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Mind of a Monster: The Butcher Baker

Warner Bros. Discovery

True Crime

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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If you enjoyed Mind of a Monster, we think you'll like the new season of Very Scary People: A Family to Fear. An intense custody battle turns deadly when Christine Belford’s ex-husband and his family become obsessed with controlling the couple’s three daughters. The family is willing to do anything including stalking, kidnapping, and even murder to get their way. Over eight episodes, host Donnie Wahlberg takes listeners down a dark and twisted journey, exploring how one family’s obsession became a mother’s worst nightmare. With exclusive interviews and audio, the story goes beyond the headlines of the sinister Matusiewicz family.

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0:00.0	This is a story that involves stalking, psychological torture, alleged sexual abuse, kidnapping, and murder.
0:10.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.1	This season on Very Scary People.
0:18.4	This particular case involved an entire family. My mom started to panic. Why would he take them?
0:27.1	Nine more one, what's your emergency? These people are crazy on a level I've never seen before.
0:32.6	They'll never leave me alone. That's all I can think. He will never stop. At this point in time, the Matusowitz's take matters into their own hands.
0:40.3	We have to get the girls now. We have to go get the girls right now.
0:43.3	We had to be doing everything we could domestically to find them.
0:46.3	Now, the focus moved international.
0:51.3	You cross the family and you end up dead.
0:56.0	First thing I hit me was the smell of gunpowder.
1:00.0	It was a murder scene.
1:02.0	It was an active shooting scene.
1:04.8	You knew there were three people dead.
1:07.2	At that point, it was all hands on deck.
1:12.2	It's September 8th, 2007, in Wilmington, Delaware.
1:18.0	With a population of just under 74,000,
1:21.6	Wilmington is known for its rich industrial history,
1:25.1	lively neighborhoods, and a profound sense of community.
1:28.3	But on this fall day, the weather is unusually warm, and the leaves have just begun to change.
1:37.3	33-year-old Wilmington resident, Christine Belford, sits at home, waiting for her ex-husband, 36-year-old David Matusowitz,
1:47.6	to arrive with their three young children.
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