Episode 2: Manalapan

Chillingworth

Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6 • 536 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The overwhelmed, corrupt Palm Beach County Sheriff takes control of the crime scene investigation. Law enforcement agents from all over Florida join the search for the people responsible for Florida’s Crime of the Century.

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0:00.0	Previously on Chillingworth.
0:04.0	The judge was a man named Curtis Chillingworth.
0:10.0	He was the heart and soul of the criminal justice system.
0:15.0	The most popular criminal enterprises in Palm Beach County in the 1950s were the rackets.
0:22.4	Where there's racketeering and moonshining, there's always a threat of the mob.
0:28.5	Judge Chillingworth said that if they made their way up to Palm Beach County, he'd do everything
0:32.9	in his power to make sure that he brought those people to justice. And so there were all these fiends out there in Palm Beach County who were mad at the judge.
0:43.3	Wednesday, June 15th, 1955, the Chillingworths from one of the most prominent families and all of Florida...
0:58.0	...had vanished.
1:07.0	I was very upset when she came out of that pet. I mean, I was sick at my fucking stomach.
1:13.2	I didn't want to do it.
1:15.8	Yeah, yeah.
1:18.3	Was he on the bus?
1:20.5	No.
1:21.8	He wasn't gone.
1:22.8	No.
1:25.3	Welcome back to Chillingworth.
1:29.4	Immediately after Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife, Marjorie, vanished from their beach house in Manalapan, Florida.
1:36.8	On the night of June 14, 1955, Palm Beach County and the entire state of Florida,
1:43.4	through everything they had into the investigation of the couple's disappearance.
1:47.0	This is the backyard of the summer home of Judge and Mrs. C. E. Chilling'sworth.
1:53.0	They disappeared sometime either late at night or early yesterday morning.
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