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What makes a great story for our hit podcast?

Strange but true crime?

Well, it's got to have a brazen criminal.

The maximum penalty for this is life in prison.

Incredible plot twists.

He started telling me about local village, hit men. And one of our super

knowledgeable reporters sharing all the scandalous details. You hear a car, that's not

abnormal. And then you hear a chainsaw going up against the wooden door. Sound like your thing?

Strange but true crime. With me, Rima Ahmed, listen first on BBC Sounds.

Hey, listeners, I want to warn you that today's episode will have violent scenes from

the beginning, so listener caution is advised.

And if you're new to the podcast, I suggest you go back and listen to last week's episode,

which was part one.

It's early morning on October 6th, 1927.

We're in Cincinnati at the Alms Hotel on Victory Parkway.

It's a grand building with 500 guest rooms inside.

Out the front there's a huge semi-circular driveway where taxis wait to pick up the rich clientele

and take them downtown to shop,

eat and relax.

It's still relatively quiet as Imogene Remus steps out of the lobby and onto the street.

Imogene is the wife of Cincinnati's most prolific bootlegger, George Remus.

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