95. Karla Faye Tucker and Danny Garrett: The Pickaxe Murders of Jerry Dean and Deborah Thornton

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12/20/21 • 98 min

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Karla Faye quit school as a little girl and went on the road with her mom. They were rock and roll band groupies and sex workers. After her mother passed away due to abusing drugs, she started to live life on the wild side with bikers and party heavily in her early 20s. Her friend Shawn, estranged wife to a biker named Jerry Dean, introduced Karla to Danny Garrett. They spent days doing hardcore drugs and alcohol. They went to burglarize Jerry Dean but Karla’s anger over a past situation, plus being drugged up, took over her and the robbery quickly turned into a double homicide.
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http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/tucker437.htm
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1054982/chilling-true-story-of-female-killer-who-reached-orgasm-as-she-butchered-her-victims-with-a-pickaxe/
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94. Zendik Arts Farm: Part II

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In part two, I’ll be finishing up the FAQ, you’ll hear Helen read excerpts from her book “Mating in Captivity” and 30 minutes of Wulf Zendik talking to the Zendik community.
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SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zendik_Farm
https://wulfzendik.wordpress.com/
https://litkicks.com/WulfZendik/
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https://www.ic.org/tangled-web-sex-zendik-farm/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wulf_Zendik
https://emeraldimajia.livejournal.com/149140.html#cutid1
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96. Jake Bird: Tacoma, Washington Murders of Bertha and Beverly Kludt

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Jake Bird worked on railroads and took the train everywhere he went. In Tacoma, Washington, Jake was sneaking around the streets and came across an axe in the backyard of Bertha Kludt’s home. What was supposed to be a so-called “easy” robbery turned into major bloodshed...
Later, Jake put a hex on anyone who had a hand in his trial and were not on his side. A handful of those people died within a year or so.
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SOURCES:
https://casetext.com/case/state-v-bird-5/?PHONE_NUMBER_GROUP=P
http://tacomawanews.com/tacoma-news-stories-by-tami-jackson/haunted-tacoma-news/jake-bird-tacoma-ax-and-hex-murderer.html
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/jake_bird_hex/
https://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crimearticle/jake-bird/
https://www.ranker.com/list/jake-bird-hex-facts/jessika-gilbert
https://www.historylink.org/File/7973
https://www.historylink.org/File/7971
https://siouxcityjournal.com/jake-bird/image_f7158bd1-06da-52b6-86be-0c26cb8abc3b.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/bird-jake.htm
http://www.southsoundtalk.com/2016/03/31/jake-bird-tacoma/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Bird
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