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Marcus Parks

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Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

We're going to need to ramp this up a little bit.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Well, the second of Jimmy's three favorite facilities was the National Spinal Injury Center at Stoke Mandeville.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Many of the patients there were paralyzed either temporarily or permanently.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

And investigations found that Saville abused at least 63 people connected to Stoke Mandeville over the decades he spent there.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Although the real number, again, is certainly far, far, far higher.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Saville wormed his way into Stoke Mandeville in 1968 while making an episode of Saville's Travels.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

And even before he began taping the episode, he digitally penetrated a young patient's vagina after asking her to come sit in his lap.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

He got away with it.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

So Saville knew that he had found another playground.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Stoke Mandeville is where Savile infamously volunteered as an overnight porter, transporting both the living and the dead in the middle of the night when no one else was watching.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

According to several staff, Savile was creepy and particularly loved taking bodies to the mortuary.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Here, of course, is where we get into the necrophilia.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Oh, yeah, we do.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Jimmy Savile gave an interview in the early 70s in which he revealed why he loved working at hospitals and specifically why he loved working at the morgue.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

He said that he had an aptitude for dead people, that when he was holding somebody that just died, he was filled with tremendous love.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Apparently, the person doing the interview didn't ask him why the fuck he was holding dead bodies.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

When is it happening?

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Do the families know that you're holding these dead bodies?

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

I usually just grab at them.

Last Podcast On The Left
Episode 659: Jimmy Savile Part II - The Devil Behind the Curtain

Yeah, I just like the lift and drop.