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10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

AWOL and Unhinged

10 Minute Murder | Bingeable True Crime Stories

Joe Kuner

Entertainment News, True Crime, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4.8614 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we unravel the story of George York and James Latham, two criminals who embarked on a murderous rampage that shocked the nation in the late 1960s. Their brutal attacks on innocent victims left communities reeling and sparked a massive manhunt across multiple states. Hear the completely unhinged reason they claimed to be behind it all.

But what makes this case even more fascinating is its connection to Truman Capote's groundbreaking novel, In Cold Blood. Capote was deeply fascinated by the case and included it in a book that changed true crime writing forever.


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0:00.0

George York and James Latham were born in the early 1940s, and from the get-go, they were troublemakers.

0:20.0

York grew up in a broken home in Ohio, and by the age ofs, and from the get-go they were troublemakers. York grew up in a broken home in

0:22.8

Ohio, and by the age of 14, he was already in trouble with the law. Latham, on the other hand,

0:28.8

was born in Texas and had more of a stable upbringing, but he still had a taste for mischief.

0:35.5

York met Latham towards the end of 1959. Both of the teenagers were

0:40.3

serving as privates in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Hood and Texas. They quickly became close

0:47.0

over the following few years until May of 1961 when they went missing. George and James

0:53.9

decided to leave the Army and drive to Jacksonville,

0:56.8

Florida. On the 26th of May, 1961, they committed their very first crime together, in Mix,

1:03.6

Louisiana. After encountering a man by the name of Edward J. Guedros, George and James decided

1:10.4

to beat him up so that they could steal

1:12.1

his truck. Edward was severely injured, but he did survive the ordeal. Only three days later,

1:18.6

George and James met two women, friends, Patricia Hewitts and Althea Octavio. Patricia and

1:25.3

Althea were out of towners from Georgia, who were just visiting

1:28.5

Jacksonville for a few days. They had planned to spend their day shopping. Instead, they were

1:33.7

robbed by George and James, who removed their stockings and used them to strangle both women

1:39.0

to death. After the murder, the killers disposed of the car the women had been driving,

1:46.6

leaving it in a ditch on the side of the road. By murder, the killers disposed of the car the women had been driving, leaving it in a ditch on the side of the road.

1:49.5

By now, there was no going back.

1:53.7

George and James were on a spree of quickly escalating crime.

1:57.2

They'd made the leap from assault and robbery to murder.

2:00.0

To them, it seemed as if they might as well keep going. Armed with a gun, the duo

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