S2 Ep32: Trapping a Killer: Could a Psychic Help Catch a Serial Killer?

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Between 1967 and 1969, terror gripped two college towns in Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as investigators discovered the mutilated corpses of seven young women and girls. The murderer -- called the Coed Killer by newspapers of the time -- seemed to be so brazen that he was taunting police by returning to crime scenes and leaving behind evidence. The horrified public became so outraged that they took matters into their own hands by hiring a supposed psychic they hoped would finally crack the case.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.
0:14.8	But the stories that made headlines in decades past are necessarily remembered today.
0:22.6	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.
0:26.4	In each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe less known today, but
0:32.3	was huge when it happened.
0:35.4	This is crimes of the centuries.
0:41.4	When a mutilated body was discovered near a farm in the Ann Arbor Township on July 26,
0:56.0	1969, the county sheriff tried to keep things quiet.
1:00.0	He didn't even notify the dead girl's family straight away.
1:03.7	It wasn't how he would usually operate under the circumstances, but unfortunately, he
1:08.6	had ample time to prepare for the discovery and he was working on a hunch.
1:13.8	Whoever killed the 18-year-old Karen Sue Bineman was likely to return.
1:19.6	Washington County Sheriff Doug Harvey felt certain of this because Karen Sue wasn't the killer's
1:26.0	first victim, or even his fifth.
1:28.9	She was number seven in a string of grizzly homicides that had dotted towns and townships
1:34.7	between Ipsilante and Ann Arbor Michigan, paralyzing two separate college campuses with fear.
1:42.2	Police issued warnings.
1:44.0	We're putting up broadcasts of the girls, young girls.
1:47.3	Don't hitch, I stay.
1:49.1	Go down Washington, I'll have a new one here they were.
1:51.8	You know, girls or others just...
1:53.6	This is Sheriff Harvey talking years later.
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