S5 Ep98: Bamba

Violent Ends

History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

It was 35 below, the wind was howling, and the snow was waist-deep when three young men burst through the door of Hotel St. James in the remote town of Ironwood, Michigan during the early morning hours of Feb 1, 1959. They were inadequately dressed for the dangerous weather, disheveled, and visibly shaken from a near-death experience. Even still…there was something about them. They were handsome. Charming. Special, even. That much, the townsfolk knew. What they didn’t know, couldn’t have known, was that the events that unfolded on the desolate highway that separates Northern Wisconsin from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula started a chain reaction, leading to an unspeakable tragedy that rocked the world less than 48 hours later. (And yes, I said toin coss.)

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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.
0:19.6	Greetings, Earthlings, or should I say?
0:23.5	Hello, baby.
0:26.6	It's, hi, it's me.
0:28.6	I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is Violent Ends.
0:32.6	Wherever you are, as you listen to today's episode, I hope that you're warm and cozy, because after a late start,
0:40.4	winter is here, honey, and it might be March now, but Michigan is still an Arctic tundra.
0:48.6	I say that, because as I'm writing this episode out, we are digging ourselves out from another snowstorm.
0:56.0	Between snowstorms and ice storms, my shop has been closed so much these past couple of months.
1:03.7	But because this is Michigan, it will probably be like 60 and sunny by the time this episode airs with like another snowstorm
1:12.7	in the forecast in a couple of days. It's chaos and it doesn't make sense, but I don't make the
1:19.9	rules. I will say though, Michigan winters aren't typically as brutal as non-Michiganders
1:26.8	imagine them to be. We make it like a few big snowstorms,
1:30.5	a couple of really, really cold snaps, but for the most part, it's just gray and chilly and slushy
1:36.3	and gross. At least downstate where I live. Up north is an entirely different ballgame,
1:43.7	and the Upper Peninsula, that's like an entirely
1:47.4	different world. Narnia, IRL, and that friends, is where today's story begins.
1:55.2	In the UP, not in Narnia, because that would be weird.
1:58.4	It's not unusual for temperatures to reach dangerously cold levels.
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