Herrin Massacre
Criminal
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 39.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this show comes from Krakan. |
| 0:03.0 | Krypto is like the financial system, but different. |
| 0:07.0 | It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score, |
| 0:11.0 | or your outrageous food delivery habits. |
| 0:13.7 | crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time. |
| 0:18.4 | Krakhan, see what crypto can be. |
| 0:21.3 | Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest. |
| 0:25.0 | This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I always talked about how it's the best kept secret ever. |
| 0:37.0 | The people of Heron took those secrets in what they saw to their grave. |
| 0:47.0 | This is author Scott Duty. |
| 0:49.0 | In the summer of 1922, in a town called Heron in southern Illinois, 23 people were murdered over two days. |
| 0:59.4 | Men, women and children, came out of their houses to watch and in some cases to take part in the violence. |
| 1:07.0 | I don't understand how this just happens, how, was there any voice of reason in this whole thing? |
| 1:14.0 | See that, and I hear this in your voice, and it's what I learned through the four or five years of research. |
| 1:20.0 | You keep thinking, you know, we all grow up watching movies the guy in the black hat the guy in the white hat the good guy all movies in well so forth so on no |
| 1:31.5 | No one stepped forward No one stepped forward and no one would discuss it. |
| 1:39.0 | More than 50 years after the murders, two college students from Southern Illinois University |
| 1:45.6 | went to Heron and started asking people to talk about what had happened. |
| 1:51.1 | They literally drove over to Heron with an old school tape recorder and taped men at the local pool hall in downtown Heron in the 1970s, guys that were alive and had participated in the |
| 2:05.8 | massacre. Now had they thought about it, of course young people do crazy things |
| 2:10.9 | they would have never done that, but they actually got people to talk to them people do |
| 2:13.4 | things they would have never done that but they actually got people to talk to them about what had happened |
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