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Anna Templeton covers Ray and Faye Copeland, the elderly Missouri farming couple convicted over the murders of five farmhands in the 1980s, and the handwritten list that helped expose them.
An elderly husband and wife offered desperate men work on their Missouri farm. FIVE of those men ended up MURDERED. And police would discover something horrifying — a handwritten list of names, with some of them CROSSED OUT.
Ray and Faye Copeland looked like an ordinary elderly farming couple. But behind their seemingly innocent appearance was one of the most disturbing serial killer cases in American true crime history.
In rural Missouri during the 1980s, Ray Copeland recruited vulnerable men, many of whom were homeless or struggling financially, promising them work and somewhere to stay. But the men who arrived at the Copeland farm had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
As workers began disappearing, a terrifying pattern was emerging. Men were being recruited, used in fraudulent cattle transactions, and then seemingly vanishing without a trace.
And then there was Faye.
When investigators began uncovering the couple’s secrets, they discovered a handwritten list containing the names of men who had worked for the Copelands. Some names had been crossed out. What did those markings mean? And how much did this seemingly harmless grandmother REALLY know?
The investigation would eventually uncover FIVE murdered men, their bodies hidden in shallow graves and a well on neighbouring Missouri farms.
Dennis Murphy. Wayne Warner. Jimmie Dale Harvey. John Freeman. Paul Cowart.
Five men who had been offered an opportunity to earn money, only to become victims of a horrifying murder case.
But the entire operation might have remained hidden had one former farmhand, Jack McCormick, not survived to raise the alarm.
What followed was a shocking criminal investigation, disturbing discoveries, and a murder trial that would expose the secrets of one of America’s most notorious elderly killer couples.
This is the disturbing true story of Ray and Faye Copeland — the husband-and-wife killers whose crimes shocked Missouri and challenged everything people thought a serial killer looked like.
In today’s true crime deep dive, we’re uncovering the Ray and Faye Copeland murders, the five victims, the cattle fraud scheme, the chilling handwritten list, the investigation that brought the couple down, and the extraordinary courtroom revelations.
A bizarre, unsettling and lesser-known American true crime case involving serial murder, deception, greed, missing farm workers, and a seemingly ordinary elderly couple hiding an unimaginable secret.
Podcast: Anna Templeton