S2 Ep.1: Making a Killing in Hollywood

Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

It’s the stuff of nightmares. Women and girls start disappearing, then are found murdered, naked and brutalized. A shadowy intruder breaks into homes, leaving satanic signs and murdering and raping everyone inside. Yet from 1977 to 1985 this was a reality for residents in Los Angeles as it became the center of two of the most notorious serial killer investigations in US history: those committed by the Hillside Strangler and the Night Stalker.

Criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward takes us to the beginning of the horror. It’s October 17, 1977, and a young woman’s naked body is discovered near famed Hollywood cemetery, Forest Lawn. Little do investigators know that the killers are just getting started…

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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 Doctor Death Bad Magic,
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0:17.0	in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:22.4	This podcast explores themes of murder and rape.
0:25.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:28.0	Los Angeles police have been searching for a killer who has strangled young women and left their bodies
0:34.1	along grassy hillsides.
0:35.7	We've had yet another set of remains identified.
0:39.8	This is the second one that's taken place in the last several weeks.
0:43.5	That's exactly how Bianchi and Bono started using a badge
0:47.1	to get three seconds.
0:48.3	The homicide detective said, what do you think?
0:50.5	The horrors are going to solve this murder?
0:58.0	It's the stuff of nightmares. Women and girls disappearing,
1:01.0	then showing up murdered, naked, and brutalized.
1:05.0	A shadowy intruder breaking into homes, leaving satanic signs,
1:10.0	and murdering and raping everyone inside.
1:13.5	Yet, from 1977 to 1985,
1:16.7	this was a reality for residents in Los Angeles.
1:20.2	As it became the center of two of the most notorious, vicious, and devastating serial killer
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