Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode includes, does fashions of murder and assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen Detective Marcia Coralie had only been a detective for the crimes against persons. Unit of the same Charles, Howdy Sheriffs Department. For two weeks she is assigned to a squad tasked with searching a vacant lot in West Alt Missouri on May twenty fifth, two thousand too On that summer morning she and their detectives were following a printed out. Map were ex marked the spot, but rather than hunting for buried treasure, the detectives were searching for a homicide, victim. Potentially the seventeenth woman that serial killer, Morey Travis had imprisoned in his basement, tortured, raped and strangled to death,

The police search for the serial killer had all but stalled. Then more Travis sent the local newspaper letter. That would be his undoing the anonymous note, was accompanied by a map to the body of his alleged seventeenth victim the existence of this body. No police, whether they were dealing with a mere attention seeker or a bona fide serial killer. Marcia Coralie said, arrive. At that location. On the sunny may morning, I was prepared for a long hot day as I walked the grassy area between the wood line along the former railroad tracks and Saint Charles. Treat I observed what I thought was a rather large mushroom lying in the grass. It was a bleached human skull, hi, I'm Gregg Pulse, and this is

YO killers today we're going to take a deep dive into the life of Morey Travis, the Saint Louis Video strangler. I'm here my co host Vanessa Richardson pie. Everyone we'd like to ask a quick favour. Would you leave I've STAR review of serial killers on your favorite podcast directory, it seems so simple, but it really helps us out and don't forget my boy there, because a new episode comes out every Monday. You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram at PAR cast and on Twitter, at PAR cast network or on our website. Parkhurst dot com. Marie Travis, also known as the video strangler tortured, raped and murdered as many as twenty women in a saint Louis Missouri area from two thousand, in two thousand to Venice is not a licence psychologist your psychiatrist, but she's done a lot of research for the show from the outside Morey Travis headed

seemingly normal childhood he was born in Saint Louis on October, twenty fifth nineteen sixty five and though You remember him said he was an incredibly quiet boy in part, one we discussed how Travis is callousness and an emotional behaviour as a child. It could have been an early warning sign for psychopathic behaviors as an adult Travis became addicted to crack cocaine, which would mark the beginning of his troubles with the law. Travis would struggle with his addiction for the rest of his life and be in and out of prison four times for robberies and parole violations for possessing drugs in two thousand one after Travis Third released.

Imprisoned at age. Thirty five he began to solicit sex workers along Broadway in Baden, neighbourhood of Saint Louis. Sometimes Travis would let the women leave after they had smoked, crack and engaged in consensual sex, but many these women would never be seen alive again. Travis would film his interactions with these women, as he verbally be rated them in tortured that, but the stun gun in part one we discussed how Travis's videotape trophies allowed him to revisit his crimes and vivid detail whenever he wanted. This would imprison these women in his basement for days at a time. Ultimately, he would strangle his victim death and leave their bodies and overgrown lots and ease Saint Louis on both the machine. Hurry and Illinois side of the Mississippi River in the summer of two thousand one police were finding the bodies of these women once every five to six weeks

but their investigation stalled when Travis was sent to prison once more on November, twenty ninth two thousand one for violating probation by possessing drugs. Was released in March two thousand to at age. Thirty, six. May of two thousand to bill. Psmith reported for the Saint Louis Post Dispatch was still troubled by the unsolved murders Police had recovered nine bodies in total, three of which were too badly decomposed to be identified. Psmith couldn't shake the horrors that Saint Louis Sex workers have faced and the risks they were taking every day Smith wrote an article four, the newspaper about the nine linked homicides and conducted an in depth profile of Teresa Wilson, one of the slain women. His article portrayed her as more than just a sex workers, murder victim Psmith talk to friends of Wilson, who told him about her loving relationship with her daughter,

and her struggles with drug addiction. He wrote the women know about Wilson and the others who have been murdered. They know could be waiting for them in the next car. It's not that they don't care it's just that they won't stop. Org. The article ran on the front page of the post dispatch on May nineteenth, two thousand to Psmith hope to foster empathy and bring public attention to the risks that Saint Louis is sex. Workers face every day. Instead, Smith's call for justice provoked a man who committed atrocious acts of torture, rape and on May twenty. Fourth, two thousand to five days after the Saint Louis Post Dispatch published Bill Smith's profile of Teresa Wilson, the news has received an anonymous letter praising the story. The letter read nice sob story about Teresa Wilson right one about Green Wade right a good one. And I'll tell you where many others are to prove I'm real hears

corrections to number seventeen search and fifty yards radius from the axe. Put story in the Sunday paper, like the last end quote as reference to them her Alyssa Green Wade was the first body police recovered? Almost a year earlier on April, first, two thousand, since then police had found another eight bodies, and now they had instructions to find another. The letter included a printed out map of nearby West Alton, where two other victims had been found. The map was marked with an x the fact that more Travis communicated with the press and led them to one of his victims displays a staggering amount of recklessness and overconfidence. One of the traits of psychopath is Randy O sense of self worth and narcissism. Travis was likely delighted by the media. Attention that is, murders were getting and wanted more in the two thousand nine study crime

media and culture. Kevin De Haggerty rights quote there are few quicker routes to select than committing a sensational crime rather than be shamed by their actions serial killers, often revel in their celebrity and actively seek out media attention and quote Bill Smith immediately contacted the police who dispatched a team. The next day on May twenty fifth, two thousand two to search for the allegedly seventeen victim, but the serial killer they ve been tracking for over a year, the skull that Marcia Coralie found had been left in the lot so long that its skin and hair had decomposed and the exposed bones had been bleached in the sun police found more skeletal, remains near the skull. The torso was still partially clad in a woman's dress. This proved to the poor is that the letter the Saint Louis Posts Dispatch received was genuine. They had received a communication from the killer,

The letter Travis claimed that this was the seventeenth victim, but the police had only recovered ten bodies, including this one. If Travis was Tom, the truth, there were at least seven more murdered. Women unaccounted for, it's possible that Travis could have been lying about the number of victims, a com. Trade among psychopaths is pathological. Lying Travis also could have been trying. Manipulating control. The investigation with false information he like we would have enjoyed sending the police on a search for victims that didn't exist and create more hysteria and panic for the public claiming a large amount of unknown victims certainly would have created more pressure for the detectives on the case, still his map them to one of his victims, as promised. The only way for the police to for sure how many victims the killer had claimed was to catch him. In the letter

Marie Travis sent to the Post dispatch was their best piece of evidence. So far the letter was postmarked May twenty. First, two thousand to two days after Bill Smith's article ran in the paper. The american flag stamp was fixed neatly, but upside down for the return address. Travis had written. I thralldom with a New York city address. Even though the postmark indicated the letter had been sent locally. I Roll them was the name of a website that featured bondage and torture pornography. The owners of the website were investigated, but there was no link to the victim. FBI special agent, Robert Morton, stated the return dress on the envelope indicated its author was informing the world that he held the victims and controlled them. He kept them for bondage. Had his pleasure the f B. I also believe that placing the stamp upside down was done to attract attention. Upside down flag is an officially recognised symbol of distress and the F B, I believe, trend

was letting them know that lives were at stake trend. Seemingly enjoyed orchestrating bizarre theatrical where he was the centre of attention, but peculiarities in his life There are similar in many ways to how he made his victim to dance for him and repeat Montrose, affirming its dominance. Travis felt he was in control. The common trade among psychopaths is a need for dominance and power, which comes from a deep seated fear of rejection and loss of control, Marie Travis lifelong struggle with his addiction to Cocaine was an endless losing battle for him. He was likely exerting an extreme amount of dominance with his victims to compensate for his physiological dependence on crack cocaine. This Satiable need for power and inflated sense of ego, also dictated that he ought to make it clear to the post dispatch and the police that he was in control of them.

As well. While sending a letter to the press was certainly a risky move, more Travis was careful to not leave any thing. Prince or dna and the note map or envelope he likely use, of when handing the letter an envelope and sealed it without using his saliva, the detectives contacted several local print shops, office, supply stores and specialty shops. Trying to find a match for the floral Stationary Travis had used but came up short may twenty. Ninth, two thousand to the F B. I turned their investigation to the printed out map showing the location of the alleged seventeenth victim that Travis had included with his letter. After a deep. Hailed search of online mapping websites. They concluded the map, had been generated using the travel site, expedient dot com law enforcement was still,

relatively new to online investigations. Most police departments did not yet have cybercrime divisions and no one had yet use the internet to capture killer. Like this, the authority these took the map to expedient, who informed them that all records of access to their website could be tracked through its then parent company Microsoft. The FBI obtained a grand jury subpoena directing Microsoft ink to present all data graphic files, long files your account information and session information associated with searching the West Alton area from me, eighteenth, two thousand to the day before Bill Smith's article ran through May twenty first, two thousand to the day, Morey Travis mailed, the letter law enforcement hope the information from MIKE soft would help them. Compile a list of people who used to decide to search for western and help them create a list of possible suspects. Internet privacy is one of the most

minutely, debated issues in american politics today during the morning Travis Investigation, getting a subpoena for online search histories, was seen as equivalent to getting approval for wiretapping a phone line. Wellbeing I worked on tracking the origins of the letter bill. Psmith got Work writing another article about Alyssa, Greenway, the womb whose body was the first found over a year earlier on April. First, two thousand one F B, I decided it was best to comply with the letter. Writers demands bill, Smith's art. Go about. Greenway would run on the front page of the Sunday paper, just as Travis had wanted. They hoped that this harmless form of compliance with the killers demands could lead to further communication and thus more opportunities to catch him. Smooth wrote about Greenway friendship with Reverend Newcomb one goosey, who was helping the thirty four year old mother of three combat her cocaine addiction. Like the article about Teresa Wilson. It was an empathetic port

rail of a woman whom society disregarded as Travis insisted. The story ran on the front page of the Sunday paper on June. Second, two thousand two, while the reporters at the Post dispatch waited, see if Travis would respond. The investigation was narrowing in on him through more advanced technology. The noose, burn, never got a second letter from Morey Travis. He would be in police custody before ever having a chance to right back. Will return to a story in just a moment from the park ass network High its Gregg and Vanessa and we have some great news for all of our incredible cults listeners as it. Thank you for your unwavering dedication and support. We re released. Eighty three episodes of serial killers from our back catalogue and are already in your feet and well to listen to right now. Do you have a favorite

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more Travis Zoom. In on the map of the West Alden area. Approximately ten times The final time was inexact match of the map sent to the Saint Louis Post dispatch. Microsoft gave the authorities the IP address that had access the site, but couldn't provide a name and p address is a series of numbers assigned to your computer by your internet service provider that allows your network to send information to your device in this. Sense that some one needs your mailing address. To send you a letter, a remote computer or network needs your ip address to communicate with your computer, The series of numbers that make up an ip address are useless to most people to translate the ip address. The the eye turned a world coming, which provided local telephone numbers to connect internet services with their dial up. Customers were, calm assigned a temporary ip address to each customer for each internet session. The question

wasn't just who used the ten digit ip address, but who used it on the evening of May twentieth on June. Fourth, world comes internet division: you, U Net identified, the user on the evening of May twentieth as Emma Cen, Slash Morey Travis. This was one of the four murder investigations done through online sleuthing, its see to assume that Travis was being careless and his internet use, but at the time people idly assume. Their online browsing was as private is, making phone call or watching television. Many felt that deleting their browser, history was enough to conceal their tidies. Once investigators had the name, Morey, Travis, the police and FBI, easily tracked him to his address in Ferguson, Missouri and immediate they put him under twenty four hours surveillance, while they prepared affidavits to obtain a search warrant, Three days later on June, seventh, two thousand to add.

Evan, I am more Travis awoke to a knock on the door. He answered. The door groggy and still in his underwear, define Saint Louis Homicide, detectives FBI agents at an FBI, recovery team with a search warrant for House Travis was seemingly unfazed. He asked to get his why they were there so early, they told him. You know why were here, Travis got dressed and joined the police in the living room where they proceeded to interview him sergeant TIM sacks. A twenty two year old, veteran of the Saint Louis Police Department, who had the investigation of the cereal killings said quote he wanted to control everything He wanted to control where we sat. He tried to steer the conversation several times and quote sergeant. Sacks recalled watching Travis Kaliko CAT stroll through the room as they too

each time, one of the investigators reached down to pet the animal Travis stiffened and moved to the edge of his seat. Sacks said quote: he didn't appreciated at all end quote. Finally, Travis picked up a cat and sat next to him out of reach of the investigators. We discuss but foreign serial killers, how animal abuse is a common early warning sign for people with psychopathic behaviors. It might seem strange that someone incapable of feeling love would keep a pet for companionship in part one. We discussed how Travis had girlfriends in order to keep up and outward appearance of a normal life. It's likely his cat was another form of his social camouflage. We have already discussed Travis S, need for controlling

dominance and because of this he likely felt very possessive of his cat. He didn't enjoy something that he owned, exercising its own will and interacting with others. In fact, one theory suggests that psychopaths who own pets gravitate towards dogs since their more obedient, while cats are independent, although more studies need to be done subject, Travis and the police said in his living room for the next two hours. While investigators tried to engage Travis and small talk, Travis deflected the questions one by one. Where did you grow up? They asked him. Travis responded by repeating the question back to them. What did you do as a child asked nothing said, went to school. What did you do? Certain sack said he kept trying to redirect everything every question he wanted to be in control at this point with the police in his own living room. Travis had to understand,

he was on very shaky ground feeling threatened. He continued to try to exert his dominance in a last ditch effort to retain control of the situation. Travis, never ass police, why they had come or why they sitting in his house. He never did anyone doing, but he also didn't deny anything either. At this point, Travis was likely trying to determine how much the police new and how much evidence they had against him. He seemed more interested in how the police had been able to find him find de the investigators told him about the map. This They knew it came from his computer and that FBI agents were going to search his home for more evidence at last, Travis exposed some of his Penta anger. He cursed his computer and the internet, As to members of the FBI, evidence recovery team began to searches basement. The detectives were surprised if the basement in a state of disarray compared to how clean Travis kept the Upstairs F B

special agent, Robert Morton, said, of course the downs tears had an entirely different purpose. The FBI, recovery team found traces of blood on the floor and walls and and collecting samples. While sergeant Saxon agent Morton push Travis for more information, they showed Travis several pictures of the women they believed he had killed. In the pictures. The women were smiling unaware of the tragedy that would befall them. The detectives ass Travis if he knew any of them, he said he didn't about ten minutes later Travis asked if he could see the pictures of those dead girls again sergeant sacks said Sorry, we never told you these girls were murdered. We asked if you had ever known any of them. This is it I'm an interrogation techniques, law enforcement, withholds key pieces of information regarding the case and see if their suspect offers up additional knowledge. They wouldn't have been privy to smartest. This was they had caught him off guard and he was on

able to stay ahead of the well prepared FBI and police. Morton and sergeant sacks were polite and non accusatory toward Travis we're out of their way to make their interrogation feel more like a conversation. This is prodigy often used to put the suspected ease. Travis was likely decide. Armed by their congeniality. The fact he wasn't immediately. Apprehended might have led Travis to believe that there was still a way out for him. Instead, the detectives were gap, bring as much information as possible to build a case against him after Travis. Let slip that he knew the women in the pictures were murdered. He fell silent and dropped his head appearing vulnerable for the first time. Finally, Travis looked at the detectives and said: come on I'll, take you when they asked where he said. You know where I'm taking you it's. What you been asking for the whole

time and I'll give you what you want in the nineteen fifty six paper, the psychology of confession Milton W Horowitz rights for the person to perceive confession as a path to freedom, He must be aware of his vulnerability and weakness. The FBI on police had made it clear that the evidence was stacked against him and Travis likely and rightfully believed them. Many criminals cooperate with the police, hoping that it might lead to a more lenient sentence or a plea bargain. It's possible that in his vulnerable moment, Travis was hoping for mercy sergeant Saxon Morton's interrogation had been strategically friendly and non confrontational, which Travis could have interpreted as willingness to negotiate. The investigators confirmed Travis

is going to take them to the location of another victim. They got in the car and Travis told them to drive to EAST Saint Louis, but ass. They came upon the bridge that crosses over the Mississippi River and left Missouri for Illinois. Travis had a change of heart. He suddenly told the detectives that he changed his mind and they should take him to jail. He started yelling at them repeating lock me up over and over during the course of Travis conversation with the investigators he was likely trying to find ways to manipulate the situation and calculate his best possible outcome. He knew they had traced the map of the victim back to his computer and that they searching his house for more evidence which Travis under did. They would almost certainly find, but ass they crossed over the bridge into east. Saint Louis Travis must have read lies the full scale of the crimes he had committed. Capital punishment was, and still

is legal in Missouri, the stateless seventeen aggravating factors that make first degree murder punishable by death Travis was easily on track for the death penalty. Its possible that Travis realized he had nothing to gain by helping sergeant Saxon agent Morton. Typically, when criminals comply with law enforcement, it's after a lawyer has negotiated a plea bargain in Travis case. He had not yet been promised any key sensation for his assistance, whatever the reason that Travis changed his mind, sergeants acts and agent Morton RE routed their squad car and took Travis to police headquarters in downtown Saint Louis they likely assume there would be more chances later information on the whereabouts of Travis additional victims. The detectives continued to target Travis at police headquarters,

told him. They needed his help to provide closure for the families of the victims. A sneer crept across Travis his face ass. He repeated the word victim with disdain. Sack said to him. These women were less than human, but question Travis for another three hours. At one point sacks tried to engage Travis in a debate about whether the desire to kill wasn't, inherit, trait or learn. Behaviour. Travis told sacks that he would or understand and that he had been like this, since he could remember in several uncharacteristically nervous moments. Morey Travis did show concern for his mother. He repeatedly said What am I going to tell my mom during his interrogation, it's difficult to make sense of a cold blooded psychopath, displaying signs of concern and affection, while at first glance, Travis relationship with his mother seem normal and even positive. It was likely simply

much more flawed and complicated. The general consensus among psychiatric professionals is that cycle paths are incapable of empathy and love. Yet again to William H, J Martens, two thousand to paper, the hidden suffering of the psychopath. This doesn't mean that psychopaths dont want to receive the compassion they cannot give He writes quote, as with any one else, psychopaths have a deep wish to be loved and cared for this disease. Air remains frequently unfulfilled, however, because it is obviously not easy for another person to get close to someone with such repellent personality characteristics and quote many serial killers. We profiled have a turbulent and unfulfilling relationships with their mothers, Zelda Kane night wrote it

two thousand six study that the mothers of most serial killers are domineering. Punitive and rejecting many of these women tend to be single mothers. So there are fewer studies on the effects of paternal influence on serial killers, robbing their children of warmth and affection results in one night describes as a pathological lack of self esteem. While Some people may dwell in feelings of self loathing. Others develop unnatural defence of compensatory grandiose city. There psyche is rooted in the idea that their critics must wrong. This drive and desire for attention are emerging traits of a potential narcissist. Still we don't know much about Travis relationship with his mother. Only that he cared greatly about her perception.

It's also possible that some of the only positive attention Travis experience throughout his life was from his mother. He described feeling lonely and isolated from his peers at a young age. Wendy s agronomic details the intense bonds between parent and child in her book, the psychology, Parental control, how well meaning parenting, can backfire children grow up. Naturally, wine to please their parents and generally do the desire for autonomy in their adolescence, as they start to socialize more outside their family. Without this socialization that autonomy is diminished, If the only affection and socialization Travis received was from his mother, it's possible that he never outgrew his need to please her and his desire for her love grew into an unhealthy fixation.

Sancho. Travis has been very private about her sons, alleged crimes, she's, never done an interview or made a statement to the press about her relationship with his son, while sergeant Saxon agent Morton continued their efforts to elicit a confession. From Travis the F B, I recovery team was compiling evidence from his basement. Police seized his computer ligatures ropes and belts splattered with what appeared to be blood. They found women's underwear and wigs Travis also kept an extensive collection of written materials that dealt with bondage and sexual slavery, they gathered samples of Travis DNA and noted that the tyres on his below

Mitsubishi Eclipse, matched trademarks, found on the leg of another victim. He had gathered materials and plans for constructing a concrete blocks cell. In his basement to services personal torture chamber, he had written out explicit instructions for dealing with his captives and marked off locations where he could pick up victims as well as locations for disposal. While searching his basement detectives located a secret wall,

hide it they fund would have Travis VHF, takes labelled wedding tape after an hour in twenty six minutes of wedding footage as a cover. The remainder of the tape contained video Travis, took of him torturing and strangling a young, unknown woman until she died. The tape continued with a series of scenes of Travis, torturing other women, some of whom the police were able to identify the tape us so disturbing that the police department offered free counselling to those who viewed it detectives told Travis about the tape asking him. You know we found in your basin Travis simply replied yeah. I knew you'd find it several times during Travis conversations with the FBI police, he seemed to understand the full gravity of what was happening to him. He would drop his head and say I'm toast over and over and tell the detectives, I'm not

going back to prison. We know that Travis was shocked by the conditions of prison during his first incarceration in part one. We discussed the letter Travis sent to the judge. After his first sentencing to prison, Travis described the horror he felt by the violence and sexual assault. He witnessed one was behind bars. It's not clear if you was ever victim to such abuse. However, the anxiety Travis had toward prison wasn't enough to overcome his addiction to crack. He returned to prison three times for violating parole by drug possession. After eight hours of interrogation sergeant sacks handed the questioning over to Illinois State Police special agent, James Walker and Saint Louis Homicide, detective Roy Douglas, because many of Travis victims were found on the other side of the Mississippi River in Illinois, the investigation had expanded to a multi state effort. Asian

Walker and Detective Douglas proceeded with a more confrontational line of questioning nineteen minutes into their interview. Travis asked for lawyer and the interrogation ended. Travis was relocated to a maximum security. One man sell on the eighth floor of the Saint Louis County Justice Centre. On the day of his arrest, Travis was charged with two counts of federal kidnapping for allegedly transporting victims. Alyssa Green weighed and Betty Jane a cross state lines, law enforcement planned additional charges awaiting the results of his dna test, but more Travis had one final hand to play. Ultimately, he would rob the victims of the justice They deserved and leave as many as ten women to rot in unmarked graves. A story will continue in a moment after a brief message and now back to serial killers

law enforcement had gotten a big win in arresting Morey Travis. They had spent more than a year investigating his homicides. The case when cold, while Travis was prison and they weren't sure they'd ever find their killer. It's not then that investigators get a second chance. The evidence against Travis was mounting and it looked as though it would be an easy trial but on the evening of July, tenth, two thousand to just three days after his arrest, Morey Travis hanged himself in his cell police were stunned Mental health workers had examined Travis just two days earlier and established a plan to prevent him from committing suicide. A security officer required to check Travis every fifteen minutes. A fellow inmate sir the duty of suicide prevention. Monitor was posted outside Travis, a cell door to watch him continuously while it might seem strange to trust another inmate with observing and alleged serial killer. It's me.

Common, then you would initially expect a two thousand I've study by the Federal Bureau of prisons found that trained. In may observers could reduce the amount of time suicidal prisoners remained on watch incarcerated. The visuals lack the support structure of friends, family poppies and jobs, they can give one purpose in life and increases the risk of suicide. These pure watch systems create a sense of both community and responsibility for inmates. More recently, prisons have introduce programmes that train an, inmates to become pure councillors. In the case of monitoring more Travis, the inmates Senator followed protocol exactly to suicide. Prevention, monitor Watch Travis through the window in his cell door until seven p m. When tat This is so automatically unlocked for an hour. During this, our Travis was allowed to stretch his legs in the vestibule. Just outside his cell. The monitor was required,

to step outside the vestibule in order to keep the two inmates separated at his post outside the vestibule The monitor could watch through a window as Travis took a shower. He then saw Travis step back into a sell out about seven fifteen p m from the outside vantage point. The monitor could not see to the back of this. Travis Cell remained unlocked for another forty five minutes during his hour of exercise, so the monitor remained at his proper station outside. During this, Forty five minutes span Travis penned a suicide note. He pulled a noose made from bedsheets through tiny holes in his cells, mesh, airbags above his toilet. He stuffed toilet paper in his nostrils and put a washcloth gag in his mouth. He pulled a pillow case over his head and bound his own hands. Behind his back when Travis Cell door automatically locked at eight p m the monitor, found Travis hanging from the bed, a security guard.

Failed to make two scheduled checks at seven hundred and thirty and seven hundred and forty five p dot m that Monday night giving tree the window he needed to end his life. It was the first suicide in the facility since it opened for years earlier, police never reveal name of the officer who failed to follow protocol or explain why he did not complete is routine checks, but did say they were investigating the situation and the officer could face discipline. The results of the investigation were not released, despite the fact that risk were bound behind his back police and medical examiners had no doubt that Travis committed suicide. There were no it no signs of trauma other than the ligatures around his neck and wrists. It's likely that Travis took this additional measure.

To ensure his suicide worked like stuffing his nostrils and mouth. He was trying to prevent his body from performing its natural instinct to fight for survival. Timber. The interim police chief and Clayton County were Travis was held, said we're not going to speculate on how we did it. He had knowledge of bond apparently very extensive knowledge of it. Travis is suicide. Note was addressed to his mother. He tells her that she was the best mother, a man could have and apologises for being quote sick in the head, he's he never felt normal or happy at any time in his life. He wrote quote, I think, about the life I led and what's ahead of me, this seems to be the best solution for all involved, especially me because I won't say

the rest of my life locked up or worse. Let them kill me with a needle and quote again. This indicates that Morey Travis feared execution by the death penalty and rightfully so, given the extent of his crimes, it's very likely that the prosecution would have sought the most drastic punishment available in Thomas Joiners book. Why people die by suicide? He describes a feeling entrapment as a cause of suicidal behaviour. He writes, quote suboptimal coping abilities led to an individual feeling that he or she has no options and no way to escape from painful situations. To escape these feelings of entrapment. The individual resorts to suicidal behaviour and quote Travis fell by death, was habitable for him, and rather than endure months of trials, he escaped his feeling of entrapment by hanging himself in a suicide note, Travis asked

his mother to tell us family that he loved them dearly and wrote quote. I love you most, but you know that. While there was no question for the police or medical examiners that Travis his death was a suicide Travis, federal public defender, the lawless pointed out that if Travis Braun suicide Prevention watch as jail. Officials claimed it's unusual that he was permitted to have sheets additionally, three of Travis Cousin said they did not believe the official account of his death Travis his cousin Stephanie Tally said it just doesn't add up. I really in my heart do not believe that his death was a suicide. I do not tally said. Travis was a sweet person, though she was likely fooled by Travis his ability to present himself as a normal per She also said that it was suspicious that he killed himself while under suicide watch and maintained that if he had wanted to kill himself, he would have done it when police first took him into

Did he tell you also said that police did not notified traps as mothers Sondra about his death before it was broadcast by television stations Monday night, while likely and oversight. This was certainly disrespectful to Travis Family, because those with sank, a path traits are skilled manipulators and have acquired social care. Who's that allow them to mask their true, behaviors friends and family can have a difficult time, understanding how they'd be capable of rape and murder, while Travis Custody was clearly mishandled. It's very unlikely. There was any foul play. Investigators could not provide any alternate plausible cause of death other than suicide. Saint Louis Police, Captain Harry Hangar, said police were dead, pointed that Travis took his own life before trial. He said quote: eventually: we were hoping to sit down and talk to him to learn more about. What's in the mind of a serial killer, police had ever

reason to see Travis this case through the trial is DNA ultimately matched that found on two of the victims. He was going to be an easy case and a big win for law enforcement and the prosecutor authority is also hoped that This would provide more information that could help them solve more murder cases. Remember Travis had claimed to have had at least seventeen victims, and the police had only accounted for ten. It's possible part of the reason Travis Committed suicide, was to prevent the police from finding these bodies. Once Travis was reduced to his lowest moment. The only power he still had over the police was the locations of his other victims by killing himself, he was able to preserve that small amount of dominance. It's also entirely possible that Travis was trying to preserve a lie regarding the number of women he had killed. We know that he raved media attention and the revelation that he had fewer victims than he claimed could ruin

his grandiose reputation by killing himself, Travis, possibly hope to mythologies himself and his crimes. Friends and family of Travis victims were stunned at the news of Travis S, death feeling robbed of closure. They felt they deserved. Melinda Green weighed the sister of Travis, his victim Alyssa Greenway, said I wanted to talk to him. I wanted to ask him why, unfortunately, we will never have the full story of why Morey Travis Committed is murders will never know. Exactly how many women he lured into his home and held captive displacement, though some estimates are as high as twenty women. And yet we should be thankful for the answers we do have. The timing and Travis Investigation was nothing short of astounding exactly four months after Travis printed, the math from expedient dot com they tore project was really

to the public tore is free software, the conceals its users, ip address from any one, conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis, while Tor is certainly used for illicit activity. The tour project states that its users include normal people who wish to keep their internet activities private from websites and advertisers. Their uses include people concerned about cyber spying and people who are evading censorship, including activists, journalists and military professionals. It's very likely that if Travis had access to this technology when he created his map, the police would not have been able to track him down in the same way had Bill Smith written his article just four months later, or if the tour project had released their software for months earlier,

it's possible that Travis would not have been caught and more women would have been tortured and strangled to death. Even though Travis suicide mark the end of a homicide investigation, the effects of his crimes have lingered. Reemerged and unexpected ways in the summer of two thousand fourteen Katrina, Magala found herself living in a real life horror, films, when she discovered that she was living in Morey, Travis, Ferguson home. She was watching a documentary on serial killers that a family member had recommended to her when she recognized the ranch style house. She had moved into just a few months earlier. Katrina was horrified to learn that as many as seventeen women were tortured raped and killed in her basement Katrina immediately called her landlord begging to be led out of the lease but dismayed to find out her landlord was Sondra Travis even twelve years after Morey Travis is dead.

Sondra, remained quiet about her sons, crimes though Missouri doesn't require landlords to disclose murders, suicides and violent crimes that have happened on their properties. The Saint Louis Housing Authority Success We negotiated the dissolution of Katrina, Lease who knows what other, he's Travis crimes will continue to reverberate. Perhaps the most tragic aspect of a story is that many more Travis victims were never identified The friends and families of these women will never know for sure what happened to them when they disappeared seventeen years ago, when the story is enough,

fleet. It becomes even more important to seek out its missing pages Bill Smith. Wasn't afraid of the unanswered questions surrounding the deaths of Saint Louis is sex workers. He ventured to tell a more complete story and without his quest for justice, the authorities may have never caught the Saint Louis video strangler thanks again for turning into serial killers. If you want to listen to it, previous episodes of serial killers. You can find them on apple pod casts tune in Google play stitch, her aunts, butterfly or in our website park asked dot com spilled, p, r c s t dot com. If you like, what you hear

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