Joe Methainy | Morbid | Podcast | Forensic Files

hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is morbid [Music] my bed [Laughter] is it how are you how are you what do
you want to do I want to record Mama today okay that's why we're done yesterday that's what we'll do today
yeah we are on Tick Tock too much that's accurate I think I think everybody relates to that statement yeah or
sentiment if you will I think so I think Tick Tock is everybody's place do you think that it like is like low-key
taking over our brains or something yeah for sure absolutely my brain is [ __ ] crazy anyway somebody take that [ __ ]
over I was gonna take the wheel of my brain to like Tick Tock Take the Wheel Take the Wheel
I went into it far too confidently that's okay we love blind confidence pink squirrely we love it thanks you
know such a supportive partner I try you do a good job I give it a shot at least I'll you know good job you know
it's the beginning of the week we're we're wild we're crazy we're kooky I'm coming off a vacay Bay Bay a vacay not
really I'm coming off of like a long weekend I am coming off of a weekend of many kids birthday parties so yeah that
sounds [ __ ] that's where I am right now I was at Universal this past weekend I was living my life it looked like fun
it was great it was great oh your kids birthday parties and you know they were kids birthday parties that answer is not
that was that but the kids had fun and that's all that matters hell yeah so there's that but I have a case today
that's just really gross oh um this person is a very gross person they usually are they usually are this
one just like it's like it just is a lot here and there's and he's a liar he's one of those that lies a lot about what
he does yeah this guy is definitely a liar um and he also he lies so much that it
was like an interesting to scrape together the facts of his life because he is such a [ __ ] liar so that's good
that gets tough sometimes yeah so Dave and I did our best to make sure that you always do we did our best here but I
think this story is really sad it's another case of um people targeting sex workers and
people that they can they think will not be missed that's nice you know one of those terrible things so we are going to
talk about the case of Joe Matheny I don't know if I know this one I've heard it pronounced Metheny too but I think
it's Metheny that's what I've heard more so I'm gonna go with that one um but he's terrible so
we're going to start you off on December 15 1996. the year that Ash was born yeah
and also the year scream came out I wasn't here yet though you weren't here yet uh well no you were it was December
of 1996. yep you're right I was here wow wow guys I I didn't want to correct you on that
but you were like the world will like I felt I felt compelled to you know because I was in my head I was working
fast here in my head I was like oh December so yeah of that year like I wasn't here yet but so that's the very
tale end so I was like you're smack dab in the middle but I was only like six months so I was oh you didn't really
hear what was going on for sure for sure it's not about me at all so bye but there we go just 1996. um on that day
December 15th Baltimore Police discovered Baltimore Maryland they discovered the body of 23 year old
Kimberly Spicer she had been buried under a trailer on the property of a pallet Factory in the
city's Southwest side uh later that same day police did arrest the suspect Joseph Roy Matheny uh he was
a man who actually lived and worked at the factory at the time he was living on the grounds uh where Spicer's body was
discovered and it didn't take long when they arrested him to suddenly start connecting the dots to other murders of
women in the Baltimore Baltimore area as well I was worried you were going to say
that what's Wild is this is only a fraction of the things that he confessed to oh right here he confessed to a
myriad of awful awful things and do you think all of his confessions are for real no okay I don't which no which is
like a whole other set of gross that like he just came up with these things and was like I did them claimed them
even like they're [ __ ] yeah so let's talk about who Joe Matheny was so you can get an idea of what we're working
with here okay Joseph Roy Matheny was born March 2nd 1955 in Baltimore Maryland he was one of six children he
was born to parents Audra Earl and Gene Matheny I love the name Audra that's a it is a cool name it's just like a cute
name yeah Audra I think one of the girls in um girls next door was named yeah there was an Audra yeah around there for
sure now after he was arrested Joe did claim Joe Matheny claimed that he had been raised in a very abusive home he
had a terrible childhood he was very neglected very abused by his parents and he said that he was like shuffled around
to different homes almost like a foster-like situation by his parents now according to his mother
uh she said that Joe was a very normal boy growing up he was smart he was nice he had a good childhood there wasn't
anything of note if he was neglected she said and this was this was her own words
she said if he was neglected it was his own fault huh which I was like that's that's
questionable that that statement that was weird way to word that weird way to move like if he was neglected as a child
well that was his own fault I feel like that's like that's the exact opposite of
that but she claims none of her children were ever abused they were never placed in
homes I could not find any records and neither could Dave to indicate that he was placed in any kind of homes growing
up like also we couldn't find any reports that said that there was like any phone calls to any social services
or anything like that this was the 50s of course in like the early 60s so keep that in mind but from the sounds of it
he is he is kind of exaggerating uh how bad his childhood was that's what that's
what this seems to be the collective thought one if he has like a pattern of exaggeration that he lies about
everything exactly so that he very much exaggerates a lot about his life so I mean he even claims at one point that he
has a son he doesn't what yeah so weird thing to lie about yeah when he was young for a Time the family lived in
West Virginia um and this is where Joe's father worked as a laborer and he ended he at first he
was the only income for the family which especially of the time period that is very common yeah but unfortunately when
Joe was only six years old his father died in a car accident oh man uh yeah and it was in Terra Ulta I believe West
Virginia now obviously the entire family this is six children a lot of kids to provide yeah and like obviously the
emotional toll was outrageous they're all reeling after the loss of their father who by all accounts he he claimed
mostly his mom with the abuse stuff like he didn't really claim it like he claimed it against all of them but like
it seemed like that he was just like a working hard kind of guy like took care of his family the father yeah yeah so
like they all were really devastated by it so while also dealing with this emotional toll and with grieving their
father um Audrey Matheny the mom had to now start working full-time just to support
all six of these kids out of nowhere you know like a very sudden switch and everything so see that's kind of to me
him being shuffled around to different homes yeah different people probably watched him all provided for the family
that's what it probably is it was probably that kind of thing because she worked as a waitress she was a delivery
driver for like a food service she was a bartender she would take any job it seemed like she was really like working
her ass off to keep this family afloat yeah and although they you know it's they all agree they weren't able to
afford anything you know that we may take for granted most of us like very like even the smallest of luxuries yeah
she kept her family afloat during this time they were able to pay their bills and she she was able to feed her
children and that's like the most important thing so they weren't neglected in that way and she was quoted
as saying it was very hard on me I had to work to support the family and I did everything I could to keep my kids
together yeah and so not only did she lose her husband which like like I can't imagine right there then
you have to leave all your kids who you're used to being home with yeah and work your ass off yeah and now they are
going to be shuffled around to different people babysitting them or them taking care of the little ones like right at
least you know it sounds like she at least tried to support this family as best she could yeah that's a lot on your
plate now again by most accounts like neighbors friends all that he had a very normal childhood they all
say that they're like this wasn't like a crazy family that everybody was like what's going on there yeah he was a good
student in reality like you didn't struggle in school he stayed out of trouble yeah wasn't his Troublemaker
didn't get in trouble the police didn't get in trouble with teachers that's interesting yeah none of that he was a
relatively average kid just nothing of note nothing nothing of note poorly and nothing of note like spectacularly yeah
um in Joe's version of the story though he says that he made it only to eighth grade and then he dropped out and he
received his high school equivalency and that's not true it's not true he has a diploma yeah he did he made it through
school like what and when he turned 18 in 1973 he joined the army and his mom is like oh yeah he did he joined the
army and he was stationed in Germany but Joe says that he was sent straight to Vietnam in the final years of the war
and then he spent nearly two years studying physics and serving in the artillery unit and then that it was
during this time that he claims he this is when he began struggling with a heroin addiction okay now this is untrue
like the the service yeah he did not go to Vietnam but yeah all accounts nobody can can say that but I again I don't
know why he says this like it's just like you served that's impressive like why are you trying to make it something
it's not you know but either way this was a lie and Joe's time in the military though like no matter
what it was definitely took a toll on him and on his relationship with his family yeah
um and it actually really common yeah and if this was actually when he was done with the service it was actually
the beginning of a 10-year like period where he didn't speak to his mother oh wow yeah like his mother and
him did not speak so that is interesting so that's that that's the thing there's
things there that we don't know we don't know what happened there by all accounts
it wasn't a wildly outwardly abusive home but no one ever knows what's going on no behind closed doors you look at
any of these things and it's like you can find out horrible stories and be like what that just passed by that house
it looks like a normal house oh yeah like I don't hear anything I don't see anything totally so
who knows either he lies a lot so I'm sure it's an amalgamation of lies and truths yeah he sounds like pathological
um but during his trial later when he was arrested for his crimes he actually told his attorney and the investigators
that both of his parents were dead but then a reporter tracked down his mom and she was alive what so yeah
um and he said after after um he was arrested in 1996 his mom actually said he just kept drifting further and
further away from me which could be a number of reasons you know now it's unclear exactly when he returned to
Baltimore Maryland from West Virginia but he was arrested by Baltimore Police in April 1988 for drug possession so he
did struggle with addiction okay um he was found guilty for that he was fined a hundred dollars the arrest for
possession kind of shows the beginning of this very consistent struggle with addiction and legal troubles that we see
in his life from here on out he seems to be in a constant state of struggling with this
um in 1988 he began working for Joe Stein and Sons which was a company that makes and sells wooden pallets
um his employment history was never really consistent he was a truck driver at one point like there was a lot of
different things he would kind of disappear for long periods of times from this job but
Stein and Sons the owners of this Pallet company they liked him they had a soft spot and they always were willing to
hire him back every time he left there's always that one and have you ever like worked somewhere where that's been the
case and you're like how does this person get away with what they get away with and I come in late and I get like
reamed the [ __ ] out but there's always that person that they just have a soft spot for yeah that this was Joe and this
is what's wild about him because when you read about him and what he's done and things he said and his confessions
he's a [ __ ] monster a monster to the highest order was he able to just like turn something on do you think that's
something I have no idea what his deal is and I can't even begin to to speculate on it because I have no
[ __ ] clue because people liked him yeah he was a likable guy in his social relationships for the most part and in
his like workplaces people liked him like these people hired him back all the time right they weren't thinking he was
some awful guy and being like oh we're just because if he was acting out there then they would just be like cool like
it's easy to be rid of him no if he just leaves we can be like we can't hire you
back you just left right but it's very strange but he would show back up to Stein and Sons looking for work
and they would just hire him back and actually later after he was arrested later one of the co-workers there said
he was a joy just kidding and carrying on he made the day pass by wow so he's one of those guys that you're literally
like you made my day pass by like you look forward to working with him which is like
on the other side of the planet to what he says and does that's so weird on his other like side of him but that's the
thing it's like I always think of that that um Ted Bundy thing where he's like acting totally like regular in corn and
it's just like and then see the switch and you see the eyes go like animalistic these people that do these kind of
things they can switch it that's and that's how they find their victims you know so scary because they charm their
victims into like unsafe situation or a yeah a situation where they can get them
it's true but also because he was constantly struggling with addiction in his work history was in flux all the
time so was his housing status he never knew where he was going to stay right he
never could keep something for a long period of time he would sleep on Friends couches a lot
stay at a lot of shelters a lot of like encampments like anywhere he could and he did have a lot of people who would
take him in because of his personality and it was usually and this was around the Baltimore area and at the time of
his arrest he was actually living in that small trailer on the Stein and Sons property the one where Kimberly Spicer
was found oh wow so he was living on the property of where he was working because
they were allowing him to and that's what he did yeah and apparently it was so like it was the situation he was in
where um he quote ran an extension cord from the Stein's main building to power his stereo television and air
conditioner so that's what like Dire Straits his situation was in wow now well the owners of Stein Stein and Sons
may have felt comfortable enough to let him literally live on the property they did start to grow a little more
apprehensive of this decision as we went into the mid-1990s so they were letting
him live there for a while like on and off like whenever he needed to once we hit those mid 1990s they were starting
to be like oh I don't know this is when they started noticing a lot of changes in his personality because this was
immediately following his release after a year in jail because he was constantly
in legal trouble for you know drug possession stealing like all that stuff and he had come back to work because
they had allowed him to come back to work after a year in jail and co-workers seemed to think that he he made a very
hard switch in that year in jail he was drinking a lot he was using drugs more often he was he was engaging the work of
sex workers a lot more often like just seeming to be on this like like really different path than he was before like a
spiral yeah before I think it seemed like he was always trying to get to a better place but now it seemed like he
was just fully diving fully into this yeah um and there were other like bizarre changes like that he would do like he
made a 15-foot High barricade around his trailer made of old pallets that's weird
yeah and also like that's not your property you can't do that what are you doing and it wasn't just co-workers that
were you know initially kind of like enamored by his personality and how kind he was which is very strange he made a
lot of friends outside of work like very easily socially he was very much able to
make people like him um according to Connie snow who worked at the South Side Bar in Baltimore where
Matheny often picked up women and actually picked up at least one victim of his she said he was so mannerly
saying thank you and please all the time and he was a regular there and he would
often just be going there to you know have a drink play some pool hang out with people yeah and um Connie Snow's
sister actually ended up being murdered by Matheny in 1996. whoa just to show you
how much he can manipulate wow and how easily she thought he was kind polite never had any reason to worry
about him and her sister ended up being murdered by him oh my God yeah that's horrific it's awful so like much of Joe
metheny's personal history and his confession that would later come like I said earlier it's really hard to tell
the facts from his life it sounds like it um by his own confession his criminal history began in 1976 where he said
he unintentionally killed a man during a bar fight in Baltimore okay this killing was followed by the
murder of he said two sex workers in 1988 and 1989. now you can find some stories that connect a little bit
with these dates and the places the names you can't really connect like it's he didn't know the names so it didn't
it's hard to connect them to him yeah I don't know if they were currently if they were trying to connect them with
actual cases but that's what he claimed later okay and I know they did go back once his confession came and tried to
like identify these cases that he was claiming trying to line them up with real cases right but the first
documented murder committed by Joe Metheny happened February 22nd 1994. okay this is when he killed 28 year old
Tony Lin and Gracia so he prayed on Tony Lynn because she had been struggling with drug addiction
herself and she hadn't been seen by her family since November of the previous year oh man but according to her Father
John she had been trying to get clean in the months leading up to her death like
she was really trying hard like she was doing her better and days after her death police would days after he came
across her excuse me police would find Tony Lynn's body dumped by the side of Interstate 95 in Baltimore when they
examined her unfortunately she had been sexually assaulted stabbed and strangled
oh my God and then he had just dumped her along the interstate that's so [ __ ] up and this is how he saw his
victims it was just like just definitely where I can yeah it's so sad now he waited about four months until he
killed again uh this time it was early July of 1994 and he killed 39 year old Catherine magazineer
um like Tony Lynn Kathy had struggled with drug addiction throughout a lot of her adult life she had had a couple of
arrests on her record and it was mostly for sex work this was in South Baltimore
mainly okay and according to Joe Matheny on the evening of July 2nd or 3rd he met
Catherine or Kathy as people knew her yeah on Baltimore's south side and convinced her to come back to his
trailer on the Stein lot they made a transaction once there he said that they engaged in sex while she was
partially clothed but during his confession he said that um he wouldn't say whether the sex was
consensual or not so that tells me it was not and he also wouldn't say if it was transactional nothing about that so
to me that says it wasn't yeah and if you see his Behavior later yeah with other victims
he's ins he's wildly aggressive wildly aggressive he does not like being told no and I could absolutely see this not
being even a transactional thing yeah which is awful but he said about an hour after they got into the uh trailer
together he said that he had attacked Catherine choking her with his hands until she passed out oh my God once she
had lost Consciousness he put He wrapped an extension cord around her neck and strangled her to death oh my God he then
dragged her body to a wooded area only about 40 feet away from the trailer and buried her in a shallow grave that's so
sad and remember this is a trailer on his work property yeah it's like not even his and then he just buried a
victim's body 40 feet from this trailer and then eventually people are coming to
the trailer yeah now when he came back into the trailer he went through her purse he took
whatever money he could find out of her purse and then he gathered up her clothes and the purse and he took them
to different areas of the woods and buried them in a small hole like several small holes and then he covered those
with dirt and just left now this is like really gross and rough what he does next because he returned to her
body several months later and exhumed her and he told investigators quote I dug it
up and took the head out I just took the head and threw it in a box in the trash
what do you notice that he's referring to it as it yeah that's not her like disgusting
yeah and that's true like took yeah took her head off and through put it in a box and threw it
in the trash months later yeah how [ __ ] up is that and like why what do you want possessed you to do that also I
just looked up a picture of him he is this he's fouliest looking mother yeah he's foul and there's one like luxury
big guy too he is over six feet tall and I think he was like 450 pounds at one point like he's a very like he's an
intimidating guy very intimidating in one of his pictures in prison is like is it the one with his tongue out yes it's
so scary it's really foul like I can't imagine coming across this man when he was like violent yeah it's these must
have been horrible if you look at him up it's ugh like he's just really a gross person especially when you know what
he's done yeah but yeah that's in Le and you were asking like was that true when
investigators exhumed her remains two years later the skull had been taken away from the body and he had left only
the mandible so he'd remove the head from the mandible up and the mandible is like the bottom of your jaw yeah so he
took like the top of her teeth so I mean it's easy I guess when it's skeletal that these does it like it's like easy
to take that part off you know but I was like oh very bizarre I just hate it so now at this point he was kind of
developing a victim type yeah obviously right um but his next ACT deviated from this
because in the summer of 1995 he was living in um kind of like a large informal on
house community and it was under the Hanover Street bridge this is along the banks of the Patapsco River okay in
Maryland um in court documents they they call it quote a lawless Community where knives
axes and other weapons were kept that's terrifying um yeah among the men living in that camp were two 33 year old men
named Randall Randall Brewer and Randy [ __ ] and apparently there was some kind
of dispute between Joe Metheny and these two men and on the evening of August 2nd
he bludgeoned them both to death with a woodcutter's ax oh my God yeah and then He piled the two bodies on an old
mattress in one of the darker parts of camp and just covered them with an old blanket some trash whatever you could
find he is terrifying he's it seems like his temper is outrageous and just like I his
conversation to like grow and grow them the more he does and then it just explodes wow yeah now
obviously he did not hide these victims bodies very well because they were discovered a few days later and he was
arrested and he was tried in a court for the murders but in July 1996 a jury acquitted him of the charges wow because
quote the evidence was not only insufficient it indicated he was not the actual suspect
and after looking at the evidence I guess the jury felt the crimes were actually committed by another man who
lived in that encampment named Cowboy okay and detectives actually found the weapon used in the murder in position
and it was in possession of another man who lived there named Larry Amos um and they said he had actually stolen
that ax from someone and used it to kill another man yeah Larry killed somebody with it and
then had that ax in his possession so when they said Lawless they meant they really meant it like damn so that acts
being in possession of cowboy there and that doesn't really mean anything yeah because it looks like this ax is just
traveling to other people to do awful [ __ ] with so I don't know but they weren't able to
connect him definitively to it which kind of doesn't Shock Me considering like no one
saw it and it could be I mean and that ax is traveling around to everybody and that clearly like people are willing to
kill in that yeah so it's like wow like that who knows if he did it or not but it looks like I think he did because of
what he's done and he claimed to have later and I not that he's not he's a liar so who knows but like considering
what else he is proven to have done I'm not shocked by it wow but um he claims it's a it's just a weird
case he's a weird guy yeah a gross monstrous guy and it's just a weird case this must have been hard to put together
it was because it's like we were trying to figure out like I want to tell you what was reported right and but I want
to make sure you know that like some of this is not real so like some of this and you're gonna hear a very spectacular
claim that has no actual evidence to back it up but it's the thing that is really
um like what everybody looks at for this case when you hear it you might be like
oh okay like I might know what this is I think I know where we're headed because
I saw some pictures yeah that were really untasteful yeah but when he was arrested for good in late 1996 he
claimed that he had murdered those men and he said that he did it because he wanted to steal 300 that one of them was
Roomba to have had at the time now when he was arrested he also confessed to Drowning another man from that same area
near the river but investigators were never able to find a body or connect him to it
but he waited only four more months after his acquittal before he killed again now on the evening of November 11 1996
23 year old Kimberly Spicer got into an argument argument with her mother um and I guess Kimberly had struggled
with drug addiction as well and I think her brother and this is really sad her brother had actually passed away of a
heroin overdose only the previous week oh oh my God and I think that her mother and her were in an argument or a dispute
of some kind while talking about that probably like probably talking about her addiction and her struggles and maybe
that was like a source of contention so they fought and then but she her mother said we would argue a lot like it was it
was a little contentious at that time because of what was happening and she said but and she would leave the house
like storm out of the house but she would always come back yeah and so it wasn't this like wild thing that she
stormed out of the house and she did she said she would always leave but she would always come back and her mom Kathy
Price said that and that night she left the house and went to the South Side Bar
that's where she ran into Joe Matheny now according to Joe mcdaney's confession I want to make sure that you
know this he convinced him to go back to his trailer on the Steins lot for a transactional sex and when they got
there he stabbed her 26 times in the face and neck with a black handled knife oh my God and then he said he wrapped
her body in a red tarp and hit it so he could figure out what to do and did he say what like why all of a sudden he
just decided to stab her that many times I have he doesn't really provide a lot of information about why he does these
things at one point he says he really he just likes killing people it sounds like
it yeah does he say whether or not he's like under the influence at any during any of these things every once in a
while he will I don't think he really uses that as a say it was just something as a reason yeah I think it's just like
incidental if he was wow now two weeks later methaney lured 37 year old Rita Kemper back to his trailer on the night
of December 8th um when they got there he tried to have sex with her and she refused him she
said absolutely not and she had come there just to like hang out she was like you know and they apparently had met
before Rita Kemper and him like they had moved in the same kind of Social Circles a
little bit right so they knew of each other like he knew her and that's really a random person she felt comfortable
going back to his house yeah exactly so she just thought okay I kind of know this guy so like that's fine now but
that night she said and she said like he was like a normal guy like I've never seen him lose his temper I saw him the
way that everybody else saw him which is like this funny guy and like he's just a
jovial guy it's so scary that somebody can present that way and then be this and she actually said his nickname in
the group of friends was Tiny because he's such like a big guy wow and so she referred to him as Tiny when she talked
to him I talked about him and when she testified to a jury later which by the way she gets out of this
um Kemper told the jury that that night she just saw a totally different guy she
said you could see evil in him whatever tiny wanted to do that night he was going to do oh my God now according to
Rita Kemper she genuinely thought she said I believed he was trying to kill me I believe that probably was and he's she
said that he was screaming at her scream all you want I'm going to kill you and bury you in the woods with the other
girls that's what he was saying can you imagine being in that position no and she said in surviving exactly and
she testified saying that after they got to the trailer he slapped her in the face twice and demanded that she take
her pants off was basically going to rape her and somehow he was distracted for just even a second by something and
she managed to open the door and run out the door but he chased her oh my God a huge guy running after you it reminds me
of like Texas Chainsaw Massacre like how Leatherface like runs full speed and it
scares the [ __ ] out of me because he's like this big guy it's the same kind of
thing he chased her caught her and started choking her and dragged her back inside the trailer holy [ __ ] then he
ripped her pants off and was about to sexually assault her but she was able to get out of his grasp and escaped out an
open window whoa and just ran for help holy [ __ ] she is incredible now it's it's pretty unclear whether she
immediately went to police to report this assault or whether like it was investigated sometime later like it's a
little unclear about that okay but methany's clearly escalating violence against
sex workers and people he considered vulnerable um in the Baltimore area was clearly
like at a at the height at this point we got a teetering point and this is when it was going to come to an end because
in an anonymous employee at Stein and Sons called police and said that Joe Matheny quote approached him and told
him that he killed a girl and needed help burying the body dude so they acted on this tip an
investigator searched the area around Joe metheny's trailer on December 15th and that is when they discovered the
body of Kimberly Spicer buried under the trailer because remember Kimberly Spicer
was the one where he had hid her quote unquote until he could figure out what to do right and
it's just like it's like Unthinkable like truly Unthinkable and it was Catherine who was buried 40 feet away
from the trailer right and now he's gone and asked another co-worker to help him
bury Kimberly Spicer's body somewhere but no she was found and so they were able to go into the
trailer as well at this point because they do cause they said search warrant search yeah and so they were able to get
some evidence of a potential crime scene inside as well so the detective in charge of the case Homer Pennington said
quote Furniture had been removed from the suspect's trailer and attempts had been made to clean up blood stains I bet
and they believed that this was definitely the murder site so after they had discovered Kimberly
Spicer's body um that was obviously grounds for an arrest warrant and they arrested him out
and they arrested Joe Matheny and also Joseph Stein the owner of the Stein and Sons Company on suspicion of murder
because they were seen leaving a company Christmas party together that evening oh
so well and it's on his property too exactly [ __ ] so Joe Matheny was charged with first degree murder and was
held without bail and Stein was charged with being an accessory after the fact of homicide and he was suspected of
helping dispose of evidence even the charges against Stein would eventually be dropped pretty shortly
after investigators learned that he was completely unaware of the murders any illegal activities that had taken place
on that property he didn't know about and he wasn't just sort of evidence he did not destroy anything according to
the investigation they found nothing all right no evidence that he had any idea well that's good that he was literally
just trying to help this guy out by letting him live there and he had no idea yeah
um days later though after a search of the property they found a 25 caliber handgun and Stein was
arrested and charged with being a felon in possession of a handgun Lee uh so apparently
he's a felon dating back to 1985 because he was charged and convicted of arson in
1985. so although there's no evidence of him being like a continuous felon of like just constantly committing crime
since then he did do some arson ones he had a 25 caliber handgun on his property
and you're not supposed to be in possession of a handgun as a felon so that's a problem
so that was interesting but once Joe Metheny was charged with murder he was just ready to confess and he seemed very
eager to tell all his stories all the violent crimes he'd supposedly committed over you know two decades at this point
um he provided detectives with details on the murder of Kimberly Spicer and he also confessed to the murders of
Catherine magaziner and Tony Lynn and Gracia and would later lead investigators to Catherine's body less
than 50 feet from where they had discovered Kimberly Spicer which must have been also a little wild for
investigators knowing that they were within 40 feet of another murder victim's body when they found the
Kimberly Spicer and had no idea no idea now and he led them there like eagerly LED them there's pictures yeah
um by the time the interview had concluded Joe Matheny had confessed to a total of between seven and ten murders
he fluctuated including Kim Spicer Catherine magazina Tony leningracia Randall Brewer Randy [ __ ] and a third
man he claimed to have drowned at that encampment that he was staying at and also the man outside the bar in 1976 and
three sex workers he claimed to have picked up on Washington Boulevard in 1988 and 1989. okay he would pull some
of those off sometimes put them back on admit to this many admit to that many throw these ones on like so it really
fluctuated the amount of people but they were really only able to find him at that time that he had definitely
committed uh murder against Kim Kimberly Spicer Catherine magaziner and Tony linen Gracia okay
um in addition to those three murder charges he was also charged with the kidnapping and assault of Rita Kemper a
few weeks earlier right and during his interview detectives asked him whether he had intended to kill Kemper and he
said yeah I don't know I don't really I don't know really what I was going to do
because she got away just like yeah I was gonna kill that human being but I didn't know what I was
gonna do she got away so so I guess okay okay I guess I couldn't like Jesus again
the announcement came as a shock to everyone who knew him like no one was ready to hear that he was this awful
monster it's so scary to think that people could like can turn it on and off so easily yeah another bartender named
Lisa Reynolds who works at a bar or worked at a bar called the borderline bar and restaurant
um it was a restaurant and bar that Matheny went too often to also drink play pool all that stuff yeah she told
reporters everybody liked him he was very friendly and even the lawyer who defended him on
the ax murder charge like the one of uh the two guys in the encampment was like shocked by his confessions was like I
don't know if I believe them like they're they don't line up he said I found him to be very honest and direct
he has a sophisticated sense of humor and he always was very very respectful of me he was never rude or violent
so insane yeah now Joseph Stein's daughter Lisa however had other feelings about him and said I suspected he was
guilty but I wanted to believe he didn't do it it's interesting that it seems like some guys are like he was such a
good guy like there are women that said it there's so yeah because there's Lisa and Connie the two bartenders who were
like she was great right but it is interesting that the daughter was like yeah I saw another side of it yeah well
she's just like I suspect he probably did it but she's also like I hope he didn't yeah because like that sucks
right now after his arrest in the confessions he agreed to lead police to um to Catherine magazineers grave like
what I said before yeah and although he was cooperating with the locations like he was like yes I will lead you to these
bodies he was no help with identifying these women in his first confession he admitted to strangling a sex worker to
death and burying her body near the trailer that's what he said but when they asked her name he said haven't got
a clue and that was Catherine that's so sad yeah do you think maybe because I mean
because of like his constant drug use maybe he didn't no I think he just didn't care you think that's what it was
yes I don't think this can be like I don't even think it's like cloudy like whatever I think he literally just
didn't care like didn't even yeah learn because he's like I haven't got a clue why would I give a [ __ ] about that like
it was said like that like very like why would I have her name like just brushed
it like move on and he's just gross yeah now because this is such a strange case
and was such a strange case at the time they needed some help with the recovery and identification process because he's
not giving them anything and unfortunately he has picked a couple of victims that didn't have direct ties
with their families at the moment so it was hard to identify right so Baltimore investigators called in the assistance
of William Rodriguez who was one of a very small number of board certified forensic anthropologists in the county
or in the country excuse such a cool job it really is and Rodriguez such an important job yeah Rodriguez had also
worked as a medical examiner for the Armed Forces Institute of pathology and had worked on some really high profile
cases where he assisted in identifying like victims of mass casualty cases one of these was the 1994 crash of U.S Air
flight 427 that went down near Pittsburgh those kind of things were mass casualty events happen like that
and people have to be identified I can't imagine imagine the daunting task the pressure of that yeah he also worked on
the case of a crash of Two Black Hawk helicopters during the Iraq War in 1994. wow so he was an expert and he was also
an expert on decomposition and the effects of the natural environment on decomposing human remains like the Body
Farm this was a perfect case for him to be put on because Catherine's remains had been buried and reburied in the
woods for two years because he had exhumed her yeah um so this put the investigators at a
disadvantage when it came to determining what damage was done by methaney and what damage was done by the environment
and natural causes yeah days after the remains were exhumed Rodriguez was able to identify Catherine through dental
records matched to whatever remaining teeth were in the lower mandible that he left he's a rock star and thank goodness
that that lower mandible had teeth right left on him that it was left there because it helped identify her now
Joe metheny's confessions provided investigators with very detailed accounts of the violent sexual assault
and murders that he committed on these women but as they investigated some more of the claims they started to wonder how
much of this is truth and how much of this is exaggerated right they were able to say he is violent he's a violent
monster clearly he's a violent sexual offender he's a violent murderer but then there were other things like this
is where it's going to get kind of wild at one point he told investigators that he'd partially cannibalized some of the
victims and had even served some of these victims remains to patrons of a food stand that
he had mm-hmm he said quote I cut the meat up and put it in some Tupperware bowls then put it in the freezer I
opened up a little open pit beef stand I had real roast beef and pork sandwiches
they were very good the human body taste was very similar to Pork if you mix it together no one can tell the difference
Jesus Christ of course everyone seized onto this part in the Press because who wouldn't why wouldn't that shock
literally everyone but it should be noted here that there is no evidence of him having a sandwich stand of any kind
yeah maybe he did yeah because he wouldn't go it's not like he's awesome you know
everything but I could find nothing that says nobody who said they went to that stand nobody who saw that stand no no
business having to do with that stand nothing who knows right he absolutely could have
is that any sense capable of it but I think this is one of those things that he said to shock people because all of
the victims that were found were intact aside from the mandible being left right that's
what it seems like so I don't he could be trying to say these are the other victims that you can't find the bodies
of and then you would also think that if he was living at least in that trailer at the time they would find evidence of
that yeah that's what I was thinking you know I think it's him lying right because the other thing is he didn't
other than that trailer it doesn't sound like he had a setup home so where was he
really doing exactly where would he have been able to do that exactly so I think
it's just what a fun thing about [ __ ] up lie and I think he said he would have
kept going until Rita Kemper got away like he would have kept going after her and he said and this is like really
gross he said everything was going pretty good until I ran out of my special meat so I lured another [ __ ] up
to my trailer I got her in there and 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 me and I just kept on laughing at her and he's talking about
Rita Kemper and she said he was screaming in her face scream all you want oh my God so that is true that's
like a nightmare now this is how he described her getting away by the way he said I turned around
for a split second and that was my mistake she ran out the door before I could get to her there was an eight foot
chain chain link fence with barbed wire on top of it around the front of the company there was a stack of wooden
pallets next to the fence about 10 feet high that [ __ ] scaled those pallets like a monkey and jumped the fence and
ran down to the main road where some guy in a pickup truck picked her up and took
her to a nearby gas station where they called the cops holy [ __ ] she killed a 10-foot pallet yeah good for her and he
said well I knew the cops were on the way but I didn't run I gathered her up her clothing grabbed the keys to the
gate and went out and opened it soon as I step out 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's where it all came to an end
but that's not how that happened right I was like wait I think I missed that part
exactly that's not how it happened but that was part of his confession also like hey the cops um they can talk to
each other and check each other they know how it happened and he supposedly ended his confession with this very
crass ending he said well that's my story horrible but true so the next time you're riding down the road and you
happen to see an open pit beef stand that you've never seen before make sure you think about this story before you
take a bite of that sandwich sometimes you never know who you may be eating haha Jesus
now within days of his arrest his defense attorney Margaret Mead told reporters I don't know if what the state
is calling a confession is really a confession which makes sense for a defense attorney
to say but also like yeah probably yeah and she said that Matheny was depressed confused and under a lot of medication
when he made that confession and as far as she knew any crimes committed were done quote under the influence of heroin
cocaine or alcohol doesn't mean he didn't murder people you still can't murder people like that doesn't fix that
it's always against the law yeah what's Wild to me about this is she said that then in relation so she said that in
relation to the confessions about the murders of Catherine Tony and Kimberly she said I have no reason not to believe
him that's what she told the later reporters so she said the confession is [ __ ]
but I have no reason to not believe it I don't know if the state what the state is calling a confession is really a
confession and then she said he's depressed confused under a lot of medication we
can't really believe him don't listen to what he says but I don't have any reason
but then she says I have no reason not to believe him and then she said I've always found him to be forthright and
honest so you just [ __ ] yourself ma'am like what like no you literally what I feel
like the defenses that we're talking about lately like some of them I'm just like you wrote that down like yeah like
what then I'm like was that meant to just confuse people maybe it's just like a tactic to confuse people but I'm like
I don't know if you should confuse people like that's just gonna have a mistrial that's not gonna win your case
but she also insisted that methanian assistant he he adamantly denies that Joseph Stein had any knowledge or
participated in any of these crimes okay so he's saying like he had nothing to do
I mean that's also his bro so well and he he constantly allowed him to work stay there so of course he's gonna I
don't know if it doesn't sound like there's any evidence to connect Joseph Stein to any of these crimes it sounds
like he was legally cleared yeah now after working to verify all the claims that he started making in his confession
investigators were pretty confident at least about his confessions to the murders of uh Catherine Kimberly and
Tony Lynn so on January 30th Joe Metheny was indicted for the three killings and
a trial date was set for March of 19 in for in March of 1997. but by the time the arrangement came in March the
detectives have been unable to find any evidence conclusively linking him to the
murder of Tony Lennon Gracia really so they had forced the district attorney Patricia jessamy to drop the charges in
the third murder because they didn't have sufficient evidence even though he confessed to it and he that was he did
not lead them to that body no he did not oh okay okay yeah now despite confessing
to the killings he did plead not guilty to the murders of Catherine and Kimberly
and a trial date for that was set for July 8 1997. okay so now we're only going to be able to get him on the two
that's sad so in a press conference following that arraignment jessamy the district attorney indicated that she
intended to seek the death penalty this would be the first time it was invoked in Maryland since 1993. wow
according to Margaret Mead the uh the defense attorney she said the District Attorney's Office had originally offered
a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of Parole in exchange for a plea of guilty but Margaret Mead
said that was not a reasonable plea guilty yeah she she was not going to allow him to plead guilty okay like okay
she's like yeah let's just go up against the death penalty let's try that okay so
July 8th was not his trial because his attorney petitioned for a change of venue they said quote I think with the
facts of this case it would be better off if this weren't another jurisdiction but don't worry because while he was
awaiting that trial he went on trial for the kidnapping and assault of Rita Kemper in November of 1997. the
prosecution for this case went about it by showing the jury that Metheny was a violent unpredictable Predator who lost
it when Rita Kemper refused his very aggressive advances and they claimed he was had every intent on killing her and
they were 100 right in my opinion absofucking lutely but his defense just said and I quote prosecutors were taking
a simple dispute between Matheny and Kemper and having it blown up to include attempted murder kidnapping and
attempted rape I'm sorry but are you kidding simple [ __ ] dispute ends in me scaling a 10-foot no palette
and then hopping over a barbed wire fence also nothing simple about that he later confesses to it he didn't confess
to it at this point yeah you confess to it later like like he definitely did this he definitely it's exactly how Rita
Kemper said it happened it's how she said it happened and up until the point where he says the cop showed up yeah
on November 17th after a very short deliberation the jury returned a verdict of not guilty in the attempted murder of
Kemper but found him guilty of the assault kidnapping in sexual assault charges and he did get 50 years in
prison for this good this is before he even goes on trial for murder so he's already in there he's
already in there for 50 years holy [ __ ] I'm very interested as to why they didn't find him guilty on the attempted
murder I think maybe they just couldn't get I attempted murder I feel like is one it's a hard one to prove yeah
um this may have led to how they found methaney on Sunday March 22nd in his jail cell this sentence prison guards
found him unconscious and bleeding heavily from a wound to his neck he was transported to the University of
Maryland Medical Center for treatment and he lived I saw that but after multiple delays he finally did go on
trial for this uh Kimberly Spicer murder on April 23 1997 in a bench trial in the
Baltimore Circuit Court also like way to make yourself look guilty yeah like we already know you are yeah exactly the
prosecution's case was pretty much the same kind of thing Matheny was a violent Predator who when refused by any women
just took what he wanted aggressively however he could we see that and they used the confession as some of the most
damning evidence against him and it was played in full for the court that must have been horrible yeah on the tape he
he can be heard saying I killed her I'm a very sick person I need help okay yeah and after that prosecutors
called detective Homer Pennington to the stand and he testified that Matheny was
alert and Cooperative at the time of the interview and gave interviewers every reason to believe he was being truthful
about the murders of Catherine and Kimberly yeah now after the kidnapping and attempted rape and murder trial of
Rita Kemper his defense team probably knew this wasn't going to go their way probs so they went about it by just kind
of mitigating any further in previous damages that they could um Mead told the court that there were
quote mitigating factors in metheny's history like his drug addiction and being raised in a supposedly abusive
households and this led him down a path you know of addiction and violence and the hard relationships with women
basically going on that whole train it's like chica plenty of people grow up in horrible horrible households plenty of
people struggle with addiction and don't murder people exactly after three weeks
of the trial judge Clifton Gordy found methaney guilty of the first degree murder of Kimberly Spicer because she
for went a jury trial he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole and although the
District Attorney's office did want that death penalty judge Gordy said that they
quote had failed to establish that Matheny robbed Spicer or sexually assaulted her while she was alive
either of these things would have made him eligible for the death penalty what a wild world we live in
yeah it's wild to me that like murder doesn't constitute the death penalty alone you have to be sexually assaulted
while you were still alive that's why the death penalty is a wild thing it is weird it's a while I didn't realize that
was part of it it's it's at least in Maryland I guess weird scenario yeah now that the Kimberly Spicer trial was done
and he had been found guilty and got life the trial for Catherine magazina was upon them and the death penalty was
again going to be sought for this one so on September 25th uh Joe Metheny actually chose to rescind his not guilty
plea and entered a guilty plea to the murder of Catherine this time he opted for a jury for the sentencing phase
which is interesting throwing everybody around yeah during the sentencing hearing the prosecution said that Joe
Matheny had committed a capital offense which consummate constituted capital punishment they said he murdered
Catherine stole her clothing in purse and had later buried had buried it on the Stein lot and they provided evidence
they played his initial confession where he not only admitted to murdering Catherine but also said he took her
belongings and later desecrated her body all which was done for quote a sense of
power and because he got a rush out of it and he did say this himself during his confession he said his murder
Rampages started as Revenge he said but ended up as quote a passion for the taste and overwhelming sense of power
that one gets from taking another's life wow yeah after four days of testimony the
jury deliberated for just two hours and then sentenced Joe Matheny to death along with a concurrent sentence of 10
years for the robbery which if they were going by the requirements laid out to them by judge Gordy they were I guess
right with this sentencing um standing before the judge at sentencing he told the jury quote the
words I'm sorry will never come out for they would be a lie I'm more than willing to give up my life for what I've
done to have God judge me and send me to hell for what I've done so he literally said you will never hear
me say I'm sorry because that would just be a lie I'm not sorry wow in a press conference after the
hearing his defense team told reporters that his statement to the jury quote belies his feelings of guilt and
self-hatred but he got what he wanted okay good try good try with that one lie so in 2000 Joe metheny's death sentence
came under mandatory review by the court of appeals that Constitution um and although the justices agreed with
the conviction they said the prosecution had failed to prevent the present sufficient evidence to support the claim
of robbery as an aggravating circumstance deserving a death sentence that's also happening a lot lately in
our cases yeah it is it's a factor but it's not an aggravating yeah it's true that is that's funny now the issue
wasn't whether he had killed and robbed Catherine like the justices were like yes we agree with all that it was if he
robbed her but whether he had murdered the woman in the commission of a robbery yeah which would make that eligible for
death penalty and they reviewed the case and the court determined that he had taken magazineers belongings after
killing her but it was done primarily to get rid of evidence and to take what little cash she had as an afterthought
it wasn't the price Mary thing or like you we were just saying in aggravating circumstance now in the final report
Justice James Smith said Matheny was charged with robbery only because the body and the clothing were found in
different locations another person who had killed their victim but buried the victim in her clothes would not qualify
for the death penalty so as a result all his convictions were upheld but the death sentence was
vacated and this case was sent back to the lower court for re-sentencing which he did end up getting sentenced to life
in prison without the possibility of parole so he was quickly transported to Western Correctional Institution in
Cumberland sweet he later during more confessions would claim he had a six-year-old son with a girlfriend and
one day while he was at work as a truck driver she took him and he never found them and he later
said this girlfriend ran off with another man took their six-year-old son with them eventually the six-year-old
son ended up in Social Service custody because of neglect and abuse and he went off to find them and kill them like the
man and his girlfriend and anyone who got in his way okay so this was his way of being like this is why I did this
revenge and it is confession yeah and in his confession he said he killed three men and four women on his way to this
Revenge he said two men I chopped up with an ax under a bridge in South Baltimore this is because he said they
were two men who did drugs with his old lady and they wouldn't give him any information about her so he killed them
okay he said quote I was found not guilty for them because they couldn't prove I did it he then said under that
same bridge I killed two women and one man who's fishing and just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time
I weighed down their bodies and put them in the river I showed the police where I
put them about three years later but they couldn't find them so they couldn't charge urge me for them he claimed he
was it was a very busy night for him that night five murders in seven hours exactly that's just it up face like yeah
I was like I don't think so I found no record of this man ever having a child by the way yeah no record he can't find
it it sounds like he's just trying to be like I am such a doting father and that's why it did not happen he did not
have a child yeah Joe Matheny does not have a child not one he knew about that's for sure
now on the afternoon of Sunday August 5th 2017. guards at the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland
discovered Joe Matheny unresponsive in his cell around 3 pm he was pronounced dead a short time later and an
investigation was launched to determine the cause and circumstances of his death
but to this day there appears to be no cause of death that has been released to the public
huh no one knows what happened there no we do not it was interesting so that is the Wild and horrifying and disgusting
and confusing story yeah Joe Metheny that was that was a particularly brutal one yeah it's just
upsetting and it's so sad um that one of the victim's mothers was like she always came back that's the
thing like she did leave when we would have an argument but always that's so sad yeah because she probably was just
waiting for her daughter to come back and then she finds out what exactly what happened to her it's like oh my God yeah
so wow that was a really rough it's just a case that makes you feel really gross
afterwards yeah it's just bizarre And the fact I whenever these like people go after people who they deem to be
Unworthy of being missed yeah you know that's when it really is like Ugh it's such an unsettling case too because as
much as he is a liar I do wonder you you just don't know that's the thing that's
the problem is you don't know the bounds of his lies and especially like Albert Fish yeah one especially where he lived
in that community for so long and like yeah you know like there's truths in there yeah like it's not all lies but he
definitely is exaggerating a lot of it I don't believe there's any human meat Burgers anywhere no I don't think so
either you know I don't think that's a thing that's so gross and just I think it was him trying to be like extra gross
well and I think that and him to further terrify people because like every time you go to a [ __ ] meat counter like
think of me it's like his little way of being like I'm the boogeyman you know like uh no I don't even believe in him
no but I hope he's there I hope you're somewhere terrible yeah or something somewhere gross yeah or somewhere really
clean because I think that would stress you out more yeah you know just in like a weird like white cubicle yeah just
nothing with nothing in it and just drive you crazy wow terrible story that was interesting
um I commend you for being able to put that together thank you you're welcome with the help of Dave oh and Dave I
commend Dave always that's my best friend that's my best friend my best friend he's a real bad [ __ ] yeah he is
it's true you hear that Dave well guys you guys are also the baddest [ __ ] and we love
you we hope you keep listening we hope you keep it wait weird if I have to tell you not talking about this weird you
should get your priorities in check baby don't Bear duck [Music]

On December 15, 1996, Baltimore police discovered the body of twenty-three-year-old Kimberly Spicer buried under a trailer on the property of a pallet factory in the city’s southwest side. Later that day, police arrested Joseph Methainy, a man who lived and worked at the factory where Spicer’s body was discovered. It didn’t take long for police to solidly connect Methainy to the murders of two additional Baltimore women as well. In his wild confessions, he claimed massive victim numbers and even cannibalism.

Thanks to Dave White for research assistance!

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Brief Summary

Joe Matheny, a Baltimore serial killer, targeted sex workers and confessed to multiple murders, revealing a disturbing pattern of violence and manipulation.

Key points

Introduction to Joe Matheny. The hosts introduce the case of Joe Matheny, a notorious criminal with a troubled past.
Confessions and Lies. Matheny's confessions are filled with exaggerations and lies, complicating the investigation.
The Normal Childhood Illusion. Despite Matheny's claims of a troubled upbringing, evidence suggests he had a normal childhood.
The Discovery of Tony Lynn's Body. Tony Lynn's body was found dumped along Interstate 95, revealing a horrific crime.
Joe Matheny's Confession. After being charged with murder, Matheny confessed to multiple killings, shocking investigators.
Rita Kemper's Escape. Rita Kemper managed to escape from Matheny's grasp, narrowly avoiding a violent assault.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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