Talk:Robert Berdella

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? He collected Vietnamese water puppets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.233.182.9 (talk) 20:26, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Overly long

While I respect the significant effort that was put into writing this entry, the article is far too long, and goes into countless details that are of little to no relevance to the subject's notability. As well, certain details are repeated many times over, for example to use of drain cleaner injections into the neck of victims to try to mute their screams. Certainly legitimate that they are repeated per-victim, but they are also repeated elsewhere, unnecessarily. In consideration of how large the article is - I simply can't devote the time to trying to trim back the unnecessary details - there's simply too many of them. But I think it would improve the article significantly to do so. Anastrophe (talk) 04:59, 15 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No due diligence.

The movie The Collector wasn't out til 2000's/2010's. Couldn't base MO on movie that wasn't out. Whomever wrote this piece wasnt accurate. Like all Wikipedia content is questionable. 74.89.215.237 (talk) 11:24, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The article refers to (and links to) The Collector (1965 film), where there is more discussion of Berdella. Larry Hockett (Talk) 15:28, 16 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Is there any source for the suspicions that he was involved in two other disappearances?

A search (as of 2023) seems to yield no results talking about these two other disappearances. So since that time it suggests the KCPD have no evidence for their view. I'm going to remove that part of the article for now. Phil of rel (talk) 19:12, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is somewhere in the Rites of Burial book, if memory serves me correct. Can't recall where. They were unable to trace two of the young men whom he was known to have been acquainted with in the years prior to his arrest.--Kieronoldham (talk) 13:14, 15 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]