What’s in a serial killer’s record collection? YouTuber finds an unexpected playlist

According to a YouTuber who bought it, only one of the records in a serial killer’s record collection was by a metal band. In late October, a man named Dylan hosted the video, which Noble Records, a record retailer in North Carolina, posted. Dylan apparently bought the record collection a few years ago, but he didn’t talk about it with anyone since he was so troubled by it. He created a long video to describe how he obtained the albums, though, because he thought it was time to reveal the details. To learn more about Dylan’s narrative, the killer, and the collection itself, continue reading.

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Scott Williams, the alleged murderer, hailed from Monroe, North Carolina, where Dylan also grew up. Williams was convicted of murdering three women during a nine-year period from 1997 to 2006. Sharon House Pressley (37), the first victim, was murdered in 1997; Christina Outz Parker (34) in 2004; and Sharon Tucker Stone (46) in 2006. All three were shot in the head and mutilated. Williams, who worked for the North Carolina Department of Transportation at the time, was only arrested after it was found that he was acquainted with Stone. Wis 10 in South Carolina later claimed that Williams also knew Pressley and Parker. Williams was convicted in 2008 of three counts of first-degree murder, as well as charges of first-degree kidnapping, rape, and sexual assaults committed against two other women who survived in 1995 and 2000. He was sentenced to three consecutive life terms without parole and is currently incarcerated at the Alexander Correctional Institution in Taylorsville, North Carolina.

Dylan spent the first half of the video explaining how he came to own the record collection. Noble Records frequently buys albums, so Dylan received a call one day from a man asking if the business wanted to buy a serial killer’s collection.

No hesitation, I would absolutely love to. Because first of all, I like to buy anybody’s record collection… But also, when you buy a record collection — the weirder the person, the better the records. That’s just usually the way it is.

The person who contacted Dylan about the collection explained that he was assisting Williams’ family in selling his possessions after he went to prison. After some back and forth, the individual delivered them to Dylan in a pickup truck. Dylan expected to find albums by darker, more eccentric bands in the group, such as Slayer or Danzig, but conceded that this was not the case. There was only one metal record in the entire collection. “It was just so normal!” he complained, displeased with the set. Apparently, the collection included records by Barbra Streisand, The Carpenters, Johnny Cash, and other well-known musicians. The strangest part, Dylan suggested, was six copies of Michael Jackson‘s “Thriller”.

The only metal record was an Exciter record, I think it was Exciter’s self-titled. Not particularly weird and not even really that exciting when it comes to metal. It was stuff that you see every single day. Nothing rare, nothing cool.

Dylan preserved only one record from the collection: one by the short-lived ’70s band Mama Lion, which he claimed was the coolest of them all.