Just so you know, this show is about scary stuff. So don't say I didn't warn you guys.

And remember, don't be scared. Oh, The Oh, Episode 79. Brutal.

Brutal. Episode 79, brutal, hammer killings.

War baby here with another episode of Murderest Miners. This week on murderous miners, we look at three true crime cases connected by nothing at all but the killer's weapon of choice, the everyday hammer.

We've covered similar cases in the past, including the 2011 Port St. Lucie Florida hammer killings of

Blake and Mary Joe Hadley by their son Tyler who rose to infamy by throwing a party and taking one last selfie as his parents dead bodies lay behind closed doors.

Back in 1998, small-town noble in southern Illinois was about to experience a reckoning.

Their age of innocence was over.

The village of less than 900 residents lived that oft heard about existence with truck keys left tucked in the Sun

visor and doors left unlocked should a friend or neighbor decide to pop in.

With one convenience store and one coffee shop in town, everyone knew everyone, that is, until they didn't.

With the new millennia cresting the horizon, even the area around Noble was beginning to expand, with plans for a big box retailers distribution

center as well as a new prison in the works.

These job opportunities brought an influx of younger people to a community which was normally

made up of the retiree set.

Christopher Churchill was native to Noble, Illinois, where he was born in 1981.

He lived there with his mother, ultimately dropping out of high school

after ditching too much and being transferred

to the optional education school in a nearby town.

As we'll learn, his life was tumultuous around this time and he only lasted for eight days

in the fall of 1997. His family recalled an intellectual introvert

with an interest in poetry while his peers remembered him more as a creepy loner, even displaying antisocial behavior in the past.

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