Mystery Tour In A Buick 8
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Episode 373 tells the story of two young men who go on a road trip together, but only one of them makes it as far as Santa Fe, and he pretends to be the other. In the meanwhile, an Iowa family goes on a desperate hunt for their missing brother.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:04.0 | Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 14th, 1916. |
| 0:16.0 | Clyde D. Armour of Sioux City, Iowa, is believed to have been murdered somewhere between here and |
| 0:21.7 | wagon mound by a mysterious unknown motor companion, who later posed as armor in Santa Fe, |
| 0:28.5 | secured money under the name, and vanished. Armour is five feet, 11 inches tall, athletic build, |
| 0:36.7 | light brown hair, blue eyes, clean-shaven, weight |
| 0:40.3 | 160 to 165 in his 30s. When last heard of, he wore a business suit and cap, dark flannel shirt, |
| 0:49.3 | collar fastened with pearl buttons, and a dark tie. He was chief clerk in the passenger depot of the Northwestern Railroad at Sioux City. |
| 1:00.0 | Roy and Glen Armour of Sioux City, Iowa, arrived here today in search of trace of their brother, |
| 1:07.0 | Clyde D. Armour, who started for Fresno, California from Denver, Colorado, October 22nd in an automobile, |
| 1:15.0 | with a traveling companion name unknown, who responded to an advertisement in a Denver paper. |
| 1:22.4 | The car was an eight-cylinder Oldsmobile. |
| 1:25.8 | Armour was heard of at Trinidad the same evening and next day at |
| 1:30.0 | Wagon Mound, New Mexico, where he was reported to be with the unknown man. On the night of October 23rd, |
| 1:38.3 | a young man answering the description of Armour's traveling companion arrived in Santa Fe, registered at a local |
| 1:45.4 | hotel as Clyde D. Armour, wired Armour's relatives, and succeeded in getting them to send |
| 1:51.2 | him $500. |
| 1:53.0 | He was about 25 years old, 5 feet 9 inches, light hair and well groomed. |
| 1:58.6 | Armour's brothers say the handwriting of the telegrams, copies of which they saw here, is not that of their brother. |
| 2:04.6 | They are confident the mysterious stranger murdered their brother. |
| 2:09.6 | They learned today that the imposter was last seen in Albuquerque on October 30th or 31st, when he sold the Oldsmobile to Harry Hammond and Odie Dyer of that city |
| 2:20.8 | and boarded a train for California. |
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