S1 Ep38: The Crimes of Edward Surratt

Criminally Listed Presents: Into the Killing

Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

September 1977 and March 1978, 18 people were killed or abducted in Ohio and Pennsylvania. The police suspected that one committed all the murders - Edward Surratt.

Even though they had a suspect, it would still take decades for the police to close the cases.

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0:00.0	Hello and thanks for joining us for this episode of Into the Killing.
0:04.0	If this is your first episode, we appreciate you checking us out and hopefully you find it interesting.
0:09.0	If you listen to other episodes, thank you so much for coming back and listening again.
0:14.0	Today, we're going to be talking about a serial killer named Edward Arthur Serrat.
0:19.0	Surat was born in Alequip of Pennsylvania in August 1941.
0:24.6	When he was born, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president of the United States.
0:29.6	At that point, World War II had been raging for nearly a year and a half.
0:33.6	In August, 1941, the First Army Jeep was produced.
0:38.3	The same month, President Roosevelt met with Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Newfoundland
0:42.9	to discuss post-war plans, even though the war wasn't close to being over. Edward was the only son of Arthur and Anna Mae Sraught.
1:04.0	Arthur and Anna May had moved to Aliquippa from Georgia.
1:08.0	Arthur owned and operated a successful garbage collection business. In grade school,
1:14.5	Edward was concerned outgoing and happy-go-lucky. He was also quite intelligent.
1:22.1	But in high school, Edward started to get in trouble with the law. In 1959, when he was 17, he was arrested for loitering and prowling.
1:33.3	In June, 1960, he was arrested for the same crime.
1:37.9	While he was being arrested the second time, he fought with the officers.
1:42.3	It broke what to their noses.
1:45.6	Edward managed to graduate from high school and then attended college for a short time.
1:51.6	In 1964, Edward joined the army.
1:55.8	But he continued to get into trouble.
1:59.0	He assaulted a man with a pipe.
2:02.4	He was also arrested for reckless driving,
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