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let's stock some true crime [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] the following is taken from letters
written and sent by inmate number 270-896 Joseph Roy Metheny 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 Firsts 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 two 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 three
feet 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 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 moved to animals
when you kill 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 scene 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 three to four feet 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 will 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 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's 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 a forklift operator
but it seems the best thing I ever learned how to do is take the life of another away from
them there were several people that I killed that one might say that I feel bad about
but most of them were 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 Metheny foreign [Music] 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 you had a
feeling that you uh to be lumped into that group you you're more of the old school of thought
the the three number three or more killings yeah and but what I can tell you so if you kill one person
you get put in the category of a 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 Metheny 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 of a woman he had killed when he was a truck driver and 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 can 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 case must be vacated Mr Metheny 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 methany'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 in my view this is the judge's view the real reason the death sentence
was sought in this case is that Mr Metheny 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 wow
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 Metheny 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 that's stupid 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 because 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 along the hall trucker but I want
to give a little further background on Joe Matheny so we have a little insight into who he is and possibly how he
became such an evil monstrous person so we had it we're going to dig a little deeper and see what else we can find
because there is more here let's talk about methany's police record prior to these this attempted rape and the two
murder convictions so methany's criminal record showed nothing more more then you
know nothing more serious than common assault drunk and disorderly conduct and an occasional bar room 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 bar room
fights right um but so the thing here is we don't see anything in his background pointing towards this
you know escalated behavior of this attempted rape in 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 records stated that the
motive for the double homicide was a supposed Turf dispute between rival homeless camps
I didn't know such things existed uh both men both of the Randy's the the victims had been mauled with a
woodcutter's ax that methany kept under a rotting sofa at his Patapsco area camp
ultimately Joe Anthony was acquitted of the murders in Baltimore Circuit Court get this the um the jurors sent the
judge a note during deliberations 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 wanna I wanna hard answer to tell it to me straight judge well you
love me or are 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 Frisch'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 Bethany 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 the 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 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 dollars and it's been reported I haven't been able to figure out which website paid
him 300 but a website offered him three hundred dollars 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 methany'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 pounds and it's not all fat I've been locked up for almost eight 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 because I had 12 law-abiding
jurors that told me so I was only convicted of two murders in one kidnapping for The One That Got Away
I got 50 years for her the first murder I was sentenced to life without parole the second one they gave me the death
penalty I sat on Maryland's death row for three 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 ax under a bridge in South Baltimore I was found not guilty for them because
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 three 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 six-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 six 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 [Music] 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
stinking 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 seven hours I washed up in the river and I cleaned up the crime scene as much as I could
then I left two and a half weeks later I was arrested and charged 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 one 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 taste 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 chain link fence with barbed
wire on top of it there was a stack of wooden pallets next to the fence about 10 feet 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 as 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 because 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 and the bastard that she got hooked up with
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methanine yes not to be confused and not related to the great jazz guitar player
Pat Matheny well after that confession that I just read captain that was posted on the internet
people started calling Joe Metheny 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 Lecter 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 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 the 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 methany's barbecue stand and grab a sandwich and then walk back to the borderline 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 pilots 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 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 four 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 Metheny 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 them 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 later 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 them
the guy saw him 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 is 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 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 Metheny 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 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 maybe he did assault her right you know but just
didn't kill her that one to me that 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
locked I 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 reporting 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 five to six hundred 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 in in the highways of this great country
and I'm scary you're 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 Sun 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 sun was taken from him I wonder if there's any truth to there being a son there is a son uh he
does exist he's alive he's alive now what I think about that confession regarding the homeless man the two women
under the bridge and the man fishing 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 well 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 arrest two and a half 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 dreamed the the 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 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 so many definite evidence or Witnesses of this even better there are some people that
used to work at the same company with Joe yeah and people that used to go to the borderline
bar that not only witnessed this but said they have purchased these sandwiches from Joe
and so you have some of the people that are like no 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 having 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 huh why not why not well have you
seen his crazy face he's got a crazy face you know a heavier set you know Chef oh I don't mind a
heavyset Chef that normally knows what they're doing yeah I don't like a skinny Chef is what I don't like but yeah 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
methany'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 yeah
well my guess is it's a lie right you know 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 used right um but we don't see any indication of that in the findings well it's clear
from his first the the confession about the 12 year old where he is rejected or he feels rejected by a girl or maybe
multiple girls right and 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 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 acceptance from his employers
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 pen pals or
whatever maybe he 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 percent truthful right so it's like you kind of keep that
in the back your head like well there's not Time After Time After Time where you find out that Joe is a is a
liar so I hope for the obviously the victim's sake and then anybody that bought a sandwich that that that
statement is false Joe Metheny was a serial killer that I had never heard of until fairly recently six seven eight
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 certainly won that after reading these stories in 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 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 Metheny's confessions reveal a chilling history of murder and a lack of remorse, raising questions about his mental state and the justice system.

Key points

Joseph Roy Metheny's Confession. Metheny shares chilling details about his first murder at just 15 years old.
The Nature of Evil. A judge describes Metheny as the ultimate characterization of evil.
The Complexity of Justice. Discussion on the absurdities of the justice system regarding serial murder definitions.
The Trial and Acquittal. Metheny's trial lasted one week but was thrown out due to lack of evidence.
Joe Metheny's Confession. Joe Metheny details his gruesome murders and cannibalistic acts.
The Barbecue Stand. Metheny claims to have sold human flesh sandwiches at his barbecue stand.

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Episode quotes

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Joseph Roy Metheny on remorse for his actions

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Tension

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