Freeway Phantom - Introducing Lords of Death
Episode Date: November 21, 2024While digging through an old memory box, host Thrasher Banks discovers forgotten VHS tapes, police reports, and faded letters regarding a 1995 murder in Dayton, Ohio. Drawn to the connection between t...his murder and the other seemingly innocuous contents of the box, Thrasher begins an investigation. As he follows the threads, he finds that a participant in the 1995 murder may be connected to more than one brutal, unsolved case… Against the backdrop of Ohio in the 1980s and 90s, around the height of satanic panic, this true crime story explores memory, perception, and a personal quest for the truth. Join Thrasher as he unpacks this box and searches for answers about the “Lords of Death.” Listen now or subscribe to Tenderfoot+ to binge the show ad-free!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Hey, this is Thrasher Banks, host of the new Tinderfoot TV True Crime Podcast, Lords of
Death.
As the satanic panic swept the country in the 1980s, cults, ritualistic murders, and
animal mutilations were topics of mainstream discussion.
And as a kid, growing up in Ohio, several unsolved murders in the area fueled this narrative.
But was it a cult, a serial killer, or something else?
I decided to dig deeper and uncovered a group who called themselves the Lords of Death.
Check out this trailer.
You can see that beside me is James McQuarter.
I'm about to conduct an interview with James in regards to a homicide that occurred this
past Tuesday. I found this VHS tape inside a box that had been kept in storage since the mid 1990s.
The box also contained documents referencing a group called the Lords of Death. I noticed that everything they had had like a Lords of Death symbol.
What is this? It says together group. They said we're trying to recruit people.
They never really clicked with me that it was like they were really the Lords of
Death but I was wrong. It meant a lot. I learned that the Lords of Death could be
connected to several unsolved murders dating back to the 1980s.
It was pretty strange to run into this kind of murder. A husband and wife, who would do such a
thing? Two murders in the same family, months apart from each other, it still boggles the mind.
As I dug deeper, I realized the box contained crucial information about these murders.
Who gave you my files because you know things like even the names of who my suspects were. information about these murders.
From Tenderfoot TV, I'm Thrasher Banks. This is Lords of Death.
What makes them so scary is their emptiness,
their lack of conscience.
People like that you know are capable of doing anything.
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