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The Deck Investigates

10 of 15: Look at the Deeds

The Deck Investigates

audiochuck

True Crime

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

We study land records and discover a shocking connection between where Darlene Hulse’s body was found and Kenneth McCune Jr., a man who was convicted of another crime nearby.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everyone from the current prosecutor to the FBI back in 87 say the same thing.

0:09.4

Look at where her body was found.

0:11.6

Her killer knew the area, knew where he was going to take her.

0:15.7

If that's true, we decided to see what the land would tell us.

0:19.8

So we pulled the deed records for the lot where Darleen was found, and we looked at parcels

0:24.7

around it, and sure enough, right up the road is McEun Farms, LLC.

0:31.9

We talked in terms of coincidence.

0:33.4

I can't prove a case on coincidence, but man, that's there's a lot of coincidence.

0:45.0

This is episode 10.

0:47.0

Look at the deeds.

0:53.6

McEun Farms has changed hands a few times in the last several decades, and there are

0:58.0

different plots around Marshall County that are also listed as McEun Farms.

1:02.0

So it's hard to say which plots were hooves back in the 80s, because we know that both

1:07.2

Kenneth's dad and his uncle were farmers, and they all lived close to each other.

1:12.8

So let's unpack this.

1:14.2

According to property records, the actual land where Darleen's body was found was owned

1:18.6

by this Chicago man, named George P. Scally.

1:22.6

Some locals have told us that George leased the land to local farmers or timber buyers,

1:28.0

but we checked with the Marshall County assessor's office, and they have no record of who

1:31.5

leased the land in 1984.

1:34.0

They said it was common back then, and actually still is today, for land owners to lease

1:38.4

their properties for agricultural uses via a handshake deal.

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