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🗓️ 13 March 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Scary Mysteries, Twisted Toes, Errik Cook, and Stella Williamson. Tales of Haunting's murder and scary mysteries. |
0:15.0 | Every week, twisted twos, dives into a pair of uniquely terrifying true stories that are worthy of a more in-depth look. |
0:21.0 | For this week, we check in on a brutal Australian killer and a unique but equally twisted |
0:26.6 | woman named Stella Williamson. |
0:28.9 | Get ready for scary mysteries, twisted twos. Number one, Eric Cook. On October 24, 1964, Eric Edgar Cook became the last man to be hanged in Western Australia. |
0:48.0 | Hailing from Perth, the 33-year-old killer was tried and hung for committing 22 violent crimes, eight of which were |
0:54.7 | cold-blooded murders. |
0:57.0 | Dubbed as the Night Coller, he was born on February 25, 1931 in Victoria Park. The subject of a violent childhood he was the oldest child, |
1:06.1 | and the only boy born to an alcoholic father who didn't want him. His dad's hate and |
1:11.1 | disgust resulted in Cook being routinely beaten and abused. |
1:14.8 | At school he was equally bullied for a facial deformity that caused him to mumble when he spoke. |
1:20.4 | Being a social outcast, Cook entertained himself by spending his night doing petty crimes and committing vandalism. |
1:27.0 | He soon escalated in his bad behavior and was thrown in jail for 18 months after burning down a church because they rejected him during a choir audition. |
1:35.6 | By 21 he had joined the military but got discharged when they discovered his previous conviction. |
1:41.2 | At 22 he married Sarah Leavin and together they had seven children. |
1:45.6 | Despite having a wife and kids he continued to wander the streets at night |
1:49.4 | conducting minor offenses and was a self-confessed peeping Tom. |
1:54.6 | Cook terrorized the locals and they were none the wiser of his existence until Australia |
1:58.9 | day on January 26, 1963. |
2:02.4 | That's when a series of shootings began happening in the suburbs of Perth. |
2:06.6 | The first victims were a couple sitting in a parked car. They were shot in the neck and |
2:10.9 | hands, but both managed to survive. |
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