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Edward's Sudden Urge · 10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

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  In the summer of nineteen forty three, witnesses crammed themselves into the execution chamber
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  of Singh Singh Prison, New York, preparing themselves to witness history. The
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  stench of smoke and the prisoner who had already faced his execution by the electric
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  chair still hung in the air around them, a sickening foreshadowing of what awaited
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  the young man being led to the chair that very moment. His name was
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  Edward Hate. Edward Hate came into the world in nineteen twenty five in Stanford,
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  Connecticut, the second out of four children born into a family rife with
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  lawlessness and criminality. He alone stood out as the outcast at the young and
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  tender age of only sixteen, for having a clean criminal record, but that
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  was soon to change. Born out of ashes and destruction, Edward's life began
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  anew in nineteen thirty nine when his home was burned to the ground. Inside
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  it was his mother, Georgiana, who would tragically perish that night, leaving
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  her children to the care of her estranged husband, Arnold. Arnold himself had
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  only just been paroled from prison when his children showed up at his doorstep hungry
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  and homeless. Arnold built them a two story house to live in, but
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  neighbors would later describe it as little more than a shack, a stark depiction
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  of the childhood that awaited them. All. Bored with a life of poverty
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  and not seeing the point in an education, Edward dropped out of school when
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  he was only about sixteen years old and got a job mowing lawns and playgrounds
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  and other governmental property. But by then Edward was even more of an outcast
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  than he had been before. Girls in school found him odd and unattractive,
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  citing his weak chin, unruly black hair, and his slovenly appearance. Neighbors
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  said that he was dull and dim witted, and recalled that he was taken
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  to going around dressed as a cowboy with a hunting knife strapped to his waist
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  even at the age he was. But as unassuming and harmless as that may
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  seem, Edward himself was anything, but His lack of criminal record wasn't from
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  a lack of trying on his part, and the victims of the crimes he
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  had yet to be caught, and his victims always seemed to be women.
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  When he was still in school and only twelve, he tormented a teacher by
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  hiding a snake in her desk. He was fourteen. He upped the stakes,
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  this time subjecting his victim to a far more strenuous and dangerous kind of
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  torture. He targeted one of his friend's sisters and whisked her away in a
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  car. Edward then bound the child and drove her down unpopulated rural country roads
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  to scare her. The girl was terrified and screamed for her life, so
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  much so that she actually fainted, and it was only then that Edward brought
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  her back home. That was it. Then Edward had gotten a taste for
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  what truly excited him, and he needed more of it. In nineteen thirty
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  six, on the streets of Bedford Village, a village close to the two
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  bedroom shack the Hates still lived in together, were plenty of young women going
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  to work, running errands, or even coming home from school like Helen and
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  Margaret Lynch were, and their story was already a tragic one. Their father
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  was a salesman who worked long hours to support his family, and he needed
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  all the help he could get. He had four other mouths to feed,
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  his ten year old daughter Anna eight and seven year old Helen and Margaret and
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  six year old Mary and their father Patrick had to do it alone. Shortly
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  after giving birth to Mary, Patrick's wife was committed to the Grassland's Hospital for
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  tuberculosis, and she had already been there about six years when tragedy struck their
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  family again. Patrick did what he could, and his daughters, despite their
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  young ages, knew and understood that the youngest daughter, Mary lived with relatives,
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  but Anna, Helen and Margaret would spend their days in school before walking
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  into Bedford to wait for Patrick to finish work and pick them up in his
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  car to take them home. This was the routine, and the only change
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  on the Lynch's side of things that day was the eldest daughter, ten year
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  old Anna, hadn't gone to school. That left eight year old Helen and
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  seven year old Margaret on the side of the Bedford village streets on September fourteenth,
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  nineteen forty two, streets that had already been the subject to a lot
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  of activity that day alone. Sixteen year old Edward Hate was after his next
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  fix of excitement. He had already hot wired and stolen a neighbor's car back
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  in Stanford earlier that morning, and he was now on the prow with him.
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  He had a length of rope that he was ready to use on his
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  next victim. He thought he'd found her when Edward forced another woman driving her
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  car off the road. She'd just dropped off her husband at the station and
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  was heading home when Edward approached her vehicle rope in hand. What do you
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  want? She asked him. I want you, Edward answered, but he
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  had no way of knowing that the woman he'd chosen was not alone. It
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  just so happened that this potential victim ran a kennel, and in the passenger
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  seat beside her was a giant dog, a boxer. Edward eyed the dog
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  and assessed the threat. He then turned tail and went back to his own
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  car. The next time, he for a sixteen year old girl walking down
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  one of the rural roads that led into town. At least five times,
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  he stopped the car and tried to lure her inside. Each time she either
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  refused or flat out ignored him, just like she did when he attempted to
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  entice her into a conversation by asking which way Bedford was. The girl kept
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  her cool and her head down, and once she reached the populated streets of
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  Bedford Village, Edward gave up on the chase. A fifteen year old girl
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  recounted a similar experience with Edward that day, but no one could have ever
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  foreseen what would happen once Edward did have his victims firmly within his grasp.
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  It was six o'clock that evening and Patrick Lynch was running late. Ten year
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  old Anna Lynch was at home, leaving Helen and Margaret to wait for their
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  father on the side of the streets. He would only miss them by a
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  few short moments. In that time, witnesses saw Helen and Margaret getting into
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  a car with a young man in the driver's seat. No one except for
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  their killer would ever see them get back out. Once Edward had them,
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  he bound them and gagged the two girls before driving them out to a secluded
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  area. By his own admission, Edward then tried, and fortunately failed,
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  to rape seven year old Margaret. The child fought back and struggled. Edward
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  retaliated by mutilating her with his knife and then strangling her until she lost consciousness.
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  He then bundled her back into the car with her sister and drove to
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  a nearby bridge. There Edward attempted to throw Margaret into a shallow stream below,
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  but he missed. Little Margaret hit the pavement instead, and Edward decided
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  that he was actually far from finished. I wanted to do some cutting,
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  he later said. Edward then drove back into town and bought some razor blades.
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  He used them to mutilate Margaret even more before driving back to the bridge,
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  and this time Margaret hit the water that left eight year old Ellen alone
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  in Edward's car. Edward drove her out to another remote location where he reportedly
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  raped her. Upset and annoyed that the little girl was crying, Edward then
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  threw her onto the road, kicked her around until she laid the way that
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  he wanted her to, and then drove over her head several times with his
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  car. Satisfied with his work, Edward then put Helen back into his car,
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  drove her to another bridge, and dumped her in a creek near the
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  Kensico Reservoir. Edward was then seen at a diner in Stanford. There he
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  was heard bragging to the waiter about stealing the car that he was in and
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  lying about getting into a police chase. He seemed happy enough, content even
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  and riding high, although any sane person around him could have never guessed why.
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  Back in Bedford Village, Patrick was on the side of the street listening
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  to witnesses describing his daughters getting into another car only moments before he'd arrived.
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  He immediately knew that something was wrong and reported them as missing to the police.
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  Margaret was found the following day when other children stumbled upon her remains at
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  the creek. Her discovery led to a search that spanned eight states, and
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  within twelve hours, a detective was on the way out to a two room
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  shack in Stanford. Witnesses at the diner from that night before had given a
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  description of Edward, his behavior and the type of car they'd seen him driving,
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  the same type of car that witnesses had spotted the two Lynch girls getting
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  into the day before. The detective had very little to work with, but
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  it turned out he didn't need much. As soon as Edward was brought in
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  for questioning, he confessed to everything. He re enacted the murders, and
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  then told the investigators that he'd killed Helen and Margaret because other women had rejected
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  him and he'd felt what he described as a sudden urge come over him.
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  Edward took the authorities to the sites and was there to witness a trag and
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  chilling scene as onlookers called and jeered, both demanding and threatening that Edward be
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  killed on the spot. Helen's body was pulled out of the water. A
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  medical examiner later testified that he'd found no signs of sexual assault on either of
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  the bodies, but that was about the end of any good news that he
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  had to bring. He determined that the cause of death had been drowning for
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  both girls, meaning that they had still been alive when their bodies hit the
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  water. At trial, the prosecution made it clear that they would be seeking
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  the death penalty. Edward's defense did their best to argue that he was not
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  guilty by reason of insanity, but the prosecution argued that the killings had been
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  planned and calculated. The jury agreed and found Edward guilty, a charge that
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  came with an automatic and mandatory death sentence. Just as he had been during
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  his interviews with the police, Edward remained calm and collected during his trial and
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  only made a slight twitching movement in his face when he was sentenced to death.
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  He maintained that stoic facade as he was led to the execution chamber on
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  July eighth, nineteen forty three, shortly after the inmate before him had been
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  executed. Quote, I was a fool. I guess this is my last
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  day and I'm only seventeen. Four minutes after Edward Hate sat down in the
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  electric chair and sing sing prison, two things happened. First, Edward was
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  pronounced dead, and second, he entered history books as the youngest person to
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