Earle Nelson
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United StatesLived 1897 to 1928 · aged 30Fame50.7
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S. states and two in Canada between 1926 and 1927. He is perhaps the first known serial sex murderer of the twentieth century.
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Napa State Mental Hospital, where Nelson was institutionalized on multiple occasions
Clara Newman, a San Francisco landlady, was Nelson's first documented victim
Beata Withers, Nelson's sixth victim, and the first of several he killed in Portland, Oregon
Nelson murdered Germania Harpin and her infant son on December 27, 1926; this marked his first and only murder of a male victim, and of a young child
Nelson's mugshot taken shortly after his arrest in Manitoba
Nelson's trial took place at the Winnipeg Law Courts BuildingAbout this person
Earle Leonard Nelson, also known as the Gorilla Man, the Gorilla Killer, and the Dark Strangler, was an American serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who killed at least twenty women in various U.S. states and two in Canada between 1926 and 1927. He is perhaps the first known serial sex murderer of the twentieth century.
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Lived 1897 to 1928 · aged 30
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