Episode

513 - The Dark Strangler: Serial Killer Earle Nelson

Podcast: Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Published: Jun 29, 2026
Duration seconds: 8764
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For at least sixteen months in the 1920s, Earle Nelson terrorized North America, murdering at least twenty-two women while drifting from city to city under false identities. Known as the Gorilla Man and the Dark Strangler, Nelson was a deeply disturbed sexual predator whose life was marked by childhood tragedy, mental illness, brain injury, prison sentences, and multiple escapes from psychiatric institutions. This is an especially wild one.