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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

177: The Poughkeepsie Killer

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The town of Poughkeepsie, NY had a trophy-collecting serial killer in it's midst in the late 90's.

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0:00.0

A New York state of crime. I'm Rebecca Leib.

0:02.8

I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town.

0:20.1

Well the police are sure they're going to find the bodies in the woods,

0:22.8

but in fact that's not what happens. Kendall tells them the bodies are in the attic and crawl space

0:27.7

of his house where he lives with his mother, his father, and his sister.

0:33.2

In all this time that we considered Kendall a suspect, we never thought for a minute that

0:37.5

he would have all these bodies stored in his house while his mother's father and sister lived

0:42.9

there with him. When young women began to disappear without a trace in late 1996,

0:48.6

in Bikipsey, New York police eventually came to the conclusion they might have a serial killer

0:53.9

on the loose. We're talking about Kendall Francois, the monster of Bikipsey, the Bikipsey killer,

1:03.1

or his childhood nickname Stinky. Okay, I'm in.

1:08.2

I don't know if you're someone who has a hometown serial killer, nor would you want one,

1:12.6

you should not want to have one. So there's serial killers out there that are unidentified

1:17.6

right now, so you wouldn't know if you did or didn't. And I'm not counting if you live in a huge city

1:22.8

where you can claim Richard Ramirez in LA or this one is Bikipsey's own serial killer,

1:31.5

where I still live. I still live in Bikipsey. And I lived in Bikipsey at the time

1:37.2

when he was serial killing. That's the worst part. When you're there at the active point of

1:42.8

their lives and you don't know it, that's what freaks me out. And this story also ties into a movie

1:52.5

that came out in 2007 called the Bikipsey tapes. They are unrelated, but they're not unrelated. In fact,

2:01.5

sometimes when you look up one, usually the other comes up as well because it's a movie about a

2:06.5

serial killer in Bikipsey. And that has its own story. And when I did an episode for Two Scary

2:14.0

Didn't Watch, we talked about the Bikipsey tapes because it was on their list. And it is a very

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