Father Ryan Erickson - 455

The Generation Why Podcast

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True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

February 5, 2002. Hudson, WI. Dan O’Connell, a funeral home owner, and his intern, James Ellison, are found shot to death in Dan’s office at O’Connell Family Funeral Home. Though the police had leads, none of them led to a viable suspect. Almost three years later, while investigating a separate case, detectives interviewed Father Ryan Erickson, a Catholic priest who was serving in Hudson in 2002. He revealed information only the killer and detectives knew about the double murder. As police investigated, Father Ryan hanged himself outside of his rectory and took any means of solving Dan and James’ deaths with him. This leaves the question, did a Catholic priest kill two men? And if he did, why?

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0:30.0	How are you doing tonight, Aaron? I'm doing good, Justin. How are you feeling now?
0:48.2	Well, at the time of this recording, which is the 9th of January, I'm still recovering
0:56.0	from COVID. I think I got the Megatron. So it's been going around like wildfire.
1:03.0	Well, you do sound better tonight, so that's good. Yeah, it's been a rough week. And anyone
1:10.2	that says that Omnichran is... Omnichran. Anyone that says Megatron is mild, well, let's
1:20.0	just say that it's less severe. It's not mild by any stretch of the imagination. In other
1:27.4	words, you wouldn't wish COVID upon anyone. Well, there's a couple people I would, but we won't
1:34.2	name them. Now, you have an announcement to make, right? Aside from having COVID. Yeah.
1:40.4	Anyone out in the Colorado area, Colorado Springs and Denver, February 10th, I'm going to be at the
1:48.3	Goat Patch Brewery, Colorado Springs, February 11th, Breckenridge Brewery, February 12th,
1:55.4	Infinite Monkey, Theorem in Denver, and then February 13th. It's called Kramas House. It's not
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2:09.3	crime or generation Y in those locations, and you'll find tickets available through Kraltskrim and
2:16.8	Cabernet, true consequences, and true crime, IRL. We'll all be up there doing a live show.
2:23.7	Also, we don't mention this enough, but we do have a Patreon page, and I think many of you would
2:29.3	be interested. We just put up some great episodes. One involves a UFO that, I guess you could say
2:36.9	landed in Kansas back in the 70s, what we talk about that. There's also a case of a mother
2:42.4	who was accused of killing her daughter by her young son. So, I might want to go out to Patreon,
2:49.1	sign up and check out those episodes. Yeah, I think the UFO one's pretty interesting and fun,
2:57.0	if you need a break from murder and mayhem. Hi there, Wondry listeners. Hannah and
3:02.6	Sruti here from True Cram Podcast Red handed. Your favorite podcast red handed. We just wanted
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