45. The Skid Row Slasher | Vaughn Greenwood

Podcast: Homocidal Tendency: A Queer True Crime Podcast · Homocidal Tendency | LGBTQ Crime & Dark History

Opublikowano: 2026-11-01

​In the winter of 1974 and 1975, downtown Los Angeles became a slaughterhouse. A quiet, methodical predator known as the "Skid Row Slasher" hunted vulnerable unhoused men in the flophouses and alleys of Skid Row leaving behind a chilling signature: ear-to-ear throat slashings, unlaced shoes pointing at the dead, circles of white salt, and cups filled with victims' blood. ​While the press panicked over Satanic cults and the LAPD wasted weeks hunting a fictional, bigoted profile of a "tall, blond, deformed, and sexually impotent" white boogeyman, the real killer was a 30-year-old Black man named Vaughn Greenwood. Wh...