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The Chamber He Built

The Story of Maury Travis

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The Chamber He Built

By: Mark Garrod
Narrated by: Ken Kamlet
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He filmed their last breaths. He wanted to be remembered.

In the shadows of St. Louis, women were disappearing. Black women, sex workers, addicts. Easy to ignore. Easier to forget. But someone was watching. Stalking. Torturing. Killing.

Maury Troy Travis was the soft-spoken waiter with a secret locked in his basement: a torture chamber built from fantasies turned real. This is the chilling, cinematic true story of a serial killer who hid in plain sight, and the victims who were too often silenced by the world before he ever laid hands on them.

Told with unflinching detail and emotional depth, The Chamber He Built reconstructs the lives of the women lost, the hunt that nearly failed to catch a predator, and the final moments that changed everything. From his first digital misstep to the knock that ended it all, this book doesn’t just recount a case—it bears witness to the unseen.

Because behind every headline is a name.
Behind every name, a life.
And behind Maury Travis, a trail of ghosts demanding to be heard.

©2025 Mark Garrod (P)2025 Mark Garrod
Abductions, Kidnapping & Missing Persons Murder True Crime
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I don’t like when authors makes up what the victims might be thinking before the crime and this book has a lot of that.

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