Episode 504: Charles Starkweather Part I - One Teddy Bear Please
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The Scourge of Juvenile Delinquency in the Fifties
Serial killing wasn't the big concern in the fifties like it was in the seventies. The twin enemies of the american way of life during that decade were communism, naturally, and juvenile delinquency. A gang of teen age boys in new york city beat one man to death and drowned another, seemingly just for the thrill of it. These two murders in brooklyn led the local press to unimaginatively nickname the group the brooklyn thrill killers.
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