"Clay" The Serial Killer - Howard Stern Show Call

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

In 1997, a man named "Clay" called the Howard Stern Show and calmly confessed to murdering 12 women. He claimed his victims were sex workers. Despite the chilling detail and the hosts' belief the confession was genuine, "Clay" was never publicly identified or arrested, leaving the shocking call—which recently went viral—as an unsolved mystery of a potential serial killer who admitted his crimes on live radio.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.9	Welcome to Trick on to go. What can I get for you?
0:16.8	Today I'm in the mood for a confession, if you guys have that. No other evidence, no bodies, no suspect.
0:23.3	Just an empty confession.
0:25.2	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.6	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:33.6	I am John here with Jamie.
0:35.7	Dude, we're going back to the 90s.
0:37.6	We are, our friend Chris brought this up to us a few weeks ago and just asked us if we had talked about it. And, yeah, there's a reason we haven't. And that's because there's not a lot of details. But that's also what makes it perfect for true crime to go. So I'm excited to get into this one. Absolutely. So Jamie in the 90s, I mean, we were, I don't know, I was a middle schooler where you hadn't started high school yet by that point, had you? Yeah, I graduated in 2001. So I spent some time in high school in the 90s, you know, all right. That's how I be. My first year was 98, I think. So, I mean, do you remember the Howard Stern show? I was definitely
1:13.3	not allowed to watch it, but there were still times where, you know, I would sneak and watch it.
1:18.9	Absolutely. He was the edgy host that, I mean, there were vulgar things, lots of profanities.
1:25.3	He really found a home when serious radio happened because it was less sanctioned than the actual airwaves. And yeah, he was a big deal. And I think still going. I think there's still stuff going on. I think you're right. I remember Beetlejuice. Was that the little guy's name that would call in? He would be on the show. That was a character for sure.
1:44.6	Yeah.
1:45.1	So, but there was something that more, that was more sinister that happened on this show.
1:49.4	So why don't you talk about that, man?
1:51.2	The year 1997.
1:53.9	John was in middle school and I wasn't.
1:56.4	Howard Stern was hosting another episode of his wildly popular radio show. Again, there was a lot of comedy.
2:04.9	It was very chaotic. He had a lot of common callers, but also just a lot of unpredictable calls
2:11.1	came in. A lot of prank calls came in, and a lot of times he would just play them and mess with
2:16.1	people or go along with it.
2:22.8	It was, that was the draw of the Howard Stern show is you never know what you're going to get today.
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