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| Full Name: | Harvey Louis Carignan |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Caucasian |
| Birth: | May 18, 1927 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States |
| Death: | --- |
| Cause of Death: | --- |
| Nicknames: | Harv the Hammer / Want-ad Killer |
| Murder Toll: | 5+ murdered victims |
| Murder Time Frame: | 1949-1974 / Age 22 at first murder, 67 at last murder |
| Murder Locations: | United States - Anchorage, Alaska / Zimmerman, Minnesota / Isanti county, Minnesota / Mount Vernon, Washington / Seattle, Washington |
| Preferred Prey: | Females |
| Modus Operandi: | Kidnapping, beating, sexual assault, sodomy, rape, choking, bludgeoning |
| Victim Disposal: | Left in park, left in fields/wooded areas |
| Signature: | Used a claw hammer to kill his victims |
| Trophies: | A map of some states with red circles marking some of his crimes |
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 Laura Showalter Female - Age 57 Death: July 1949 |
Laura Brock Female - Age 19 Death: October 1972 |
 Kathy Miller Female - Age 15 Death: May 1973 |
Eileen Hunley Female - Age 29 Death: August 1974 |
Kathy Schultz Female - Age 18 Death: September 1974 |
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"I'd have to steel myself to talk, and when I would talk -- especially in anger, which was often -- I'd be vituperative and mean. If I couldn't have friends, I'd have a reputation that they couldn't ignore even if they didn't admire it. They'd notice me one way or the other. All my life that has been my way; when someone did not give me attention I thought I deserved, I'd reach out and slap them -- either with words or with my hands. That was my way of making sure they didn't ignore me, treat me as if I didn't exist. If they didn't or couldn't love me, I made sure they hated me. I had to be foremost in their minds." - About his attitude towards other people, while growing up.
"She was pretty mean. I don't like a lot of things she did, but I don't hate her, no..." - About his mother.
"I was home about two months and my mother tried to put me in an orphanage, only there wasn't any -- so they put me in the reform school over in Mandan, North Dakota. I stayed there seven years." - About when he ran away from living with his aunt, and going back to his mother, who kept sending him away because he was a chronic bed-wetter and he had childhood chorea.
"I guess overall I got along pretty good there. When I first got there, I had some problems -- guys beating up on me. I was pretty small. And so they took another guy and me -- he was also very small -- and they kind of gave us a separate room. That took care of the problem in a way, except that the guys used to tease me and stuff like that." - About the reform school he went to when he was 11-years-old.
"There were both men and women running the place, but mostly women. A lot of times, they'd punish you for no reason. And the way they would do it would be funny. They would hold you up against their breasts or their stomachs, or something, like they were trying to choke you and stuff like that." - About how he was disciplined in reform school.
"I closed my eyes and I saw God, and he told me to kill her. I hid behind the furnace, and the next morning I heard steps upstairs. I came out from behind the furnace, and I heard steps coming down the stairs. So I waited beside the steps, and my stepdaughter who was seventeen -- she came walking downstairs. I just looked at her, and I felt foolish. I thought it was my wife, and I was going to hit her. I didn't hit my stepdaughter because God hadn't told me to kill her. I would have hit my wife." - About when he was very angry at his first wife, Sheila, and was planning to kill her with a hammer, which resulted in the end of their marriage.
"This is to take care of Homan and Baughman." - What he said to one of his gas station employees, referring to a new hammer and Seattle detectives Duane Homan and Billy Baughman, who were investigating the murder of victim Kathy Miller.
"From the first, I've felt you've picked on me, zeroed in on me. However after the twentieth-hand reports that I've received, I'd have to say you were doing a good job." - What he said to detectives Duane Homan and Billy Baughman, taunting them about not being able to prove he murdered victim Kathy Miller.
"Touch me!" - What he yelled to victim Marlys Townsend (who survived) after she awoke from being knocked unconscience by him.
"Get out, and don't tell anyone... ever." - What he said to victim Jerri Billings (who survived) when he let her go, after sexually assaulting her.
"Slide over and sit by me. You know, I'm an expert in judo and karate. Come on over and sit by me. My wife and I aren't getting along well... I'll pay you -- you said you were short on money. I'll pay you thirty dollars a week if you'll... meet with me. I could make a hooker out of you. Come here, bitch!" - What he said to victim Gwen Burton (who survived), when he tricked her into riding with him to get some tools to work on her stalled car.
"I like to see you suffer." - What he said to victim Gwen Burton (who survived), while he was sexually assaulting her with a claw hammer.
"You shouldn't say things like that. You'll give me ideas." - What he said to victim Gwen Burton (who survived) after she asked if he was going to kill her.
"Now I am going to kill you, you whore." - What he said to victim Gwen Burton (who survived), right before he hit her on the head with a claw hammer.
"If you had a choice, would you rather be raped or killed?" - What he asked teenagers Sally Versoi and Diane Flynn (who both escaped), while he was giving them a ride.
"I'm an old-timer. I've spent twenty-seven years inside the walls, and I'm never going back." - What he said in February 1974, figuring he would never get charged or sent to prison for assault and murder.
There were people watching me, people praying I'd do just one little thing wrong so they could crush me, or even kill me. People who can't stand to be wrong; people who with malice and perfidy have tried to ruin me for something I didn't do, people who have convinced themselves I am wrong and they are right, people who could murder me in cold blood to prove they are right, and I am wrong, two men who would do anything to prove a case they fabricated in their vicious and twisted minds. I was afraid to die that day. I had to leave.... Everything that was done to me was done with malice, lies, and twisting truths until they too became lies.
- What he wrote to his estranged wife, Alice (his second wife), in 1974, about detectives Duane Homan and Billy Baughman.
"I was sorry I didn't kill her." - What he said in court, about his reaction to finding out he hadn't successfully killed victim Gwen Burton (who survived).
"I was looking under the hood, and God told me she was a whore." - What he said in court, referring to when he had stopped to help victim Gwen Burton (who survived) with her car.
"God didn't say to mutilate her. He just said to hit her until she was dead." - What he said in court, when asked why he didn't keep hitting victim Gwen Burton (who survived) to make sure she was dead.
"He just told me they were whores, and to take them somewhere and kill them." - What he said in court, referring to God and victims June Lynch and Lisa King (who both survived).
"I think all policemen need saving." - What he said in court, about how he thought all law enforcement officers needed to be religously saved.
"All depends on what you call a friend. I don't have any close friends." - What he said in court, when asked if he had any friends.
"If there wasn't that something about me that gets me into trouble -- that kept me from getting ahead, I just have a feeling that I would have been a hell of a person. Whenever I am at where I can get ahead, I always get ahead. I'd generally wind up with the best there is, without hurting others; that's what it's supposed to be all about." - What he said during a prison interview in 1983.
"A person grows up and becomes what he is due to the things that happen to him -- and maybe he himself caused some of them and maybe other people caused others, and maybe his brain doesn't function just right. At times, I see apparitions; I have hallucinations, but they haven't bothered me for a long time. But when I see them, I'm a very dangerous person." - What he said during a prison interview in 1983.
"I'm not dangerous now, but I won't say that I wouldn't be tomorrow." - What he said during a prison interview in 1983.
"From the time I was a very young child -- and this is very young... I'd say two or three years old -- I had an imaginary friend. His name was Paul. He had the same clothes I had, the same toys I had. Everything I did when I was by myself, it seemed as if he was with me. He was always the person that would get me into trouble. One time the painters were painting the house, and he dared me to throw dirt against it, so I took the dare and I did it, and I was into trouble. It was things like that. I'd do things like run into fences and get cuts because I'd be playing with him. I'm sure my parents knew about it, because I can remember my mother telling me one time, 'You damn fool. You've got to quit pretending.' I was very young 'cause we moved out of that house before I was five." - What he said during a prison interview in 1983.
"It wouldn't be the best thing for me, but it might be for other people..." - What he said during a prison interview in 1983, when asked if it would be for the best if he was locked up for the rest of his life.
 The Want-ad Killer Author: Ann Rule Pub. Year: 1988 |
