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Mike Boudet

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1730 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Sword and Scale
Episode 338

appeared to develop a disturbing interest in the same notorious figure.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

Just two years after the Cleveland Strangler was put away, Michael Madison emerged onto the crime scene.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

Michael was born in East Cleveland in 1977.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

Former classmates barely remembered him because he had no real friends.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

He was, I guess, what you would call forgettable.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

He didn't graduate from high school, but he was far from stupid.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

He had a lot going on in his head.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

but no one ever bothered to ask what that was.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

And he never saw a therapist.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

But he needed one because he hated women, specifically black women.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

The women who fell into his nightmare weren't prostitutes or drugged out street women, not that they would deserve his fate.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

Instead, they were women with families, full lives and plans.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

And for a brief fateful moment,

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

Each of them crossed paths with Michael Madison.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

The first body found was 18-year-old Sherelda Terry.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

She had just graduated from high school with plans for a good life.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

That summer, she worked at an elementary school in East Cleveland, helping run youth programs and earning respect from teachers and neighbors.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

She was last seen alive on July 10, 2013, leaving school after her shift, but she never made it home.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

They met somewhere in the previous weeks and started texting.

Sword and Scale
Episode 338

Michael lied, saying he was 25 with no children.