We’ve covered some real nasty pieces of work on our show over the years. Dive into true crime for any length of time, and you’re bound to come across plenty of people you wouldn’t want to meet in a dark alley. Or a lit one, even. But even among the rogue’s gallery of devil’s rejects out there, there are some in a league of their own. People so devoid of morals and human empathy that they should really just be shoved in some dank little spider-infested oubliette somewhere and forgotten about, just to protect the rest of us. Today, we’re gonna tell you about two of them.

Case 1: Hell's Belle - The Crimes of Melissa Patterson
Case 2: Making a Killing - The Story of Mark Barton, the Day Trader Killer

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Sources:
Appeals court filings, Patterson v State: https://casetext.com/case/patterson-v-state-2099
Investigation Discovery's "Diabolical," episode "The Rich Get Richer"
Oxygen's "Snapped," episode "Melissa Patterson"
Martin Knell's Obituary
KRGV: https://www.krgv.com/videos/murder-victim-s-only-son-speaks-out-following-conviction/
My RGV: https://myrgv.com/local-news/2023/09/23/five-years-later-monica-melissa-patterson-still-claims-innocence-despite-the-evidence/
Time magazine: https://time.com/archive/6736072/a-portrait-of-the-killer/
New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/31/us/shootings-in-atlanta-the-overview-killer-confessed-in-a-letter-spiked-with-rage.html
Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1999/07/31/killer-wrote-of-fear-hopelessness/af33786a-de37-45cd-9d5f-1098379892dd/
South Coast Today: https://www.southcoasttoday.com/story/news/nation-world/1999/07/31/atlanta-shooter-had-been-disgruntled/50508538007/

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