Small Town Murder
#573 - Serial Killing Schizophrenic Cannibal - Bethesda, Maryland
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
This week, in Bethesda, Maryland, a twisted man quietly kills, for years, using an odd alter ego & even eating parts of certain victims. He is as disturbed as his serial murdering crimes, drawing strange pictures, and confessing to a man that he thinks is Jesus! He comes from a strange background, having the darkest things in common with his older brother. One of the craziest stories that we've ever done!Along the way, we find out that giving your kid certain nicknames may screw them up for life, that you shouldn't compete with your brother in some areas of life, and that even if you tell police where all the bodies are, it probably won't make the voices stop!!New episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: [email protected] to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What is the chilling story of Hadden Clark?
Well, we'll find out some stuff about it here. It's in central Maryland. Maryland's like a lot of panhandles all together.
It's a very strange shaped place.
The middle one here. Yeah, they definitely kind of made that one up as far as the land goes. There's no natural borders to it where you go, yeah, that's where it ends. Oh, yeah. Apart from the-
In the ocean, yeah.
In the ocean and the rivers. It's about 20 minutes to Washington, D.C. from here. Okay. And about 45 minutes to Baltimore, so it's actually closer to D.C. than Baltimore here.
Yeah, maybe it was in the wire.
Possibly, yeah. That's a possibility. About two hours and 45 minutes to Pocomoke City, Maryland, which is our last episode in Maryland, Gone Like a Ghost. That was a very weird episode there, just a disappearance completely. This is in Montgomery County, area code 301. The motto here is an uncommon mix of life and style.
It is.
Oh, God, Jesus. That's uncommon. That's such a marketing. They hired a company. Yeah, they paid five grand for that, and someone gave them that slogan. Some of the history here, a little bit. Most of the settlers here were tenant farmers who paid their rent in tobacco. Oh. Try that now. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: How did Hadden Clark's early life shape his future?
That's where he's born, but he's going to move all over the place. Just a constantly moving as a child. His parents are always going to, his dad's always going to a different job trying to make more money. And, uh,
Troy is a shithole.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anything in upstate New York there is a dump. So bad. These are burnt out industrial towns that still have SUNY colleges. Now they're just little college towns now.
It's a little grainy town, yeah.
Now his parents are married and together. his whole life, which normally you'd go, okay, well, that's good. It'll be a stable upbringing. But this is not a stable upbringing. And judging by the actions of Haddon and his brother, something went wrong in this house, for sure. Like, this is not an okay household here. They move all the time, at least, like, sometimes twice a year. Oh, really?
And not just to a different house, to a different city.
Really?
Yeah, like, move to a different place completely a couple times a year, which is different. Like, I moved a lot.
Instability in work?
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Chapter 3: What were the signs of Hadden Clark's mental health issues?
It's not good.
Well, I guess I figured out if I'm funny that people will like me and I'll make friends easier. It's a lot easier to do. So, yeah, so they had to do that. A lot of moves, a lot of shipping around and everything like that. So you have to figure it out, figure it out and figure out how to do it. And he's not good at this stuff.
And part of it is he doesn't really have a good base of him, like a good base of knowing who he is at home. At home, he's teased at school and at home. Basically, he's picked on everywhere, mainly by his parents.
Really? Yeah.
Well, his father had a nickname for him.
Oh, no.
What?
It's what he'd go, where's the retard, he would say. And that meant hadn't. Yep. And he would say, hey, retard, come here. I get that this isn't nice, but this is what he would call his fucking son.
That's so fucked up.
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Chapter 4: How did the Clark family history influence Hadden's actions?
They should have gave him more than that.
He can't hold a job. He's a wacky son of a bitch. So he's having a lot of this little bit of money helps him, obviously. So he gets home, gets discharged, and he has nowhere really to go. So lucky for him, his brother Jeff is in the middle of a divorce. So he moves into Jeff's basement. This is on Sudley Spring Road in Silver Spring, Maryland.
By the way, Haddon will not take the medicine they prescribed him for his paranoid schizophrenia. He's not doing that at all. He just doesn't give a shit and won't do it. So Jeff here, he's got other problems as well. Jeff earned a degree in microbiology at Ohio State University. Wow. His brother, Brad, also had an advanced degree. Really? Yeah. He married his childhood sweetheart.
I mean, he's living the American fucking John Cougar Mellencamp song dream here. And made their way to the Maryland suburbs, and he got a job with the Food and Drug Administration.
Really?
They had a nice house. They have three kids. And then shit turns ugly and they get a divorce.
Jeff can't do it.
Well, Marcia accuses Jeff of physically abusing her twice. And he was convicted on charges of that, getting a suspended sentence for domestic battery as well.
Like childhood.
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