MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD-Emerson Murray

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers

Dan Zupansky

True Crime, News Commentary, Documentary, News, Society & Culture

4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Over 25 people murdered in just over two and a half years. What was happening in the small coastal town of Santa Cruz between October 1970 and Feburary 1973?
John Linley Frazier’s home invasion murders of the Ohta family and Dorothy Cadwallader in 1970 and the serial murder sprees of Herbert Mullin and Edmund Kemper left tremors in Santa Cruz that can still be felt today.
Local law enforcement, victims’ families and friends, classmates and acquaintances of the killers, local historians, voices from the past and present, and the killers themselves all come together to tell the horrific stories and explain why Santa Cruz was dubbed THE MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD in the early 1970s.
Murder Capital of the World is a primary source history telling the story of Santa Cruz in the early 1970’s through quotes and first person stories. MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: The Santa Cruz community looks back at the John Linley Frazier, Herbert Mullin, and Edmund Kemper murder sprees of the early 1970's-Emerson Murray

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0:59.8	You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in true crime history,
1:13.9	and the authors that have written about them. Gacy, Bundy, Dahmer, The Night Stalker,
1:20.4	DCK, every week, another fascinating author talking about the most shocking and infamous
1:26.3	killers in true crime history. True Murder, with your host, journalist and author, Dan
1:32.7	Zufantki.
1:36.2	Good evening. Over 25 people murdered in just over 2 and a half years.
1:50.3	What was happening in the small coastal town of Santa Cruz between October 1970 and February
1:56.5	1973? John Lennely Fraser's home invasion murders
2:01.0	of the Ota family and Dorothy Cadwalder in 1970 in the serial murder sprees of Herbert
2:07.0	Mullin and Edmund Kemper left tremors in Santa Cruz that can still be felt today.
2:14.0	Local law enforcement, victims, families and friends, classmates and acquaintance of the
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