Episode 109: Janet Downing Part 2

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Janet Downing lay dying in her dining room. Dying from 98 stab wounds. The person arrested for murder was not an escaped mental patient. He was not the boogie man. He was her son’s best friend, the 15-year-old boy who lived across the street, who she had watched grow up. Were there any signs? Any warnings that this cherub-faced child had a bloodlust lurking inside him? Turns out, there very well might have been. In episode 109, Jac, Alexis and Billy delve into the investigation, and uncover disturbing stories about Eddie O’Brien leading up to the murder of Janet Downing. Please support the show by checking out our sponsors Madison Reed: Listeners get 10% off plus FREE SHIPPING on their first Color Kit with code FIRSTDEGREEPODCAST Pretty Litter: Go to PrettyLitter.com and use promo code FIRSTDEGREE for 20% off your first order 🎟 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.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:10.0	Get on the news.
0:12.0	Get on the trailer.
0:14.0	Get on the face.
0:16.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies.
0:18.0	Not in real life.
0:20.0	You hear all those silly little stories about, oh, it's such a small town.
0:26.0	No one ever locked their doors.
0:28.0	Why not?
0:30.0	Welcome to the first degree.
0:34.0	The true crime podcast that you might end up on.
0:36.0	You know, today is the conclusion of our two part story on the murder of
0:40.0	Janet Downing.
0:42.0	So if you didn't listen last week, stop right now.
0:44.0	Go back and listen to part one because you won't understand anything that we're talking about.
0:48.0	But I am sitting far away from Alexis Linkletter in Billy Jensen.
0:52.0	I didn't think that I could get any further from you guys.
0:54.0	But you're going to New York this week for six weeks.
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