Episode 29 — Jake Bird: The Tacoma Ax and the Hex

Episode 29 — Jake Bird: The Tacoma Ax and the Hex

## Episode 29 — Jake Bird: The Tacoma Ax and the Hex

The Phoenix Serial Shooters: Hausner and Dieteman's Meth-Fueled Killing Spree

In the warm spring nights of May 2005, Dale Hausner and Samuel Dieteman began a terrifying 15-month drive-by shooting spree across suburban Phoenix, wounding and killing random strangers for no reason other than the thrill. High on methamphetamine and sleep-deprived, the pair carried out nearly 40 shootings, murdering eight people and wounding nineteen others while also targeting animals in the same manner.

Jeong Seong-hyeon: The Anyang Christmas Disappearance of 2007

On Christmas Day 2007, ten-year-old Lee Hye-jin and eight-year-old Wu Ye-seul vanished from a small park in Anyang, South Korea after attending a church concert, launching one of the nation’s most intense missing-children investigations. For seventy-two days, police pursued dead-end leads and national AMBER alerts until a chance discovery on a nearby mountain finally broke the case open.

Joseph Baldi: The Queens Creeper – Forgotten Serial Killer of 1970s New York

In June 1972, fifteen-year-old Deborah Januszko became the fourth young woman murdered in her Queens bedroom by an intruder who slipped through an unlocked window and vanished without a trace. Detectives soon connected her death to three earlier unsolved stabbings, revealing a chilling pattern that had terrorized Richmond Hill, Woodhaven, and Jamaica for nearly two years. The arrest of Joseph Baldi exposed not only a forgotten serial killer but also the devastating consequences of a broken mental-health system.

Genene Jones: The Death Shift — Texas Angel of Death Nurse

During the evening shifts in the Bexar County Hospital's pediatric ICU in 1981–1982, licensed vocational nurse Genene Jones turned<|eos|>