Sentenced To DIe
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | Most murder cases start with a corpse. |
| 0:13.4 | This one didn't. |
| 0:15.7 | In fact, its whole fantastic course was backward. |
| 0:21.2 | It was a battle of wits rather than a manhunt, yet just as baffling a mystery. |
| 0:28.4 | It almost started with a body. |
| 0:31.1 | When 31-year-old Jack P. Jones was wheeled into the emergency room at St. Luke's Hospital in Denver, Colorado, |
| 0:38.3 | an apparent hit-and-run victim shortly before midnight on the stormy Wednesday night of July 29th, |
| 0:45.3 | 1953. He was considered by the surgeons a near hopeless case. The unconscious man's head was battered and bleeding |
| 0:55.9 | with multiple cuts and bruises and a probable skull fracture. |
| 1:01.6 | His left hand was cut and broken. |
| 1:05.5 | The doctor suspected internal injuries. |
| 1:09.3 | Before Radio Patrolman Julian Bender and Bird Alexander, responding to the routine hospital |
| 1:15.8 | call, reached the desk they were confronted by a tall, husky, blondish, curly-haired young man |
| 1:22.6 | in a sleeveless t-shirt, spattered with rain and blood. |
| 1:29.0 | He burst out, |
| 1:31.3 | Say officers, can I leave now? |
| 1:33.1 | I just brought this fellow here. |
| 1:34.6 | I found him in the street. |
| 1:37.8 | They told me I had to wait, but I don't know anything about him. |
| 1:38.5 | I'm in a hurry. |
| 1:43.6 | The rain-coated officers, unimpressed by the Rush Act, |
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