Serial Killer Search - Poteau, Oklahoma
🕑 Added 2025-10-23 01:00:00 +0000 UTCThis week, in Poteau, Oklahoma, when murders begin happening, all over the area, including an older man, several women, and a popular local newscaster , it isn't clear if they're connected, at first. This all quickly turns into a frantic search for a serial killer, while he's actively taking more victims, on a near daily basis. When they finally find him, he has a lot to say, and all of it is crazy, including detailed confessions of all the crimes!
Along the way, we find out that hot air balloons & barbeque apparently go hand in hand, that you can't just keep someone in a mental institution, forever, and that some people seem to decide to kill, or not, completely at random!!
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Cher Strong (#localweedia)
<3
Braylen
Congratulations James on perfect pronunciation for all of the towns in Oklahoma.
Charles Jewell
This could be a family member of mine, the Jewell side is from around that area. Edit: My grandmother used to do all that Ancestry genealogy before she passed and now I know why she stopped researching that part of our Family Tree. Par for the course in a family that includes a Hitman for Al Capone.
Julie Slama
Yeah, it’s getting frustrating.
Julie Slama
I keep waiting for this episode to become ad-free, and it keeps not happening.
lauren handrahan
I don't understand why there are ads on Patreon? Don't we pay to avoid them?
Erika Fultz
I love listening to two grown ass men become 12 year olds for a moment when talking about getting to ride in monster trucks!! 😁
Cheyanne Duffany
This one was WILDDDD
Tony Legg
James nailing all those Oklahoma place names 👍
Benjamin Fleming
Just saying, if we got a whataburger near our town, I'd lose my mind. I love whataburger.
Jim Dolen
Amazing that a human is capable of these crimes. Great job as always telling the story.
Brooke Cale
Did you say “Blayden??” Out loud like I did? 🤣🤣
Shannon Cooper
How do you have an 87 car in 1984? I’m really asking
Alicia C
I’ll never forget the time my ‘84 Buick Regal Limited was stolen from the Sawgrass Mills Mall to commit a bank robbery nearby. The Club was under my driver’s seat the whole time. I always wonder if it would’ve deterred them. Either way, the bank robbers returned my car to Sawgrass Mills Theater parking lot and stole another getaway car. My dad was so pissed.
Laurie Blair
You even nailed the pronunciation of Terrell TX, home of Terrell State Hospital. Now it’s a decent facility full of hard working and caring nurses and doctors who care for the mentally ill. In the 80s it was a nightmare, and had been for decades (like most of the mental health facilities across the nation). Right now a brand new hospital is being built on the campus and will have the latest in tech and safety for the patients and the staff. They still send those deemed criminally insane in Texas to TSH. One of the more recent cases was Dena Schlosser, the Plano woman who killed her 10 month old daughter and chopped off that baby’s arms because “demons.”
Lurkielounomore
How was Jane K. Hilburn driving a 1987 Camaro in 1984?!?!?!? My brain won’t let this go 🤣 I just know Jimmy was going to ask the question my brain was screaming but NO! And then James went on to make the same assertion throughout the story. I haven’t slept since listening to
Destiny Scott
I’m having the same issue! I finally got a few minutes into this one yesterday but had to stop and now it won’t play again. The episodes of STM that I’ve already finished will play. Same issue on Amazon & my Patreon is not connected to it (different emails). No issues with CIN and YSO. Not mad at the guys, but what is going on??
Michaelyn Findley
This episode just proves if someone has a knife I’d rather scream and let you stab me than go anywhere with you.
Margaret E Bounsavy
Lol, I had an Aunt that lived "technically" in Jenks, but actually Supulpa, and she told me a long drawn out story about Supulpa and the post master 🤣
Margaret E Bounsavy
I live in AR and have a squeegee I keep in my car, best $10 I've ever spent, just for this purpose!! Used to use microfiber towels and got tired of washing them 😆
Margaret E Bounsavy
Lol...Figure Five!!! That's in AR on 59, just north of Van Buren, where my hubby is from!!! Went to a baby shower at the Figure Five volunteer fire dept hall!! I'm from Morrow (Lincoln), when we'd drive to Fort Smith, it was easier to take AR 59 (back before I540/I49 existed and was just the ByPass..iykyk) ...been to all those little towns, Dutch Mills, Evansville, Cedarville, Natural Dam
Erin Taylor
I’m from Tulsa and James got the town names right!! Owasso, Vinita, Sapulpa… Hell yeah! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Zach Hollander
Wooooooooooooooooo
Dalene Antionette Kruger
How are you single jimmy?????????
Amy Sousa
I am a 61 year old, and Jimmie you absolutely made my day when you referred to 63 year old Eddie as “a young old man.” In your own iconic words, “Hell yeah!” 😂🤍
SamuraiSpiros
Yay indeed Jimmie.
Margaret E Bounsavy
And he got Vinita too!!!
Hayden Powell
You guys are doing great with the town names so far! About 35 mins in!
Margaret E Bounsavy
Lol, right!!! You can literally see Cavanal Hill from anywhere in town 😆 thats about it....lol...except the casino and Walmart 🤣
Margaret E Bounsavy
Lol, came here to say the same!! Hubby's from the River Valley area on the AR side and we still live nearish in NWA. I know James DGAF about pronunciations, but he nailed all these!! Poteau and LeFlore..... haven't listened far enough, but waiting for Pushmataha to make an entrance!!
Hailey Armendariz
i j download a Patreon to buy the five dollar membership to listen to y’all’s episodes and halfway into yawls new episode and it says it keeps saying something’s wrong something’s wrong. Same with all y’all’s podcast on Apple podcast Amazon Music, which I hope I pay for both of those already so the only way I can listen to y’all podcast is on YouTube, which doesn’t help at all cause I don’t pay for YouTube.
Sheri Zylstra
Seems all serial killers blame everything on their childhood! Maybe in this case it’s true! James and Jimmy, as always did a great job! I can always picture the town and the criminals! Love love love this podcast!
Chris Larkum
I'm shocked, SHOCKED! that no one has brought up the fact that THE TALLEST HILL IN THE WORLD is in Poteau Oklahoma
Rainee Courtnage
What A Burger! They are in burger heaven and not much else. .
Adrienne
I love malts! They are actually hard to find. When I order one a a fast food place the kids taking order just look like Jimmie says whaaaa?
Heather Martin
Delusions are thoughts (like thinking you are someone else, that you are being followed, etc.). Hallucinations are senses (seeing, hearing, feeling/touch, tasting, smelling) that are not reality. Hallucinations are not "the definition of delusional".
Bekki
OMG…my dad sent me to Beggs during my freshman year in high school! Coming in from Portland, Oregon was wild!
Zachary Leatherwood
What’s up Turkeys? Loving the gruesomely awesome content & Keeping it ice free! hoping you all are too🤘🏾🤟🏾Rock on Fellas!!!
Grace Luterek
A shake uses milk, a malt includes malt powder.
Sydney
I’m from the area, the names are pronounced correctly. Never heard of this murder, but it happened before I was born. It’s nice (?) to hear about local crimes lol
PadrePaul Ballin
16 years on death row is pretty quick in a 3-hour story. 😆 Great show last Saturday at the Moore Theater! ❤️👍⚾️
Pam Patteson
Oh my goodness I've listened for 5 years and James just said my town's name. I feel seen 🤣. I won't even comment on pronunciation 🤣🤣🤣
Pam Patteson
I live in the area of all these towns and you are nailing these names James 👍 spot on👏👏
Dennis Kelly
That is what I am wondering too
melissa speirs
The guys said Gary was diagnosed with Bipolar. Could be manic. People can go for weeks without sleep. They are often quite high but irascible in mood.
Robin Church
Love the David Lee Roth impersonation!! 😁
Renee
The Dew Towel is a predominantly southern thing. I'm from Texas and I have numerous towels in my car for that very specific reason. 😂
Michelle Hayes
I just moved to Oklahoma in 1984, but we were in the southwest part of the state. I had no idea, as a little kid, that this happened. Great job telling the story.
Amilia Kelly
As someone who lives in Owasso, you nailed it James.
Jon Robinson
How do you you get a 87 Comaro in 84?
Bill Boaz
First we get the terrible name Blaiden; a combo of Blaze/Blade and Aiden. Then we have Eddie Cash (Eddie Money) and Rick Ross. The names in this episode are fantastic.
Liz Rutherford
Yaaaay!!
Tee Dub
Blayden lololol
Connor Watrous
Rough one. Just pure evil for no fucking reason
Felicia Tarnes
We had a blast at the Seattle show!! You need to come to Vancouver Canada 🇨🇦 see you next time
Samantha Boyette
Poteau is where my grandma grew up! Hardly a first class city but whatever. 😂
Jessica Cagnolatti
I got my best girl Brandi (dog) in Poteau!
Mary Sullivan
Great show in Portland; you guys are the best!!