S4 Ep93: The Tower

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As the Great Depression sunk its teeth into America, a Lansing man's fortune was on the rise- literally. Auto magnate R.E. Olds built a decadent sky scraper, the tallest building in Michigan's capital city, to house his bank. But less than a year after the Olds Tower opened its doors, blood and bullets tarnished its immaculate reputation. What drove a pillar of the community to a shooting rampage? Deak Mead wasn't motivated by money. He was after revenge.

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0:00.0	Imagine that. Oh my God, imagine if I did my whole podcast and forgot to hit record, I would just jump out the window. That's what I would do. All right, here we go.
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0:28.6	I never will
0:30.6	forget
0:31.6	The tragic ending
0:34.6	Matt
0:35.6	The day
0:36.6	your last Suns Sets Magic ending match the day or last sunset
0:40.3	So dead. I'm
0:59.7	Welcome to So dead. I'm your host, Jen Carpenter. Today's episode is one that I'm very excited to present to you
1:07.7	because it solves a mystery I have been curious about for forever.
1:12.7	When you live your whole life in the same general area, you come to learn the history of your
1:17.3	hometown, both the true and the untrue. One of the urban legends I grew up hearing was that
1:24.5	there are bullet holes in the ceiling of the tallest building in Lansing,
1:29.4	a result of a bank robbery in the 1930s that was allegedly perpetrated by either Al Capone
1:36.8	or the Purple Gang or both. I've heard it both ways. Once I learned how to internet sleuth,
1:43.8	and I've gotten pretty good at that,
1:45.6	I looked and I looked and I looked for this story, and I found nothing.
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