Sept. 20, 2025
The Tuskgee Strangler
Every serial killer seems like a “nice guy”… until the truth comes out. Tonight, we dive into the shocking true story of Jerry Marcus, the so-called Tuskegee Strangler, who eluded suspicion for nearly two decades while building a body count that stunned investigators.
Marcus was the last person anyone expected to be a killer. He was an athlete, a good student, dependable at work, and always willing to lend a hand. But beneath the charm was a darkness that left an untold number of women dead.
Author Linda Lou Long takes us inside this disturbing case, drawing on years of personal correspondence with Marcus after his arrest and conviction in the late 1970s. The Tuskegee Strangler reveals:
- How Jerry Marcus fooled his family, neighbors, and community for years.
- The harrowing details of his crimes and the investigation that finally ended his spree.
- Rare, intimate insights from the author’s years of writing directly to Marcus in prison.
- Why Marcus defies the typical “serial killer profile” and what this case teaches us about hidden predators.
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But she, the very first one, Connie Constance, he claims to have persuaded her to get in the car for a ride home and that he told her he was going to take her for a little ride and go somewhere.
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And he ends up pulling into an abandoned house, abandoned house's driveway.
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And he doesn't mean to, but he ends up strangling her, overcoming her by accident, trying to cover her mouth to keep her from screaming on and on. They always have a reason.
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And so he kills her in the driveway and supposedly carries her inside this abandoned house and leaves her there. But then
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. We didn't have sources of media that we do now, communication-wise, so it was all different.
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But she, the very first one, Connie Constance, he claims to have persuaded her to get in the car for a ride home and that he told her he was going to take her for a little ride and go somewhere.
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And he ends up pulling into an abandoned house, abandoned house's driveway.
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00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:48.039
And he doesn't mean to, but he ends up strangling her, overcoming her by accident, trying to cover her mouth to keep her from screaming on and on. They always have a reason.
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00:00:48.779 --> 00:00:57.459
And so he kills her in the driveway and supposedly carries her inside this abandoned house and leaves her there. But then
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Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting mysteriousradio.com.
