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Corpus Delicti

213: Missing: Judge Joseph Crater

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Judge Joseph Crater was spending the summer at his vacation home with his wife when he was called back home to take care of some business. While home, he caught dinner with some friends and was supposed to go see a play. He was never seen again after that dinner. Theories range from him running off with a mistress, to being murdered by the mob.
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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:
The Missingest Man in New York (nypress.com)
WHAT HAPPENED TO JUDGE CRATER? (archive.org)
Joseph Force Crater becomes the missingest man in New York - HISTORY
‘Finding Judge Crater’ Review: Hot Town, Cold Case - WSJ
Letter may solve 1930 mystery of missing judge | The Seattle Times
The Perplexing Disappearance of Judge Joseph F. Crater - YouTube
Whatever Happened to Judge Crater? The Most Famous Missing Person of the 20th Century - YouTube

Transcript

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0:00.0

Fall is here and classes back in session.

0:02.4

It's a busy time for students and faculty, and with a new school year comes new adventures, new experiences, and new goals to achieve. But as much promise and excitement as the fall semester brings, there can also be a dark side to it, one in which the unthinkable can happen. I'm Amy Slashberg. And I'm Megan Sacks, and we're the host of the podcast, Campus Killings. As educators and

0:22.1

criminologists, we teach, research, right, and podcast about victims, offenders, and the issues that

0:27.6

surround our criminal justice system. Amy and I have both worked in the field of criminal justice

0:31.8

for 20 years, myself in law enforcement and Amy in the mental health field. In campus killings, we'll dive into some of the most shocking and tragic murders to happen on school grounds

0:42.0

and we'll provide our analysis on the cases we cover as both educators and trained criminologists.

0:47.1

We'll discuss what went wrong and what could have been done differently to prevent the tragic outcome.

0:52.1

Campus Killings is available everywhere you listen to podcasts. Subscribe now so you don't miss a single episode of Campus Killings. I'm Hey everyone, it's Jen, and this is Lindsay, And welcome back to Corpus DeLectady the podcast.

1:28.5

We are still going strong with our missing persons episode.

1:34.2

Yeah.

1:34.6

So when we were discussing how to approach this series, we have that discussion of, you know, is this missing persons as far as something criminal

1:47.8

happened and it's really sad and tragic and upsetting?

1:51.9

And then we were like, do we cross over into kind of the DB Cooper, Amelia Earhart realm?

1:58.9

This one I kind of feel like sits somewhere in between, which is

2:02.0

really intriguing because, of course, we don't know what happened, but the theories and the

2:08.7

thought processes are all over the place. Also, one quick note, and I know that we just were off,

2:16.0

but we are going to be off next week.

2:18.6

This was planned ahead of time, but I'm actually out of town.

2:21.8

I will actually be where this story happened.

2:25.3

We're going to New York to visit my husband's family.

2:28.2

And we're gone for like a week.

2:29.6

So it just not time to record Annetta and all that, unfortunately.

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