Episode 189: The Ohta Family Murders | Little Fires Everywhere

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True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

On Monday October 19, 1970 in the midst of the Manson family murder trials and with two serial killers on the loose, both the Zodiac and the Co-ed Killer, firefighters in Soquel, CA discover the bodies of five people in the swimming pool of a wealthy home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Through a note left at the scene a murderous cult took responsibility for the Ohta family murders. Join me as I tell John just what happened and who was responsible.

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Sources:
https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/5/287.html
https://projects.scpr.org/timelines/capital-punishment-in-california/
https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Cruz-mass-murderer-kills-self-in-prison-3221281.php
https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/571aa1b2b278eb1f40c3970e109bbcb4.PDF
https://lookout.co/i-wanted-to-see-the-co-ed-killer-in-a-wheelchair-old-and-broken-down-revisiting-edmund-kemper/
https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-the-santa-cruz-serial-killer-epidemic/article_9b3d46d5-6be8-5fc0-9779-93e77924685a.html

Murder in California: Rage and Revenge
By Marques Vickers, 2021 Accessed through Everand

Newspaper articles from the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 20, 1970-November 23, 1973 accessed through Newspapers.com

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 189 of a true crime couple.
0:04.0	I'm Kay.
0:05.0	And I'm John.
0:06.0	We hope that you're all doing well and are ready for a new episode.
0:10.0	But we wanted to start by saying thank you, As always, for reviews that you've left us.
0:15.3	We got some amazing ones and we really appreciate that.
0:18.4	It's also the last call for your creepy stories because we are now in our most favorite month, October.
0:25.2	You got that right.
0:26.8	So our listener episode will be coming out in two weeks.
0:29.9	So get your listener stories in by sending them to true crime couple at gmail.com and it is
0:36.6	so fitting that for the first episode of our favorite month that we have news to share. So to do this I went a little back in time, some
0:47.2	true crime couple history. So we started this podcast way back in 2017,
0:56.7	which is wild because it feels like we started last year but it's been so many years I know it's so true right I mean really I feel like it's just
1:00.6	been like a year or two at most.
1:02.5	That's because it's enjoyable to do.
1:04.5	Obviously the stories are heavy, but this has been so fun
1:09.2	meeting so many people and connecting with our audience and we're just lucky we still get to be here since
1:15.7	2017.
1:17.7	Yes that I also grew.
1:18.7	So thank you for that.
1:21.6	In episode 7 we shared that we got engaged and we recorded and released episode 60 the day after we got married.
1:29.0	I know.
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