Current:Home > NewsMurder Victim Margo Compton’s Audio Diaries Revealed in Secrets of the Hells Angels Docuseries -ProsperityStream Academy
Murder Victim Margo Compton’s Audio Diaries Revealed in Secrets of the Hells Angels Docuseries
Robert Brown View
Date:2025-04-08 00:54:29
Details in a 47-year-old murder case are being uncovered.
The audio diaries of Margo Compton—who was killed execution-style in Oregon in 1977, alongside her twin daughters, Sylvia and Sandra, 6, and her then-boyfriend's son Gary Seslar—will be broadcast for the first time in over four decades in A&E's chilling new docuseries, The Secrets of the Hells Angels.
"This is really hard," Compton says in a diary clip shared in E! News exclusive sneak peek from the eight-part series. "There's so much I want to tell, about a girl who had gotten married very young and wanted out of that marriage for some very good reasons."
Compton—who was 24 at the time of her death—later reflects on her tumultuous marriage to Hells Angels wannabe Doug Compton, a key figure in Detective Sergeant Mark Graham's 18-year journey to uncovering who was responsible for the killings.
"That night, he beat me so bad," she recalls in another clip of her audio diary, "my back is still screwed up from it."
Compton, her 6-year-old twin daughters and Seslar, 19, were all found dead from gunshot wounds to their heads in Compton's Gaston, Oregon, home on Aug. 7, 1977. Seventeen years later, Hells Angels leader Robert G. McClure was found guilty of the killings and sentenced to four consecutive life terms in prison.
In Secrets of Hells Angels, Detective Graham revisits his decades-long journey to bring justice for Compton and her family—a quest he didn't take lightly, according to his informant Michael Thompson.
"‘Look, I don't really care about you, but I have a passion and my passion is to come to terms with the execution of these two little girls and Margo Compton," Thompson recalled Graham saying to him in their first meeting in an April 23 sneak peek of the series. "And I said, ‘Well, we share that.'"
Catch the new episode of Secrets of the Hells Angels April 28 on A&E at 7 p.m. PT/ 10 p.m. ET.
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (276)
Related
- 2025 'Doomsday Clock': This is how close we are to self
- Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard Use This Trick to Get Their Kids to Eat Healthier
- Hawks trading Dejounte Murray to Pelicans. Who won the deal?
- Noah Lyles, Christian Coleman cruise into men's 200 final at Olympic track trials
- Arkansas State Police probe death of woman found after officer
- 4 Nations Face-Off: US, Canada, Finland, Sweden name first players
- Tractor Supply is ending DEI and climate efforts after conservative backlash online
- Biden rallies for LGBTQ+ rights as he looks to shake off an uneven debate performance
- Small twin
- Contractor at a NASA center agrees to higher wages after 5-day strike by union workers
Ranking
- Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
- 4 Missouri prison guards charged with murder, and a 5th with manslaughter, in death of Black man
- Biden struggles early in presidential debate with hoarse voice
- Queer – and religious: How LGBTQ+ youths are embracing their faith in 2024
- Travis Hunter, the 2
- Iowa's Supreme Court rules 6-week abortion ban can be enforced
- President Teddy Roosevelt's pocket watch back on display after being stolen decades ago
- How charges against 2 Uvalde school police officers are still leaving some families frustrated
Recommendation
Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
DOJ charges 193 people, including doctors and nurses, in $2.7B health care fraud schemes
Lighting strike on wet ground sent 7 from Utah youth church group to hospital
Why Vanderpump Rules' Rachel Raquel Leviss Broke Up With Matthew Dunn After One Month
Pregnant Kylie Kelce Shares Hilarious Question Her Daughter Asked Jason Kelce Amid Rising Fame
Trump and Biden's first presidential debate of 2024, fact checked
Lupita Nyong'o on how she overcame a lifelong fear for A Quiet Place: Day One
Celebrate With Target’s 4th of July Deals on Red, White, and *Cute* Styles, Plus 50% off Patio Furniture