E35: Randall Toshio Saito

Today’s episode is a little bit different. We are talking about Randall Saito, who is not a serial killer, but he did kill one woman and was described as someone who has the potential to be a serial killer, had he not been caught. In 2017, he escaped a state mental hospital in Hawaii and flew across the ocean before he was apprehended in California.

We discuss the history, the setting, the crime and the killers epic escape from a mental hospital and eventual capture.

As usual we close out the show with some shout outs, crime news and of course, some tips on how not to get shmurdered.

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Footnotes

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/15/a-man-with-a-classic-serial-killer-profile-has-escaped-a-mental-hospital-and-cant-be-found

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/dangerous-hawaii-psychiatric-hospital-inmate-randall-saito-recaptured-california-n821296

https://www.apnews.com/105bedf6fec24215b526b959e931d45e

https://www.khon2.com/news/local-news/escapee-married-former-hospital-worker-allegedly-threatened-to-blow-away-the-staff_20180306071310380/1012618351

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article184780023.html

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36845419/heres-what-we-know-about-randall-saito/

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/36865361/psychopathic-killer-says-he-escaped-from-state-hospital-because-its-not-safe/

https://fox40.com/2017/11/16/hawaiian-hospital-escapee-explains-why-he-came-to-california/

https://newspaperarchive.com/sandra-yamashiro-obituary-283448086/

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2018/12/14/read-ags-massive-report-an-admitted-killers-escape-hawaii-state-hospital/

http://friendsofkoolauclubhouse.org/the-koolau-clubhouse.html

NY Times Article https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/magazine/when-not-guilty-is-a-life-sentence.html

My Favorite Murder Podcast episode 97 – The Hague

Documentary: Hawaii the Stolen Paradise http://www.sidewaysfilm.com/hawaii-the-stolen-paradise/

Podcast: Stuff you missed in History Class: Queen Lili’uokalani https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/who-was-the-last-queen-of-hawaii.htm

https://www.gohawaii.com/hawaiian-culture/history

https://www.islands.com/sacred-hawaii

Shout Outs

Wendy Offshore podcast Offshore is a podcast storytelling initiative from Honolulu Civil Beat, a nonprofit community-supported news outlet serving Hawaii. Their small team of multimedia reporters are dedicated to shining a spotlight on important issues by elevating traditionally unheard voices. Season 3 is about the adoption of Hawaiian kids from the Marshall Islands who were adopted illegally. And follows one young man on his quest to find his birth family.

https://www.offshorepodcast.org/

News Link: The sicence of Serial Killers is Changing

https://www.popsci.com/sasha-reid-serial-killer-research

Personal safety tips https://www.gcccd.edu/emergency/personal-safety-tips-.html