The Welcome to Grusum, your horrific true crime podcast.

I'm Connie along with Paris Hilton's new BFF,

Meg.

And tonight she is going to tell us

about the Beast of Birkenshaw, Peter Manuel.

Here we go.

Welcome to the last day of our European Serial Killer tour.

I guess technically one wasn't a serial killer, but that's all right. It can be the last day of our horrific murders of Europe tour.

And I picked this one because there is something about it that made me laugh and not because it's funny

But it's just my warped little mind. You know what I'm saying? This is one of the worst serial killers in Scotland's history. It's actually

Scotland's first serial killer, but they were from America. So, like, like,

damn it Peter, come on.

Again, not not funny, but not funny ha ha, just funny, go figure. Yeah, it's like of course. Mm-hmm

So today's trigger warning sponsored by the listener who informed us that he didn't need trigger warnings because he knew what he was getting into.

Yeah, Trent, we're talking about you.

Yeah.

So, these are for you.

Murder, sexual assault, gun violence, that's pretty much it.

Knife violence, there's some nivies in here, but we'll get into it.

Peter Manuel, born Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel, all the names, came raging into the world

on March 13, 1927, Pisces, in Manhattan, New York.

He had a brother, James, who was two years older than him.

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