S2 Ep54: Ninety Steps
Michigan Monsters
Jenn Carpenter
4.9 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
When serial killer Marvin Charles Gabrion II brutally murdered a teenage mother in the shadows of Manistee National Forest, just ninety steps made the difference in jurisdiction, resulting in him becoming Michigan's first death row inmate in over half a century.
Case: Rachel Timmerman and Shannon VerHage
Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Intro/Outro Edits: Ben Goldman
RESOURCES:
The Color of Night (L.C. Timmerman and John H. Timmerman)
Beyond Contempt, Episode 22
Already Gone, Episode 84
(See full list of resources at sodeadpodcast.com)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a scream queen production. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is So Dead podcast. |
| 0:17.7 | Greetings, Earthlings, or should I say, surprise, bitches. Welcome to the back half of So Dead |
| 0:25.1 | Season 2. Normally, I would have made some sort of announcement that new episodes were coming, |
| 0:32.9 | but I kind of made a last-minute decision to stick to my original schedule rather than put things off like I really should have done because, well, I missed you guys and I missed talking true crime. |
| 0:47.2 | Happy True Crime Tuesday. We are officially on day 11 billion of quarantine. How's everyone holding up? Are you guys rocking |
| 0:57.7 | mask-shaped tan lines yet? I had the hardest time getting used to wearing a mask. I've got |
| 1:05.5 | anxiety. I feel like I've got like a little bit of claustrophobia. I can't wear like turtlenecks. I rarely |
| 1:13.2 | wear coats and we live in Michigan, but I don't like long sleeves. I don't wear hoodies. |
| 1:18.6 | The necks are too. Like I just, I have a thing with clothes. Loose, free, comfy, easy, breezy. |
| 1:25.0 | I was the little girl that never wore dresses because tights were too itchy. |
| 1:29.1 | I still ripped the tags out of the backs of my shirts. Just, you know, it's a whole thing. |
| 1:35.6 | So to get used to wearing something on my face like that, not easy, but I'm doing it for you |
| 1:43.4 | and for me, for all of us. All right, so we've got a lot to talk about |
| 1:50.4 | today, but I'm going to save that for the end of the show, as always. I know it's been a while, |
| 1:57.0 | so let's jump right in. Today, I'm going to tell you guys about Michigan's only death row inmate, serial killer Marvin Charles Gabriel the second. |
| 2:09.0 | This one's actually been on my list for a long time. And it's also probably one that people request for me to cover the most. So it's just, it's a rough one. |
| 2:19.7 | So I had a hard time with it. But here we are. Cedar Springs is a small town of about 3500 residents |
| 2:26.5 | located 20 miles north of Grand Rapids on Michigan's west side. It is home to the Red Flannel Festival, a celebration of red flannel, obviously. |
| 2:40.1 | Most specifically, red and black plain, nope, oh, here we go already. More specifically, |
| 2:49.2 | red and black plaid flannel pajamas with like the drop seat at the |
| 2:55.3 | butt with the buttons. I think I've only actually seen those in cartoons, but apparently they're a real |
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