logo
episode-header-image
Mar 2022
48m 51s

Episode 188: Gary Wayne Puckett, Part 2

Alexis Linkletter, Jac Vanek
About this episode

On September 28th, 1997, a 35 year old woman is viciously attacked in a rest area bathroom in North Dakota. She miraculously survives and provides police with a description of her attacker, who is tracked down within hours. Soon after, authorities realize the attacker is not only a registered sex offender, but also the suspect in multiple Washington state murders. But is the attacker actually responsible for all of the murders? In episode 188, Jac, Alexis, and Billy discuss the crimes of Gary Wayne Puckett and try to figure out if he's a serial killer.

🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon:

patreon.com/thefirstdegree

📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree

🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee

👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree

 

Up next
Today
DEEP DIVE: PSYCHIC MEDIUM JONATHAN MARK
This week on a very special Deep Dive, we are joined by psychic medium Jonathan Mark! We chat with him about why celebrities trust him to do their readings, how he discovered he was different and what he really thinks about the most controversial true crime cases. He is truly a g ... Show More
53m 59s
Yesterday
Episode 372: The Hillside Stranglers, Part 2
The call from Washington changed everything. When Los Angeles detectives learned Kenneth Bianchi had been arrested for a double murder hundreds of miles away, the truth about the Hillside Strangler finally began to surface. But uncovering the killers was only the beginning. In ep ... Show More
52m 21s
Oct 2
DEEP DIVE: BAD WITCH CLUB
It’s officially soooky szn, and what better way to kick it off than with a PROFESSIONAL WITCH! It’s a super special Deep Dive with Sarah Potter: tarot reader, psychic medium, and yes…pro witch. She helps us lean into our own powers to be the baddest witches we can be. 🎟 Catch up ... Show More
48m 10s
Recommended Episodes
Mar 2024
Episode 5: “Grace Doe: Shauna Garber”
With the discovery of a second young female murder victim just over the Missouri border, 20 minutes away from where Dana Stidham’s body was found, a new suspect seems to be playing cat-and-mouse with law enforcement. Phelps drills down and compares the similarities in the cases—a ... Show More
48m 1s
Nov 2019
184: A Sick Twisted Series of Murders - November 4 2019
Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com On November 4th 1998 a man was arrested after walking into a Northern California police station and confessing. When asked what proof he had, to everyone in the stations horror, he pulled a severed b ... Show More
5m 48s
Nov 2021
Homicide at Midtown Marriott // 145
Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women! In October of 2019, an SD Card was found on an Anchorage, Alaska street that contained videos and images of a man murdering an indigenous woman in a hotel room. As more evidence was quickly uncovered, a South African Youtuber was ... Show More
40m 58s
Jan 2022
Episode 179: The Gainesville Ripper Part 3
While awaiting trial, Danny Rolling confesses to the five Ripper murders. He sits down with authorities and explains how he brutally murdered the college students in their own homes. Later, Danny pleads not guilty and a trial date is set, but right before proceedings begin, Danny ... Show More
49m 37s
Mar 2025
Verdict in the roommate murder trial. Mom accused of murder by fire and van. And, actor Dennis Quaid.
Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with Andrea Canning. A verdict in the trial of a North Dakota woman accused of stabbing her roommate to death with a pocket knife nearly 20 years ago. In Michigan a retrial begins for a woman accused of sett ... Show More
29m 23s
Feb 2025
The Au Pair Murders // 479
In February of 2023, a 37-year-old pediatric nurse was stabbed to death inside her suburban Virginia home, alongside a stranger from a dating app. But what appeared to be the scene of a sexual tryst gone terribly wrong quickly changed in the eyes of investigators the more they qu ... Show More
48m 47s
Apr 2025
SERIAL KILLERS: Ed Kemper & Rostov Ripper
During the week of April 14th, 1973, 24-year-old serial killer Edmund Kemper, known as the Co-Ed Killer, brutally murdered his own mother in California. By then, Ed had already killed six young women in Santa Cruz. During the same week in 1992, Russian serial killer Andrei Chikat ... Show More
54m 16s
May 2025
Post Mortem | The Grad Student Murder
48 Hours Correspondent Anne-Marie Green and Producer Murray Weiss discuss the murder of Kevin Jiang, a newly engaged Yale grad student who was gunned down by an unknown attacker in February 2021. They discuss how investigators discovered the unusual connection between Kevin and t ... Show More
24m 10s
May 2022
Episode 197: Marie "Lisa" Peak, Part 2
In December 1975, Lisa Peak helps authorities bring down John Carmody, the head of a sex trafficking extortion ring. By September 1976, Lisa, now 19 years old, is starting to move on with her life. She moves into the dorms for her sophomore year at Wartburg College in Waverly, Io ... Show More
54m 37s
Sep 2024
Talking Dateline: Noises in the Night
Josh Mankiewicz and Andrea Canning discuss Andrea’s episode, “Noises in the Night.” In November 2016, 16-year-old cheerleader Emma Walker was found dead in her Knoxville, Tennessee home. An investigation revealed she was killed by a bullet shot from outside her house that pierced ... Show More
20m 27s