Pretty Hostess Slain In Cemetery
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Episode 182 tells the story of a young sex fiend, whose aggressive pursuit of his nefarious goals ends up with a body in a ditch. Police find a diary he kept of his exploits, used in court as evidence... FOR THE DEFENSE!
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.0 | Out of a maze of theories, leads, and slender clues, police today pinned hope for a solution of the brutal murder of 19-year-old |
| 0:23.3 | Mildred Hallmark upon information volunteered by the young victim's sweetheart, Vincent Pilgrim, |
| 0:30.3 | a 23-year-old farmer of Paxton. Pilgrim was being held in technical custody of police, while two |
| 0:37.3 | detectives sought to locate in Dixon, |
| 0:39.9 | a Peoria youth named by Pilgrim as an unwanted suitor of Miss Hallmark. |
| 0:45.4 | Pilgrim told police that the youth he suspects had been rebuffed by Miss Hallmark when he attempted to make dates with her. |
| 0:52.6 | Quote, he had bad habits and she never liked him, |
| 0:55.9 | unquote. In a letter, Miss Hallmark wrote Pilgrim Friday, she mentioned that she had seen the |
| 1:01.3 | youth who was being sought and that he had tried to make a date with her. Miss Hallmark had told |
| 1:06.8 | him that this young man had frequently followed her in his automobile as she rode home on the street car. |
| 1:12.6 | Peoria detectives named the man wanted as Ross Porter. |
| 1:17.6 | Police were also holding Clifton Searley, 24 of Detroit, who was taken into custody for questioning at Clinton. |
| 1:26.6 | Police said Searly had established an alibi |
| 1:29.8 | and that he would be released later today |
| 1:32.0 | as soon as all the details of the alibi had been checked. |
| 1:36.3 | Police also said Detroit Police had been notified that Searly was being held. |
| 1:42.5 | Searly escaped from orderlies at a receiving hospital in Detroit, where he was ordered |
| 1:47.7 | committed to a state institution. |
| 1:51.6 | Miss Hallmark's body was found in Springdale Cemetery. |
| 1:55.5 | Her clothes ripped and her neck broken. |
| 1:59.0 | Some hope was being pinned on the portion of a white linen shirt |
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