EPISODE · Feb 21, 2025 · 49 MIN
A "Special Place in Hell" Grab Bag
from True Crime Campfire · host True Crime Campfire
We’ve covered some real nasty pieces of work on our show over the years. Dive into true crime for any length of time, and you’re bound to come across plenty of people you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. Or a lit one, even. But even among the rogue’s gallery of devil’s rejects out there, there are some in a league of their own. People so devoid of morals and human empathy that they should really just be shoved in some dank little spider-infested oubliette somewhere and forgotten about, just to protect the rest of us. Today, we’re gonna tell you about two of them.Case 1: Hell's Belle - The Crimes of Melissa PattersonCase 2: Making a Killing - The Story of Mark Barton, the Day Trader KillerJoin Katie and Whitney, plus the hosts of Last Podcast on the Left, Sinisterhood, and Scared to Death, on the very first CRIMEWAVE true crime cruise! Get your fan code now--tickets go on sale February 7: CrimeWaveatSea.com/CAMPFIRESources:Appeals court filings, Patterson v State: https://casetext.com/case/patterson-v-state-2099Investigation Discovery's "Diabolical," episode "The Rich Get Richer"Oxygen's "Snapped," episode "Melissa Patterson"Martin Knell's ObituaryKRGV: https://www.krgv.com/videos/murder-victim-s-only-son-speaks-out-following-conviction/My RGV: https://myrgv.com/local-news/2023/09/23/five-years-later-monica-melissa-patterson-still-claims-innocence-despite-the-evidence/Time magazine: https://time.com/archive/6736072/a-portrait-of-the-killer/New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/shootings-in-atlanta-the-overview-killer-confessed-in-a-letter-spiked-with-rage.htmlWashington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/07/31/killer-wrote-of-fear-hopelessness/af33786a-de37-45cd-9d5f-1098379892dd/South Coast Today: https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/nation-world/1999/07/31/atlanta-shooter-had-been-disgruntled/50508538007/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We’ve covered some real nasty pieces of work on our show over the years. Dive into true crime for any length of time, and you’re bound to come across plenty of people you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. Or a lit one, even. But even among the rogue’s gallery of devil’s rejects out there, there are some in a league of their own. People so devoid of morals and human empathy that they should really just be shoved in some dank little spider-infested oubliette somewhere and forgotten about, just to protect the rest of us. Today, we’re gonna tell you about two of them.Case 1: Hell's Belle - The Crimes of Melissa PattersonCase 2: Making a Killing - The Story of Mark Barton, the Day Trader KillerJoin Katie and Whitney, plus the hosts of Last Podcast on the Left, Sinisterhood, and Scared to Death, on the very first CRIMEWAVE true crime cruise! Get your fan code now--tickets go on sale February 7: CrimeWaveatSea.com/CAMPFIRESources:Appeals court filings, Patterson v State: https://casetext.com/case/patterson-v-state-2099Investigation Discovery's "Diabolical," episode "The Rich Get Richer"Oxygen's "Snapped," episode "Melissa Patterson"Martin Knell's ObituaryKRGV: https://www.krgv.com/videos/murder-victim-s-only-son-speaks-out-following-conviction/My RGV: https://myrgv.com/local-news/2023/09/23/five-years-later-monica-melissa-patterson-still-claims-innocence-despite-the-evidence/Time magazine: https://time.com/archive/6736072/a-portrait-of-the-killer/New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/shootings-in-atlanta-the-overview-killer-confessed-in-a-letter-spiked-with-rage.htmlWashington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/07/31/killer-wrote-of-fear-hopelessness/af33786a-de37-45cd-9d5f-1098379892dd/South Coast Today: https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/nation-world/1999/07/31/atlanta-shooter-had-been-disgruntled/50508538007/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-campfire--4251960/support. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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