The Woodford Slasher

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Discretion, is it by, it's
maybe murder. In nineteen eighty three,

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the Woodford Slasher was terrorizing residence of
Bellevue, Nebraska. Two boys had been

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brutally murdered and the community was terrified. The playgrounds were abandoned, bikes laid

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unused in yards, and the local
scout master gathered his troop for a lesson

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on how to stay safe in hopes
of preventing another victim. The assistant scout

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master shared, as long as we
look out for one another, we'll have

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nothing to worry about. That assist
scoutmaster was John Jubert. John Joseph Jubert

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the Fourth was born in nineteen sixty
three in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was

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an extremely intelligent child, reading by
the age of three. At age six,

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his parents got divorced. Staffter's father
tried to strangle his mother. Perhaps

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it's here where his sadistic fantasy started, since it was around that age that

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he would later recall thinking about stabbing
his babysitter. He even admitted to having

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thoughts about biting off parts of her
flesh, pretty unusual thoughts for a six

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year old. In nineteen seventy four, his mother moved them to Portland,

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Maine, where he had a difficult
time getting along with the kids at school

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and was considered a vicious bully.
Although he was charismatic and knew how to

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manipulate adults to avoid trouble, except
for at home, his mother was controlling

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and often humiliated him. She even
spanked him until he was almost as big

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as she was. Considered an outcast, Jubert joined the Boy Scouts of America

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to meet people, and he excelled
in the program. He reached the highest

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achievement and became an Eagle Scout,
something less than five percent of members have

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accomplished. Yet all the skill sets
that he learned would not necessarily be used

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for good. By thirteen, his
sadistic fantasies were sliding into the real world.

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He stabbed a nine year old girl
with a pencil. The incident was

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so intoxicating to him that the next
day he slashed another kid with a razor.

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He felt sexually stimulated by the events. He later attacked two boys,

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brutally beating and robbing them. In
the midst of the chaos. He managed

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to maintain his normal life, but
was getting bolder with every attack. In

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nineteen eighty one, he graduated from
Cheverus High School. Soon after, he

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enlisted in the United States Air Force. He had succeeded in the Boy Scouts,

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and the military seemed like a great
career choice. He was stationed at

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the Bay near Bellevue, Nebraska,
although the area would soon not be safe

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as it once was. On September
eighteenth, nineteen eighty three, thirteen year

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old Danny Everley disappeared while on his
newspaper route. It was discovered that he

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was missing after customers started complaining that
they had not yet received their newspaper.

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Danny's bike was found at a house
on his route with all the undelivered papers.

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His brother, who usually worked with
Danny, had no idea where he

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would have gone, but did report
seeing a white male in a tan car

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driving around. Since it was considered
a child abduction, the FBI was called

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in. They immediately started searching in
hopes that they would find Danny alive.

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After three days of searching, his
body was found in tall grass off a

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gravel road about four miles from where
his bike was found. Danny was in

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his underwear, his feet and hands
were bound with rope. His mouth was

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covered with tape. He had been
beaten, choked, bitten, and stabbed

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nine times. His heart, liver, and lungs had been punctured. A

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starlike marking had been carved into his
chest. The local authorities feared that this

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was the beginning of a nightmare.
They started investigating known pedophiles that lived around

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the area. They brought in one
man that had molested two young boys.

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He not only failed the polygraph,
but his alibi did not hold up due

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to lack of evidence. He was
released. A couple months went by and

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the authorities had no new leads.
However, an FBI head profiler had started

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putting together a profile. He also
thought the rope used on Danny was crucial

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to the case. The FBI had
never seen that rope. It was so

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distinctive, with twenty six fibers and
one hundred six colors, they knew that

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they could find the rest of the
rope, they would probably find their killer.

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On December second, nineteen eighty three, twelve year old Christopher Walden went

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missing while walking to school. He
disappeared three miles from where Danny Everley's body

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was found. His family had very
little hope that he would be found alive,

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and their worst fears were confirmed.
Christopher's body was found three days later,

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five miles from town. His body, discovered by hunters, had been

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better concealed than Danny's, but the
crime scene did have some differences. His

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throat was slit so deeply that he
was almost decapitated, and he was not

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bound. Other than that, there
were too many similarities to not connect the

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crimes. He was found in his
underwear and had a star like marking carved

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into his chest. The media was
calling the killer the Woodford slasher. An

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elderly woman saw Christopher on the news. She called and reported seeing a boy

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that looked like him abducted by a
white male in a tan car. She

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didn't really believe that she saw such
a horrible thing happen until she recognized the

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boy on the news. On January
eleventh, nineteen eighty four, a daycare

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teacher noticed a man and circling the
area. She found it suspicious and went

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outside to get a better look at
the car. The man noticed that she

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was riding down his license plate and
parked the vehicle. He started to approach

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her and acted like he needed directions. However, as he got closer,

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he pulled out a knife She took
off running back to the building and managed

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to get inside and called the police. The license plate belonged to a rental

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car. The car was currently rented
out to John Jubert. His car was

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in the shop his tan car.
With a search warrent in hand, the

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FBI approached Jubert's barracks. They found
a hunting knife and the exact rope they

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were looking for. They also found
hair and pieces of the rope in his

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car. The rope had been made
in Korea for the US military. Jubert

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got the rope from the scout master
he served under. Jubert was also an

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exact match for the FBI's profile.
While being questioned, John Jubert admitted that

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he planned on Robbie the teacher,
and acknowledged that he had heard of the

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boys, but denied anything else.
When he was then shown pictures of the

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crimes, he was noticeably aroused,
even eventually admitted I did it. I

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killed those boys and what may or
may not be shocking. He admitted that

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if given another chance, he would
kill again. Even though Jubert confessed to

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the murders, he intended to plead
not guilty. After psychiatric evaluations, they

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decided that he was in his right
mind when the crimes were committed, although

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he was characterized as having obsessive compulsive
disorder, sadistic tendencies, and schizoid personality

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disorder. But since he couldn't claim
insanity, he changed his plea to guilty,

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hoping to get mercy from the court. The court in Nebraska did not

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show mercy and sentenced him to death. The case of the two boys from

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Nebraska was used in a training session
at the FBI Academy in Quantico. It

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was there that an officer from Portland
May noticed similarities with an unsolved case in

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his jurisdiction. On August twenty second, nineteen eighty two, eleven year old

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Ricky Stetson went for a jog on
the Back Cove Trail. His parents called

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the police when he wasn't home by
dark. That was the rule for many

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kids before the days of cell phones, be home by dark. When he

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didn't show up, they started to
worry. The next day, a motorist

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discovered his body off the side of
Interstate two ninety five. He was dead

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and bloodied. Originally they thought he
must have been hit by a car,

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but upon further inspection they knew that
the cause of death was much more sinister,

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and the autopsy confirmed it. He
had been stabbed multiple times in the

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stomach, strangled, and had bite
marks on his body. A suspect was

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apprehended and spent a year and a
half in jail before they confirmed that the

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bite marks did not match his teeth. The officer was able to confirm that

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Jubert lived in Maine at the time
of the crime, and the bite marks

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on the victim did match Jubert.
They were actually able to link him to

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several unsolved crimes and identified him as
the Oakdale Slasher, a killer that they

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had been looking for. Jubert stood
trial in main and received a life sentence,

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maybe only because they didn't have the
death penalty. He was then sent

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back to Nebraska, where he faced
the electric chair. He appealed multiple times,

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but his sentence was never overturned.
He sat down in that electric chair

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on July seventeenth, nineteen ninety six. Apparently, some people believed he should

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be shown more kindness than his victims
were, despite the fact that Jubert committed

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such horrifying crimes on children. After
his death, activists said the electric chair

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was unusually cruel and called for action
to be taken Nebraska now administers lethal injection.

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At the hands of John Jubert the
fourth at least three boys met a

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tragic and painful death, not to
mention all the other people he harmed physically

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and mentally over the years. Even
though he never sexually molested at any of

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his victims, he was aroused by
the cutting and the biting, and the

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questions remain. Was he trying to
satisfy abnormal sexual desires or was it more

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about power and control? Did it
come from trauma and his childhood? Aristotle

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argued that morality must be taught.
Could it be that he was never taught

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good? No, he was an
eagle scout and went to Catholic school.

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Maybe he was a master manipulator,
a chamellion that could thrive in any setting.

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By twenty years old, Jubert had
already terrorized two communities, becoming both

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the Woodford Slasher and the Oakdale Slasher. He was a man that signed up

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to serve his country and parents trusted
with their young boys. Had he not

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been caught so soon and moved to
more air force bases, who knows how

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many communities could have been affected.
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last few episodes. Hi, Joe, My sister and I love your podcast

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and discuss the cases after listening to
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barely pronounce its names, but you
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Please say this phrase A box of
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box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit
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I can say it, but it's
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and a biscuit mixer. Yeah,
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those. I don't know why,
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do, and it's absolutely useless,
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and your sister so much for listening. I love Nashville, by the way.

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It's a fantastic city and apparently where
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I'm in Nashville, if you get
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a stick. Bachelorette parties everywhere.
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end of this episode. But if
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you there. But if not,
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