Jerry The Wildcat

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.4 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Episodes 306, 309, 311

Jerry The Wildcat
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Adapted from True Detective, vol. 56 no. 4, February 1952By Jonas BayerA cowboy rolls into Miles City, Montana, on his way back home to Iowa, and stops in a local cafe to buy a fellow ranch hand a drink. When he's found later, beaten nearly to death in an alley and his roll of bills missing, officials set out to find the fiery red-head he had been talking to in the bar. There was only one clue as to who murdered the drunken cowboy: The fiery red-headed teenager he escorted out of the cafe.
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0:00.0	The afternoon bus from Billings, Montana, turned off U.S. Highway 10 and rumbled down Main Street to the Miles City Depot.
0:14.4	Hot exhaust fumes shimmered from the screened grill in the rear of the vehicle.
0:19.9	Dust, fine as powder, crusted the hubcaps of the ponderous
0:24.5	wheels. John Hoffman leaned forward in his plush seat and looked hopefully out of the bus window.
0:33.5	His eyes lingered on the neon sign of a nearby cafe. He could almost hear the tinkle of ice cubes in tall glasses
0:42.3	that afternoon of Tuesday, September 11th, 1951,
0:46.3	wallowed in the dry heat of the merciless Montana Sun.
1:04.1	The bus nosed its way into the shadows of the terminal building.
1:07.5	There was a stir of activity among the passengers.
1:13.6	Hoffman rose to his feet, drawn by the prospect of a soothing drink and the dark coolness of a comfortable bar. A tall, rangy man stood with his back against the depot wall. He
1:23.6	held the string of a tobacco sack between his teeth, and his attention was fixed on the brown paper cylinder,
1:30.5	which he was smoothing between his nicotine-stained fingers.
1:35.0	A grin turned up the corners of Hoffman's mouth.
1:40.0	With long strides, he reached the man's side and pounded him on the shoulder.
1:46.7	Walt, you old horse thief, Hoffman yelped happily. What are you doing here in Miles City?
1:53.1	His friend, Walter Mackie, grabbed Hoffman's hand and pumped it vigorously.
1:59.0	Mackley and Hoffman had worked together on the same ranch near Helena.
2:03.6	Hoffman had just left his job only the day before.
2:07.9	Just passing through, Mackley said.
2:10.5	What about you?
2:12.3	Going home to Iowa.
2:13.9	How about a drink, chum?
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