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Feb 2025
55m 14s

'Crazy Dave' the Teen Slayer

Eleanor Neale
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Today's episode is on a serial killer known as 'Crazy Dave' - David Edward Maust is known as the teen slayer - and has been compared to both John Wayne Gacy and 'the gay slayer' Colin Ireland.


Trigger Warning: child abuse, mental illness, rape, suicide


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