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The Deck Investigates

11 of 15: Bad Seed

The Deck Investigates

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True Crime

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We sort through tips from 1984 that tell police to look at a man accused of the attempted rape and attempted murder of another Indiana woman that same year.

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0:00.0

In any good investigation, you're running down multiple leads at once.

0:06.2

It's not just a time efficiency thing, it's what helps you avoid getting tunnel vision.

0:11.8

So one of the times we met with Nelson, it wasn't just Kenneth McEun Jr.'s name that

0:16.7

we brought up.

0:18.2

We also asked him about another name.

0:20.3

We said, hey, what do you know about John Paul Clark?

0:24.7

Did your office ever seriously look at him?

0:27.8

So John Paul Clark is the first time this name has been brought up.

0:32.8

I mean, where did you get that?

0:35.5

I'll take that as a no.

0:37.5

And I'm not just guessing.

0:39.4

It was actually one of the very few things the original investigator David Yokelett would

0:44.4

talk to us about.

0:46.0

He'd never heard the name John Paul Clark.

0:49.2

But what we had to say about him was interesting enough to make David scribble down his name

0:54.6

on a pad of paper that he brought with him.

0:57.5

John Clark's name was there in Darling's file all the way back in August of 1984.

1:14.2

This is Episode 11, Bad Seed.

1:17.6

5 Days After Darling was taken from her home, an anonymous letter was written to the sheriff's

1:28.5

office.

1:29.5

Dear sheriff, John P. Clark of Park County, Indiana allegedly assaulted and stabbed a woman

1:35.8

at Rockville.

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