Buried Alive In The Desert
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Episode 224 explores the sensational kidnapping for ransom of a young Tucscon girl, the favorite granddaughter of one of the city's pioneers. It's a story as frustrating as it is heartbreaking as a legion of pursuers doggedly but fruitlessly seek the kidnapper.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular |
| 0:02.0 | .com |
| 0:04.0 | April 26, 1934 |
| 0:09.0 | Children have to be careful |
| 0:12.0 | Kidnappers might come out from a tree and get a child |
| 0:16.0 | said little June Robles to her grandmother |
| 0:19.0 | the day before she was kidnapped. This ironic coincidence |
| 0:23.8 | which the family thought amusing Tuesday, but which became tragic yesterday when the child |
| 0:30.1 | disappeared, was pointed out last night. The family wandered about the quiet rooms of their |
| 0:36.6 | home on West Franklin with taut, pale faces, |
| 0:40.3 | but with courage and dignity. |
| 0:43.3 | Although the child's mother, Mrs. Helen Robles, could not be induced to talk. |
| 0:48.3 | Once she quietly murmured to a friend, |
| 0:51.3 | I have done nothing but pray and hope since it happened. |
| 0:57.0 | Discounting the possibility of the child's voluntarily entering the kidnapper's car, |
| 1:02.0 | one member of the family stated, quote, |
| 1:05.0 | She was a shy child and would not take up with strangers. |
| 1:09.0 | Even with her classmates, she was quiet and reticent, unquote. |
| 1:14.9 | At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Herman W. Kingla, there was equal grief and strain last night. |
| 1:22.4 | It was to the Kingla home that June Robles was in the habit of going after school to wait for her mother to come for. |
| 1:29.3 | Mrs. Kingla and Fernando and Carlos Robles are brothers and sister. |
| 1:34.3 | Bright, brown-eyed Barney, Kingla, cousin of June, said, |
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