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Feb 2022
52m 56s

227: The Times Square Killer (Part 1)

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FAM! THIS IS A TWO-PARTER! Part 2 is available RIGHT NOW AND AD-FREE at the $5 level on Patreon as a special bonus. Part 2 will be our regular episode next.
 
Times Square, 1979: fire fighters and police are called to a low budget motel where a room is on fire. What they find is "the motel room from hell"--where two headless and handless torsos have been set ablaze. Investigators begin a frantic search for the killer, Little do they know that his killing spree has just begun and nobody is safe from this madman who is hunting women in America's seediest neighborhood. 

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