The Cookie Monster: Harrison Graham

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In August 1987, a local handyman named Harrison "Marty" Graham, who entertained kids with a Cookie Monster puppet, was evicted from his North Philadelphia apartment after residents repeatedly complained of a foul odor permeating the third floor of the building, a smell that seemed to originate from behind his locked door. While he complied with the order to vacate, Marty nailed the door shut and removed the handle, leaving all of his belongings inside with the promise he'd return for them. The landlord sent two of his people to the unit, instructing them to clean it out immediately. But when they arrived and peered through the keyhole, the secrets Marty had been hiding became all too real.

Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological exploration of the life, home, and crimes of '"The Corpse Collector" aka "The Cookie Monster", serial killer Harrison Graham.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus peering
0:10.9	down the rabbit hole once again as we examine the inner workings of the criminal
0:15.3	mind. In this episode, we'll be dissecting a somewhat obscure case that unfolded over the course
0:22.0	of 1986 and 87 in a section of North Philadelphia that borders the campus of Temple University.
0:30.0	Seven women who had mysteriously disappeared from the local area in that time frame were found dead and in various forms of decomposition during a search of the rundown third floor apartment of a mentally challenged man named to Harrison
0:46.3	Graham who went by the name Marty.
0:50.0	The courts suggest his IQ was about 63.
0:53.6	For comparison, Jesse Miss Kelly from the West Memphis 3 case is said to have an IQ of 78.
1:00.7	Brendan Dassie from the Theresa Hallbach murder reportedly has an IQ of 83, while his
1:07.3	uncle Stephen Avery was tested by the same person and scored a much lower 70 despite assertions by the media that Brendan
1:16.2	was cognitively deficient to a point he didn't know what he was doing upon confession. So Harris and Graham, by default of this intellectual
1:26.0	disposition, is probably going to have a tough life as an adult. If you suffer
1:31.4	from the effects of a low IQ as a small child, you're still pretty much in the same boat developmentally as everybody else in the sense that not much is being asked of you.
1:41.0	But academic and social requirements become more sophisticated with
1:46.1	time, and those who succeed in these endeavors do so through an evolution of character.
1:53.4	While our bodies grow, the experiences and lessons learned through the resulting new demands
1:59.6	shape the person we become.
2:02.0	We take on new challenges, and as we grow tall we also grow
2:06.3	mature and competent. But for a child who cannot grow emotionally on a
2:12.2	competitive level with his peers and isn't capable
2:15.8	fulfilling any sort of great potential, it begins to become apparent that people are leaving you behind. You can't grow up like they do.
2:27.0	Sustaining an adult life for you is more difficult due to your limited intellect. And when you can't relate to others, it leads to
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