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The Bloody Story Of The Harpe Brothers, The First Documented Serial Killers In American History
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And at the end of the 1790s, the young country even experienced its first serial killers: the Harpe brothers.
Between 1797 and 1799, Micajah Harpe “Big Harpe” and Wiley Harpe “Little Harpe” killed at least 39 people along the edge of the western frontier.
This is the grisly story of the Harpe brothers, the first documented serial killers in American history.
“This was too much for their companions,” Wallace Edwards wrote in America’s First Serial Killers: A Biography of the Harpe Brothers.
After learning about the Harpe brothers, the first documented serial killers in United States history, discover the identity of the deadliest serial killer ever.