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Was This Serial Killer Responsible For 41 deaths? - August 7 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

Sometimes a confession isn't enough to land a conviction.

0:18.4

On August 7, 1954, a truly dangerous man was born, who had spent his

0:24.5

entire life committing crime after crime, a man who, if he is to be believed, may have taken the

0:31.1

lives of over 40 individuals. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:40.8

Marvin Gail Gray was born on August 7, 1954 in Princeton, Kentucky.

0:46.1

The seventh of what would be 10 children, from the very early age of four, Marvin began suffering from panic attacks.

0:54.0

And as a means to self-medicate,

0:56.4

he spent the next seven years taking drugs containing methamphetamines.

1:01.6

In 1964, Marvin's father suffered from a heart attack, and though this somehow triggered

1:08.2

the end of his panic attacks, all the financial burden fell on his mother,

1:13.0

who at the time was still trying to raise her 10 children.

1:17.4

This meant that some of the kids, like Marvin, started to fall through the cracks.

1:23.4

Freed from what was described as, quote, excessive parental care,

1:27.3

Marvin's behavior drastically changed after his father's heart attack.

1:31.6

His grades plummeted, his discipline all but non-existent,

1:36.0

and at the age of just 12, he had his first run in with the police

1:40.0

when he was convicted of infiltrating into foreign property and theft.

1:45.3

Sent to a juvenile institution, according to Marvin's later accounts,

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