Interview · moment 8 of 19
Craig Spence's DC Blackmail House and Alicia Owen's Persecution
from The Whole Thing Is Evil · #63
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
7 minGuest
Bryant describes Craig Spence's Washington DC house wired for blackmail, cocktail parties that escalated into compromising situations, the assassination-like silencing effect of Caradori's death, and the horrifying story of Alicia Owen, who was jailed and put in solitary confinement for refusing to recant her abuse allegations.
- 26:53Once you're compromised, it's like being on a beautiful yacht where anything you want is provided, but if you try to get off, they'll make sure you drown.
- 27:22Tim discusses Rusty Nelson's credibility issues, acknowledging he's a child pornographer and therefore sociopathic.
- 28:07Guest spent a night with Rusty Nelson's parents while investigating the case.
- 28:40Lawrence E. King had top security clearance in the Air Force and was stationed in Thailand, where he may have been turned.
- 29:19Guest wanted photographs of abuse sessions to make the story impossible for New York media to ignore.
- 29:37Police pulled over the rental car while driving at 70 in a 65, immediately removed both occupants, and completely tore apart the vehicle.
- 30:24Tim asks about the age of children being abused, clarifying this isn't teenagers but very young kids.
- 30:41The youngest victims guest encountered were as young as nine or ten, though Finders cases involved children as young as two or three.
- 31:14Tim explores whether pedophilia has a biological component explaining attraction to pre-pubescent children versus older victims.
- 32:35A Washington D.C. psychologist told guest that powerful perpetrators often pursue forbidden fruit despite access to expensive adult sex workers.