The Youngest Killer On Death Row
Hot On The Case
Breanna Heim
5.0 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s investigation Hot On The Case is transported back to the midst of the Satanic Panic, where fear and hysteria shaped one of America’s most controversial death row cases. At just sixteen years old, Sean Sellers admitted to killing three people and became the first and only person under seventeen to be sentenced to death in the modern era. This episode explores how panic, belief, and justice intersected in a case that still divides the nation.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a typical day in Oklahoma City. Children are in school. Everything feels good here. |
| 0:05.0 | Comfortable, safe. This is Sean Sellers' neighborhood, and this is the house where he lived. |
| 0:11.0 | Bright, intelligent, athletic, handsome, clean cut. Sean looks like the All-American boy. |
| 0:18.0 | Your next-door neighbor. The football captain, something you'd like to have as a friend or date. |
| 0:22.6 | But Sean is a killer and he's on death row. |
| 0:27.6 | A blood drinking teenage Satanist living in small town America in the midst of the satanic panic. |
| 0:36.6 | I didn't care about anybody else or anything else except myself, and I wanted to be powerful. |
| 0:42.3 | You know, I wanted power. I wanted to control others. |
| 0:45.3 | I liked it when people were afraid of me. |
| 0:47.3 | And a lot of people were, and for a good reason, I was dangerous. |
| 0:51.3 | 16-year-old Sean Sellers was going down a terrifying path. |
| 0:57.1 | And by the time this case is over, four people will be dead. |
| 1:02.5 | Sean Sellers, that young man, that turned into a killer. |
| 1:05.9 | I walked up to his bed and pointed gun, and I squeeze the trigger. |
| 1:11.9 | This is the disturbing mind and crimes of Sean Sellers, the only person in the United States |
| 1:19.8 | under the age of 17 years old to be sentenced to death after the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976. |
| 1:30.3 | And my name is Brianna and I'm hot on the case. |
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