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Katie Beers Kidnapping and Spaceplex Memories

from Life In The Bloodbox · #26

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3 min

Tim tells the true crime story of Katie Beers, a Long Island girl kidnapped and held in an underground dungeon near the Spaceplex arcade he used to visit, jokes about getting her on the show, then signs off.

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  • 1:15:22Tim recalls the Katie Beers kidnapping case from childhood and how it connected to Spaceplex, a local arcade.
  • 1:15:48He had attended a birthday party at Spaceplex before, but his mom prevented him from going the day Katie Beers was abducted there.
  • 1:16:16John Spazito, a family friend, took Katie Beers and held her in an underground dungeon he'd built in his house with a chain around her neck.
  • 1:16:38Authorities found her after making multiple attempts to search Spazito's house while he was a person of interest.
  • 1:16:52Tim dismisses Katie Beers' book about the kidnapping, joking that after weeks trapped in a dungeon being fed salami, she doesn't deserve his readership.
  • 1:17:10He proposes getting Katie Beers on the show and doing an episode from Spaceplex if it's still open.
  • 1:17:28Tim jokes about kidnapping Katie Beers again and then taking her to a Pizza Hut Lunch Buffet as a super premium episode.
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Katie BeersJohn SpazitoSpaceplex

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