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the horrific attack on Karen poac who survived somehow managed to survive that attack from New Year's Eve on the last
day of 1980 the attack that took place 6 months later roughly 6 months later that
led to the murder of 18 18-year-old Kimberly Compton I do know Captain here that the
first call at least the very first call in that series that was traced to a pay phone in fact police say that once they
were able to compare their patrol and Cruiser Logs with the Payphone Booth call log it's their belief that they
arrived approximately one minute one minute 60 seconds after the killer caller hung up the phone the St Paul
police department really worked this case about as thoroughly as anyone could they released the call for the news
channels to play some of the calls you know we discussed that there were multiple phone calls from the attacker
in Kimberly Compton's case some of those calls were recorded the ones that were recorded those were released to the news
outlets to play the police were hoping that someone obviously would recognize the voice or even the words that were
used in those calls and if such a person came forward this would be a major lead
a major break in their investigation and then this is this is smart this is rather Smart in one of the calls the
killer said that he quote was getting drunk every day so the detectives were going around
and talking to and playing the calls the recorded calls for bartenders and liquor
store owners hoping that one of them could identify the man's voice question for you when
you first heard these calls did you believe that this man just had a higher pitched voice or do you believe that
this was a a way to disguise The Voice or because he was emotional is this why his voice was higher in Pitch I believed
that it was a combination of a couple of the things you said I think that it was
a combination of he was emotional whether that's selfishness or remorseful what have you I I I wouldn't won't
attempt to to know the answer to that but my guess here Captain is that it's a combo of being
emotional and the attempt to at the same time to disguise his voice and we both agree
he's a piece of [ __ ] oh I mean there we shouldn't have to say it if there's a person out there that thinks he's not
let's find you and put you away as well yeah we might not need to say it but it's fun to say I mean he he's a piece
of [ __ ] he practically he attempted to beat a woman to death with a tire iron or crowbar and Then followed that up by
six months later so so nicely attacking a woman with an ice pick that oh by the way he stabbed her 61 times with with an
ice pick and then strangled her with her own shoelace so um well see to me piece
of [ __ ] doesn't do it just well we've seen this with other cases right where an attacker uh serial killer
changes their weapon and in this case cuz we've seen it whether it's been a gun used or a
knife used where I think these killers don't like the reaction of the victim and so to to stop that reaction they
strangle them yeah I think that maybe this unfortunately that this is just there's no nice way to put it I
really think he was just making sure he got the job done because he didn't with Karen right and the he he got lucky in
the Karen case and you know I say this all the time in these situations I've never reviewed one where the the the
victim gets lucky I've only review cases where the asent and the the killer get lucky and he got lucky in that case that
when she woke up she couldn't recall anything about him she couldn't describe his vehicle she couldn't describe much
of the attack at all and I'm sure that that probably scared him as let's let's go down the road of of pretending for a
moment that he is truly remorseful and then that old myth of that most of these s serial killers want to get caught well
that that's just frankly not true I don't care what what scientists or psychologists is going to try to sell me
that I ain't buying it why because they continue to kill I've I've reviewed one serial killer case where the guy walked
into the police department and said I'm a serial killer lock me up one out of hundreds of serial killer cases so well
I think it's a double-edged sword because I do think some of these killers want to
confess they want to oh they want this urge to stop and they want somebody to help them but the consequence points is
once you then confess you're going to prison and nobody wants to go to prison you can have a slight bit of remorse but
still not want to get caught those are not the same thing and so with this guy I really think that the the
strangulation with the shoelace was he got scared that his previous victim woke up and could have
potentially described him and his vehicle and described their conversations and that probably in his
mind would have led him to getting caught because what we do know about these these types uh from persons that
eventually do get caught Ed keer said this BTK said this that right after the first kill both of them it just expected
for helicopters and police sirens to start going off like that they that they were caught without any investigation at
all like there's that that immediate paranoia so his victim wakes up the first one and he definitely was scared
at some point he was going to get caught for this and I think that the shoelace was just not leaving the potential of
not leaving the witness making sure that this one doesn't wake up now we know that infamously this killer would go on
to be known as the weepy voiced killer but actually early on they were calling him the whimpering killer again just
both different ways of describing the the voice that police and dispatchers are hearing when the calls come in and
all we I do have a transcript of one of the Kimberly Compton calls and I'm not I'm not going to try to impersonate the
call I'll just I'll just please don't no because the way that the voice to me the
best the best thing that I can attempt to equate this voice to it do you remember um the the sketch comic Michael
McDonald Mad TV the Stuart Lin skit where he plays the the the child and to me the to me the weepy
voice killer or the whimper whimpering killer whatever you know you want to call him to me it sounds like someone
attempting a male voice attempting to do an impersonation of Stuart Lin's mother
Dorene that's that's what my the way it hits my ear well at least this serial killer name is not flattering it's not
like BTK or Son of Sam but if they would have just took my suggestion The weepe peeee Voice killer
it's a little more degrading so from the transcript of one of the Kimberly Compton calls the transcript reads as
follows I am sorry what I did to Compton I couldn't help it I don't know why I had to stab her I'm so upset about it I
keep getting drunk every day and I can't believe I killed her I can't think of being locked up if I get locked up I'll
kill myself so after releasing the calls to the public the police said that the the first few days they were receiving
quote a call every five minutes this from people offering information submitting tips and just trying to help
in general this provided of course a lot of leads for the five Detectives that were dedicated that that the police
department dedicated to this single case but as quickly as this whole investigation ramped up gaining momentum
it all came to an abrupt halt when in late August of this same year of 1981 a man confronted police with a gun when
they tried to apprehend him he fled and barricaded himself inside of his home actually it was his parents' home for
which he as an adult still lived with them this was the start of a 15-hour standoff the standoff ended when the man
at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday August 29th he attempted to flee out the back door of the home and he was quickly apprehended
by the police so he fled the house because he had set several fires inside and was running out of options once
inside the home police discovered that 26-year-old Allan Lopez he's the man that fled from from the home that was
arrested he had killed his parents raymon and Charlotte using an Axe and a metal pipe now in the basement police
found the body of Lopez's sister Linda her age was 23 at the time who was burned beyond
recognition this Alan Lopez would to me fit the description of the quote regular Maniac like the one
Kimberly's grandfather was talking about Alan Lopez confesses to the murder of Kimberly Compton
but then while in jail for killing his parents and sister alen Lopez takes his own life unfortunately he was a very
very disturbed individual and along with his severe mental illness he was drinking excessively probably a way to
try to self-medicate so okay well that wraps things up but not so fast Mister shout
out to the great Lee Coro so now we go to a August 5th 1982 this is after the death of Alan
Lopez 40-year-old Barbara Simons is at a place called the hexagon bar in Minneapolis a man approached Barbara
asking for a cigarette and she gave him one and then the pair began talking Barbara spoke with the man long enough
for her to feel comfortable with him as the night came to a close he offered her
a ride home and she accepted after after spending the night at the bar Barbara Simons tells the bartender quote he's
cute I hope he's nice since he's giving me a ride home now Simons was found stabbed to death the next day the weepy
voiced killer contacted police after the murder of barber saying please don't talk just
listen I'm sorry I killed that girl I stabbed her 40 times Kimberly Compton was the first one over in St Paul so
think about this for a second you have law enforcement that believe that the the killer of Kimberly
Compton killed himself in jail before he could be tried with these these other crimes that he
was accused of the the burning the house the killing of his parents and his sister so for a couple of months you
don't have really much in the way of an investigation because you think this guy
well he confessed to killing Kimberly Compton and we he's capable yeah of such a crime most certainly question for you
cuz they did have uh a sketch that they that they release of the suspect but when did that happen well that's perfect
timing for that question because this is where they get their first description of the man so there is a part of this
case that's a little confusing to The Outsider until you really delve and dive deep into this case
donkey there was a sketch that was released shortly after Kimberly Compton was murdered but that sketch was not of
the so I have to kind of fully describe this or it won't make much sense yeah they they released this sketch of this
individual and they say that this person is the last person seen talking to Kimberly Compton at the bus depot
remember she went from the the bus depot to across the street to the Diner so they're not saying that the man that she
was talking to at the diner is the same guy in the sketch that they're looking for they're saying this guy we have at
least one witness or two witnesses saying a guy that looks like this was seen talking to her at the bus depot
prior to going to the diner they do go as far to say this man is wanted by police for questioning wanted is a weird
word they wouldn't use that today but want for questioning but they do clarify that police do not believe that the man
in the sketch or the sketch of this man was the same as the caller who called after the murder which they believe was
the killer because he gives that detail of the ice pick so what they're attempting to do with the release of
that sketch so when when people take a first glance at this case they think oh they had a description of the killer
right after Compton's murder which would make sense because because she was picked up at the diner it would stand a
reason that people saw the two of them sitting together and talking together right but it doesn't appear to be that
that was the case or that anybody had any real recollection of the man that she was sitting with so now they're
looking for this other dude because you know as an investigator she's not from here she just stepped off the bus and
then gets murdered so what you're hoping is to connect with this guy that she was
seen talking to at the bus depot because your first question is going you want to
determine who truly was the last person to see her alive because that's your murderer and so now you want to find
this person so you can ask them simple questions like when you talk to her did she say she was meeting anyone did she
offer up a name did she say where she was going you know you want to you want to put together some more events and
markers on her timeline that take that that complete that timeline from bus depot through the diner to where she's
found murdered by the you know by The River's Edge from my understanding that person never comes forward now and now
let's fast forward to we have this murder of Barbara Simons they had a confession by Alan Lopez who now doesn't
seem to hold much weight at all because Barbara Simons is killed in a very similar same manner as Kimberly Compton
and this weepy voice guy is back on the phone calling 911 and police and saying I I'm sorry I killed that girl I stabbed
her 40 times and then finishing up the call saying Kimberly Compton was the first one over in St Paul so now you
have this other confession and oh by the way the voice sounds the same as the calls that you're getting from the
Kimberly Compton case yeah and I'm guessing because we have recordings of those that law enforcement was able to
compare those but it's also difficult because we have a person that confess to the crimes but they're dead so yeah we
to play Captain Obvious we can't question that in individual we've all watched and probably enjoyed the crime
fiction shows where there's some killer on the loose somebody confesses to it or
they think they found the guy but he dies abruptly and then all the killing starts again 10 years later and it's
this big great TV mystery but here in real life it's it's months later after Alan Lopez dies that police going wait a
second we we didn't have the guy Alan Lopez wasn't the guy and at the very least he wasn't the guy in this Barbara
Simon's case cuz he he wasn't alive and by the way the phone call that comes in confessing to Kimberly Compton with this
weepy voice high pitch voice is the same voice we got in the it's the same M Mo right she stabbed 40 times with an ice
pick so a lot of this stuff is lining up what's confusing though is that there's
two sketches in the one sketch yeah so what we what we have here is we get we we're going to get to
police getting a a true description of our killer okay so I mean if you guys see the sketch if you guys are Holland
oats fans I mean if you told me that it was a advertisement for a holl notes show I go hey not a bad drawing of holl
notes well and the sketch that you're seeing next to that if if I'm thinking of the same one that you're you're
looking at right now yeah the the sketch that's next to it looks very different right than right so you get you get um
John Oats on the one side on the right and then you get a guy to me that vaguely resembles the still unknown
Connecticut River Valley killer like isn't that weird like it looks very similar to me but my guess here Captain
is I couldn't find explanation for what that other sketch was where that came from my guess is that is a rendition of
what somebody thought they saw of the man talking to Compton at the diner well and it's also possible CU we don't know
how long was she at this Diner and did multiple people come up to her and talk to her yeah and so and this would be a a
busy Diner like I said it's been around since 1960 it's a very popular place anybody some would say world famous
anybody that frequents a diner knows how the Turn and Burn style of the tables right it's like it's fast food dress up
at most diners right it's it's it's quick in and quick out for everybody and so here is where we're going to get a
truly good description I'll get into the description of that here in a minute and
the reason why but Barbara Simons her body was discovered by a paper boy walking along the Mississippi River this
is near 29th Street now police know from talking to people that knew Barbara that
she was at that hexagon bar that night okay and she doesn't come home from her bar visit alive she's found dead near
the Mississippi River they go to the hexagon bar and remember the bartender there that bartender is able to provide
a very good description of the man that left with Barbara so remember this bartender God bless her she made mental
note of the dude after being told by Barbara hey this guy is going to drive me home so she provides a description to
police ultimately what they're going to do is they're going to look for anybody that has a record you know anybody that
they have a mug shot of that resembles this description provided to them by the bartender and they're using this they
got mug shots because they're looking at persons that have priors specifically priors for assault because
what do we know that our killer does he assaults our victims obviously Kimberly Compton having been
stabbed but but the previous victim who survived being beaten so now we have this description of the person believed
to last be scene with Barbara so this is very likely our killer the detectives come back and they show several mug
shots to the bartender and she picks out a dude from from this photo lineup if you will and I don't know how many of
dozens of pictures she she had to look through but she picks out this man named Paul
Stefani so she tells police that's the dude out of all the pictures you've shown me this is the dude that Barbara
left with that she left with this Paul Stefani the night of her murder and we have the call after Barbara's murder and
during that call the confession to the comped murder so really up until this point police thinking that the killer of
Compton was alen Lopez now this is not looking good not looking so good and and we still have a killer out there and it
might be this Paul Stefani guy and what do we know or what does law enforcement know about old Paul Stefani well it's I
mean it's quick you run run everything on the background you have his Li driver's license information so they
know where he lives and they're going to very quickly put him under surveillance and we've seen this done in
many cases where we have a repeat offender it looks to me you know there there are some cases where it's almost
comical you you hate given the the situation the overall encompassing situation of what's going on but it's
almost comical when the person being tailed knows and points out to police that they're being tailed it doesn't
there's no way that Paul Stefani had any clue that he was under police surveillance there's there is every
indication that he that he had no idea that he was a suspect in any of these cases yeah but the the NS thing here is
and what law enforcement is going to learn really quickly is so we have an individual going hey I'm picking out
Paul Stefani that's who she left with and all by the way he he worked at a company a manufacturing company that's
going to be really important to this investigation yeah he at one time worked at the manufacturing company for which
Karen poox uh even though she survived she was found near the train tracks behind that business it was a
couple years prior to her attack that he had worked there but he had worked there
for a considerable amount of time as a janitor right but but I think that's big if you're law enforcement we can at
least connect this idiot to this location oh 100% you're you when you are provided with this description and then
she picks him out of this photo lineup yeah you are looking for other reasons to make him an even better suspect right
because again with these investigations we can sit here in retrospect and condemn and criticize and critique every
aspect of any investigation out there but and we will do that but but the truth of it is what
goes on behind closed doors is everybody works for somebody [ __ ] runs downhill
and and when you need to get things approved you have to go to the higher ups to get approval surveillance is
isn't free Manpower isn't free these things cost dollars and cents and have to make sense when you're trying to sell
them to the boss who's going to sign off on budgeted items like this so you're not going into if you go in and and talk
to your boss and say well this bartender picked out this dude from a dozens of photos he or she is likely going to look
at you cross and say yeah really that's all you're bringing me why don't you go out there and do your job and bring me
something better and I'll sign off on that so what we do know is that surveillance was signed off on
Stefani and they start to track this dude and they're they're following him around but for whatever reason what he's
up to next the police they're not aware of they he he either he lost them or maybe they ran out of surveillance
remember when we talked about Robert Pickton they had only approved a three-day surveillance on Robert pton
well if your target doesn't do anything bad or doesn't look to be up to anything
suspicious during the that time frame then it's kind of all for not so now we got to go to August 21st
1982 again now we're in Minneapolis this is when Paul Stefani picked up a 19-year-old sex worker her name is
Denise Williams so a little bit different victimology here Williams she would later say that she sensed
something was wrong with the whole situation when the driver the vehicle she gets into he's
he's not going to where they said they were going to go to they ended up in a suburban area rather than staying in the
city or going back to the city like they had originally planned then he turns down a dead end Road this woman this
young woman she's worked the streets long enough that she she is incredibly Street Smart she's got a very good sense
about her when things aren't right and and she's knowing that things aren't right so she's already kind of
planning an escape if she needs to make one you know that's a that's one of those weird things if you read like
survival books and and things of that nature they they say that persons that plan their escape in any
situation prior to needing to escape it's something crazy like they stand a 30 to 40% better chance of
surviving the situation like even with like a like a plane crash or or a situation like this so she's already
planning what do I do if this guy does a b and c now she's stuck with this dude in the
car and that's when he is finally going to decide to attack back [Music] Denise with big Wireless providers what
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the people in the front onwards and upwards Stefani starts to attack this poor woman Denise Williams and she as
said has already made some uh choices as to what she will how she will respond if
this guy starts acting weird or aggressive or violent she picks up a bottle so he's
attempting to an unfortunately successful several times in stabbing her with a screwdriver during this attack
she hits this guy Stefani over the head with a glass bottle causing quite a bit of damage to his head and face his
already ugly head and face just got a little bit uglier so the two of them they're kind of rustling around they're
now now it's a fight right it's not just one person attacking another she's defending herself and she's doing a darn
good job of it she's yelling and screaming and there's some quotes that go here she's yelling things like he's
trying to kill me or help he's trying to kill me her screams remember we said that that he went into a Suburban area
with with the car with with her in the car these screams are they grab the attention of a man who lives
nearby and now he he hears it he's an ear witness and now being an eyewitness he turns and looks and he sees this
scuffle going on right and so he runs over jumps in this Good Samaritan his name is Douglas panning he runs to the
scene and he's attempting to pull the man off of the woman who's being attacked and now these two
are in it together and eventually he breaks away from the fight the the Good Samaritan Douglas panning breaks away
from this fight and he runs back to his home he grabs a gun but the as salent Paul stf takes off
but Doug then calls 911 he wants first to get an ambulance for this poor woman right cuz we know she's been stabbed
she's been stabbed um unfortunately she was stabbed 16 I believe it was 16 time 15 times with the screwdriver Jesus the
asent thankfully has been he's been brutalized a little bit himself he was bleeding profusely from from the head
and face area after receiving a couple hits from this glass bottle from the the very tough don't mess with me Denise
Williams so Stefani he Retreats back to his home to his apartment and he's bleeding very badly he's in need of
medical attention so Captain Duma here calls 911 for an ambulance saying that I've been beat up
and I've been robbed and I need medical attention there's a whole bunch of things that are kind of going on
simultaneously right so this call comes in for this dude they know that the attacker on Denise Williams they don't
know that it's Stefani at this point remember he wasn't under surveillance when this attack
occurred but we have a very street smart woman who's able to provide description
of the vehicle of the of the attacker we have the Good Samaritan that showed up who's able to provide description of the
attacker and the vehicle and now they got this dude that's going to the hospital who oh by the way another phone
call made because he's calling in for help for himself and so with all of these things
going on police are able to quickly put together oh we need to go to the hospital and arrest this dude he's he's
got the same injuries that's described To Us by the person he attacked and the person that helped
her and so they go and they arrest him there and it's the phone a combination of the phone call the injuries the
description and both Denise and Doug later identifying the man Stefani as the attacker so further
investigative work would later connect Paul stepani to the murder of Barbara Simons right so this is going to lead to
a murder charge attempt murder charge and a trial that is going to follow during Paul Stefani's trial in the
Barbara Simon's murder case they called to testify Stefani's ex-wife his sister and a woman who lived with him for a
period of time they all testified that they believed you know they're playing these phone calls the weepy voiced
Killers phone calls 911 calls in the courtroom and all three of them are testifying that they all belied that is
the person and I know is Paul Stefani and it's super weird too because the sister who would have known him longer
than any of the other people who testified she says that she could recall at times throughout their their lives
that when he would get incredibly angry or upset he would go into that weird voice so what you're saying is it's uh
maybe the voice is more out of habit than it was to disguise his voice yeah maybe it's something he couldn't control
very strange though it's incredibly strange and I I also believe that maybe there is some level of attempting to
disguise his voice we we will never know and what's weird is there's he's an interesting cat in the sense that there
is a lot of people that have tried to come up with the psychology of this because it's not normal well it's not
normal to murder people but then add the added layer of calling in these calls to
authorities very quickly after committing these horrific acts but what we do know captain and this is where
this is where things get a little wonky for me in in the storytelling portion because we weren't at the trial so I I
don't know why this was how things played out but what we do know is that Paul Stefani was in fact convicted of
Barbara Simon's murder and the attempted murder of Denise Williams but not so in
Kim Compton's murder and I don't know again I don't know why that panned out the way that it did he is sentenced to
40 years behind bars so while he's convicted of these two offenses he is it doesn't sound like
these observations made by testimony of the three PE people we just discussed was enough to identify him conclusively
as the killer of Kim Compton but we're not done there because in 1997 Paul Stefani was
diagnosed with skin cancer part of this diagnosis is that he has less than a year to live he decided to confess to
the murders of Kim Compton he's already convicted of Barbara Simons but he remember he's convicted because he plad
not guilty that's why there was a trial so he confesses to her murder as well and then he convin he confesses to an
unnown victim Kathy Greening Paul Stefani had never even been a suspect in Kathy Green's murder yeah but again I
think this goes with the weird calling right after the the murder is it is it some sort of remorse is it some sort of
you know maybe I'll get forgiveness and so it's not it's not that strange to me that he would confess
to other crimes he committed well and and he's essentially given a death sentence even though it's not the state
that's going to kill him it's the skin cancer that's going to take his life so he he grew up in a
devout Catholic household yeah wasn't he the baby of 10 the information I had I think said the baby of six but yeah
you're right it was a large family maybe maybe my numers are included that might
have included step siblings that's true because his mother did Remar the thing here though is and I don't want to go
too far down this road of Catholicism because I grew up Catholic I feel like when people start talking about religion
mixed up with these horrible nasty people that like they can pretend to be religious as much as they want to or or
maybe they even have convinced themselves in their heart of hearts that they are religious and God-fearing
people I'm here to tell you that they really aren't because the worst sin you can commit is the one that they are
committing and sometimes time and time again so part of Catholicism is again not pretending to be to know all the in
and outs of it because every every religion is complicated but part of it is if you repent and you are truly
remorseful then you may be forgiven for your sins and so I really think that this was
not less of a helpful act on his behalf and more of a selfish act on his behalf of confessing to these
murders before he knows that he's going to die and he believes in in what he was
raised in then he's going to have to meet his maker and answer for and justify maybe his actions so I think it
was really just a selfish move but what it does help is it it gets the it confirms everyone suspicions that he
killed Kimberly Compton so that case is close but again the weird move with this
Kathleen Greening where he's not even a suspect now he wasn't a suspect in that case because there was no phone call to
911 or to police afterward saying oh I killed you sorry I killed there I said I wasn't going to impersonate him but uh
yeah yes yes finally that just made my day her murder was very very different from the other
ones that we discussed she she had been drowned in a bathtub inside of her home yeah July 20th 1982 her body was
discovered in the bathtub by a friend the next day and it was actually ruled an accident at the time now this guy
completely off the rails he has no idea again we talked about that paranoia setting in quickly with these types he
likely was very paranoid that they could connect this to him and very unaware that it was ruled an accident so he
never he never calls in they don't connect it to him but what police find after he so he's still alive when he
confesses to these obviously but he's still alive for a period of time after the confessions it wasn't like
confessing on his deathbed in his dying moments he's confessing in advance and they find he doesn't offer anything in
the way of details though it's just simply this is what I did and I drown this woman Kathleen Greening in 1982 in
her apartment well upon further investigation they're looking at Kathleen's personal items and in her
address book they find a phone number for a Paul S well his name is Paul Stefani and it is his phone number
that's listed next to Paul S so he likely didn't make the phone call in this one regardless of why he made the
phone calls in the previous attacks because the two knew each other there was a way she wasn't a stranger to him
like the other victims there was or would have been a way potentially to connect perpetrator
to victim in The Greening case the other thing too here captain that we that we kind of missed and skipped over on
accident here part of that confession is Stefani did confess to the attempted murder of Karen poac who who survived
the the first known she would be the first known victim of the weepy voice killer so lump that one in with the rest
of them I talked earlier about much has been done in the way of trying to dissect the py iology of an individual
that would murder and then very quickly phone it in to police and and notify Emergency Services the one thing that I
think if you really want to go down that road and really try to to figure this guy out the thing that I would point to
that I think has something to do with his actions the choice of pay phone that he used to call and notify emergency
services this this is very rare that somebody would do this right this horrible act followed by the phone call
another perpetrator that did exactly the same thing but in a slightly different manner
would be the Zodiac Killer he killed went to a pay phone notified the police his calls were much shorter less
detailed it was a confession doesn't sound remorseful you know he simply says I killed those two kids bye blah blah
blah goodbye well more taunting than remorse yeah but one thing that when we reviewed the Zodiac case that that will
that haunts me to this day amongst a a million other parts of that case but one thing that I didn't know going
into researching that case was the proximity of the pay phone in relationship to the
murders in at least two of those cases we were able to figure out from information that we found we're you know
we didn't we didn't we weren't the detectives that found this information but we found this information through
doing enough digging this isn't stuff that was just sitting there on the surface for anybody to find in two of
those cases for zodiac the the pay phone was in route somewhere in route from the
police station to where the bodies would be found and there is some psychology there that the Zodiac Killer in those
two cases would have been able if they turned on their Sirens early enough he would have been able to hear he the
police rushing off to his murder scene that is by his design and with Paul Stefani there's something very similar
there where you're right Captain he's not taunting police like zodiac was zodiac at the heart of zodiac he is a
terrorist and the taunts come with terrorism but with Paul Stefani he too in a weird way appears to be at payones
close enough that he would know that police and emergency services and in fact he's calling for an ambulance in
the first case he's close enough to the crime scene that he would be aware that there is actually a response to his call
remember we know in the in the one case police are telling us we arrived at the pay phone within one minute of him
hanging up the phone that's because he's so close to the crime scene I mean that
to me like I'm not going to pretend to know what that means it boggles my My Little Garage brain but I just find it
fascinating intriguing mysterious and and haunting very very weird and cruel and haunting Paul Stefani thankfully the
diagnosis was correct he did die of cancer this took place on June 12th 1988 he passed away at the maximum security
prison in Minnesota the Minnesota Correctional Facility in Oak Park Heights and that is the story that is
the story or what is known of the man who is now known as the weepy voiced [Music]
killer want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage each and every week thank you so much for sharing
these stories on social media Colonel do we have any recommended reading for the
beautiful listeners we're going to run it back this week captain we're going to recommend one that we have recommended
before for good reason reason because it falls in line with a lot of what we talked about here this week in the
garage so this week we are recommending win a killer calls a haunting story of murder criminal profiling and Justice in
a small town by the great John Douglas and Mark olshaker authors of the best selling book mind Hunter we all wanted
season three of Mind Hunter and well we're not going to get it so this is going to be the next best thing when a
killer calls is a book that we have recommended before as said it came out in 2022 and you can check out our coverage
on this case as well we did a three-part series with the same title when a killer
calls that's true crime garage episodes 553 554 and 555 on your true crime garage listening dial that was from
February of 2022 when we had John Douglas on as a returning guest of the show we were able
to play some of the audio from those phone calls from serial killer Larry Jean Bell now at that time the
fulllength audio was not available anywhere else yet so that was some interesting heartbreaking stuff but the
podcast is just half of the story so check out our coverage of when a killer caus in that three-part series and then
go and get the book as well when a killer caus by John Douglas available on Amazon and audible as well and until
next week be good be kind and don't live [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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In the early 1980s a deadly man was stalking the women of the Twin Cities. He used different weapons and methods to kill his victims. Often after a kill, the act was followed by a phone call claiming responsibility for the murder. Why were these calls seemingly part of the killer’s M.O.? What purpose did they serve? Was it an act of remorse or just to taunt the protectors of these cities? A man known as the “Weepy Voiced Killer” successfully killed women and left them on the side streets and back alleys of Minneapolis and Saint Paul and he got away with it for two years.

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Brief Summary

Paul Stefani, the Weepy Voice Killer, committed multiple murders in the 1980s, including Kimberly Compton and Barbara Simons, before confessing due to terminal cancer.

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The Weepy Voice Killer. The killer confesses to stabbing Barbara Simons 40 times after her murder.
Identifying the Killer. The bartender identifies Paul Stefani as the man Barbara left with before her murder.
Denise Williams' Escape. Denise Williams fights back against her attacker, Paul Stefani, using a glass bottle.
Paul Stefani's Confession. While dying from cancer, Stefani confesses to multiple murders, including Kim Compton's.

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