On this episode of Expanded Perspectives Elite the guys talk about Killer Kids. First off is the tale of George Junius Stinney Jr. born October 21, 1929, died June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.Stinney, who was black, was arrested for murdering two white girls, Betty June Binnicker, age 11, and Mary Emma Thames, age 8, in Alcolu, located in Clarendon County, South Carolina, on March 23, 1944. The girls had disappeared while out riding their bicycle looking for flowers. As they passed the Stinney property, they asked young George Stinney and his sister, Katherine, if they knew where to find “maypops”, a type of flower. When the girls did not return, search parties were organized, with hundreds of volunteers, and their bodies were found the next morning in a ditch filled with muddy water. Both had suffered severe head wounds.
Then, Craig Price is a juvenile serial killer from Buttonwoods neighbourhoods of Warwick, Rhode Island. At a minor age of 13 in 1987, Craig Price murdered neighbor Rebecca Spencer, a 27-year-old mother of two, by stabbing her 58 times. Two years later in 1989, Craig Iron Man Price butchered another neighbor Joan Heaton with 63 times and two of her young daughters using the kitchen knives. In a nonchalant, matter-of-fact drawl he described the night of terror in the Heaton home. He told how he bit Heaton’s face as he knifed her. He mimicked the last sounds of the dying girls. Craig Price was sentenced 29 years to the jail during various sentences from 1991 to 2007. He will be sealed in the jail until at least 2020, at the time he will be 46.
Then, Graham Young – The Compulsive Poisoner. The extraordinary story of the Teacup Poisoner, in Broadmoor aged 14 for killing his family; released as a ‘reformed character’; back in for life when his workmates died after drinking the tea Young had made.
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Show Notes:
- George Junius Stinney, Jr. http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/stinney-george.htm
- Craig Price http://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/price-craig.htm
- Graham Young – The Compulsive Poisoner http://murderpedia.org/male.Y/y/young-graham.htm
Music:
All music for Expanded Perspectives Elite is provided by permission from The Black Angels http://theblackangels.com and Pretty Lights http://prettylightsmusic.com
Songs Used:
- Young Men Dead
- Out Of Time
- Where Am I Trying to Go
- At Last I’m Free