Episode 04 - Marie Bruce
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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🗓️ 9 April 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
On Saturday, April 25th, 2009 at approximately 12:25 in the afternoon, police began receiving frantic reports of multiple gun shots being fired at a local community theater in Athens, Georgia. George Zinkhan, a 57-year-old marketing professor from the University of Georgia, shot his wife and two men in front of a crowd of people, and then fled the scene in his Red Jeep…and vanished. Authorities launched an international manhunt, fearing George had plans to flee the country, placing him on America’s most wanted list.
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| 0:30.5 | On Saturday, April 25, 2009, at approximately 1225 in the afternoon, police began receiving |
| 0:39.7 | frantic reports of multiple gunshots being fired at a local community theater in Athens, Georgia. |
| 0:47.0 | George Zinkin, a 57-year-old marketing professor from the University of Georgia had shot his wife in two men |
| 0:55.2 | in front of a crowd of people and then fled the scene in his red jeep and completely vanished. Authorities launched an international manhunt, fearing George had plans to flee the country, placing him on the America's Most Wanted list. |
| 1:11.0 | What had caused George Zinkin to commit such a brutal and sudden attack in broad |
| 1:16.7 | daylight on his wife and two others? A father, a university professor, a co-author, a man with a doctorate in a bachelor's degree and no |
| 1:27.7 | history of violence. |
| 1:30.9 | Please join me as we explore further into the complex story of George Sinkin. Oh, Oh, At about 11 a.m. on April 25th, George Zinkin pulled up to the Grady Avenue local theater with his two young children. |
| 2:27.0 | As they walked up to the theater, his 8-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter reportedly ran to their mother. Mary Bruce, who was already in a 10-year-old daughter reportedly ran to their mother. |
| 2:33.3 | Mary Bruce, who was already in attendance and waiting for her children's arrival. |
| 2:38.3 | Her son appeared upset and on the verge of tears, Mary took the children into the theater where food was being served and their father remained outside. |
| 2:46.0 | Zinkin's wife, a 47-year-old family law attorney, had been serving as the president of the local theater group and occasionally acted on stage. |
| 2:55.2 | Sources say that before George left the picnic with his two kids, he got into a heated argument with his wife. |
| 3:02.0 | And in the midst of the quarrel, he hastily ushered his wife. And in the midst of the quarrel he hastily ushered his |
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