BARBARA and Richie Dickstein had a bizarre hobby that added spice to their marriage — for two decades they became intimate pen pals with at least 100 of America’s most evil serial killers!
Now, their trove of 30,000 letters filled with gruesome descriptions of what happened to victims, recorded phone calls and twisted artwork are being bared on a podcast, Killer’s Vault, which exposes the couple hoodwinked killer clown John Wayne Gacy, cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer, “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez, Charles Manson and “Son of Sam” David Berkowitz into becoming their buddies.
John Wayne Gacy
In 1992, Berkowitz became the first target. Barbara decided to write to him because she knew someone who narrowly missed being his victim.
Jeffrey Dahmer
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