rant · moment 12 of 13
The Gilgo Beach Killer and a Near-Abduction Story
from Ray Kump Donovan · #35
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
6 minTim speculates about the Long Island serial killer (Gilgo Beach), jokes darkly about victim-blaming interview bits, then recounts a story about a woman who narrowly escaped a man driving her toward Gilgo/Jones Beach before he let her go.
- 51:23Tim describes the forensic evidence investigators found on the Gilgo Beach victims, questioning whether anything substantial remained.
- 51:57He walks through the investigative process of collecting filings, dirt, and scrapings from crime scenes.
- 52:08A woman Tim knew got into what she thought was an Uber but the driver locked the doors and began driving her toward Gilgo Beach.
- 52:28The driver pulled over and released the woman after she screamed and called her mother, panicking in the backseat.
- 52:50Tim speculates the driver abandoned the plan because the woman's yelling and threats about police made him realize it would become too much of a nightmare.
- 53:08He jokes that if the woman told her full story, he'd want her murdered just from hearing her long-winded tangents about her life.
- 54:03Tim reflects on growing up trash on Long Island and notes he'd never encountered the wealthy North Shore residents despite living nearby.
- 55:16While polishing an antique bookcase at a mansion, Chinese billionaires who built roller coasters in Japan walked in eating KFC at the dining table.
- 55:31A friend of his worked for a multimillionaire mortgage-backed securities inventor who knew the guys from The Big Short.
- 56:15The North Shore of Long Island during the Gatsby era represented one of the largest consolidations of wealth in the world.
- 56:36Tim receives an urgent message that someone is coming after his family, abruptly ending the conversation.
- 56:46He thanks his guest Lee and prepares to leave as the show wraps up.
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