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304. Last Rites: Father John Kerrigan

Our True Crime Podcast

Flanderson Media, LLC

True Crime, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On the evening of Saturday, July 21st, 1984, the local Catholic residents of the tiny town of Ronan, Montana, all gathered at 5:30 p.m. to celebrate mass with their new priest, Father John Kerrigan, who had just been assigned to their parish.  He never showed. He didn’t show up Sunday morning either.  Days later, his bloodstained clothes were discovered along a highway, but his body has never been found.

Father Kerrigan’s case has many similarities to the disappearances and murders of three other priests.  Two of whom knew Father Kerrigan. Could they all be related?

Join Cam and Jen as they discuss “Last Rites: Father John Kerrigan”

Thank you to our team:
Written and researched by Lauretta Allen
Listener Discretion by Edward October from Octoberpod AM
Executive Producer Nico Vitesse of The Inky Pawprint

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https://www.newspapers.com/image/467367147/?match=1&terms=Father%20John%20Kerrigan%20priest (List of accused priests and personnel)
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Edward October. Over the years, I've narrated more ghost stories, horror shows,

0:05.9

and creepypastas than I can count. And yet, the crimes discussed on our true crime podcast

0:12.0

managed to scare the shit out of me. This program is not suitable for children or the faint of heart.

0:18.2

If you are such a person, go ahead and switch off this podcast.

0:21.7

Listen to something else.

0:24.5

Are you still with us?

0:26.7

Well, we've warned you. Hey, Jen.

0:48.4

Cam, how you doing?

0:49.6

I'm doing pretty darn well.

0:51.5

How about yourself?

0:52.5

I'm pretty soggy over here.

0:55.2

It's been raining nonstop forever, hasn't it? I forgot what the sun looks like. I don't even know. I'm done with it. I'm done.

0:59.4

I'm done. I couldn't even tell you. We have construction in the back of our house and it's rerouted

1:03.3

the water and so our backyard gets flooded all the time. So that's good. Yeah. Lovely. Yeah, lovely. Yeah, but anyway, I've got a case for us today. It's pretty interesting. It's pretty

1:12.3

interesting. It's in Montana. Have we ever covered a case in Montana? I don't remember if we have.

1:17.3

Well, here we go. I'm ready. Then, all right? Let's go.

1:32.6

Montana's unofficial nickname is Big Sky Country, and it's deservedly so.

1:37.1

Located along the border of Canada in the northwestern part of the United States,

1:40.5

Montana is an outdoorsman's dream.

1:43.6

It is vast and sparsely populated.

1:48.6

In fact, the entire state's population is a little bit less,

1:56.1

like 200,000 less than the city of Dallas, Texas. Oh. It's like Montana is like 1.1 million,

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