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Chillingworth

Episode 3: Government by Assassination

Chillingworth

Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6536 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Joe Peel, a charismatic attorney and city magistrate, intends to become Governor of Florida, regardless of who or what stands in his way. As he sets out on his journey towards the governor’s mansion, Joe enlists the aid of Floyd Holzapfel, a war hero from Oklahoma who has dabbled in criminality since he left the Army.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Chillingworth.

0:04.0

Police flocked to the Chillingworth home in Manalapan.

0:09.0

There were 100 law enforcement officers on the scene.

0:13.0

Somebody complaining that the sheriff's office

0:15.0

had walked all through the place and destroyed all the evidence,

0:18.0

and there wasn't anything really to investigate. At the head of the intense investigation was Palm Beach County Sheriff John Kirk.

0:25.6

John Kirk was a very, very corrupt public official, probably the most corrupt.

0:34.6

Why is it so important that we're talking about Sheriff John Kirk?

0:40.3

He's the man that led the investigation into the disappearance of the Chillingworths.

0:44.3

We were going to a cocktail party and I had had a dream and I said to Joe,

1:02.0

Joel, I dreamed last night that the children's worth were in a warehouse.

1:09.0

So where are our warehouse? Let's go find them.

1:12.5

And he turned around and he says,

1:14.8

Skeeter, those people are dead.

1:18.8

Out in the ocean, they're not to be found. You just heard Skidder Jenser.

1:33.3

Skeeter and her husband Jim were close friends with Judge Joe Peel and his wife Imogene.

1:40.3

Like most people in Palm Beach County, in the wake of the Chillingworth's disappearance,

1:47.0

Joe Peel offered a theory about what had happened.

1:50.0

Many people thought whoever had abducted the Chillingworths might be after another prominent

1:56.0

member of society, possibly another judge or political figure.

2:03.6

They were thinking, who's next?

2:08.3

Welcome to Chillingworth.

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