Okay, okay, you ready? Are we on? You ready? Okay, my name is Jack Murphy and we're taking you on a trip that has already been in the papers and the magazines for 50 years most of it but

it's a trip that is an exciting adventure. It was the middle of the night on October 29, 1964.

Jack Rowland Murphy, better known as Murf the Surf,

a man widely recognized as one of the top surfers in the world at the time was in New York City.

That night, Jack and a man named Alan Kuhn broke into the American Museum of Natural History

and pulled off what was at that time the biggest jewel

heights in American history. But that's just the beginning of Jack's

improbable story, one that includes robbery, fame, and depending on who you ask, salvation.

This season we will follow Jack on his journey from California to Pittsburgh to Miami all

the way up to New York City.

To tell his story though, we must also go down to Whiskey Creek, a small river in southern Florida

where 51 years ago, the bodies of two young women were found stabbed, bludgeoned, and shot.

They had been weighed down by concrete blocks lashed to their necks.

And the last time they were seen alive, they were getting in a boat with Jack Roland Murphy.

My name is Nate Scott. I'm a reporter and editor with For the Wind in USA Today.

Welcome to season 2 of The sneak.

Jack Murphy should have spent his entire life in prison.

In 1969 he received two life sentences in an additional 20 years from a Florida court.

But today, as of this recording, Jack's a free man, and he's living in Crystal River, Florida, a sleepy town about an hour north of Tampa.

That's where I visited him this winter, along with my co-producer from season one, Anthony Pachello, who will contribute reporting throughout season

two. We spent a week with Jack, eating at his favorite Florida haunts, driving over the speed limit

in his seen better days 90s model Mercedes, and talking about, well, every part of his life.

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