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Morning Cup of Murder

A Killer Who Didn't Want To Change His Ways - September 21 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

September 21st: Romell Broom Kills Tryna Middleton (1984) When a criminal continually reoffends, it’s hard to understand why and how they still manage to walk the streets freely. On September 21st 1984 a young girl was abducted and killed by a man who, from a very early age, showed the legal system that he had no intention of reforming his ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romell_Broom, https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/broom-romell.htm, https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/romell-broom-who-survived-botched-execution-dies-of-covid-19-on-ohio-death-row, https://eji.org/news/after-surviving-botched-execution-romell-broom-dies-of-covid-19/, https://apnews.com/article/prisons-coronavirus-pandemic-executions-us-supreme-court-ohio-de5650158095ff69719728daaec5b1dd, https://www.mourningourlosses.org/memorials/romell-broom Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I found my great-grandma Annie in the 1921 census on Ancestry.

0:04.5

I discovered she was widowed in the First World War, living in York, raising six children all by herself.

0:11.4

Discover the inspiring women in your family in the 1921 England and Wales census, free with ancestry.

0:18.8

Simply register at Ancestry.co.uk with just your name and email for unlimited searches of the census plus millions more records, free until the 9th of March.

0:29.1

Terms apply.

0:30.4

There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:32.7

When police arrives, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:36.1

We have a weird homicide.

0:38.9

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:42.3

When a cop of murder...

0:44.3

When a criminal continually reoffends, it's hard to understand why and how they still manage to walk the streets freely.

0:53.7

On September 21st, 1984, a young girl was abducted and killed by a man who, from a very early age,

1:02.7

showed the legal system that he had no intention of reforming his ways.

1:07.7

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

1:16.1

Romm, born June 4, 1956, moved from Michigan to Ohio with his mother when he was just five years old.

1:23.7

A place where he was known to commit several nonviolent crimes as a juvenile and spend quite a bit of time in and out of the Ohio Youth Commission.

1:33.9

In 1974, he and another individual entered a man's car and robbed him at gunpoint.

1:40.3

In 1975, he raped the 12-year-old babysitter watching his niece, and that March, he committed

1:47.0

another armed robbery with a different accomplice.

1:51.2

This was in addition to the rape he allegedly committed against a 13-year-old girl,

1:56.3

though she did not come forward until decades later, and the attempted adduction of a 12-year-old who was

2:02.4

saved when neighbors interrupted. He eventually pleaded guilty to rape, aggravated robbery,

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