052: Deadly Serial Killers with Silly Names Tour

Why does the media find it necessary to name serial killers? While some get glorified with deadly names like the Night Stalker, others get stuck with names like these two serial killers we take you to visit today, The Doodler and the Weepy Voiced Killer. While their names might be silly, their crimes are anything but.

Initial sketch of “The Doodler”

Frederick Capin

Harald Gullberg

Gerald Cavanaugh

Jae Stevens

Jae Stevens

Paul Michael Stephani aka “The Weepy-Voiced Killer”

Stephani after Denise Williams fought back

18 year old Kimberly Compton

20 year old Karen Potack

40 year old Barbara Simons

19 Year old Denise Williams

33 year old Kathleen Greening

References

• San Francisco Chronicle - Drawing a line to a forgotten serial killer 

• AP - San Francisco police release sketch of “Doodler’ killer 

• The AWL - The Untold Story of the Doodler Murders  

• ABC News - New details released in unsolved 'Doodler' serial killer case from 1970s 

• Daily Motion - Crime Said Marley - Weepy-Voiced Killer - Oxygen "Mark of a Killer"

• Albany.edu - SERIAL KILLER COMMUNIQUÉS: HELPFUL OR HURTFUL by Tomas Guillen

• Find A Case - 06/11/85 STATE MINNESOTA v. PAUL M. STEPHANI

• StarTribune - Obituary: 'Weepy-voiced killer' Paul Stephani, 53, dies in prison

• Oxygen - ‘Will You Find Me?’ The ‘Weepy Voiced Killer’ Asked Police While Reporting His Own Murders

• YouTube - Parkaman Magazine - 911 Calls of the Weepy Voiced Killer - Paul Michael Stephani