S5 Ep12: Christopher Hightower

September 22nd, 1991. Guilford, Connecticut. Early that evening, a mysterious man visited the home of Christine Brendel and delivered some shocking news – her brother Ernest and his family had been kidnapped, and were being held for ransom by the Mafia. It turned out the man at the door, 42-year-old Christopher Hightower, was a pathological liar and a killer. He claimed he needed $75,000 to release the family, but in reality, they had already met their fate. Most shocking of all was Hightower's methods. He killed Ernest – who was a friend of his – with a crossbow, strangled his wife Alice, and then drugged their eight-year-old daughter Emily, and dumped her in a shallow grave. But in court he continued his lies, claiming he saw the mob carry out the killings. What Makes a Killer is sponsored by BetterHelp & Sinisterhood . Original music by Ben Krejci , Lee Rosevere , Kai Engel , and Daniel Birch . Additional music provided by Epidemic Sound . Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License .

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This episode is 45:38 long.

This episode was published on Oct 19, 2023.

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