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True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History

Queen City Gothic-J.T. Townsend

True Murder: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History

Dan Zupansky

News, News Commentary, True Crime, History

4.0 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2017

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Losing a loved one to murder is life's ultimate tragedy. But when the killer is never captured, a family's paralyzing grief only compounds. Years pass. Pain grows. Time heals nothing. Parents, spouses, and children of the victims never find peace. Investigators continue to lie awake night after night, year after year, thinking, "If only..." Cold cases fascinate us because of the endless possibilities. What if Alice Hochhausler hadn't driven her daughter home from work while a strangler was running loose? What if Oda Apple's wife hadn't sent him to the corner drugstore? What if Linda Bricca hadn't been so beautiful - and her husband not a workaholic? J. T. Townsend takes us on a sinister journey through thirteen cases, which took place in Cincinnati, Ohio, between 1904 and 1971. You'll meet Frances Brady, a pretty bride-to-be gunned down at her own front door. Tommy Coby, age eight, who arrived home to an empty house, and learned later his parents were lying dead in their car. Patty Rebholz, a popular cheerleader, who was bludgeoned in a neighbor's backyard while walking to break up with her teenage boyfriend. What do these cases have in common? A fleeting, irrational act of violence with no resolution. Somebody literally got away with murder. Each episode took place in sheer moments--but hundreds of innocent people still remember, still mourn, and are still haunted by horrible, unbearable images. Townsend's riveting accounts include never-before-published details from police files and insights from both investigators and witnesses. Whodunit? We'll never know for sure--but we can certainly make some informed, calculated guesses. Meanwhile, on these pages, each victim returns to vibrant life, becomes as real to us as to those loved ones they left behind--and still cries out for justice. QUEEN CITY GOTHIC: Cincinnati's Most Infamous Murder Mysteries-J.T. Townsend Follow and comment on Facebook-TRUE MURDER: The Most Shocking Killers in True Crime History   https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064697978510Check out TRUE MURDER PODCAST @ truemurderpodcast.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Locked Toged Baby.

0:10.6

You are now listening to True Murder, the most shocking killers in True Crime History

0:16.0

and the authors that have written about them.

0:18.8

Gacy, Bundy, Domer, The Night Stalker, BTK, every week, another fascinating author talking

0:26.8

about the most shocking and infamous killers in True Crime History.

0:31.0

True Murder with your host, journalist and author, Dan Zufansky.

0:45.8

Good evening.

0:47.9

Losing a loved one to murder is life's ultimate tragedy.

0:52.5

But when the killer is never captured, a family's paralyzing grief only compounds.

0:58.6

Years pass, pain grows, time heals nothing.

1:03.6

Parents, spouses and children of the victims never find peace.

1:08.2

Investigators continue to lie awake night after night, ear after ear thinking, if only.

1:13.9

Cool cases fascinate us because of the endless possibilities.

1:18.0

Judith Alice Hawcosler hadn't driven her daughter home from work while the strangler

1:22.4

was running loose.

1:24.8

What if Oda Apple's wife hadn't sent them to the corner drugstore?

1:28.9

What if Linda Bricka hadn't been so beautiful and her husband not a workaholic?

1:34.6

JT Townsend takes us on a sinister journey through 13 cases which took place in Cincinnati,

1:40.4

Ohio between 1904 and 1971.

1:45.0

You meet Francis Brady, a pretty bride to be, gunned down at her own front door.

1:51.1

Tommy Coby, age 8, who arrived home to an empty house and learned later his parents were

1:56.1

lying dead in their car.

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