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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

The Denver Spiderman (GT Mini)

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, True Crime, History, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A murderous drifter makes himself at home in 1940's Denver.

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0:00.0

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Criteria and Geographical Distrinsions apply.

0:30.4

The man in the attic, I'm Jason Horton, I'm Rebecca Leib, and this is Ghost Town.

0:50.4

On October 17, 1941, 73-year-old Philip Peters was found dead in his bedroom, a quaint home

0:56.0

in the Highland District of Denver, Colorado.

0:58.9

Near his body was a walking stick, broken in half, the butt of a pistol and a stove shaker.

1:03.7

Upon investigation, police reported that these items were used to bludgeon Peters at

1:08.1

least 30 times.

1:10.0

But that's only the beginning of the strange murder of Philip Peters by Edward Coney's,

1:14.4

the man who would be known from then on, in life and in legend, as the Denver Spider-Man.

1:19.5

I went to see his house up close, and I'll be intercutting my experience at the house

1:23.2

with the history of Theodore Coney's.

1:25.1

Here are my first impressions of the place.

1:27.4

It's September 28, I'm in the Potter Highlands District, a historic area of Denver, Colorado.

1:33.3

The sky is overcast, the trees are changing, the neighborhood is really quiet.

1:38.8

There's a blue house that I'm standing in front of.

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