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True Crime Campfire

Episode 3: The Puppet Master and the Prince of Darkness, Part 3: Puppeteering

True Crime Campfire

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We learn what police found in "Prince of Darkness" Dr. Jay C. Smith's car and basement after his arrest for the Sears robberies. And Ezra Pound-obsessed English teacher Bill Bradfield lets his nearest and dearest in on an explosive secret. The lives of our key players are about to get much more complicated--and much more dangerous.

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0:00.0

Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime

0:04.4

campfire. We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney. And we're

0:09.2

here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

0:12.8

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire. So, campers, in the last episode, Prince and Principal of Darkness, Dr. J. Smith, was arrested

0:27.7

and charged with impersonating a Brinks Courier to rob a Sears store and then attempting to do the same thing a few months later at another Sears.

0:35.0

Upper Marion was about to learn more than they ever wanted to know about the secret life of this prominent educator and former Army Colonel. And while Smith was busy getting arrested, Ezra Pound obsessed English teacher Bill

0:46.2

Bradfield had a lot of plates in the air.

0:48.8

His long-suffering live-in girlfriend Sue Myers, his teenage former student slash girlfriend Wendy, and

0:54.4

humorless but intellectual girlfriend Joanne, his floundering arts and

0:58.6

craft store, and last but not least, girlfriend Susan Reinert, who was getting increasingly tired of his excuses

1:05.0

about why he couldn't be with her and her alone.

1:07.8

He had to keep all these women away from each other and carefully monitor which of his

1:11.4

adoring band of disciples got to know about which parts of his adoring band of disciples

1:13.0

got to know about which parts of his complicated life.

1:16.0

It was a lot of stress on a guy who just wanted to be adored. The puppet master and the Prince of Darkness, Part 3, puppeteering.

1:38.6

So after Jay Smith's arrest on the robbery and attempted robbery charges, word quickly got around about all the creepy stuff

1:44.6

the police had found in his car. The evidence of robbery, for sure, there was the Brinks uniform,

1:50.5

the fake ID, but also the homemade silencers, the syringes full of sedatives, the guns,

1:57.0

the duct tape.

1:59.2

Not only that, but the cops had searched his man cave of a basement and found all my God all kinds of stuff

2:05.8

including you ready for this Katie oh so ready chains

2:11.4

my god huge jugs of nitric acid.

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