A woman’s mysterious death in Grand Canyon National Park in 1993 reveals one man’s horrible secret. Robert Spangler ran from his dark past for years but could not suppress the predator within.
Robert Spangler
Donna Sundling-Spangler
Nancy Stahlman-Spangler
David Spangler
Susan Spangler
Grand Canyon National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Episode Source Material
- Killer Jobs: Serial Killer Podcast, Episode 15 “Robert Spangler – The Black Widower
- “Dying Man Admits He Killed Four In Family” by Catherine Tsai for The Associated Press
- “For Suspected Killer, Death Part of His Life” by Electra Draper, Nancy Lofholm and Marilyn Robinson for the Denver Post
- “Man Held In Deaths of 2 Wives” by Electra Draper and Marilyn Robinson for the Denver Post
- Crime Stories “A Way With Murder” TV Series Season 8, Episode 4 by Rob King and Drew Carnwath
- “The Case of the Homicidal Husband” by staff for The FBI
- “A Killer Who Thinks He Is ‘Interesting’ by staff for ABC News
- Serial Killer Information Center, Robert Merlin Spangler “The Black Widower”, Information researched and summarized by Emilee Houtz, Tara Gitman, & Ryan Helm, Department of Psychology Radford University
- Grand Canyon National Park, Nature & Science
- The Times-News, The Associated Press, “Beware of View”
- Elko Daily Free Press, The Associated Press, “Man confesses to killing two wives and two children”
- The Daily Sentinel, Gary Harmon, “Cops: Killer put on a 22-year act”
- The Daily Sentinel, The Associated Press, “Killer’s hands tested positive for gunshot residue”
- Tucson Citizen, The Associated Press, “Man accused in 4 deaths enters single innocent plea”
- Tucson Citizen, The Associated Press, “Man pleads guilty in wife’s Canyon death”
- Arizona Republic, The Associated Press, “Dying man won’t be prosecuted”
- The Daily Sentinel, The Associated Press, “Spangler settles civil lawsuit”
- Tru TV Crime Library, Elizabeth Engstrom, “Robert Spangler: Black Widower”
- Murderpedia – Robert Spangler“
- Justice Story: A Trail of Murder in the Grand Canyon” by Mara Bovsun for New York Daily News
- Radford Department of Psychology Research