{"id":1483,"date":"2026-01-23T11:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:54:58","slug":"episode-181-fifty-states-of-murder-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/episode-181-fifty-states-of-murder-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 181: Fifty States of Murder: Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Fifty States of Murder puts the pedal to the metal and takes on one of the biggest cases of serial murder in American history: BTK, aka Dennis Rader. His brutal crimes went unsolved for decades as he taunted the police through cryptic letters, dropped out of sight for years at a time, and crafted a wholesome public persona. Dark humor abounds as Eli and Mel try to reconcile the antics of a man who consistently flubbed the details of his attacks while also leaving a trail of bodies behind him and was so good at living a double life he was able to fool both his family and his entire community. In fact, his identity might still be a mystery today if he hadn&#8217;t gone one step too far with the cops in\u2026 Kansas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Fifty States of Murder: Kansas\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/0HIZQGmXRQW5nTvxMmWbTo?si=32f3d7bb02c14f5e&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Music Credit: &#8220;Game Boy Horror&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/zombiedandies.bandcamp.com\/\">The Zombie Dandies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally aired January 19, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty States of Murder puts the pedal to the metal and takes on one of the biggest cases of serial murder in American history: BTK, aka Dennis Rader. His brutal crimes went unsolved for decades as he taunted the police through cryptic letters, dropped out of sight for years at a time, and crafted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[91,129],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode","tag-fifty-states-of-murder","tag-kansas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/episode-181-Fifty-States-of-Murder-Kansas.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deliverussomeevil.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}