It's one of the most difficult stories we've covered on the podcast, but it's one that needs to be told. William Aellis was a serial predator, stalking and sexually abusing children for decades. But his victims refused to let him escape justice. This is their story. Check out our other show The Prosecutors: Legal Briefs for discussion on cases, controversial topics, or conversation with content creators Get Prosecutors Podcast Merch: https://www.bonfire.com/store/prosecutors-podcast/ Join the Gallery on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/g/4oHFF4agcAvBhm3o/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProsecutorsPod Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prosecutorspod/ Check out our website for case resources: https://prosecutorspodcast.com/ Hang out with us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@prosecutorspodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
What is the story of William Aelis?
We're coming in to get you.
Yeah. Probably a month and a half ago.
A month and a half ago. I might be back by now. Who knows? The world is my oyster at this point.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm still rooting for a Halloween baby, personally.
Well, okay, then I have to apologize. So, there is a reason to the madness of today's case, because I hate these cases, but they need to be talked about. I hope we can cover this case and never have to do another case like this, because we've touched upon... child exploitation cases before. We've talked to you guys about how, unfortunately, plentiful there are perpetrators out there.
We've talked about the dangers of, you know, social media. Even though this is now many months later, as we're recording, we're in the middle of the Delphi, Indiana double homicide trial, which obviously is a murder trial with victims who are young girls, Liberty German and Abby Williams. And I thought this was important to talk about because of the hope it can bring a lot of people.
You know, you heard from the teaser in this, this is justice 60 years in the making. And while this is a very sad story, it does have a bright light at the end. And I think all of us in true crime need to know like what types of crimes are out there. And so this is a tough one, especially if you have kids, but I think it's important to know.
Yeah, these kind of cases are not the ones we like to talk about. We often talk about when they're child victims, how difficult they are for us to do. But we really thought about this a lot. And people do need to know, not because we want to scare you, but because people need to know the kind of criminals that are out there, how their crimes can go undetected for a very long time.
I mean, people would be surprised at how many upstanding members of the community who have no criminal record, who have... No indication that they could do something like this at all are predators or predators who prey on children. And this was something we wanted to talk about, both because of that darkness, but also because of the light and because of how this case ended up.
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