Soldier of Misfortune: Frank Sweeney, Pt. 1

Weird Little Guys

iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Frank Abbott Sweeney Jr may be the Forrest Gump of American white supremacy in the 20th century. Starting with a failed bank robbery for the American Nazi Party in the 60s, Frank stumbled his way into being an inconsequential side character in major historical events for decades.

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0:00.0	To have a murder as gruesome as Jade Beasley's doesn't happen very often down here.
0:05.3	In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death, her father's longtime live-in
0:10.7	girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder.
0:14.5	I am confident that Julie Beckley is guilty.
0:17.6	They've never found a weapon.
0:19.3	Never made sense.
0:20.3	Still doesn't make sense.
0:21.4	She found out she was pregnant in jail.
0:23.7	The person who did it is still out there.
0:26.7	Listen to murder on Songbird Road on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.4	Hi, I'm Ed Zittron, host of the Better Offline podcast.
0:36.7	And this January, we're going to go on the road to beautiful Las Vegas Nevada to cover the Consumer Electronics Show, tech's biggest conference.
0:43.6	Better Offline's CES coverage won't be the usual rundown of the hottest gadgets or biggest trends, but an unvarnished look at what the tech industry plans to sell or do to you in 2025.
0:54.2	I'll be joined by David Roth at DeFector and the writer Edward Onguizzo Jr.
0:58.2	With guest appearances from behind the bastards Robert Evans,
1:00.9	it could happen here as Gare Davis and a few surprised guests throughout the show.
1:04.3	Listen to Better Offline on the iHart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
1:07.2	or wherever else you get your podcasts from.
1:13.5	I'm Jason Alexander.
1:14.9	And I'm Peter Tilden.
1:15.9	And together, our mission on the Really No Really podcast is to get the true answers to life's
1:21.0	baffling questions like, why the bathroom door doesn't go all the way to the floor.
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