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The Casanova Killer /// Part 1 /// 398

November 16, 2023 / 52:28

This episode covers the case of Paul John Nolles, a career criminal who escalated from petty crimes to murder after being paroled in 1974. The hosts discuss his violent actions across multiple states, including the abduction and murder of Karen and Dawn Wine in Connecticut.

Nolles, initially incarcerated for kidnapping a police officer, was paroled with strict conditions. He quickly violated these terms, moving to California and attempting to start a relationship with Angela Kovic, who eventually rejected him. This rejection led him back to Florida, where he committed further crimes.

After escaping from jail, Nolles embarked on a crime spree that included the murder of Alice Curtis, a 65-year-old woman, and later, the brutal killings of William Bates and the Johnson couple in Nevada. His method of operation involved befriending victims before attacking them.

The episode highlights Nolles' interactions with various individuals, including a journalist named Sandy Fox, and his chilling confession to his attorney about being a mass murderer. The hosts discuss the psychological aspects of Nolles' behavior and the impact of his crimes.

Listeners are taken through Nolles' journey across the United States, detailing his violent encounters and the eventual investigation that sought to bring him to justice.

TLDR

Paul John Nolles' crime spree escalated from petty theft to multiple murders across several states after his parole in 1974.

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article shortly before 5:00 p.m. October 16th a Dusty White Chevrolet Impala with
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a blue top and Alabama license plates turned into the driveway of a Cape Cod home on flood Street in Marboro
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Connecticut the driver a tall gaunt man with collar length red hair and busy sideburns sat in the the car for several
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seconds watching the rearview mirror and trying to determine if he was being observed then he took assault off
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shotgun from the car floor and stuck it in his waistband under his slacks and sport
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shirt he climbed slowly out of the car his left hand pressing the shotgun barrel against his left thigh discarding
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a half smoked cool in the drive he walked to the house where Karen wine aged 30 5 lived with her two teenage
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daughters the unexpected visitor chose the wine home at random while driving through New
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England marbor is a peaceful town in the heart of Connecticut 12 mil southeast of
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Harford at the time of our story the population is 3,600 residents with no police force a resident state trooper is
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the only law man in marbor Don wine a pretty 15-year-old school girl was doing her homework when
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the doorbell rang she opened the door and the unexpected visitor grinned at her exposing teeth stained Yellow by
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cigarettes he inquired if her mother was home she said no he asked if her father was in and she
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said he didn't live there anymore suddenly the unexpected VIs visitor lunged forward pushing the girl
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back into the house he followed her inside and closed the door he jerked the shotgun from his pants leg and took her
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upstairs to her bedroom where he stripped and sexually abused her all the time smiling and promising not to hurt
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her Don's mother a practical nurse came home from her Hospital job about 6:00 she saw the car in the driveway and
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she entered the house later both Karen and Dawn were found bound raped and strangled their killer was long gone and
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nowhere in sight this is the case of the Casanova [Music] killer [Music] early 1974 sitting in a Florida State Prison
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is 27 soon to be 28-year-old Paul John nolles he has been wasting away for several years now after he was
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incarcerated for kidnapping a police officer a serious offense is isn't that right there Captain yeah I don't think
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they should let kids be police officers well when one thinks of someone to abduct an officer of the law doesn't
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really come to mind it's not your typical victim but one thing I want to point out before we move on and so we
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all have an understanding of who Paul JN nolles is he is a career criminal he has
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been committing crimes most of his life by this point he's only 27 almost 28 years old and during the commission of
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some smaller crimes he finds himself committing larger crimes to not get caught so yeah according to a tiny
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little article that I found in the Orlando Sentinel titled kidnapper sentenced Paul John nolles was just 18
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years old at the time he was sentenced in Jacksonville Florida to 5 years in prison for kidnapping a policeman at
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gunpoint nolles plad guilty to this charge but here we are Captain he was sentenced to 5 years but now it's been
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over 9 years and he's still sitting in prison how does that work out well they used to have a Furlow program in in
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Florida and the way that that worked was after you served a good amount of time you would get privileges such as the
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ability to leave the prison to go out on an overnight stay or maybe even a weekend stay somewhere this normally
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when you're at the end of your prison sent trying to reintegrate you into society where they're going to be forced
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to release you into at some point yeah I just think that's one of the dumbest things I've heard well the way that he
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ends up getting in trouble is he goes out but doesn't come back in imagine that and I'm sure this was probably a
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pretty common problem that they faced and that's why you don't see these types of programs as much anymore most of the
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time now we have jails that have like work release and things like that well while in prison nolles was reading
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an astrology magazine and came across a penp pal column he finds the address for
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a young woman in California this is 28-year-old Angela kovic in some Publications she is listed as Angela
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Samuels or Angela Samuels kovic so for sake of argument I'll just go forward with Angela kovic I think Captain she
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was coming out of a divorce around the same time so whatever name the publication used at the time was
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probably whatever name she told them now Angela is a attractive cocktail waitress
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out in San Francisco her parents own the nightclub that she works at so she's got
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access to a little Peola noes is a Taurus and Angela is a Leo and because they're both fans of astrology and read
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this astrology magazine that seems to be important to them noes tells Angela that
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she is his number one Yiddish Angel and Angela calls noes PJ after quite some time corresponding Angela makes
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arrangements for nolles to get an attorney she wants to help him out you know we got to get this guy out of
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prison at some point to forward our relationship the attorney is there to help him with his parole on May 14th
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Paul John nolles is paroled by the board down in Florida but there are as always
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conditions of course he is not to be in Florida I always love when they throw this condition out there we our state
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will parole you but we don't really want you to stay here but you need to leave I
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think a lot of that is not so much get out of our state it's more so this person hired you an attorney this person
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we've worked with them to make arrangements to keep you busy once you're out you know you have a place to
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stay maybe a place of employment go be there and do the right things one of the stipulations was for him to not kidnap
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any more police officers well he's immediately going to go to California and find employment Angela was the one
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that secured PJ a job with a billboard company his job would be painting Signs Now nolles found himself finally a free
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man and in the big state of California where he planned to marry the woman who was responsible for his new found
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freedom and so PJ NES gave Angela a ring Angela was seeking some guidance let's say things were moving way too fast for
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this young woman this man you know he's a petty Thief he's an abductor the parole e is he the man that she is meant
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to be with to spend her life with so Angela took her question question s to a spiritualist someone she often found
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value in the opinion of the spiritualist studied the ring and this was the ring that Paul John nolles gave to her and
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with a little bit of a warning you know she's offering up a warning she says to Angela that there is a very dangerous
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man that has just entered your life without naming names Angela is pretty certain that she is talking about Paul
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John nolles yeah now Captain depending on which newspaper story you read well that changes if Angela heeded the
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warning of her spiritual list or not some say this was one of the few occasions where Angela disregarded the
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advice of her spiritualist others say it was the driving force for what was to be well
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it's we have a background of PJ so we we know what he's capable of so that makes
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the spiritualist sound more credible but I think anybody uh whether you believe in that stuff or not if somebody just
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entered your life whether you knew their history or not and somebody said to you
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there's a very dangerous person that dis entered your life I mean my ears would perk up right right well regardless of
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which version is actually correct Paul John nolles was not the man for for Angela kovic or at least she will say
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this for now she said she enjoyed n's company he was spiritual believed in God and the afterlife he was smart and had
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an interesting sense of humor but he was just not for her the two spent four days
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together and regardless of n's stipulation of his parole that he find and maintain employment he never showed
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up not once for the job at the sign company that Angela had secured for him so Angela sent him packing after these 4
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days he's you know he gone and captain since we both know how much nolles enjoys following the
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rules well where do you think he ended up well there's a part of me that's feeling a little bit bad for him right
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now because he he basically shows up and once he gets there she's like H you ugly I don't know if it's so much
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that I mean she's being warned by the spiritualist and she secured a job for him he's there for 4 days he doesn't go
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to the job once this might be this might be the tip that you needed that says hey maybe this
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guy's not going to change his ways or maybe he's not who he says he is right you don't know this guy you've been
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trading letters with him and now he's there staying with you and he's not doing his he's not keeping up his end
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immediately right I'm just just saying that this is the version of now with social media people meet online they're
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chatting back and forth some you know it gets serious once somebody buys a plane
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ticket once that plane ticket's bought and they arrive in your city they might not
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be they might not look much like the the pictures or or or how they portray themselves online yeah and the thing
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that sucks for Angela here is she hired him an attorney she bought him the plane
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ticket M so she's out some money so as said nolles doesn't care for the rules so of course he ends up right back in
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the Sunshine State good old Florida Now by all accounts which really is just Angela's and nolles but he was
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devastated by the rejection so he returned to Jacksonville Florida he was soon arrested after stabbing a bartender
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during a a fight he was charged with assault and now he's back behind bars this time in a dingy Jacksonville jail
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but ever the career criminal nolles managed to pick the lock on his detention cell and escaped this was in
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Late July 1974 on the night of his Escape nolles finds himself in a situation of his own
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creation where he is on the run and in serious trouble as he has no you know he's so clearly violated his parole and
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likely would be facing some very severe and harsh punishments a lengthy prison sentence that is for sure but not only
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is he on the run if he's going to remain a free man he is in need of tools and Provisions to keep him out the solution
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to this problem he broke into the home of 65-year-old Alice Curtis the tall young and strong fugitive easily
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overcame the defenseless 65-year-old woman he tied her up and gagged her he ransacked her home taking money and
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valuables and then he stole her car this was a white Dodge Dart Alice was a retired school teacher just looking to
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live out her days relaxing in her home and surviving on the nice little life she worked so hard to build for herself
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instead she choked to death on her gag nolles ultimately took so much more that night than just a few dollars from her
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purse and her white Dodge Dart that night he took everything for the month of August nolles remained on the run and
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he did what one would expect to to stay ahead of the law he stole he moved around but one thing that he did not
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have to do was kill but he did it anyway this was his choice he did it because he
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could not because he had to many that crossed his path during this time lived but some did not so PJ Nolls at this
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Point's been on the run for a good month yeah on September 3rd we find our unexpected visitor up north in Yankee
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land and our great state Captain the old oh IO this is at a Roadside Bar and restaurant off of Route 75 4 miles north
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of Lima Ohio this is at the Scots Inn where nolles is likely drinking himself into a nice one night
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coma there he is doing his thing which is drinking and chatting people up he becomes fast friends with a 32-year-old
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William Bates Bates is a regular at the Scots in now Bates and nolles could not be more opposites Bates is a hardworking
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family man man he's got a great job he's an account executive for the Ohio power
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company nolles as we know is a law breaking Man On The Run and his only care seems to be not getting locked up
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and how is he going to get his next meal or tank of gas well I can tell you this Captain old
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PJ nolles the unexpected visitor ever the opportunist he just spotted his meal ticket and that was William Bates mhm
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the bartender would later say that both Bates and an unknown male who the bartender described as a young redheaded
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man had several drinks together that evening and left about the same time bates's wife would later report him
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missing and police very quickly realized that Not only was Bates gone but his vehicle a white Chevy Impala was missing
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as well well it kind of sounds like a guy that goes to a bar often and was sitting at that bar chatting up with
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people and thought hey maybe this isn't the life that I want to live I'm out of here I'm out of Dodge that's where my
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mind goes too and I think that's where a lot of people's minds would go it's weird the contrast between a missing man
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and a missing woman with a missing woman you you fear the worst with a man in his
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early 30s who has a good job and a family and his car is gone on top of that that's where you kind of go well
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maybe he just maybe he just hit the road well and we know that he's probably a target for PJ because this is part of
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his Mo if I might not take you with me but I need a ride I need gas I need supplies yeah well he exactly he needs a
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way of staying out on the Run he needs Provisions to keep this journey of his going along mind you he didn't just
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into Lima Ohio he drove that poor dead woman's stolen vehicle all the way up to Ohio and he's been driving around for
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some time now and this is a very very dangerous man the the thing I think of immediately Captain is that old doors
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song where the the line is there's a killer on the road yeah that line makes me think of several others but but very
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much so Paul John nolles well there something about if you Google Paul John noes something rock and roll to him he
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he almost looks like he could be the singer of The Doors I don't know that they cut your hair for you when you're
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in uh Florida State Prison this takes us to September we are now at September 19th
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1974 on that day the Reno Evening Gazette reported the following with a headline about halfway down page one
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that read couple found slain near Eli the article reads about a vacationing couple who were found shot to death late
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that morning in a camper south of Eli Nevada an autopsy was ordered but it appeared both were shot in the temple
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with a small caliber gun no gun was found at the scene the victims were identified as EMT Johnson and his wife
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Lois both in their 60s the bodies were discovered at the Lake Valley Summit rest stop the bodies were in the pickup
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camper Lois was Ned and found under a removable table and EMT was dressed the Sheriff's Office reported no leads but
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[Music] all right we're back cheers mates cheers captain now I was Googling PJ NS hey we don't need to know
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everything that you do and uh he kind of reminds me of Eric staltz yeah you said
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that to me and that makes total total complete sense back when staltz was a young strapping young lad yeah well our
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unexpected visitor Captain he went on to visit both the state of Texas and the state of Alabama in Texas he took
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advantage of a stranded motorist whom he abducted raped and murdered in Alabama he killed a
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beautician then in October we have the double homicide that we covered in the trailer to this episode that was the
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double homicide of mother and daughter Karen and Dawn wine all the way up in Connecticut so when you picture a road
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map of this big beautiful country think about what we've covered so far a man who went from Florida we know he went up
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to Ohio then out to Nevada then Texas Alabama and Connecticut this guy is all over the shop right and to get there we
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we believe he's traveling by car so all those connecting States as well correct and we'll go
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into the details of how we know where he is and and and whereabouts in the timeline as well that is really key to
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that but something else that is of major importance to our case this takes place
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on October 4th this is one of those things that at the time of this event it's a bit of a head scratcher but it
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all makes so much sense later when we are able to see the big picture so on October 4th back up in Ohio in a motel
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parking lot police discover an abandoned vehicle this is a Dodge Dart now remember this is the vehicle the one
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that is missing from Jacksonville Florida belonging to the unsolved murder victim Alice Curtis
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so now the sheriff's department up in Li Ohio have a missing man and his vehicle
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is missing as well note that's from a month back and now we have an abandoned vehicle from out of state that belongs
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to a murder victim now if you're the sheriff's department if you are this man's wife and his family and co-workers
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you're starting to go does this abandoned vehicle that belongs to an unsolved murder victim down in Florida
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does that have anything to do with this missing man and his missing vehicle it seems like quite the
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coincidence throughout October nolles continued to travel driving the highways and likely killing along the way he does
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have a close encounter with police when he is pulled over for a minor traffic infraction and of course the officer
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just didn't know who he was dealing with so he let nolles go with a warning nolles decides to reach out to his
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attorney and sets up a meeting this meeting will be a strange one Captain they meet for a couple of drinks halfway
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through the first drink nolles tells his attorney and I believe this is according
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to the attorney don't run away but I'm a mass murderer you're having drinks with your
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client with somebody you think that you know now his attorney is no idiot he knows that that nolles is not a great
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guy that he's broke the law I mean he's represented him so he could become a parole Le mhm but the shocking statement
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of don't run away but I'm a mass murderer you got to wonder if you're the other guy do you is your first reaction
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is this guy joking or do you know him well enough immediately that you're going holy snap this is serious well on
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top of that he's telling you all this stuff and what if he changes his mind at the end of the conversation do you
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become victim well and I love these old cases because I love to go back and take
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a look at how things have evolved throughout the decades and we're we are talking decades
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ago and Paul says to his attorney I'm a mass murderer well I mean you see the uh
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how investigation and just terminology alone has changed throughout the years this is before people were using the
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term serial killer right this is before any they really even coined that phrase so we have him describing himself as a
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mass murderer which today we would describe a mass murderer as somebody who walks into a single situation and takes
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out as many people as they possibly can Paul NES is a serial killer in every sense of the word that we know now but
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he doesn't know any better back then and he says hey I'm a mass murder well I would kind of actually argue with that
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terminology because we we know that he's on the Run from law enforcement and his his murders we don't
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know if there was murders before his incarceration so he he almost sounds like a spree murderer to me yeah more of
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a spree killer let's get back into it nolles tells his attorney hey by the way I'm a mass murderer well this also kind
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of reminds me of the movie American Psycho at the end where he calls I believe his the name is Patrick baitman
00:34:58
and he calls his lawyer and starts confessing to all these crimes you were mentioning Google a minute ago and now
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you bring up American Psycho Google sometime on on your own time not on garage time right now Google
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sometime uh huie Lewis and I believe it's Weird Al Yankovic they do a scene they recreate a
00:35:21
scene from American Psycho yeah it's like a parody yeah it's it's brilliant okay anyway I apologize for we went down
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a road there nolles tells his attorney by the way I'm a mass murderer he wants to tell his attorney in detail who he is
00:35:38
killed where and why noes is of the belief that he that either one of two things is going to happen either the law
00:35:46
will catch up with him and he will be locked up and executed for his crimes or he's going to get killed in the process
00:35:54
of being apprehended either way he wanted a record of everything or at least the
00:36:00
stuff he was willing to admit to so that his family could profit from his murder
00:36:05
spree via a book and movie deal after his death or once he's Behind Bars thoughtful guy huh his attorney is a
00:36:15
pretty smart dude he says don't tell me anything stop close your mouth finish your drink don't tell me anything I
00:36:23
don't want to know anything because if you do tell me all about this then according to what you just told me only
00:36:32
two people will know your secret me and you and one day you may wake up and decide you only want to have one person
00:36:43
know this secret and you'll come and find me and you will kill me right so therefore I'm Paul this is between y all
00:36:51
he don't want to know anything he tells nolles you should write it all down or record your story on
00:37:03
cassettes and then if you like you can you know seal it up and give it to me and I'll save it for later if you do get
00:37:10
picked up and put away in prison or executed or or killed in the process of suicide by cop yeah well we also have
00:37:19
the situation too where nolles told the attorney that it was his idea he wanted to go out in the BL of Glory he wanted
00:37:28
to you know a gunfight shots fired he wanted to go out in the blaze of glory a lot of this to me Captain seems like
00:37:39
there was a bit of an obsession on noll's part in regards to like Bonnie and Clyde you know people who traveled on
00:37:48
the run in this country hitting the highways and killing along the way doing whatever it took to stay free they
00:37:56
weren't going to be locked up you were going to have to you're going to have to kill them you'll never take them alive
00:38:01
kind of situation all of what the attorney suggest write it down or record your story on cazette that is exactly
00:38:11
what happens here Captain they had this meeting on October 24th two days later on October 26th
00:38:19
nolles delivers a sealed envelope with a cassette multiple cassettes inside to his attorney and they on this visit
00:38:28
discussed nothing we should note that the attorney did advise nolles to turn himself in but unfortunately we know
00:38:35
that did not happen then there was a double homicide on November 6th in milleville Georgia detectives did the
00:38:43
best that they could to try to piece everything together 11 alive is a website they did
00:38:50
some cool videos on the nolles case and I really recommend watching these they did an interview with retired
00:38:59
investigator James Josie who worked the double homicide investigation according to reports when
00:39:06
police got there it is said that the place looked like the whole house had been attacked by some kind of and this
00:39:13
is a quote a giant beast from a horror movie Furniture had been overthrown and smashed mirrors were shattered items
00:39:24
were thrown all over the house curtains and upholstery slashed and cut up Mrs Carr was a nurse working a double shift
00:39:35
when she came home she found her husband and daughter dead as said the detective piecing this
00:39:42
thing together the Wikipedia page says no's befriended Carswell Carr he's the husband and father the victim and
00:39:51
invited nolles back to Carr's house to spend the night and then over Dr drinks he stabbed Carr to death and then
00:39:58
strangled Carr's 15-year-old daughter detective Josie who worked the case says look when you ask us what
00:40:08
happened either nolles followed Carswell car home and snuck in or he was invited
00:40:16
back to the house by the victim Josie points out that unfortunately during their
00:40:22
investigation because nolles killed everybody in the house there was no one left ask right the question of how did
00:40:29
this guy end up back at the house but this was a a vicious vicious attack Josie thinks somehow nolles got into the
00:40:37
house again it could be snuck in or invited in but at some point nolles gets a hold of a pair of scissors and stabs
00:40:44
Carswell to death and like I said this was a vicious attack he stabbed the victim almost a countless number of
00:40:52
times and with such force that the tips of the scissors broke off in the victim Josie thinks Carswell would have
00:41:02
obviously been screaming and yelling during the attack and he believes that that would be what woke up the teenage
00:41:09
daughter he says that in his opinion in his expert detective opinion he does not
00:41:15
think that nolles likely knew that the daughter was there or that anybody else was in the house mhm so the screaming
00:41:23
the attack wakes up the daughter she comes down to figure out what's going on noes sees the daughter and then chases
00:41:31
after her she runs back to her bedroom shuts the door locks it and tries to barricade herself in there noes again
00:41:41
the detectives words the reporter's words the home looked like it was attacked by some kind of giant beast
00:41:47
from a horror film nolles manages to bust through the door he strangles the daughter and and it's believed after
00:41:57
murdering her that he attempted to engage in some kind of necrofilia with the victim well this
00:42:04
reminds me of like the rage with Bundy and right and this almost like um morphine from a actual possibly Charming
00:42:16
individual to a vicious animal and that's why that picture of Bundy from from court is such a popular
00:42:26
and well recognized picture the one where he's getting ready to just slam his hand on the on the table because
00:42:35
everybody in the courtroom was saying hey here you have this very neat well-kept groomed well-groomed guy who
00:42:43
seems to be smart in representing himself at trial seems to have it all put together and then boom in that
00:42:52
second for that instance right there everyone in the court recognized and noticed and saw what was really behind
00:43:01
the eyes behind the skin once you peel that layer back underneath there was a monster and once he's out he he he is
00:43:09
uncontrollable pay no attention to the man behind the curtain So eventually nolles is going to flee this scene right
00:43:16
but not before stealing jewelry and whatever other valubles he can find now not too long after these murders a store
00:43:25
clerk reported to police that a tall red-haired man matching n's description was making
00:43:33
purchases with Carswell cars credit card so police pretty early on have a good idea who they're looking for this guy is
00:43:44
on the run and we believe that we can track him and Trail him through the vehicles that he is stealing and then
00:43:52
leaving along the way and he's also using victims credit cards and some of their stolen property and stolen money
00:44:01
to buy him things like gas and and food and cigarettes and so forth while he's out running all over the map MH also
00:44:10
that month nolles picked up some hitchhikers this was Edward Hillyard and Debbie
00:44:16
Griffin Edward was eventually found dead in some woods and Debbie is believed to
00:44:21
have been killed by nolles as well unfortunately to this day over 40 years later her body has never been recovered
00:44:32
another interesting little stop along the way in our story and timeline here Captain is noes as said he doesn't kill
00:44:42
everyone he comes across in fact some people he befriends them and becomes friends with them and one person the
00:44:51
story goes like this while bar hopping in Atlanta Georgia on November 8th Paul John nolles met British journalist Sandy
00:45:01
Fox impressing her with his looks which she says and I think this is quite the stretch MH but whatever maybe I'm just
00:45:13
jealous but she says his look yeah I'm real jealous she says that his looks were a cross between Robert Redford and
00:45:22
Ryan O'Neal I could see that that's top shelf right there top shelf for a redhe head yeah so
00:45:30
they spent the night together she was sitting at the bar by herself now mind you she's in a different she's in a
00:45:38
foreign country she's over here working uh she was on assignment and I believe originally she was on assignment in New
00:45:46
York maybe for the times and whatever that didn't work out or they sent her down to Georgia on a different
00:45:53
assignment somehow she ends up in Georgia by herself at this bar the way she describes it is she was kind of
00:46:01
checking out nolles from afar he's sitting there drinking and she thinks that he must have caught her checking
00:46:09
him out and at some point he makes his way over starts talking her up now one thing I will say that does seem to be
00:46:17
quite Charming about this n's character is that at least two women Fox included said that nolles would be quick
00:46:28
to ask a woman to dance which is which is kind of a lost thing people don't men don't do that so
00:46:35
much anymore I don't even know that they did that a whole lot back in the 70s but
00:46:39
no the the bar that she described to in her book is not described as like a dance club or anything like that it
00:46:46
really sounds to me like it's the hotel lobby bar a lot of businessmen and people sitting around after work
00:46:53
drinking and she catches his eye he comes over chats with her for a while and eventually that leads to him asking
00:47:01
her to dance she said that they spent the night together now as said I said her book she went on to write two books
00:47:11
about her experience with Paul John nolles and one of them's called killing time I've read Killing Time it's a great
00:47:19
True Crime book I love the old ones this one was from 1977 in the book what's what's funny to
00:47:26
me though I've I've never read one of those um romance novels that have the risque covers you know with a lot of
00:47:36
Flesh on the on the cover but I can only imagine how they read a portion of her book Killing Time reads a like a very
00:47:45
graphic love making scenes little sex well she says SE up in here she says he was unable to perform H so not much sex
00:47:57
a lot of buildup and no no real ability to seal the deal let's say yeah I'm Bad Boys Captain limpy pants so that's
00:48:07
always brought up some questions about nolles one she says look push the psychology
00:48:15
aside the nights that she hung out with nolles he was drinking a lot mhm and she
00:48:21
said that in her experience throughout life she had seen many a good time go down the throats of men who are just
00:48:31
drinking and drinking and drinking I don't know if that's the right terminology well I thought her book's
00:48:36
well written and I like I like the way she phrased some things so if you push psychology aside that's a excellent
00:48:43
explanation but then you take the psychology back into it and you have to wonder and we've seen this with other
00:48:51
serial killers we've seen this with rapist serial rapist where sometimes these men are not able to perform with a
00:49:00
willing participant right and we do know that there was suspicion about possible
00:49:05
necrophilia with the victim that we spoke about earlier M well again if if sex is the motivation for these crimes
00:49:14
or these murders then we know that this individual is probably desensitized uh to say the least it
00:49:21
seems weird to me because I feel like we're in a in one of those odd situations look with serial killers and
00:49:29
sex and fantasy and violence are kind of all really wrapped up into one for a lot
00:49:34
of these guys I don't think that that's too far off here from Paul johnon NOS but I I feel like that's not the single
00:49:43
motivating factor for these murders I almost feel like what you pointed out earlier the Spree killer the guy on the
00:49:50
run I think that is more of the appeal for this guy that seems to to be what he's into he likes the The Thrill of the
00:49:59
kill he likes the thrill of meeting a victim and he likes taking whatever he decides to take from
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  • True Crime Garage Introduction
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  • The Casanova Killer
    The unexpected visitor chose the Wine home at random, leading to a tragic crime.
    “This is the case of the Casanova killer.”
    @ 07m 21s
    November 16, 2023
  • A Chilling Confession
    During a meeting with his attorney, Nolles chillingly admits, "Don't run away but I'm a mass murderer."
    “Don't run away but I'm a mass murderer.”
    @ 32m 43s
    November 16, 2023
  • Blaze of Glory
    Nolles expresses his wish to go out in a blaze of glory, reminiscent of infamous criminals.
    “He wanted to go out in a blaze of glory.”
    @ 37m 28s
    November 16, 2023
  • A Vicious Attack
    Detectives describe a double homicide scene as looking like it was attacked by a giant beast.
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Episode Quotes

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  • There's a very dangerous man that has just entered your life.
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  • Life is short and relationships are so very important.
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  • Don't run away but I'm a mass murderer.
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  • Gamechangers in Learning00:42
  • Casanova Killer07:21
  • Dangerous Man Enters Life13:22
  • Chilling Confession32:43
  • Blaze of Glory37:28
  • Mental Health50:20
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