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Episode 531: The Chicago Rippers Part II - Lets Get Into It

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Eddie Sprezzer's Story of the Chicago Police

During the 70s and 80s Chicago cops used cattle prods on suspects, testicles. They would suffocate them with plastic bags or burn them with cigarettes to elicit confessions. But what doesn't wash when it comes to Eddie's story is that he told them about at least two murders that the cops hadn't attached to the ripper at all. And Eddie himself led police to the mausoleum where the body of Lorraine Barrowitz had been undiscovered for over a year.

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