Crime & Justice

Sadistic Murderer Known as the ‘Want-Ad Killer’ Dead at 95: Report

‘HARVEY THE HAMMER’

Harvey Carignan took out “help wanted” advertisements to find victims he beat to death with a hammer.

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

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A prison officer locks the door of a cell for inmates serving long sentences in a newly renovated floor of the JVA Fuhlsbuettel prison in Hamburg, Jan. 13, 2011.
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