YouTuber buys serial killer’s entire record collection: “The weirder the person, the better the records”

A YouTuber has shared the details of an entire record collection that he purchased from a serial killer.

On October 20, a video was uploaded to the Noble Records YouTube channel – the channel belonging to a North Carolina record store of the same name – which is hosted by a man named Dylan.

In the video, Dylan revealed that he had purchased a serial killer’s entire record collection a few years ago and shared that he chose not to talk about the purchase because he was “A little disturbed by the whole thing when it happened a few years ago and I didn’t feel comfortable making a video about it.”

Dylan shared that the collection belonged to Scott Williams who lived in Monroe, North Carolina. Williams was convicted for the murders of three women that took place over nine years between 1997 and 2006. He is currently serving three consecutive terms of life without parole at the Alexander Correctional Institution.

Explaining how he acquired the collection, Dylan said that Noble Records commonly purchases records and one day he received a call from a man asking if the shop would be interested in buying the collection.

“No hesitation [I said], ‘I would absolutely love to.’ Because first of all, I like to buy anybody’s record collection… But also, when you buy a record collection — the weirder the person, the better the records. That’s just usually the way it is,” Dylan said.

Dylan went on to say that he thought the collection would be comprised of heavier music and eccentric groups but discovered that there was only one heavy metal album. He shared that the collection included albums by Barbra Streisand, The Carpenters and Johnny Cash and added that the strangest part of the collection was that there were six copies of Michael Jackson‘s ‘Thriller’.

“It was just so normal!” he said. “The only metal record was an Exciter record, I think it was Exciter’s self-titled. Not particularly weird and not even really that exciting when it comes to metal,” he added. “It was stuff that you see every single day. Nothing rare, nothing cool.”

Dylan shared that he kept one album for his personal collection which was one by the short-lived 70s band Mama Lion, because it was the coolest of them all.

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