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Unresolved

The Little Rock Slasher

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

"There is a strong possibility the person who did this continues to work and/or live in our community. He likely has familiarity with the area in which the victims were attacked."

Between August 2020 and April 2021, four brutal knife attacks were reported in the Midtown neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas. The first two victims, Larry McChristian & Jeff Welch, were each murdered in residential neighborhoods in August and September of 2020. The third and fourth victims, Debra Walker and Marlon Franklin, were attacked separately in April of 2021. Only one, Debra Walker, survived, but was treated for more than fifteen stab wounds after being left for dead.

Just weeks after the final two knife attacks, police in Little Rock - aided by the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Team - came forward with information pointing to a burgeoning serial killer. However, in the year-and-a-half since, this aspiring killer has gone quiet, and it remains undetermined whether he has moved on to new territory or is simply biding his time...



To watch the surveillance footage of this unknown offender, please check out the following link at the Little Rock Police Department YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvrw4NkD2Is



Research, writing, hosting, and production by Micheal Whelan

"Unresolved" themes composed by Ailsa Traves

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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1:03.2

Very early on Monday, August 24, 2020, police from Little Rock's 12th Street Patrol Division

1:29.1

responded to a call from someone on the 2200 block of South Gaines Street near the intersection

1:34.6

of West 22nd. When police arrived moments later, they discovered the body of a 64-year-old named

1:41.2

Larry McCristen, who had been reported missing two days beforehand by the UAMS Police Department,

1:47.4

also known as the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Police Department.

1:52.0

Medical professionals responded to the scene, but declared McCristen dead at the time of their arrival.

1:57.8

While his body showed signs of obvious trauma, it was sent off to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for autopsy.

2:04.3

While police officials would not immediately reveal McCristen's cause of death,

2:08.9

it's believed, based on some information later obtained, that he had been repeatedly stabbed by his killer.

2:16.0

Sadly, not much about Larry Eugene McCristen is publicly known, other than his date of birth,

2:22.4

October 23, 1955. The area in which he had previously lived, Yelville, a small Arkansas town

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