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@@oliviawolcott8351Agreed ❤ Great Grands “if not, whatever, happy and healthy is all tht counts” 😊 Great story teller❤ The best and most intriguing, without the Mr. Ballen “even though he’s excellent” up and down speed delivery, exaggeration, and hand 🤚 expressions 😂
Very interesting since I am from Clarksburg, WV, and the chief of police was my wife's grandfather. The dentist who did the forensic work lived across the street from me. My wife's uncle skipped school to watch the trial. Thanks for the interesting stories.
@@amberly0317I love the Mysterious WV channel, and I'm from Norway. If it's good, it's good. An Australian content creator (Bella) covered a wild, huge, decades old story from the Oslo area a year or two back. I was shocked. That NEVER happens. It's a bizarre feeling. Cool but a little bit unnerving at the same time.
It still happens, we just don't hear about it at all. My step-brother has been in and out of jails and has seen some horrible things from both inmates and guards.
When an ex-boyfriend assaulted me I went to the police station to make a report. They took me to the hospital and I later found out he "slipped" on the stairs when they arrested him.
It is chilling to think this still goes on today. It's one of the reasons I would never publish a "help wanted" ad or something similar. You never know who might show up. There are probably loads of such "lonely hearts murders" that were never found out. Great story.
Kinder than saying “fell out of the ugly tree hitting all the branches on the way down”, or “a face that looked like it had been hit by a bag of spanners”.
Omg I forgot about the personal classified ads! I used to read them as a kid. I especially loved the missed connections ones. They were always so cheesy, like, "Man seeking blue-eyed beauty seen at K-mart. You wore your auburn hair in a bunch, with a green sweater and a smile capable of erasing all pain. We met eyes, and I noticed no ring on your finger. I would love to know if you felt the spark, too." I often wondered if they found the person again. Some of the particularly well written ones would lead to me imagining them meeting and falling in love. It was good entertainment for the weekends. 😂
Paul what a horrible man preying on lonely women who just wanted love. To think he couldn’t have dropped the children off at an orphanage or somewhere is so damn callus. Thanks for another great story about criminals. You must do a lot of research and I appreciate that diligence!
CAREFUL with your projections and predudice of modern values back in time @karenroot450 . "preying" ? "on lonely women" ? shake yourself down, and consider the equal. Those were also seeking to a mutual advantage. They were not lonely at all. They were choosey. Very choosey. They weren't 'preyed' upon, they literally advertised themselves. Else the d**kh**ad* wouldn't have known about them. That talk of yours is dangerous and propagates and instills unecessary upset in others who are not capable of rational thought of their own.
It's sad that so many women were so lonely that they trusted anyone they thought would give them love. Men are the same way. Belle Gunness from near where I'm from was the same way; promised men of love and a home and then killed them. What's even sadder is that there are still people who do the same thing in today's world. Everybody wants someone to love them.
Looking for this comment, knew someone would. And I would be tempted to head on down to Goodwill and find a pretty dress and answer it myself. Of course the part of never being seen again...... no thanks.
I laughed cause... same. If you didn't know a murderer was behind that ad, it seems very promising for a decent husband and financial security in a time when women weren't allowed to work as much as men.
Some of those photos are so curiously (almost comically) posed. Especially the one of two people pointing at him accusingly. I wonder how often the press set the scene like this back then.
Me too, I lived in an old house a while back. Had what turned out to be a dead mouse stuck under the floorboards. The unmistakable pong was awful. Can't begin to imagine the smell from a decomposing human 😮
The smell of something dead in between two floors once made kept us from living there for a week, once. If a small critter can be that bad, I could never imagine what a human decomposing could smell like. Yet there are those stories of people that 'hadn't noticed.'
WOW, to think that loneyhearts ads have such a long history 😮 I knew newspapers and serials had a fairly long history (at least as long as Gutenberg's printing press became handy) 🤔 but it never struck me that want ads would have as long a history. Just goes to prove that even though times, styles, and technology may change -- people are still people.
I know a young man, personally, a police officer who met his 'true love' on Christian mingle or some site. They married and she bled him dry, financially, before he finally divorced her. What's sad is he swears he will never marry again.
Harry Powers certainly seemed to have certain "powers" over women, in spite of Time magazine's most unflattering description of him! An exceptional video.. what a sad and bizarre case.. 😢 Thanks as always, Paul.. 👍
18:21 that is the weirdest "trophy pic" ever. He's posing trying to look hard while the bad guy looks up at him all dreamy luke through two black eyes that the "hard man" gave him. What a pic!
I don't know maybe the arresting officer was about that life, zoom in on his "belly chain" or whatever that thing is called. After closer examination of that still, he might have been gangster asf.
Just as a point of interest, the Movie Night of the Hunter was based on this case. It starred Robert Mitchum and Shelly Winters, and was directed by Charles Laughton. Came out in 1955 and is the only movie Laughton ever directed.
Another intriguing story of evil. The appalling things some people will do for money is beyond comprehension. You are a wonderful storyteller Paul, thank you ❤
Many Thanks Paul, Sorry I've Been Away For A While, I've Missed Out On Several Of Your Videos Due To Mental & Physical Illness. How Are You? I've A Question For You, Can Your Merchandise Sticker Become A Sew On Patch ? I Collect Sew On Patches/Cloth Badges.
Hi Fay-Amie! I'm sorry to hear you've been having a hard time of things. I hope you're on the mend! Our current supplier doesn't offer this service but I don't see why we couldn't have a few made up to give away to our patch collecting / Sewing crew. Stay tuned ☺
The heart wrenching quote came to my mind while I watched this…. It comes from the great movie “The Green Mile “ ( written by Stephen King)- “ He killed them for their love,boss!” Which is one of the most despicable motives one could use.
I live in Fairmont, WV - 15 min from Clarksburg & the same from Quiet Dell! It’s always crazy to me to see stories from WV end up on big channels like yours! 🖤
It's quite scary to find that people can be so gullible and trusting. It still happens today. Call me a cynic but trust should be earned. Thanks Paul, great video as ever.
Thanks Paul for such a well presented and produced true, mainly historical, crime channel. Your channel is my favourite true stories channel. Well done. :)
Modern-day Craigslist, I suppose. People have been killed through it. I can't imagine writing to someone and thinking he's the one! He's perfect (after 2 letters) and then giving him my money, or allowing him to come into my home. These women married the man. He wasn't in their lives for more than a few weeks. I don't care what people say; if you can't truly vet someone, you have no business trusting them.
For me and my ignorant ass Floridian hearing, this guy could read a recipe for fruitcake and I'd be eagerly sitting on the edge of my seat, waiting for the sentence to come out of his mouth, his brogue is that awesome to me!! That being said..... Great stuff as always!! Thank you for all of your hard work and effort put in your videos. Take care
😂 "I want a wife, brainy, beautiful and rich. Student" Compared to the add above "would like the hearthstome of her heart swept and the cobwebs brushed away"
He looks like a "safe man with money" just by his looks I have to say, being a bit over weight (more so then then now) ment money for food ect and safe as in women wouldn't try to steal him
18:23 That’s one friggin weird a$$ photo. Harry Powers laying curled up on his side, looking up at the detective. The detective sitting there with a cigarette in one hand and other on his thigh, with one foot propped up on Harry’s bed, looking off into space, like ‘😏Yeah that’s right, I’m hitting that’. 😂
I've just come across your channel, and I absolutely love your content! I thoroughly look forward to binge-watching all available videos on the channel! 😁
Wow, his real name- Harm. Lol "Harry F. Powers (born Harm Drenth; November 17, 1893 - March 18, 1932) was a Dutch-born American serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia. West Virginia State Penitentiary, Moundsville, West Virginia, U.S."
Emigrated Dutch people often changed their names, because English speakers are notoriously bad at properly pronouncing foreign wordsand names. My great-grandmother’s brother Douwe became Donald in the US. They kept the family name De Bruin but it’s spelled Debruin now.
@@kellydalstok8900oh I think everyone knows that. I wasn't talking about him changing his name. I was talking about his or name and what it means... "Harm"! He took it to heart!! Many of my relatives have names that have been changed when they came over, some due to being illiterate but those writing the names either couldn't understand or were poor spellers, some because they didn't want to sound as Irish, and and like German names, the letters "V" and "W" weren't pronounced as expected so their name gets changed that way I.e. Wentz to Vance. Lol
Great narration Paul ❤ i know another story of two people that were also murderers of lonely women from rhe the lonely hearts club but i can't remember their names now
14:55 It amazes me that everyone in this photo seems to be smiling like they're a bunch of old acquaintances meeting up to have a good time. I can imagine law enforcement 'being so careless he could fall down the stairs' if the man kept this smile on his face. What always makes me sad is how killers and other criminals get all the attention while the normal people that fell victim to them are only known in the context of the crime. They don't get videos made or books written about their mundane lives and what they meant to family and friends. They don't get a page on Wikipedia. I get it, I truly do, and I too am of course interested in the monsters rather than the people that resemble me more (thank goodness). It just makes me sad that it has to be this way.
Didn't Luella think her husband's construction project for a vegetable store was rather odd ( and expensive) ? Hard to believe she wouldn't have had a rummage through his trunk full of love letters that he kept at their home when he was off on " business". Makes me wonder if it was a joint money making enterprise similar to the Lonely Hearts killers, Beck or Hernandez? Or the Brides in the Bath murderer's wife who wasn't directly involved in the entrapment and murders but received and sold on the victims' possessions.
I think I understand why a guy that looked like Harry was considered "irresistible." He was active during the years between World War 1 and World War 2 and from the surnames of his victims it looks like he preyed on women of German Heritage with very German names and features/appearance. Most of the English Speaking world after World War 1 shunned anything German. Hence affluent people with Germanic surnames changing their name to something more Angloised. The Royal Family became the House of Windsor, there is the unverified claimed that the Trump family changed their name from Drumpf after WW1 (but there are also claims the change from Drumpf to Trump happened way back in the 17th century), and why a lot of names like Oches, Schwartz, and Muller vanish from the American census after WW1 and again after WW2 to be replaced with Oak, Black, and Miller. Even my own grandparents consider a name change when they arrived in Canada after WW2 but since the name was Romanian and not German (even though both grandparents were German) they kept it. But my great aunt (my grandfather's sister) did end up changing her first name from Gertrude to Susan for that reason, while my grandmother who was also called Gertrude just shortened it to Trudy. Actually if I look at my great aunts and uncles as examples of this I just noticed a trend that most of them that changed their names to something less German and far more Anglosied where single and still looking to marry, the ones that just shorted their names where married prior to arriving here. I wonder if that had to do with eligibility in the dating pool between 1946 and the 1960s. Huh... I've never really thought about that until now.
What pisses me off is how can Bundy, Manson and men like this get women to throw themselves at them, but single men like me can't get one to look at me twice.
Can you imagine how long it would take to court someone back then? Via mail? Now you can just get drunk and go on an app and see who's close by and go make a mistake
When my father was 16 he did something mildly illegal. At that time in 1958 the police took him in and 'taught him a lesson '. Whatever it was, he never did it again. As Dad said 'it straightened me right out!'.
@@TuckerSP2011 Yeah "real discipline" handed out tends to leave a lasting impression. I was lucky I had a great Stepfather who left an "impression" on me when I was a teen.. and here I am talking about many years later. 😅 He loved me, that's why he did it. 👍
A friend of mine is 26 stone and has good looking women visiting him from the dating sites. I forgot to add he run's his own business and is loaded. I never realised so many women liked that look, it's not the middle bulge you need your socks in it's the one either side that counts
