Episode 294: Joan Angela D'Alessandro

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On April 19, 1973, a 7-year-old girl in Hillsdale, New Jersey, goes out selling Girl Scout cookies in her neighborhood. She knows she’s not allowed far, so when she doesn’t come home her family is instantly on high alert, as are the authorities. A widely publicized search for the youngster swings into action. But three days later, a grisly find brings the hunt to a sudden and devastating end. When the identity of the perpetrator emerges and it’s revealed how he assaulted and murdered his helpless victim, it becomes clear that the little girl didn’t even make it to the end of her street. In episode 294, Jac and Alexis detail the heartbreaking murder of Joan D’Alessandro and her family’s fight not just for justice, but for swift and meaningful legislative reform to prevent the horror they lived through from becoming a painful reality for any other family.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the paper and you see it on Facebook.
0:12.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies. See it on a paper, you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	At that time, kids would just go play they would be going to their friends and they would just meet their friend in the street and just okay I'll go over your house they didn't even tell their mommy I'm going over
0:34.4	so-and-so's house and then after they might go over somebody else's house and it was
0:40.4	very free. I didn't think anything of it until about an hour after, but then I said,
0:48.0	well, maybe she forgot, but then something in me started and then before you knew it I was starting to call people
0:59.2	and then I was asking you know around.
1:02.4	I said don't come here she came here to little of the
1:05.2	cookies he said no he was just pure evil pure evil evil evil. Evil could be so subtle.
1:15.0	And his evil is subtle.
1:19.0	Thank God I did it.
1:21.0	That's what gives me such joy joy if I didn't do it I would have not felt the way I feel now being a voice
1:41.3	Welcome to the first degree the true-gram podcast that you might end up on. My name is Jack Vanick. I'm sitting here with the Lexis link letter. What's up, Lex? What's up, Jack? What are you doing? I'm just over here in the office, straight chilling. Straight
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