The Teenaged Serial Killer Responsible For the “Tuesday Murders” Dies Tonight, 4 Decades After His Killing Spree
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🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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58-year-old Frank Athen Walls is being put to death as this episode is being published, 40 years after his first murder when he was just 17 years old. Walls eventually admitted to killing 5 people all before he turned 20, terrorizing the panhandle of Florida from 1985 to 1987.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Thursday, December 18th. |
| 0:09.4 | And as we're putting this episode out, a man in Florida is being escorted to a death chamber. |
| 0:16.8 | He is going to be placed on a gurney. |
| 0:19.0 | He is going to be strapped in needles. |
| 0:21.7 | They're going to be placed in his arms. |
| 0:23.9 | And the state of Florida is going to execute what is now the 19th inmate of the year, far, far surpassing its previous record. |
| 0:35.8 | Welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. and Roams, I mentioned that. |
| 0:40.0 | And this is scheduled to be the last execution of the year, but strangely enough, we'll get into |
| 0:46.5 | why it might not be. And just an execution night is always a solemn night. It is. And the details |
| 0:53.2 | surrounding what this man was convicted of and what he's |
| 0:58.5 | admitted to are especially horrific. Obviously, anyone on death row has committed the worst of the |
| 1:05.4 | worst crimes. But this one actually blew my mind when I started reading the details. I didn't even |
| 1:10.7 | know, honestly, I haven't even know, honestly. |
| 1:11.7 | I haven't even ever heard of a teenage serial killer. |
| 1:16.2 | But that's what this man was. |
| 1:18.7 | And strangely enough, there was so much distance between tonight, his execution night, |
| 1:25.6 | and the night of the first murder he ever committed. |
| 1:29.6 | And we are talking about 40 years ago. |
| 1:34.3 | This has been 40 years almost that he has been on death road to get to this point. |
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