Dead? Or Dead Drunk?
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
The Golden Gate Park Tunnel Tragedy
Episode 185 takes us to the West Coast just after Prohibition, when a 23-year-old woman turns up dead, strangled and violated (as they say) in Golden Gate Park, just after being unceremoniously ejected from a rich man’s hotel apartment after refusing his advances. The man has an alibi. See if you buy it.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Discovery of the body of pretty 23-year-old Louise Jepison was made by John C. Gentry, 62, a stableman, as he walked to his place of employment at 81736 Avenue early yesterday |
| 0:25.4 | morning. Horrified by the scene that met his eyes as he passed into the tunnel near Golden Gate |
| 0:31.6 | Park Stadium, he stopped only for the briefest examination, then hurried to park police station where he notified authorities. |
| 0:41.5 | Quote, I left my apartment at 725 Lincoln Way at 4.30 a.m. yesterday to go to my work, as usual, |
| 0:49.1 | at the Golden Gate Riding School, 81736 Avenue, where I'm employed as a stableman. I took a number seven street |
| 0:57.1 | car down to 34th Avenue where I got off to walk through the stadium as a shortcut. I don't very often |
| 1:04.0 | go this way. Usually I go around the east end of the stadium or through the park at 9th Avenue |
| 1:09.9 | and take a streetcar down to 36th Avenue on the south side of the stadium or through the park at 9th Avenue and take a streetcar down to 36th Avenue |
| 1:12.9 | on the south side of the park. I had just entered the south tunnel of the old stadium when I saw the |
| 1:18.9 | girl's body at about the center of the tunnel. It wasn't any too light, but it was light enough so that |
| 1:24.6 | by the time I got halfway through the tunnel, I saw something |
| 1:27.7 | lying in the path ahead of me. I got closer and there she was. The poor little thing was lying |
| 1:33.6 | there flat. Her stockings were torn. She wasn't moving at all. I stopped short. I didn't know whether |
| 1:41.2 | she was dead or unconscious from a fall. It gave me a funny, creepy feeling. |
| 1:47.0 | I walked slowly toward the body and saw her face covered with blood. Her head was lying in a pool of blood. |
| 1:55.0 | The tunnel was about 70 feet long, and the girl's body was about five feet from the west wall with the head to the north. |
| 2:03.6 | Maybe if I had looked around me before I hurried off to the police I might have seen or heard something to help solve or murder, |
| 2:09.6 | but I didn't wait. I ran. |
| 2:12.6 | I hurried as fast as I could to the Golden Gate Police Station and told them what I'd found. |
| 2:18.3 | When policeman Murphy first looked at her, he said, |
| 2:21.3 | Looks like she might be alive yet, but she wasn't. |
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