This is 10 minute run.

This is 10 minute world. Let's begin this story by shedding some light on the dark past of William Devin Howell.

Born March 27, 1970, in Hampton, Virginia, Howell had a happy early childhood, but by the age of 12, Howell's mother became sick,

and this started spiraling him out of control.

He was depressed and started drinking very young.

He had multiple incarcerations for drunk driving,

and began picking up sex workers in the middle of the night. Even eventually

when he became married and had children, he continued hiring sex workers for their services.

During this time, his view of women became pretty binary. He only saw good girls, like his mother,

and bad girls, like these sex workers.

And seemingly because of this, he crossed the line and jumped off into the deep end.

In a gruesome spree that spanned 2003 to 2007, Howell claimed the lives of seven people.

He saw each of his victims as helpless, at risk,

and vulnerable objects to be easily discarded. He never saw them as real human beings who were

loved or cared for. Majority of his victims came from either addiction or streetworking

or both, which made him see them as worthless.

And that in particular seems to be a pattern in the minds of serial killers who need a reason

to go about their predatory ways. This was the same emmo of another serial killer I recently

told you about in the choke and stroke killer episode

of Samuel Little. Both of these men targeted women that they felt didn't matter to society.

They wouldn't be missed because they probably didn't have a family that cared for them.

In both cases, they were wrong.

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