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Howard Stern's convo with a serial killer is just chilling, years later

This is so interesting. Have you ever seen it? My friend Jason just sent me the link. The story of a serial killer, straight from the horse's mouth (if he is to believed). His firsthand perspective. It's very revealing, and chilling enough to be a fitting post for Halloween. Like both of the serials I've researched, John Eric Armstrong and Benjamin Atkins, this unnamed killer -- suspected of being the perp behind a string of New Orleans murders in 1991-1996 -- targeted prostitutes. He says in this 1997 call to into Howard Stern's live talk show that he wasn't abused as a child. He says he didn't start out as a youngster killing animals, that he had only ever killed a rat that got into his workplace. He didn't wet the bed as a kid but did start fires, he says. He holds down what is likely a regular job. He has two kids but is not "married to the mother." That's a couple more traits he shares with Armstrong, in addition to the fact that this (cal...

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