This podcast details true crime cases.

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

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Listener discretion is advised. Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once a Mona Crime.

It's Rocktober, which means I'm diving into true crime cases involving musical artists.

This time I'll bring three stories about musicians who met tragic ends as victims of homicide.

In this episode a young Ohio man begins playing music before he is barely out of diapers.

He and his brothers would form a band and shoot to the top of the charts.

They were hometown heroes and certified music stars, but a baffling turn of events would

end in a double tragedy. This is Chapter 1 in the

Rocktober series Murdered Musicians. Zapped, the life and death of

funk musician Roger. You're going to be a good. Rufis and Addie Troutman raised her family in a two bedroom house in Hamilton, Ohio.

This was no easy feat, seeing as they had 10 children and the home consisted of just two

bedrooms and one bathroom.

Mom and dad slept in one of the bedrooms, sharing it with their kids when they were babies.

But once the children were old enough, they all piled into the bedroom and laid their heads

wherever they found space.

To say the family was close then was an understatement.

The siblings became each other's best friends, loving each other intensely and sometimes

squabbling loudly as children often do. But at the end of the day, they looked out for each

other protectively and all pitched in to help with the workload of being a large family.

Their father, Rufus Troutman Sr. worked at a paper mill and drove a truck to provide for his large brood. Their mother, Addie, stayed home to raise the children and keep the home running smoothly.

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