A Long Run in the Shadows

Murder In The Rain

True Crime

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🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In 1923 rural Oregon, a brazen daytime train robbery ended after a strong-arm takeover and a massive dynamite blast, deployed to open a safe containing an alleged fortune, destroyed the train's mail car, setting it ablaze. As it charred to ruin, one person was consumed in the fire and three others were brutally cut down by gunfire. These crimes resulted in a years-long manhunt for the three-man team who had fled far and wide from their epicenter. This is the story of The DeAutremont Brothers, their folly in taking after the Old West outlaws they had grown up worshiping, and the railcar they stopped one cloudless October afternoon: Train Number 13, The Gold Special. For photos and sources for this case, visit the Murder in the Rain “Episode 96. A Long Run in the Shadows” episode blog. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. BetterHelp is customized online therapy that offers video, phone, and live chat sessions with a licensed therapist. For 10% off of you first month, go to https://www.betterhelp.com/murderintherain Our Sponsors: * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	This is Murder in the Rain, where each week Emily Rowney, Alicia Hallu and Josh McCullough
0:13.0	tell true crime stories of the Pacific Northwest.
0:17.0	Murder in the Rain contains graphic content, listener discretion is advised.
0:30.0	The twins, Ray and Roy, were born in Williamsburg, Ohio on March 31, 1900, to Paul and
0:52.6	Belle Diattremont. There was an older brother already, Vern, and Paul, the patriarch, worked
0:59.7	as a barber. Another boy, this one named Hugh, was born four years later in Arkansas. Half
1:06.7	a year after Hugh popped out, Paul packed the family up and moved to Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1:12.3	It was there Belle gave birth for the last time to a fifth boy named Lee.
1:18.4	Belle and Paul fought constantly, with the intensity increasing as financial pressure
1:23.2	mounted on the family, which was barely scraping by.
1:27.1	Paul had somewhere read a brochure about rich farmland available to purchase in Lakewood,
1:31.2	New Mexico. Paul moved the family to their plot of land, and a future of stability and
1:37.2	prosperity, a distance of 500 plus miles, by walking, while a horsey pulled a covered
1:42.8	wagon containing their possessions. When they arrived at the plot of land, Paul had purchased
1:47.4	site unseen before trekking all the way to New Mexico. They found a parched desert landscape,
1:53.6	which did eventually yield a crop after a season of punishing labor, as well as conflicts with
1:58.5	local cattlemen that stole from their water supply. A crop that was then purchased under market
2:03.6	value by one of the area's big time crop buyers. After this failure, Paul Diattremont walked
2:10.4	away from his family, literally, and went back to Colorado on foot. After Paul's departure,
2:17.2	Belle ran a general good store to keep herself from the children fed, but they simply could not
2:21.3	make it on her meager salary. Thrilled to be doing it, I'm sure. Belle packed the family,
2:26.4	and their belongings back into the wagon and walked back to her shitty, shitty husband in Colorado.
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