Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat. His company was worth half a billion dollars.

His research promised groundbreaking treatments for HIV and cancer. But the brilliant doctor was hiding a secret.

You can listen to Dr Death Bad Magic, ad free by subscribing to Wundry Plus in the Wundry

app or on Apple Podcasts. This podcast explores themes of murder and rape.

The listener discretion is advised.

The victims are typically young women, many of them runaways and prostitutes.

The sheer number of murders

raises suspicion that a serial killer is at work.

Mountains of Washington offer some excellent terrain for hiding bodies you're not

finding a large number of bodies.

He said to us, like, why would I change the way that I kill these women?

Because it was working.

I had a problem with killing women back then.

You think of that as an illness? I don't know. of killing women back then.

You think of that as an illness?

I don't know if it wasn't an illness or just, I just wanted to kill so. On July 15th, 19th, 1982, the strangled body of 16-year-old Wendy Coefield is found floating in Seattle's

Green River.

A month later, in August, three more bodies are found in the water,

then another in the long grass on the riverbank.

Police confirmed that all five young women are homicide victims.

Deborah Bonner, Marsha Chapman, Cynthia Hines, Opel Mills, and Wendy Coefield have all been strangled to death.

Investigators discover that all of them disappeared from a notorious stretch of highway

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