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Chillingworth

Episode 11: Room 127

Chillingworth

Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6536 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Floyd recounts his life story to two close friends, with all of the sordid details. Detective Henry Lovern takes on the greatest challenge of his career.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, Chillingworth listeners, just a quick programming note.

0:03.0

Our 12th and final episode of Chillingworth will be released on Labor Day September 2nd, 2019.

0:10.0

We hope you'll tune in.

0:15.0

Previously on Chillingworth.

0:17.0

On September 29th, 1960, Joe Peel met with Jim Jensur in room 127 in the Holiday Inn in Melbourne, Florida.

0:26.6

Henry Levern, Cliff Powell, and Ralph Clark.

0:31.6

We're sitting around a reel-to-reel tape recorder wearing headphones.

0:35.6

The mic's cable ran underneath the carpet, underneath the door into the adjoining room

0:41.2

129, into a connection onto the reel-to-reel tape recorder Lovern and his colleagues had set up.

0:49.9

Yenzer started to try to get Floyd to discuss the Chillingworth murders.

0:55.0

Both of them knew if they slipped and Floyd perceived that they'd been lying their asses off.

1:02.0

The celebratory ambiance would transform into something ghastly.

1:13.6

Welcome back to Chillingworth. Floyd was one of only two people I've ever met that I would say I could categorize as a stone cold killer.

1:29.3

I believe Floyd could look at you right across the table,

1:33.3

smile at you and pull the trigger on you.

1:36.3

Something about the eyes, I guess, just,

1:40.3

it was like he had no conscience at all.

1:49.0

In spite of Jenser and Wilbur's occasional clumsy delivery,

1:53.0

at the end of Floyd's first day in room 127,

1:56.0

somehow he hadn't registered that his two friends were deceiving it.

2:03.5

So where was everyone else at this point?

2:08.8

State Attorney Phil O'Connell and Sheriff John Kirk were in West Palm Beach.

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