Interview · moment 7 of 19
Ages of Victims and the Psychology of Pedophilia and Power
from The Whole Thing Is Evil · #63
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minGuest
Discussion of the young ages of victims (some as young as two or three), whether pedophilia is nature or nurture, the 'forbidden fruit' theory among powerful men, and rates of child sexual abuse in society.
- 22:41State and federal law enforcement ignored the Foster Care Review Board's attempts to investigate abuse allegations.
- 23:09Lawrence King was running an interstate pedophile network alongside his $40 million embezzlement scheme.
- 23:36Nebraska senators with subpoena power believed they could break the case wide open.
- 24:08Private investigator Gary Carradori had an exemplary record and found additional child victims willing to testify.
- 24:39Victims were threatened: if you talk, we will kill you and your family.
- 25:14The operation functioned as both pandering and blackmail—compromising people in power with children to control them forever.
- 25:35Carradori obtained photographs of pedophilic orgies from blackmail photographer Rusty Nelson in Chicago.
- 25:48Carradori's plane mysteriously broke up over Lake County, Illinois on the flight back to Nebraska; the photographs were never recovered.
- 26:13Tim received a death threat early in his investigation of the Franklin scandal.
- 26:39Tim met with the same photographer—Rusty Nelson—that Carradori had contacted before his death.
Lawrence KingGary CarradoriFranklin scandalFranklin Credit UnionRusty NelsonJohn De CampLorraine Schmidt