S5 Ep106: The Four

Violent Ends

History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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On a Monday afternoon in May of 1930, the world's first set of identical quadruplets were born in Lansing, Michigan- even though nobody knew they were coming. Instant celebrities, the Morlok quads were treated like a sideshow attraction by the community that insisted on naming them and claiming them as their own. While the girls were paraded around the country in matching dresses performing adorable song-and-dance routines as they racked up Guiness World Records, their sweet smiles hid ghastly secrets. Behind the picture of a wholesome American family was a house of horrors.

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0:00.0	This is a Scream Queen production.
0:05.7	These violet delights have violet ends.
0:13.3	Violet ends.
0:16.9	Violet ends.
0:19.8	And we're back. I'm Jen Carpenter. Welcome to the home stretch of season five of Violin Ends.
0:27.9	Did you miss me? I missed you guys. But let me tell you, taking the month of August off is a necessity.
0:42.3	Because the planning of a festival of oddities has become pure insanity, just absolute chaos. Did you come this year? Did you have fun? Honestly,
0:51.9	I was a little nervous about doing a two-day festival and kind of just anxious in general after the nightmare we went through with our special celebrity guest last year.
1:04.1	But even though it was a hotter than Satan's butthole this year, This was kind of my favorite year yet.
1:13.2	I think we're finally getting the perfect layout down, which is huge.
1:18.8	I'm still so mad about it being 90-fucking degrees out all weekend, though.
1:26.0	Know what else I'm mad about? That nobody thought I needed to know about this
1:32.8	weird piece of Michigan history, Lansing history at that that we're going to talk about today.
1:40.5	If I were to ask you if you know about the Morlock quads, what would you say? My response,
1:47.0	when asked that very question a few weeks ago, was, where's that? It sounds like a place, right?
1:54.8	It's not. So, buckle up buttercups because you're in for a wild ride.
2:04.5	Today's twisted tale begins with the good old-fashioned 1920s love story.
2:10.5	Sadie Lyon was born in 1890 in rural Ohio.
2:15.4	The eldest of seven children born into a poor farming family, Sadie did not
2:20.0	have it easy growing up. Her father was an abusive alcoholic. Her mother was largely absent
2:26.6	from the day to day, leaving much of the mothering to Sadie, who was only older than her siblings
2:33.1	by a few years. So when the opportunity
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