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The Blackout Ripper (Bonus Epi)

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Welcome back to Cherry Avenue True Crime Podcast!

I have a bonus mini-episode for you today about the Blackout Killer.

In my next upcoming episode:  The Last Hangman, I will be covering Albert Pierrepoint and the movie made about his career as executioner from 1931 to 1956. During his career he executed somewhere between 435 and 600 people. 200 of those were from war crimes that took place during WWII, such as the Beast of Belsen and Irma Grese.

 Pierrepoint executed many notable murderers in the UK, but one that was not featured in the movie, was Gordon Cummins, aka the Blackout Killer or the Blackout Ripper.

 So for this mini-episode we will go over one of the truly horrible men that Albert Pierrepoint had to encounter during his job as head executioner in 1942.

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Sources for this episode:

Serial Killer Blackout Ripper – Gordon Cummins (murderuk.com)

How the Blackout Ripper killed so horrifically | Daily Mail Online

Albert Pierrepoint – Wikipedia

Gordon Cummins – Wikipedia

Gordon Cummins | Criminal Minds Wiki | Fandom

 

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Different Degrees of Murder

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All New Ad-Free Episode!  Three cases, Three Different sets of murders.  One from 1900, one from 1926, and one from 1978-1993.  Marty Bergen, George Jefferson Hassell, and Robert Spangler.

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Marty Bergen – Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org)    Written by Brian McKenna

Marty Bergen (baseball) Wikipedia

Marty Bergen, Profile (razzball.com)  The Tragedy at Snowball Farm by Paulie Allnuts

George J. Hassell – Parmer County, Texas (genealogytrails.com)

The Case of George J. Hassell — Criminally Intrigued

Wikipedia

https://thisismonsters.com/robert-spangler/

Robert Spangler murdered five members of his own family: Devil Among Us investigates (monstersandcritics.com)

 

 

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Abducted From Home

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Cases where children go missing or are murdered really haunt me.

It’s terrifying when they are missing.  So many horrible scenarios are considered as to how they are being treated or if they are still alive.

When children are found dead after having gone missing, often the parents or other family members are looked into.

Unfortunately, we have seen on many occasions where the parents or one of the parents does indeed turn out to be the one responsible.  Usually, after they had been in the news, tearfully asking for their child, or step-child  to be returned.

Today’s case is a about a little girl who goes missing and when she is found dead authorities look to her parents.  It does not seem to me that her parents were in any way responsible, but you be the judge.

 

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There is a movie about Jaclyn Dowaliby’s case:  Gone In The Night,  1996 TV movie with Shannon Doherty and Kevin Dhillon.  There is a book by the same title

 

For more on Zahra Baker’s story check out the podcast:  Suffer The Little Children Podcast, Episode 38

 

Some sources:

https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/il/david-dowaliby.html

 

https://abc7chicago.com/jaclyn-dowaliby-doawliby-murder-unsolved-case/1338090/

 

https://www.leagle.com/decision/19911825582ne2d124311761

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