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343: Police Officer Turned Rampage Killer - April 9 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com April 9th: Edward Lutes Kills (2002) Sometimes, life gets to be too much and you snap. For most of us, this means we yell at a loved one, scream into a pillow or maybe punch a wall. But for some, a piling up of tragic events can lead to much more devastating outbursts. On April 9th 2002, a man took all of the tragedy in his life and snapped in the most dangerous way taking the lives of 5 other innocent people down with him. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of...

0:04.0

We have a weird...

0:05.0

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion...

0:09.0

...calf a murder.

0:11.0

Sometimes life gets to be too much and you snap.

0:15.0

For most of us, this means we yell at a loved one, scream into a pillow, or maybe punch a wall. But for some, a piling

0:24.4

up of tragic events can lead to a much more devastating outburst. On April 9, 2002, a man took

0:31.6

all of the tragedy in his life and snapped in the most dangerous way, taking the lives of five

0:37.2

other innocent people down

0:38.8

with him. So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day

0:43.9

with a morning cup of murder. On April 9, 2002, a man named Edward Lutz went to the Dover, New Jersey home of Dominant Galliano, 51,

0:57.7

and his wife, Gale, 49, and fired several shots killing the couple. He then went and shot their

1:04.8

25-year-old son, Christopher. The Galeanos were his neighbors, and they knew Edward as the mean man who yelled at people for walking on his lawn, and told neighborhood children to throw eggs at the homes of his enemies.

1:18.1

He then went to another neighbor's home and killed 48-year-old Gary Williams and his 49-year-old wife, Tina.

1:26.1

Thankfully, before he could suffer the same fate as his parents, 23-year-old Robert

1:31.2

Williams jumped from his window and left with only an injured ankle.

1:36.0

Edward drove to a nearby township and shot a Seaside Heights police chief, James Costello,

1:41.8

twice in the leg and once in the wrist before fleeing. James Costello wasn't a

1:46.2

stranger either. He was Edward's former boss and was once considered a close friend, a fact that James

1:52.7

was able to relay from his hospital bed after surviving the attack. Edward Lutz, who was now a dangerous

1:59.5

murderer on the run, was once a police officer who spent

2:03.3

17 years on the force. He was known for his efficiency, meticulousness, his expertise in weaponry,

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