197: Memphis Serial Killer: George Howard Putt-part 2 of 2

Southern Fried True Crime

Erica Kelley

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 10.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In August and September of 1969, one man killed five people in the span of 29 days in Memphis, Tennessee. These violent crimes shook the city of Memphis to its very core. Lock sales skyrocketed. Families adopted large dogs. People refused to leave their house after sunset. It felt like no one was safe. The police searched day and night for this elusive serial killer. They doubled—then tripled—their staff, canceled all vacation time, and poured over $100,000 into paid overtime. But were it not for the brave actions of the killer’s final victim, Mary Christine Pickens, the perpetrator might have walked free for far, far longer. This is part two of a two-part series.

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0:00.0	Southern fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and
0:14.4	there may also be some explicit language used.
0:17.6	Listener discretion is advised.
0:23.4	Serial killers are more rare than popular culture would have us believe.
0:27.9	Most murderers know their victims, their deaths are not random.
0:32.3	They haven't been unlucky enough to cross paths with a monster.
0:36.1	They were unlucky to know a person who wanted to hurt them.
0:40.6	But books and movies especially perpetuate the myth of the everyday boogie myth.
0:47.0	And the fictional victim is the archetypal beautiful damsel in distress who was stalked
0:52.0	and hunted until a final showdown.
0:55.3	He will either meet her fate with a serial killer and die, or some criminal profiler
1:00.3	will identify the monster just in time to save our damsel.
1:05.7	But life isn't an episode of criminal minds.
1:08.9	Real serial killers cannot always be put in a box and figured out.
1:13.4	And let's face it, local law enforcement don't want to figure them out.
1:17.9	They just want to stop them.
1:20.1	So in that brutal myth this summer of 1969, police were out of loss.
1:27.1	They worked with the press and the public, and details of the murders were in the papers
1:31.7	in a way we no longer see.
1:34.7	Making the boogie man real in a way that was beginning to feel personal to mempians.
1:40.9	Instead of being scared, they were getting angry.
1:45.4	Welcome to episode 197, met the serial killer George Howard Putt, part two.
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