Cheese for Thought

By: Ariel Ringe Drew & Maggie Brouwers
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  • Hello and welcome to creep street all you ghouls and ghoulettes! We are 3 cheese head best friends from good ol’ Wisconsin who share the same passion for true crime. We hope you enjoy our show and are so happy you’re here. New episodes will drop every week so grab your cloaks and goblets, it’s about to be a doozy.
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  • The Dating Game Killer: Rodney Alcala

    The Dating Game Killer: Rodney Alcala
    Nov 6 2024
    Listener discretion advised. Sensitive topics including: rape, sexual assault of a minor, mutilation and murder. When you think of a game show you think of funny answers, exciting times and unforgettable memories. What do you think you’d do if you got matched with a guy who seems normal at first? What if you found out he enjoyed photography and seemed to have pretty normal life. But what about if he gave you a bad feeling after meeting face to face? What if you found out he’s a serial killer? Join in this week where we discuss Rodney Alcala’s heinous crimes, and how he landed on “The Dating Game” as a convicted rapist. Resources: Alvarado, Francisco. “Who Were Rodney Alcala’s Confirmed Murder Victims?” A&E, 6 May 2024, www.aetv.com/real-crime/alcala-victims (http://www.aetv.com/real-crime/alcala-victims). Cavallier, Andrea. “Rodney Alcala Was a Dating Show Contestant Who Turned out to Be a Serial Killer.” The Independent, Independent Digital News and Media, 24 Oct. 2024, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/woman-of-the-hour-true-story-rodney-alcala-dating-game-netflix-b2633298.html?callback=in&code=NWRJNDLMYMUTMWUYNI0ZY2Q3LTK2ZDQTMDQWODEWYTNJNGVH&state=21fe2e7f510a4c55a4a68c5bc3cacfce (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/woman-of-the-hour-true-story-rodney-alcala-dating-game-netflix-b2633298.html?callback=in&code=NWRJNDLMYMUTMWUYNI0ZY2Q3LTK2ZDQTMDQWODEWYTNJNGVH&state=21fe2e7f510a4c55a4a68c5bc3cacfce). “The Dating Game Killer l 20/20 l PART 2.” YouTube, 9 Jan. 2021, http://youtu.be/V4G1FNFGHXA (http://youtu.be/V4G1FNFGHXA). Dimitropoulos, Stav. “How Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Used Photography to Lure Victims.” A&E, 6 May 2024, www.aetv.com/real-crime/rodney-alcala-dating-game-killer-photography-lure-victims (http://www.aetv.com/real-crime/rodney-alcala-dating-game-killer-photography-lure-victims). Esquivel, Paloma. “For Rodney Alcala Victims’ Families, a Life Sentence.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2010, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-31-la-me-alcala31-2010mar31-story.html (http://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-mar-31-la-me-alcala31-2010mar31-story.html). Karrh, Amanda, et al. “A Close Call: How Serial Killer Rodney Alcala Appeared on ‘The Dating Game’ and Won.” ABC News, ABC News Network, 6 Jan. 2021, abcnews.go.com/US/close-call-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-appeared-dating/story?id=75039197 (http://abcnews.go.com/US/close-call-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-appeared-dating/story?id=75039197). Kettler, Sara, and Tyler Piccotti. “Rodney Alcala: Biography, Serial Killer, The Dating Game Killer.” Rodney Alcala, 18 Oct. 2024, www.biography.com/crime/rodney-alcala (http://www.biography.com/crime/rodney-alcala). Levenson, Michael, and Eduardo Medina. “Rodney Alcala, the ‘dating Game’ Serial Killer, Dies.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 July 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/us/rodney-alcala-dead-dating-game.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/us/rodney-alcala-dead-dating-game.html). Mercuri, Monica. “Who Escaped Rodney Alcala? Where the Survivors of the ‘dating Game Killer’ Are Now.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024, www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2024/10/22/who-escaped-rodney-alcala-where-the-survivors-of-the-dating-game-killer-are-now/ (http://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2024/10/22/who-escaped-rodney-alcala-where-the-survivors-of-the-dating-game-killer-are-now/). Oleksinski, Johnny. “The True Story of How an Active Serial Killer Appeared on ‘The Dating Game.’” New York Post, New York Post, 21 Oct. 2024, nypost.com/2024/10/21/entertainment/how-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-ended-up-on-the-dating-game/ (http://nypost.com/2024/10/21/entertainment/how-serial-killer-rodney-alcala-ended-up-on-the-dating-game/) . Sager, Jessica. “The True Story behind ‘Woman of the Hour’: Inside Serial Killer Rodney Alcala’s Infamous TV Show Appearance - and How He Finally Got Caught.” People.Com , PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2024, people.com/woman-of-the-hour-true-story-8729816 (http://people.com/woman-of-the-hour-true-story-8729816) . Scott, Owen. “Murdered Remembering Ellen Jane Hover: Rodney Alcala Victim Who Was Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr’s Goddaughter.” The US Sun , The US Sun, 19 Oct. 2024, www.the-sun.com/news/12709695/ellen-jane-hover-rodney-alcala-victim-dean-martin-goddaughter/amp/ (http://www.the-sun.com/news/12709695/ellen-jane-hover-rodney-alcala-victim-dean-martin-goddaughter/amp/) . Van Sant, Peter. “Serial Killer Rodney Alcala’s Trail of Murder.” CBS News , CBS Interactive, 2 June 2024, www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-rodney-alcala-the-killing-game/ (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/serial-killer-rodney-alcala-the-killing-game/) . “Woman’s Picture Links Serial Killer to Another Cold Case Slaying.” CBS News , CBS Interactive, www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/...
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  • Halloween Special 2024

    Halloween Special 2024
    Oct 31 2024

    Listener discretion advised: explicit content involving children under the age of 18, including mutilation, sexual abuse, mutilation of dead corpses, rape and assault. Please listen with caution.

    Case #1: A fun and innocent holiday turned bloody and dark. Find out who is arrested for the brutal murder of Sister Tadea Benz, a Catholic Nun murdered on Halloween morning back in 1981. Is who was arrested the person who actually did this heinous crime? What if there is no evidence linking him to the crime scene? Did we execute an innocent man? Let’s talk about it.

    Case #2: Picture this: a halloween afternoon. You’re 16. What are you doing? Are you getting ready for a Halloween party with your friends? Are you passing out candy? What if you came home and found your entire family massacred by someone else in your family…. Tune in to see what unfolds

    Case #3: When you read the words: Ice pick… pliers…screwdriver…sledgehammer. What comes to mind? These may sound like the names of ordinary tools you have scattered throughout your home, but for Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris these tools served a much darker purpose. They used an ice pick, pliers and screw driver as a way to torture and murder their prey. Their usual suspects were young women under the age of 18, some of whom were simply hitchhiking when they became one of the deadly duo’s next victims. Join us this week as we go back to the 1970’s where Bittaker and Norris used the roads of California to hunt their victims and the remote areas of the San Gabriel Mountains as their murder grounds to brutalize, kill and dump the bodies of innocent young women.

    Resources:

    “Halloween Murder Resurrected 30 Years Later.” Https://Www.Newschannel10.Com, 1 Nov. 2011, www.newschannel10.com/story/15894338/halloween-murder-reserected-30-years-later/.

    Hoover, Marc. “Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?” Criminal, 2020, vocal.media/criminal/did-texas-execute-an-innocent-man.

    “Nuns Who Found Sister Tadea Benz Dead in Her... - UPI Archives.” UPI, UPI, 26 Aug. 1982, www.upi.com/Archives/1982/08/26/Nuns-who-found-Sister-Tadea-Benz-dead-in-her/3024399182400/. \\

    Dziemianowicz, Joe. “Ohio Man Targets His Family in ‘Real-Life Horror Story on Halloween.’” Oxygen Official Site, Oxygen, 18 July 2024, www.oxygen.com/homicide-for-the-holidays/crime-news/bj-liske-kills-3-family-members-in-halloween-murders.

    Feehan, Jennifer. “Liske Gets Life for Killing Family.” The Blade, 15 Sept. 2011, www.toledoblade.com/local/courts/2011/09/15/Liske-gets-life-for-deaths-of-3/stories/201109150097.

    Mystique, The. “A Murderous Halloween: The Liske Family Massacre.” Medium, Medium, 18 Nov. 2021, the-mystique.medium.com/a-murderous-halloween-the-liske-family-massacre-7253c5c45de.

    Seeton, Melissa Griffy. “Triple Homicide Suspect Arrested in Carroll County.” Canton Repository, The Repository, 1 Nov. 2010, www.cantonrep.com/story/news/courts/2010/11/01/triple-homicide-suspect-arrested-in/42240434007/.

    Weber, Sarah. “Tragic Timeline: Details Surface on Halloween Family Killings.” Sandusky Register Devon Griffin Returned Home to 7052 N. Ohio 2 on Oct. 31 after Singing in His Sunday Morning Church Service., 22 Nov. 2010, sanduskyregister.com/news/40338/tragic-timeline-details-surface-on-halloween-family-killings/

    Borg, Angela. “Tool Box Killer.” Peacock, 2021.

    Coletta, Sue. “The Toolbox Killers — A True Halloween Nightmare.” Sue Coletta: Inside the Mind of a Crime Writer, 27 Oct. 2017, www.suecoletta.com/toolbox-killers-true-halloween-nightmare/ (http://www.suecoletta.com/toolbox-killers-true-halloween-nightmare/).

    Dziemianowicz, Joe. “Who Are the Toolbox Killers?” Oxygen Official Site, Oxygen, 5 May 2023, www.oxygen.com/the-toolbox-killer/crime-news/who-are-toolbox-killers-lawrence-bittaker-roy-norris?amp (http://www.oxygen.com/the-toolbox-killer/crime-news/who-are-toolbox-killers-lawrence-bittaker-roy-norris?amp)
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  • The Boy in the Box

    The Boy in the Box
    Oct 22 2024

    What would you do if you came across a doll in the forest in a box? What if it wasn’t a doll at all, but a 4 year old’s body that was left in bad shape. What secrets lay with this body? Who is responsible for this? Why did his indemnity take near 7 decades to unmask? His name was Joseph Augustus Zarelli. Join us this week when we dig into his very short life and the conspiracies surrounding it.

    Works cited:

    blinder@pennlive.com (mailto:blinder@pennlive.com), Brian Linder |. “New Details Emerge in Philly’s ‘boy in the Box’ Mystery.” Pennlive, 25 Jan. 2023, www.pennlive.com/news/2023/01/new-details-emerge-in-phillys-boy-in-the-box-mystery.html#:~:text=The%20paper%20said%20Tuesday%20that,so%20many%20questions%20that%20remain (http://www.pennlive.com/news/2023/01/new-details-emerge-in-phillys-boy-in-the-box-mystery.html#:~:text=The%20paper%20said%20Tuesday%20that,so%20many%20questions%20that%20remain).

    Fiallo, Josh, and Danika Fears. “65-Year Mystery Solved as Philly Cops Finally Identify Murdered ‘boy in the Box’ Joseph Augustus Zarelli.” The Daily Beast, The Daily Beast Company, 20 Sept. 2024, www.thedailybeast.com/65-year-mystery-solved-as-philly-cops-finally-identify-murdered-boy-in-the-box-joseph-augustus-zarelli/#:~:text=Zarelli%20was%20never%20reported%20as,remain%20confidential%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Smith (http://www.thedailybeast.com/65-year-mystery-solved-as-philly-cops-finally-identify-murdered-boy-in-the-box-joseph-augustus-zarelli/#:~:text=Zarelli%20was%20never%20reported%20as,remain%20confidential%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Smith) .

    Fraga, Kaleena. “Police Finally Identify the Victim of the Chilling ‘boy in the Box’ Murder after 65 Years.” All That’s Interesting , All That’s Interesting, 21 Feb. 2024, allthatsinteresting.com/boy-in-the-box (http://allthatsinteresting.com/boy-in-the-box) .

    Jason Nark | Wendy Ruderman | Max Marin. “Joseph Augustus Zarelli’s Biological Parents Have Finally Been Identified.” Https://Www.Inquirer.Com (Https://Www.Inquirer.Com), The Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 Jan. 2023, web.archive.org/web/20230120000042/https://www.inquirer.com/news/joseph-augustus-zarelli-parents-relatives-20230119.html (http://web.archive.org/web/20230120000042/https://www.inquirer.com/news/joseph-augustus-zarelli-parents-relatives-20230119.html).

    Morales, Mark, and Dakin Andone. “Philadelphia Police Reveal Identity of Child Found Dead inside a Box 65 Years Ago.” CNN, Cable News Network, 9 Dec. 2022, www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/us/philadelphia-boy-in-box-thursday/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/us/philadelphia-boy-in-box-thursday/index.html).

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    40 mins

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