Serial-Killer Harry Powers: Did the First U.S. Serial Killer Live in Quiet Dell, West Virginia?
QUIET DELL, W.Va. — In 1932, Harry Powers was executed at West Virginia Penitentiary after being charged with violent murders. Powers, one of the first labeled as a serial killer, has inspired books, movies, and podcasts, keeping his story alive in popular culture. Born Herman Drenth in the Netherlands in 1892, Powers emigrated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1910. At the age of 32, he moved to Quiet Dell, near Clarksburg, West Virginia under the …