10-minute murder contains depictions of actual crimes. What you are about to hear is real and violent in nature. Discretion is advised. This is 10-minute murder.

Welcome to the Brief and Bingeable True Crime Podcast, 10-minute murder. I'm Joe, and thank you for being here.

It's another spooky season edition, and today the subject is Tommy Lynn Sells, who claimed to have killed 70 people, among various other crimes, stretching from one end of the country to the other, which is why

he's called the coast-to-coast killer.

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Now, Tommy Lynn sells the coast-to-coast killer. When you look at me, you know what hate is,

because I don't know what love is. Two words I don't like to use is love and sorry

because I'm about hate. I mentioned it before, so maybe you remember the McDonald triad.

It's a study that suggests that if any combination of two or more factors are

present, it's predictive that the person has the predisposition for later violent tendencies,

often serial violent tendencies. Those three factors are cruelty to animals, arson, and bedwetting

past a certain age. There are people that claim this theory is

bunk, and they think what makes a serial killer is more to do with parental neglect, brutality,

and abuse. Regardless, Tommy Lin-Sells checks all of those boxes. For him, he described it like a drug,

the feeling of taking someone's life.

He felt a compulsion to do it over and over and over.

He claims to have killed 70.

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