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the murder and assault that some people may find defensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen Portland Oregon, one thousand nine hundred and twenty six, the Withers family has fallen on hard times Beside the rent out, a vacant room to make ends meet, they out of Withers puts a sign in the window. Ass. Her husband goes to work. She doesn't expect any inquiry so soon. But only a few hours into the day she hears a knock. She answered the door to see a large man grinning at her. He holds a war now, a Bible in his large hands, and he talks quickly, but confidently he's interested in the room. They add as nervous, but he seems trustworthy. Only a good man would be carrying the good

look. She welcomes him in and shows him around half way through the tour he asked. Sir question is that of water stain on the ceiling They are doesn't remember a water stain on the ceiling. She looks up searching, but all she finds is pay The man wraps is massive hands around her exposed neck using the life from her body. She looks emitters once charming eyes, now: cold and emotionless he reminds Robin eight bestial terrifying, she is one of many victims of Leonard Nelson, the dark strangler. The gorilla killer. I am Gregg pulsing. This is serial killers up.

Cast original every Monday. We dive into the minds of madness. A serial killers today were discussing the life of rural, Nelson, but man mostly known as the gorilla killer. I'm here with my co host Minister Richardson Pie, everyone you can find episode of serial killers and all other park has to regionalize for free on Spotify or wherever you listen to pod cas to stream. Serial killers for free on Spotify, just open. The app and type serial killers in the search bar at Parkhurst were grateful for you. Our listeners, you will. I was to do what we love. Let us know how we're doing reach out on Facebook and Instagram at park asked and twitter at parks. At work, and if you enjoy today's episode, the best way to help us is to leave a fives a review wherever you're listening. It really does help this week were bring the early life and first attack of the gorilla killer, Pearl Nelson Repute,

to have abnormally long arms and unusually large hands Earl In Rome, the United States and Canada strangling unsuspecting land Ladys in their own homes during the seventeen months when Earl, roamed, the north american countryside, he managed slaughter. At least twenty one women and one infant boy next week will covered this series, of killings that made him one of the most prolific murderers of the early twenty first century, Earl Leonard Nelson, was born Earl feral on May twelfth eighteen. Ninety seven two parents Jameson Francis, but it wasn't long before tragedy p.

The faroes away from their baby boy in February of eighteen. Ninety, eight, only nine months after Earls Birth, his mother died a horrific and painful death from a prolonged syphilis infection. Still an infant Earl, Nelson lost his mother and yet the tragedies continued because syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease. Earls Father also fell victim to its crush. Effects by August of eighteen. Ninety eight James Feral fall his wife into the grave. At only fifteen. Months old Earl Nelson was an orphan Venice is going to take we're on the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note: Vanessa is not a licence psychologist. Your psychiatrist, but she has done a lot of research, for this, Show

thanks, Gregg. According to a study on the effects of orphan hood conducted by Doktor Constance, Amy, ammo, copper and several others orphaned, children can suffer much greater psychological distress than non orphaned children. The study says, quote: effects of orphan hood, contributing to their increased levels of distress, included, trauma being out of school being cared for by a non parent, inactive care, child labour, physical abuse and stigma and discrimination. The study also found that receive assistance was not associated with reduced psychological. Stress the mental and emotional scar of losing one's parents is so profound that even as people try to help There is little they can do to assuage and orphans pain. Even though Earl was only a toddler, but he lost both his parents.

The damage and pain from their loss was something that would affect him for the rest of his life. With his parents on Earl was raised by the only family. He had left his maternal grandma Jenny. Nelson adopted him ass, her own with this Adoption Earl Leonard Feral was renamed Earl, Leonard Nelson, yet Jenny was not particularly equipped to raise an infant in boy. She was a widow with two children of her own twelve year old, Willis, Nelson and ten year old Lillian, the aged different. Between Earl and his aunt and uncle made it difficult for them to connect, at least in Earls Youth and gender did little to mend this gap. She was

and out of the house working hard to provide for the three children. Jenny was also staunchly religious, both sources stating that she attended a pentecostal church. She was very strict in her religious teachings and took a literal interpretation of the Bible. Some sources claimed she viewed any sexual activity as a filthy sin with his uncle and being substantially older than him and his grandmother frequently out of the home young Earl Nelson, had no one with whom he could connect as he grew. He became a quiet and morbid child. He spoke and smiled rarely and alternated from hyperactive Matic episodes to moody depressive states. His dour moods made it difficult for him to have friends even

children his own age, his detachment from ordinary human relationships lead to further strange behaviour. He seemed completely uninjured, in following social rules. One of the most notable. Examples can be seen in his manner of eating. According to author, Harold Sectors, biography of Earl Bestial at dinner, Earl would drenches food in olive oil put his face to the plate and slip up his meal. Like a caged beast at feeding time. His aunt and uncle were disgusted by his eating habits and really killed him for his behaviour. They hated being in public with Earl and felt he was embarrassing to be around. Then. When Earl began attending school, he developed another strange habit, He set out in the morning wearing clean clothing, but he would return home, indifferent, clothing, sometimes wearing literal rags, and

dead when his grandmother asked him about his clothing change, Earl refuse to answer, and his behaviour soon turned from strange to downright awful young leashed extreme temper tantrums and refused to do anything. He was tall old by nineteen o four seven year old Earl was expelled from school for his terrible behaviour and his principal called him incorrigible now left with little to do, but wander Earl began his first for raise into the world of crime. He snuck into shops throughout the neighbourhood and stole any small item. He could get his hands on

It was not uncommon for his grandmother to be called home from work by an angry shopkeeper who didn't want Earl skulking around his or her store. Also around this time, Earl begun memorizing passages of the Bible showing a particular fascination with the prophetic book of revelation. Perhaps the initially studied the words to connect with his religious grandmother, but he started quoting strange passages that weird and inappropriate times, for example, while at church he might quote revelation come hither. I will show one to the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters with whom the kings of the earth have committed. Fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication naturally, a small child reciting. That sort of passage would make people uncomfortable

given all his odd disruptive and disturbing behaviors young Earl Nelson, seem to be doing everything he could to keep people at a distance and in short time he suffered one more tragedy that prevented him from living and ordinary life his mind would be forever changed when a bicycle Ride gone wrong. Brought him to the brink in a moment will here about ve near death, experience thousands of been around for thousands of years, orchestrating controversial of and most not crucial events and, if not for their radical actions, you may never have been known, they existed, take a journey through hidden passageways and become a member of park casts newest series secret societies. Everything

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Earl Leonard Nelson's life was forever scarred by tragedy when both his mother and father died from syphilis before he was even two years old. He was taken in by his maternal grandmother, Jenny, Nelson, but she was rarely around. Earl was left alone. Most of it By the time he was seven Earl was severely maladjusted and in one thousand nine hundred and four he was kicked out of his grade school for bad behavior. Wife would not get any easier for the young man. He was about to experience. One more trauma at the hands of fate at some point in nineteen o eight. When Earl was eleven, he took his uncles bicycle outcome. San Francisco streets ass. He rode he came across the EU. Kids around the same age playing on the side of the road ass he passed them. They turned to watch him right.

Realizing that he had their attention. Earl decided to show off he peddled as quickly as he could pushing the bag to its upper limits as he reached top speeds. He noticed a San Francisco trolley car, making its way down the same street to show off his speed. He raced out. In front of the trolley car for one brief moment as Earls Back Tire passed in front of the trolley cars bumper, he likely felt invincible but before the trolley dry, where could stop the vehicle? The massive machine picked up just a tiny amount of speed. The trolley clipped, the back of his bicycle sending him flying Earl was thrown backwards. His legs dangling within the metal frame of the bike, the back of his head, crashed against the pavement cracking his skull

The driver slammed on the brakes, but the large trolley had difficulty stopping. The ground to a halt, the bicycle therefore all got caught beneath its tyres, rules head was dragged along the concrete for the better part of a city block when the wit, says to the event rushed to his aid. They found that the trip Matic blow had ground a whole into the back of his head, exposing his brain to the open. Air Earl was rushed to the hospital, but there was little by doctors could do. He was comatose, they bandaged his head and laid him down in a bed waiting for him to die

When Janni arrived to check on her grandson, the doctors broke the bad news. She sat at his side waiting for his heart to stop, but it just kept beating the sun set on the injured, Earl and hours later. The sun rose again, a full twenty four hours had passed and Earl had somehow managed to live through the day. Doctors still believed he would die, but five more days passed, an earl was still breathing on the sick.

Day Earl opened his eyes. He had survived his brush with death. Unfortunately, after the accident, Earls Behaviour grew even more tiresome than it had been before his head was racked with piercing headaches, and his memory had been greatly phased by the blow To make matters worse, he developed a tick. He began randomly shouting out, swear words and Bible verses in equal measure, a condition somewhat similar to the popular conception of two red syndrome. Earls mind was hounded by these debilitating effects for the rest of his life. Then soon enough tragedy struck again shortly after earls, miraculous survival, his grandmother Jenny, Nelson, passed away with his grandmother gone

Earls only remaining relatives, whereas Uncle Willis and sat Lillian, both the young adults, twenty three and twenty one, respectively, its unclear what Willis was doing after the death of his mother, but its doubtful that he wanted the thing to do with strange little Earl, but Lillian had around the feel of familial fondness for the boy she had gotten hurried and moved out at the home and in her adult life, had come to sympathise with the tragic happenings that had led Earl to become the child that he was too This familial bond Lillian and her husband welcomed Earl into their home. Unfortunately, Earl did not repay his aunts, kindness in turn. Instead His behaviour only became more bizarre as he entered puberty Earl grew into a large and stocky teen. His hands were sizeable and arms were long. He periodic

We showed off his new found strength by walking around the house in a handstand. And carrying large objects in his teeth. He also developed a fondness for dark, isolated sellers. Sometimes he broke into his neighbors sellers, descended into the cold blackness and sat alone for hours at a time. A recent study published in the Journal of environmental psychology by honest, tied, LA and LEO, but veered, may provide some insight into this behaviour. This study found that darkness elicits a feeling of being free from constraints and triggers a risky explored of processing style, which means both priming darkness and actual dim illumination improve creative performance. This would seem to suggest that Earl was retreating to the sellers, to free his mind for mixed

convention and allow his mind to wander places it otherwise was not allowed to go well for most people. This freedom of thought might be beneficial for all. It likely only made things worse, in fact, based on interviews doktor with Earl after his capture he likely spent his time These sellers daydreaming about sexual violence, Earl, was known to masturbate. Frequently, sometimes spied on his female cousin, who would have only been a young child at the time ass. She addressed for bed then, when Earl was fifteen, he started exploring the seedy parts of San Francisco meeting up with sex workers whenever he had the time and the money in order to fund illicit activities, Earl worked menial, odd jobs around town. His strength was a

boon for manual labor, but he was almost incapable of holding down a steady job He would routinely have temper tantrums at work, sometimes forming away from his job entirely Earl STAR, having one sided. Conversations with invisible friends, creeping any employers who may have been able to overlook his other odd behaviors. These problems continued for seven long years, Lily and her family eventually felt unsafe, with the hulking and uncontrollable Tina wandering around their home. He was too large and two stubborn for her to discipline. She hoped that some day he might move on from their house without confrontation, then

in the spring of nineteen fifteen. She got her wish eighteen year old, Earl wandered away from his aunts home without word or warning. Earl somehow found his way to the small town of Plymouth, California, a full one hundred, forty mile walk northeast of San Francisco. Here, aimlessly wandered halfway across the state of California managing to find his expedition through petty crimes and the occasional on job as a rule meandered through the forest of Eastern California, he came across a small cabin in the woods. The cabin was secluded and all It looked run down and undisturbed and Earl thought that it was abandoned seeing his considerable strength Earl broke into the cabin and made himself at home, he thought

abandoned cabin could make a wonderful temporary living place for him on his aimless journey through the countryside, Earl was relaxing in the home. He heard the switching of icons, wheels approach, he jumped to his feet and peered down the driveway through a strange twist of fate. The owner of a habit was returning. The very same day Earl had arrived, with horror, Earl realized. He was caught coming up, robbery ends with violence and now back to the story in the spring of night

In fifteen eighteen year, old, Earl Nelson wandered halfway across the state of California to the small town of Plymouth, he had broken into a cabin that he believed was abandoned, but that same afternoon the owner came home home. He looked out the front door. He could see a wagon approaching the cabin thinking quickly, Earl Sprint out the front door and bolted into the forest. He heard shouts echoing out from behind the owner, had seen him flee as ran panting through the trees. He heard a cacophony of voices trail after him, it seemed an entire policy. Was using him down and he was too slow to outrun. I eventually he was rounded and captured by the men of Plymouth. He was dragged into town and put on trial for robber.

Without any money, Earl was unable to afford a lawyer in a swift trial. He was found guilty of robbery and sentenced to two years in prison. Earl was shipped all the way back to San Francisco, where he was incarcerated in San Quentin State prison. He served his first day of the two year term on July, twenty fifth nineteen fifteen, when he was only Eighteen years old, Earls time in San Quentin past uneventfully he was released on parole on September, sixth, nineteen, sixteen having served slim more than a year of his sentence, once released Mulder round the Bay area, much as he had before like leaf.

Doing his meager existence through petty crime whereabouts between one thousand nine hundred and seventeen and one thousand nine hundred and twenty one differ depending on the source. However, some common threads made the same. While Earl was still on parole. He was arrested once more for petty theft lie. Leon March- Ninth nineteen seventeen. He was sentenced to six months in jail. He was released later that year, but what he did with his time is unknown He likely went back to wandering and committing petty crimes, but a merry was in the throes of world war, one a draft had been instituted requiring every. Able, bodied man to enlist in the army. So at some point in nineteen eighteen the twenty one year old joined the army using his birth name, Earl Feral. However, the new position did not last long, one,

he was ordered to stand guard ass. He stood bored out of his mind. Freezing chill night AIR Earl decided. The army wasn't for him half way through the night. He abandoned his post simply King away into the dark, when is commanding officers, noticed his disappearance the next morning they searched for him, but so How Earl manage to evade capture eager to avoid the military Earl made his way east over the course of an unknown period of time? He found his way from San Francisco to SALT Lake City Utah, for a brief moment, Earl flirted with the idea of becoming a mormon. He studied the of Mormon and attended a Mormon church, but eventually decided the religion was not for him once again left with

direction, Earl, meandered back to the Bay area after two months of Vagrancy Earl decided to join the military. A second time because Earl had joined the army using his birth name, Earl Feral. He realized he could use his legal name, Earl, Nelson, without being recognised to be extra safe here, realistic with the Navy instead of the army, hoping the separate military branch would not have access to his army records. Ultimately, earls trickery was successful and he was assigned to a ship. As a cook theatres Earl took to the sea, his interest in the Navy would prove as limited as its interest in the army. However, because he was stuck on a boat, he couldn't dessert as easily as he had of the army. Still, he made it very clear to his crew maize, but he had no.

Interest in being a sailor throughout his first month on board the ship he often refused to work blatantly disobeyed, direct orders and spent most of his time span hold out on his bunk ranting about the of the world and the coming of the monstrous bees described in the book of revelation sore. Earls bizarre unobtrusive behaviour became a thorn in the side of his commanding officers. They tried taking disciplinary action to improve and at him, but Earl remained unchanged as they watched him ramble nonsensical and act a radically. They realised that he was far too much for them to handle. His commanding officers, deemed Earl mentally unfit to serve rather than these him into the world. They had him officially committed to nap estate. Psychiatric hospital

twenty one year old girl was put through psychiatric examinations to determine exactly what was wrong with him, but ass. They interviewed him about his past. He confronted them with a series of odd claims. For instance, Earl stated that he had masturbated every single day from its thirteenth birthday until US eighteenth birthday, then he managed to stop masturbating entirely. Earl also claimed that he was an alcoholic, but that he had been sober for seven months prior to his admittance to the hospital when the doctors conducted blood tests to check on Earls Physic health. They found that he was infected with both gonorrhea and syphilis. The infections had clearly been left untreated for quite some time and Earl was quick to tell the doctors that he had acquired them from sex workers.

He was sixteen years old faced with Earls, clear lies and frightening truths, as well as his continued habit of frequently quoting biblical prophecies. The doctors concluded he was possessed by a constitutional psychopathic state. They believed he was so deeply psychopathic. He could never be completely cured of his mental illness A study published in the journal of nervous and mental disease by Doktor J Townsend provides a greater context that makes this leave even more interesting. According to this study, american Mental health patients generally believed that the individual is partially responsible for his condition and the proper motivation and help he can improve. The study also posits that this cultural belief

they stem from ideas within the mental health institutions themselves for Earls American doctors to declare him incurable. This means Earls behaviour and psychosis had to be much more bizarre than the other patients at the hospital, even among the mentally infirm. Earls nature was stream. It was clear to the doctors that Earl would always be a dangerous man as such they kept him. Relegated to the ward for the hopeless inmates and simply plan to keep him contained for as long as they could yet Earl refuse to be locked up. After six months of being institutionalized, Earl managed to break out of his ward and flee Nap estate hospital entirely.

The specifics of how he managed to escape aren't publicly known, but we do know that he was captured only a few days after his flight from the hospital caged once again, Earl chafed under the restrictions placed upon him by the medical staff, He kept his eyes open for another chance at freedom and, six months later, he sprinted out the doors and escaped Napa State Hospital. For a second time, this escape attempt played out much like the first. A man hunt was conducted. An Earl was recovered short afterwards, however, over time the doctors and state employees got tired of Earl and all his awful ways, he was an exhausting and incurable patient one. They felt they would have to deal with for the rest of his life. So when Earl escaped from

hospital a third time. Some time during the early months of nineteen nineteen, the doctors decided did just let him go rather than conducting another search. The doctors merely changed Earls Health documents enlisted him as a discharge to patient whose status had improved. They also stated that he was not violent, alma, Seidel or destructive all the while they knew that Earl was just as dangerous as he had all spin, the dangerous twenty two year old, Psychopath Earl Nelson was free to wander the streets of San Francisco once more. While behalf Little had allowed Earl to go. Free he's still believed that he was on the run. He went as quickly as he could to the only safe place. He knew his aunt Lillian's home again,

Seeing Earl approach her door after four years of his blissful absence, Lily was shocked and terrified. Yet, despite her initial feelings of fright, she too girl in and allowed him to stay. He was her family. After all, shortly after his arrival, Lillian helped Earl get a job as a janitor at Saint marries. Hospital. While marking the floors. He noticed an old maid meekly make the beds fifty eight years. Mary. Martin Earl was immediately spitten. He asked Mary out on a date and she agreed Sadly, in her many years of life, Mary State with Earl, was one of the only dates she had ever been on. Mary was lonely and had spent much of her life waiting for a man to appreciate her. When Earl turned his, tension towards her. He showed the past.

And drive that she had always longed for. A whirlwind: love affair, Earl convinced her to marry him. After only a matter of days. In August, nineteen nineteen twenty two years old, Earl, Nelson and fifty. Eight year old Mary Martin got married in a catholic church, But while Earl had initially acted, loving and kind once he had Mary trapped, he became controlling and possessive. He required her to meet his unreasonably frequent and sometimes unusual, so She will demand things only got worse when one day ass, he was working, He climbed a ladder and fell off.

Smashing his head against the ground, because Earl was working at a hospital. He was quickly bandaged and rushed to bed for observation. However, the situation reminded him of his time in a psychiatric hospital that he felt a strong urge to get out instead of sticking around to make sure he was ok. Earl fled from the hospital bloody bandages, still wrapped around skull. Earls behaviour got even more erratic from their as he began. Hallucinating visions and hearing voices that weren't there overtime Mary began to fear her unstable and volatile husband by most accounts. After six months of torturers, marriage she decided to divorce or

Nelson near the end of nineteen nineteen as Earl entered, nineteen twenty his location became difficult to verify. He, like spent most of his time at his aunt Lillian's doing the same thing he had done when he lived there before. However, as time passed, girls hold on reality began to slip and his mental state became increasingly More dangerous and increasingly more unpredictable. In addition, his sexual fantasies grew more depraved it may of nineteen twenty one. When Earl was twenty four years old, his unstable mind finally gave way to violent sexual action as he wandered the streets of San Francisco. He peered into the windows of the houses that he passed through the basement window. Of Charles Summers home. He sought

Well Year old Mary Summers playing with her toys upon seeing her Earl became possessed with the need to have her. He walked up to the door, the home and not, Twenty four year old, Charles Summer Junior marries older brother answered the door girl put on a big smile and claimed to be a plumber, he said the Charles Senior had asked him to check out the pipes in the basement and requested to be let its side. Charles Junior was completely unsuspecting of earls, true intent. He alive Darrell inside and led him to the stairs. As Earl descended Charles Junior state upstairs going back to whatever work he was doing before when Earl reached the basement landing. His blood began pumping furiously he saw Mary playing with her toys and he rushed write to her

he wrapped his massive hands around her neck and began to squeeze, but with the still in her lungs Mary manage to scream Charles June, raised to the basement where he saw Earl strangling his sister. He tackled Earl, freeing history from a man's grasp Earl quickly humped with feet and ran out the door racing down the street, but he didn't get by are Charles Junior called the police and after a quick search, the cops found, Earl and arrested him for attempted murder. Many hoped this would be the end of Earl Nelson story, but sadly his first attack was far from his last. He would soon

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