No Mercy For The Swashbuckling Scoundrels
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.5 • 720 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Episode 313 is the action-packed story of a pair of bands who met in juvenile jail, and embarked on a short-lived but deadly crime spree through the Wyoming Valley of Eastern Pennsylvania that included two murders, a shooting to kill, several home invasions, and a general disregard and disdain for social order and the rule of law. But they’ll get what’s coming to them.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:07.0 | Wilkesbury, Pennsylvania, November 15, 1932. |
| 0:15.0 | Spreading out from Bethlehem, where the fugitives narrowly escaped capture early today, |
| 0:22.6 | a widespread police hunt was underway this afternoon for two gunmen, |
| 0:27.6 | who last night murdered Peter Cutler, 50, East Market Street Hardware Merchant. |
| 0:34.6 | A half-dozen towns between Bethlehem and Allentown were scoured by police squads today |
| 0:41.3 | on the theory that the Slayer stole another automobile after abandoning the high-powered car in which they made their escape from this city after killing Cutler. |
| 0:52.3 | One of the fugitives is believed to be wounded in the back or neck, |
| 0:56.0 | as Allentown Police declared that indications pointed to one of them being struck during a five-mile gun duel early today. |
| 1:05.0 | The murder of Cutler occurred about 8 o'clock last night, when two young men entered his store at 327 East Market Street, talked with him briefly, and then fired four small caliber bullets into his body. |
| 1:20.6 | They fled in an automobile stolen Sunday night and owned by John C. Haddock, local coal operator of Riverside Drive. Police teletype |
| 1:32.1 | dispatches today from Harrisburg stated that the gangsters are believed to have stolen a small |
| 1:38.0 | roadster owned by K. Rimer of Allentown about one o'clock this morning. This was shortly after the fleeing |
| 1:46.8 | gunman abandoned the Haddock automobile in a field at North Bethlehem after pursuing police |
| 1:52.6 | had exhausted their ammunition. While police from Lower Pennsylvania assumed the chief |
| 1:58.7 | investigating role today, Wilkesbury authorities were endeavoring to |
| 2:03.2 | definitely fix a motive for the killing. The theory of robbery has been practically abandoned, |
| 2:09.2 | as nothing of value was taken from the store, nor was a large sum of money in Cutler's clothing |
| 2:14.9 | disturbed. Whether Cutler had any connections that might involve |
| 2:19.2 | him with any groups that would desire his murder could not be established. Police are working |
| 2:25.4 | on the theory that the two gunmen were sent here for the express purpose of slaying Cutler, |
| 2:31.4 | but cannot arrive at a motive. True Crime Historian presents an eye for an eye, a special edition of yesterday's news exploring the criminal justice system at its most extreme, |
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