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misconduct. a true crime podcast

Larry and Danny Ranes

misconduct. a true crime podcast

misconduct. a true crime podcast

True Crime

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It is rare to have one serial killer in a family, let alone two.


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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. The Welcome back to misconduct. I'm your host, Colleen.

0:43.0

So this is the very first episode of the New Year, and as of the first week of January,

0:48.6

misconduct is officially three years old.

0:50.8

It's a crazy milestone that I never really dreamed was possible when I first started.

0:56.0

And the last three years have been amazing and the podcast has taken me all over and allowed

1:00.9

me to meet amazing new friends.

1:03.0

So I just wanted to say thank you to all the listeners and to anyone who has supported misconduct over the years.

1:09.0

And with that, let's get right into the episode. It's rare to have one serial killer in a family, let alone two.

1:20.0

Brothers Larry and David Rains of Kalamazoo, Michigan were born in the mid 1940s.

1:28.0

They grew up with two sisters, one older and one younger, and their mother and their father

1:36.1

father worked as a gas station attendant and their mother worked part-time.

1:41.4

While we wouldn't bat an eyelid at this family dynamic nowadays, in the 1950s when the boys were growing up, this was considered to be more unusual.

1:52.0

The boys were the middle children and they were close in age with only one year between them and because of that they grew up as each other's competition.

2:01.0

When the boys were 9 and 10, their father left their family to start a new life with a much younger woman in Florida.

2:10.0

Although their father had been abusive and brought out their competitive nature with each other,

2:15.0

his departure left a gap in the family.

2:19.0

The boys tried to reconnect with their father as teens,

2:22.0

but they were turned away and they gave up trying to bring their father back into their lives.

2:27.6

The boys continued to compete in anything and everything, each determined to be the winner over the other brother.

2:38.0

In high school, Larry and Danny both dated the same girl, Paula, who was on and off with both of the brothers.

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