45 - The Fall: Deaths on Fremont Canyon Bridge

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🗓️ 7 July 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Casper Wyoming is a quiet town. But in 1973, it was marred by an horrific crime. Two girls, sisters - Becky Thompson and Amy Burridge - were snatched off the street, attacked and driven 35 miles to an iron bridge over Fremont Canyon. Then the two men that took them threw them over. But one of the girls survived the 112 foot fall and identified Ronald Kennedy and Jerry Jenkins as the men who attacked them. Still, tragedy would follow her. Find us on Facebook or Twitter! With thanks to our supporters on Patreon! This week’s featured Podcast Promo is the new Real Life Real Crime by Woody Overton. Join this veteran law enforcement professional as he gets into the details of cases he actually worked. Theme Music: Quinn’s Song: The Dance Begins Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Additional Music: Allemande (Sting) by Wahneta Meixsell. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Sources: Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night (New York: St Martin's Press, 1997) Purchase here Wyoming Offender Locator record: http://wdoc-loc.wyo.gov/Home/Detail/?id=21339&dbType=WCIS Keryn Donnelly, “In 1973, Becky Thompson was brutally attacked on a bridge,” 19 years later she died there” from Mamamia.com.au https://www.mamamia.com.au/true-crime-stories-becky-thomson/ (16 September 2018) John E. Yang, “A crime's lasting wounds” from The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1992/08/13/a-crimes-lasting-wounds/f4cd227d-d5dc-422f-bf3c-99ccbcd5ad3b/?utm_term=.d43c95e2822c (13 August 1992) Furman v Georgia 408 U.S. 238 (1972) -access it here: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia Furman Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furman_v._Georgia Gregg v Georgia Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_v._Georgia “Innocence Lost” Youtube Documentary by Wold Gang of Wyoming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1lWMN-JbEw (15 October 2016) “Casper killers re-sentenced” in The Casper Star Tribune 85th year, no. 92 April 2nd 1977 (p. 1) Joan Barron, “Kennedy loses another court battle” in The Casper Star Tribune 11th October 1977 (p. A12) Kathie Magers, “ Prosecutor addresses trial jury” in The Casper Star Tribune 25th April 1974 (p. 29) Kathie Magers, “ Girl points finger at pair accused of murder, rape” in The Casper Star Tribune 25th April 1974 (p. 1) Kathie Magers, “ FBI testers take murder trial stand” in The Casper Star Tribune 26th April 1974 (p. 1) Kathie Magers, “ Arresting officers testify at trial of Kennedy-Jenkins” in The Casper Star Tribune 26th April 1974 (p. 15) “Court strikes down death penalty” in The Casper Star Tribune 28th January 1977 (p. 1) Casper Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper,_Wyoming

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Men's Raya Podcast, and this is the story of the deaths at the Fremont Canyon Bridge. Oh, Wyoming is a vast state, but sparsely populated.
0:46.0	It's the home of the Yellowstone National Park, the first of its kind in the world to preserve the area's natural landscape and wildlife.
0:56.0	The state is both flat wide expanses of plains and rocky outcrops of mountains.
1:03.0	It's a unique place of extremes.
1:06.0	In the winter it's bitterly cold,
1:08.0	and though temperatures do rise in the summer months,
1:11.0	it's also the most windswept of states.
1:15.0	The capital is Cheyenne, with a population of just under 60,000.
1:20.0	A close second is the city of Casper with 55,000 people living there.
1:26.6	And it's to Casper we go this week, the Casper of the it became an oil town. Today many people there still work in the energy industry.
1:47.5	And in 1973, Jack Chase worked in the energy industry.
1:53.4	He was from Casper, but he was working out of Mexico at the time.
1:58.0	His wife and her kids lived in the town though,
2:01.0	and they'd come down to visit him every so often and enjoy the sunshine and
2:05.4	weather that came with the territory down south. His wife Tony had a few kids. Her eldest was Becky Thompson. She also had an 11-year-old daughter, too. Amy Burrage.
2:19.1	The summer of 1973, Tony, Becky, and Amy traveled to Mexico for a vacation before school started up again.
2:27.0	That year, Becky had just graduated high school. She was 18, and she had her own car. She was an example of an independent
2:36.5	older teen to the younger ones in the neighborhood. She was a kind girl, thoughtful, bubbly and full of life.
2:45.0	Amy was in sixth grade, and she was a tomboy.
2:49.6	Most of her friends were boys.
2:51.9	She loved sports and was brave and plucky and definitely put on a tough
2:56.6	face for the world, but she was a sweet kid as well, also thoughtful and kind. On the 24th of September 1973, Amy had gone to school and
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