August 6, 1930: Judge Crater Disappears

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🗓️ 6 August 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater got into a cab in Manhattan and was never seen again. The case remains one of the strangest disappearances in the nation's history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Saturday, August 6th, 2022. On this day in 1930, New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph
0:12.2	Force Crater vanished. Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast.
0:25.7	Today we're covering Joseph Force Crater, a state Supreme Court judge,
0:30.1	whose baffling disappearance remains unsolved.
0:34.3	Now let's go back to Manhattan on August 6, 1930.
0:46.3	New York Supreme Court Judge Joseph Force Crater was sitting at his favorite table at
0:51.3	Billy Huss's Chop House, His mistress, a chorus girl named Sally
0:55.7	Ritz, and his friend, lawyer William Klein, sat on either side of him. Crater was in a good mood.
1:02.3	The food was delicious, the drinks flowed freely, and for him, the night was just getting started.
1:09.2	When they were done eating, Crater walked outside to hail a cab.
1:12.8	He planned to head to a Broadway theater and see the play, Dancing Partners.
1:18.2	When a yellow taxi cab pulled up to the curb, Crater kissed Sally goodbye and hopped inside.
1:25.0	Then the cab took off into the night.
1:29.7	While Crater enjoyed the New York nightlife,
1:32.6	his wife, Stella Wheeler,
1:34.5	waited for him in their cabin back in Belgrade, Maine.
1:37.8	They were vacationing up north for the summer.
1:40.5	Crater told her he'd been called back to the city for business.
1:43.8	She had no idea he was meeting up with
1:45.9	another woman. But he'd promised Stella that he'd be back to the cabin by her birthday the following week.
1:52.0	The day came and went, and he didn't return. He hadn't called either. When Stella still hadn't
2:00.2	heard from him a week later, she started calling
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