The Tell- Tale Heart /// The Crimes of Charlie Brandt /// 649 | Forensic Files

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[Music] crime [Music] yesterday we discussed the unsolved homicides of three what were described
as vulnerable female victims we also discussed a couple of suspects in one or two of those cases today we we start off
by talking about an additional suspect here and oddly enough this is a man who name we have mentioned before but we've
not gone into great detail about this is Michael balagna I could go for a nice fried bogna sandwich 35-year-old
treasure hunter described by his friends as a generous Mr Lonely Hearts is a common denominator in the Florida Keys
Murder Mystery according to police investigators from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said that they have
questioned Michael balagna because he might know something about two of the unsolved homicides but they said that
there was no physical evidence linking him to either of the two murders that they question him about according to
detectives this is where Michael bagna becomes very interesting to them for two of these unsolved
homicides one he escorted the mother of Patty Lanza the four-year-old victim to that party on that fateful night on
little Torch Key back in July of 1988 then the tall dark-eyed Michael bagna also dated the third victim Sher perisho
aged 39 right in fact it has been determined that she stayed with him for several weeks before she decided to be
homeless she stayed with him for about 3 weeks and this is very weird right we have this situation where this guy has
very close ties to two of the victims we should remind everybody out there that there was another individual that was at
two of the parties that two of the victims attended shortly before they were killed and that was a different
individual and the police have said look yes that guy was at both of those parties but a lot of the same people
were at both of those parties well I sound like a broken record we have three victims and a short time period murdered
and in a small distance and these aren't large communities well that broken record must be a Kenny G album because
you are one smooth son of a [ __ ] and I got the hair to match the thing that I think we need to really
point out here is that while police were talking to him listen to their statement
their statement is we are talking to him because he may know something that's much different than being a suspect mhm
them saying he may know something well duh he might he he seemed to have a close relationship at least at one time
with our third victim Sher pisho that's what my teachers used to say about me he
may know something we know that his fact that he went with Patty Lanza's mother Deborah Lanza to that party the night
that Patty Lanza was killed but he wasn't the only only one that went to that party with her according to Deborah
Lanza the victim's mother we have her four children and we also have Michael bagna who brought two kids of his own to
the party with them and then police go on to say look we've not ruled out this Michael guy is he a suspect they're the
media is pushing the police to tell them if he is in fact a suspect or not but what they're saying is they won't rule
him out to the media they will not say that he's not a suspect but what they do say is the night that Patty was killed
Michael balagna brought uh Lanza to the party with her four kids his son was there as well with him they go on to say
that after the girl went missing he's still at the party the mother Deborah Lanza says while she couldn't find her
daughter at some point she never this Michael bagna was never out of her sight right so he's not a suspect in the
mother's eyes the police go on to say he helped he assisted in the search after the
party and he was cooperative with police from Jump Street so I think that this is
one of those situations Captain where some might call him a suspect but he only appears to be a suspect as far as
the media is concerned not as far as law enforcement or the family of one of the
victims and it must feel absolutely horrific to have people in the community or or the media insinuating that you
might be responsible for the death of a four-year-old I mean that's just that'd be a very tough situation to be involved
in those murders took place in 1988 and 1989 in the keys now we have to fast forward to many years later to 2004 and
we're going to talk about hurricane Ivan some of you may remember Hurricane Ivan
this was a big and powerful storm and like with many of these hurricanes in parts of Florida parts of the Gulf Coast
residents are warned and told in a lot of times to evacuate well in September of 2004 they
had an evacuation as well going on for Hurricane Ivan and two individuals this is char Brandt and his longtime wife
Terry Brandt they evacuated their home and they went to go stay with their niece this is Michelle Lynn Jones she
lived up in Orlando so this was going to be a safe space away from the hurricane
go up and visit and from my understanding Captain Terry Brandt the aunt was very close to Michelle Lyn
Jones her niece and some reports state that Charlie Brandt was close to his niece as well throughout this visit they
go to stay there for several nights and throughout this visit we have Michelle Lynn Jones that while she has her house
guest she is going to continue with her daily routines and part of that is keeping in
contact with her mother the BRS would stay there for 2 weeks before anybody realized that there's anything wrong
that's right the brands arrived there sometime around September 2nd and it isn't until approximately two weeks
later on the 13th 14th 15th that some people start to get concerned right Michelle LY Jones and Her Mother they're
close they shared several of the same friends and one of their mutual friends stops by the house on September 13th and
was supposed to visit with Jones Jones says you know I don't want you to come in my aunt and uncle are staying here
they' been drinking and they got into some kind of argument so it's a little uncomfortable it's a little awkward here
right now um maybe you should come back on another date and we should be clear here too it's not obvious and it
shouldn't be that there was any predetermination on how long the brands would be staying there I think a lot of
that would be determined based off of Hurricane Ivan itself the storm and the damages that could come with that storm
but by this point they've been there for well over a week close to two weeks and
and it's on September 15th that another friend of Michelle Lyn Jones this is Debbie Knight she goes to the home and
she is suspicious of the House of what she's seeing of the feelings that she's getting as she pulls up to the
house during this time the two days that have passed since the previous friend coming over and
being turned away by michelley and Jones Jones's mother was having a difficult time getting in touch with her so now we
have Debbie Knight another mutual friend who's at the house and she's on the phone
with Michelle Lyn Jones's mother she tells the mother that the front door is unlocked you know she's knocked she's
rang the doorbell mom's tried calling her daughter no response shows up the door is unlocked and Mom says to the
friend go into the house try to get see if you can get into the house well Debbie Knight says that she was so
feeling so uneasy about the situation she was just getting such bad vibes in this dark horrible feeling she was a
little scared so she decided to go next door and grab a neighbor The Neighbor comes back with her and together the two
of them enter the home and they walk into a House of [ __ ] if I'm correct I believe that the
front door was unlocked but because of this uneasy feeling they didn't want to enter through the front door so they
were attempting to get into the house and they decided that they were going to go through the garage well when they
entered the garage they found Charlie Brandt hanging from the rafters with bed sheets immediately
these two contact the police and the police arrive on the scene very quickly who they enter the house and then they
the house of hores just keeps getting worse and worse first they find this man hanging from the rafters in the
garage and then once they go into the home they find Terry Brandt had been stabbed multiple times in the chest area
she's lying on the couch dead and then they go into the bedroom where they find the homeowner the niece Michelle Lynn
Jones she had been decapitated and her heart and organs had been removed and someone had placed the head next to her
body and in some reports state that it was placed on the nightstand positioned almost as it was looking at the body
itself yeah some people actually believe that somebody combed her hair without going into too much of the hor details
here they're easily found online if anybody wants to look them up but it would be 15 20 minutes of going through
detail after detail of disgusting mutilation that took place in this case the police are able to deduce a few
things one that the weapons used to murder Terry Brandt and Michelle LY Jones were knives that came from the
kitchen and they're able to piece together a series of events that goes like this
based off of physical evidence found at the scene they believed that Charlie Brandt stabbed his wife to death as she
sat on the couch and afterward he then went into another room where he attacked Michelle Lynn Jones his niece and then
after killing her mutilated the body after this he decides to clean himself up a bit takes a shower changes his
clothes and then at some point takes these bed sheets and hangs himself from the
rafters where later all three bodies are found following this discovery police want to know why would this
happen and two who exactly is the this Charlie Brandt what they discover is that the
brands were living on Big Pine Key and had been there for many years and had been married for a very long time so who
is this Charlie Brandt Charlie Brandt was born Eric Carl Brandt born February 23rd
1957 in 1986 he married his then girlfriend Teresa who went by the name Terry the
odd thing though here Captain is no relatives were invited to their wedding well we have relatives and friends from
Teresa from Terry's side that attend the wedding we don't have anybody from Charlie's Family side attending the
wedding later his sister Angela and her husband Jim Graves stayed in contact not just with
Charlie and his new wife Terry but also were friends with Terry and uh char Char
well Charlie seemed like a normal guy he was a good-look guy he was a radar technician but obviously after this
crime and finding what they found in that house especially the mutilation that was done to this poor victim is
yeah the niece the niece they're now wondering what who is this guy exactly and does he have any other victims well
sadly he does he has previous victims and he has some skeletons in his closet and the thing here Captain there's a lot
of debate here because Charlie Brandt Eric Carl Brandt goes by Charlie but he had actually killed his
mother when he was a boy he grew up in Indiana in 1971 a young Charlie Brandt then only 13
years years old was accused of killing his mother and attempting to kill his father
and his sister Charlie Brandt is accused of killing his mother who was 38 at the
time and Pregnant and wounding his father he shot both of them his father's name is Herbert Brandt and this took
place in January of 1971 he's arrested there's no mystery as to what happened here because the father
survived and and the sister survived and the sister later said that it was very strange
because she had no idea that that Charlie would do this it was he was even capable of doing something like this the
father who survives has no answers as to why his son would have killed his wife and then attempted to
kill him and his sister states that Charlie almost appeared to be in a trans-like
state and before he could kill her or attack her he seemed to kind of come too and he had some general
understanding as far as the sister was concerned that he had done something wrong but she says that he wasn't fully
aware of what exactly that he had done and given the laws and the situation at the time in the state of
Indiana even though he had killed someone his own mother it was looking like a young Charlie
Brandt would not be facing a long or lengthy prison Center yeah which is pretty nuts because he
killed his mom which was pregnant tried to kill the dad and then also tried to kill his sister how many more people did
he have to try to kill so in Fort Wayne Indiana in 1971 they decided to take this to a grand jury the grand jury
ultimately decides that a lot of this is based B off of testimony from psychiatrists at the time that Charlie
Brandt suffered a serious psychotic disorder which produced the criminal act and the report said that the jurors
believed that Charlie Brandt was mentally incapable of standing trial and they recommended that he be committed to
hospitalization well the problem here captain and this is from the experts that say
he's a turd yes he committed this horrible act yes the jury decided that he should be
hospitalized however when we sit down and try to evaluate a young Charlie Brandt we can't come up with any type of
known diagnosis that he fits into there's no category that he fits into we think
there's something wrong with him we just don't have a term for it Charlie himself
never really offers up any explanation as to what had happened or why he would do such a horrible thing yeah what was
the motivation to kill his mom which was pregnant with his soon Tobe sibling so he was remanded to the custody of the
County Juvenile Court and we have again the mother that was shot to death the father who was wounded in fact in the
beginning the report coming out was that the father was in poor condition and and
may not make when he was first uh put into the hospital we know that he does in fact survive and then we have Charlie
Brandt who when asked what happened he says I felt the urge I just felt the urge everything seemed to snap that's
about as much as he offers up that makes it to the public as to why he would kill
his mother and attempt to kill his father I found this to be very strange but of course this is a very strange
scenario all around but he is released oh God and released into his father's custody
within just about a year and a half two years time you don't have to be a captain to know that this seems like a
bad decision well here becomes some of the problems for our case for the case of him killing his niece and killing his
wife it was not 100 % confirmed that his wife ever knew that he had killed his mother there's some speculation that she
knew and in fact there were people that were still in Charlie's life at the time
that had told him you have to tell Terry you have to tell her before you get married and if he did ever tell her it
sounds like he may have told her after the wedding remember we said that at the wedding none of his family were present
he likely did not want this woman to know or maybe not just his future wife to know but her family to know what he
had done as a youth yeah these are a couple things you need to go over you know before you get married are you
currently married to somebody else do you have any credit card debt how about student loans do you have any children
out there oh by the way did you kill your mother did you try to kill your father did you try to kill your sister
these are some things you should know before you get married now the friend that did set them up told Charlie that
he needs to tell her about his previous crimes right and he is the one that pushed Charlie to tell Terry now later
he says that he believes that that Charlie did tell Terry at some point because he has this friend has a
conversation with Charlie's wife Terry the conversation that that he has with her is shortly after the third victim
that we discussed here Sherry perisho was killed Sherry perisho where she lived on that little boat the dingy was
just four short blocks from where Charlie and his wife Terry lived oh God the wife Terry tells this friend
after the homicide that she was thinking about calling the sheriff's department department when he asks why would you
call the sheriff's department she says well in relation to this murder the Sher perisho
murder I think that given the circumstances of everything I should give them a call the friend says that
later or at the time more importantly he took that to mean that she Terry knew and had been told by Charlie that he
killed his mother and now we have this woman even all these years later 39-year-old Sher pisho who was killed
the reports say four blocks from where they lived I wanted to make sure that I said four short blocks because I've seen
this reported as it was possibly a th000 fet from where they lived now at the time there was an
eyewitness in the Sher perisho murder there was a woman who was driving that night and this is the night of July 16th
MH she says that she saw a man that she could not identify did not know the name
of this person crossing the street US Highway 1 and the man was carrying a knife okay well at the time this is at
night the man is crossing the street and carrying a knife not a huge deal this didn't didn't send off any red
flags other than it was memorable to her right or other than the fact that when I
go out for my nightly walk I don't I don't openly just carry a knife with me but he's walking toward the water this
driver would have no way of knowing that there's a woman living in a small boat on this stretch of water mhm so she
provides a description of this individual and in fact they had a composite sketch of the man that she saw
that night it wasn't until all of these years later we're up to about 15 years later captain
that now they're going wait a second this Charlie Brant guy who up near Orlando Florida kills his niece and his
wife hangs himself lives very close to where Sherry paricio was killed and oh my goodness he resembles the composite
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in listener land thank you for joining us again here in the garage this week the murders that took place in 2004
in Orlando Florida prompted the police to investigate who exactly was this Charlie Brandt and then they learn about
his background growing up having killed his pregnant mother they want to figure out how many murders could this dude
have been involved in there's different wounds for the different victims the mutilation to the niece's body is what I
think perks up law enforcement to go well where was Charlie at during the time of the murders in the keys the
crazy thing here too Captain is we talk about Charlie brand and we went through some of the mutilations done to his
niece it appears that he had some kind of fatuation infatuation with his niece that likely was unknown to his wife and
to his niece at the time he had this bizarre nickname for her he called her Victoria's Secret which I think is
incredibly creepy yeah that that that rates 100 on the crepo meter that should have been some red flags right there but
again we are not privy to knowing exactly what his wife Terry knew about him or his past right however when we
compare everything that we know about the murder of his niece the removing of the heart which was which was done with
surgeon-like Precision according to the experts and then we compare that to the murder of Sher pisho who was living four
short blocks from Charlie Brand's home the night that she was killed her heart removed with surgical like Precision he
matches the description giv provided by the woman who was driving that night as being the man seen crossing the street
with a knife then we get this weird information that comes out after Charlie Brandt's
death that his wife may have suspected him all along in the murder of Sher paricio the way that the story goes and
is told to law enforcement by people that knew the couple is that the wife Terry Brandt having been awakened to
Charley coming home very late that night she says she goes and and confronts Charlie and he is standing at a sink
they had a a a large sink that was in like a mud room Charlie was an avid fisherman and they had this sink in this
setup so he could clean fish at this table MH and he would regularly go fishing I'm talking multiple times a
week on this particular night the night that Sherry pisho was killed he comes home very late at night and Terry relays
to somebody later that he was covered in blood and when confronted he had said that he caught a bunch of fish and he
was cleaning the fish this is uh reminds me of dmer where they talk about his fascination with the the shine of the
organs ultimately they end up closing out the Sherry perie showcase and they State they being law enforcement that
Charlie Brandt was responsible for the murder of Sherry perisho and they base this off of some of the things that
we've already stated but also the fact that the mutilation that was done to Sher perisho was very similar to what
was done to his niece yeah but also couldn't they just pull DNA from the case and and test that yes they could um
if but here's the problem with that is it's not like they could and decided not to right if if they had the ability if
they had DNA in the pie showcase I'm sure they would have attempted to connect it to Charlie Brandt the problem
with the par showcase is she was not sexually assaulted during that attack there was no evidence to suggest that
that took place of course DNA can come from other parts of the struggle however again if they had that information I'm
sure they would have would have tested it in such a manner I would doubt that they're just going to willy-nilly say
Charlie Brant killed Sherry perisho without conclusively believing that in fact he
did it's a difficult case right because in that case and you're right there Captain what they are what law
enforcement is telling us is that the the mutilation and the cutting out the removing of the heart is such a rare
thing to do by a perpetrator to a victim that given the proximity and given the statements that his wife made to people
that they know and her suspicion of her husband being involved in the murder of Sher Parish show they're basing their
case and closing their case on that homicide based off of that information which is not 100% conclusive but what
that leads us to is prompting the police to reinvestigate 26 unsolved homicides in the State of Florida dating all the
way back to 1973 looking for potential evidence of Charlie Brand's involvement in those
unsolved homicides so like you're saying there are so many cases that law enforcement could look at but they're
going to try to narrow that down based off of look there's no way to easy way to say it but there was
extensive mutilation to the victim his his niece and so to to look at those look at that mutilation and then start
comparing that to other cases and and kind of narrow it down so you're not just looking willy-nilly at every single
unsolved homicide that's exactly right and you hit the nail on the head there Captain when you compared it to dmer and
with the shine of the organs or the shine of the muscle under the skin what they are saying what law
enforcement is telling us is based off of the extensive mutilation done to his niece that they believe Charlie Brandt
had a proclivity for this type of thing that that was the drive in the homicides
committed by Charlie brand the removal of the heart the removal of organs the decapitation things of that nature the
injuries the mutilation and such almost mirr one another in Sherry paro's case and in the homicide of his niece so they
are looking for cases that are going to be very similar to that now they narrowed that down to 26 cases of
Interest that they looked at Charlie Brandt one of them was the 1978 murder of Carol
Sullivan age2 she was abducted from a school bus stop in September of 1978 her skull was found in a paint can
she was decapitated obviously they never recovered her body so mirring her injuries and mutilation to that of
Charlie's niece or Sher per show was going to be impossible now I want to say this in fairness to Carol Sullivan's
family because her family has expressed a concern with connecting Charlie Brandt
to the murder of their family member they have said that at no point ever was Charlie Brandt considered to be a
suspect there were suspects in her case suspects that it sounds like the family like much better than Charlie
Brandt and she comes about to be connected to the brand case from the authors of this week's recommended
reading and they don't definitively say that they believe Charlie Brandt killed Carol Sullivan they just say that he was
in the area at the time and this murder is not terribly unlike murders committed
by Charlie Brandt but In fairness to her family who do not believe he killed her
we will move on from the Carol Sullivan case the next one is that of the 1988 Lisa Sanders case that we discussed at
length and again it's debatable what parts of that mutilation were conducted by the killer or conducted by
animals that one makes it very difficult to say and in fact the removal of organs
in that case does not match up does not line up with the Sherry per showcase does not match up or line up with what
was done what Charlie did to his niece's body after she was murdered and we should go ahead and move on from the
Patty Lanza case because we have law enforcement that said Back in ' 88 and in 1989 we don't think this case is
connected to these other two we this is the one that we feel is absolutely not connected to the Sanders case or the
parish show case and then they say that again in 1990 in fact they say in 1990 that they have
definitively ruled out any connection between the lza case and the Sanders and perisho
case that leads us to a victim that we've not discussed yet in 1995 a sex worker named Darlene Toler aged
38 her body was discovered near Miami found in the gra area off of a highway her body was wrapped in blankets
and in plastic when discovered she was missing her head and her heart and it's simply the removal of the heart that
connected Charlie Brandt by law enforcement to this case law enforcement would go on to tell us
that Charlie Brandt used that same Highway regularly and one thing that they found that was disturbing to them
in their review of these unsolved homicides is the fact that the heart was removed one and
two Charlie kept some information that they found interesting he kept mileage records of
his vehicle and of his travels and on the day of Darlene toler's murder roughly the driving
distance between Big Pine Key where he lived in the area of Miami where toler's body was discovered
matches up with his records his mileage records for that day well and it's it's tough with this guy cuz he is a he is a
giant pile of [ __ ] but we should talk about this uh poster that's on that they
found in his bedroom yeah they were going through Charlie's belongings after the double homicide and then suicide
committed in 2004 and one item of note was this Anatomy post poster that was found in
the bedroom of Charlie and his wife and this is a poster that is a female body and it is the that you have
the muscles and organs on one side and then you have the Skeleton on the other it's a
very science text Booky type poster but except for that they add hair and put the lady's hair in a bun which is a
little strange very strange and you can find that poster if you just Google Charlie Brandt
poster it comes up we'll put it on our social media as well the thing here is that this one I think in anybody's
bedroom this would be concerning he's not a he's not a doctor you know he's not a scientist uh he's not it appears
that he's studying Anatomy but he doesn't really have any professional or career reason to do so well he's a
career murderer so he needs to study this if he wants to keep cutting victim's hearts out I would find this to
be a weird item to be in anyone's bedroom especially a married man but then let's compound that with the fact
that we know that he dissected his niece yeah and those mutilations mirror that of Sher paricio that lived 1,200 ft or
so from his home on a night when his wife confronts him and says that he's covered in blood and came home very
late she even says to a friend maybe we should I should contact the sheriff's department yeah duh after this
homicide this is nuts when we compare this to Darlene toler's murder that took place in Miami it's not a terrible
stretch from Big Pine Key to uh where the body of Darlene Toler was found and in fact he has mileage records in his
vehicle that back up that he may have gone to that area on the day that she was murdered police go on to say after
finding things at his home knowing of his background of killing his mother when he's a kid the homicides that he
did in 2004 look they found on his computer that he was searching for snuff flicky
flicky flicky that he was looking for torture videos that he was searching for autopsy photos yeah this guy had clearly
had a fascination of the inside of a person well yeah a sexual Fascination you talk about dmer but this guy reminds
me a lot of Edmund keer somebody who killed his grandparents with a firearm when he's a
teenager goes away for a while and when he gets out he's not just shooting people he's kidnapping and mutilating
the bodies cutting off the heads Charlie is cutting off the heads and removing the heart of these victims and in fact
it was the removal of the heart that the police were focusing in on when trying to connect him to potential other
homicides that took place near Charlie Brandt in the time that he lived in Florida yeah I think that difference
though when you look at dmer or keer I mean you can make an argument in their case whether it was nature or nurture I
think in the Charlie brand case it's it's his nature it just seems like he this is the
way he was born he was messed up from the beginning and that excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe goes beyond just the
idea of the heart that line where PO says there was no reason for what I did I look at the
cases of Charlie Brandt the ones that they law enforcements say he is guilty of the murder of his mother the murder
of his wife his niece and the murder of Sher pisho and I can't find it one good goddamn reason why he did any of those
murders let alone all four of them there's no reason for what he did the only thing is the only thing that could
possibly explain it is that he's he's not like you and I captain he's not like the rest of us there's something
incredibly wrong with this guy and he was so able so easily able to hide it and keep it inside and hide it from
everyone when he killed his wife and his niece his friends their family they say
they had no idea that this would even have been possible he wasn't a violent individual as far as they knew again he
seemed pretty normal everybody thought he seemed pretty normal everybody thought he seemed pretty intelligent
where where again I think if we're going to compare people this this I think leans more towards like a Bundy where
maybe he doesn't have the Charisma or anything like that but I I think keer put some people off and with his
personality and I think so did dmer yeah and I would bet you that the people closest to Charlie Brandt may have seen
some sides of him that aren't so obvious to the rest of us maybe they had some things that put them off uh about char
mhm but Detective Pat Diaz who is just one of many detectives that were working on possible cases that
they could connect to Charlie Brandt he goes on to say that it doesn't to him that this is some kind of
disease and he and others would agree that a guy like this just doesn't stop doesn't stop
somewhere between the three cases between murdering his mom and then all those years later murdering his wife and
his niece well and this is where I there's a part of me that agrees with law enforcement that you have to look at
you know the the mutilation of his last victim but I think it's probably you're going to see some kind of escalation
that's what's going to make it a lot more difficult for them because there could have been a gradual
escalation to where he ended up at in the darling taller case they were trying to sign scientifically connected to
Charlie Brandt in fact they found dog hairs in the bed of his truck there were dog hairs or animal hairs I should say
that were found on the blankets that her body was wrapped up in right they sent those away for comparison for scientific
analysis and could not conclusively confirm that those hairs matched one another so we don't get any scientific
evidence to back up the idea of what law enforcement believes is Charlie Brandt having been involved in the murder of
Darlene taller in 1995 but the Detective Pat Diaz goes on to say I believe that this is a
disease this guy didn't stop in between those three cases darling Toler was found stuffed in garbage bags in South
Dade County it was almost like the killer delivered us a package with the body left on the side of the road for
everyone to find after the murder of Darlene Toller nine other sex workers turned up dead in South Florida
according to law enforcement those cases were very similar to Darlene taller for
example some were stuffed in duffel bags or suitcases and made easy to find and this here Captain is from Miami
news7 and they say some very profound things here and say that because Charlie Brandt was so craft at killing and
because Charlie Brandt killed himself the suspicions that Charlie Brandt may have killed 10 to 12 even 14 women may
never be confirmed however one fact will not change there were two Charlie Brands who
lived in the keys and the Charlie Brandt that the people didn't know was one of the sickest serial killers in South
Florida history [Music] want to thank you for joining us here again in the garage onward and upward
inching our way just like LeBron James ju you know just we're going to break the record get to that a th episodes
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listeners this week we are happy to recommend Invisible Killer the monster behind the mask by Diana montine and sha
Robbins Invisible Killer is the true story of the crimes committed by Charlie Brandt and some of the crimes he has
suspected of committing this is a very complete telling of the True Crime Story of this serial killer along with
insights from an FBI profiler and a forensic psychologist you can check out that recommendation and many more at
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In the late 1980s there were some strange and horrific murders that went unsolved in the Florida Keys. Police were looking for a connection between the homicides of three female victims. The murders all took place inside of a 10 mile radius and all within just 13 months. The residents of Big Pine Key, Little Torch Key, and No Name Key were frightened and rightfully so. It was believed that someone was killing females and removing their hearts. In 2004, police on Big Pine Key responded to a gruesome scene. Inside the murder house they found a double murder and a suicide. Charlie Brandt was responsible for the double murder of his wife and niece. This sent police on a search, one that may never end. Just how many murders is Charlie responsible for?

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Also read “The Tell Tale Heart” by legendary writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe

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Brief Summary

The episode examines Michael Balagna's connection to unsolved murders and Charlie Brandt's horrific killings of his wife and niece.

Key points

The Unsolved Homicides. Three vulnerable female victims remain unsolved, with Michael Balagna as a key figure.
A Horrific Discovery. The Brandt family is found dead in a gruesome scene, raising many questions.
Charlie's Dark Past. Charlie Brandt has a history of violence, having killed his mother as a child.
The Eyewitness Account. An eyewitness recalls seeing a man with a knife near the murder scene.
Charlie Brandt's Dark Past. Investigators link Charlie Brandt to multiple murders, including his own family.
Murder Investigation Expands. Police reinvestigate 26 unsolved homicides linked to Charlie Brandt's profile.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It must feel absolutely horrific to have people insinuating you might be responsible.

Discussion about the pressure on Michael Balagna amidst the investigation.

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Tension

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