Detective Mike McKenna

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75 appearances 5 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

Detective Mike McKenna’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Binge Crimes: What Happened to the Harrisons? · The Poet | 6. Buried · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

I was just as mad at Ruth Finley as I was the BTK strangler.

She caused totally unnecessary stress on so many detectives, their home lives, their kids' lives, taking them away from family events.

So much manpower, so much time, so much energy of everybody.

You work on these cases, you put your heart and soul into them, trying to help these people, just to be hoodwinked.

We got a search warrant for the house and the fruits of the crime were found.

Part of a red bandana, a chief's notebook, some stamps from the same book of stamps that had been used on prior letters.

But it was overwhelming that she indeed was doing this to herself.

It was very frustrating.

Everything we were doing, we weren't getting anywhere.

It felt like we were chasing ghosts.

I go back and I tell Bernie, I said, Bernie, I said, something just doesn't seem right.

He said, what do you mean?

I said, nobody ever sees anything at the house, yet these things appear on the front porch.

Nobody saw anything anywhere.

I said, listen, between you and me, I think that somebody in here is either

telling this damn poet what we're going to do next, or he's got a bug in here and he can hear us talking about it.

That's how he's finding out what Nick's plan of attack is.

God, I love that guy.

He looks at me, he says, get the hell out of my office.

I said, what?

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