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Who Killed...?

Joseph Paul Franklin- America's Racist Serial Killer

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode we look into the horrible crimes committed by racist Joseph Paul Franklin. From 1977-1980, Franklin raged his very own race war as he traveled the country murdering at his discretion. This is truly one of the worst people I have ever researched. A riveting, cautionary tale rooted in history that continues to echo today, The Killer's Shadow is a terrifying and essential exploration of the criminal personality in the vile grip of extremism and what happens when rage-filled speech evolves into deadly action and hatred of the “other" is allowed full reign. -The Killer's Shadow Sources: Murderpedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0HgdWWSCaI The Killer's Shadow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8sYQwK6Fpk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Slow Burn Media, Evergreen Podcast, presents Who Killed?

0:10.0

A podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

0:13.0

The whole Franklin stood motionless as he heard the court clerk read guilty to both counts of civil

0:21.2

rights violations. The all-white, ten-woman, two-man jury returned the verdict after 13

0:26.2

and a half hours of deliberation. The 30-year-old Mobile Alabama native was characterized by the

0:31.3

prosecution as a pathological loner and a man so consumed with hatred for blacks that killing

0:36.9

them was too good for them.

0:38.3

Franklin throughout the proceedings maintained his innocence,

0:41.3

although he did say the blacks did deserve to die for race mixing.

0:45.3

Franklin was arrested October 28th in Lakeland, Florida,

0:48.3

following a two-month nationwide manhunt after an earlier escape from a Florence Kentucky police station. He has

0:54.6

wanted for questioning in several other states involving similar sniping

0:58.0

incidents including the attempted murder of National Urban League President

1:01.7

Vernon Jordan last May.

1:03.2

Good evening everyone the families of 13-year-old Dante Evans and 14-year-old

1:08.4

Darrell Lane went to bed last night believing Joseph Paul Franklin's

1:12.2

execution had been stopped. But when they woke up, he was dead.

1:16.3

Overnight, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned to federal judges ruling. The execution was

1:20.7

for the 1977 murder of a man at a synagogue outside St. Louis. One of 22 murders he admitted to in a cross-country spree.

1:29.6

He was trying to start a race war. Local 12s Debra Dixon talked with the Evans family after his

1:35.0

early morning execution.

1:40.1

This morning, the brother of Dante Evans wept at the Redding Road site where his brother and cousin were killed by sniper fire 33 years ago.

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