Episode 243: The O'Connell Funeral Home Murders Part 1

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The city of Hudson, Wisconsin was rocked when Dan O’Connell and James Ellison were found gunned down in the office of The O’Connell Funeral home. The case would take years to solve and an array of theories tore investigators in several directions. The case was all but cold when a new lead emerged unexpectedly, leading detectives right to the door of Hudson’s local Catholic Church. Tune in next week for part 2 of our coverage on this case.

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0:00.0	First degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, first degree, the first degree.
0:07.0	Get on the news, get on the cable, get on the cable.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:22.0	It took me a while to compute, you know, everybody in America in a small town situation is probably the same.
0:29.0	You know, you think like that's not something that happens and this is crazy.
0:34.0	Like two people really, like we both know them.
0:38.0	Welcome to the first degree, the True Crime Podcast.
0:40.0	Like you might end up on my name is Jack Fianic.
0:42.0	I'm sitting here with the Lexus Link Letter.
0:44.0	And today we have something really special for you.
0:48.0	Something that we haven't done in a while and that is a two-part episode.
0:52.0	I can't even remember the last time we did a two-part or can you?
0:55.0	I can't and you know what?
0:56.0	We used to do them all the time.
0:58.0	I know.
0:59.0	And people love them or sometimes we get irritated because then it's like they have to live with the cliffhanger.
1:05.0	But for those of you who are worried about that, we have come up with kind of a solution.
1:10.0	Oh yeah.
1:11.0	If you can't wait for part two, you can't wait a week for part two.
1:15.0	So that solution is, if you join our Patreon, you can get part two of this episode right away.
1:20.0	You can binge the whole thing in one setting.
1:23.0	And that's what we're going to start doing for our multi-part episodes moving forward.
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