“The Missoula Mauler” Wayne Nance Pt. 1

Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén

Spotify Studios

True Crime, Education, History

4.7 • 30.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As a teenager, Wayne Nance developed an interest in Satanism that may have led to his first murder. He became obsessed with the idea of making a human sacrifice — and in the spring of 1974, he boasted to a friend: “It’s been done.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes,
0:02.7	listeners' question is advised.
0:04.6	This episode includes discussions of murder, rape, assault, and animal cruelty
0:09.5	that some people may find offensive.
0:11.6	We advise extreme caution for children under 13.
0:23.0	On the morning of April 12, 1974,
0:27.4	18-year-old Wayne Nance sat atop the bleachers in his high school gymnasium,
0:33.1	pensively looking out the window.
0:35.2	He was so lost in thought that he didn't even move around when his friend
0:39.2	Bill Van Kanigan took a seat right beside him.
0:43.5	Bill was used to these silences.
0:45.6	Wayne was a little strange and often drifted off into reveries on his own.
0:50.4	Bill expected to wait a while in the quiet tube,
0:53.2	but to his surprise, Wayne started to speak.
0:56.4	He said, it's been done.
0:59.6	Bill wasn't quite sure what his friend was talking about,
1:02.6	but based on the grave tone Wayne used, he knew it was something serious.
1:08.0	Lately, Wayne had become obsessed with the idea of making a human sacrifice
1:12.7	to seal his initiation into the occult.
1:16.3	Now, the whole town was talking about the murder of local mother Donna Pounds.
1:21.0	The coincidence was chilling.
1:23.1	Bill swallowed and considered what his friend had just said.
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