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22 Facts About Harold Haulman

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Harold David Haulman III was born on November 28,1978 and is an American serial killer.

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Harold Haulman was born on November 28,1978, in Michigan, and in the mid-1990s, his family moved to Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, where his father was stationed as a civilian technician at the Ramstein Air Base.

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Harold Haulman got into an argument with his father in the late 1990s, after which his father resigned from the air base, left Germany and moved to Turkey.

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For income, Harold Haulman resorted to doing odd jobs and occasional petty thefts.

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Harold Haulman then said that an intoxicated Whitehurst started erratically running around and dancing, causing him to strike him on the head with a club.

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Harold Haulman's attorneys petitioned for a forensic psychiatric examination, which found him sane, even though psychiatrists had concluded that he suffered from early symptoms of schizophrenia.

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In late 1999, Harold Haulman pleaded guilty on all counts and faced 10 years imprisonment, the maximum available sentence for juvenile offenders in Germany.

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Harold Haulman soon found lodging and work as a truck driver, but left Battle Creek in 2009 and began to travel around the country.

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Between 2009 and 2020, Harold Haulman changed several places of residence, he lived in Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Maryland.

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On December 27,2020, Haulman was arrested in Butler Township, Pennsylvania on charges of murdering 26-year-old Erica G Shultz, who had gone missing on December 4 and whose corpse was discovered in the early morning hours of December 27 in the nearby woods.

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Harold Haulman was then lodged in the Luzerne County Jail to await trial.

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Harold Haulman insisted he had nothing to do with it, and since no body had been found at the time, he was not apprehended.

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The day after the interrogation, Harold Haulman disconnected his phones and fled.

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Harold Haulman claimed that she was still alive at that point, prompting him to stab her 12 times with a knife, killing her.

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Harold Haulman then requested that he be provided with access to Google Maps, which he used to indicate where he had dumped Shultz's body, as well as where he disposed of the murder weapon.

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In May 2021, Harold Haulman confessed to another murder - this one being the June 13,2018, killing of 25-year-old Tianna Ann Phillips, who had gone missing from Berwick after an argument with her boyfriend.

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Harold Haulman stated that he often dated women he met online using the alias "Dave", and that his wife, Anne, knew about his affairs.

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At one point, Anne said that Phillips' boyfriend - who knew that she was dating other men - called him on the phone, after which Harold Haulman got angry and threatened to kill them both.

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Harold Haulman stated during questioning that he had been intimate with her and suspected that he was the child's father.

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Harold Haulman said that on the day of her murder, he drove Parlier to a remote area of Newton Township, a few miles south of Battle Creek, where he struck her on the head with a log after a short argument.

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Harold Haulman claimed to have left her body in the woods, but returned two months later to check if it had been found - to his relief, there were only skeletal remains left.

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Harold Haulman was sentenced to 60 years imprisonment with a chance of parole after serving 37 years and 6 months of his sentence.