Episode 17 – The Town That Got Away With Murder
The Minds of Madness - True Crime Stories
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4.5 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This is the story about a small town in rural Missouri, that’s been hiding a very big secret…for close to 40 years. A small town that bound themselves tightly together in solidarity in order to eliminate a monstrous problem.
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Books:
In Broad Daylight & Behind the Story of In Broad Daylight by Harry MacLean - Available on Amazon
Author Harry MacLean New York Times bestseller and Edgar Award winner, turns to fiction: The Joy of Killing, a psychological thriller.
www.HarryMacLean.com
www.Facebook.com/HarryNMacLean
Unsolved Child Murders by Emily Thompson - available for pre-order on Amazon, Waterstones, BookDepository and Barnes and Noble.
Special Thanks:
Emily Thompson author of Unsolved Child Murders
Erica Kelly from the Southern Fried True Crime podcast
Harry MacLean author of In Broad Daylight & The Story Behind In Broad Daylight
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| 0:27.0 | This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence which may be disturbing to some listeners. |
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| 0:35.0 | He was, he conducted a reign of terror in northwest Missouri, |
| 0:42.0 | over seven counties for over 15 years committing a range of |
| 0:45.2 | crimes that would defy your imagination if I were to go into them all. |
| 0:48.8 | Finally in July 1981 he was shot to death as he sat in his truck with his wife on the main street of Skidmore |
| 0:56.8 | at 1030 in the morning. |
| 0:58.7 | There were between 45 and 50 people on the street who were in a position to witness the shooting. |
| 1:05.0 | There have been three grand jury investigations and there have been no indictments. |
| 1:09.0 | He was a perfect client. He was always a gentleman as far as I was concerned. I had no evidence whatsoever that he was a bully. |
| 1:16.0 | Now I was somewhat suspicious when he kept getting charged with these numerous crimes. |
| 1:21.0 | But you must understand that he came in the office, he never tried |
| 1:24.3 | to second guess me, he was always a gentleman, and he always said I'm innocent. I |
| 1:27.9 | didn't do it. He had at the very last he got two years for felonious assault and he never had a final conviction |
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