The Cry From The Grave
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Episode 267 is adapted from a first-person article in True Detective Mysteries, December 1928, written from the perspective of Detective Ellis H. Parker of Mount Holly, New Jersey, who during his career was known as “America's Sherlock Holmes.” He solved 288 of the 300 major crimes he worked on during his career, obtaining signed confessions in more than half of them. His most high-profile case was the Lindbergh kidnapping. Stories of his cases were collected in a book by Fletcher Pratt titled “The Cunning Mulatto” in 1935.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | Mother, mother, came the terrified, insistent cry of the beautiful eight-year-old Matilda Russo, |
| 0:15.6 | although the horror-stricken mother knew that her missing child was dead. |
| 0:21.6 | What possible clue could there be in those two words? |
| 0:25.6 | Yet, they led the detective straight into the heart of that black mystery. |
| 0:30.6 | They solved the most horrible crime the state of New Jersey has ever known. |
| 0:41.3 | The Cry from the Grave by Ellis H. Parker, Chief of Detectives, Burlington County, New Jersey, |
| 0:49.3 | as told to Alan Hind, formerly of the Boston Post. |
| 1:03.0 | Moores Town, New Jersey is a quiet, beautiful Quaker settlement, |
| 1:07.0 | much the same as thousands of other small American communities. |
| 1:11.9 | Along about dusk the children dropped their play, |
| 1:15.3 | scurry home to their evening meal and then go to bed. |
| 1:19.4 | Nobody would pick Moors Town as the scene of a dastardly crime. |
| 1:24.3 | Still, it was there that I encountered a case of killing perpetrated by a man who was, |
| 1:30.3 | beyond all doubt, the most fiendish and cunning arch-criminal I've ever come in contact with |
| 1:37.0 | during 35 years of manhunting. |
| 1:41.6 | First, allow me to give you a little of the background of the case, which had me baffled for almost five months. |
| 1:52.0 | Alfred and Charles Russo, 11-year-old twins, were returning to their home in Moorsetown after having attended a basketball game on Saturday afternoon, June 4th, 1921. |
| 2:04.6 | It was about 6 o'clock in the evening. |
| 2:08.6 | At the corner of 3rd Street and Chester Avenue, half a block from their home, they saw their sister Matilda, who would soon have been eight years of age. Matilda was one of the most |
| 2:20.9 | beautiful children that God ever made. She possessed an abundance of beautiful dark hair and had large |
| 2:28.4 | laughing brown eyes. She would have been an ideal model for an artist. |
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