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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE-Richard Carson

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2015

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

First came the unsettling Ouija board prophesy that Robin Adams would die before her 17th birthday. When a minister was summoned to rid the house of frightening phenomena blamed on the Ouija board, he was taunted and denounced by a neighbor and suspected Satanist. Thus, the die was cast for one of the most bizarre murder cases in Michigan history. In 1976, when Robin vanished without a trace from the village of Caro, police were left without a body, witnesses or anything remotely resembling a crime scene. The case went cold for six years. Then, when a rookie state police detective was assigned to reopen the investigation, what followed reads like chapters from a Stephen King novel -- right down to the claim that the killer's grandmother was practicing black magic to avenge efforts to bring him to justice. FRUIT OF THE POISONOUS TREE-Richard Carson

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You are now listening to true murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime

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History, and the authors that have written about them gassy, bundy,

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author, talking about the most shocking and infamous killers in true crime history.

0:31.0

True murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

0:37.3

Good evening.

0:47.3

First came the unsettling Ouija board prophecy that Robin Adams would die before her 17th

0:53.1

birthday.

0:54.7

When a minister was summoned to rid the house of frightening phenomena blamed on the Ouija

0:59.2

board, he was taunted and denounced by a neighbor and suspected Satanist.

1:05.4

Thus the die was cast for one of the most bizarre murder cases in Michigan history.

1:10.8

In 1976, when Robin vanished without a trace from the village of Carro, police were left

1:17.5

without a body, witnesses or anything remotely resembling a crime scene.

1:22.8

The case went cold for six years.

1:25.7

Then when a rookie state police detective was assigned to reopen the investigation, what

1:31.8

followed reads like chapters from a Stephen King novel.

1:35.9

Right down to the claim that the killer's grandmother was practicing black magic to

1:40.4

avenge efforts to bring him to justice.

1:44.0

The book that we're featuring this evening is Fruit of the Poisonous Tree with my special

1:49.6

guest, journalist and author Richard Carson.

1:53.3

Welcome to the program and thank you for agreeing to this interview.

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