How Harvey Carignan, The Want-Ad Killer, Got His Nickname

Publish date: 2024-03-31

In 1973, Kathy Miller, just a teenager at the time, spotted a want ad in The Seattle Times. A local service station was hiring, the ad said. Miller's boyfriend was in need of work, and it seemed like a perfect fit, she thought. When she followed up on the ad, the man who placed it — Carignan — wanted to meet her instead of her boyfriend for an interview and to purportedly fill out an application. Despite her mother's warning, Miller complied with Carignan. It was the last thing she ever did.

Miller's body and some of her belongings were later found a short time later near Everett, Washington. There was evidence of sexual assault, and her skull had been brutally smashed in with a hammer. Miller would be the only one of Carignan's five suspected murder victims who contacted the serial killer through a want-ad, but in 1983, acclaimed true-crime author Ann Rule covered the Carignan case in her book with Andy Stack, "The Want-Ad Killer," and with that, Carignan was stuck with one of his two grisly nicknames.

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