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chair grab a beer let's talk some true [Music] [Music] crime [Music] [Applause] the following is taken from letters
written and sent by inmate number 27896 Joseph Roy methany while serving two life sentences without the
possibility of parole you have always asked me if I have any remorse for what I have done
nope I sleep just fine I did most of those sorry pieces of [ __ ] a favor they had one foot in the coffin
and another on a banana peel long before they ran into me the first time I took a life I was
scared shitless I was only 15 years old I had tried to get this little 12-year-old girl to notice me but she
never would school let out for the day and I followed her home I had done this several times
before she would cut through this little patch in the woods well one day her luck ran out for
that was the day that I killed her I experienced a lot of first that day she was my first kill she was also my
first rape I ran up behind her and grabbed her and pulled her into those woods I pushed her on the ground and
told her to take her clothes off she was a little slow so I helped her by ripping
them off I beat and raped her for 2 hours then I stood up to look at what I had done she was holding herself and
crying she was dirty and bloody there was a big rock lying about 3 ft from me I picked it up and started bashing in
her head with it I dug a shallow grave and I buried her and that is where she is resting to
this day that same rock that I killed her with is her headstone that happened back in sep
September of 1970 I used to walk back into those woods many times when I was in the area
just to check on her when I was a kid I used to tear my toys apart just to see what was inside
of them I used to get off on hurting things it started with bugs just seeing what would happen when you pull the legs
or Wings off then I mooved to animals when you kill someone someone it feels like time stops and goes in slow
motion you get excited and the adrenaline starts pumping then when the life drains from
your victim it becomes very quiet and you stand there gazing down at what you have
done reality comes back to you and then you get scared and you don't know what to
do most will run away from the seene the best way to handle the situation is to try and hide the body
until you can take a little time and calm yourself down when it gets dark get a shovel a
couple of trash bags and a bag of lime now dig a hole 3 to 4 ft will work line the bottom of the hole with
trash bags strip the body of all the clothing and jewelry and put that in a trash bag to take with you and throw
away somewhere else far away now take the bag of lime pour some all over the bottom of the hole and then
place the body in the hole now pour the rest of the bag of lime all over the body then take the shovel fill in the
hole your first kill is the hardest anything else after that is like swatting flies and stepping on
bugs you I have no feelings at all yes I was young when I took the life away from that sweet little 12-year-old
redhead girl I was her first and I was her last she's been lying out there in those
woods in a shallow grave cold and naked for 37 years now when I was in the outside world I
would buy Six beers each year and go sit beside her grave and drink them and think about what I had done at that very
spot on September 19th 1970 anyone else would have probably started feeling remorse and would have
probably started crying at that grave but not me every year when I would go out there I would do the same
thing I would relive the murder in my mind and then I would pick up my beer cans and I would go
home that's the big difference between me and people like you I had a lot of bad things happen to
me when I was very young and I learned to block it out over the years but in reality all that did was make me hollow
inside in some ways that's a good thing for when you no longer have a conscience
or the ability to care you don't have emotions or feelings and no one can hurt you anymore
I sure as hell I'm no one special in fact I am damn far from it I'm nothing more than what life has
made me I have made a lot of decisions in my life and it's sad to say most of those decisions were wrong
ones I am not proud of the murders I did out there well to tell you the truth maybe I am a little proud of what I did
I was a hard worker a truck driver forklift operator but it seems the best thing I
ever learned how to do is take the life of another away from them there was several people that I killed that one
might say that I feel bad about but most of them we're living on borrowed time I feel I may have done most of
those drug addicted crack [ __ ] a favor I definitely help them to get off of drugs these are the words of convicted
serial killer Joseph Roy [Music] methany Joseph Roy methany you heard me just describe him
as a serial killer Captain you and I were talking about something the other day I thought it was an interesting
conversation the old school of thought was that to be a serial killer you had to have killed three different people at
three different times kind of the new school of thought is that a serial killer is somebody that kills two people
yeah at two separate times um you had a feeling that you uh to to be lumped into
that group you you're more of the old school of thought the you the three number three or more killings yeah but
but what I can tell you is if you kill one person you get put in the category of real piece of [ __ ] well whether
you're of the school of thought of three or more killings makes a serial killer or two or more right Joe methany kind of
I mean you can't get any closer to three or more than what he did he was convicted of two killings plus an
attempted uh attack that he did on a girl that he got 50 years for the problem with Joe though is he would
confess to many more killings throughout the course of his life and actually you
heard in the first trailer where he talked about a cold case that of a woman he had killed when he was a truck driver
in this last trailer to this show you hear him talk about his first kill of when he was only a teenager himself
killing a 12-year-old girl that he had followed into the woods and pulled her into the woods and this confession
actually hasn't been proven true or false correct uh neither has the confession that he made to killing the
woman when he was a truck driver we'll get back into that in a little bit because where we finished up yesterday
was covering his trials well his second trial he was convicted and as we said he
kind of went crazy telling the jury a bunch of horrible things that that he did to his victims well he gets
sentenced to death in that trial and his lawyer is going to appeal the death sentence that Joe received now this
would be appealed several times and this thing went pretty far up the chain from
my understanding before they overturned his death sentence one of the deciding judges had this to say about overturning
the decision I do agree that the sentence of death in this casee must be vacated Mr methany if the record in the
statement he gave at his sentencing hearing are accurate he is a Serial murderer as such he is the ultimate
characterization of evil there may well be many sincere proponents of the death penalty who would hold a position that
death would be an appropriate penalty for Mr meth's actions the legislature however has not established serial
murder as a death qualified offense in other words a person who commits two or more murders during one incident can be
sentenced to death but a person who commits one murder a month for 12 months before he is apprehended making him a
Serial murderer cannot be sentenced to death death in my view this is the judge's view the real reason the death
sentence was sought in this case is that Mr methany was a heinous serial murder because serial murder is not a death
qualified offense in this state the state of Maryland right the prosecution sought the death penalty on the premise
that Mr methany robbed the victim when he buried the victim's clothing and purse separate from her body this
strategy which was successfully employed by the state in the Circuit Court stretches Maryland's death penalty
statute beyond the scope of intended but what was intended by the legislature well ah yeah but this is the problem is
the justice system you know whether it's in this country or other countries there's some really stupid things there
are um and you know unfortunately that judge has to just uphold the laws in his State as they are created
yeah um and and I think he did that in my opinion in this case as much as I would have liked to have seen you know
I've I've come out on here and said certain people do deserve the death penalty I'm not I'm not saying that I'm
for it at all times but I think this Joe methany is a real monster and I don't know that there's any value in just
holding him somewhere right but it's it's ridiculously stupid right it's stupid to to think that you know oh you
killed two people at one time you deserve the death penalty you killed 400 people in four days one at a time yeah
separate times oh you you just you hey we'll give you five years you know I I don't know it's just ridiculous right
right um I want to give before we go through some of his confessions and some information that
Joe would provide to us cuz I want to look at those and I want you and I to take a look at them and determine which
ones at what times do we think he's telling the truth and at what times do we think that he's lying because you
have a guy here that's been convicted to multiple murders but he would ultimately
go on to confess to like 10 different murders and it's very possible that he has done some or all of these well he
lived a nomadic life and plus he had some nomadic jobs being a Long Hall trucker but I want to give a little
further background on on Joe methany so we have a little insight into who he is and possibly how he became such an evil
monstrous person mhm so we had to we going to dig a little deeper and see what else we can find because there is
more here let's talk about meth's police record prior to these this attempted rape and the two murder convictions so
meth's criminal record showed nothing more than you know nothing more serious than common assault drunk and disorderly
conduct in an occasional barroom fight right common assault on who um I don't have the information on who the
victims of these these uh I bet money some of that is females it's possible but he could also have common assault
charges stemming from barroom fights right um but so the thing here is we don't see
anything in his background pointing towards the this you know escalated behavior of this attempted rape and the
two murders but what is not on his record his record will not show this this is something we have to discuss this is
from an event that took place in 1995 Joe was charged with killing two 33-year-old homeless men this is Randall
Brewer and Randy [ __ ] the court record stated that the motive for the double homicide was a supposed Turf dispute
between rival homeless camps mhm I didn't know such things existed uh both men both of the randies the the victims
had been mauled with a wood Cutter's axe that methany kept under a rotting sofa at his Patapsco area camp ultimately Joe
methany was acquitted of the murders in Baltimore Circuit Court get this the um the jurors sent the judge a note during
deliberation yeah if you like me Circle yes if you don't Circle no I always put a maybe on
there too just in case I want a I want a hard answer tell it to me straight judge do
you love me or you not are you going to take me to the eighth grade dance or not
judge that's what I want to know I would like to go to fr's Big Boy uh the the letter the note that they sent to the
judge during deliberations suggested that they thought that another homeless man other than Joe was responsible for
the killings okay so I bring that up because we were talking about other things that Joe may have confessed to
and if in fact he did the other murders that he's confessing to well methany would later claim that he in fact did
commit these killings that he did kill these two homeless men after a night of drinking beer okay well and we also know
like we said before we know that he was homeless at a time we know he lived in like Tent City so is
it you know that puts him in that kind of community right and was he defending himself or defending him Turf I don't
know I'm not going to give this scumbag any excuses so well I can give you his uh confession to those murders if you'd
like to hear it nah well I just jok I we we need we need to include it in the show um so this is strange though
Captain because where this confession comes from is apparently Joe was paid $300 and it's been reported I haven't
been able to figure out which website paid him $300 but a website offered him $300 to confess to um some other murders
they had they had at some point spoke with him and he had said you know I've killed other people and I'm sure there
was some negotiating going back and forth trying to get this information for their website I found this confession on
multiple websites so I don't know who out of those paid him I'm not going to get into that I think it's weird to be
paying these guys anything when they're locked up anyway yeah but this is Joe meth's words and he says to start out I
will tell you about myself at the present moment which is locked up I am 48 years old I weigh about 450 lbs and
it's not all fat I've been locked up for almost 8 years now but when one has been
sentenced to a couple life sentences without parole time doesn't matter anymore I have no problem with being
locked up for no one put me here but myself and I deserve to be right where I'm at cuz I had 12 law-abiding jurors
that told me so I was only convicted of two murders and one kidnapping for The One That Got
Away I got 50 years for her the first first murder I was sentenced to life without parole the second one they gave
me the death penalty I sat on maryn's death row for 3 years and then they overturned my sentence and gave me
another life without parole and sent me down here for the rest of my life I killed seven people Three Men and four
women two men I chopped up with an axe under a bridge in South Baltimore I was found not guilty for them cuz they
couldn't prove I did it under that same bridge I also killed two women and one man who was fishing who just happened to
be in the wrong place at the wrong time I weighed their bodies down and I put them in that River I showed the police
where I put them about 3 years later but they couldn't find them so they could not charge me for those murders my
murder Rampage started out as Revenge but ended up as a passion for the taste of blood and the overwhelming sense of
power one gets from taking the life of another it started back in July of 1994 I was at work I was a truck driver
I was working overtime this one night then I got off and I went home as I always did but when I opened the door
and turned on the light I noticed that there was nothing there my old lady had taken everything including my son and
left me her leaving was not my problem but she took my 6-year-old son with her she was a crack addict I would have paid
her to get out of my life all she had to do was take my son to my mother's house
and she could have had everything else and be gone I found out about 6 months later she had moved on the other side of
town with some guy that had her selling herself for drugs they got busted and they took my son away from them for
child neglect and child abuse I had no chance of going to social services and trying to get my son back
due to my past criminal record so I took it upon myself with the hatred I had for
these two who had lost my son to go looking for them I had found out from someone that they was living under a
bridge and getting high with some homeless guys who lived under that bridge I went under there looking for
them they were not there but the two homeless guys they got high with were down there they were passed out on some
old ining mattress and that is where I left them except they were dead from being chopped
up that same night I lured a crack addicted woman under the bridge I got her high and I was trying to get
information out of her about where my old lady was she acted like she didn't know so I beat the hell out of her raped
and killed her I put her in some bushes and I went and I lured a second woman down there I did the same to her as the
last one but as I was about to throw her in the bushes with the other one I noticed an old man down by the river
fishing looking back up at me I grabbed a steel pipe that was laying by and I ran down on him and I laid his head wide
open so I put the two girls and him in the river and weighed them down with rocks that was a very busy night for me
five murders within 7 hours I washed up in the river and I cleaned up the crime scene as much as I could
then I left 2 and 1/2 Weeks Later I was arrested in charge with the murders of two men that I had chopped up I spent
close to 18 months in Baltimore City Jail waiting to go to trial the trial lasted 1 week and it was thrown out of
court because of lack of evidence I was free again I went back and I talked to my old boss asked him to give me my old
job back at The Pallet Company there was a little trailer on the property so I told my boss to let me stay there and I
would keep an eye on the place he agreed to this and gave me the keys to the front gate in the main building the
company was on a dead end road and it was very isolated it was perfect for what I wanted to do I lured two women up
to that trailer I killed and butchered their bodies up I cut the meat up and I put it in some Tupperware bowls and then
put it in the freezer I buried the remains in several shallow graves in a little woods behind the company over the
next couple weeks on the weekends I opened up a little open pit beef stand I had real roast beef and pork sandwiches
and why not they were very good the human body tastes very similar to Pork if you mix it together no one can tell
the difference everything was going pretty good until I ran out of my special meat so I lured another woman up
to my trailer I got her in there and I started to rip her clothes off and knocking the hell out of her she was
screaming but there was no one around to hear her except for me and I just kept on laughing at her I turned around for a
split second and that was my mistake for she ran out the door before I could get
to her there was a chainlink fence with Barb Wire on top of it there was a stack of wooden pallets
next to the fence about 10 ft high that woman scaled those pallets like a monkey
and jumped the fence ran down to the main road where some guy picked her up well I knew the cops were
on their way but I didn't run I gathered up her clothing grabbed the keys to the
gate and I went out and opened it soon as I step out of the gate a cop car pulled up and the cop jumped out and
pulled his gun on me and told me to get on the ground and that is where it all came to an end they took me down and
booked me she had told them that I said I was going to kill her like the rest which was true they had me sitting in a
little room down at homicide drilling me and damn near kissing my ass trying to find out what I had done they pulled me
out of City Jail every day for about a month taking me back and forth between the company and the bridge I had them
going crazy at the company digging up the remains cuz I had the remains buried in seven different holes the only thing
I feel bad about in any of this is I didn't get to murder the two I was really after and that's my ex- old lady
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cheers we're talking about Joe methan yes not to be confused and not related to the great jazz guitar
player Pat maeni well after that confession that I just read captain that was posted on the
internet people started calling Joe methany the cannibal killer and I've heard rumor that this other name was
created by Joe himself he started calling himself the real life Hannibal Lector now I want to get into a little
more of an understanding of these sandwiches these quote unquote sandwiches that he claims he was making
using parts of his victim victims mixing with beef and pork and then selling them
to people that he knew mhm that confession was from the internet you know somebody had paid him for that
confession where we get this next bit of information comes from letters that he wrote to a pen pal while he was serving
his sentence his life sentence and these letters he describes this stating that this all took place at or near the
borderline bar that place that we know that he hung out at all the time he stated that he would get his paycheck
cash there every Friday after work and a lot of people would go to the borderline
on Sundays and they would walk over to meth's barbecue stand and grab a sandwich and then walk back to the
Border L Bar eat the sandwich and then wash it down with a beer while watching sports on
TV Joe provided his pen pal with the recipe stating that he would first go out and look for a woman working the
streets of Baltimore he has stated that these types make for the perfect victim as he puts it because no one seems to
care about them they disappear but they are not really missing he pretty much had the same Mo in a lot of these cases
that took place leading up to his eventual capture he would bring the woman back to the trailer late at night
because there was really no one walking through that area his words no one could
hear the woman screaming as he was attacking her other than him which was fine with him because he liked to hear
them scream and like you said before he surrounded the whole trailer with piles and piles of of skids yes of the pallets
so that probably acted as some kind of sound barrier correct he said if he would have enough
energy he would torture the hell out of those women now I'm not going to go into
anywhere near the amount of detail that methany has used to describe the deaths of these poor women right but some of
them he basically according to him took them to the woods and would field dress them like you would a deer or something
that you were hunting for food he would use a hacksaw to remove pieces of meat that he wanted from the the victim he
said that he would only use the backs of the arms and legs he would then take the
meat and he would cut it up put it in a bowl and rinse it real clean then he would fill the bowl with water a cup of
salt and a cup of red wine then let it sit for about 4 hours then wash it one more time then rub it down with a little
pepper and tenderizer he said he would then throw it on the grill with some beef and pork
meat he would mix it with the other meats and then make and sell sandwiches so according to Joe methany
he was not only killing these women but he was chopping them up and selling them
to people he knew at the borderline bar and people that would walk over to his open pit barbecue stand yeah one of the
many um more extravagant let's say uh confessions that this man has made and to kind of put these confessions into
some form into some order so we can look at him we first have the confession of his first kill when he says he's 15
years old and he killed the 12-year-old girl yeah then later he would state that
on from what I could find there was actually three separate confessions where he said that he had picked up a
girl working one of these truck stop lots and had killed her while he was a truck driver then in life we know that
he was married he had his son and he went out looking for his wife who had left him to kill her and ends up finding
these two homeless guys kills the homeless guys and then that same night he kills two girls that are working the
street because he thought maybe they would know where his ex-wife was yeah and then they he has to kill this guy
that's fishing in the river because the guy saw him the guy saw him do do it and
then we know that we have at least the two murders that he was convicted of and the one attack on the girl while he was
living at the trailer and then claiming that he was cutting up the bodies and selling them as
sandwiches so a lot of words coming from this guy and a lot of people have stated
you know what he's just a liar you know he's just he's just a scumbag that killed two women got locked up for life
and then just lied about all this stuff I have some questions here I have some I
have some thoughts and Curiosities as to are all of these lies because a lot of these confessions that we hear from him
that we see from him and mind you some of these were not provided to law enforcement some of these were provided
to pen pals that he acquired while he was in prison or he was paid for him that's
correct but a lot of these are very detailed confessions so I question the validity
of any of them I look at the first one when he talks about his first kill when he's 15 and and the 12-year-old girl
yeah now I didn't I didn't do like some super digging here but looking for somebody to have
gone missing to have been reported missing that was approximately that age in that area
at that time I couldn't find anybody you know that's assuming that Joe's telling us the truth telling us
the truth about the girl's age and about the time yeah I think it's a partial truth you know but if he if he is
telling the truth there's no one that went missing at that time and with it being as he said a 12-year-old girl
12-year-old victim that's somebody that I would assume to have been reported missing rather than some of some of his
later victims in life may have been estranged from their families and never reported
missing so there doesn't seem to be any indication that that in fact is true or his first kill now we do know according
to his confession that he sold to the website according to that confession his first kill was the two homeless men
right so we have him contradicting himself you said something earlier and I think you really keyed in on something
that is that is very apparent here regardless of when this started this murderous Rampage started for Joe
methany he definitely to do the things he has done he has a deep hatred for women maybe a specific kind of woman I
don't know but he definitely has a deep hatred for for women what what point in in his life did this start I'm not
certain I can't say with any certainty what I suspect here Captain is that that first kill that he says that he did to
the 12-year-old girl yeah I wonder if that was just a fantasy yeah that's what I believe I wonder if that was a
something he had fantasized about maybe even to the point where he had targeted a victim or maybe even
followed this girl like he said he had followed her several times just too young to go through with it yeah or or
maybe he did assault her right you know but just didn't kill her that one to me confession comes off to me to be a
fantasy where I do think that we start to see some truths though are where we talk about when he was a long haul
trucker out on out on the road for several days or weeks at a time and he's picking up these girls that are working
these different lots and he's claiming that he's killed them and buried some of them now I could find three confessions
and throughout those three confessions talking about those types of crimes he would have had four
victims one of them would have been a daughter of one of the uh women working the lock mhm here's what I think in
these situations Captain he did later provide names for these people I think that if these people if there were
people that he actually killed in this manner if there were women that he actually killed in this manner he may
have used false names when when later reported this yeah or just didn't know the name my guess is that I'm guessing
that this is probably where his killing may have started and it's it's I have nothing to
base this off of other than a bit of a numbers game you know in 2004 the FBI they they Unleashed their Long Haul
trucker serial killer initiative to the public where they started explaining to us that you know we can come up with
about 5 to 600 different victims that We Believe have been killed by these different serial killer truck drivers
yeah and the FBI stating back in 2004 that there's possibly 200 of these people types of killers out roaming the
interstates and in the highways of this great country and I scary right and I so I'm
just kind of playing a numbers game here I don't know that he killed those four people I don't know that all three of
those confessions are accurate or truth but I think that he's probably trying to tell us that that's probably
where this began for him he probably killed one maybe two women while he was out on the road and then when he came
back here he tried to establish his life back here he had a wife he had a local job where he didn't have to be gone for
weeks at a time yeah he had a son that I don't know how he treated the son but according to his words he seemed to care
about him to the point of at least where he was upset and angered that the son was taken from him I wonder if there's
any truth to their being a son there is a son okay uh uh he does exist he's alive he's alive now what I think about
that confession regarding the homeless men the two women under the bridge and the man fishing mhm I really think he
probably killed those two homeless men I don't know I don't know what to think about the two women under the bridge or
the guy fishing well the other thing too is when you're drinking that much booze
and you're doing that many drugs you know what part of his reality you know was some of this stuff you know
just dreams he had or was or did he black out I mean how much does he actually remember about his existence
right but the reason why I say that I think he killed those two homeless men is you know they had some kind of
evidence to make that that arrest 2 and 1/2 weeks after they were killed yeah it
wasn't enough evidence to make a trial out of it or to bring him to court for it or I'm sorry to get a conviction for
that but later he goes on to confess to it I I think he did it I think there's probably there was proof beforehand and
then later we have him confessing to it he's got nothing to lose he was acquitted he can't be charged with it
again and tried again now the thing with the women and and the guy fishing I've heard from some local people and I don't
forgive me if this is wrong I can only go off of what these people have told me they've told me they would be shocked
that anyone would fish in that River at all right um I know here in Ohio we have
some rivers that nobody would fish in yeah um so three-eyed fish so the some of the local people don't believe
portions of this confession or all of it because of that simple fact the other thing you tapped into something good
there too talking about his mental state is there a chance that in some kind of homicidal rage he killed these two
homeless men and then blacked out and maybe dreamt that that that that he continued to kill I mean you're talking
about he says it would have been five victims in the course of seven or seven and a half hours right which is very
much like American Psycho right so here again I think we have some partial truth
to to his confessions and then these later confessions we know he killed these women um is is there potentially
one or two more that we don't know about I doubt it he seemed to talk a lot he seemed to tell us a lot of maybe even
fake crimes um and he seemed to keep the bodies he seemed to be lazy about the disposal of the bodies is what it
appears to me yeah I think he was just a lazy person in general and the thing for
the sandwiches um so I mean what's interesting here is I question whether or not there was even a stand that he
sold these at but you said that there is there's definite evidence or Witnesses of
this even better there are um some people that used to work at the same company with Joe and
people that used to go to the borderline bar that not only witnessed this but said they have purchased these
sandwiches from Joe ah and so you have some of the people that are like it's all made up he's you know he's he's just
pulling our chain and then you have some people that are like I'm not certain but
I I'm afraid that I probably ate human flesh all right here's what I think so so we do know we
have some proof that the the barbecue stand existed yeah and I was with you I questioned that it have had even existed
at all because if you Google some pictures of Joe methany I'm not buying any food from this guy I don't care I'm
why not why not have you seen his crazy face he's got a crazy you know a heavier
set you know Chef oh I don't mind a heavy set Chef Norm knows what they're doing yeah I don't like a skinny Chef is
what I don't like but I also don't like crazy face Chef anyway I I think that ugly face I
think that he sold the sandwiches as we have the witnesses that say that I think
we have a situation here Captain where his world got very small Joe meth's World got very small he got addicted to
drugs he became hardcore alcoholic and at some point he lived and worked at the same place he walked down the street to
the nearest bar to cash his check and sat on a stool every night in there and when he wasn't in there he was back in
his trailer doing drugs his whole world was that little city block and I think his way at the end to you know all these
people later are going to talk about him oh he's locked up he's arrested oh we he
was nice he was this he was that but in the end Joe can go to all say to all those people or think to himself all
those people I had the last laugh on you yeah I might be locked up I might be serving life in prison I had the last
laugh on you because I sold you sandwiches that had human flesh in them yeah there's not a lot of evidence of
this in the autopsies you're right there has been no statements from law enforcement to back
up his claim or to deny his claim that might just be be protecting the citizens and also protecting the victims as well
my guess is it's a lie right you know and and and I think you know what evidence we have of this is like you
said there's not evidence of such in the autopsies he described how he removed the the the meat quote unquote meat that
he us um but we don't see any indication of that in the findings well it's clear
from his first the confession about the 12-year-old where he is rejected or he feels rejected by a girl or maybe
multiple girls right he probably was rejected later in life by uh women and probably just Society in general and I
think again that shows his hatred maybe his hatred came from his mother I'm I'm not really for sure hatred of women came
from his mother but what I think these confessions and when people are actually now listening to him I feel like that
was you know he knows he's locked away he did have some accept acceptance from his employers mhm um or
co-workers and now that he's in jail other than the inmates nobody really wants to talk to him he seemed like he
had some intelligence so by talking to you know people that run websites or pin Pals or whatever maybe it just felt like
I have to keep giving them something and that's a form of acceptance and that's kind of what they
want so I'm just going to play into that so I get some kind of acceptance that's
how that's my gut feeling on some of the the crazy stuff he talks about but what's really hard to deny is that he
did have certain confessions that were almost 100% truthful right so it's like you kind of keep that in the back of
your head like well there's not Time After Time After Time where you find out that Joe is a is a liar mhm so uh I hope
for the obviously the victim's sake and then anybody that uh bought a sandwich that that that statement is false Joe
methany was a serial killer that I had never heard of until fairly recently 6 seven8 months ago something like that
started looking into his story a while back and even though he was the serial killer that I had never heard of
he's certainly one that after reading these stories and these newspaper articles yeah uh he's certainly one that
I won't forget um and I don't mean that in a good way uh but Joe has passed away um
he did die in prison at the age of 62 last year in August uh he was serving his life sentences in the western
Correctional Institute in Cumberland Maryland uh prison officials found him dead and unresponsive in his cell he was
described by prison officials to be morbidly obese at the time of his death and is believed that he died from a
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December 8th, 1996 - An overweight man picks up a woman from a local bar in southwest Baltimore. He invites her back to his trailer with the promise of drugs and alcohol. She decides to join him. They are only there a short time when he starts making sexual advances toward her. She turns him down. They do some drugs and then his advances became more aggressive. She continues to brush him off and then he attacks her. Somehow she manages to escape and have the man arrested. Just days later this man is arrested again this time for the murder of a young woman. After, he starts talking to investigators about other murders. Tonight we discuss Joe Metheny, his crimes and confessions. Beer of the Week - Duckpin Pale Ale by Union Brewing Garage Grade - 4 out of 5 bottle caps

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Brief Summary

Joseph Roy Methany confesses to multiple murders and cannibalism, raising questions about his psychological state and the justice system's response.

Key points

Thanksgiving Preparations. Prepare for an irresistible Thanksgiving meal at Whole Foods Market.
Joseph Roy Methany's Confession. Inmate Joseph Roy Methany shares chilling details about his first murder.
The Judge's Ruling. A judge vacates Methany's death sentence, citing legal technicalities.
The Arrest. After a failed attempt to kill a woman, Joe Methany is arrested and his confessions unravel.
Joe Methany's Confession. Joe Methany details his gruesome murders and cannibalistic acts, claiming he sold human meat as sandwiches.
The Last Laugh. Joe reflects on his life choices and the irony of his situation.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I sleep just fine.

Joseph Roy Methany on his lack of remorse for his actions.

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Tension

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