Strikingly handsome, he killed without remorse. Rejected by his fiancée, he went on tour [FRAGMENT]

Ryan Green’s book is released on August 23. Warning, contains descriptive accounts of torture, violence and abuse. Reading is not recommended for readers who are particularly sensitive to this type of content.

Event log

Paul didn’t trust anyone, but he knew people who were so committed to the code of ethics that they wouldn’t voluntarily give it up. He didn’t understand the intricacies of the law, but he more or less understood how the principle of confidentiality between a lawyer and his client worked; he also remembered that, surprisingly, he was not only free to tell his lawyer about everything, but was even encouraged to do so.

Knowing that Sheldon Yavitz had offices in Miami, Paul found a payphone and called him instead of appearing where the police might expect him. During this conversation, the lawyer who got Paul out of prison to go meet Angela Covic repeatedly begged him to turn himself in to the police. He explained that things would take a more favorable turn if he surrendered, and in addition his life and health would not be in danger. That was until he heard Paul’s full confession.

For Paul, it was an opportunity to both absolve himself of his guilt and show off his incredible accomplishments, but for understandable reasons the poor lawyer couldn’t take it all in. It was supposed to be just another normal day at the office – Yavitz had no idea he was going to hear so much grotesque horror. He interrupted Paul midway through the story and explained that if his client wanted help from the law firm when the time came, he would need an official account of all the crimes Paul had committed up to that point. He asked if Paul had enough money to live on, and had him write a full confession in as much detail as possible.

Even with the level of trust he had already placed in Yavitz, Paul was unpleasantly surprised. This confession, in his own words, would be enough to seal any sentence if he were back in court. His lawyer, of course, had no intention of sharing his story with the police or even informing anyone that such a confession existed. Paul was his client, and anything they talked about was confidential.

And so Paul found himself in a cheap motel on the outskirts of Miami, with a fridge full of beer and a tape recorder. He also bought a set of blank tapes. If he was going to record his story on them, he was going to do it right, tell it all from start to finish, no lies, no tricks, just telling the truth about who he was and what had led him to the crime. Recording continued late into the night, but by the end he felt content. He recorded a detailed account of every murder he ever committed. He also mentioned a few minor crimes that added flavor to the testimony like spice. But the main course of this story has been and will be death.

The next day, he arranged to meet Yavitz at a neutral location to transfer the recordings. The task was successful, even though his lawyer did not seem happy to see Paul live. He wished the man had sent him the recordings and instead insisted on meeting face to face. Paul was going to hit the road again, go back to all the horrible things he loved to do, and the recordings would stay in Miami, in the hands of his lawyer.

Most of the story told on the tapes has not survived. No one ever heard her except the jury and Sheldon Yavitz himself. The tapes were later destroyed in the flood, as was a significant amount of evidence from many cases. Because of this, future generations will never know exactly what Paul confessed to. However, based on comments shared by the jurors, Yavitz, and the defendant himself, his full confession included far more homicide counts than officially attributed to him. That’s over thirty.

In some cases, the police checked Paul’s dates and whereabouts and concluded that he could not be responsible for certain crimes. In other cases, no body has been found and no one has been reported missing. Of the remaining killings, many may indeed have been the work of Paul Knowles, but there was also the possibility that he had simply learned of the murder from the newspapers and was seeking the extra fame that more bodies would bring him. It is impossible to say with certainty which of the crimes mentioned in the tapes he actually committed himself.

Among these most credible stories was the murder of Ima Jean Saunders in Georgia, a thirteen-year-old girl Paul called “Alma.” At the time, her body had yet to be found, so no details of the murder were publicly released. However, after a careful look at the case, it was noticed that the girl’s disappearance occurred several months before the alleged date of her murder given by Paul. Therefore, the police were not sure whether any of the statements were true. However, if we assume that Knowles simply got the dates wrong, there is a strong possibility that he was responsible for this murder and a number of others.

Given the dubious nature of Paul’s testimony, many police personnel openly denied that he had committed some of the murders to which he confessed, including the murders of Lillian and Mylette Anderson. The crime modern criminologists unambiguously linked Paul to, thanks to the tape confessions, was the killing of Karen and Dawn Wine of Marlborough, Connecticut. According to his testimony, he entered the home of a mother and a 16-year-old daughter, tied them up and raped them while the women were lying close to each other, and finally killed them both.

It fit perfectly with the crime scene discovered there and the gruesome evidence he had left behind. In addition, some credibility of his testimony is added by a certain thing stolen from the house of the Wine ladies – a tape recorder. The same type he used to record the confession.

Paul’s actions since he handed over the tapes to his lawyer are harder to trace and verify. Despite doubts about the probative value of the recordings and the fact that they were destroyed before they could be properly documented and investigated, they provided information about Paul’s direct involvement in crimes for which no other evidence had been found. Given his cover-up efforts and the way he disposed of his victims’ bodies, proving he had anything to do with them has been increasingly difficult since then.

For example, Eddie Hillard and Debbie Griffin disappeared on November 2 while hitchhiking near Macon. Hillard’s body was found in the woods near where they were last seen, but Griffin’s body was not found. Circumstantial evidence points to Paul’s presence in the area, and the kidnapping and murder certainly fit his profile, but there is no way to confirm this hypothesis as Paul has never confessed to the crime and no evidence has been found to tie him to it.

Just four days later, in Milledgeville, Georgia, we are most likely on his trail again. In one of the bars where he liked to hang out, Paul met a man named Carswell Carr.

As they drank, Carr learned that Paul had nowhere to stay because he had failed to book a room at a local boarding house before arriving in town. Being a good Samaritan, he invited Paul to spend the night in the guest room of his home, and Paul was glad to be invited by such a wealthy stranger.

Paul had expected a degree of luxury and a wife to wait for Carr, but the man turned out to be a single parent with a fifteen-year-old daughter, Amanda, and the house didn’t look very grand.

In the end, it made it easier for him to carry out his plan, but it also deprived him of the opportunity to steal the valuables he was hoping for. With unusual ease, after greeting young Amanda, Paul walked over to the rack of knives, pulled out the largest of them, and brutally stabbed Carswell Carr. The girl screamed, panicked and cried, but she did not run away…

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