Bazaar Bizarre (2004)

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Appropriately named, ‘Bazaar Bizarre‘  is a fascinating documentary by Benjamin Meade that examines the truly bizarre life and crimes of American serial killer  Robert “Bob” Berdella , also knows as ‘ The Kansas City Butcher‘ who raped, tortured and killed at least six men between 1984 and 1987.

Meade uses a weird blend of dramatic graphic recreations, archival video footage of Berdella from local news reports and 1st person accounts from people who knew, had lived with or and had even escaped from Berdella, to tell this truly bizarre tale of a truly bizarre man…

Berdella was eventually sentenced to two life sentences without parole in 1988 and died in prison on October 8, 1992

In 1988, Chris Bryson was found running down a Kansas City street naked, beaten, and bloody wearing nothing but a dog collar and a leash. He told police about Bob Berdella, a local business man and how Berdella had caputed him, held him hostage, raped him, tortured him, and photographed him over several days. Police later arrested Berdella and searched his mid-town Kansas City home where they found several hundred polaroid photographs, a detailed torture log, envelopes of human teeth and a human skull. It was soon discovered that Berdella had murdered six young men in his home after drugging them and performing his sick acts of sexual torture. He met a couple of the victims at his business, a small shop called “Bob’s Bizaare Bazaar” where he sold artifacts from around the world related to the darker side of human nature for people with jaded tastes.Some lived the horrors for only a few days…  Benjamin Meade

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