The Youngest Killer On Death Row

January 9
52 mins

Episode Description

In this week’s investigation Hot On The Case is transported back to the midst of the Satanic Panic, where fear and hysteria shaped one of America’s most controversial death row cases. At just sixteen years old, Sean Sellers admitted to killing three people and became the first and only person under seventeen to be sentenced to death in the modern era. This episode explores how panic, belief, and justice intersected in a case that still divides the nation.

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