 18, Robert Michael Specter 18, Brian Scott
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