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264. Steelton Serial Killer: Joe Miller

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Former Dauphin County Chief Detective Thomas Brennan’s phone rings between 3 am and 4 am from a responding officer requesting assistance on a crime scene. When the detective arrives, he notices a car pulled close to a ditch. Brennen, who received training at the FBI Behavioral Science Unit during his tenure with the state police, knew immediately what he was dealing with when he arrived at the Conrail crime scene. After Brennan asks the officer for details, the officer explains that a Conrail train security guard had stumbled onto a man attacking a woman. The man was startled and he ran off. Thankfully the victim was injured but alive so he called for police and waited with her until help arrived. Detective Brennan noted that the vehicle’s trunk was open and inside was what many would call a “kit” such as rope, and duct tape, as in things to help someone kill or at least bind another person. Outside the car on the ground were plastic mats, seemingly to cover the ground inside the ditch. It was now clear to Brennan that this man had planned to kill his victim, put her in that ditch, and drive away. What was also clear to the detective was that this was not this man’s first time killing someone, he had done it before and he knew what he was doing.

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The compulsion to rape and kill: Inside Steelton serial killer Joseph Miller’s mindStory by John Luciew | [email protected]

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2016/04/the_grisly_history_of_joseph_m.html

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Edward October.

0:02.6

Over the years I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows, and creepy pastas than I can count.

0:08.0

And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not

0:16.0

suitable for children or the faint of heart. If you are such a person go ahead and

0:20.1

switch off this podcast. Listen to something else.

0:24.0

Are you still with us?

0:26.0

Well, we've warned you. So, Hey Jen!

0:47.0

Kim, how's it going?

0:50.0

Whoa, that was a happy welcome.

0:52.0

It was. I was not prepared for that. Whoa that was a happy welcome was it's a

0:53.7

prepared for that

0:55.3

it is summer

0:57.3

Living my best life doing nothing I love it.

0:59.7

Well you're watching TV that's something right I'm watching TV and playing solitaire and

1:03.8

doing one little chore a day. There you go. So there you go. Well I have a case for you

1:07.8

today. My friend. All right. What's it? Give it to me. It's here we go.

1:11.8

Are you ready. Yep.m.

1:26.5

from a responding officer requesting assistance on a crime scene.

1:30.4

When the detective arrives, he notices a car pulled right up close to a ditch.

1:35.0

Now Brennan, who received training at the FBI Behavioral Science Unit during his tenure with the state police,

1:41.0

knew immediately what he was dealing with when he arrived on the

1:45.2

Conrail crime scene. Conrail is the train system by the way.

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