Designing Murder: The Disappearance of Billy McGrath

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Everybody has a skeleton or two in the closet, and most of us are able to leave it right where it is, cover it up with old coats and mothballs and forget all about it. But some skeletons are bigger and meaner than others, and for the man at the center of this story, it would be hard to imagine one worse. And he was living in fear that it was about to come busting out of there and trample all over his life. He thought he was doing everything he needed to do to prepare for it. But at the end of the day, it wasn’t his past he had to worry about. It was a threat he never saw coming. Join us for a twisting story of greed and betrayal, and a missing persons case that turned into a truly heartbreaking murder.

Sources:
Court paperwork, State v. Tocker: https://www.leagle.com/decision/inazco20121002008
https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/william-mcgrath-murder-august-2009-phoenix-az-bradley-tocker-convicted-of-his-murder/
https://disappearedblog.com/william-mcgrath/
Investigation Discovery's "Disappeared," episode "Murder by Design"
Oxygen's "Buried in the Backyard," episode "Living in Fear"

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1:07.6	Everybody has a skeleton or two in the closet,
1:09.9	and most of us are able to leave it right where it is.
1:12.8	Cover it up with old coats and moth balls and forget all about it.
1:16.5	But some skeletons are bigger and meaner than others,
1:19.2	and for the man at the center of this story,
1:21.3	it would be hard to imagine one worse.
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