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Podcast: Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Episode: 354 - The Redemption Experiment of Serial Killer Jack Unterweger
Description: In the Spring of 1990, when Jack Unterweger was released from prison in Austria after serving fifteen years for strangling an eighteen year-old to death with her own bra (amongst numerous other crimes), many of Austria's literary elite were convinced he was rehabilitated. They'd even tried to get him pardoned years earlier after he'd written a bestselling autobiography, poems, short stories, and children's books that won him the hearts of not just other writers, but people all around Austria. They rejoiced when he was released after serving the minimum years of his lifetime sentenced. They would all soon learn he w...