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TIL Wyatt Earp may have descended fom Americas first serial killers, the Harpe Brothers. Who murdered up to 40 people and even bashed an infant against a tree for crying. One was beheaded, his head left on a spike. That area is still known in Kentucky as “Harpe’s Head’

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