Due to the graphic nature of this killers crimes listener discretion is advised. This episode includes this. Dozens of murder and assault that some people may find offensive. We advise extreme caution for children under thirteen it was around three a m and in the of Paul Minnesota was still celebrating the new year. Nineteen. Eighty one heedless of the revelry, a balding man hurried towards a pay phone on one of the city's quieter streets. He took a deep breath. Ass. He stepped into the phone booth and shut the folding door behind him, his blood these hands shock, as he dialed nine one one. when a voice on the other and asked him. What is emergency was the man could only sob into the phone. He told the Bachelor. A young woman was hurt behind a near by manufacturing plant. She needed an ambulance quickly. The despair

sure asked for crucial information. What happened to the girl. Were her injuries and who was he? The man didn't answer? He just hung up. He pushed his way out of the phone booth and was met by a blast of ice. Wind, pulling his coat tight around him. He walked off into the cold, winter night. By I'm Gregg pulsing. This is so Your killers, Spotify original from park, asked every episode we into the minds and madness of serial killers. Today we're taking look at Paul, Michael Stefani, also known as the week Boise Killer. I'm here with my cohost Vanessa Richardson. He

you can find episodes of serial killers and all other originals from podcast for free on Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. Today, we're talking about about the weepy voiced killer. Paul Michael Steffani. First will look at pulse bringing and learn about the religious influence that shaped his life We will examine Paul's violent attacks on several women in the early nineties eighties. His attacks were followed by bizarre remorseful phone calls to the police in which you can but to his sins, but refused to based music. We ve got all that in more coming up stay with us The notion of confession can mean many things to different people, depending on the circumstances to law enforcement

The confession can be a game changer that Praxis case open and helps bring a criminal to justice. That kind of confession can happen for any number of reasons: a weary conscience. Convincing interrogators or genuine remorse, but for some people, Confession is less about facing the consequences of their actions and is instead, a simple way to make them feel better vesting their sins helps relieve the existential wait they carry and gives them free too soon again, as soon as was old enough to speak. Paul Michael defining learned about the power of confession. Throughout his childhood, Paul's devoutly catholic parents brought him to church each weekend where priests impressed upon Hence the importance of unburdening as sole after committing a sinful act that will Just conviction was one of the few Constance in Paul's turbulent childhood. Born in nineteen. Forty four, he was one of ten children raised

five acre plot of land outside of Austin Minnesota Paul's Young, I was shaken when his parents divorced, then, when Paul was three years old. His mother remarried, like his mother. Paul's new stepfather was extremely religious and made sure to pass on his Catholicism to his stepchildren. He and his I've instilled into their children. The doctrines of sin confession and absolution all of which sunk into young Paul's, mind and took root. Unfortunately, Paul's parents work just about his step father was occasionally abusive if any of his, children, God in his way, or made him angry. He would hit them and threw them down the stairs, and it's likely that, This abuse had lasting repercussions on Paul psyche. Vanessa is going to take over on the psychology here and throughout the episode. Please note: Vanessa is not the license psychologist or psychiatrist, but she

has done a lot of research for the show, thanks Greg, according who had two thousand fourteen study in the annals of general psychiatry patients who suffered physical abuse of children exhibited. Significantly higher levels of controlling and needy interpersonal patterns in their lives Survivors of all kinds of childhood trauma are also far more likely to experience, depression, anxiety and dissociation. Its unclear of Paul exists, any these symptoms, while living with his parents but ass you, older. He seemed to become more emotionally unstable finally got away from his abusive stepfather in the early nineteenth sixtys, when he graduated and moved a hundred miles north to the city of St Paul. There he paid picked up. A variety of temporary jobs, such as a ship clerk and hospital janitor and by the maid

Even he was working at the Mahlberg manufacturing company, while the exact mine is unclear, Palazzo got married in these years A little later. He and his wife Beverly welcome to daughter. It seemed like we're going well for Paul. He had a stable jobs bend a happy family life, but piece by piece things started to slip away. It's not clear exactly when at some point in the next few years. Almost marriage crumble When the divorce was finalized, was was no longer in his life life, though it's not clear. If was by choice or court order, either way The blows didn't stop coming in nineteen. Seventy seven Paul was fired from his job at the mom Burg manufacturing company. In the space of just a few years, he had lost everything his wife, his daughter, his job

perhaps in response Paul lashed out with violence. Details the incident, our scarce at some point, Paul, was arrested for assault over them. Three years, Paul tried to pull themselves together, he eats. Began a relationship with a woman from Syria when he found new job. It seemed like his life might be getting back on track, but sometimes before nineteen eighty Paul's girlfriend. return to Syria to accept an arranged marriage Paul was furious. He felt betrayed by his girlfriend. For the second time in his young life of romantic partner, had left him picking through the pieces of a failed relationship and slow. But surely his fury began to morph into something darker, as I drew to a close, six year old Paul felt like he was losing control of his life. In his mind it seem to start with women. If he wanted to make things right for himself. He likely thought the best

way would be to assert his control over women by making them suffer. On New year's eve. Nineteen eighty Paul found himself completely loan and with nowhere to go, he had no party to attend. Or any family to celebrate with. So as the clock tick down to the new year he drew, aimlessly around downtown Saint Paul. It was around one, a m when he spotted a young woman. Why king by herself twenty year old, Karen Potash was you firstly, student from Wisconsin who travelled to Saint Paul D, celebrate the the new year with her sisters been been partying when she got into an argument and left the club without Tell anyone or even taking her coat Paul, spotted Karen ass. She walked shivering down and alleyway. He was a immediately struck by the young woman, in particular the red dress. She wore something about her maiden,

brain go into overdrive. It was like he could hear a voice in his head, urging him to hurt her Paul pulled up alongside Karen and offered her a place to warm up. She accept dead and got inside happy to get out of the cold war. Started, driving telling her just to get the heat going in his car. He drove away from downtown area heading towards a place. He knew well. The old man bird machine shop he'd spent years working there before he was fired just being at the plant, stirred up strong emotions in Paul. He pulled up to a secluded spot. Behind the engine room where it was quiet and dark. There was no one around ignored, Karen's questions about what was going on. He was in

control. Now Paul turned off the engine, went to the trunk and pulled out a tire iron concealing the weapon he ordered Karen to get out of the car terrified. She refused that when he attacked he hit her over the head with the tire iron then dragged her out of the car and threw her onto the ground as Karen lay unconscious in the snow Paul her another dozen times with his weapon. Cracking her skull when he was finished. Paul got back, it was car and sped off leaving currents, lifeless form behind as he drove away the enormity of what he had done began to sink in. He was suddenly over with shame, guilt and fear, as is thoughts became less jumbled. He realized that he needed to help Karen. He couldn't just

leave her there to die, not only that he also needed to confess to free himself of the weight of his actions. Paul found a phone booth called nine one one in a shaky high pitched emotional boys, Paul told the operator that there was an emergency. A badly hurt. Woman the railroad tracks by the Malmberg Machine shop. He begged them to send an ambulance and saved the girl's life the dispatcher asked for details about what happened, but Paul rifts Used to say when they ask Paul. Who he was. He immediately hung up the phone officers race to the factory where they found twenty year old, Karen badly injured but alive. There was little evidence at the crime scene that could help police identify Karen's attacker. Even when she regained consciousness, Karen was unable to help she'd suffered Signal in brain trauma and had no memory of what happened that night confusing

police even further. There is also no evidence of sexual assault or robbery, making it difficult to figure out a motive as the investigation continued over the next few days, but detectives return, to the nine one one call they listen to Recording of the emotional man who reported parents attack. It didn't take them long to suspect that this weepy voiced man was the assailant back in his own home Paul the news closely for mention of the investigation. He would anxiously expecting police to appear at his door any day they never did as time passed. He realized he'd, gotten away with the brutal crime. Paul was horrified by what he done. Also seemed aware that he wasn't fully and control of his actions. He knew there was a good choice,

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And on June third nineteen, eighty one he was eating at a diner when something stirred in sight of him. Eighteen year old, camera, Captain was wearing red when she caught his eye. She had just graduated from high school and was new and Saint Paul, He struck up a conversation with a teenager and offered to take her around town to get to know the place he said instead, a drive down to the river for a picnic happy to a a friend in her new city Kimberly. Agreed later Paul We say that he had no conscious intention to hurt Kimberly when she got it. With car. He truly did want to just take around the city, but just minutes after they started driving. He entered a dissociative state disconnected from reality. That's when he heard a voice in his head, telling him to kill Paul drove to a secluded place. He knew well a spot with a good view of the river when they parked

he encouraged Kimberly to get out and take a look around. He told her would be something to tell her parents about while Kimberly walked out. The riverside Paul retreat and ice pick from his trunk then followed her. He hid the weapon as the to lay down the grass together enjoying the sound of the rushing water, then without saying a word, all leaned over and began to stab Kimberly. He said after sixty one times with the ice pick but Eve that wasn't enough when he was dead With the ice pick, he dropped it and strangled Kimberly with her own shoe lace He was sure she was dead, Paul stood up and caught his breath looking down at Kimberly. Body he began to understand what he just done here, knew he had to clean up he. The body away from the rivers edge, hoping to make it harder to spot then ass. He rushed back to his car. He tossed the bloody die. Pick as far as he could

once again Paul's mind cleared up as he drove away from the scene and the reality of his crime sunk in. But this time He knew beyond a doubt that Kimberly was dead. He couldn't help by calling nine one one so each back to his home and thought about what to do while Paul contemplated his next move: three teenage boys is found Kimberly's body and sounded the alarm. The police arrived at the scene and were flung text by the murder, like the attack on Karen Posts, There were no obvious clues They knew was that Kimberly had been stab dozens of times with a weapon. They assumed was a screwdriver Around the same time as the investigation began Paul made a frenzied to the police. He knew it's too late to help his victim, but he couldn't stop him EL from wanting to confess

while his entire life Paul had remained to devolve Catholic and faced with the truth of his actions, He felt there was only one right thing he could do to make amends confess when the police dispatcher picked up Paul spoke slowly into the receiver, telling them first, don't talk just listen hold the police that he was sorry for killing Kimberly, Compton and explain that he didn't know why he done it. Strangely, he seemed disappointed that the police hadn't arrested him, yet he whimpered into the fire. I just stab somebody with an ice pick. I can't help myself. I keep killing somebody again palm refuse to identify himself and and didn't offer any other details on the crime at first the who heard, the call assumed it was a prank. The bizarre or emotional aspect of the collar seemed to over the top to be real, but shortly after the call, a forensic it

amateur determined that the weapon must have been an ice pick or something similar to it. It was chilling confirmation that Paul's hysterical phone call wasn't a hoax. It was the killers speaking investigators, nicknamed him, the weepy voiced killer and with no other clues was identity. They focused on the phone calls they release recordings to the media, hoping Some one might recognize the voice, then they waited for him to come, all again while investigators waited for the call Paul watch. The news reports of Kimberly Compton's death, many days agonising over the pain he caused feeling a building sense of guilt, it all, became too much to handle. He picked up the phone, dial, nine one, one once more this time. The police were ready. They listened firstly as Paul spoke quietly and sadly apologizing profile,

for what he done. He told the cops that he couldn't help himself didn't understand his own motivations for the crime to him. The murder felt like a big dream, through sobs Paul said: he'd rather kill himself than be locked up. Then he did the call by claiming, like a child, who had been caught stealing that he'd try not to kill anybody else. The least tracked the call to a pay phone near a bus depot, but by the time they got there, Paul was long gone. He was clearly willing to confess, but had no desire to face the consequences of his actions according to two thousand for article written, in cereal murder pub in the journal of aggression and violent behaviour, a killer, desires to contact, provoke and challenge the police, be driven by their own depleted sense of self worth and desire for recognition. Its believe,

This need often stems from uncaring. Parental figures in childhood passing may have been away for Paul to make an authority figure, see him as important. In this case, the police additionally It seems that asking the police to stop him wasn't just a waiver. Paul assuage his own guilt over his crimes. In his mind, it wasn't his fault. He'd asked for someone to stop him and they were working hard, do just that To get a suspected. They were dealing with a repeat offender, so they come back through the records of earlier crimes, rediscovered the January attack. Uncaring, potash, The ammo displayed during Karen's attack was slightly different higher iron instead of an ice pick. The police had a heart. She was the work of the same man. It was potential conference given that the man they were hunting wasn't just a one time: perpetrator, but a potential serial killer. The biggest and

important parallel between the cases was the same man called the police after each crime, confessing antics remorse in his distinctive voice, but other similarities, stood out the fact that new the woman was sexually assaulted and the odd coincidence, that both women were wearing red clothing, the police least this information to the public to use the eyes and ears of locals to help catch the killer. But after make The connection between Paul's to attacks but leads dried up and the case when cold while the police continued working to tracking down Paul managed contain his violent urges. He lived seemingly normal life for over a year, but in the summer of nineteen eighty two things

ready to boil over again on the afternoon of July, twenty St Paul was driving through the suburb of Lauderdale, but he entered a dissociative state just like when he attacked his previous two victims. It's unclear triggered this event, but it's important to note that we have only Paul's account to go on it. Possible that, as he drove by her apartment building, he spotted these three year old, Cathy Greening, hacking her car for a week and get away Maybe she like Karen PO and Kimberly Compton before her was wearing, read its also likely that New Cathy. Personally, in her address book, Cathy had written the name Paul S alongside his phone number, whatever it was that triggered Paul. Something caused him to stop his car outside Cathy's apartment that day and he had murder in his heart

He watched from across the street as Cathy finished packing and walked back into her house. After way, a few minutes to make sure no one was watching porn got out of his car and walked through Cathy's unlocked front door inside he heard noise coming from the bathroom quietly. He made his way towards the sounds until he found preparing to to take a bath. He lunged into the bathroom and Cathy before before she could scream for help. He her her head beneath the water and held her there. Paul would later reflect that the murder felt like a game or an out of body experience as he drowned Cathy. He thought to himself what are you doing? She's dying, but despite those thoughts, Paul didn't stop. When he came out of the dissociated state. He saw These dead body, the bathtub. It's not clear why? But

time Paul chose not to call the police and confess still, he felt the guilt weighing heavily on him and had find a way to let it out. So he drove to his church sat in the pews at sobbed. According to a nineteen ninety five study published by psychologists, Catherine Meek, Jean all bright and mark with men confession plays an instrumental role in the psyches of religious people. They suggest that literally motivated people often feel intense guilt, but can protect themselves from internalizing negative feelings about themselves by confessing, however, is only true of those that researchers call intrinsically religious people. Feel sincere spirituality and a connection to God, unlike the so called extra legally religious who follow the rules of religion out of social conformity. According to the study, intrinsically religious people have better emotional health and learn,

from their guilt, while the extrinsical Religious are more likely to feel unsatisfied by their confessions, Paul needed to confess in order to avoid feeling the psychological repercussions of his actions. In a way, he was protecting himself truly acknowledging what he done. Unfortunately, the confessions did not lead to a change in behaviour and may have even allowed him to continue killing as Paul struggled with his compounding feelings of guilt, police investigated, Cathy Dreamings murder without one of Paul's trademark phone calls. There was nothing to say just that it was the same culprit compared to the attack on Karen Tack and Kimberly Compton. Everything about the crime was different, so the detectives involved in the weepy voiced killer hunt didn't look closely at Cathy's murder. They had Why did the man they wanted was back in the game and he just changed the rules,

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battery series murder calls like Paul's previous victims, she was also wearing red clothing. Paul approached Barbara and asked for a cigarette. She gave him one and the pair began talking Barbara thought. Paul was charming and they spoke long enough for her to feel comfortable with him, as the night came to a close Paul offered Barbara Ride home and she gracious accepted. She she stopped let them bartender. No, she was leaving with the man. She just met then followed Paul out. Unfortunately, Paul didn't Dr Barbara home. Instead, he drove to a secluded spot on the banks of the Mississippi River there. Under the cover of darkness, he attacked, using either a screwdriver or another ice pick, he stabbed barber. Over a hundred times when she was dead Paul hid, her body near the river and

started the murder weapon early Next morning, a young paper boy discovered a lifeless form in the grass and called the police, based on the haphazard attempt to hide the body police. Detective John Brown correctly guessed that this wasn't the killers. First, two days later, Paul was to make his confession. He called the police state an already weeping and told them but he was sorry for murdering that girl by stabbing her importantly, he also revealed that he had murdered other p Oh and mention Kimberly Compton Ass, his first victim once again, He sobbed that he was terrified of going to prison, then screamed that he would rather kill himself then be incarcerated. As the police officer on the phone tried to keep Paul talking, hoping he would reveal location Paul, gave an anguished cry. He said

I'll, never make it to Heaven. Then he hung up the police were frustrated they knew. The barber was another victim of the weepy voiced killer, but not much else and as poles cry seem to becoming more frequently they they had to act quickly to stop him from killing. Again, luckily, they caught a break when investigating barbers murder. The Barton the Heck Saigon bar gave them a description of the man. He saw Barbara leave with you The man was in his forties six feet tall with dark, hair and dark eyes. The police combed through their accords to find men who fit that description and who had previous records for assault. They pay senator photo lineup of eight suspects to the bar staff, who quickly, identified the the mandate seen the night of the murder. It was seven year old, Paul Michael Steffani, with that invest Gaiters finally had a prime suspect, but they couldn't arrest him just yet

Needed more evidence, but Paul sitting at home waiting. He was ready for his next victim. Shortly before midnight on August twentieth. Nineteen. Eighty two, two weeks after The murder of barbarous Simons Paul was back on the town, He drove in the EAST Minneapolis where he approached nineteen year old, sex worker, Denise Williams she exactly his type, which, as far as can tell meant she was wearing red pull offered Nice, one hundred dollars for her services, which she accepted, into his car and Paul drove back to his apartment in St Paul, where they had sex afterwards. Paul offered Dr Denise home, but ass. They drove back, towards Minneapolis dinner. notice that Paul was driving down side roads and through residential neighborhoods instead of taking the highway.

Made the nineteen year old, extremely nervous. Something wasn't right by the time pulse, did rambling about his sexual fantasies, alarm bells or ringing into nieces head. She knew, she had to get out of the car ass fast ass. She could eventually Paul pulled the car into a dark secluded parking lot. After turning off the ignition he aggressively demented Did the Denise pay for her ride, panicking Denise rebel to get out of the car, but Paul grabbed her and pulled back before Denise could break free, Paul pulled a screwdriver out of his glove compartment and sank. It into her afternoon Denise collapsed back into the sea. Does Paul stabbed her again knowing she had to fight back. She reached down to the floor of the car. Try find a weapon of her own. After a couple of seconds her. And wrapped around an old glass soda bottle. She smashed The bottle over Paul's head then slow

status base in hand with the broken glass Paul yelled in pain, as did need spot for her life. For a moment she seemed to have the upper hand Paul pushed in the passenger side door and together, they spilled out onto the pavement outside the car Paul tried to subdue Denise, while she screamed desperately for help her cries caught the attention of Douglas in a young man who lived nearby, he rushed Dover and grabbed Paul's arm trying to stop him. From killing the young woman, pollen on Staffing Douglas and chased him out. The parking lot Douglas escape and ran back into his house to call the police knowing that a These were sure to arrive soon Paul returned to his car sped away from the scene leading Denise for dead. He rich home emerging from his dissociated state and notice that he was bleeding proof Usually from his injuries, he knew

Did medical treatment and he couldn't get to a hospital on his own worrying for his life. He called nine one one. He told the dispatcher that he'd been beaten up and needed an ambulance, but Paul did real. Eyes that the nine one one dispatchers had been briefed on his crimes as well as the phone calls that followed. So the dispatcher immediately recognized the voice of the weepy voice. Killer after an ambulance brought Paul to a hospital police, were there to greet him they were ready to bring a killer to justice. Once, Paul's injuries retreated the office is brought him too. Police station where he was led directly into an interrogation room active DAWN Brown sat across from him and offered a sympathetic ear to Paul. He pretended to be concerned about the supposed attack, which Paul claimed had been a robbery, but once Paul was comfortable talking

detective Brown Open this file on the we be voiced killer, confronting Paul with pictures of his victims, Paul's demeanor changed instantly his voice pitched higher became Wayne his expression more pained and anxious it. A man Secondly, as the detective watched Paul became the weepy voiced killer, they knew they had their man even confronted with the evidence against him. Paul refused to come clean, unlike convey in a church or over the phone. A confession to the police during interrogation had very real consequences. He knew that if he told the police the truth, he would go to prison a prospect that terrified him. So Paul maintained his innocence and insisted that his wasn't the voice in the calls. But his denials didn't convince anyone over the next few days, detective Brown spoke to people who Newport

including his sister and ex wife. They identified the voice and the phone calls as Paul. What's more, they were all willing to testify Unfortunately, while the voice on the phone was clearly a match for Paul, the detectives didn't have enough physical evidence to charge him for the attack on Karen Potent or the murder of Kimberly Compton, but the prosecutors charged For what they could. The murderer Barbara Simons and the attempted murder of Denise Williams. Luckily, Paul could be connected to both attacks by eyewitness, testimony after a long and drawn out trial. In April, nineteen eighty five Paul was convicted of all charges against him and sentenced to forty years in prison, but his story didn't and their after decade of living behind bars in December,

of nineteen. Ninety seven, fifty three year old Paul was diagnosed with skin cancer, which already metastasize throughout his body, he was giving less than a year to live, With his own death Paul knew he had to do one last thing before he passed confess to everything Paul sat down with a pair of detectives and laid out all of his crimes. He admitted it and last to the attack on Karen Pota and the murder of Kimberly he. He then surprised them by confessing to the drowning murder of greening greening a crime. The PLC never suspected was related to the weepy voiced killer. Paul claimed that he wanted to confess now. For the same reason, he made the phone calls after his crimes. He wanted to come clean to offer closure for the unsolved cases and apologize to the families of his victims.

He insisted that he really did feel enormous guilt and confusion that, in each of his crimes, he'd simply lost control of his actions even at the end of his life, however Paul couldn't offer any mode nation for his crimes. One theory was that he killed women who were wearing read but Paul had no expert nation for that either detectives believed Paul made his phone calls because of his parents Legists instructions when he was a child after sin comes confession, but the investigators and prosecutors were also sceptical. Paul's motivations for coming clean last to them he wasn't a man trying to ease others pain, They saw a man crying crocodile tears trying to ground. One last shred of power according to criminal law. Used Niccolo Malaysia, the final stage of a serial killers predatory cycle, is the satisfaction phase. The p

after the murder, when they feel momentarily powerful, filling the voice of inadequacy that led to the crime. In the first place, this phase is greatly influenced by the media, which can make the killer feel even more dominant and in control by confessing. To crimes in ninety ninety seven and including a I'm that no one knew he'd committed. It's possible that poem was creating a new satisfaction phase for himself. For one final, new cycle. As the confessions were reported and discussed. He was a person of importance and power. Pulse confessions, were investigated by the police, who were able to confirm that he was telling the truth. But to this day, his motive patient for the crimes remains a mystery symbol.

That he really did lose control of himself during the brutal attacks and was then overcome by guilt. This seems possible, given the detective Don Brown noted that Paul turned into a different person when he spoke of the crimes, others suggests that Paul shows of remorse from the phone calls to his deathbed confessions were all an act. Perhaps part of a cold blooded strategy designed to increase his own infamy and toy with the police whether he felt true remorse or not Paul, did admit to his crimes and face consequences He he died on June, twelve TH, nineteen, ninety eight less than six months after his final confession. He was fifty three years old from a young age. Paul Michael Steffani learn the power of confession, but perhaps should

have paid more attention to the fact that if you don't hurt, other people there's no need to confess at all. Thanks again for tuning into serial killers, you can find more episodes of serial killers and all other originals from par cast for free on Spotify. We'll see you next time have a killer week killers is a Spotify original from par cast. Executive producers include acts and wrong. Cobbler sound, designed by on border with production assistance by ranch appear. Carly Madden and Bruce Kato Vich. This episode serial killers was written by iranian leaders with writing assistance by You'll Callen and Stars Greg, Polson and Sir Richard seven

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