274: A Big Bad Wolf

Published: Oct. 25, 2023, 11:30 a.m.

It was Halloween night. Doreen Erbert and her four-year-old daughter were cuddled up on the couch, watching a movie, when they heard a knock at the door. The knock sounded aggressive, but Doreen got up to answer it. She figured that she was about to encounter an eager trick-or-treater. Instead, she encountered a man in a wolf costume. Just before he attacked her, Doreen yelled to her daughter to hide.\xa0
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For this episode, Brandi copy and pasted from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cWilliam Dennis\u201d episode Snapped
\n\u201cJUSTICE STORY: Halloween horror as a masked man murders woman and baby\u201d by Mara Bovsun, New York Daily News
\n\u201cMan In Wolf Mask Hacks Pregnant Ex-Wife To Death With Machete On Halloween Night\u201d by Benjamin H. Smith, oxygen.com
\n\u201cGirl recounts grisly Halloween murders\u201d by Michael Molinski, UPI
\n\u201cHalloween killer found guilty in slaying of wife, unborn child\u201d UPI
\n\u201cMan guilty in murder of ex-wife, unborn child\u201d by Tracie Thompson, The Peninsula Times Tribune
\n\u201cCondemned inmates, victims\u2019 families speak out\u201d by Bay Area News Group and Jessica Calefati, Lake County Record-Bee
\n\u201cPeople v. Dennis\u201d findlaw.com
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