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Morning Cup of Murder

An Unthinkable Act of Revenge - May 2 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

May 2nd: John Battaglia Kills (2001) Revenge can be incredibly deadly. On May 2nd 2001 two young girls suffered at the hands of a man who they loved dearly. A man who wanted revenge and let that overpower his paternal instincts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Battaglia, https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/01/dallas-man-who-killed-his-daughters-set-again-execution/, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42910629, https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2018/02/02/john-battaglia-taunts-ex-wife-before-being-executed-for-killing-their-girls-while-she-listened-in-horror/, https://www.themarshallproject.org/next-to-die/tx/10auu4ng, https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/battaglia-john-david.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

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

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

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

0:12.0

A cup of murder.

0:15.2

Revenge can be incredibly deadly.

0:18.9

On May 2nd, 2001, two young girls suffered at the hands of a man who they loved dearly,

0:26.0

a man who wanted revenge and let that overpower his paternal instincts.

0:31.2

So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a

0:36.4

morning cup of murder.

0:38.7

John Bataglia was born on August 2nd, 1955, on a military base in Enterprise, Alabama.

0:46.0

Moving all over as a child, John attended high school in both Oregon and New Jersey before

0:51.6

graduating from Dumont High School and heading off to Fairley Dickinson

0:55.7

University, where he started out pre-med, but then switched to accounting before dropping out

1:01.3

all together in 1976 at the urging of a friend. After getting into some trouble with the law

1:07.2

for illegal drugs, John decided to join the Marines where he eventually became a sergeant.

1:13.8

Leaving to become an accountant, he moved to Dallas, where his father was at the time,

1:19.0

and began attending night classes to get his CPA while modeling on the side.

1:24.8

Achieving his goal and becoming an accountant, along the way John met, married, and had a

1:30.4

daughter with a woman named Michelle Getty, who at some point filed a request for him to be arrested

1:36.7

on the grounds of harassment. Their relationship was filled with accounts of domestic violence,

1:43.7

one of which caused Michelle

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