The Handyman Who Killed Four Women: The Daniel Printz Story

Moms and Mysteries: A True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

An 80-year-old grandmother vanishes after a trip to the grocery store. What began as a missing person's case in South Carolina unraveled into a shocking story of trust, betrayal, and a serial predator hiding in plain sight. This South Carolina serial killer also left a trail of other missing and murdered women in his wake. In this episode we discuss the chilling details of the Daniel Printz case and the forensic evidence that exposed him.

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(00:00:00) An 80-year-old grandmother, Edna Ruth Nation Settles, vanishes after a trip to the grocery store .

(00:00:39) Police discover Edna's abandoned Jeep and surveillance footage of an unidentified man wiping it down .

(00:03:00) The timeline of Edna's disappearance and her relationship with a man who was later identified as Daniel Glenn Printz.

(00:06:00) Daniel Printz's long criminal history, including a prior kidnapping conviction .

(00:11:40) The hosts discuss Nancy Rego, another woman connected to Daniel Printz who went missing after her mother, Dolores, died under mysterious circumstances.

(00:14:46) Police find more evidence on Daniel's property, including Edna's firearm and other women's belongings .

(00:21:00) Daniel Printz confesses to the murder of Edna and others, but only leads police to Edna's remains .

(00:23:00) The stories of the other women Daniel confessed to killing: Dolores Sellers, Nancy Rigo, and Leigh Goodman.

(00:27:00) Daniel is sentenced to life in federal prison without parole, and the hosts express their frustration over the lack of a clear motive.

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0:00.0	An 80-year-old grandmother drives to a grocery store on a summer morning, waving at a man she clearly knows.
0:06.5	Hours later, her Jeep turns up abandoned at a motel, wiped clean of fingerprints, and the woman herself is nowhere to be found.
0:13.9	What began as a missing person's case in South Carolina would unravel into a shocking story of trust, betrayal, and a serial predator hiding in plain sight.
0:32.2	Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa. Hi, Melissa. Hi, Mandy. How are you? I am doing well. We are recording this episode so far in advance. By the time this episode comes out, we will be back from CrimeCon, but we actually haven't gone yet. So we're in one of those weird, what do you call it's like like a weird purgatory. I'm just going to let you keep trying. I didn't know what it was, but you could keep trying. Well, there you go. Yeah, we're in a weird purgatory, an episode purgatory. So you're getting this later, but we're recording it earlier. So there you go. This is actually a really sad story and it deals with
1:12.8	a topic that as a lot of our listeners know is very dear to my heart, well, not dear to my heart,
1:18.6	but it's an issue that I care about a lot, which is elderly people being abused in any type of way.
1:23.8	And this story definitely infuriated me for sure for that reason.
1:33.9	Edna Ruth Nation Suttles was born on January 11, 1941, in Travelers Rest, South Carolina.
1:40.8	She was the third of eight children born to James and Bernie's Nations, and her life was never small.
1:45.2	She actually made history as the first woman bail bondsman in South Carolina.
1:53.5	She owned A1 bail bonding, and her reputation was tough, iron-willed, and she was described as being a little flamboyant.
2:02.0	Edna also once owned a restaurant, but when she was unable to get a liquor license, she decided to burn the place down herself rather than let it sit empty.
2:03.8	Like actual burn it down? Actually burnt it down.
2:04.7	Wow.
2:05.7	Kind of a, if I can't have it.
2:08.4	No one will sort of attitude, I guess.
2:10.7	But that's just how Edna was.
2:12.8	Yeah, she was just that kind of no nonsense, bold type of woman.
2:16.9	Her friends described her as fun, stubborn,
2:19.6	and full of grit. Though she was among the older generation, Edna did enjoy Facebook, where she
2:25.5	shared Maxine comics, funny quips, and memes with captions like, My Fashion Style is called
2:31.6	Whatever the Heck still fits me. Same, Edna.
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