Hello and

welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, August 6th 1930, Creator goes missing and Nicki, this is a true crime

podcast now.

It is.

I'm really excited about it.

We're finally going to make fake.

Yes, that's right.

The sponsors are just going to come flying in with.

It's our first foray into true crime and like all good true crime

broadcasts. We're going to talk about something for a while and then not

actually tell you what happened because we don't know but here is the case at hand.

On the night of August 6th, Joseph Force Crater, New York Supreme Court Justice, ate dinner

with a group that included his girlfriend.

He was married, but this group included his

girlfriend, then he left and was headed ostensibly to a Broadway show. But then he went missing. Some say they

saw him at the show, some say they didn't. Over the next couple weeks it became clear that he had vanished

and he stayed missing. We'll get into some of the twists and turns and conspiracy theories,

but he was never found. Justice Crater was never found, and he was legally declared dead in 1939.

The NYPD closed the crater file in 1979.

So let's talk about it and I'm joined as always by Nicole Hammer of Columbia.

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