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Mar 2021
1h 11m

Pure Evil - A Serial Killer's Story

TRUE CRIME AUSTRALIA
About this episode
Season 3 of I Catch Killers will publish in early April. Before then we've got some bonus episodes for you. In Part 2 with Duncan McNab, we are taken on a journey of murder and torture where Wilder goes on a murderous rampage across the United States before being gunned down in a shoot out with police. At the time of his death Wilder was responsible for murdering 9 women.

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