Bob Berdella
 

What a sick **** that guy was. I'm amazed how little it's talked about though. I just learned about him the past few years as I'm a regular at the Westport Fleamarket. Any of the CP old timers have any dealings with the guy?

I guess that since we're suffering through posts like "What's the best KC BBQ?" we should do this again as well.

I don't recall any threads about this and the search function is broke. Though its too bad he didn't puncture your anal cavity with his throbber.

He seemed nice.

Did he cook good BBQ?

If you liked your meat done with a car battery.

Didn't someone make an awful low budget movie about this sicko?

Nice and rapey. He'd even keep your head as a souvenir if you were lucky.

I remember hearing of his shop in Westport back in the day - Bob's Bizarre Bazar. Good thing I was too young to wander Westport back in those days. And also a good thing that I wasn't a male prostitute, as well.

SAUTO

Jesus Cross! -- NSFW
 

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I was working renovating office buildings during that time. The day after the news broke our foreman just kept making up catchy tunes with Berdella's name in them all day: "Big Bohhhb Berdella". It was hilarious in a bizarre way. Sometimes he'd just go "Berdella Berdella Berdella Berdella Berdella" for like a minute straight. He called me and the other young gopher who worked there the Berdella Twins for like a month.

To this day I think that dude was a comic genius who missed his calling.

When the newspapers were talking to his neighbors after he was arrested, they said he'd always show up at the neighborhood watch pot luck dinner, and always brought tasty and unusual covered dishes.

I'm not kidding...

Trevor Phillips - the early years.

Not a movie but a few years earlier CBS aired an 6-hour mini-series called "Chiefs" where this guy molested young boys/men, killed them, then buried them in his backyard for 40+ years. During that a few police chiefs figured out what he was doing but they would die before they could arrest him. Billy Dee Williams finally killed him at the end of the miniseries. I don't remember who played the bad guy, I just remember he died from AIDS in the late 1980s.

There are people who just do silly stuff, people who do stuff that makes you wonder what they were thinking, and then you get guys like Berdella. I do not buy for a second that a chemical imbalance would make someone so thoroughly sick and evil. There have to be outside, dark influences at work.

I had a pretty free run around the second floor at police headquarters at the time. Detectives had to view the tapes that were confiscated, many of them were "snuff films" taken from a first person perspective. That man killed way more than the six he was allowed plea to. He was just a cog in a sick ****ing scene that really rich people get off on.

Go on.....

Ummmmm. Wut?

Maybe someone will stop by late some night to explain it to you. :evil:

I'd guess he was saying very rich people with word fetishes were buying copies of these videos.

It's just so far out of the realm of what is natural and makes no sense.

That's the movie I'm talking about, that is ****ing awful.

at the Flea Market..best burgers in town!

I have an uncle that was involved with the crime scene, I think he took some of the photographic evidence? I just remember him saying what a sicko the guy was and I don't think he could really (or want to) talk about it.

He was making videos of people being killed from the killer's perspective. It was a sick phenomenon a few steps beyond "Faces of Death". The general feeling was he was selling them to some powerful people, politically. He targeted young male prostitutes, in part, because they weren't missed by family. I'm amazed no one has done a movie on him yet. It's all there: occult/satanic worship, murder by torture and the sale of the videos of rapey murders to political types. There were files just like ones on the guys he admitted to. He had details on more than 60 "house guests".

He seems nice.....

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There's a book about the investigation called "Rites of Burial". Troy Cole and Tom Jackman wrote it. Cole was a homicide detective on the case. It gets pretty graphic.

And now I'm reminded of the last twenty pages of Less than Zero. Please expand upon your last sentence.

When I was traveling around in Europe in the mid-80's I heard rumors all over the places I visited. Now remember the places I traveled were well off the tourist map. In Romania, I partied with a local for a weekend. I'm leaving on Monday, the guy asks me if I want to stay and work for a little while with him.

Doing what? Befriending American girls and then disappearing while his "friends" move in. I was a pretty tough dude back then and it scared the hell out of me. I didn't know or meet any of his "friends" but I knew they were people you did not cross and live to tell the tale.

I told him no, made up a story of getting back to my girlfriend. Couldn't sleep that night. Knew I had to tell someone but didn't feel like dying in Romania. Caught the train out to Athens and told the cops in Athens the guys name and the bar his "friends" hanged out in. Never heard back from the cops.

http://www.ksdk.com/story/news/natio...10/20/3105543/

He bought notorious serial killer Bob Berdella's home and tore it down. Then his company, Growth Industries, bought up 52 Harrisonville properties.

I'm often glad I've lived such a sheltered existence.

It's too bad you didn't have a very particular set of skills,

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Sounds like Hostel and Hostel II

Not in 1984. STFU

The long version from related videos lol
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Fist in the ass!!

Partying at a record bar in Nawlens....guy behind the bar says..you gotta come check out this club on so and so, etc....doesn't even open till Midnight...get directions...I'm with a girl...get to the street....nothing but stone walls 15 ft up going back to....can't even see an entrance...get sick feeling in my gut...we u turn and never looked back...can still remember that feeling of terror and being set up.

...scary as hell even when you're only 25 and still think you're bold.

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.

timidly raises hand

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.

Find it. Gogogogo

I remember that thread.

It would be cool if you could bump it, but it would be tough without the search function.

Bobs Bizzare bazar.

ROFL
Has there ever been a more appropriately named business ?

Nope. He was thoroughly in touch with his inner weirdo.

What's that worth?

Nice.





I remember the local country stations playing parodies of Randy Travis' 'Digging Up Bones'...

One of the characters playable in Grand Theft Auto V.

SR, wasn't there a Bobs Bizzare Bazaar at Independence Center in the 80s next to The hobby store ?

Oof.

SR bumped it this morning:

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showt...=272141&page=5

What is Oof please?


Oh no - It was KC United - I just took the credit LMAO

There's a pretty useful search at the top right of the page. I simply typed in Hamas Jenkins brushes and it was the first thread that popped up.

It's like 'eeeh' or :spock:

But 'oof'