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Chillingworth

Episode 7: Lying, Thieving, Murderous People

Chillingworth

Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.6536 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sheriff John Kirk reaches out to the Florida Sheriff’s Bureau for help when the body of a young man from Jacksonville surfaces in a canal. The Sheriff’s Bureau assigns the case to a progressive, relentless young detective, Henry Lovern.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Previously on Chillingworth.

0:05.0

One of Bobby's associates in Jacksonville was a young man named Lou Jean Harvey.

0:12.0

Bobby was arrested in the Dragnet, along with Lou Jean Harvey.

0:15.0

Because the feds apparently allowed Lou Jean Harvey to escape, and because of the subsequent contact between the agents and Harvey,

0:22.6

his colleagues began to believe he was an informant.

0:27.6

When Floyd heard what had happened

0:29.6

and learned that there was an informant,

0:31.6

he went to Bobby with a proposal.

0:35.6

The obvious solution to Floyd was to kill Lou Gein Harvey.

0:42.3

Floyd began to plan yet another murder.

0:47.3

Three days after Floyd shot Harvey in the top of the head, two men were bass fishing out near

0:53.3

20 mile bend. As one of the men reeled in his

0:56.6

line to check his bait, he caught a glimpse of something floating and realized he was looking

1:01.5

at a body.

1:07.3

Welcome back to Chillingworth.

1:14.6

Oh dear, there's so much horror in the world. The L-40 Canal lies outside the West Palm Beach city limits in unincorporated Palm Beach County.

1:23.6

So the first law enforcement officers who arrived when the two bass fishermen called in about

1:29.6

the bloated corpse they'd come across were Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies.

1:35.9

When Sheriff John Kirk had had a chance to consider the circumstances surrounding what was clearly

1:41.0

a murder, he concluded that organized crime had been behind the homicide.

1:47.0

They executed him, gangster style, I guess you would say,

1:51.0

with his hands tied behind him and gagging his mouth of blindfold,

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