ANIMAL Pt. 2

Murder In The Rain

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In our previous episode, Alisha introduced you to Anna Marie Hlavka. She was a 20-year-old woman who had been living with her boyfriend and sister at the Tudor Arms apartments in downtown Portland. On June 24th, 1979, Anna’s sister Rose Ann returned home from the McDonald’s where both sisters worked, and she discovered her sister had been murdered. Susan was lying across the bed, the power cord from her alarm clock radio wrapped around her neck. Investigators followed every lead, but the case very quickly went cold. What the Portland Police didn’t know back in ‘79 was that the man who, 40 years later, would come up as a match via Parabon Labs forensic genetic genealogy had spent years terrorizing the state of Texas. MAX- “House of Horrors Kidnapped” Portland Police solve 40-year-old murder - oregonlive.com - Oregon Journal July 25 1979- Woman, 20, strangled in bed here - 1979 - Oregon Crime Rates 1960 to 2019 - The big difference between Portland’s violence now and record-setting 1987? Guns and indiscriminate shootings - oregonlive.com - How the “Stranger Danger” Panic of the 1980s Helped Give Rise to Mass Incarceration - The Oregonian Aug. 4 1978- Frances L. Bloch - Keeping it weird at the W Burnside McDonald’s : r/Portland - Alberni Valley TImes Aug 1 1979- Obituaries - Newspapers.com Joseph Hlavka - The Oregonian July 26 1979 - Woman strangled in NW Portland Apartment - Oregon Journal Aug 3 1979 - Clues scares in woman's murder - Denton Record Chronicle June 28 1972- Two Dentonites Indicted - Abilene Reporter News- Feb. 1 1973- Haskell Rape Charges Filed - Times Record News April 18 1973- Haskell Man Given Sentence - Corpus Christi Times May 8 1986- Rites set for slain girl; hopes fade for 2 missing - Longview News Journal May 10 1986- Crime Spree/Search - Tyler Morning Telegraph May 8 1986- No Top suspect Yet In Slaying of Wood Youth - the Tyler Courier Times May 11 1986- - Hawkins Youths Found Slain - The tyler Courier Times May 12 1986 Autopsy Shows Hawkins Youths Died of Gunshots - Tyler Morning Telegraph May 13 1986- Bryan Drew Boone - Tyler Morning Telegraph May 14 1986 Services - Austin American Statesman May 23 1986- Man charged with strangling near Hawkins - Longview News Journal June 7 1986 -McFadden indicted in robbery case - Austin American Statesman- July 11 1986- Hostage safe as hunt intensifies for jail escapee - Kerrville Times July 11 1986- Hostage gets away from escaped rapist - The Oregonian Feb 28 1958- Injured Worker wins $36,378 - The Bulletin- Driving while under the influence- Joseph Louis Hlavka, Portland, lodged in jail in lieu of $305 fine - Anna working on a wood project - Alberni Valley Times Aug 1 1979- Hlavka (Koivisto) Funeral - The Bulletin Crook County Circut Cout Dec 2 1971 - The Sunday Oregonian June 7 1987- Wounded man still critical - The Oregonian July 7 1988- Senteced to 90 days in jail - The Oregonian Aug 4 1988 Joseph Car Crash - The Oregonian Dec 8 1988 90 days in Jail - Female Murder Victims and Victim-Offender Relationship, 2021 | Bureau of Justice Statistics. - the Tyler Courier-Times May 7 1986- Ore City Man Held In Hawkins - Tyler Morning Telegraph May 6 1986- Hawkins Teen Slain; Two Friends Missing - El Paso Herald Post July 10 1986- Rapist Accused of Murder Escapes - Longview News Journal Aug 27 1986- McFadden due sentence today - Austin American Statesman Aug 28 1986 'Animal' handed life prison term for lake holdup - Austin American Statesman March 17 1987 Trial would ruin budget, officials say - Fort Worth Star telegram June 23 1987 - Thief was 'Animal', murder trial witness says - Longview News Journal June 30 1987- Autopsies detailed at McFadden trial - Seguin Gazette Enterprise July 1 1987 Murderer testifies about McFadden - Longview news Journal July 15 1987- McFadden given death - Longview News Journal Oct 15 1999- McFadden executed for 1986 murder - Serial killer’s cell destroyed as Upshur County courthouse demo continues Our Sponsors: * Check out Kensington Publishing: https://www.kensingtonbooks.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The In our previous episode, I introduced you to Anna Marie Lavka.
0:35.9	She was a 20-year-old woman who had been living with her boyfriend and sister at the Tudor Arms Apartments in downtown Portland. On June 24, 1979, Anna's sister Rose Ann returned home from the McDonald's, where both sisters worked, and she discovered her sister had been murdered. Susan was lying across the bed, the power cord from her alarm clock
0:54.9	radio wrapped around her neck. Investigators followed every lead, but the case very quickly went
1:00.4	cold. What the Portland police didn't know back in 79 was that the man who, 40 years later,
1:07.0	would come up as a match via Parabon Lab's forensic genetic genealogy had spent years
1:12.6	terrorizing the state of Texas.
1:16.6	Jerry McFadden is truly one of the worst, most dangerous criminals I have ever researched.
1:22.6	While reading about his actions and behaviors, I was reminded of both Jesse Pratt, the man from our path of
1:28.8	Pratt episodes, who ran over and murdered Carrie Love, and of Cal Brown, who murdered
1:34.5	Holly Washa, as told in our episode, Space 266. Some of the similarities are their shared
1:40.5	disheveled looks, evil capabilities, and flippant willingness to inflict pain.
1:46.0	Jerry McFadden had no regard for human life, especially women.
1:50.2	He didn't fear being captured or facing consequences.
1:53.5	He was a wild card, which is always the scariest kind of criminal.
1:58.2	Jerry McFadden was not someone you would want to run into.
2:01.7	He would sometimes have his black hair slicked back, making him look like a greaser. Other times, he had wild,
2:07.1	unkempt hair and looked like he had been living in the woods. Based on his actions, he didn't
2:11.6	appear to have empathy or care for anyone but himself. His first arrest came in the late 1960s for burglary and destruction of property.
2:20.3	In 1972, his name appeared in the paper in a tiny article on the second page that read
2:25.7	Jerry McFadden, 24 of Breckenridge, rape. That first victim, whom he held at knife point and
2:31.9	sexually assaulted, was just 14 years old. Before he could
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