10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes. What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature.

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Welcome to 10-minute murder, the brief and bingeable true crime podcast.

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The story today is about a serial killer that murdered at least 15 women and a boy.

Except for the boy, he strangled them all to death. He knew something was wrong with himself

mentally, and he sought treatment several times. Fantasies of strangling women and sexually assaulting their bodies became nearly constant.

These sick thoughts became actions.

This is the story of Carol Cole.

Carol Edward Cole was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the second son of Laverne and Vesta Cole.

In 1939, his family moved to California, where Laverne found work in a shipyard.

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