Episode 165 - The Murder of Ed and Gertrude

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Cambo

True Crime

4.6 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It’s December 7, 1996, police discover bodies of Gertrude Thompson and her companion Edward Kowalczk in the living room of their residence in Toledo.

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0:00.0	When you when.
0:13.4	When.
0:07.0	When.
0:08.0	Your.
0:10.0	When. Hi I'm your host, Cambo.
0:15.0	Grab a beer and pull up a deck chair.
0:17.0	This is True Crime Island.
0:19.0	Another True Crime Podcast, bringing you True Crime from around the world. Hi Islanders I hope you're having a happy holiday season getting into a new year very soon. Well this week we've got another
0:45.9	strange case it's got twists it's got turns and we'll be going to Toledo Ohio
0:51.8	it's 1996 and Gertrude Thompson and her
0:56.2	companion Edward Kilesik will be found bashed to death. References tonight are the Dayton Daily News, the News Herald, there's
1:05.5	court records and my favourite. Forensic files. Now it's not a very publicized
1:11.6	case this one but it sure is a strange one, not in the murders themselves,
1:16.7	but in the way the purp was caught. Ed Kowalsic was a marine veteran of World War II and had been the owner operator of interstate
1:26.9	realty for 20 years.
1:29.1	Now his wife had died and he was living with 69 year old Gertrude or Trudy Thompson in their
1:35.0	Shenandoah Road Toledo home. The couple had several properties that they rented
1:40.6	out. Trudy, well, she was a good business woman.
1:44.4	She was strict about the rent being paid and being paid on time.
1:49.0	The places they rented out weren't flash.
1:50.8	They rented to low-income people and students. Now from what I've read
1:55.2	the couple were a little bit tight with money and they had all their windows
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