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Going West: True Crime

Hadden Clark // 524

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In the 1980s and ’90s, a deeply disturbed man from New Jersey drifted from town to town, hiding behind a soft-spoken voice and a childlike demeanor. Seemingly tormented by delusions, and obsessed with revenge, he harbored gruesome secrets. By the time investigators connected him to the 1986 disappearance of six-year-old Michele Dorr, and later, the baffling vanishing of Harvard graduate Laura Houghteling, it was clear: this man wasn’t just strange... He was deadly. And he may have left behind more victims than anyone ever realized. This is the story of Hadden Clark, also known, as the Cannibal Gardener.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Tith and I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.6

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody. Thank you so

0:23.1

much for tuning in today. This is truly one of the most jaw-dropping cases we have ever covered.

0:29.5

It's shocking. It's disturbing. Like, you have to see it to believe it. Yeah, and I do not think that we've

0:36.3

ever covered a killer quite like Haddon

0:38.6

Clark. And that's not to give this asshole any sort of credit whatsoever, because this guy

0:43.8

is a top of the line piece of shit. I mean, he is the creme de la creme of pieces of shit. And I know

0:50.9

we're going to talk about different movies today because like this story

0:54.3

almost feels fake. Like certain details are almost too shocking to even believe, but there are

0:59.4

very real victims on the other end of this. So without further ado, let's just talk about it.

1:05.1

All right guys, this is episode 524 of Going West, so let's get into it. In 1986. In 1986, a six-year-old girl in Maryland disappeared after going outside to play.

1:50.2

And six years later, a recent Harvard grad last seen at home seemed to vanish into thin air.

1:57.3

The only common denominator between the two victims was their acquaintance with a troubled drifter hiding a strange past and gruesome secrets.

2:13.2

These are the brutal murders of Michelle Dorr and Laura Hodling, committed by suspected serial killer, Padden Clark.

2:46.7

Haddon Irving Clark was born on July 31st, 1952 to parents Flavia and Haddon Senior in upstate New York,

2:51.7

joining an older brother named Bradfield, and then later a younger brother named Jeffrey and a little sister named Allison.

2:54.3

And actually, Haddon and his siblings were born into a pretty distinguished family

2:58.5

because as Flavia claimed, she could trace her family lineage back to their arrival

3:03.9

in the States on the Mayflower.

3:06.4

Hadden's grandfather, on his father's side,

3:08.5

was at one time the mayor of White Plains, New York, and Haddon's senior, so Haddon's dad,

3:14.3

was a Korean War veteran who was one of the inventors of Klingrap, as well as fire-resistant

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