Episode 108: Janet Downing Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It was the hang-out house in the neighborhood. All the kids would come by the Downing residence, visiting with 16-year old twins Ryan and Paul, chilling in the living room playing Sega, and being served snacks by the mom of the household, Janet Downing. But on the night of July 23rd, the house on Boston Street would become a horror scene. On episode 108, Jac, Alexis and Billy head to Somerville, Massachusetts to delve into the murder of Janet Downing—and uncover the neighborhood secrets that were hiding in plain sight. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, the first degree.
0:07.0	Get on the news, get on the trailer, get on the face, please.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:22.0	It just made me realize that as a child, that you know,
0:27.0	killers among us, like you have no idea who anybody is and what anybody can do.
0:32.0	And there was nothing so scary to me.
0:36.0	And I think that's where my fascination with True Crime started,
0:39.0	because I just can't, and I still can't ever successfully get my head around what
0:45.0	pauses people to do such horrible things.
0:50.0	Welcome to the first degree of the True Crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:59.0	My name is Jack Fanick.
1:00.0	I am once again far away from Alexis Linkletter and Billy Jensen.
1:05.0	You know, last week was really a tease, guys.
1:07.0	I know, because now we're just back to distance recording and it's going to be like that for at least probably two months.
1:14.0	I know, it's really sad.
1:16.0	At least we got one in.
1:17.0	It felt real good.
1:19.0	It was really fun.
1:20.0	It was really fun.
1:21.0	I missed you already.
1:22.0	I know, I missed you too.
1:24.0	We had some burgers, we had some drinks.
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