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🗓️ 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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