#92: The Hair Fetish Serial Killer (Case of Danilo Restivo)

The police had been searching for Shannon for 24 days - a search that would cost taxpayers over $3.2 million.  The police were doing yet another routine search of a house they heard a tiny voice call out “stop it you’re scaring me.” Shivers went down their spine. Where is that coming from? Inside the bed? They looked closer and realized the 9-year-old was underneath the mattress…  They asked her “well where is the man that took you?” She pointed at the bed… Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

15 Aug 20211h 15min

Joe wasn’t your average Joe - he wanted to be someone spectacular. Someone to be feared.  He skipped class, stole cars, carried guns, and even managed to get a girlfriend named Esther. So when he saw the “E” ring he knew he had to have it - to give to his girlfriend.  He leaned over and pulled it off the girl’s lifeless hand. The girl that he and his friends had just murdered.  Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

12 Aug 20211h 26min

After a rough start, Kristin was adjusting well at Cal Poly. She made friends and even took a lifeguard position that required her to get up by 4:20 AM. And then she disappeared.  Nearby, Mary had just rented a new house but the problem was that dang alarm. It would go off every day at 4:20 AM and she didn’t know where it was.  But strangely it wasn’t coming inside the house. But outside. Sounded like it was buried. But who would buy a stopwatch? ' *The podcast “Your Own Backyard” - by Chris Lambert is one of the most heartbreaking, thorough, and well-done podcasts I’ve ever listened to… Please go give it a listen because there’s so much more to this story.  Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

8 Aug 202145min

Did you hear? The upper elite of New York City had a new resident - Clark Rockefeller. You know - from the billionaire Rockefeller family.  He swooped in with his impeccable designer suits, tens of millions worth of art, and his old beat down car. Some might think that to be strange.  But you know what they say - old money never flaunts.  But why did he kidnap his 7-year-old daughter in the middle of the street? And how is he related to the Sohus family murders from 20 years ago? Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

4 Aug 20211h 18min

If you saw Patti & David walk down the street they look like the perfect couple. But those who knew them looked like they had seen a ghost.  The whispers - but David’s wife was only recently murdered. What about the girl that the police found in his doghouse?  And why is the younger sister of his dead wife wearing all of her clothes and jewelry?  Strange things happen in perfect towns.  Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

28 Juli 20211h 30min

You walk into an empty abandoned bank. You walk straight for the vault.  Sure, you know there won’t be anything of value left but you can’t help but try. In there you see a strange sight.  6 giant barrels lined up against the wall. Maybe they’re filled with money? Or maybe it contains the tortured, dismembered, and cannibalized remains of 8 people. Well, go on - open it.  Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

21 Juli 20211h 51min

Wanda was reading a tabloid of “The Perfect Crime.” She couldn’t believe it - how does a family man just viciously murder his entire family in their 19 bedroom mansion? And the worst part is he got away with it and has been on the run for 18 years. At that moment she looked up and saw the killer. Staring back at her. Only it wasn’t John List. It was her new neighbor… or was it? Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

18 Juli 20211h 3min

The investigators arrived at the scene - it was Friday the 13th and the victim had been brutally killed with an axe. The victim suffered over 40 stabs with a 3ft long axe and half of her face was missing.  Was it a gang? A serial killer? It definitely wasn’t the cute little housewife that makes taco salad, takes painting classes, and was headed for church that day - because that would be crazy.  Source Notes: rottenmangopodcast.com

14 Juli 20211h 31min