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Craig Spence's DC Blackmail House and Alicia Owen's Persecution

from The Whole Thing Is Evil · #63

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7 min

Guest

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.

In this bit10 moments
  • 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.
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Rusty NelsonLawrence E. KingFranklin scandalFindersThailand

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