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Who Killed...?

Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case, interview with host Justin Glanville

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Join me & host Justin Glanville as we dive into his latest podcast; Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case. In 1970, two university students who'd recently fallen in love were murdered in a Columbus apartment, in a crime so brutal it drew comparisons to the Manson murders of the previous year. Their names were Mary Petry and Bill Sproat, and the case has never been solved. In the new Ideastream Public Media true crime podcast "Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case," reporter Justin Glanville, whose parents knew Bill Sproat, investigates the case alongside the victims' two sisters. Apple Podcasts NPR Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case- Website/Timeline Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

0:13.2

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed. I am your host, Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media and Evergreen podcast production.

0:24.2

I am so lucky to be joined this week by the host of Mary and Bill in Ohio Cold Case,

0:31.9

and that would be Justin Glanville.

0:34.4

Thanks so much for joining the show this week, Justin.

0:36.8

Hey, Bill.

0:37.4

Thanks for having me.

0:39.0

So this is a little bit off your beaten path, but this is an extremely interesting case.

0:46.3

And being from Ohio, I actually was unaware of a lot of this information in this case itself.

0:53.1

Far as Ohio State goes, I really was shocked at some

0:57.1

of the stuff that I read and some of the stuff I've already heard on your show you know how did

1:03.6

you get involved and how is that you started into this one episode or this series of episodes

1:09.2

yeah and it's you and I were talking right before we started recording about James

1:14.2

Runner, the true crime addict extraordinaire.

1:17.6

And we'll get to him probably later, but when I reached out to him about this case, Bill,

1:22.5

initially he was like, I'm shocked.

1:24.1

I've never heard of this case.

1:25.6

So I think even for people who really move in these circles of true crime and especially in Ohio,

1:32.2

like it's just been surprisingly under the radar for a really long time.

1:36.9

For me, it was never under the radar because my parents would sometimes talk about this case when I was growing up.

1:43.2

And the reason was because

1:44.6

my mom was a student at Ohio State when it happened. And she was friends with Bill Sprote, who was

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