Content Warning. This episode contains descriptions of murder and violence against women.

It started in the middle of a spring night in 1970, near a White Castle restaurant in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Flossy Crawley was on a date with 55-year-old William Love, a friend who she'd known for about one year, but the romantic outing was about to take a fatal turn.

As the couple wandered around Massachusetts Avenue, a short stocky figure appeared out of the darkness.

They had just run into 49-year-old Edmund J. Cody.

He was drunk, and he was angry.

Crawley had met Cody about six months earlier.

She worked at Mr. Charlie's Bar, which was also situated on Massachusetts Avenue.

That's where Cody and his wife had celebrated their wedding anniversary.

Crawley must have made an impression on Cody, who was a wrecker by trade.

A few months later he came back and asked her out.

The 38-year-old server thought he was joking at first, but he persisted, and she finally agreed.

After they went out five or six times, he gave her a 1962 Chevy.

It disappeared a couple of weeks later.

Then Cody came by again, rolling up in a 1970 Ford. He wanted her to run away to Florida with him.

Crawley liked him well enough, and perhaps she was lulled by thoughts of the beach or the heat or the smell of midnight Jasmine at twilight.

She said yes.

When they got back to Indiana a week later, the fantasy came crashing down. Cody confessed that the Ford was stolen and

then he offered to give it to her.

I was beginning to have doubts about Ed, Crawley said later.

Around this time, William Love asked her out on a date and warned her to stay away from Cody.

Love said he'd heard rumors about Cody that he might be a dangerous man for a woman to be around.

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