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Paul mesquel's Daily News article shortly before 5 PM October 16th a Dusty White Chevrolet Impala with a
blue top an Alabama license plates turned into the driveway of a Cape Cod home on flood Street in Marlborough
Connecticut the driver a tall gaunt man with collar length red hair and busy sideburns sat in the car for several
seconds watching the rear view mirror and trying to determine if he was being observed
then he took a salt off shotgun from the car floor and stuck it in his waistband
under his slacks and sports shirt he climbed slowly out of the car his left hand pressing the shotgun barrel
against his left thigh discarding a half-smoked cool in the drive he walked to the house where Karen
wine aged 35 lived with her two teenage daughters the unexpected visitor chose the wine
home at random while driving through New England Marlborough is a peaceful town in the
heart of Connecticut 12 miles Southeast of Hartford at the time of our story the population
is 3 600 residents with no police force a resident state trooper is the only Lawman in Marlborough
Don wine a pretty 15 year old school girl was doing her homework when the doorbell rang
she opened the door and the unexpected visitor grinned at her exposing teeth stained Yellow by
cigarettes he inquired if her mother was home she said no he asked if her father was in
and she said he didn't live there anymore suddenly the unexpected visitor lunged
forward pushing the girl back into the house he followed her inside and closed the door
he jerked the shotgun from his pants leg and took her upstairs to her bedroom where he stripped and sexually abused
her all the time smiling and promising not to hurt her Don's mother a practical nurse came home
from her Hospital job about six o'clock she saw the car in the driveway and she entered the house
later both Karen and Dawn were found bound raped and strangled their killer was long gone and nowhere
in sight this is the case of the Casanova killer [Music] [Music] foreign 1974 sitting in a Florida State Prison
is 27 soon to be 28 year old Paul John Knowles he has been wasting away for several years now after he was
incarcerated for kidnapping a police officer a serious offense isn't that right there Captain yeah I don't think
they should let kids be police officers well when one thinks of someone to abduct an officer of the law doesn't
really come to mind it's not your typical victim but one thing I want to point out before we move on and so we
all have an understanding of who Paul John Knowles is he is a career criminal he has been committing crimes most of
his life by this point he's only 27 almost 28 years old and during the commission of some smaller crimes he
finds himself committing larger crimes to not get caught so yeah according to a tiny little article that I found in the
Orlando Sentinel titled kidnapper sentenced Paul John Knowles was just 18 years old at the time he was sentenced
in Jacksonville Florida to five years in prison for kidnapping a policeman at gunpoint Knowles pled guilty to this
charge but here we are Captain he was sentenced to five years but now it's been over nine years and he's still
sitting in prison how does that work out well they used to have a furlough program in in Florida and the way that
that worked was after you served a good amount of time you would get privileges such as the ability to leave the prison
to go out on an overnight stay or maybe even a weekend stay somewhere this normally when you're at the end of your
prison scent they're trying to reintegrate you into the society where they're going to be forced to release
you into at some point yes that's one of the dumbest things I've heard well the way that he ends up getting in trouble
is he goes out but doesn't come back in imagine that and I'm sure this was probably a pretty
common problem that they faced and that's why you don't see these types of programs as much anymore most of the
time now we have jails that have like work release and things like that well while in prison Knowles was reading
an astrology magazine and came across a pen pal column he finds the address for a young woman in California this is 28
year old Angela kovic and some Publications she is listed as Angela Samuels or Angela Samuels kovic so for
sake of argument I'll just go forward with Angela kovic I think Captain she was coming out of a
divorce around the same time so whatever name the publication used at the time was probably whatever name she told them
now Angela is a attractive cocktail waitress out in San Francisco her parents own the nightclub that she works
at so she's got access to a little Paola Knowles is a Taurus and Angela is a Leo
and because they're both fans of astrology and read this astrology magazine that seems to be important to
them Knowles tells Angela that she is his number one Yiddish Angel and Angela calls Knowles PJ
after quite some time corresponding Angela makes arrangements for Knowles to get an attorney she wants to help him
out you know we got to get this guy out of prison at some point to forward our relationship the attorney is there to
help him with his parole on May 14th Paul John Knowles is paroled by the board down in Florida but there
are as always conditions of course he is not to be in Florida I always love when they throw this condition out there
we our state will parole you but we don't really want you to stay here but you need to leave I think a lot of that
is not so much get out of our state it's more so this person hired you an attorney this person we've worked with
them to make arrangements to keep you busy once you're out you know you have a place to stay maybe a place of
employment go be there and do the right things one of the stipulations was for him to not kidnap any more police
officers well he's immediately going to go to California and find employment Angela was the one that secured PJ a job
with a billboard company his job would be painting signs now Knowles found himself finally a free man and in the
big state of California where he planned to marry the woman who was responsible for his Newfound freedom
and so PJ Knowles gave Angela a ring Angela was seeking some guidance let's say things were moving way too fast for
this young woman this man you know he's a petty Thief he's an abductor the parole e is he the man that she is meant
to be with to spend her life with so Angela took her questions to a spiritual list
someone she often found value in the opinion of the spiritualist studied the ring and
this was the ring that Paul John Knowles gave to her and with a little bit of a warning you know she's offering
up a warning she says to Angela that there is a very dangerous man that has just entered your life
without naming names Angela's pretty certain that she is talking about Paul John Knowles yeah
now Captain depending on which newspaper story you read well that changes if Angela heeded the warning of her
spiritual list or not some say this was one of the few occasions where Angela disregarded the
advice of her spiritualist others say it was the driving force for what was to be well it's we have a
background of PJ so we we know what he's capable of so that makes the spiritualists sound more credible but I
think anybody uh whether you believe in that stuff or not if somebody just entered your life whether you knew their
history or not and somebody said to you there's a very dangerous person that just entered your life I mean my ears
would perk up right right well regardless of which version is actually correct Paul John Knowles was not the man for
Angela kovic or at least she will say this for now she said she enjoyed Noel's company he
was spiritual believed in God and the afterlife he was smart and had an interesting
sense of humor but he was just not for her the two spent four days together and regardless of Noel's stipulation of his
parole that he find and maintain employment he never showed up not once for the job at the Sign Company the
Angela had secured for him so Angela sent him packing after these four days he's you know he gone
and captain since we both know how much Knowles enjoys following the rules well where do you think he ended up well
there's a part of me that's feeling a little bit bad for him right now because he he basically shows up and once he
gets there she's like yeah you ugly well I don't know if it's so much that I mean she's being warned by
the spiritualist and she secured a job for him he's there for four days he doesn't go to the job once
this might be this might be the tip that you needed that says hey maybe this guy's not going to change his ways or
maybe he's not who he says he is right you don't know this guy even trading letters with him and now he's there
staying with you and he's not doing his he's not keeping up his end immediately right I'm just saying that this is the
version of now with social media people meet online they're chatting back and forth some you know it gets serious once
somebody buys a plane ticket once that plane ticket is bought and they arrive in your city it might not be
they might not look much like the the pictures or or or how they portray themselves online yeah and
the thing that sucks for Angela here is she hired him an attorney she bought him
the plane ticket so she's out some money so as said Knowles doesn't care for the
rules so of course he ends up right back in the Sunshine State good old Florida Now by all accounts which really is just
Angela's and Knowles but he was devastated by the rejection so he returned to Jacksonville Florida
he was soon arrested after stabbing a bartender during a fight he was charged with assault and now he's back behind
bars this time in a dingy Jacksonville jail but ever the career criminal Knowles managed to pick the lock on his
detention cell and escaped this was in Late July 1974. on the night of his Escape Knowles finds
himself in a situation of his own creation where he is on the run and in serious trouble as he has no you know
he's so clearly violated his parole and likely would be facing some very severe and harsh punishments a lengthy prison
sentence that is for sure but not only is he on the run if he's going to remain a free man he is in need
of tools and Provisions to keep him out the solution to this problem he broke into the home of 65 year old Alice
Curtis the tall young and strong fugitive easily overcame the defenseless 65 year
old woman he tied her up and gagged her he ransacked her home taking money and valuables and then he stole her car
this was a white Dodge Dart Alice was a retired school teacher just looking to live out her days relaxing in her home
and surviving on the nice little life she worked so hard to build for herself instead
she choked to death on her gag Knowles ultimately took so much more that night than just a few dollars from
her purse and her white Dodge Dart that night he took everything for the month of August Knowles remained on the Run
and he did what one would expect to to stay ahead of the law he stole he moved around but one thing that he did not
have to do was kill but he did it anyway this was his choice he did it because he could not because
he had to many that crossed his path during this time lived but some did not so PJ
Knowles at this Point's been on the run for a good month yeah on September 3rd we find our unexpected visitor up north
in Yankee land in our great state Captain the old oh this is at a Roadside Bar and restaurant
off of Route 75 four miles north of Lima Ohio this is at the Scots Inn where Knowles is likely drinking himself into
a nice one-night coma there he is doing his thing which is drinking and chatting people up
he becomes fast friends with a 32 year old William Bates Bates is a regular at the Scots in now
Bates and Knowles could not be more opposites Bates is a hard-working family man he's
got a great job he's an account executive for the Ohio Power Company Knowles as we know is a law-breaking man
on the run and his only care seems to be not getting locked up and how is he going to get his next meal or tank of
gas well I can tell you this Captain old PJ Knowles the unexpected visitor ever the
opportunist he just spotted his meal ticket and that was William Bates the bartender would later say that both
Bates and an unknown male who the bartender described as a young red-headed man had several drinks together that evening
and left about the same time bates's wife would later report him missing and police very quickly realized
that Not only was Bates gone but his vehicle a white Chevy Impala was missing as well well it kind of sounds like a
guy that goes to a bar often and was sitting at that bar chatting up with people and thought hey maybe this isn't
the life that I want to live I'm out of here I'm out of Dodge that's where my mind goes too and I think
that's where a lot of people's minds would go it's weird the contrast between a missing man and a missing woman
with a missing woman you you fear the worst with a man in his early 30s who has a good job and a family
and his car is gone on top of that that's where you kind of go well maybe he just maybe he just hit the road
well I'm and we know that he's probably a target for PJ because this is part of his Mo if
I might not take you with me but I need a ride I need gas I need supplies yeah well he exactly he needs a way of
staying out on the Run he needs Provisions to keep this journey of his going along mind you he didn't just
crawl into Lima Ohio he drove that poor dead woman's stolen vehicle all the way up to Ohio and he's been driving around
for some time now and this is a very very dangerous man the the thing I think of immediately Captain is that old Door
song where the the line is there's a killer on the road yeah that line makes me think of several others but but very
much so Paul John Knowles well there's something about if you Google Paul John Knowles
something rock and roll to him he he almost looks like he could be the singer of The Doors I don't know that they cut
your hair for you when you're in Florida State Prison this takes us to September
we are now at September 19 1974. on that day the Reno Evening Gazette reported the following with a headline
about halfway down page one that read couple found slain near Eli the article reads about a vacationing couple who
were found shot to death late that morning in a camper south of Eli Nevada an autopsy was ordered but it appeared
both were shot in the temple with a small caliber gun no gun was found at the scene
the victims were identified as Emmett Johnson and his wife Lois both in their 60s the bodies were discovered at the
Lake Valley Summit rest stop the bodies were in the pickup camper Lois was nude and found under a
removable table and Emmett was dressed the Sheriff's Office reported no leads but deputy said Johnson's wallet and her
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PJ Knowles we don't need to know everything that you do and uh it kind of reminds me of Eric Stoltz
yeah you said that to me and that makes total total complete sense back when Stoltz was a young strapping young lad
yeah well our unexpected visitor Captain he went on to visit both the state of Texas and the state of Alabama in Texas
he took advantage of a stranded motorist whom he abducted raped and murdered in Alabama he killed a beautician then
in October we had the double homicide that we covered in the trailer to this episode that was the double homicide of
mother and daughter Karen and Dawn wine all the way up in Connecticut so when you picture a road map of this
big beautiful country think about what we've covered so far a man who went from Florida we know he
went up to Ohio then out to Nevada then Texas Alabama and Connecticut this guy is all over the shop right and to get
there we we believe he's traveling by car so all those connecting States as well correct and we'll go into
the details of how we know where he is and and whereabouts in the timeline as well that
is really key to that but something else that is of major importance to our case
this takes place on October 4th this is one of those things that at the time of this event
it's a bit of a head scratcher but it all makes so much sense later when we are able to see the big picture
so on October 4th back up in Ohio in a motel parking lot police discover an abandoned vehicle this is a Dodge Dart
now remember this is the vehicle the one that is missing from Jacksonville Florida belonging to the unsolved murder
victim Alice Curtis so now the sheriff's department up in Lima Ohio have a missing man in his
Vehicles missing as well note that's from a month back and now we have an abandoned vehicle
from out of state that belongs to a murder victim now if you're the sheriff's department if you are this
man's wife and his family and co-workers you're starting to go does this abandoned vehicle that belongs to an
unsolved murder victim down in Florida does that have anything to do with this missing man and his missing vehicle
it seems like quite the coincidence throughout October Knowles continued to travel driving the highways and likely
killing along the way he does have a close encounter with police when he is pulled over for a
minor traffic infraction and of course the officer just didn't know who he was dealing with
so he let Knowles go with a warning Knowles decides to reach out to his attorney and sets up a meeting
this meeting will be a strange one Captain they meet for a couple of drinks halfway through the first drink Knowles
tells his attorney and I believe that this is according to the attorney don't run away but I'm a mass murderer hmm
you're having drinks with your client with somebody you think that you know now his attorney's no idiot he knows
that that Knowles is not a great guy that he's broke the law I mean he's represented him so he could become a
parolee but the shocking statement of don't run away but I'm a mass murderer you gotta
wonder if you're the other guy do you is your first reaction is this guy joking or
do you know him well enough immediately that you're going holy snap this is serious well on top of that he's
telling you all this stuff and what if he changes his mind at the end of the conversation do you become a victim well
and I love these old cases because I love to go back and take a look at how things have evolved throughout the
decades and we're we are talking decades ago and Paul says to his attorney I'm a mass
murderer well I mean you see the uh how investigation and just terminology alone has changed
throughout the years this is before people were using the term serial killer all right this is before in it they
really even coined that phrase so we have him describing himself as a mass murder which today we would describe a
mass murderer as somebody who walks into a single situation and takes out as many
people as they possibly can Paul Knowles is a serial killer in every sense of the word that we know now but
he doesn't know any better back then and he says hey I'm a mass murderer well I would kind of actually argue with that
terminology because we we know that he's on the run from law enforcement and his his murders we don't know
if there was murders before his incarceration so he almost sounds like a spree murderer
to me yeah more of a spree killer let's get back into it Knowles tells his attorney hey by the way I'm a mass
murderer but one this also kind of reminds me of the movie American Psycho at the end where he
calls I believe his the name is Patrick Bateman and he calls his lawyer and starts confessing to all these crimes
you were mentioning Google a minute ago and now you bring up American Psycho Google sometime on your own time not on
garage time right now Google sometime uh Huey Lewis and I believe it's Weird Al Yankovic
they do a scene they recreate a scene from American Psycho yeah it's like a parody yeah it's it's brilliant okay
anyway I apologize for we went down a road there Knowles tells his attorney by the way I'm a mass murderer he wants to
tell his attorney in detail who he is killed where and why Knowles is of the belief that he that either one of two
things is going to happen either the law will catch up with him and he will be locked up and executed for his crimes or
he's going to get killed in the process of being apprehended either way he wanted a record of
everything or at least the stuff he was willing to admit to so that his family could profit from his murder spree via a
book and movie deal after his death or once he's Behind Bars thoughtful guy huh his attorney is a pretty smart dude he
says don't tell me anything stop close your mouth finish your drink don't tell me anything I don't want to know
anything because if you do tell me all about this then according to what you just told me
only two people will know your secret me and you and one day you may wake up and decide
you only want to have one person know this secret and you'll come and find me and you will kill me right so therefore
I'm Paul this is between you all he don't want to know anything he tells Knowles
you should write it all down or record your story on cassettes and then if you like you can you know
seal it up and give it to me and I'll save it for later if you do get picked up and put away in prison or executed or
or killed in the process of suicide by cop yeah well we also have the situation too where Knowles told the attorney
that it was his idea he wanted to go out in the blaze of glory he wanted to you know a gunfight shots fired he
wanted to go out in the blaze of glory a lot of this to me Captain seems like there was a bit of an obsession on
Knowles's part in regards to like Bonnie and Clyde you know people who traveled on the run
in this country hitting the highways and killing along the way doing whatever it
took to stay free they weren't going to be locked up you're going to have to you're gonna have to kill them you'll
never take them alive kind of situation all of what the attorney suggest write it down or record your story on Gazette
that is exactly what happens here captain they had this meeting on October 24th two days later on October 26th Knowles
delivers a sealed envelope with a cassette multiple cassettes inside to his attorney and they on this visit
discuss nothing we should note that the attorney did advise Knowles to turn himself in but unfortunately we know
that did not happen then there was a double homicide on November 6 in Milledgeville Georgia detectives did the
best that they could to try to piece everything together 11 alive is a website they did some cool
videos on the nulls case and I really recommend watching these they did an interview with retired investigator
James Josey who worked the double homicide investigation according to reports when police got
there it is said that the place looked like the whole house had been attacked by some kind of and this is a quote a
giant beast from a horror movie Furniture had been overthrown and smashed mirrors were shattered items were thrown
all over the house curtains and upholstery slashed and cut up Mrs Carr was a nurse working a double
shift when she came home she found her husband and daughter dead as said the detective piecing this thing
together the Wikipedia page says Knowles befriended Carswell Carr he's the husband and father the victim and
invited Knowles back to Carr's house to spend the night and then over drinks he stabbed car to death and then strangled
Carr's 15 year old daughter detective Josie who worked the case says look when you ask us what happened
either Knowles followed Carswell car home and snuck in or he was invited back to the house
by the victim Josie points out that unfortunately during their investigation because Knowles killed everybody in the
house there was no one left to ask right the question of how did this guy end up
back at the house but this was a a vicious vicious attack Josie thinks somehow Knowles got into the house again
it could be snuck in or invited in but at some point Knowles gets a hold of a pair of scissors and stabs Carswell to
death and like I said this was a vicious attack he stabbed the victim almost a countless number of times and with such
force that the tips of the scissors broke off in the victim oh Josie thinks Carswell would have
obviously been screaming and yelling during the attack and he believes that that would be what
woke up the teenage daughter he says that in his opinion in his expert detective opinion he does not
think that Knowles likely knew that the daughter was there or that anybody else was in the house so the screaming the
attack wakes up the daughter she comes down to figure out what's going on Knowles sees
the daughter and then chases after her she runs back to her bedroom shuts the door locks it and tries to barricade
herself in there Knowles again the detective's words the reporter's words the home looked like it was attacked by
some kind of giant beast from a horror film Knowles manages to bust through the door
he strangles the daughter and it's believed after murdering her that he attempted to engage in some kind
of necrophilia with the victim well this reminds me of like the rage with Bundy right and it's almost like
um morphine from a actual possibly Charming individual to a vicious animal and that's why that picture of Bundy
from from Court is such a popular and well recognized picture the one where he's getting ready
to just slam his hand on the on the table because everybody in the courtroom was saying hey here you have this very
neat well-kept groomed well-groomed guy who seems to be smart in representing himself at trial seems to have it all
put together and then boom in that second for that instance right there everyone in the
court recognized and noticed and saw what was really behind the eyes behind the skin once you peel that layer back
underneath there was a monster and once he's out he he he is uncontrollable pay no attention to the man behind the
curtain So eventually Knowles is going to flee the scene right but not before stealing jewelry and whatever
other valuables he can find now not too long after these murders a store clerk reported to police that a tall
red-haired man matching knoll's description was making purchases with Carswell cars credit card
so police pretty early on have a good idea who they're looking for this guy is on the run and we believe
that we can track him and Trail him through the vehicles that he is stealing and then leaving along the way and he's
also using victims credit cards and some of their stolen property and stolen money to
buying things like gas and and food and cigarettes and so forth while he's out running all over the map
also that month Knowles picked up some hitchhikers this was Edward Hilliard and Debbie Griffin
Edward was eventually found dead in some woods and Debbie is believed to have been killed by Knowles as well
unfortunately to this day over 40 years later her body has never been recovered another interesting little stop along
the way in our story and timeline here captain is Knowles as said he doesn't kill
everyone he comes across in fact some people he befriends them and becomes friends with them
and one person The Story Goes Like This while bar hopping in Atlanta Georgia on November 8th Paul John Knowles met
British journalist Sandy Fox impressing her with his looks which she says and I think this is quite the stretch
but whatever maybe I'm just jealous but she says his looks yeah I'm real jealous
she says that his looks were a cross between Robert Redford and Ryan O'Neal nice to see that that's top shelf right
there top shelf for a redhead yeah so they spent the night together she was sitting
at the bar by herself now mind you she's in a different she's in a foreign country she's over here working uh she
was on assignment and I believe originally she was on an assignment in New York maybe for the times and
whatever that didn't work out or they sent her down to Georgia on a different assignment
somehow she ends up in Georgia by herself at this bar the way she describes it is she was kind of checking
out Knowles from afar he's sitting there drinking and she thinks that he must have caught her checking him out
and at some point he makes his way over starts talking her up now one thing I will say that does seem to be quite
Charming about this Knowles character is that at least two women Fox included said that Knowles would be quick to ask
a woman to dance which is which is kind of a lost thing people don't men don't do that so much
anymore I don't even know that they did that a whole lot back in the 70s but no the the bar that she described to in her
book is not described as like a dance club or anything like that it really sounds to me like it's the hotel lobby
bar a lot of businessmen and people sitting around after work drinking and she catches his eye he comes over chats
with her for a while and eventually that leads to him asking her to dance she said that they spent the night
together now as said I said her book she went on to write two books about her experience with Paul
John Knowles and one of them is called killing time I've read Killing Time it's a great True
Crime book I love the old ones this one was from 1977. in the book what's what's funny to me
though I've never read one of those um romance novels that have the risque covers you know with a lot of Flesh on
the on the cover but I can only imagine how they read a portion of her book Killing Time
reads like a very graphic love-making scenes a little sex well she says he was unable to perform so not much sex
a lot of build up and no no real ability to seal the deal let's say yeah Bad Boys Captain limpy pants so that's
always brought up some questions about Knowles one she says look push the psychology
aside the nights that she hung out with Knowles he was drinking a lot and she said that in her experience throughout
life she had seen many a good time go down the throats of men who are just drinking and drinking and drinking I
don't know if that's the right terminal well I thought her book's well written and I liked I like the way she phrased
some things so if you push psychology aside that's an excellent explanation but then you take the psychology back
into it and you have to wonder and we've seen this with other serial killers we've seen this with rapists serial
rapist where sometimes these men are not able to perform with a willing participant right
and we do know that there was suspicion about possible necrophilia with the victim that we spoke about earlier well
again if if sex is the motivation for these crimes or these murders then we know that this individual is probably
desensitized uh to say the least it seems weird to me because I feel like we're in a in one of those odd
situations look with serial killers and sex and fantasy and violence are kind of
all really wrapped up into one for a lot of these guys I don't think that that's
too far off here from Paul John Knowles but I I feel like that's not the single motivating factor for these murders
I almost feel like what you pointed out earlier the Spree killer the guy on the Run
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likes the thrill of meeting a victim and he likes taking whatever he decides to take from them
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Brief Summary

Paul John Knowles, the Casanova Killer, committed multiple murders across states after his parole in the 1970s.

Key points

The Unexpected Visitor. A man with a shotgun enters a peaceful home, leading to a tragic encounter.
Paul John Knowles' Escape. After being paroled, Knowles quickly returns to crime, leading to a deadly path.
Couple Found Slain. A vacationing couple is discovered shot to death in their camper, raising alarms.
Knowles' Shocking Confession. During a meeting, Knowles tells his attorney he's a mass murderer.
Vicious Double Homicide. Knowles commits a brutal double homicide, leaving the scene in chaos.
Knowles on the Run. After the murders, Knowles uses stolen credit cards and vehicles to evade capture.

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