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Career Girl Murders - August 28 2020 -Daily True Crime

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Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

August 28th: Career Girl Murders (1963) The 1960s was a time when women turned in their aprons for a briefcase and a paycheck. It was an unprecedented time and women who chose a career were seen as pioneers. They were also seen as targets. On August 28th 1963 2 women well on their way to a successful career, found their lives, and futures, snuffed out in a case that sent New York City women into a tailspin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement of

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telemarked and electricity lines,

0:05.5

the weird...

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...theirondescribed by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

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The 1960s was a time when women turned in their aprons for a briefcase and a paycheck.

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It was an unprecedented time, and women who chose a career were seen as pioneers. They were also seen as

0:22.7

targets. On August 28, 1963, two women well on their way to a successful career, found their

0:30.3

lives and futures, snuffed out in a case that set New York City women into a tailspin.

0:36.9

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a

0:41.8

morning cup of murder.

0:44.7

21-year-old Janice Wiley in the 1960s was doing something unprecedented for many women.

0:51.2

She was working.

0:52.9

Janice, who came from a famous family of writers, was working as a

0:56.3

copy girl at the Midtown headquarters of Newsweek in Manhattan. She ran errands, distributed

1:02.4

wire service copies, and filled paste pots while taking acting classes in the city in hopes of becoming

1:08.5

a big star. August 28, 1963, was a big day for the newspaper.

1:13.6

This was the day that Martin Luther King made his infamous,

1:16.6

I Have a Dream speech, and the office was bustling with writers trying to cover the big story.

1:22.6

So they were shocked and kind of angry when Janice just didn't show up to work.

1:28.3

They tried calling her apartment and got no answer, not from Janice or either of her two

1:34.1

roommates.

1:35.7

While they scrambled to make do without her, Janice's other roommate, 23-year-old employee

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