Lake Placid Bodies - Robert Garrow.

True Crimecast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The episode explores the famous 1973 case of serial killer Robert Garrow and the unprecedented ethical firestorm that consumed his defense lawyers. After Garrow confessed to the murder and location of two missing teenage girls, his attorneys secretly found and photographed the bodies but, bound by attorney-client privilege, refused to tell police or the victims' families for six months. Discover how this decision made them social pariahs, forced them to defend their actions in court, and ultimately set the legal standard for a lawyer's duty to a client versus their obligation to humanity.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, igniting conversation.
0:05.0	This is True Crimecast, Jamie and John here, and it is almost Christmas.
0:30.6	Merry almost Christmas to you, brother.
0:32.5	I hope Santa Claus comes and he's good to you, man.
0:35.5	I got some bad news for you, buddy.
0:37.0	I'm just kidding.
0:38.1	You're on the naughty list.
0:40.2	I knew it.
0:41.6	I did write some letters on your behalf, not in the positive way.
0:45.7	In the year of our Lord, John was naughty.
0:49.0	Wow.
0:49.5	That's pretty good.
0:50.9	We appreciate you guys hanging out with us here today.
0:53.6	And we have got a very
0:55.5	interesting case for you. Before we get into that, we did want to thank some folks, as we always do.
1:02.8	This comes from a five-star review over on Apple Podcasts. And this is from Chris Madichin.
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1:13.1	It says, thanks for doing the story on my babies and Alyssa Davaltz.
1:17.6	That was a very eerie case that we did back in June.
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1:23.4	It's called Thrown Away, Chris.
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