Antidote
Episode 33
Serial Killer Secrets: Inside the Museum of Death with JD Healy & Cathee Shultz
Serial killer secrets-from the fetishes of Richard Ramirez, to the art dealings of John Wayne Gacy-and the wonderful world of the macabre and deceased are shared by Museum of Death founders JD Healy and Cathee Shultz. Learn about the smell of dead bodies, how to shrink a head, go inside the Heaven’s Gate cult, and explore death in pop culture. We get a good understanding of why death is something to smile at in the face of, and give a nod to Jack Kevorkian’s creative side in this Halloween episode of Antidote, hosted by Michael Parker.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcoming JD Healy and Cathee Shultz to Antidote.
00:30 Creating The Museum of Death.
01:55 San Diego, sex shows and vice.
03:20 What’s inside and how to create a shrunken head.
06:30 Serial killers and their artwork.
10:18 Richard Ramirez and visiting serial killers.
12:18 The Heaven’s Gate Cult.
16:58 When bodies decompose.
18:27 Phone calls from John Wayne Gacy.
19:17 Death education and death in pop culture.
24:10 Transhumanism and Timothy Leary.
27:58 Death Town and death at an early age.
28:55 Death schools and suicide.
31:28 Jack Kevorkian and his creative life.
34:40 A fresh body from New Hampshire and becoming a licensed cemetery.
37:20 JD and Cathee’s plans for their bodies after they die.
41:13 Halloween at the Museum of Death.
42:08 Thank you and goodbye.
Guest Bio
The World Famous Museum of Death was founded in June, 1995, originally located in San Diego’s 1st mortuary in a building once owned by Wyatt Earp. Evolving from the controversial art gallery the Rita Dean, founders JD Healy and Cathee Shultz realized the void in the death education in this country and decided to make death their life’s work.
Reopened in Hollywood, California, the Museum of Death houses the world’s largest collection of serial murderer artwork, photos of the Charles Manson crime scenes, the guillotined severed head of the Blue Beard of Paris (Henri Landru), original crime scene and morgue photos from the grisly Black Dahlia murder, a body bag and coffin collection, replicas of full size execution devices, mortician and autopsy instruments, pet death taxidermy, and so much more!
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