Episode 121 Harry Powers The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell

In the 1930s Harry Powers used several aliases to correspond with lonely women he promised to marry. In 1931 five bodies were discovered on his Quiet Dell, West Virginia farm that was dubbed The Murder Farm. 

 

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Episode Sources

 

Harry F. Powers. Murderpedia. Accessed January 4, 2023. https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/powers-harry.htm

 

Hanging the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell. Appalachian History. Accessed January 7, 2023.

https://www.appalachianhistory.net/2014/03/grisly-anniversary-hanging-bluebeard-quiet-dell.html

 

The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell, Clarksburg Serial Killer. West Virginia Gazette. Accessed January 7, 2023

https://web.archive.org/web/20120324101310/http://www.wvgazette.com/mediafiles/document/2009/03/17/Bluebeard_I090317193022.pdf

 

Harry Powers' Murder Farm. Morbid Tourism. Accessed February 1, 2023.

https://www.morbidtourism.com/locations/id/606a1c2bc892bc9da3b0864a

 

Episode Music

Lost by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under a Creative Commons License; Theme Song “Dark & Troubled” by Pantherburn. Special thanks to Phillip St Ours for permission for use