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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: The Gorilla Man Strangler w/ Alvin Esau
Description: True Crime Tuesday presents The Gorilla Man Strangler with Researcher/Lawyer/Author, Alvin J. Esau!
The hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. It was the morning of June 8, 1927, when the Chandler family picked up the well-dressed man in Minnesota and dropped him at the Canadian border. They had unwittingly transported notorious serial killer, “The Gorilla Man,” who had strangled more than twenty women from one end of the United States to the other. He would later murder Emily Patterson and...