S2 Ep.6: Killers on Trial
Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In the season finale, all three killers face the justice system. Dr. Michelle Ward guides us through legal proceedings and the circus of the courtroom – from Bianchi turning against Buono, to Richard Ramirez’s satanic theatrics. Will the killers be convicted?
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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. |
| 0:28.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:31.0 | Los Angeles police have been searching for a killer who has strangled young women and |
| 0:35.2 | left their bodies along grassy hillsides. |
| 0:37.8 | We've had yet another set of remains identified. |
| 0:42.0 | This is the second one that's taken place in the last several weeks. |
| 0:45.4 | God forbid you go to trial and you've got a pathological liar as a key witness. |
| 0:50.0 | That was the only time in my entire career that I saw reporters weeping in the courtroom. |
| 0:57.0 | From 1977 to 1985, |
| 1:05.0 | to 1985, Los Angeles became the center of two of the most notorious, vicious, |
| 1:10.0 | and devastating serial killer investigations in US history. |
| 1:15.0 | The period saw 25 murders, five attempted murders, |
| 1:20.0 | an unknown number of sexual assaults, |
| 1:22.0 | and an entire city in a state of terror. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm criminal psychologist Dr. Michelle Ward, and this is the final episode of Mind of a Monster, |
| 1:32.0 | the Hillside Strangler, and the Night Stalker. |
| 1:35.0 | Episode 6, Killers on Trial. |
| 1:38.0 | It's Saturday, August 31st, 1985. |
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