Brutal Murder In Apple Valley
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2024
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
In episode 259, a woman and her toddler son are brutally murdered in their remote Oregon cabin. Suspicion falls on a neighbor who had been given their mail, found unopened at the crime scene. With intense courtroom testimony and a handful of plot twists, this one will keep you guessing. Did he, or didn’t he?
Culled from the historic pages of the Oregon Daily Journal, the Oregonian, and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular |
| 0:02.0 | Dot com |
| 0:04.0 | Skapoose, Oregon |
| 0:09.0 | September 7th, 1911 |
| 0:12.0 | Frank Wareman, his wife Daisy |
| 0:15.0 | and their three-year-old son |
| 0:17.0 | came to Apple Valley about last March from Iowa. They had been married seven years. |
| 0:25.1 | They bought a 10-acre tract and built themselves a two-room cabin. Wareman has been working in |
| 0:31.4 | Portland and spending the weekends with his wife and son. A week ago Saturday night, he came from Portland. |
| 0:39.2 | On the train, he says, he was attacked by stomach trouble with which he is afflicted. |
| 0:44.3 | He did not work last week, but remained at the cabin. |
| 0:48.4 | Sunday, he took the train for Portland. |
| 0:51.3 | He bade his wife and baby an affectionate goodbye. |
| 0:57.2 | First, buying a big bill of goods at the grocery store and having it sent to the cabin. Mrs. Sirks, a neighbor, discovered the crime. |
| 1:05.8 | Monday afternoon, about three o'clock with her young son and daughter she went to call on Mrs. Wehrman |
| 1:12.0 | who was 23 years old she found the front door padlocked on the outside no one |
| 1:19.1 | answered her knocks at the door so she went to a back window raised it and |
| 1:24.1 | pushing the curtain aside looked in she saw Mrs.. Wareman lying on the bed but could not |
| 1:31.6 | distinguish the baby as the room was poorly lighted the curtains being drawn |
| 1:36.9 | thinking the woman asleep she went away but that night she began to grow suspicious, the padlock door being the |
| 1:46.8 | foundation of her fears. Tuesday morning she went back and again looked in the window and saw |
| 1:53.6 | Mrs. Wareman's body in the same position. Then she knew something was wrong. |
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