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True Murder with 29 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.280 your host journalist and author Dan Zupansky. 30 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:46.560 Thirteen new insomnia aducing murder stories from the true crime 31 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:51.040 Master Michael Benson, including Monster of the Low Country, Born 32 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:55.280 to Raise Hell, The Hollywood Ripper, The Murder of Craig Rideout, 33 00:01:55.799 --> 00:02:01.200 Call Me Daddy, Savage, Waitress King Creep, Dark Stretch of Road, 34 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:07.519 Family of Terror, The Telltale Knot, Vengeance's Mine Breckinridge, and 35 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.080 a Few Thoughts on the Black Dahlia, Dozens of Photos. 36 00:02:11.479 --> 00:02:14.639 An excerpt from the book's final story. It is the 37 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:18.439 most famous American murder case not involving a celebrity, a 38 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.280 crime so horrible that it changed the tone of an 39 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:26.039 entire city. Before throughout Los Angeles, women routinely walked home 40 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:30.080 alone after they required escorts and all because of the 41 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.560 mind boggingly bizarre ordeal of Elizabeth Short. The Black Dahlia, 42 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.199 a celebrity only in death to twenty two year old 43 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:41.560 raven haired beauty as Shobiz Wannabee was found on the 44 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:45.759 morning of January fifteenth, nineteen forty seven. She was naked, 45 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:49.800 severed into two pieces below the rib cage and arranged 46 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:52.560 on the ground like a piece of surreal art. Arms 47 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:55.879 above her head, legs spread, a upper body parallel but 48 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.080 to the side of her lower body. Our sardonicus smile 49 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.039 carved into her face with a knife and portions of 50 00:03:02.080 --> 00:03:04.759 a breast and a thigh cut out. The missing piece 51 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:07.439 of a thigh flesh was found inserted in her rectum. 52 00:03:07.879 --> 00:03:11.599 The skin attached to that piece contained a rose tattoo. 53 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.759 She'd been tortured for days, tortured till dead, drained of 54 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.919 blood and dumped no presented at the edge of a 55 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.599 vacant lot, left foot only inches from the sidewalk, hair 56 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:27.280 freshly washed in the Limit Park section of La. The 57 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.919 cause of death was drowning. She drowned on her own blood. 58 00:03:31.240 --> 00:03:35.199 The book that we're featuring this evening is Dark Roses thirteen, 59 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:39.280 horrific True Stories with my special guest, journalist and author 60 00:03:39.719 --> 00:03:42.560 Michael Benson. Welcome back to the program, and thank you 61 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:45.280 very much for this interview. Michael Benson. Hey, thanks for 62 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.240 having me Dan, thank you, it's always a treat to 63 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:52.479 have you on. And congratulations on this latest It certainly 64 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:57.759 lives up to the name thirteen Horrific True Stories. Let's 65 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:01.960 just start because I gave a basic synopsis. In the synopsis, 66 00:04:02.039 --> 00:04:05.680 I gave a sort of the contents of this incredible book. 67 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:10.439 Let's just get you talking about some of the first characters, 68 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.280 some of the first killers and subjects of this book, 69 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:16.639 Monster of the Low Country. Tell us about Steven Stanko 70 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:18.399 and a little bit about this story. 71 00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:22.040 Okay, I have written about psycho killers of all shapes 72 00:04:22.120 --> 00:04:26.240 and sizes, both major genders, but none were more sinister 73 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:29.240 than Steven Stenko, the Monster of the Low Country. He 74 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:32.519 was different from other psychos. He had charisma, he was 75 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:36.079 a social being or he could perfectly imitate one, and 76 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:39.639 he metamorphosed into a pied piper party animal while under 77 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:43.040 torturous stress. He reminded people of Ted Bundy. He had 78 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:46.519 superior social skills, very rare for a cold budded killer. 79 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.319 As a rule, they have no real understanding of compassion. 80 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:53.959 Yet Stanko was observant, and he had emotional mimicry skills 81 00:04:54.040 --> 00:04:56.879 the rival and Oscar winner. He could make friends, pick 82 00:04:56.959 --> 00:05:00.199 up women, command the spotlight, even when he he was 83 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.360 completely desperate and on the run for his life. As 84 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:05.720 a kid, he seemed to have everything going for him. 85 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:08.720 His dad was demanding and impossible to please, but Steven, 86 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:11.240 by all accounts, had a lot going on. He entered 87 00:05:11.319 --> 00:05:15.040 high school tall and good looking, good at sports, baseball, football, 88 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.199 Plus he was smart. His teachers got dreamy i thinking 89 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:20.279 about him. They knew that the boy was going to 90 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:21.560 go far, and they were going to be able to 91 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:23.959 say that they knew him. When Ostenko had it all 92 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:26.439 mapped out, he was going to join the Air Force Academy. 93 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:28.759 He was going to become a fighter pilot, an astronaut, 94 00:05:28.839 --> 00:05:31.199 and then president in the United States, and he had 95 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:33.439 to drive to do it. His father had seen to that, 96 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.759 But then something went bad. When he was fifteen, his 97 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:40.879 older brother died in a suspicious fire, and Stephen thought, 98 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.079 like in a battlefield promotion, he would move up a 99 00:05:44.199 --> 00:05:46.920 notch in his father's estimation, but it didn't work out 100 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:49.800 that way. Dad seemed to hold Stephen responsible for his 101 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:53.079 brother's death, and Steven fell apart. Instead of schoolwork, he 102 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.000 worked on schemes, convoluted plots, get rich schemes, things like that. 103 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.040 He took the SAT exam, didn't do that great. I 104 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:02.639 was rejected by the Air Force Academy. So when high 105 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.680 school was over, instead of becoming a fighter pilot and 106 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.319 astronaut and president of the United States, he took a 107 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:10.120 couple of courses at a community college, skipped class, and 108 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.439 started stealing cars. He became a full fledged con man. 109 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:16.360 He could tell lies for weeks without betraying himself, but 110 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:19.319 when his lives were exposed, he was cornered by reality. 111 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.879 He lashed out with violence real doctor Jekyl mister Hyde type. 112 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.360 First time came in nineteen ninety six when he tried 113 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:28.120 to kill his longtime girlfriend Liz. The attack sent him 114 00:06:28.120 --> 00:06:31.639 to prison for eight years, and like many psychopaths, Stanko 115 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:35.240 functioned better in jail. Lack of freedom helped him focus, 116 00:06:35.519 --> 00:06:38.240 and he wrote a book about life in prison while 117 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.800 he was in prison. He got it published while incarcerated, 118 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:44.879 and he was released a better man than he went in. 119 00:06:45.240 --> 00:06:47.920 He became out a published author, and he immediately planned 120 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:50.040 to write a second book, a sort of encyclopedia of 121 00:06:50.199 --> 00:06:52.240 serial killers, which, as it turned out, was more of 122 00:06:52.279 --> 00:06:54.639 a book about how to become a serial killer. Yeah. 123 00:06:54.759 --> 00:06:57.120 To help with his research, he found a beautiful librarian 124 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.439 named Laura Ling in the low country of South care Carolina, 125 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:03.199 but divorce, living in a tiny house with her teenage 126 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:07.279 daughter now free outside of prison, Stanko couldn't write a book. 127 00:07:07.560 --> 00:07:09.600 He could only count people out of money, and again 128 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.079 he lied until he painted himself into a corner, and 129 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.360 this time when mister Hyde came out, he came out 130 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:18.120 big time. He raped his girlfriend's teenage daughter and then 131 00:07:18.279 --> 00:07:20.920 forced the girl to watch as he beat her mother 132 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:24.399 to death. He then slipped the girl's throat, calmly took 133 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.839 a shower, and then left, stealing the librarian's car. But 134 00:07:27.959 --> 00:07:30.839 what he didn't know was that the teenager had survived 135 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.759 and it managed to call nine to one one reporting 136 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:37.319 that her attacker was Stephen Stanko. Police were on his 137 00:07:37.439 --> 00:07:41.040 trail in minutes, so Steiko drives to another friend's trailer home. 138 00:07:41.079 --> 00:07:43.399 An older man named Henry Lee Turner tells Henry that 139 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.800 his dad has just died. He needs someone to talk to. 140 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.439 Turner's the shirt come out in so, while Turner's shaving, 141 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:52.079 Stanko shoots him to death with his own gun. He 142 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:55.680 leaves laure Ling's car parked at Turner's trailer, takes Turner's 143 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.040 pickup truck and heads off, and he decides to hide 144 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.879 out in the open. He drove to Augusta, Georgia, where 145 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.240 the Master's tournament was underway. Golf tournament Tiger Wood's in 146 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.639 the lead, but it was a tournament plagued by rain, 147 00:08:08.079 --> 00:08:10.439 causing the bars of Augusta to be filled with people. 148 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:12.560 So Stanko put on a golf shirt a pair of 149 00:08:12.639 --> 00:08:15.279 cargo shorts, and it didn't matter how often they showed 150 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:19.120 his photo on TV. He blended at least for a while. Yeah, 151 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:22.920 he bar hopped, conspicuously, spent money, met a woman he 152 00:08:23.079 --> 00:08:25.279 was invited home to sleep on her couch because he'd 153 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.560 been drinking. I went to church with her and her 154 00:08:27.639 --> 00:08:30.199 parents the next morning, and then he went alone to 155 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:32.559 a mall to get breakfast in a diner. And as 156 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.440 he did this, the girl he had met the previous 157 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:36.480 night got a call from her mother saying that Steve 158 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:39.240 the guy in church was wanted for murder at his 159 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:41.399 picture in the newspaper, so they called the police and 160 00:08:41.480 --> 00:08:44.200 Stanko was arrested coming out of the diner. So is 161 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.120 Stephen Christopher Stanko was one of the rare psychopaths who 162 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:50.840 had the looks in charisma to start new relationships with 163 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.000 both men and women and be socially active even as 164 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:56.360 he was running for his life. But the question remains, 165 00:08:56.679 --> 00:09:00.960 did Stephen's brother's suspicious death really oil a golden boy 166 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.679 future or had Stephen been a con artist all along 167 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.320 with the cracks in his schemes only becoming visible following 168 00:09:07.399 --> 00:09:08.240 his brother's death. 169 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:08.879 Yes. 170 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.519 Absolutely, you have the next story born to raise hell 171 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.360 about Richard Speck, and many people are familiar with this 172 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:23.840 story with this one student, nurse Corson Amurreo escaping this 173 00:09:24.080 --> 00:09:28.039 killer Richard Spec by him losing count and her hiding 174 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.799 under a bed. You do include some very very interesting, 175 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:35.039 horrifying information that we talked about just before the program 176 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:36.879 in this story about Richard Spec. 177 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:38.519 Could you just tell us a little. 178 00:09:38.279 --> 00:09:40.919 Bit about the end of this story that again many 179 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:43.799 people might not know of, and before we talk about 180 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:49.720 a very very horrifying story The Hollywood Ripper sure A. 181 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:54.720 Spec was a cover boy for TVs and t R 182 00:09:55.399 --> 00:09:58.440 newspapers and magazines in the summer in nineteen sixty six. 183 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:01.399 His crime was worse than anybody could previously have imagined, 184 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:05.879 and he became part of American nightmare. Richard Speck was 185 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:09.200 America's boogeyman for a while, but he managed to have 186 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:12.840 a second act. He worked his way into our nightmares 187 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:17.200 a second time. So in prison, he temporarily endeared himself 188 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:20.720 to the prison population by rescuing an injured bird and 189 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:23.159 then nursing it back to health, just like in the 190 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:27.200 Hollywood movie The Birdman of Alcatraz. But when Speck was 191 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.639 told that he had to get rid of the bird, 192 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:33.240 instead of releasing it, he threw it into an electric fan, 193 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:35.960 resulting in a storm of feathers and blood, and he 194 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.279 told the guard that he couldn't have the bird, No 195 00:10:38.360 --> 00:10:41.360 one could have the bird. Speck died in nineteen ninety one, 196 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:43.879 his bad heart finally giving out on him. He was 197 00:10:43.960 --> 00:10:47.840 forty nine, but before that he made himself known to 198 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:51.200 us in a hideous manner. There was a videotape released 199 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:56.240 that showed Speck in prison with female breasts the result 200 00:10:56.360 --> 00:11:00.879 of illegal hormone injections he'd gotten in prisoning oral sex 201 00:11:00.919 --> 00:11:03.559 to another inmate. Sort of a sex tape. I guess 202 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.159 he'd called celebrity sex tape in the worst possible way. 203 00:11:06.440 --> 00:11:09.240 And on the tape someone asks Beck why he killed 204 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:12.759 those nurses, and he said it wasn't their night. 205 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:13.639 Yeah. 206 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.799 Tell us about the Hollywood Ripper, a little less known 207 00:11:18.279 --> 00:11:18.919 serial killer. 208 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:21.759 Yeah, well, I think the interesting thing about the Hollywood 209 00:11:21.799 --> 00:11:25.519 Ripper is that it sort of ties into Ashton Kutcher's 210 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:29.759 story rising to start him in Hollywood. Story starts nine 211 00:11:29.840 --> 00:11:33.360 am on a Saturday morning in nineteen ninety three when 212 00:11:33.960 --> 00:11:37.120 Rick Paccaccio puts his dog on Alesia and comes out 213 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.840 to walk and they this is in glen View, Illinois, 214 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:43.440 and he finds his daughter Tricia dead on the front porch. 215 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.120 She'd been murdered and left on the front porch of 216 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:49.159 the house. They tried to figure out who did it. 217 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:53.399 They couldn't find out. The case grew cold, and life 218 00:11:53.480 --> 00:11:56.440 in glen View, Illinois went on a little sadder and 219 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.879 scarier than before. They jump ahead eight years. There's a 220 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:03.600 vicious murder of twenty two year old student model Ashley 221 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:06.639 Lauren ellerin in the Hollywood Hills in a yellow wooden 222 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:09.879 rented bungalowp which I visited. She was less than a 223 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:12.919 year out of school, prettiest girl in her class, and 224 00:12:13.159 --> 00:12:15.440 like thousands of others, every year she went to Hollywood 225 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:18.679 to find fame and fortune, and not for the first 226 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:21.559 time in Hollywood, a beautiful young woman won her greatest 227 00:12:21.639 --> 00:12:24.639 fame and death. The murder scene was on Pinehurst Road 228 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:27.799 and it was discovered on Thursday morning, February twenty second, 229 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.039 two thousand and one. She'd been stabbed the phenomenal forty 230 00:12:31.200 --> 00:12:34.519 seven times. Her throat had been cut so deeply that 231 00:12:34.639 --> 00:12:38.960 she was practically decapitated, and the case gained much publicity 232 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:41.440 by the fact that the night before, actually had been 233 00:12:41.480 --> 00:12:44.200 scheduled to go on a date with actor Ashton Kushcher, 234 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:48.440 who was an initial suspect. He was a star at 235 00:12:48.480 --> 00:12:51.120 the time of the seventies show and he made a 236 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:53.840 couple of movies too, And he told police he'd gone 237 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:55.519 to pick her up the night before, but she didn't 238 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:58.480 answer the door. He peeked in a window and thought 239 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:01.799 he saw wine stains, but he knew he'd been at 240 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:04.279 a party in that house a few weeks earlier and 241 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.279 either been drinking on so he didn't think it was blood. 242 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:11.840 He was quickly exonerated, and again the case grew cold, 243 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:15.840 jumping head another four years. December one, two thousand and five, 244 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:21.240 a woman named Maria Bruno's asleep in her house in Elmonte, California, 245 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.600 and she's the mother of four, recently separated from her husband. 246 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:27.159 And as it turned out, she was in an apartment 247 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.120 house that was supposed to have good security. Dinner no 248 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:31.799 good at all, and intruder climbed in through her kitchen 249 00:13:31.879 --> 00:13:34.720 window and stabbed her to death in her bed. She 250 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.320 probably never woke up. Left alone with his victim, the 251 00:13:38.440 --> 00:13:42.679 killer had fun and mutilated the body, cut open her breast, 252 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:46.399 pulled out her implants. The breasts were removed completely then 253 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:48.799 and one of her nipple was cut off and placed 254 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:53.480 over her mouth, which leads us to Santa Monica, California, 255 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:57.120 and another crime scene. I've walked through it, and I 256 00:13:57.240 --> 00:13:59.080 walked through this one at night, just get an idea 257 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:02.559 of what the alleys for Santa Monica looked like. But 258 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.720 there's a twenty six year old Michelle Murphy, and she 259 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:08.960 was a fighter. She says she went to sleep at 260 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:11.200 about ten thirty, woke up about a half hour later 261 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.200 with a man straddling her, and the next thing she 262 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:16.639 knew she was being stabbed in the chest, the shoulder, 263 00:14:16.679 --> 00:14:19.240 in the arm. She grabbed the knife. Her most severe 264 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.159 cuts were on her hand as she defended herself. Eventually 265 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:24.639 she got a really good boot in kicked him off 266 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:27.799 the bed and he retreated into the other room, and 267 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.080 she started screaming, why are you doing this to me? 268 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:33.879 And he said I'm sorry and left. He had cut 269 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.799 himself during the attack and he just lived on the 270 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:40.639 other side of the alley. So when the police arrived, 271 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:42.559 all they had to do was follow the blood drops 272 00:14:43.039 --> 00:14:46.039 to his house and boom, they had him. And when 273 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.279 they tested his DNA they found bingo. Other cases popped 274 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:53.639 up Maria Bruno, al Manti, Ashley Elleren in the Hollywood Hills. 275 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:56.399 And then they traced his history and found out that 276 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.440 he had been a friend of the brother of Tricia 277 00:14:58.440 --> 00:15:02.120 Paccaccio and Illinois. So they caught themselves a serial killer. 278 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:06.360 And again his name was Michael Garjulo and his la 279 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:10.519 trial was spotlated because Heeshton Kutcher came to testify for 280 00:15:10.639 --> 00:15:12.840 the prosecution, and that was the day that the most 281 00:15:12.879 --> 00:15:13.679 reporters were there. 282 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:19.360 Absolutely, you talk about another story, King Creep, featuring a 283 00:15:19.960 --> 00:15:22.720 Michael King tell us about King Creep. 284 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.799 Wow, this is one of the most disturbing stories in 285 00:15:26.919 --> 00:15:29.799 the book. And I picked the thirteen stories because of 286 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:32.759 their disturbing nature. Book was originally going to be called 287 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:34.919 I Will Show You Monsters, but I didn't like it 288 00:15:34.919 --> 00:15:38.120 because the eye and the title is me and my 289 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:42.840 son is living in la and he was taking some 290 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:47.559 experimental nighttime photography and he took a picture of a 291 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:50.440 rose garden at night, which ended up being the cover 292 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:52.639 of the book, and I said, well, that's it, because 293 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:54.600 you could feel the gloominess coming off the photo in 294 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.120 a way that I thought was unusual. So we call 295 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:00.320 it Dark Roses and the stories themselves, those are the 296 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:04.320 dark roses which grow out of blood soaked soil. King Creep. 297 00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.840 This is about the murder of Denise Amberley in Northport, Florida. 298 00:16:09.480 --> 00:16:12.080 There was a home invasion. She was the young mother 299 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:15.639 of two boys. She was taken to the killer's sex 300 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:19.799 den raped repeatedly and then driven to a secluded spot 301 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:22.320 and shot to death. Now, the case had a particularly 302 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:24.600 sad angle in that Denise, who was the daughter of 303 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.679 a cop and really smart, managed to get a hold 304 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.919 of her abductor's cell phone. She called nine one one 305 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:35.360 and gave a real time account of her predicament. Incredible, 306 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:39.600 and at the same time, fellow motorists who saw Denise 307 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:43.080 in the car in obvious distress called nine one one 308 00:16:43.519 --> 00:16:45.919 and told the location of the car in real time 309 00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:49.320 to the nine one one operator. But as fate would 310 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:52.440 have it, the nine one one operators shift was almost over. 311 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:56.399 She failed to absorb the import of what she was hearing, apparently, 312 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:01.120 and Denise went unsaved. Between the time that Denise was 313 00:17:01.159 --> 00:17:05.039 abducted and when she was killed, police received six nine 314 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:08.319 one one calls, but by the time Michael King's car 315 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.359 was stopped, he was alone and there was blood splatter 316 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.839 on the car. Michael King, King Creep as I call him, 317 00:17:15.319 --> 00:17:17.799 grew up in Michigan was not a terribly bright fellow. 318 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.359 He had for years managed to make a living as 319 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.279 a handyman and a plumber, and for the past couple 320 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:27.079 of years things had been on the downturn for him. 321 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:29.720 In two thousand and eight, when this happened, his life 322 00:17:29.799 --> 00:17:33.319 was a mess. He was thirty seven years old, divorced 323 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.599 with custody of a son. You could no longer afford 324 00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:39.599 dating a series of unusually small blonde women, some of 325 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:42.839 them riddled with dysfunction, but all of them looked younger 326 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:44.880 than they were, and it was getting harder and harder 327 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:47.559 for him to find real work. Who was facing foreclosure 328 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:52.359 on his north Port home. He had already had his 329 00:17:52.440 --> 00:17:54.759 apartment emptied a furniture by one of his exes, So 330 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:57.160 he's angry with the women he dated, all of whom 331 00:17:57.279 --> 00:18:00.839 were diminutive blondes. He was a pervert, and he didn't 332 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:02.759 go out of his way to hide it. He liked 333 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:06.359 pretending his girlfriends were really young and he did not 334 00:18:06.519 --> 00:18:09.200 have a criminal history. But when the monster with him 335 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.680 came out, it came out big time. His financial worries 336 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:15.759 and his girlfriend troubles combined into an intense anger with 337 00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:19.279 a strong sexual component. In an frustration, he decided he 338 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:22.000 was going to steal a woman and take what he wanted. 339 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:24.319 But as it turned out, he stole the wrong woman 340 00:18:24.559 --> 00:18:29.200 by Denise calling nine one one on the killer's phone. Uh, 341 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:30.720 there's no better evidence, is there? 342 00:18:32.279 --> 00:18:32.400 Now? 343 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:36.319 You have a story called a dark stretch of road 344 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:40.720 with someone called Mike. Is it Mike Tyson or tissand 345 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.759 Gary Gary Tyson, Gary, Oh, pardon me sorry anyway. 346 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:47.359 Dark Mike Tyson has enough troubles me. 347 00:18:47.559 --> 00:18:50.720 Yeah, I was gonna say, sure, yes, a dark stretch 348 00:18:50.759 --> 00:18:53.720 of road in it. This is certainly even more horrifying 349 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:55.440 in some of the better known stories. 350 00:18:55.720 --> 00:19:01.200 Yeah, this is terrible. Gary Tyson, his violent escape from 351 00:19:01.279 --> 00:19:05.039 prison and his subsequent run from the law not only 352 00:19:05.079 --> 00:19:06.960 turned out to be his ruin, but the ruin of 353 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:11.920 his entire family. He and his Dorothy had three sons, Donald, 354 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:15.720 Ricky and Raymond. Gary was better at stealing than at working. 355 00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.400 In March nineteen sixty one, he went on a two 356 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:22.799 week crime spreek Hell, bent on making some quick cash, 357 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.559 and in the end he was arrested trying to steal 358 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:29.119 weapons from a local National Guard armory. He had planned 359 00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.880 on smuggling the guns into Mexico to sell, but he 360 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:36.519 was convicted and given a twenty five year sentence. Dorothy 361 00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:39.759 remained completely under his spell and continued to see Gary 362 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:43.200 as a wonderful husband and dedicated father who was a 363 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:47.119 victim of an unjustice and he'd been framed and he 364 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:49.759 was actually a nice man. She told friends and family 365 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:52.920 what a great dad Gary was. He called home every 366 00:19:53.039 --> 00:19:55.200 day to check on their progress and the guide their 367 00:19:55.279 --> 00:19:58.359 lives with his wisdom. And the three boys, who were 368 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:01.240 inseparable growing up not only close in age, but they 369 00:20:01.319 --> 00:20:03.960 felt like they were outsiders in their community due to 370 00:20:04.039 --> 00:20:07.359 the fact that Dad was away. On July nineteen sixty six, 371 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:09.839 it happens to be the same month that Richard Spec 372 00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:13.200 did his thing. Gary was released early, serving only five 373 00:20:13.359 --> 00:20:15.599 of the twenty five years he'd been sentenced to, but 374 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:18.880 he didn't stay out for long. He went back in 375 00:20:19.039 --> 00:20:22.200 for passing a bad check, and while he was being 376 00:20:22.279 --> 00:20:26.119 taken from the court to the prison, he shot and 377 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:29.880 killed correctional officer Jim Steiner, a crime for which he 378 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.039 was sentenced to life in prison. Now Dorothy constantly reminded 379 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:36.920 that her children their father was actually a victim. He 380 00:20:37.039 --> 00:20:40.759 only shot that security guard for self defense, and the 381 00:20:40.880 --> 00:20:43.599 boys grew up thinking that their dad was wonderful, and 382 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:47.200 when he asked them to help him escape from prison, 383 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:49.960 they agreed to do it, and that happened in nineteen 384 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:53.880 seventy eight. Now also escaping with Gary into the US 385 00:20:54.000 --> 00:21:00.559 Southwest and was another hardcore criminal named Brandy Greenwald. Greenoald, 386 00:21:00.880 --> 00:21:04.559 Gary Tyson, and the three brothers went on the lamb 387 00:21:04.680 --> 00:21:08.039 together and the idea was to frequently switch vehicles, stay 388 00:21:08.039 --> 00:21:12.000 ahead of stay ahead of the man. But twice when 389 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:15.359 they switched vehicles, Gary and Greenowald, to the horror of 390 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:19.920 Tyson's sons, killed the owners of the car and their families, 391 00:21:20.480 --> 00:21:24.680 which included a baby and his mother, both shot through 392 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:28.480 the head by Gary tysonredible. So at this point the 393 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.680 boys know that this lifelong delusion they've been living under 394 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.640 the dad's a good guy, has been shattered, but they're 395 00:21:35.680 --> 00:21:38.640 stuck with him, and he arranges its so that he 396 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:40.640 or Greenowald is with one of the boys at all. 397 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:42.920 They're never allowed three of them to be together, and 398 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:46.720 eventually a roadblock does them in. The oldest son is 399 00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:49.839 shot to death. Gary runs off into the desert and 400 00:21:49.960 --> 00:21:54.240 dies of exposure. Every man for himself are his last words? 401 00:21:54.759 --> 00:21:56.640