The Oklahoma City Butcher + Elmer McCurdy

Wild Society: True Crime Podcast

Welcome to the fourth episode of Wild Society!

In April of 1976, three men wandered into an abandoned building in the middle of Oklahoma City. Soon after, they would discover it was a house full of horrors. Inside were the remains of a young woman - the first known victim of the Oklahoma City Butcher. It was the beginning of a murder spree that would target Native American women over the span of 10 years.
In part two of this episode we hear about Elmer McCurdy, a plumber turned train robber. He became a carnival attraction after his body was mummified from the use of arsenic during the embalming process. What happened to his body after the embalming is something straight out of horror movies and completely bizarre.
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Oklahoma City Butcher Sources:

• Red Dirt Report
• Vocal Criminal
• Justice for Native Women
• The Oklahoman
• The Oklahoman
• Websleuths
• Reddit
• Her Last Run

Elmer McCurdy Sources:

• Wikipedia
• The New York Times
• National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum
• New England Historical Society
• The Human Marvels
• Notes From the Frontier

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