[PREVIEW] #46: The Want-Ad Killer

Kathy Miller was 15 years old and looking through the classified ads — not for herself, but for her boyfriend. She found a listing, made a phone call, and told her mother not to worry about it. Her mother had a bad feeling she couldn't shake. Kathy went anyway.What investigators uncovered in the weeks that followed would connect a want ad in a Seattle newspaper to a pattern stretching across multiple states — and to a man whose name they had actually encountered before. More than once. In very different circumstances.The Harvey Carignan case is one of the most disturbing examples of how American law enforcement operated across state lines in the 1970s, before digital databases, before CODIS, before any of the systems that might have made a difference here.This episode follows the Kathy Miller missing persons case from the moment her mother reported her gone — through the investigation, the leads that stalled, the witnesses who came forward, and the details that made detectives in Seattle start making calls to people they'd never spoken to before.Topics: Harvey Carignan, want ad killer, Kathy Miller missing persons, 1970s Seattle true crime, Pacific Northwest serial killer, Harv the Hammer, true crime cold case, Ann Rule, serial killer investigation, Harvey Carignan victims