337. The St. Louis Package Killer: Gary Randall Muehlberg

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Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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It all started on March 22, 1990, when 18-year-old Robin Mihan went missing from Cherokee Street in South St. Louis. Although Robin was only eighteen, she already had two children and was battling a drug addiction. To feed her kids and her habit she had begun working as a sex worker along Cherokee Street. On this particular night, Mihan got into a car with a stranger and would never be seen alive again. Four days later, her body was found inside two mattresses that had been tied around her and dumped along State Highway E. Then, months later, another discovery. Just after 9 a.m. on October 5, 1990, two men were cleaning up outside an apartment building near Page Avenue in St. Louis County when one of them noticed a plastic trash can sitting in the grass. A trash bag was pulled tightly over the top, secured with a wire. As they got closer, the smell hit them — the unmistakable smell of death. Thinking it was a dead animal, one of the men unwound the wire. But it wasn’t an animal. Inside the trash can was the body of a woman. Two women. Two brutal murders. Two bodies were discarded in places where someone hoped they wouldn’t be found. And someone in St. Louis was responsible. Join Jen and Cam on this Our True Crime episode as we discuss: The St. Louis Package Killer: Gary Randall Muehlberg. Listener discretion by @octoberpodVHS Music by our EP Nico, who made it into the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. This, my friends, is a HUGE deal. We love him and are so proud of him. @theinkypawprint Sources: https://www.stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2022-09-23/how-gary-muehlberg-was-revealed-as-st-louis-package-killer https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueCrime/comments/xipagf/how_notorious_serial_killer_gary_muehlberg/ https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/serial-killer-charged-murders-four-women-30-years-package-killer/63-e63df0dc-94a0-46b8-9b87-1a511e6b48a1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA92oKiQw5g https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/accused-package-killer-gary-muehlberg-to-be-charged-in-1990-murders/meg https://www.stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2019-07-29/package-killer-cold-cases-remain-unsolved-nearly-3-decades-later https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gary-muehlberg-charged-package-killer-murders-4-women-1990-dna-link-prosecutors/ https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/convicted-missouri-murderer-gary-muehlberg-tied-to-package-killer-murders-of-4-women/ https://www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/how-the-package-serial-killer-was-finally-revealed/ https://archive.today/20230504160405/https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/investigations/gary-muehlberg-alleged-serial-killer-confessions/63-d9fd7158-5f0f-406d-832a-8903468e0fe8 https://archive.today/20230504160326/https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/accused-package-killer-gary-muehlberg-to-be-charged-in-1990-murders/ https://archive.today/20230504160447/https://www.stltoday.com/news/article_7de1adbd-d41f-5b35-b1f3-24629b4cab3a.html https://archive.today/20230401045934/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/serial-killer-gary-muehlberg-pleads-guilty-to-first-known-slaying-39769901 https://archive.today/20220920050838/https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/crime/serial-killer-charged-murders-four-women-30-years-package-killer/63-e63df0dc-94a0-46b8-9b87-1a511e6b48a1 https://archive.today/20230504160422/https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/how-notorious-serial-killer-gary-muehlberg-terrorized-st-louis-38526656 https://www.riverfronttimes.com/serial-killer-gary-muehlberg-probably-knows-more-than-hes-saying/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gary-muehlberg-package-killer-admits-killing-brenda-pruitt-donna-reitmeyer-1990s/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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