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Rock and Roll Predators | 15

2024/5/14
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Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry

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This chapter introduces the dark side of the music industry, detailing the horrific crimes of various predators including John Wayne Gacy, Robert Anderson, Roman Polanski, Jared Fogel, R. Kelly, and Jimmy Savile.

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There are monsters who walk among us, people who prey on the young and vulnerable…and they have always been out there and in all walks of life…

John Wayne Gacy hired himself out as a clown for parties…it was later discovered that he raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 boys and young men…26 bodies were found in the crawl space under his home near Chicago…

Robert Anderson was the sports physician at the University of Michigan…he was accused of raping over a thousand men and women during routine medical exams…

There are plenty of celebrities who are convicted sexual offenders…director Roman Polanski can’t come back to the u.s. because he’ll be arrested on rape charges over an encounter with a 13-year-old-girl back in the 70s…

Jared Fogel, the subway guy…he was sentenced to 15 years in jail after being convicted of child porn and sex acts with minors…R. Kelly is in jail for 30 years on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and child sexual abuse…

Woody Allen, Mike Tyson, Bill Cosby, Tupac, Michael Jackson—they’ve all been implicated and, in some cases, charged and convicted…and then there’s Jimmy Savile, the British DJ and media personality who, under the veneer of being philanthropic, may have been one of the most prolific predatory sex offenders in British history…

There’s more, too…this is episode 15 of “Uncharted: crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry”…and I have three stories of evil predators from the world of rock…

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