The Baldwin Hills Babes In The Woods Murders
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Episode 150 is the brutal tale of one of the most fiendish murders on record in California (or anywhere else for that matter) that a dogged prosecutor pins on the town’s simple-crossing guard. The man confesses four times, then retracts it at the trial. I think maybe they got the wrong maniac. What do you think?
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com. |
| 0:03.4 | Monday, June 28th, 1937. |
| 0:20.5 | In the most intensive manhunt in Southern California in the past 12 years, more than 500 |
| 0:26.5 | police, legionaires, and private citizens last night were searching for three small |
| 0:31.8 | Eaglewood girls who vanished from Centinella Park in the heart of the suburban city shortly before noon Saturday. |
| 0:40.4 | Convinced that the children are in the hands of a degenerate, Chief of Police Oscar E. Campbell |
| 0:46.1 | said that he feared now the results of the hunt. Each added hour, police felt, spelled doom for the |
| 0:53.7 | little girls. |
| 0:55.0 | The missing children are Madeline Everett, seven years of age, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
| 1:00.6 | Merle O. Everett of Englewood. Melba Marie Everett, her nine-year-old sister. And Jeanette |
| 1:07.6 | Marjorie Stevens, eight, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Floyd Stevens of Englewood. |
| 1:13.6 | Every vacant house, weeded lot, and the vast stretches of the rolling Baldwin hills, |
| 1:19.6 | where the two Martin sisters met their horrible fate in 1924, |
| 1:24.7 | were being thoroughly combed by grim and determined men. |
| 1:29.5 | Among the searchers were former members of the Santa Monica mounted police |
| 1:34.1 | under the direction of Captain William J. Steinbrink. |
| 1:38.5 | On foot and in automobiles last night, |
| 1:41.9 | they planned to continue their search on horseback today, if necessary. |
| 1:47.5 | A colored blanket, a worn play ball, and other boys found in the park where the children |
| 1:53.5 | vanished gave mute evidence, Chief Campbell stated, that they had intended to return to their |
| 1:59.1 | play spot. The girls were last seen at noon Saturday |
| 2:03.5 | by Mrs. Craycroft, matron of the park's swimming pool, who called to the three girls as they |
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