Valentine's Special: "A Couple of Kidnappers" - Wanda Barzee and Brian David Mitchell

Serial Killers

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History, Education

4.6 • 30.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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For Valentine’s Day we’re going back into the archives to bring you some of the most infamous couples in true crime history. All Wanda Barzee wanted in life was for someone to take care of her, and in return she promised complete devotion. So when her paramour, self-styled prophet Brian David Mitchell, demanded she help him find a child bride, Wanda aided and abetted the kidnapping of 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of these crimes, listener discretion is advised.
0:05.8	This episode includes discussions of animal abuse, child abuse, child sexual assault, insensitive language, and discussions of kidnapping.
0:14.8	Consider this when deciding how and when you'll listen.
0:24.9	Music when you'll listen. They say that you only find love once you stop looking for it.
0:29.9	This was painfully true for the subject of today's episode, Wanda Barsey, who had a habit
0:36.0	of looking in the wrong places to begin with.
0:39.5	I'm Vanessa Richardson, and welcome back to criminal couples.
0:43.4	Today's installment comes from female criminals.
0:46.6	When Wanda met David Brian Mitchell, she thought she'd finally found her white knight.
0:52.4	But it was a match made in despair.
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1:32.6	He was a Boy Scout leader, a husband, a father, but he was leading a double life. He was a monster,
1:43.0	hiding in plain sight.
1:45.6	Journey inside the mind of one of history's most notorious killers, B.T.K.
1:52.1	Through the voices of the people who know him best.
1:56.1	Listen to Monster BTK for free on Spotify.
2:08.2	Music Monster BTK for free on Spotify. Wanda Barzzi grew up in a full household.
2:12.2	She was the middle child of three sisters.
2:15.4	Janice, Wanda, and Baby Evelyn were close. The girls stayed up most nights
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