Episode 52 - The Harpe Brothers

Happy 52nd Episode! We have been at this for a year! Woohoo! To celebrate, we bring you a doozy of a story to you. Most people who are knowledgeable in true crime would tell you that the first American serial killer was H. H. Holmes. We would have agreed, until this episode! Join us as we talk about the true first serial killers in America, the Harpe brothers, who operated roughly a century prior to Holmes.

Link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OPMu0UVJvrkbwx7nSRtKM?si=VLUimsHSQNqQjbLy_L9RKQ

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpe_brothers

• https://www.geni.com/projects/Frontier-Justice-the-Harpe-Brothers/45870

• https://www.middletennesseemysteries.com/article/482/knox-county-americas-first-serial-killers-the-harpe-brothers

• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-harpes/

• https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-harpe-brothers-americas-first-serial-killers-8741fbc7fad2

• https://the-line-up.com/harpe-brothers

• https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/03/30/the-harpe-brothers-the-first-recorded-serial-killers-in-the-united-states/?edg-c=1

• https://murderpedia.org/male.H/h/harpe-brothers.htm