Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Fire. Modern humanity has taken fire and turned it into a tool.

But we often forget that fire can be one of the most destructive forces on planet Earth.

A single stray match can light a grill or burn a house down. A single ember can turn into a wildfire and tear

through the countryside, burning through a forest, incinerating everything that lives within.

Those flames can manifest themselves. incinerating everything that lives within.

Those flames can manifest themselves in humans.

Wrath, anger, power, violence, lust.

Sometimes people will start fires just to watch them burn.

One man went from burning wood to burning people. That man's name was Otis Tool, and the flames in his mind would later

become the flames that consumed his victims. Hi, I'm Greg Paulson, and this is Serial Killers.

Today we're going to take a deep dive into the life of Otis Tool, sometimes referred to as the

cannibal kid. I'm here with my co-host to Madessa Richardson.

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Oddis Tool killed his first victim in 1961 and continued killing until his capture in 1983.

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