EP164: THE ROUTE 40 KILLER

Crimes and Consequences

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Steven Pennell is the only known serial killer from Delaware. He is about as cliche as serial killers come. He drove a creeper van filled with tools from his trade and got pleasure from torturing sex workers.
Episode written by Alison Schwartz

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This episode may contain content of a graphic nature,
0:03.0	including descriptions of physical and sexual violence
0:06.0	against adults, children, and animals.
0:09.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:12.0	Hi everyone, I'm Tlaia and I'm Tanya and together we are crimes and consequences a true crime
0:19.3	podcast. cast. Hi Tanya, hi Tanya, welcome back everybody to this week's episode of crimes and consequences. This story is about
0:45.8	the Route 40 killer aka the Corridor Killer aka the Route 13 killer aka the blue fiber killer aka this
0:57.5	fucking asshole all of these monikers represent one man huh
1:01.8	Stephen Panell before I go on to represent one man. Huh, Stephen Pinnell.
1:04.0	Before I go on to describe this horrible human being, I want to ask everybody to take one second
1:09.7	to hit the subscribe slash file button on whatever app you're listening to and with that I am ready
1:15.7	let's do it Stephen Panell he has a distinction of being Delaware's only known
1:21.6	serial killer really that's the only one in Delaware.
1:24.8	Delaware is about as big as my backyard. Right, right? Thank God they only have one.
1:30.7	You might be thinking it's one of the smallest U.S. states and you'd be correct, but the important thing here is that a major stretch of interstate links Delaware with the nation's capital and it grants easy access to
1:45.2	Philly and Baltimore so oh yeah it's like centrally located exactly all connected
1:51.5	by the freeways.
1:53.1	The route 40 killer is probably the most agger name for Stephen.
1:57.2	The highway enabled his brutal killings,
2:00.0	placing vulnerable young women directly in his path.
2:03.1	And it also helped him evade authorities
2:05.8	in a time when DNA forensics was in its infancy.
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