This week’s episode is a tough one. We follow along as Zoey tells the story of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins, an infamous serial killer from South Carolina. Donald had a tough life, but he made it worse for everyone around him. He started his crimes when he was still a tween, and only ramped up as he made his way through life. Donald Gaskins claimed … Continue reading Ep 94 – The Horrors of Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins
You’ve read the book “All My Friends are Dead” by Avery Monsen and Jory John, focusing on a little dinosaur that has lost all his loved ones. Well, for Velma Barfield, that book is reality. Velma Barfield grew up in rural North Carolina. When she was 17, she got married and had a happy life with her husband and two kids. But when both herself … Continue reading Ep 90 – Death follows Velma Barfield
Aileen Wuornos was born into a bad life, had a bad childhood, and grew to be a bad adult. The odds were stacked against her, and after living a life of abuse, torture, and petty crime, she kicked it up a level and added murder to her list. While she was born in Michigan, her killing spree of 7 men took place in Florida between … Continue reading Ep 52 – Doomed From the Start, the Life of a Female Serial Killer
We know that Nannie Doss killed four of her five husbands. She admitted it at the age of 49 when she was finally arrested. Continue reading Ep 33 -Nannie Doss, AKA The Giggling Granny
The Axeman, active in 1918 and 1919, attacked Italian-Americans who owned grocery stores in New Orleans and the surrounding areas. He broke into their houses at night, gaining entry by cutting a panel out of each of their doors and then attacking the sleeper with their own ax. Continue reading Ep 13 – The Axeman of New Orleans
While the world may never know who the first Serial Killers are, we do know who the first recorded Serial Killers in America are. Meet Micajah and Wiley Harpe – two brothers (or maybe cousins) born in North Carolina (or Scotland). They traveled the Southern United States during and after the American Revolutionary War, pillaging, killing, burning things to the ground, and worse. They traveled … Continue reading Episode 8: The Harpe Brothers – America’s First Serial Killers
The traditional story of Lavinia Fisher is one of extremes: that she was the first female serial killer in America, that she was the first woman executed by hanging in America, that she killed men by poisoned tea and trapdoor before her husband cut up their bodies. It’s a lot—and it terrified me for years. Like many people who live in South Carolina, I visit … Continue reading Ep 7 – The True Crimes of Lavinia Fisher: Old City Jail’s Most Famous Ghost
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