HARRY POWERS - The PenPal Killer of Women & Children. Town of Maine Cemetery in Park Ridge, Illinois
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Harry F. Powers (born Harm Drenth) was a Dutch-born American serial killer who was hanged in Moundsville, West Virginia. Powers lured his victims through "Lonely Hearts" ads, claiming he was looking for love, but ultimately murdering them for their money.
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Mothers have to be more careful who they let into their lives or your children may pay for your mistakes
Sad because it’s happening more and more. Mothers letting just acquired boyfriends watch their precious children even babies while they go to work. Many of them have JUST gotten out of prison, only to come home to murdered children
Dads too.
@@Harley08 You are correct
Children's safety is important
I belive you should raise your chi
dren first..and once raised, then date
Absolutely
My ex was from a dating site and he was violent and ended up breaking my neck. I ended up on life support. That was 17 yrs ago. Pay attention to red flags and be safe. Love yourself 🤗 The guy you are talking about is beyond evil!
Oh my heavens! Bless your poor heart!
Bless you. Thank God you are here today.
I am glad you made it out.
So sorry what happened to
You years a go...😔
Thanks God you are Ok,
Best wishes in your way🙌
SURVIVOR
Those poor children and their mother... and the other poor souls. Bless them in heaven and may they all rest in peace.
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His ad reminds me of the old adage: "If it sounds too good to be true it probably is!" He looks more geekish than a serial killer which should concern us all!
The devil comes to kill steal and destroy .beware.
Wow we never know there are more in unknow killers in the past, thank you very much for showing this.
Reminds me of Edward Andrews, character actor from the 60s and 70s in shows like Boris Karloff's "Thriller." And so many other shows, even Bewitched. You will know him when you see him.
That's what Jeffrey Dahmer was kinda geekish.
Con artists and serial killers have always been around. We just hear more about it now because of technology. May those poor people rest in peace.
Thanks for another great video.
This. I've been saying this for a while, its nice to see someone else say it.
@@nightmaster6381 you are not the only one .
You are right about technology finally catching up. My drivers license didn't have a photo until the late 1980's, anyone could match my description.
@@pablotown77 Eh, I hear people say we live in a more criminal and violent world now all the time. I rarely hear people say, no its because technology enables us to hear more about it than before. That's why I commented. Your experience with people may vary....
Ron, someone needs to give you your own TV show. You're a wonderful story teller. It's beautiful how you honor these mostly long forgotten souls. Bless you and thank you, Ron. 🕊❤🕊
Agree
May You All Rest In Peace !Bless you for all your doings and many more years to come Ron .
Thank you ..
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I agree. I would watch him every show.
He really has a way of telling stories😌😌
I was thinking the same thing!
Neighbors, in those days, kept an eye out for each other......now....sad.
These women already seem to have some decent money in the bank. Very sad that the children were killed in his evil plans also. What a monster.
That Harry Powers sounds like a real creep to me You wouldn't catch me on a dating site May the Eicher family Rest in Peace😢💖
I know!! I wouldn't go on a dating site either!!
👋 hiya deb
@@Regina0964 .👋 At Regina, hiya also.
I found out from watching a documentary that Match.com owns all the dating site out there and how they where informed by women of a raper using their site. Any way they did nothing about it and quess what serial killer was using their site in a year alone 95 women murdered and over 460 women raped. And dating site can not be touch cause they hide under some internet law.
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Makes me sick. The guy was a sicko. Even back then. But, lonely people will fall for almost anything. Sad buy true. Scammers are scammers. Poor women. May the all Rest In Peace. As usual Ron, awesome work on a sad story indeed.
SCARY. THANKS
They just wanted love. It's horrific. Bless them all ✝️
My neighbor said you can’t get scammed on Christian mingle. She’s 65, overweight, and well you can imagine….she gets a picture of a navy military officer 40 and fit, handsome. I’m like you have to ask yourself what a man like that would want with you. Also, reverse image search. She’s like I trust him. She’s now out $700 and his profile is gone. What a surprise. I tried to help her, but when people are so desperate for a fairytale it’s almost impossible to help them.
Very sad and disturbing case,
that just a Evil could do It
to another human being 👿
Sorry for the Mom and her
Kids, may they Rest in
Peace 🙏💔
Thanks Sir for remembering
Them 🤗
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Such a sad story, back in the day women were raised to become house wives, mothers, and anything in between. If a husband died, or left you, it put them in a vulnerable spot. They had no training, or means to support their children, or it would be a menial job. A women was dependent on a man, for safety, love, and support. It seems this vile slithering little creature took advantage of this women's feeling for his own prospects. I hope he went back to where he came. The poor children, the fear they must have felt is beyond comprehension. Women, and men need to pay attention to the red flags, if something doesn't seem right, it probably isn't. Thanks Ron
The character played by Robert Mitchum in the movie "Night of the Hunter" was loosely based on this man , they even used the same name for the preacher that Mitchum played. The movie scared me as a kid.
So do look forward to your ADVENTURES Love how you tell peoples story really bring them to life as always thank you for taking us along
He was pure Evil .
Poor ladies. The man was a bad seed. A demon in human skin. Loneliness can be a killer for real.
Belle Gunness used the lonely heats to get her victims
I wonder if Ron might do a video on her story?
@@debralavorata546 That is truly awful Debra! I don't know the story but must check it out now.
Wouldn't it have been interesting if Belle Guness and this guy hooked up? Who kills who first?
Such a sad and horrific story. So scary how far some of us humans go to find love. There always seems to be a monster waiting with open claws to latch on to them.
I love ❤️ watching your RUclips videos You sir are a great storyteller I enjoy your videos so much Rest In Peace to the Eicher family that was killed by that creepy man ✝️✝️😢😢♥️♥️🌹🌹
I am in tears at this horror. I cannot understand nor wish to, how anyone could do this. I served 32 years in the UK prison service and met many killers. Lots of them appeared normal but their true nature came through when denied something. They demand respect but rarely show it. I found this site by chance when looking into the Nutty Putty cave. I am impressed with the respect and dignity that you show the forgotten people. To see their faces is sobering. Thank you.
my stepfather was an old friend of the family, promised my mother he'd give her four children everything they needed and even adopted us. he did it for business reasons: a family man is good for business. he was a murderer and even looked like Powers
my stepfather was friend of someone in Chicago's Cuneo family
Oh God........worst nightmare.
Wow!was he good to you and your mother?
@@lioness7582 no, he was Howard Randolph who got away with murder
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@@lioness7582 So terrible!
There have always been horrible people in this world unfortunately. Sometimes I think they are born like this.
So sad and unfair for those who trusted this evil predator, may they sleep peacefully in the arms of the angels 💙🌈💛🌈💜🌈🧡🌈💚🌈❤🌈💕🦋🧚♀️🌼🙏⚘🌸🌺🙏
I live very close to the Harry Powers shack/dungeon or where it stood. It’s Clarksburg, West Virginia.(Quiet Dale). What a sick sick puppy.
The Eicher house is a historic landmark in Park Ridge.
What a predator! They've always been around in some shape or form over the centuries. No conscience and no remorse to slow him down. I'm glad he got caught, as you mentioned, they could get away with a lot more many years ago. May his victims rest in peace.❤️
This was heartbreaking! God Bless to all his victims.
Agree
Wow how sad and crazy what times they in with out technology and they catch him bless the kid who remember the ditch, May they rest in peace.
Thank you for another thought provoking historical story, with a great deal of current relevance. Harry Powers' Dutch Christian name 'Harm' was appropriate and prophetic. Bad people like him seem to exploit the technology of their time. Unfortunately I think he'd be even more dangerous online in 2021!
"Harm"...hmm, good point!
Didn't that case inspire the 1955 movie with Robert Mitchum The Night of the Hunter, where he poses as a preacher and kills a widow and hunts down her kids and takes her money?
it did, yes.
I remember the scene where she is underwater tied to her car just freaked me out.
Oh, yes! I remember that movie! Disturbing and very well done.
Don’t know where you find these weird stories of people. Pretty darn good 👍
Wow! Even way back then. Never know peoples intentions. Sad for the families. Glad I don't do dating sites. I will remain single. Thanks Ron another great story!!
True!
What a evil man that poor family & all of his victims may they all RIP. Thanks for sharing good job
Wonder if the stone in the middle was her 1st husband and the kids father?
I heard bits & pieces of this story when I was a kid. My parents grew up in Hodgeville (Hacker's Creek), WV. Quiet Dell is still just a little unincorporated spot near there, on the way to Clarksburg. Didn't realize how close this guy lived to my grandparents'.
This story gives me the creeps!! What a VILE MONSTER he was!! Stories like these are why I NEVER use dating sites!! Thanks for the video, Ron!! Take care, and stay safe!! XXXX
Smart move to always know your relationships in person.
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 Exactly!!
So Heartbreaking the entire family what a Monster
What happened to Luella? Where is she burried? As u were walking, u passed several graves with last name Weller. It looks like many died as infants. Born in December n died in January n July. Wonder what the story is with this family?
I noticed the same about those babies. I am wondering if there was an epidemic.
❤️ Greetings from Germany. A great video of you as usual. Great job and well told. Greetings Torsten ❤️
Crazy people still work dating sites for victims....even RUclips, Facebook, Pinterest! I’m amazed that a widow with children had any money in the middle of the Great Depression, that was before any social security death benefits & most people didn’t have life insurance. 4K was a lot of money!
PS I think the old stone may be her husband that died before her & possibly some children.
Sad story when someone kills Children..
I think they are safe in Jesus arms and I hope all the others who was killed..
That was alot of research.. Thank you Sir for letting Us know but a pity why people do crazy stuff.
Have a Good night Sir and Keep up the good work. 😊
What an awful individual he was. To everyone who uses dating sites beware!
I just looked him up AGAIN his pictures tho😳😳😳 can't get over how he looked WOW.. I may have a chance at love after all 😀😀
Don't tell people what you have. A man with a house right on the bay in Newport Beach, CA (house worth millions) answered an ad from a great-looking young blond woman that said "You take care of me and I'll take care of you." She ended up either moving in with him or marrying him (not sure which) and you can guess the rest. She left a side door open so her football player boyfriend could come in and kill him. He left behind a brain-damaged son who had to deal with the trauma of finding his father's body. I wonder what happened to the son because I don't know how much of his father's money she was able to steal. Living on some relative's living room couch? A dump in L.A. on SSI?
Really sad you cant trust anybody
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Thank You Ron for another great video. Can’t wait for the one about the key west doctor.
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I go live in the afternoon...I just found an amazing new cemetery, old old old! See you Sunday.
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I am also interested in the key West doctor with being raised 26 miles inland from key West. It was like a second home for me.
I love the way you tell the story. No doubt in your own way of telling the story saves some lives, because it gives someone an ah ha moment. And they back out a situation they are in.
Absolutely love your channel you show so much respect and give a great account of the situation I love you to bits I really do handsome pilot lol thankyou for this insight into people forgotten ❤
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His death was too fast.
The ppl in jail should have got to him instead. Just think what would have become of all these young lives taken too early. Go to college become parents and drs military men.
They never had a chance in life..
I love how you tell these stories with so much compassion and respect.. I saw you the other day wipe a lil boys grave and picture off. It truly melted my heart.
I think the mob should have changed him....just saying. It would have scared him more.
So sad he was sure a monster.I love the way you tell the stories, especially the keystone cop's
Wow! So very sad. I never heard of this story before, glad he was brought to justice, may all of his victims rest in peace.
Somebody find this man to make movies 🎥
Lots of significant American culture tied into this story that is not presented here. Davis Grubb was a child living near Quiet Dell when this happened. As an adult he became a novelist and in 1952 wrote "The Night of the Hunter" inspired by his memories of Harry Powers. He changed the name to Harry Powell. The 1955 classic film based on the novel starred Robert Mitchum as Powell, and also featured Shelley Winters and Peter Graves. Also, Asta Eicher's husband was a silversmith at the famous Kalo Arts Colony on Northwest Highway in Park Ridge. From 1913 to 1915, soon-to-be-famous artist Grant Wood ("American Gothic") joined the Kalo group and set up his studio in the Eicher's barn, which is still standing behind the house at 312 Cedar Street. Wood moved into the barn for a summer. Such an odd, unusual intersection of murder, Hollywood, and classic American art, all emanating from the same house, which is now a historic landmark in Park Ridge.
The extensive research you do is amazing!!
They did right in exiling this Powers to another universe where people like him can feel the pain of their victims. We need to bring back the death penalty. These murderers are downright evil people who don't deserve to be a part of civilization. I say eliminate them asap. Otherwise they will just keep doing it again and again.
I love my beautiful home state of WV but it seems we have had more than our share of tragedies and horrific events that have occurred here. Several years ago I toured the old Moundsville prison and you can go in where they did the hangings. Never have I ever felt so creeped out about a place in my life. To think of all the evil monsters that were kept there!!
Ron thank you for another good story. It is a horrific story, but you tell it so well. May his victims rest in peace.
HELL NO>>> dating site suck!!! People lie and you never know what the hell these people are.. NEVER do it!!!
Wow! I live in the Netherlands 20 miles from this town Beerta...
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@@debbiebutler3815 see you in chat again Deb it was a nice communication with you. And Regina alike.
RIP to all the victims.💔😢🙏✌🌹
Hi. Loved today's story. As you said the world of internet dating 1900s style and it's still dangerous today thank you
Oh Man, you sure know how to keep a fella on the edge of his seat tellin your stories! Greta video sir!
So sad! Those children didn't get to experience life.
I was a pen pal bride. His parents paid for everything and were happy that their son would marry, but they never told me he was crazy. If I had known he was a malignant narcissist, I would never have married him.
The parents are evil to set someone up that way.
His face angers me so much
Great story telling again
Thank you for what you do honoring these victims
Harry Powers was the inspiration for the Harry Powell character from the classic film "The Night of the Hunter" played by Robert Mitchum!
RIP to all those people he killed!!! This is a story for "Dateline" or "20/20". Ron you are a great storyteller!!!👌👍🏻👏😇🧏♀️
awe, ty. big compliment!!
What happened the women he married in 27?
I always try to imagine these old parts of cemeteries with no modernization around.
What a horrid little man. I'm sure ladies learned quickly that correspondence match making was as dangerous and creepy as online dating. Yikes! Sinister and operating right out in daylight. RIP Asta & family. Thanks for another great one Ron!
🌹💙 He died too quickly and mercifully! 🤬 Darkly Blessings! 🕯🙏
I was born and raised in the area where this happened and never heard of this,crazy.😳
I grew up in Niles next door, me neither till recently!
Some people still say that there not so much violence in the past...
I’ve just found your amazing channel.. thank you 🙏 from 🇬🇧 uk
Glad I am happily married with 7 kids and a kitty...Mazel Tov....those poor ladies...evil has been alive and well since the beginning of time
May they RIP and goes to show bad things and people that there's nothing new under the sun sad to say
It went by a little fast, but did the Weller's lose every child they had less than a year after birth? Some of them only lived a few weeks or maybe just hours. I feel sorry for both women. You would have to be very lonely to believe anything in his letters. Asta was pretty old to have children that young. Maybe she was looking for a father for them.
I looked that up. Seems they had 4 children that lived to adulthood then according to the headstones, the 4 youngest didn't even make it to their 1st birthday.
@@janem9408 thank you.
It was Clarksburg, WV not Clarksville where the grocery store was and the Harry Powers murder farm as they call it was in Quiet Dell a small community outside of Clarksburg, WV. The Clarksburg history museum had a showing of the movie Night of the Hunter at the Robinson Grand theatre on 11/12/2023 and after a bus tour to the Murder farm. There they had a speaker talk to the crowd of the horrible murders Harry Powers commited and also where the bodies were buried. This is a warning to anyone on these dating sites to beware of these evil people. It is so sad there are people still today like Harry Powers who prey on the lonely. On a positive note Clarksburg WV is also the birth place of Stonewall Jackson civil war era, sports legends Frank Loria, Tommy Thomas and so much more! If you are ever in the area the Clarksburg history museum is so worth the visit!
This is another gory story, only I feel like this creepy man was similar to the creeps that are prying on women today. Scammers who are promising lonely ladies the are in love with them, if they can just help them out with a little cash. So very, very sad. At least these women, to my knowledge, have not been harmed as these creeps never make it to the US.
I think you meant Clarksburg WV,there is no Clarksville here in WV.
probably, 😊
thanks for watching. glad you enjoyed it!
Dang it..i keep missing the premieres. But great video !!!! Like christmas morning when i see a new FOTF video has dropped. 😁😊❤
What a horrible disgusting man he must have been hated by the police , great story again Ron .
did you see how they roughed him up?
He said he couldn't remember.... I would bet since his neck breaking... he hasn't been able to forget. Over.. and over..... and over.. in Hell.
Thank you Ron for being the voice of the forgotten souls your a great story teller and you deserve the upmost respect
Your a great story teller and you should be commended for that
Whats lovely is that you Honour and Respect not only the service men and women but also the forgotten souls
An evil man taking advantage of women in such a horrible way. Then to kill young children. Thank God they caught him, who knows how many others would have died. For his lust for money.
Thanks again for your great story telling Ron.
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Another great story, thank you!
They should have let the crowd have him.
agree Julie!!
Its very sad when children is mixed in it, i dont like it at all.
Rest In Peace to the family
It never ceases to amaze me the evil in this world. What a horrible evil person. Rest in Peace to the Eicher Family. ou are such a compassionate man
I keep thinking I have heard it all, and every week I find a worse story....uggg, this world we live in.
@@FacesoftheForgotten IKR. I can't even watch the news anymore. It makes me sick.
@@melanieiwasko4393 - I stopped watching the news about five years ago, not only is it all one sided it’s only about murderers. Only murderers and killings. it’s not the news, I call it the “bad news”. Why time in? Life is too short.
That is so true Ron. It seems like just about every day there is something horrible that has happened. It really is a cruel world!
@@FacesoftheForgotten An old saying about journalism: "If it bleeds, it leads." Oh, sorry. Journalism hardly exists anymore.
Hi Ron I am from Australia and do enjoy the stories . My husbands father passed away tuesday he didn't want a funeral just to be cremated .So life goes on . We are going to have a wake for him and my late mother in law at our local Boat Club father in law was a life member so looking forward to that. Keep up the good work.
Brenda, prayers and condolences to you and your family during this difficult time.
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 thank you
Sending healing prayers
Ron, it is such a pleasure to hear your voice describe everything about the victim and their story. Also it is nice to know you purchase gravestones for people. God bless you. ❤️🌹❤️
Great story
What a horrible person! I wonder if they found any of his other victims? Also wonder if his family overseas ever heard from him or knew what happened to him?
Creepy guy from Beerta, Holland.
Also interesting, as "always"
Thanks. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻☺️😉🤗
What a wonderful story teller you are Ron. Great sense of humor you have when telling tragic stories. What a piece of work he was.
Great storytelling thanks
I have a horrible joke, why are there fences around cemeteries?? Because everyone is dying to get in! 😝🤣
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