S2 Ep.5: The Satanic Murders

Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The shocking revelation about Kenneth Bianchi’s mental state is put under the microscope. Does he really have Multiple Personality Disorder? Or is he just faking it? Dr. Michelle Ward interrogates the evidence and tracks the arrest of Angelo Buono.

In 1985, Richard Ramirez’s killings plunge the entire state into mass panic until investigators finally make a breakthrough. Could they be on the brink of apprehending the Night Stalker?

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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,
0:14.4	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.
0:30.0	Los Angeles police have been searching for a killer who has strangled young women and left their bodies along grassy hillsides.
0:37.0	We've had yet another set of remains identified. This is the second one that's taken place in the last several weeks.
0:45.0	Talk about a battle of the experts. Some even said that, you know, psychiatry itself was on trial.
0:50.0	He says, you can't do it because it's too painful for you.
0:53.6	You're a piece of shit, Beyarky.
0:59.1	I'm Dr. Michelle Ward, and this is mind of a monster, the Hillside Strangler and the Night Stalker.
1:05.0	Episode 5, The Satanic Murders. It's March 1979 and Kenneth Bianchi has been in custody for two months following his arrest for the murders of Bellingham friends Karen Mandick and Diane Wilder.
1:19.0	During questioning, he claims to have no recollection of the murders, but confesses to suffering
1:25.3	amnesia. A series of psychiatrists are brought in to assessor.
1:30.3	Under forensic hypnosis, something extraordinary appears to happen.
1:34.0	Kenneth Bianchi demonstrates signs of multiple personality disorder.
1:38.5	In this archive interview with psychiatrist Dr. John Watkins, we can hear the moment Bianchi first
1:45.0	reveals the presence of an alternative personality.
1:48.0	Are you the same thing as Ken or are you different in any way?
1:56.0	I'm not him.
1:58.0	You're not him.
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