Hopewell Valley Student Podcasting Network

Show Name: Real Cases, Fictional Minds

Episode Title: Barbie's Dreamhouse

You are listening to Real Cases, Fictional Minds, the podcast with your host(s) Jaylli Kushi

In this episode of Real Cases, Fictional Minds, the podcast, we discuss: Season 2 Episode 3 titled “The Perfect Storm” and how it is based on the real-life serial killers known as the Ken and Barbie Killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.

This episode starts in Jacksonville, Florida. A couple gets mail from their daughter in college, thinking it is going to be pictures of her, but it was a DVD of their daughter getting tortured. The victim’s name is Laura Clemensen. She is 20 years old, blonde, a sophomore at the University of Jacksonville, Florida, and she is assumed to be the 5th in a series of rapes and murders over the past 2 years. Jacksonville PD has been looking for this killer for years. The team flies to Jacksonville, Florida. While on the plane, they start talking about the second offender, saying that these 2 are clearly deranged and acting out their worst sadistic fantasies. They learn from Garcia that the Jacksonville PD just found Laura Clemensen’s body under a bridge.. Gideon and Morgan go to the crime scene. They learn the victim has deep lacerations on her neck, chest, and thighs. The color of her bruising indicated torture had been going on for multiple days, and CSI believes that because the cause of death was strangulation, it is consistent with the other victims. Garcia sends over a list of all the unsolved rapes and murders in the past 2 years. There were 2 that stuck out to Reid. The victims share similar physical traits, and they were also posed after being killed in an interesting manner. The only difference is that they were manually strangled. While going over evidence, JJ finds that the Unsubs are targeting the mothers. All of the DVDs were only addressed to the mothers of the victims, so sending the videos only to the mothers is a message itself. The team has up to 7 victims now. They give a profile for the 2 UnSubs to the police. One is submissive, and one is dominant. If the criminal desire wasn’t present, their partnership wouldn’t work. In the middle of giving the profile, they find out there is another girl missing named Tiffany. The night before, she had gone for a run and didn’t come back home. Tiffany Spears was abducted from Middleberg, which is almost an hour away. While searching for how the unsub is traveling from place to place they learn that the Unsubs would take the cars of the victims and sell their parts across state lines, so no one in Jacksonville would be able to find them. Those sales were traced to Joseph Davin, who lives in Jacksonville. He’s been in and out of jail since he was 17. He is 27 years old and has a number of charges, including car theft with a partner, making him a prime suspect. When the team finds an address, they go to his house. His dad answers the door, and Joey appears in the living room with a gun, telling Agents Morgan and Gideon, and the main detective to get out of his way. They tell him to drop the weapon, and he doesn’t, forcing the detective to shoot him. Joey was their only link to finding where Tiffany could be. They talk to his father and learn that Joey works at a garage with a bunch of ex-cons. They find out that when he was in jail, he shared a cell with Tony Canardo, and they were both released 3 years ago. They went to Joey’s workplace and learned that he had been fired because he wasn’t good at his job. His ex-con friends would come around his workplace, and Tony Canardo was part of the crew Joey would hang with. They arrive at Tony’s house, and his wife answers, telling them he will be home soon. Morgan waits for him outside. Back at the...