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The Severed Head In the Storage Unit - October 6 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

October 6th: Adam & Samantha Chrismer Killed (Howard Hawk Willis)(2002) What happens when the obvious suspect has a pretty cut and dry trial but still maintains their innocence? On October 6th 2002 a young couple became the victim of a man who, police believe, might have killed a handful of individuals. A man who claims he was set up and is fighting to prove his innocence. https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-howard-willis-now/, https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w/willis-howard-hawk.htm, https://www.dailycrime.com/howard-hawk-willis-murdered-teenagers-adam-and-samantha-chrismer-evil-lives-here-investigates/, https://wcyb.com/news/local/man-convicted-of-2002-double-murder-in-washington-county-tenn-seeks-new-trial-howard-hawk-willis-adam-chrismer-samantha-leming-chrismer, https://www.local3news.com/first-on-3-murder-victims-remains-returned-to-family-after-8-years/article_c0fb079d-c64c-53ea-bf05-383a16d7c0c3.html, https://www.wjhl.com/news/crime/watch-death-row-inmate-howard-hawk-willis-appears-in-court/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.0

What happens when the obvious suspect has a pretty cut and dry trial, but still

0:19.8

maintains their innocence. On October 6th, 2002,

0:24.6

a young couple became the victims of a man who, police believe, might have killed a handful of

0:30.8

individuals, a man who claims he was set up and is fighting to prove that innocence.

0:43.2

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:45.5

In October of 2002, a fisherman in Boone Lake, Tennessee was out casting a line when he saw

0:51.6

something strange floating in the water nearby.

0:55.4

Upon closer examination, this man was shocked to see what lay bobbing in the lake

1:00.8

was the severed head and hands of a male victim.

1:05.9

If this discovery wasn't strange enough, just a week later on October 11th, the decomposing bodies of a young man and a young woman were found in a storage unit in Johnson City, Tennessee.

1:19.4

Boxed up as if they were unneeded household items, along with the bodies was a hatchet, a large pair of scissors, a hammer, containers of gasoline, and diesel fuel.

1:32.2

The unit was, as police quickly found out, rented by the mother of a man named Howard Hawk Willis.

1:39.8

Howard, born March 17, 1951, just so happened to be the last person seen in the company of the now-missing 17-year-old Adam Ray Chrismer and his brand-new wife, 16-year-old Samantha Lemming, Chrismar, of Chickamauga, Georgia.

1:58.3

Believing that the bodies found in the storage unit belonged to the young couple,

2:02.2

the remains were sent to a pathologist who determined that both teenagers had their hands

2:07.1

tied behind their backs before being shot in the head and face.

2:12.8

Since he was the one seen traveling with the newlyweds just before their disappearance,

2:17.5

police connected Howard Willis to both the death and mutilation of Adam and Samantha,

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