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Talk Murder To Me

207 | The Gorilla Killer: Earle Nelson Serial Killer

Talk Murder To Me

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True Crime

3.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Earle Leonard Nelson, also known in the media as the "Gorilla Man," the "Gorilla Killer," and the "Dark Strangler," was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile. He was the first known American serial sex murderer of the twentieth century.

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Much like an escaped gorilla, tonight's serial murder wreaked unstoppable mayhem.

0:05.3

He traveled in the shadows savagely murdering, raping, and carelessly,

0:09.9

tossing his victims aside as he searched for his next kill.

0:13.4

25 helpless victims would suffer through the worst

0:17.0

imaginable deaths until police finally captured,

0:20.2

caged, and executed Earl Nelson, the Gorilla Killer.

0:24.0

So, if you're at YouTube.

0:32.0

So, if you're at YouTube.com type and talk murder to me and you can see this live.

0:39.0

I'm going to take a sip of those drink.

0:41.0

Also if you are a podcast listener you can go to talk

0:45.4

murder.com and you will see the post from tonight where I put all my episode

0:51.7

sources my photos videos and you definitely and you definitely do not want to miss this killer tonight

0:58.9

It's a very interesting story and I would love for you guys to follow along with us at home. So talk

1:06.1

murder.com or YouTube.com and type in talk murder to me.

1:11.3

I can't keep looking at the screen. They're making me like dizzy, the constant,

1:20.5

the loop. Well there is a reason for the guerrillas. It's the

1:23.7

that was the hint for tonight. Yeah, the hint is gorilla.

1:27.5

Mm-hmm. So we're drinking, it's kind of a spin on a banana dacery.

1:31.4

Hmm. His,ary is fresh banana rum a little bit of your screwball

1:38.6

whiskey the peanut butter whiskey and just ice. Yeah, ice and water. So it's good. Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, it'll do the job. We started

1:49.7

drinking before this, so whoops. This is episode 202 I believe it may be even like

1:56.3

2004 or five I just kind of guessed I know we've already went over 200

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