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254. Natural Born Killers: Joshua Maxwell and Tessie McFarland

Our True Crime Podcast

Flanderson Media, LLC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We are headed to Indiana, near the famed Speedway where the iconic Indy races unfold. It's September 12, 2000, around 7 a.m. when a call comes into police, reporting a vehicle ablaze near Decatur Township off State Road 67. Detective Larry Sanders swiftly responds, observing the inferno and sensing its deliberate nature. Amidst the efforts to douse the flames, a chilling discovery emerges from the trunk: a charred body, its gender indiscernible, limbs bound with wire. Amidst the chaos, crucial identifiers - the car's license plate and VIN - are found, linking the vehicle to Robby Bott. Robby, a resident of Morgan County, Indiana, leaves investigators grappling with unsettling questions: Is the deceased indeed Robby Bot? How did he end up in the trunk? And, most urgently, who perpetrated this heinous act, and what drove them to such brutality?

Join Jen and Cam on this episode of Our True Crime Podcast entitled ‘Natural Born Killers: Joshua Maxwell and Tessie McFarland.’

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Edward October.

0:02.6

Over the years I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows, and creepy pastas than I can count.

0:08.0

And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not

0:16.0

suitable for children or the faint of heart. If you are such a person go ahead and

0:20.1

switch off this podcast. Listen to something else.

0:24.0

Are you still with us?

0:26.0

Well, we've warned you. So, Hi Jen!

0:47.0

Kim, how you doing?

0:50.0

I'm doing.

0:51.0

I'm doing.

0:52.0

I'm pretty good. I got to tell you

0:55.1

took me a minute to get that out. I'm glad to say several things but yes I'm good and I'm doing very well and you I'm doing fantastic we just everybody's back from spring break and

1:06.4

it's so nice to have everybody gone yes it is yes it is's going to be hell and I'm going to bitch about when I'm an

1:15.4

MC nester but right now it feels really good to have everybody out of the house.

1:19.1

You say that now and I'm encountering it and I just don't like it for one. I just I just don't like it.

1:26.0

Thank God I have my my other daughter, Lindsay who calls me every day.

1:33.0

There you go.

1:34.0

But your own kids don't talk to you.

1:36.0

No, not at all.

1:38.0

So, yep.

1:39.0

Good times.

1:40.0

All right. What you got?

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