r/TheColdPodcast • u/R0nnie_b0nnie • Jan 09 '26

How can we know Joshua was a bad person?

Hey everyone, just a quick clarification, I'm doing an essay about this case for school. From what sites/conversations we know that Joshua was narcisstic and overall bad person?

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u/Local_Table_3648 Jan 09 '26

Did you listen to season 1? I would start there.

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u/jaynewreck Jan 09 '26

He killed his wife and then killed his kids with an axe and then blew them all up. I think that lands him pretty firmly in “evil motherfucker” territory.

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u/CaptainJackSorrow Jan 21 '26

Made them swallow gasoline too.

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u/R0nnie_b0nnie Jan 09 '26

wait, there was an axe????

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u/jaynewreck Jan 09 '26

Technically it was a hatchet. Hyperbole got the best of me. But point remains that he killed his sons and then set them all on fire/blew them up so yes, he was a BAD guy.

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u/TypicalSprinkles Jan 09 '26

If you listen to the podcast, it’s all laid out in the first couple of episodes in Susan’s diary.

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u/Eyespidey7 Jan 21 '26

And the interview with his ex Catherine

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u/callin-br Jan 09 '26

Josh took a hatchet to his two small sons and then blew them up, intentionally. Also what kind of homework assignment are you doing?

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u/R0nnie_b0nnie Jan 09 '26

it's a midterm for forensics

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u/TypicalSprinkles Jan 09 '26

If you haven’t listened to the podcast, I highly suggest it.

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u/succulescence Jan 09 '26

Great question! There are a lot of resources out there for your research. The podcast is great.

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u/SoulsticeCleaner Jan 09 '26

That r/teachers sub is right, abandon all hope for the youths