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Violent Ends

S3 Ep71: Salesman

Violent Ends

Violent Ends

History, True Crime

4.9656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1966, Michigan housewife Betty Reynolds had it all- a loving husband, two beautiful children, a cute little cottage in the woods. But a visit from a stranger one sunny afternoon would change everything- not just for the Reynolds family, but for the entire town.

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0:00.0

This is the Scream Queen production.

0:07.6

Ah, ah, ah, ah.

0:13.9

I never will forget the tragic ending met the day your last sunset

0:26.6

so dead so dead So Dead.

0:40.3

Welcome to So Dead. I'm your host, Jen Carpenter.

0:48.1

Happy True Crime Tuesday.

0:50.6

I hope that you're all enjoying this summer weather that you wanted so bad.

0:56.1

I know not everyone is in Michigan, but here I'm a mitten.

0:58.9

It has been fucking hot for like many, many days in a row, super hot.

1:04.7

And I don't appreciate it at all.

1:08.1

I don't really like the heat, but it's exceptionally hot and we're barely into summer.

1:13.7

So needless to say, summertime in Grand Lodge is just not a good time this year so far.

1:20.6

Summertime in Grand Ledge was also not a good time back in 1966, but it wasn't because of the heat.

1:30.3

It was because the entire city was living in fear of the Grand Ledge Slayer. So I've lived in the Grand Ledge area for almost 15 years now,

1:36.8

and when I came across this case through some random deep diving I was doing a couple years ago

1:42.2

on something else, I was like super pissed. Grand Ledge had

1:45.6

a slayer and I didn't know about it. Turns out though, very few people know about it. It's one of those

1:53.0

awful slices of life that the community swept under the rug as small towns so often do when

1:59.3

tragedy and scandal strikes.

2:02.9

So let's talk a little bit about Grand Ledge. We've talked about it before, just in me telling stories about life and my family.

2:08.2

For those of you just tuning in and not familiar with Mid-Michigan or Michigan,

2:13.4

Grand Ledge is a small community just west of Lansing, which is the capital city,

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