Do YOU know where the Antichrist was born? Either way, you’ll enjoy this episode of the Fifty States of Murder as Eli and Mel document one of Kentucky’s other notorious native sons: Boone Helm, aka the Cannibal Cowboy! After murdering his cousin on his way out of the state, our boy Boone goes on a casual crime spree, stealing and whoring his way across the wild Wild West, hitting California, Oregon, Idaho, Texas, and even British Columbia, and all the while picking up traveling companions and then picking them out of his teeth… And whenever he’s not seasoning his campfire beans with human ears he takes time out of his busy schedule to help the Church of Latter Day Saints deal with “inconvenient” people before getting booted out of town for being a scumbag. His life of crime ends in Montana where he betrays his buddies, perjures himself, and gives a righteous middle finger to the law, but it all began in the bluegrass state of… Kentucky!
Music Credit: “Game Boy Horror” by The Zombie Dandies
Originally aired April 21, 2025