250. Unspeakable Horrors: Gary Heidnik

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Today, we are headed to North Philadelphia. It is March 25, 1987, and police are about to enter a run-down home on North Marshall Street. Even though officers were told what they were about to encounter, there was no way anyone could ever prepare for what they saw. The smell hit them first before they even got into the residence. Officers were gagging as they made their way inside, trying desperately to concentrate on the task at hand. A sign outside the home indicated that it was a place of worship, claiming to be the United Church of the Ministries of God, but it was far from that: it was a severely demented man’s torture chamber.
Join Jen and Cam for this episode of Our True Crime Podcast, “Unspeakable Horrors: Gary Heidnik.”
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Sources:
Davidson, Peter. (2006) Death by Cannibal: Criminals with an Appetite for Murder. Berkley. ISBN 0-425-20741-2
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