“Milwaukee North Side Strangler” Walter E. Ellis

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In his youth, Walter Ellis was prone to fits of physical violence. But as he grew older, he took on the role of a gentle and unsuspecting neighbor. Over the course of 20 years, it was this persona that allowed the man known as the Milwaukee North Side Strangler to avoid the detection of local police, who were facing a series of eerily similar murders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.
0:04.8	This episode includes discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive.
0:09.6	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:15.0	On a pleasant October afternoon in 1994,
0:20.0	9-year-old Ebony Owens and her cousin were playing out front of her Milwaukee home.
0:25.0	Ebony's neighbor, an older woman, approached with a couple of garbage bags.
0:30.0	She offered the girls 50 cents a piece if they would take them to the trash for her.
0:35.0	They were happy to oblige.
0:37.0	Having dragged the bags down an alleyway, Ebony's small frame struggled to lift the heavy dumpster
0:42.4	lid. With the help of her cousin, the two
0:44.7	were able to pry it open. A pair of legs immediately sprung up. The young girls were so
0:51.5	startled they couldn't even scream.
0:54.0	They just stared in horror at the sight in front of them.
0:57.0	Inside the dumpster lay the bruised and mangled body of 32-year-old Karen Kilpatrick, only 12 hours earlier, she had met her fate
1:09.3	at the hands of Milwaukee's North Side Strangler.
1:17.0	Hi, I'm Greg Polson.
1:20.0	This is Serial Killers, a parcast original. Every episode, we dive
1:27.1	into the minds and madness of serial killers. Today we're digging into the story of Walter
1:32.1	E Ellis, also known as the Milwaukee Northside Strangler.
1:36.0	I'm here with my co-host Vanessa Richardson.
1:38.5	Hi everyone, you can find episodes of serial killers and all other Parcast originals for free on Spotify
1:45.2	or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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