Episode 195: The Duffield Family | Terror in Olathe

True Crime Couple

True Crime Couple Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On the night of January 27, 1983 John Duffield fell asleep to his television in his bedroom. His wife, Carole, was a nurse who worked the night shift, so sleeping alone was something that he had grown accustomed to, and why the droning noise of the television kept him company. But in the early morning hours he was awoken by the worst sound a parent could hear. He heard the frantic calls and moans of pain from his 15 year old son Paul, whom he knew had fallen asleep on the couch in the family living room. He rushed downstairs to his son and found him unresponsive and in a large pool of his own blood, a massive wound to his head. John could barely process what was happening. He was in shock. He rushed to the phone to call 911…but the phone lines were dead. He had no idea that the chaos of that night had only just begun.

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Sources:
Newspaper articles obtained through Newspapers.com ranging in date from January 29, 1983- February 2018 from the following news sources:
Wichita Eagle
Olathe News
Council Grove Republican
The Salina Journal
Kansas City Star
Kansas City Times
St. Joseph’s News

State v. Cade, Johnson County, No. K-44347
https://law.justia.com/cases/kansas/supreme-court/1987/59-019-2.html
https://www.kmbc.com/article/man-convicted-in-35-year-old-olathe-murder-wants-out-of-prison/18917466
https://www.facebook.com/groups/in-loving-memory-of-john-carole-paul-kelly-and-janelle-duffield-273705412361/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-salina-journal-duffield-murders-20/49041/

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome to episode 195 of the true crime couple.
0:04.6	I'm Kay.
0:05.1	And I'm John.
0:05.8	We hope that you're all doing well and are ready for another episode.
0:10.0	As we reflect back on this year, I want to tell you all how incredibly grateful we are to have you as an audience.
0:18.4	This has been one of the craziest years we could have ever had.
0:21.6	Yeah, you're not kidding. It has been a wild journey together. It's rare that we talk
0:28.2	too much about ourselves because we like to keep the banter to a minimum, but sometimes
0:34.5	I think it's important to share, you know, things that we've been through.
0:38.3	So this year we worked really hard.
0:40.9	It wasn't easy, but naturally we lost 150 pounds.
0:44.7	Yeah.
0:45.6	We did well.
0:46.5	We did very well this year.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:47.9	It took a whole year, but we did it.
0:50.5	And then we went through a lot of medical issues and we appreciate everyone being so patient
0:55.5	with us. I had multiple surgeries. We continuously were at the doctors, the both of us. And I think
1:04.3	it's something that brought us even closer together. Couldn't agree more. And then after one of those
1:09.5	surgeries, which I don't mind sharing because I feel like we don't talk about women's health enough, where I had very large polyps removed, six of them, to be exact, some of them growing on top of the other, which is what the doctor said, which is crazy.
1:27.3	And we figured out that was the reason why,
1:31.2	you know, we'd been trying for a baby, but it wasn't working. And then we got pregnant right after
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