Episode #1.6
- Episode aired Oct 13, 2017
- TV-MA
- 34m
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Wendy considers an offer. Holden and Bill struggle to communicate their findings to the judicial system in the baffling Altoona case.Wendy considers an offer. Holden and Bill struggle to communicate their findings to the judicial system in the baffling Altoona case.Wendy considers an offer. Holden and Bill struggle to communicate their findings to the judicial system in the baffling Altoona case.
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- TriviaThe end of this episode closes with The Boomtown Rats' song, "I Don't Like Mondays" which was written by Bob Geldof after the 1979 mass shooting of 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer at Grover Cleveland Elementary in San Diego, CA. The song's title is attributed to Spencer's quoted reason for the shooting: "I don't like Mondays."
- GoofsWhen Holden first sits on the floor as Brian is playing with the Lincoln Log toys, Brian can be seen putting the red roof pieces onto the stack of logs. In the next scene as the camera shows the full room view, Brian is still stacking logs on the tower and the roof pieces are on the floor in front of him.
- Quotes
Wendy Carr: You know, you're going to see people present with similar pathologies, but the way a person kills is as individual and distinct as the way they have sex.
Holden Ford: And just as complicated.
- SoundtracksBaker Street
Written and Performed by Gerry Rafferty
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According to an 1988 article in the Altoona Mirror, on June 2, 1979, a 22-year-old woman named Betty Jean Shade had a fight with her live-in boyfriend, Charles "Butch" Soult. She was planning on leaving him. Still, she went on a drive with Soult, his brother, Michael, and sister, Catherine, to the nearby Wopsononock Mountain, so Soult and Shade could take a walk.
When they didn't return after some time, Catherine went searching for her brother - and found him beating Shade to death. Shade died of head and stab wounds. The trio transported Shade's body to the garbage dump three days after the killing, as happens in Mindhunter. Soult mutilated Shade's body in the garbage dump, as Benji did to Betty Jean.
Police first arrested Catherine and Michael Soult, then arrested Charles on a Greyhound bus to Pittsburgh. Though the jury sentenced Charles Soult to death, the trial judge overruled the decision and gave him a life sentence. He's currently serving out his sentence in the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Further, the name "Beverly Jean" may be an homage to a murder which took place in Dallas, Texas in 1970. Beverly Jean Hope, mother of three and popular suburban housewife, was murdered in her large mansion. The crime, to this date, remains unsolved, though new information which emerged in 2016 brought another suspect into the mix: Beverly Jean's ex-brother-in-law. Perhaps it's too small a coincidence, but in Mindhunter, Beverly Jean's murder is partially carried out by Benji's brother-in-law.
Either way, the true story of Betty Jean Shade (and Beverly Jean Hope) are reminders that Mindhunter isn't just a TV show to binge-watch before proceeding to the next one. Mindhunter reminds us of lives cut far too short by heinous acts of violence against women.
When they didn't return after some time, Catherine went searching for her brother - and found him beating Shade to death. Shade died of head and stab wounds. The trio transported Shade's body to the garbage dump three days after the killing, as happens in Mindhunter. Soult mutilated Shade's body in the garbage dump, as Benji did to Betty Jean.
Police first arrested Catherine and Michael Soult, then arrested Charles on a Greyhound bus to Pittsburgh. Though the jury sentenced Charles Soult to death, the trial judge overruled the decision and gave him a life sentence. He's currently serving out his sentence in the State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.
Further, the name "Beverly Jean" may be an homage to a murder which took place in Dallas, Texas in 1970. Beverly Jean Hope, mother of three and popular suburban housewife, was murdered in her large mansion. The crime, to this date, remains unsolved, though new information which emerged in 2016 brought another suspect into the mix: Beverly Jean's ex-brother-in-law. Perhaps it's too small a coincidence, but in Mindhunter, Beverly Jean's murder is partially carried out by Benji's brother-in-law.
Either way, the true story of Betty Jean Shade (and Beverly Jean Hope) are reminders that Mindhunter isn't just a TV show to binge-watch before proceeding to the next one. Mindhunter reminds us of lives cut far too short by heinous acts of violence against women.
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- Kittanning, Pennsylvania, USA(Exterior)
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- Runtime34 minutes
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