Serial Killer Grandparents: Ray and Faye Copeland 1
Serial Killers & Murderous Minds
Crime House
4.5 • 713 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
After a lifetime of petty crimes, Ray Copeland turned to murder in the 1980s as part of a scheme to defraud cattle auctions. Although his wife Faye might not have participated in the violence herself, she seemed to be in on the scheme. But the Copelands weren't sophisticated killers -- and their sloppiness threatened to reveal their true nature as a pair of elderly serial killers. Mind of a Serial Killer is a Crime House Original. Follow us on Instagram and TikTok @crimehouse for more true crime content.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Crime House community. It's Vanessa Richardson. Looking for another Crime House original podcast to add to your rotation, you will love Clues with Morgan Absher and Kalyn Moore. |
| 0:12.8 | Every Wednesday, Morgan and Kalin dig into the world's most notorious crimes, clue by clue, from serial killers to shocking murders. |
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| 0:52.3 | Aristotle once said, |
| 0:54.3 | Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime, which is to say when people are struggling |
| 1:00.7 | to get by, they're more likely to get desperate. |
| 1:04.4 | That's what happened in the case of Ray and Fay Copeland. |
| 1:08.2 | While they appeared to be nothing more than a pair of elderly farmers scraping |
| 1:12.0 | to get by, Ray and Fay were something much, much darker. Because of their age, no one suspected |
| 1:20.1 | that the Copeland's were capable of harming anyone, and they used that to their advantage |
| 1:25.8 | to lie, cheat, steal, and murder. |
| 1:30.3 | The human mind is fascinating. It controls how we think, how we feel, how we love, and how we hate. |
| 1:50.6 | And sometimes the mind drives us to do something truly unspeakable. |
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| 2:02.9 | the minds of history's most notorious serial killers and violent offenders. At Crimehouse, |
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