S1 Ep34: Protect and Serve
Michigan Monsters
Jenn Carpenter
4.9 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
When a young wife and mother is shot to death in her own home, there are two suspects- her police officer husband and her two year old son. And a robbery gone wrong becomes a fight to the death between a police officer turned carnival wrestler, and a World War II hero turned judo expert.
Cases: Clayton Smith Jr., Anthony Fartro
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to So Dead, a podcast where we like to shatter your illusions about who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Jen Carpenter. |
| 0:24.6 | And I'm Danny Fairman. |
| 0:25.7 | Happy True Crime Tuesday. |
| 0:27.0 | And happy Taco Tuesday, Deadheads. |
| 0:29.2 | Today. |
| 0:31.0 | Today. |
| 0:32.0 | Today we're going to talk about times when those who were supposed to protect and serve didn't oh i've got one |
| 0:41.1 | i've got one too but let's hear your shirt shocking uh in nineteen forty six 25 year old |
| 0:47.6 | clayton smith was a rookie patrolman with the lansing police department lansing is about zero miles from Lansing. It's right in the |
| 0:57.2 | middle of it. It's right in the middle. Anyway, he was a World War veteran and a Purple Heart recipient, |
| 1:03.6 | and like many of his fellow men and women in uniform, he joined his local police department shortly |
| 1:09.4 | after returning from the war. |
| 1:11.8 | His wife, 21-year-old Roxanne, was a stay-at-home mother to their two little boys, |
| 1:17.3 | two-and-a-half-year-old Clayton Jr., who they called Butchie. |
| 1:20.6 | Butchie? |
| 1:21.2 | Butchie. |
| 1:22.4 | And three-month-old Jimmy. |
| 1:24.5 | The young family lived in Roxanne's mother's home on East North Street, just a few houses |
| 1:30.5 | down from the Turner Dodge House, actually. They lived with Roxanne's mother, Roxy, and four of Roxanne's |
| 1:38.9 | adult siblings. Wait, what? So you do that math. That is nine people, seven of them grown-ass adults in one house. |
| 1:48.0 | Really? |
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