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Red Collar

House of Horrors: Eric Hanson

Red Collar

Catherine Townsend

History, Red Collar, Con Artist, Investigation, American Greed, Society & Culture, Blood Money, Love Detective, White Collar Crime, Catherine Townsend, Hell And Gone, True Crime, Fraud, Murder, Documentary, Red Collar Crime, White Collar, Red Collar Diaries

4.6604 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After police find four members of the Hanson family bludgeoned and shot to death in an upscale neighborhood in Aurora, Illinois, the hunt is on to find the psychopath who was stalking them - before the killer strikes again.

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0:00.0

On September 29, 2005, police raced to the home of 34-year-old Jimmy Sal and his wife, 31-year-old Kate Sal, in the upscale White Eagle Club neighborhood of Aurora, Illinois.

0:13.0

Jimmy owned a computer import-export business.

0:16.0

When he failed to show up for work one day, his brother, who worked at the office with him,

0:21.4

immediately knew that something must be wrong.

0:24.5

He told police that he had last seen Jimmy and Kate, who also worked at their office as an administrative assistant,

0:30.7

the day before, at around 5 p.m.

0:33.9

This was a very safe neighborhood.

0:36.6

Jimmy and Kate lived near a golf club. They had regular security patrols. This was not very safe neighborhood. Jimmy and Kate lived near a golf club.

0:38.3

They had regular security patrols.

0:40.3

This was not a high crime area.

0:43.3

Jimmy's brother rang the doorbell,

0:45.3

and when he got no answer, he looked inside the window.

0:49.3

And that's when he saw the body in a pool of blood.

0:53.3

Police broke down the door of the two-story five-bedroom house And that's when he saw the body in a pool of blood.

1:00.6

Police broke down the door of the two-story five-bedroom house, and this quiet suburban neighborhood quickly transformed into a chaotic crime scene.

1:05.7

Inside the house, police found a bloodbath.

1:09.3

There were a total of four bodies, each in a different part of the house.

1:14.0

Jimmy's brother ran inside.

1:16.5

In the living room, he saw a body on the sofa.

1:20.5

Forensic testing would later reveal that that body was Jimmy.

1:25.3

He had been bludgeon to death, and his face was so caved in

1:29.3

that his own brother didn't recognize him.

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