S18 Ep100: Grim Paradise: The Search For The Mackinac Island Killer w/Rod Sadler
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🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 151 minutes
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Summary
When widow Frances Lacey was murdered in July 1960 on Mackinac Island, only a few meager clues were found by police, and the case soon turned cold. But more than sixty years later, will those same clues finally solve the mystery?
On July 24, 1960, the quaint charm and serenity of Mackinac, nestled between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas, was shattered by Lacey’s brutal death. Despite a massive manhunt and thousands of pages of police reports, her killer was never caught.
Author Rod Sadler joins True Crime Tuesday to talk about Frances Lacey's last hours, the different suspects in the crime, and why the case has been so difficult to solve, even all these years later and with technological advancements...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the Best in True Crime Program. |
| 0:25.5 | This is True Crime Tuesday, I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.5 | You know, coming up this weekend I'm going to be taking off for some beautiful country |
| 0:32.9 | up there in the Upper Peninsula in Michigan. |
| 0:36.1 | And believe it or not, today's program is kind of uncanny timing. |
| 0:39.0 | We're going to be talking about Mackinac Island and Mackinac Michigan and some just not only |
| 0:46.4 | beautiful country, but beautiful country that's got a bit of a mystery having to do with |
| 0:50.6 | a murder on Mackinac Island. |
| 0:52.8 | Our guest today is one of our favorite guests of all time. |
| 0:55.6 | Rod Sadler is an author of a brand new book out there and it's a wonderful book. |
| 1:02.1 | I encourage you to go out and get it. |
| 1:04.2 | It's a being released here shortly. |
| 1:05.9 | It's called Grim Paradise. |
| 1:07.5 | The cold case search for the Mackinac Island killer. |
| 1:11.3 | Rod Sadler, let me tell you a little bit about him. |
| 1:13.8 | He worked as a police officer in Mid-Mishigan for 30 years retiring in 2012. |
| 1:18.7 | He began researching his first book after discovering the story of a brutal 1897 murder in |
| 1:24.9 | Williamston, Michigan, a town where he had spent his childhood. |
| 1:28.7 | His great grandfather serves as a sheriff at the time of that murder and he was an integral |
| 1:33.9 | part of that investigation. |
| 1:36.6 | After returning to college late in his law enforcement career, he discovered his love of writing |
| 1:42.0 | and decided to write about what he knows best, which is of course true crime. |
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