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This is Murder Blueprint with retired detective Gary Jenkins, brought
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to you by the Gangland Wire podcast group.
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I was I was working that day. I was working
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the day shifts, and on weekends you have one sergeant
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that covers homicide, robbery, and sex crimes. So I happened
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to be the man that day and the dispatcher called
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and said, we've got a naked white male wearing a
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dog collar and he claims that he's been tortured and
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he just escaped by jumping out a third floor window.
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You probably could tell just when the door cracked open.
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You did not want to go in there and search around.
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I got a feeling it was cluttered from floor to ceiling.
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Well that's a little bit of an exaggeration, but it
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was an extremely cluttered house. It's stunk to high heaven.
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Oh that's horrible. The been there, dog feces everywhere, been
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tracked around, and there was a big old pot in
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the kitchen on the stove that had a turkey carcass
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and it had been there for a few days. And
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then we continue our search throughout the house and a
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short time later, one of the detect he's looked under
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a mattress in one of the other bedrooms, and there's
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an envelope containing polaroid photographs.
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What makes a killer?
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Is it rage?
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Is it revenge? Is it opportunity? Is it obsession? No
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matter what makes the killer, there's always a pattern, a design,
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a blueprint. Investigators learned to recognize these before anyone else.
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I'm Gary Jenkinson. After spending twenty five years as a
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detective with the Kancium As in their police department, I
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learned that many violent crimes don't accidentally happen. Whether it's
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a serial killer, domestic violence, murder, a child abduction, or
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a predator targeting victims, there's almost always a blueprint. The
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challenge is recognizing the pattern before another life is lost.
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You may already know me as the host of Gangland Wire,
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where I've
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spent years interviewing FBI agents, detectives, prosecutors, authors,
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and even former mobsters about organized crime. Now I'm taking
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you beyond organized crime and into the darkest criminal investigations
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I've ever encountered. Welcome to Murder Blueprint. This podcast isn't
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about glamorizing violence. I wanted to bring understanding about how
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by how the defenders think, how investigators identify patterns, and
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how detectives assemble the evidence and build cases for prosecution. Together,
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we'll go behind the crime scene tape and inside the investigation.
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We'll examine serial killers whose crimes spanned years before anyone
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realized they were connected. We'll look at domestic violence cases
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that escalated into murder, kidnappings that became nationwide manhunt, and
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wrongful convictions that allowed violent predators to remain free. You'll
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hear directly from the detectives who worked these investigations, the
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prosecutors who presented the evidence, the forensic experts who uncovered
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crucial clues, and the authors who have spent many years
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researching these extraordinary cases. In our opening episodes will take
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you inside one of Kansas City's most horrifying serial murder investigations,
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as retired detectives explained how they uncovered Bob Burdella's torture chamber,
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documented his chilling torture logs, and identified the victims hidden
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behind hundreds of polaroid photographs. In another episode, we'll examine
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the investigation into Richard Grissom Junior, whose murders of three
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young women terrified suburban can the city. You'll hear from
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the detectives who tracked him down and built the case
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that put him behind bars. In one episode, we'll explore
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how wrongful conviction diverted investigators from the real offender, leaving
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a serial predator free to sexually assault and murder hundreds
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more victims before he was finally identified. We'll examine what
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went wrong, why it happened, and what law enforcement learned
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from these tragic mistakes. Every case has lessons. Sometimes those
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lessons come from brilliant detective work. Sometimes they come from
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systemic failures. Every investigation has something to teach us about
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criminal behavior, victimology, forensic science, and the pursuit of justice.
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If you enjoy true crime that goes beyond headlines and
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popular documentaries, I will give you the stories as told
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by the people who actually investigated these cases.
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We opened to one of the detectives opened up a
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closet and there was a skull sitting in the closet.
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It had had a package of teeth. There was an
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envelope with it, and there was teeth in the envelope.
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Oh wow, that sounded like you could immediately say this
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is a real skull.
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Yeah, although you couldn't. He had several in the house,
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some of them were under glass.
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I'm retired, can say police detective Gary Jenkins, and this
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is murder blueprint because every violent crime follows the pattern,
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and every investigation begins with a blueprint. We just have
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to understand it.