Carroll Cole Killed At Eight

American serial killer Carroll Cole, later responsible for the murders of at least 15 women between 1971 and 1980, committed his first known killing as a child. At just 8 years old, he drowned a classmate in a lake, and authorities at the time ruled the death an accident. Decades later, after his arrest and imprisonment for multiple murders, Cole wrote an autobiography in prison describing the incident. In it, the serial killer confessed that the childhood drowning had been intentional.

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