He Painted Their Trust - Then Stacked His Victims Like A Cross

True Nightmare Stories · Jul 10, 2026 · 19m

He Painted Their Trust - Then Stacked His Victims Like A Cross

A charming drifter painted a mural at a school for the deaf and blind and, within three months, five people who welcomed him were dead. The killer arranged three of the bodies into a cross and left, and one question lingers: why did he take the time to stage them after the murders?

In this episode, we tell the story of how Daniel Lee Sebert arrived at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind, the relationships he formed there, and the sequence of killings on February 19, 1986 that ended with three bodies deliberately…