Episode 215

Sword and Scale

Incongruity

History, Society & Culture, True Crime, Documentary

4.0 • 63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

What would you do if you worked your whole life to achieve the American dream and then you perceived that someone was on the cusp of taking it all away? How far would you go and what would you be willing to do to stop them? On a beautiful summer morning in 2008, land surveyors arrived at the home of 36 Nicholas Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut. Their job was to stake the property, but soon after they began working, the surveyors heard loud and desperate cries for help. The screaming led the surveyors to a backyard where they found a horrific and bloody scene.

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0:00.0	Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences.
0:06.3	Listener discretion is advised.
0:11.6	He heard Allison cry.
0:15.1	Help, help.
0:16.9	But he heard you, Gerardo, yelling, die, die, die.
0:24.8	Hello, and happy birthday, America.
0:30.3	This is Season 9, Episode 2,15 of Sword and Scale,
0:36.4	a show that reveals that the worst monsters
0:38.9	are real. Well, depending on when you hear this, we hope you had or will have a wonderful
1:07.7	Fourth of July here in America, the gleaming beacon on a hill, the kind of place
1:15.0	where you can achieve just about any dream as long as you work hard enough for it.
1:20.3	Speaking of which, join our plus.
1:23.8	If you want more soren scale content, you can get it delivered to you, commercial free and high bandwidth, and extra stuff you won't get on the regular feed. You've heard the whole spiel before. I don't have to do it again, do I? Go to Sorinscale.com slash plus to find out more. It's pretty cheap and well worth it. Don't be a dirty commie. Hey, it's America's birthday.
1:51.0	So let's light up the grill, take out the garden hose, and get ready for another episode of Sword and Scale.
1:52.7	After all, it's America.
1:55.6	And we sure do love our murder here. Yeah. You know, oh, oh, and so on. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
2:34.0	The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
2:38.0	The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
2:42.9	Send these the homeless, tempest tossed to me.
2:47.1	I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
2:54.3	These words are inscribed on America's Statue of Liberty, and for many, they bring to mind images of impoverished immigrants arriving on the shores of New York City's Ellis Island
3:00.1	during America's Second Industrial Revolution. They are words from a poem that at one time
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