525 // America's First Serial Killer w/ Christopher Daley

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🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna are joined by a new friend of the show, Mr. Christopher Daley. Christopher is a historian, public speaker, author and educator. The conversation is about America's first serial killer, not HH Holmes as most people believe. This individual's name is Franklin Evans. Evans confessed to the brutal murder of his niece Georgianna Lovering in 1872 as well as a another murder in 1856. *This episode is brought to you by Mood, the online cannabis company that's revolutionizing how we deal with life's challenges – from sleepless nights to stress-filled days. You can get 20% off your first order at https://mood.com/ with promo code Crawlspace.* Follow Private Investigations For the Missing, and join our virtual fundraiser on June 11th @ 8pmEST on the Missing YouTube Channel! ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please donate if you can: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://investigationsforthemissing.org/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://piftm.org/donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/PIFortheMissing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/PIFortheMissing/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/investigationsforthemissing/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out all of Christopher's work at: https://daleyhistory.com/home Follow Christopher https://x.com/daleyhistory https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-daley-55881b40/ Follow Crawlspace: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/7iSnqnCf27NODdz0pJ1GvJ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/crawlspace⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crawlspace-true-crime-mysteries/id1187326340⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow Missing: IG:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. TT:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. FB:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. X:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://twitter.com/MissingCSM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Spotify:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://open.spotify.com/show/0yRXkJrZC85otfT7oXMcri⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Youtube:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Apple:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/missing/id1006974447⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Check out our entire network at⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ http://crawlspace-media.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Tim here today with Lance. Lance, how are you today?
0:32.4	I'm doing fantastic today, Tim. Thank you so much for asking. I hope the listeners are doing great as well. And this conversation is one that came together so nicely. I mean, the gentleman that we have on is a historian. And we love these historical crimes. And we've been following this New England serial killer rumor, this active serial killer that may or may not be perpetrating crimes in and about
0:57.1	the states of New England.
0:58.3	And that led us to our guests today, who brings to the table arguably the country's,
1:04.8	the nation's first serial killer.
1:06.6	So we love the historical aspect of this.
1:09.0	Very excited to introduce this conversation that we're about to have with Christopher Daly.
1:14.5	He's got a great website.
1:15.7	It's called DailyHistory.com, and that's Daily, D-A-L-E-Y, like his last name.
1:22.0	And he's got several presentations, Lance.
1:23.7	He does lectures around New England.
1:26.9	He's a former teacher, and he's from Massachusetts.
1:29.1	You'll hear his accent.
1:30.1	It's great.
1:30.6	It kind of sounds like us a little bit.
1:32.5	And so in this conversation, we speak about what he dubs New England's first serial killer,
1:38.4	and it's about Franklin Evans and how he murdered 14-year-old Georgiana Lovering in September of 1872.
1:48.2	A bit creepy, actually, the more you hear about Franklin Evans and the crimes he perpetrated and
1:55.1	what else he may have done.
1:56.8	Chris brings a lot of these revelations to the conversation.
2:00.5	He brings up H.H. Holmes and how people say that H.H. Holmes was the first serial killer in the nation.
2:05.3	And while Evans was arrested for the murder of Georgiana Lovering in 1872,
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