Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén
Welcome to your weekly journey into the darkest corners of human nature. Join Harvey Guillén every Monday as he explores crimes that seized the public’s attention, from jaw-dropping heists and devastating cons to serial murders and deadly rivalries. Each episode unfolds a single case, examining not just the events themselves, but what continues to linger beneath the surface.
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“The Sunday Morning Slasher” Coral Eugene Watts...
Unable to contain his dark fantasies and suppressed rage, Coral Eugene Watts targeted women in Michigan and Texas starting in 1974, and continuing for nearly a decade.
31 min
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“The Racist Killer” Joseph Paul Franklin Pt. 2
Still desperate to ignite a race war in the United States, Joseph Paul Franklin sought more prominent targets, hoping to draw attention to his cause.
35 min
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“The Racist Killer” Joseph Paul Franklin Pt. 1
He studied Mein Kampf. Changed his name. And joined white supremacist groups across the country.
38 min
429
“The Torso Killer” Richard Francis Cottingham P...
In 1977, Cottingham was married with three kids, two secret girlfriends, and an itch for abusing sex workers.
39 min
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“The Torso Killer” Richard Francis Cottingham P...
He had an idyllic childhood in the 1940s and ‘50s, but as Richard Francis Cottingham grew, he began having dark, dehumanizing sexual fantasies about women.
39 min
431
“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy...
In 1979, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris sexually assaulted and murdered five teenage girls.
36 min
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“The Toolbox Killers” Lawrence Bittaker and Roy...
They each lived lonely lives, bouncing from jail to jail until a chance meeting in California brought them together in 1978.
35 min
433
“The ABC Killer” Moses Sithole
At a young age, Moses Sithole was abandoned by his mother, forcing him to go in and out of a traumatic foster care system.
39 min
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“The Chicago Abductor” Brian Dugan
In the early ‘70s, a teenaged Dugan had an encounter with one of the most notorious serial killers in the U.S.—a killer whose infamy Dugan would soon match, with a murder spree throughout Chicago’s rural suburbs.
33 min
435
“Milwaukee North Side Strangler” Walter E. Ellis
In his youth, Walter Ellis was prone to fits of physical violence.
34 min
436
“The Hitchhiker Killer” Thor Nis Christiansen
Growing up in the California town of Solvang, Thor Nis Christiansen was the quiet son of Danish immigrants.
37 min
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“A Chaotic Life” Andrew Urdiales
He endured extreme childhood abuse, served in the Marines, and was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia.
35 min
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“Crazy Charlie” Charles Ray Hatcher
He spent his life trying to escape jails, mental hospitals, and his urge to kill.
36 min
439
“The Boy Torturer of Boston” Pt. 2: Jesse Pomeroy
Sent to a reform school for the remainder of his childhood, Jesse Pomeroy, and his distraught mother, had one shared goal in mind: early release.
33 min
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“The Boy Torturer of Boston” Pt. 1: Jesse Pomeroy
Born in 1859 with a cleft palate, Jesse Pomeroy's father looked upon his son as weak, and brutally abused him throughout his childhood.
35 min
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“Hannibal Lecter of Sweden” Sture Bergwall
He claimed to be Sweden's first serial killer.
39 min
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“Warwick Slasher” Craig Price
Growing up as one of the few black kids in Warwick, Rhode Island was not easy.
32 min
443
“Doctor Satan” Pt. 2: Marcel Petiot
In 1942, Marcel Petiot's fake escape network, Fly-Tox, was operating at full steam.
34 min
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“Doctor Satan” Pt. 1: Marcel Petiot
Since childhood, Marcel Petiot flaunted a disregard for the rules.
33 min
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“The Acid Bath Murderer” Pt. 2: John George Haigh
His first murder in 1944 had gone exactly as planned: the body had dissolved in acid, and he was sure no one would ever find out what he had done.
40 min
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“The Acid Bath Murderer” Pt. 1: John George Haigh
Born in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century, John George Haigh rebelled against his hyper-religious upbringing and opted for a life of crime.
36 min
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“The Cleveland Strangler” Pt. 2: Anthony Sowell
As his living conditions deteriorated in the late 2000's, so did Anthony Sowell’s state of mind.
39 min
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“The Cleveland Strangler” Pt. 1: Anthony Sowell
Plagued by addiction, Anthony Sowell killed 11 women between May 2007 and September of 2009.
34 min
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“The Slave Master” Pt. 2: John Edward Robinson
By 1984, after a lifetime spent breaking the law and facing few consequences, John Edward Robinson had finally crossed the line into cold-blooded murder.
41 min
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“The Slave Master” Pt. 1: John Edward Robinson
As a child growing up in Illinois in the 1940s and ‘50s, John Edward Robinson was obsessed with figures from the criminal underworld.
40 min