Serial Killers of the American Frontier

Further Reading For Serial Killers of the American Frontier

America’s Early Serial Killers: Five Cases of Frontier Madness (Murder, Scandals and Mayhem) (Volume 4) by Mike Riley

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Serial killers have existed for as long as humans have walked on this earth but it wasn’t until HH Holmes that the notion of a single person stalking and killing numerous victims came into the American consciousness. This episode is about those freaks and monsters that existed before we were all depraved internet lunatics, slumming in tragedy.

It’s two tales of frontier madness this week as we cover Mickey and Wiley Harpe, the smelliest cave men to ever rampage across Kentucky, and Felipe Espinoza, whose body count positively dwarfs the notches on the gun of any wild west outlaw.

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