Episode 4 - The Third Time’s the Charm
 

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In 2002, a teen aged married couple, Adam and Samantha Chrismer, 17 and 16 years old, were brutally murdered in Johnson City, Tennessee. The man convicted of their murders, Howard Hawk Willis, has been called a serial killer. I agree. His first wife, Nancy Debra Winegar Barr Willis, went missing December 23rd 1986. His stepfather was found dead just days after the married couple. Why? Why did Adam and Samantha marry so young? And why did they have to die?

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Show Notes

Written, hosted and produced by Erica Kelley
Researched by Erica Kelley and Haley Gray
Original Graphic Art by Coley Horner
Edited by: Chaes Gray
Original Music by Rob Harrison of Gamma Radio

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