This podcast details true crime cases.

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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

We're in the series Swann Songs, where I share two crime cases that inspired songs.

On this episode, Kurt Cobain pens a song that will be included on Nirvana's most popular album

after reading about a brutal rape and abduction of a young girl.

When the public learns the past history of the perpetrator,

they will react with shock and anger that he was free to walk the streets

and commit another heinous crime.

This is chapter three of Swann Songs, the case of Gerald Friend.

On the night of Friday, June 5, 1987,

a lineup of punk rock bands was being featured at the Community World Theatre into Como, Washington.

For a mere four bucks, attendees could watch five local bands thrash the night away.

On this Bommie June evening, the lineup included Frightwig, Danger Mouse, Child Support,

Diddly Squad, and Thrash Forward.

One 14-year-old girl was made aware of the show at the World Theatre that Friday night

by crudely drawn flyers created by each band and then handed out and plastered around the city.

One flyer titled the concert The Slam and Jam,

another A Night of Thrashing.

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