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The Weepy Voiced Killer

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

During the 1980s, Minnesota was terrorized by a serial killer with an unusual MO - after every crime, he would call 911 and tearfully tell the police what he had done

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0:00.0

Discretion, Discretion advised.

0:15.0

This is 10-minute murder. On New Year's Day, 1981, Minnesota police received a strange call at 3 a.m.

0:49.7

A male caller with an unsettling high-pitched voice simply gave them directions to a location,

0:56.6

telling them that if they went there, they would find a girl who had been hurt.

1:01.1

Sure enough, at the location in St. Paul, 20-year-old Karen Potak was lying naked in the snow.

1:08.0

Her injuries were so severe that, at first, the responding officers thought that she

1:13.4

was dead, and one of them later described the moment as the most devastating scene he'd seen in his

1:19.1

career. However, even though Karen had been beaten so violently that parts of her brain had been

1:25.0

exposed, she was miraculously still alive.

1:29.3

She survived medical treatment, but was left with a brain injury and memory loss from the attack.

1:35.0

The police had no way of tracking down the strange, tearful man who had called them about

1:40.5

Karen's attack.

1:41.8

He hadn't been on the phone long enough to trace the call, and there

1:44.8

were no eyewitnesses who could provide additional information. With no clues as to the

1:50.4

attacker's identity, and Karen unable to identify her assailant, the case went cold, until

1:57.3

the caller contacted police a second time.

2:10.3

On the 3rd of June, 1981, 18-year-old Kimberly Compton left her home in the state of Wisconsin to move to Twin Cities, Minnesota.

2:15.1

She'd just graduated high school, and she wanted to look for a job in that area.

2:16.7

But she didn't get a chance.

2:18.7

The same day that she arrived in Minnesota, Kimberly was brutally murdered, and her body was discovered lying in a field. First responders

2:25.6

were astonished by the brutality of the crime. Kimberly's killer had used an ice pick

2:31.1

to stab her more than 60 times. Less than two days later, a call came through to the police station.

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