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324: Chaos Outside a Minimum Security Prison - March 18 2020 - Today in True Crime History

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Keep up with current episodes of Morning Cup of Murder at morningcupofmurder.com You hope that non-violent offenders can get their lives on track post-prison. You have hope for rehabilitation. On March 18th 1977 a widowed elderly woman named Natalie Brady was murdered in her Pinellas County, Florida home. A home that was only 1,5000 feet away from Tarpon Springs Community Correctional Center, a minimum security work-release facility that housed non-violent prisoners like Amos Lee King. March 18th: Amos Lee King Kills (1977) Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

You have a sexualized by telephones and electricity lines.

0:05.5

A weird...

0:05.8

...a described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

A cop of murder.

0:10.8

You hope that nonviolent offenders can get their lives on track post-prison.

0:15.5

You have hope for rehabilitation.

0:17.9

On March 18, 1977, a widowed elderly woman named Natalie Brady was murdered in her Pinellos County, Florida home.

0:26.7

A home that was only 1,500 feet away from the Tarpin Springs Community Correctional Center,

0:33.2

a minimum security work release facility that housed nonviolent prisoners like Amos Lee King.

0:39.3

So, if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning

0:44.5

cup of murder.

0:48.8

On March 18, 1977, around 3.40 a.m., a prison counselor at the Tarpon Springs Community Correctional

0:56.8

Center at Pinellas County, Florida, discovered an inmate named Amos Lee King was missing during

1:02.9

bed check. The man had checked into the facility after work around 2.35 a.m., but was now gone.

1:10.5

When he went outside, he saw Amos, pants covered in blood.

1:15.6

The counselor named James McDonough was leading the inmate back into the facility when a fight broke out,

1:21.3

and Amos stabbed the man more than 25 times and fled. Then, about 1,500 feet away, officers spotted a house fire and responded.

1:32.8

Inside was the body of 68-year-old widow, Natalie Tilly Brady. The woman had been raped, beaten, and stabbed

1:40.6

twice, but had managed to crawl and try to escape the flames before perishing.

1:46.2

Autopsies later showed that she had bruising on the back of her head, hemorrhaging of the brain and

1:51.0

neck, broken cartilage in her neck, and a large tear in her vagina caused by wooden knitting needles

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