I went to his store once long before this news hit. I got a bad vibe from the guy and never went back. Bad vibes exist for a reason. Don't ignore 'em.

Shit. All of these stories make me wish I could find the thread I started a year or two ago about brushes with evil.

Went to the Bizarre Bazaar with a friend of mine right about the time I moved to KC in 86.
A friend of mine from Topeka got invited back to his house once, but he turned it down.

Met a chick years later who's boyfriend was the guy who got away from him and brought him down.

I remember that thread.

Got that vibe when I saw the thread...

I was in his shop many times in the '80's...Westport Flea Market was a lot different then...lots more vendors and the Bar/Grill area was smaller. He had some weird shit...including lots of human bones. Once he was caught they did testing on all those things and it was determined that none of the had come from victims...still makes me wonder if there were other victims they never found.

Teenagers.

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That was before my uncle was in crime scene investigation, but another member of my family was involved in Bob's arrest (that family member's name is in the book written by the detective about the case).

I don't remember this. Sounds like the guy was a real sicko. On a related note, Investigation Discovery (ID) will premier a show called See No Evil. The first episode will be about the girl (Kelsey something) that disappeared from the Target store in Olathe (?) a few years ago.

I was really too young to understand what was going on with Berdella, but for some reason the image of him on tv with those ridiculously 80s glasses has always been burned in my head. Pure evil.