This Netflix true-crime doc looks into Henry Lee Lucas, known as one of America's most prolific serial killers, who admitted to hundreds of murders. He had specifics about the victims apartment,WCCO-TV reporter Caroline Lowetold Mark of a Killer., When investigators looked back at the evidence and examined Greenings address book, they found Paul S.alongwith his phone number. Founded in 2010, Thought Catalog is owned and operated by The Thought & Expression Company, Inc. For over a decade, we've been at the bleeding edge of media, pioneering an infrastructure for creatives to flourish both artistically and financially. On the 21st of July, 1982, 33-year-old Kathleen Greening from St. Paul was scheduled to go on a vacation to Mackinac Island with her best friend, Carol Kellogg. Brown said. He even mentioned that he killed one more woman no one ever pinned on him. Paul Michael Stephani (September 8, 1944 June 12, 1998) was an American serial killer. Karen Potack is on Facebook. Morbid: The Weepy Voiced Killer on Apple Podcasts Id rather kill myself than get locked up. They had been hacked to death with a hatchet. He couldnt give any details on who the woman was, although he did remember that he drowned her in a bathtub. His mother remarried when he was three years old, giving him a stepfather who was known to beat his stepchildren and sometimes throw them down the stairs. the weepy voiced killer on We Heart It One difference in this case was that Stephani never called in about this crime, like in his other crimes. Shes dying! He himself didnt understand why he would pick someone up at a restaurant, and 15 minutes later would stab them. The man attempted to intervene, but the suspect threatened him and then fled the scene in his car. In 1980 on New Year's Eve Paul Michael Stephani brutally attacked Karen Potack after abducting her from outside of a bar. We never had quite enough evidence to get him charged, said Lt. Joe Corcoran of the St. Paul Police Department.3, In 1997, however, Stephani confessed to the murder of Kim Compton after finding out that he had cancer and had less than a year to live. Some believed it was just a sadistic form of clout Stephani was trying to gain, but he was able to give details only the killer wouldve known like the details in her apartment during the crime. Stephani died of cancer on June 12, 1988. Simons was found floating in the Mississippi River with circular stab wounds littering her body. While investigating his background, Det. Also Read: 'Making a Murderer' Lawyers to Host New True-Crime Podcast About Wrongful Convictions. Years later, after being diagnosed with skin cancer, Stephani confessed to the murder of Kimberly Compton and the attempted murder of Karen Potack, plus a third victim, the unsolved drowning of Kathy Greening; investigators soon found Greening's address book, which included the name "Paul S." and a telephone number belonging to Stephani. Karen Potack was Stephani's first victim who survived severe wounds and brain injury in 1980. I dont know why I had to stab her Im so upset about it, the caller said. [4] His fourth victim (and last murder victim) was Barbara Simons, a 40-year-old nurse on the Minneapolis side of the Mississippi River.