41 • The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell
Dark Topic
Jack Luna
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Harry Powers wooed the ladies with his slick stories and promises of riches. But instead of filling their hearts and homes with love, he took their money … then he took their lives . Powers is one of the first men in modern history to be labeled a serial killer.
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From the newspaper archives of:
The Capital Times (Madion, Wisconsin)
Bluefield Daily Telegraph (West Virginia)
The Courier (Waterloo, Iowa)
Brooklyn Times Union (New York)
Clarksburg Exponent (West Virginia)
Daily News (New York, New York)
Pittsburgh Press (Pennsylvania)
Fort Worth Star Telegram (Texas)
The Associated Press
Detroit Free Press (Michigan)
Knoxville Journal (Tennessee)
The Winnipeg Tribune (Canada)
The Chillicothe Scioto Gazette (Ohio)
The Mansfield News (Mansfield, Ohio)
United Press International
Quad City Times (Iowa)
The Clarksburg Telegram (West Virginia)
The Weekly Courier (
The Daily Notes (Canonsburg, Pennsylvania)
Lansing State Journal (Michigan)
Leader-Telegram (Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
The Tribune (Coshcton, Ohio)
Baltimore Sun (Maryland)
Mid-West Progressive (Muscatine, Iowa)
Nashville Banner (Tennessee)
The Daily Plainsman (Huron, South Dakota)
Public Opinion (Chambersburg, Pennsylvania)
Chattanooga News (Tennessee)
Decatur Daily (Illinois)
Deadwood Pioneer Times (South Dakota)
Sioux City Journal (Iowa)
Tampa Bay Times (Florida)
The Montana Standard
The Akron Beacon (Ohio)
The Charleston Daily Mail (West Virginia)
Des Moines Register (Iowa)
The Dothan Eagle (Dothan, Alabama)
The Kokomo Tribune (Kokomo, Indiana)
Time Magazine
The Selma Times Journal (Alabama)
The Wausau Daily Record Herald (Wasau, Wisconsin)
Records from the West Virginia & Regional History Center
Music -
“Crime at Quiet Dell” by Chris Stuart, Backcountry Music, BMI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFFcz7_Zhjk&ab_channel=ChrisStuart%26Backcountry-Topic
The Crime at Quiet Dell by Frank Welling and John McGhee 1926
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| 0:00.0 | Can we talk about something else? |
| 0:05.0 | Can we talk about something else? The The Hello. |
| 0:43.0 | Out there. |
| 0:45.0 | This is... This stuff is |
| 0:55.0 | this true crime stuff this rape this rape this murder this |
| 1:02.0 | secondhand suffering this |
| 1:05.0 | repurposed pain is slippery |
| 1:09.0 | makes you twitchie like a rabbit |
| 1:11.0 | peaceful like a |
| 1:13.0 | tautus, adrenaline dumps until you're somehow relaxed by it. |
| 1:16.0 | Looking up wistfully from your menial task as I describe a patch of woods |
| 1:21.0 | riddled with Jane Doe skeletons, we're addicted to it. |
| 1:26.1 | Murder takes us away from our own problems, makes us feel like prey and in turn injects |
| 1:31.1 | excitement into an otherwise empty day. |
| 1:35.0 | And there's nothing wrong with that, right? |
| 1:38.0 | I mean, it's a little fucked up, junk food for the soul maybe, |
| 1:41.0 | but overall, I think there's a slick charm to the whole genre |
| 1:44.7 | that gets overlooked by those lacking imagination or the need to feel afraid in |
| 1:50.1 | order to feel alive we We're prey animals, you and I. Our great-great-grandchildren |
| 1:56.2 | will have eyes on the sides of their head as a result of our interest. We're creating |
| 2:00.3 | neural pathways that will lead to a need to be victimized in order to feel like |
| 2:04.3 | we're fulfilling our purpose. And I'm joking, or at least I was until I wasn't. It's slippery, |
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