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impunity it only inspires other bad men to do the same so how many bad men has the Hammerman
inspired this week we profile a killer who surely has inspired many urban legends especially those terrifying
urban legends about young women getting into cars with strange men the Hammerman did not care for his
fellow man he did not value human life and he hated women he saw women as something to
be used up destroyed and discarded he only valued his own life and his own Freedom so that he could
take away yours he was a Savage killer then he was The Hitcher and then he became the want ad
killer he was called so many things during his time of catching and killing many called him the devil one
member of law en enforcement said the guy is the devil they should have fried him years ago when he was dead they
should have driven a stake through his heart and buried him digging him up a week later to Ram another stake in just
to make sure he was dead that was Chief investigator Russell J Krueger Minneapolis
PD this is the True Crime Story of a career Criminal a real life monster an American Nightmare this is the story of
the Hammerman and this is true crab [Music] [Applause] [Music] garage [Music] it was just a little over 50 years ago
it was May 2nd 1973 a Wednesday evening in Seattle Washington when Mrs Miller a single
mother of one was starting to get worried Mrs Miller came home that Wednesday to an empty house her daughter
Katherine Su Miller must have still been out with some friends it was unlike her to not be home when
her mother arrived but Cathy Sue was 15 years old she was growing up and she was
just 3 weeks away from her 16th birthday Mrs Miller knew Kathy Sue not only had a
gaggle of friends but she had a boyfriend as well this is a very innocent type of relationship a very
young relationship the two were really more friends than traditional boyfriend and girlfriend heck the two had not even
really reached the stage of puppy love yet Kathy must be out with her boyfriend mom thought they were often together
walking and talking in the neighborhood or perhaps she was with some of the neighborhood girls but still it was
unusual but nothing to be concerned with and being a single mother one tends to stay busy and busy can easily distract
one's heart and mind Mrs Miller went about her evening preparing things for tomorrow and getting dinner ready for
her and Kathy but that is when it set in the worry the not knowing maybe some mothers would be angry thinking that the
teenager had simply decided to not play by the household rules or was just outright defying her mother but not
Kathy Kathy was a good kid who grew into a good teenager and she was no no trouble at all for the single mother but
still it sets in Mrs Miller walked the dinner plates over to the table and sat them down it was 7:00 p.m. and there was
no sign nor word of her daughter Mrs Miller didn't take a bite she didn't wait for the hot dinner to get cold
instead she turned from the table and walked over to the telephone hanging on the kitchen wall the little notepad on
the small table next to where the phone on the wall was had several phone numbers for some of the other girls the
same age as Kathy listed in the notepads Pages Mrs Miller started calling those numbers most of the girls or at least
their parents were easily reached but unfortunately none had seen Kathy after school that day unsure of what to do Mrs
Miller sat down at the kitchen table and began to question herself should she call the police or should she just wait
maybe Kathy had lost track of time and would be home any minute now then Mrs Miller remembered an ongoing
conversation between her and her daughter a conversation that the two did not see eye to eye on and it was so rare
that the two did not agree that now she was starting to think of course this is why she had not come home and why had
she not thought of this before well their disagreement was a simple one she saw a one ad in the paper for a job she
wanted to apply for and her mother didn't want her to apply for that job that's right Kathy Sue expressed to her
mother just two days prior that she wanted to get a job so it's May and the school year would be out for the summer
very soon and remember Kathy is just three weeks from her 16th birthday and some of her 16-year-old friends were
starting to work at jobs this is mostly stuff near their homes very part-time work Kathy's boyfriend too he had a job
but he also wanted another job for the summertime and the two had spent some time perusing the One ads together in
the News Tribune Kathy and her mother's disagreement was about a particular job opportunity Cathy's mother thought that
the arrangements for this job interview were not entirely kosher just a day prior Kathy showed her
mother a one ad for a gas station attendant job Kathy had called the number listed and spoke with the owner
of the gas station he said that he needed to hire someone fast and he needed Kathy to come into the gas
station as soon as possible as soon as she could for an interview and to fill out any tax forms that would be required
Kathy said that her mother wouldn't have time to take her until the weekend the owner suggested that she waited for him
at an intersection this would be not too far from her home and after school on that Wednesday and that he would come
and pick her up so that she would have a ride he's going to provide the ride to her back to the gas station where they
can talk they can do the interview and she can fill out any of the necessary paperwork but this is not a normal
request not at all and Kathy's mom was hipped to that she told Kathy told her mother about the arrangement and she
told Kathy no she did not think that it was professional and that she is not to be getting into cars with a man for
which both of them had never met good advice Kathy's mom then remembering all of this Springs into action jumps up
from her chair at the kitchen table and she went looking through the house she's
looking for the old newspapers yeah the one ads and finally she located the section of
the newspaper that her daughter had shown her previously so she found the circled want ad for this gas station job
that Kathy had shown to her Mrs Miller picked up the phone she dials the number listed for the gas
station Mrs Miller called the phone number and a man answered she asked for her daugh
she told the man that she was aware of an arrangement for her daughter to be picked up by someone and she knew that
the meeting was to be sometime after Cathy's school day Mrs Miller asked if the man had seen her daughter Kathy or
perhaps even picked her up that day this man this business owner tells the mother
well I did talk to her but I didn't pick her up yeah he says I remember talking to the girl girl and he even says I
wrote her name down and then pauses for a second and says Katherine Miller right
and she says yes that's my daughter's name have you seen her and the man says that he agreed to pick her up near her
home he goes on to tell Mrs Miller that he drove out there however once he got to the location her daughter wasn't
there he doesn't know where she could be he said he waited for a few minutes but
he was far too busy to be just waiting around for too long and so after a short while he drove off and he hadn't seen
the girl at all the phone call did not last much longer okay Mrs Miller is near full
panic mode now and after she hangs up the phone Captain the next call is going to be to Kathy's
boyfriend and this is not going to make Mrs Miller feel any better about her late and missing daughter
so she's sitting down to dinner waiting for daughter to come home she remembers this job interview and now Mrs Miller is
on the phone with Kathy's 15 16year old boyfriend and this is a kid from the neighborhood that Mrs Miller has known
for a long time right so she trusts this kid and she ask the boy have you seen Kathy she was hoping that the two were
just hanging out somewhere but keep in mind when the when these two hung out they were typically out in the
neighborhood walking and talking together right and so just the boy being home is not going to feel very good to
Mrs Miller it's not a good sign no cuz her daughter Kathy doesn't go and hang out at his house so the boy does have
some information he tells Mrs Miller and a little bit shamefully so because he knew
that Kathy was not to take this appointment and he says look I went with your daughter to stand on the corner
there and wait for the guy to pick her up and he tells Mrs Miller he says look Kathy knew that she wasn't to take the
meeting but she really wanted the job for the summer and she thought that you wouldn't be mad if I went with
her however this kid had a paper route and remember we've talked about this on the show plenty of times but back in the
day they delivered papers in the morning and oftentimes in the evening as well people love their news you got to get
that evening newspaper so what's the boyfriend's story to Mrs Miller he says he went with Kathy to the corner and she
filled him in on all the details this guy's going to pick me up remember he tells Mrs Miller that Kathy knew she
wasn't to go but if he went with her maybe she wouldn't be upset with her so he agrees to go with her however at some
point the man's not on time the card doesn't show up the vehicle doesn't show up so he says to Kathy look you should
go home I have to go do my paper route unfortunately man he tells Mrs Miller that when I last saw Kathy she was still
standing on the corner waiting for the gas station owner to pick her up and I went off and did my paper route so
he's just as surprised as Mrs Miller when he gets this phone call that Kathy didn't go for this job interview or or
wasn't home at least by 700 p.m. now we're in probably 7:30 7:45 that night this makes Mrs Miller incredibly
nervous remember she didn't want her daughter to go meet this guy in the first place and
now her daughter's not home and she's already spoke to the guy who says he's the gas station owner who says yeah I
went to pick her up and she wasn't there so Mrs Miller of course calls the Seattle Police Department and reports
her daughter as missing tells the story the Seattle Police Department they do take a report now what they do with the
report that evening is anyone's guess it's a mystery it's not well documented what took place
if they went out driving around looking for her or just put out an APB for her uh I would guess that those are probably
some efforts that were taken that night but what we do know is keep in mind this
is the 70s and where we might feel like that was not enough effort put onto this
scenario often in the 70s man they didn't even take up a report a missing report for a
teenager or a youngster until they had been gone for 24 hours some jurisdictions were even doing 48 hours
right because you had so many kids that just weren't where they were supposed to
be they end up coming home after dark they get yelled at by Mom and Dad that may be grounded for a couple of days and
that's the end of it and you've just wasted the police's time but in this situation at least they take the report
now this is going to have quite the domino effect because these reports while we don't know what was
done with it that evening they are handed off to the higher ups when they come in for the day shift the next
morning right the higher ups in this situation are detectives so now we have to introduce to everyone detectives Dwayne
Holman and William Bowman hullman and Bowman the two of them read the report follow up with a call to Mrs
Miller they think that it sounds suspicious enough that they're going to go out and investigate they don't think
that this is a a runaway situation and if it is wonderful the kid comes home and everything's fine
well either the businessman is lying and he's responsible or the possibilities then
become endless because she's at the corner of a decently busy intersection exactly so they go out to
the gas station to talk to the man that was on the phone and when they get there
they meet a person that is described as a large man he's about 6'2 200 lb and his name is Harvey Lewis
kman now Harvey is the gas station owner and this gas station is very successful
so he has attendants and cashiers working for him most of them are of the teenage years a lot of you know teen
boys teen girls and he tells the officers he says look I was really hoping to to hire a boy but when I got
the call call from the girl I needed the help so I told her I would take the interview he tells the officers
detective Holan and Bowman the same story that he told Mrs Miller the prior evening we had an arrangement for me to
pick her up so she could fill out the tax paperwork it it sounds like she was getting the job just by calling like the
the interview was more of a formality and that they would be filling out paperwork so that she could start asmp
and so he's telling them this story but what the detectives are noticing right away Captain is that this dude does not
seem to be responding very well to their presence he starts sweating profusely he
looks incredibly nervous oh he's a big man it's a big man and it's summertime it's hot out there it's hot in the hot
tub during some of the questioning and they're not even getting very suspicious with they're not overly obvious with
their suspicions they're not really accusing him of anything at this point they're simply
asking him questions and they say that not only does he appear to be sweating nervous but at some of the questions he
becomes angry and agitated when they're repeating their questions yeah douche canel however they see no reason
to further question this man there's no indication that Kathy ever was picked up
by this guy they don't have any Witnesses saying that this guy picked her up they have his story the same
story that he said the night before they don't know that everything fully checks
out but they leave the interview still suspicious of this man but with nothing really to go on to finding Kathy that's
that's their main number one concern right now is where is this girl so this business owner Harvey he's telling her
mother yes I I spoke with her I just never picked her up the cops go out to talk to him he becomes a sweaty
mess and so when they go back to the station look he he he he gave law enforcement some red flags so what are
they going to do they're going to look up his past criminal history I think we need to give a little Kudos here now
this seems like standard procedure today but back then 1973 not so much this guy
must have appeared to be nervous enough that it set off some red flags for the two detectives and as you said Captain
they get to the station they do a background check on Harvey Kagan and what they see in that background check
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to you Captain cheers to everybody out there tuning in once again this week we are happy
and lucky to have you now Captain we have to go back in time here because what we have is our two detectives they
just come from this meeting with the gas station owner Harvey KGAN that leaves them feeling a little
unsettled they have a missing girl she's not even been missing for 24 hours yet about 16 hours by this time last scene
hanging out with one of her friends waiting for a ride after school the previous day yeah then
they go talk to this guy that claims that he did talk to her on the phone and was going to pick her up but she just
wasn't there and he's a little sweaty he's a littlewey so now they have to figure out okay is this guy lying to us
because he looks nervous when we talk to him or or does he just have a heart condition or did he do as he say went to
go pick her up and she's not there he doesn't know what happened to her now us the detectives got to figure out if
somebody else picked her up right so back at the station they decide to run a background check on Harvey KET now I
want to point out here this guy he is kind of oddl looking we already referenced that he's a larger
man oddly sheap feet but he's also the type that he's easy to talk to and he's a successful local
businessman his gas station in Seattle was a success we should point out too don't
don't get overly jealous here people but back then regular gas 35 cents a gallon
wow the Primo stuff 39 cents a gallon oh Fancy Pants that's right so he's pumping
more gas his gas station is selling more gas than the others in town so he's a a
successful small business owner they don't feel other than the nervousness and the sweating that he has
any reason to tell them anything other than the truth but this but he is um I would consider him to be fugly you're
not the only one yeah so our friend and Rule rip she described him and I like when we
have a a a respected lady describing a man rather than us two garage guys I'll tell you the truth I tell you I tell it
like a see it she referred to him as a huge man with hands like hams a brow that resembled that of a
latterday crow magnum man which I think looking at his picture that description is pretty
spoton so they run a background check on Harvey KGAN and what they find is a plethora of troubling items in this this
dude's history yeah the one detective asked the other one does it look like he has a plethora of criminal activity he
does and not not any like smalltime crime either so let's go back in time and we're going to go back to
1948 so this is just a little under 25 years before 15-year-old Kathy Sue Miller goes missing
1948 Harvey Kagan is 21 years old he's in the Army now I do want to point out here there are some sources that say he
was in the Air Force most say he was in the Army I could not figure out between the two which one it was my guess is
neither branch of our military service wants to claim this guy he stationed at Fort Richardson in Anchorage
Alaska now on July 31st 194 9 this is this is after he's been there for some time
obviously there's a woman Laura schalter 57 years old she's walking home that's a
Sunday night she's walking home from the theater she doesn't make it home that night the next morning that Monday
morning a woman's brutally beaten body was found the cause of death was due to several blows to the Head Now by that
Monday afternoon C police have a man not under arrest not charged with anything but they have this
man at the station and he is being question about his possible involvement in this woman's murder the body was that
of Laura schalter it took a few days to identify her but not a few days to have a suspect they very quickly land on a
suspect and why how do they land on a suspect so quickly well law enforcement has an
eyewitness yes and this is a very odd story I think so odd that the police have to believe the details of the story
so they find this woman unfortunately horrible situation having been beaten to death found in a public location right
so they canvased the area and one of the persons who was walking home that night
the previous night the Sunday night says to the police yeah that's weird that you found
that body this was like a park type setting he says I was walking home last night and the same spot where she is
lying where you found her body I saw her lying with a with a guy and they look like they were being
romantic they look like they were maybe on a date and it was getting a little hot and heavy right and he goes so I
kind of look away because I didn't want them to be embarrassed or think that I was peeping or anything like that but it
was on my way home I saw the two of them I thought they were making out I continued on and went to bed didn't
think anything of it now you find a woman in that same spot now he could not tell the detectives with 100% certainty
that the woman they found is the woman that he saw because he said he saw more of the man than the
woman he's kind of feeling in the blanks right sometimes you see this stuff and you fill in the blanks a little bit but
the blanks that he was not filling in was the description that he gives of the man and he says the man clearly was a
younger soldier in his early 20s um and he gave the description of this man he says he was a larger white
guy probably about over 6 feet tall around 200 lb he had the mutton chops right the very long
sideburns and that's about the best description that they can get that he can provide however there's some really
good clues in there over six feet tall is above the average height for a male back then so that shrinks your suspect
pool very quickly there shrinkage on top of that he's able to say this guy's a younger man he's in his early 20s right
he's a soldier I Believe by the way that he was dressed that he was probably a soldier and then the mutton chops on top
of that so we're shrinking the the pole pretty quick very much there was significant shrinkage as they say yeah
while the water was cold so they go around canvasing the area and of course they're going to go to the base there
that Fort Richardson's right and they want to start looking for a guy that would fit that description they ask a
around they find a guy so they bring this guy in and he's very nervous sweating a lot
sweaty he's answering their questions but he appears to be incredibly nervous now they do the old
police lineup and they bring back in the neighbor and the guy says yeah that one
right there that's the guy that I believe that I saw with the woman in the park the night
before the guy's name is Harvey kman of course he is a soldier and they arrest him but they don't have anything to
really hold him on there's no physical evidence this is 19 49 so keep in mind the detectives are
always behind the eightball in these situations just based off of the lack of Technology therefore the lack of
physical evidence all they have is this guy saying I'm pretty sure that that's the guy that I saw with that woman last
night now that sounds like a good case but you take that to court and you get a good defense team and they're going to
present to the jury well this this man can't even say that the woman that he saw was the murder victim this man can't
say with 100% certainty that the guy that he picked out of the police lineup is the guy that he saw that night in the
under the cover of Darkness so while this man Harvey caran remains one of those guys that we talk about so
much here in the garage right Captain one of these guys where police go you know what we're pretty sure we're
99.9% sure we know who did this right we just don't have the evidence to lock this dude up
now we need to fast forward to September 16th 1949 when we have an attempted rape and
a horrible a brutal attack on a woman named Dorcas Callan so she's attacked and there's an attempted rape assault on
this young woman thankfully she is able to escape the clutches of her attacker she immediately goes to police
she tells the police that she was approached and attacked by a drunken Soldier early that
morning it's like 11:00 a.m. and the soldier who approach her was drunk and she describes this attack as
he started to bring up some kind of conversation try to have conversation with her that
was friendly conversation however when she rejected his advances because he's wasted at
11:00 he's wasted at 11:00 and she's probably got places to go it's the middle of the day and so she rejects his
advances and then he becomes violent he just he tries to abduct her tries to attack her tries to rape her and he
physically assaults her now she is able to provide a description to detectives of her as
salent and right away ding dding light bulbs and bells are going off that description is of the same guy that they
talked to back in July July 31st August 1st about the woman found dead in the park
Laura schalter so they very quickly go out and pick up Harvey Kon and it's mostly because of two
factors right one the attack was so similar to the attack and murder for which Harvey was questioned that took
place less than 7070 days prior and the description gave to police in this latest attack where m
Miss Callen survived after having escaped both she and then another independent witness described the man
and his clothing and this too matching the suspect in the July murder case so Harvey Kagan is picked up and he's
question identified in a police lineup by both the surviving victim and the witness from the previous crime and now
this other independent witness so now you have three people saying look that's the guy I think that was with the murder
victim in the park one person saying I was attacked by this man and the other one saying I witnessed him talking to
her before the attack right so they're going to arrest this Soldier Harvey and they're going to charge him with murder
rape and assault yes murder rape attempted rape and assault and at this time Harvey
Kagan is 22 years old and he is in the Army now we get to December of 1949 Anchorage
Alaska Harvey kinan is found guilty in what the papers were calling a rape slay of 57-year-old Laura
schalter after the trial Harvey is sentenced to death and in fact they announce during sentencing and at the
the end of the trial the hanging of Harvey L Kagan age 22 will be held adjacent to the Federal jail on March
3rd between 6: and 8:00 a.m. 1950 so that's very quick from guilty to sentencing to death for back then we
don't experience that today and I don't know if this announcement was meant for this to be a public hanging or what but
it it sounds a little bit like that you know we we've sentenced this man to death and oh by the way mark your
calendars it's it's going to be March 3rd between 6:00 and 8:00 a.m. and here's the location so if we jump in the
DeLorean and go back to the future this is what the detectives are seeing when we have a missing
15-year-old and this guy is saying hey I I yeah I was supposed to pick her up but
she never showed up and this so the detectives have evidence that this guy is capable of anything and everything
evil but if this sentence was carried out then Harvey kin would be like be real says a dead man walking yeah so
what happened there's much more to this story so after the trial as we said he sentenced to death now we get the guilty
verdict but before sentencing Harvey's defense Council requests a new trial the judge denies this and sentences Harvey
to hang the defense Council cited 11 grounds for asking for a new trial including an unfair and impartial jury
saying that the court should have granted a change of venue and because the case was well known and it was
publicized at the time that there was no way that you could have an impartial jury without a change of venue and that
Harvey was convicted mostly on him having confessed to authorities and this part of the story is rather complicated
but I'll do my darnest here Captain to explain it the defense cites that the confession they end up charging him with
the with the murder and with this other attack based off of him confessing they don't have a lot of
physical evidence they have these eyewitnesses who pick him out of a lineup but the whole conviction and the
whole sentence to death is based around his confession he was brought in by by the US Marshals interviewed time and
time again they brought in like a psychologist and doctors and surrounded by all these people and convince him to
tell them what actually happened how do they convince him to to tell what actually happened when
he denied any wrongdoing or any involvement at all initially well the defense CES that the confession
was only obtained due to a quote secret inter ration and promises made by persons at the interrogation to the
defendant and also due to psychological pressures placed upon placed upon the charged individual Harvey
KET so what happens here Captain is that there stating that he was promised Harvey Kagan was promised if look if you
confess we can't sentence you to death we can lock you up for life or put you away for a long time you just need to
tell us what happened get this off your conscience we we won't be able to kill you if you confess well he confesses
they take him to court and then they sentence him to die so what ultimately ends up happening
here is that Harvey and his defense Council they won a new trial on this murder conviction and this new trial
takes place in 1951 on the grounds that his confession had been improperly obtained an officer interrogating
carrian as we said told him he could not would not be executed if he confessed to
the murder right so he gets this new trial and at this trial Harvey's confession the one that was used at the
previous trial to secure a conviction and what would have been would have sealed Harvey's fate with his death was
suppressed and without the confession they they didn't have enough evidence to prosecute so the murder
charge essentially is dismissed thus ultimately freeing Harvey of an early demise right at least one
other source states that the Supreme Court overruled kagan's death sentence due to the officer violations of the
McNab rule but he still had the rape and assault charges from the September attack for which he was convicted and so
he had to continue to serve out his sentence minus the death penalty so he so do we know how long he
ended up serving well he was sentenced to 15 years for assaulting Miss Callen but of course he doesn't serve the whole
time does he you and I have been doing the show long enough and our listeners have been listening loyally long enough
to know that most cases that's a shame where're most cases at least here in Ohio you are hoping that the prisoner
serves out 80% of the sentence now keep in mind we've we've gone through time and time again the problems with the
overpopulation overcrowding of prisons in different states throughout the different Decades of the 20th century
and how it led to the early release of a lot of those inmates well he's sentenced
to 15 years in 1952 he's transferred to alcatra Federal Penitentiary and then Harvey is paroled
in 1960 so he served eight more years after he is transferred to Alcatraz so old uh schwey
Harvey serves about nine years of that sentence 9 years and meanwhile the police know that he's a murderer so once
he's old Harvey moves to Minnesota this is closer to where he is from he he was born in North Dakota well I hope this
comes outright but we see sometimes with criminals that they kind of outgrow this
type of behavior they can age out of violence but that's not what we're going to see
with this man and then on top of that keep in mind how young he is right at this time so he's in his He's
33 when he's paroled he goes to Minnesota and on August 5th 1960 Harvey KGAN is arrested in
Minnesota for burglary assault and attempted rape he's convicted on those charges and sentenced to hold your
breath don't get too excited two and a half years in a Minnesota State Prison wow and then he gets unfortunately he
gets another 286 days I didn't know that they senten you in days in some jurisdictions but he gets another
286 days in federal prison in lenworth Kansas from there he is released on parole and he picks up once again and
moves to Seattle Washington where just eight short months later Harvey Kagan is arrested for
second deegree burglary and sentenced to 15 years in the Washington State Prison
at Walla Wala during this prison stin Harvey uses the resources provided there within to obtain a High School GED
diploma and he takes some college courses of note he takes some criminal psychology courses doesn't seem like a
good idea to offer those he is paroled four years after he gets there this takes us through 1968
Captain we still got five more years until detectives are talking to him about a missing little girl 15-year-old
Kathy Sue Miller where we first started off today's episode well Harvey is going
to be paroled and after he is paroled he meets a lady her name is Sheila Moran yeah and
they strike up a relationship he eventually moves in with Sheila and Sheila's daughter and the two marry
proving that there's somebody for everybody yeah and I'm guessing I'm hoping and praying that Sheila was
unaware of kagan's previous history right because nothing infuriates me more than when I
see a woman with a child allow somebody with a lengthy violent sexual violence to criminal
history into their home yeah because you're not just putting yourself at risk you're putting your children at risk as
well exactly you you might as well just March that child right to the front line
of d mhm so the two meet they strike strike it up they they hit it off they get married now he's living with mom and
daughter but during this time in 1969 he's 42 at this at this point in our timeline he's arrested for a parole
violation and sentenced to serve another year at wala wala now during this time Sheila divorces Harvey carrian and she
states that she is seeking the divorce due to physical abuse suffered by the hands at the hands of Harvey the divorce
goes through he serves his year he gets out it he must be one Charming fellow because to look at this guy you go how
would this dude get a date and then then icing on the cake his criminal history but once he gets out he meets another
woman Alice Johnson very fugly marri's her moving in with her and her two children right we have Little Billy
who's 11 years old at the time in Georgia her daughter Georgia who's 14 one thing we need to point out here
Captain is this brings us to the latter part of 1972 in our timeline and one thing that
is key here and we'll come back around full circle eventually is that Harvey kman he re receives a handful of
speeding tickets during this time period in October of 1972 a young woman 20-year-old Laura
lesle Brock of Bellingham Washington goes missing and she's found rather quickly unfortunately she's found
dead her cause of death is due to several blows to the head and then this will lead us into to
1973 when Kathy Sue Miller goes missing age 15 goes missing early May of 1973 this is The Disappearance that the
police just left the gas station talking to the owner of the gas station where she was going to apply for a
job had an appointment arranged with the owner Harvey kman detectives talk to this man they get back to the station
they run a background check on him that's the information in story form that they find on the guy that they just
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1973 - Seattle, Washington; When 15 year old Katherine Miller did not return home from school, her mother notified the police. The following morning an investigation ensued. Katherine’s disappearance was immediately considered to be suspicious by seasoned detectives. The disappearance reeked of foul play. The detectives were quick to find a suspect and other cases that shared similarities to Katherine's. Was all of this the work of “The Hammer Man?” When one wants to do a thorough historical review of U.S.A. True Crime, there are those stories that must be told. This is one of them.

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Brief Summary

The episode details the disappearance of Kathy Sue Miller and the investigation into Harvey Kagan's criminal history.

Key points

The Hammerman: A True Crime Profile. Exploring the chilling story of a killer who inspired urban legends.
A Mother's Growing Concern. Mrs. Miller's worry escalates as her daughter fails to return home.
Detectives Uncover Alarming History. Detectives find shocking details in Harvey Kagan's background check.
Harvey Kagan's Troubling Past. Detectives uncover a plethora of troubling items in Harvey Kagan's history, raising suspicions.
Eyewitness Account Leads to Arrest. An eyewitness identifies Harvey Kagan as the man seen with the murder victim, leading to his arrest.
Confession Controversy. Harvey's confession, obtained under questionable circumstances, leads to a new trial and eventual freedom.

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He was a savage killer.

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