In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles True Crime Podcast Donnie and Dale discuss Gary Heidnik. Heidnik was an American murderer and serial rapist who kidnapped, tortured and raped six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in a self-dug pit in his basement floor in Philadelphia between 1986 and 1987. He was sentenced to death and executed by lethal injection in July 1999, the last person executed in the state of Pennsylvania as of January 2026. Heidnik later became one of the inspirations for the character of Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb in The Silence of the Lambs.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_M._Heidnik

https://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Heidnik,%20Gary%20-%20fall,%202005.pdf

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15711818/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/19/us/gary-heidnik-pennsylvania-death-penalty-cec

In this this episode of the Crack House Chronicles Donnie and Dale dive in to the murder of Linda Slaten. In 1981, 31-year-old single mother Linda Slaten was found murdered in her Lakeland, Florida apartment. Her sons were asleep just down the hall. For decades, detectives chased every lead — a violent ex-husband, a mysterious boyfriend, even a convicted predator who once lived next door. But the trail always went cold.

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/linda-slaten-murder-joseph-clinton-mills-arrest-lakeland-florida-football-coach/

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/crime/lakeland-man-sentenced-to-life-murder-joseph-mills/67-6c1def69-14a6-4599-9d8b-db23e487cf88

In this episode of the Crack House Chronicles Donnie and Dale have a conversation with Wade Keener. Wade was Jason Crisp's partner when he was brutally murdered in 2014 by Troy Whisnant, Wade fills us in on some of the back story on his employment in law enforcement and his best friend Jason Crisp.

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