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The afternoon of May 3, 1940, a couple of yard men in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania,

were running a random maintenance check on some old box cars.

The yard men admittedly couldn't see the purpose behind the task.

The box cars had first been abandoned in Youngstown, Ohio.

They'd later been moved to Struthers, Ohio and then finally to Stowe Township in April of 1940.

They hadn't been used in over a year.

But the country was only just now coming out of the Great Depression.

So the yard men appreciated the work, however trivial.

It would be a short, easy day in the job.

Nearly checking that the box cars had been emptied and were still usable.

Until the yard men flung open the door to a musty box car and were overwhelmed by the smell

of rotting meat. The men recoiled and discussed.

It took them a moment to realize what they were looking at.

Three corpses decomposing on the floor, dismembered and decapitated.

The box cars had not been in operation for over a year,

but someone it seems had been putting them to good use.

Hi, I'm Vanessa Richardson. This is Serial Killers, a Spotify podcast.

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