I Could Murder A Podcast

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The season one finale of I Could Murder A Podcast sees Tom and Ben travel back to the swinging seventies and all the way to Santa Cruz, California. As they look at the disturbingly captivating case of Ed Kemper: The Co-Ed Killer...
The year is 1973, it’s dawn, a six-foot nine-inch shadow silhouettes underneath misty streetlights by a gas station in Pueblo, Colorado. The weary figure of a tall man casts itself back and forward as he paces up and down the rocky roadside. He has inexplicitly just spent the last 48 hours and almost 1500 miles driving nonstop from the seaside town of Santa Cruz, California. Functioning only on the caffeine pills he’s consumed; the giant of a man is close to collapse – physically, emotionally, mentally. He checks his car radio again and again, switching stations back and forth, waiting to hear his story break the news. Nothing is reported, nothing is revealed. His heart still racing, he makes his way into a phone booth. Spilling his heart to the answering detective, his confessions are met with disregard and disbelief. And he is told to call back at a more appropriate hour. Dawn turns to daylight and he makes a second call. This time reaching friend, Detective Jim Connor. The stranger again spills his heart, calling for help and unloading his confessions. In shock, the Santa Cruz Police Department follow up the confessions, bewildered and in disbelief, the “gentle giant” has led them straight to two dead bodies in his house. With many more to follow. “Big Ed” as he is affectionately known in the local police hangout bar, reveals
himself as “The Co-Ed Killer”.
How did Kemper charm and manipulate psychiatrists to discharge him? What drove him to kill his own family members multiple times? Why did he decide to hand himself in? And how was he able to maintain friendships with police officers working the case?
Tune in, and all will be revealed!
Big thanks to voiceover artist Christopher Ragland for our amazing introduction!
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In this week’s episode, Tom and Ben take a very dark and very deep dive (quite literally) into the disturbing case of Josef Fritzl - better known as The Amstetten Monster.
The height of Summer, 1984 – Amstetten, Austria. Children play with disregard as adults unwind in the open, peaceful streets of this small, easy-going little town - not a care in the world; life is good today. Suddenly, whispers gather pace and news moves from person to person, neighbour to neighbour, family to family... that 18-year-old waitress Elisabeth Fritzl has suddenly vanished and gone missing from the family home where she had grown up. Disappeared into thin air amidst the summer blue sky. Her parents, understandably frantic with worry, raise the alarm to the local police. Her mother, Rosemarie, hastily files a missing person’s report, while her father, Josef, thanks concerned friends and neighbours for their sympathy and support. As weeks turn to months without a word from her, everybody starts to fear the worst and the last embers of hope begin to burn out. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, a letter arrives from Elisabeth, claiming she had grown tired of living with her parents under their rules in their house, and decided to run away. Josef, awe-struck and overwhelmed, tells police he has no idea where she has gone, but that she had likely joined a religious cult, something that she had threatened to do many times previously. But the apparently concerned, middle-class father, a respectable salesman and good family man, knew exactly where his daughter was - and it was just a few feet below where the officers and Josef Fritzl were standing...
So how exactly was Fritzl able to build such an elaborate underground cellar dungeon? Was Rosemarie, Fritzl’s doting wife, aware and complicit in the 24 years of abuse her daughter would suffer? What ultimately allowed Elisabeth and her children to escape the basement prison? How was Elisabeth able to mother 7 children without medical or educational support? And are the rumours true about Fritzl and his mother?
Tune in and all will be revealed!
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In Episode 52 of ICMAP, the boys explore the haunting case of “The Girl In The Box” - Colleen Stan.
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Written & Presented by Tom Norris & Ben Carter | @nozzer89 @thisiscarts
Produced & Mixed by Dan Lambert at Boston Sound | @bstnsnd
Edited by Ben Bonsey
Additional research and timelines written by Lauren McKenna-Parker
Additional voiceover by Yolanda Kettle
Artwork & animation by Phil Whitton | @philwhitz
Opening theme by Alfie Indra | @alfieindra
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