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Evidence Locker True Crime

84: Jack Barron, Munchausen Dad | USA

Evidence Locker True Crime

Evidence Locker True Crime

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A Sacramento father and husband lost his wife and two children, one after the other in the space of three years. Investigators were baffled and thought that they had a genetic disease, or that they were exposed to a toxic substance within their home. But when Jack Barron’s aged mother also died in a similar way in her home in Oakland, they knew there was more than coincidental tragedy at play…
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0:58.0

Jennifer Walters worked as a babysitter for a single father, Jack Barron, who worked night shift. He had two sweet children, four-year-old Jeremy and two-year-old Ashley, who were usually asleep by the time Jennifer

1:05.0

got there. On Saturday night, the 6th of February, Jennifer arrived at the usual time, but something

1:11.5

wasn't right. No one seemed to be home. She knocked on the front door and waited, but there was no answer.

1:18.0

Jennifer drove home and called Jack Barron right away.

1:22.7

He answered the home phone and said that he must have been in the shower when she knocked.

1:26.8

Jack asked her to come back.

1:29.0

She returned and Jack told her that he had sent the children to bed for the night.

1:33.0

Jennifer went with Jack to check on them,

1:35.0

and it looked like they were both fast asleep.

1:38.0

Jack left her in the living room

1:40.0

and went to have a quick nap before his night shift

1:42.0

as a grocery stacker at Lucky's grocery store began.

1:44.8

Little Ashley woke up and Jennifer helped her back to her bed in the room she shared with her

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