Harvey Carignan family, wife , children, parents, siblings

Harvey Louis Carignan had done a lot of prison time before his death in prison. He was an American serial killer mostly known for his tactics of luring women and children with wanted Ads by raping them. 

Harvey Carignan was sentenced to a life sentence at the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Faribault for the murders of two women. He had been previously convicted for a 1949 rape and murder he committed while stationed in the U.S. Army, in Anchorage, Alaska. 

Harvey Carignan wife

Harvey Carignan was born on May 18, 1927, in Fargo, North Dakota, United States, and died on March 14, 2023, at Minnesota Correctional Facility-Oak Park Heights, Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, United States

Harvey Carignan married Alice Johnson on April 14, 1972, and moved in with her son Billy, who was 11 years old and a daughter, Georgia who was 14 years old. 

Billy could not take the beatings he was receiving from Harvey and moved out to live with his biological father only two months after Harvey moved in with him and his family. In 1973, in late June or Early July,  Harvey was arrested for assaulting his wife, Alice. SLice finally left and filed for a divorce.

In May 1973, Harvey Carignan moved to Minnesota and started dating and living with Eileen Hunley, who was hitchhiking when he picked her up. In August 1974, Eileen broke up with Harvey leading to her disappearance on August 10, 1974.

About five weeks later, Eileen”s body was found in Shelbourne County, her body showed that she was raped with a tree branch, had several hammers to the head, and her skull imploded with the force of the hammer blows.

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Harvey Carignan children

Harvey Carignan had no biological children nor did he adopt any by any means.

Harvey Carignan  parents

According to sources, Harvey Carignan was born to an unmarried 20-year-old female that gave birth to him and married when Harvey was about 3 or 4 years old.
Shortly after her marriage, she gave birth to a son who won her heart and put Harvey in the backseat.

Harvey Carignan siblings

Shortly after his mother’s marriage, she gave birth to a son who had all her attention and neglected Harvey.

Harvey was considered to be small for his age (6), had a twitch in his face, and was a bedwetter. He did not live with his mother for long after she married and lived from family to family.