The Farmer, His Wife, And The Gangling Hand
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Episode 184 takes us into Pennsylvania Dutch territory, where two local farmers are found murdered in the woods a month apart. Although not related, the second murder sparks intense local interest, especially when the farmer’s wife is discovered in a salacious love affair.
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| 0:00.0 | Popular.com |
| 0:03.5 | The farmer, his wife, and the gangling hand. |
| 0:09.1 | The Willow Love Triangle Murder Plot. |
| 0:17.3 | Snyder County, Pennsylvania, November 27, 1923. |
| 0:26.9 | Mystery surrounding the slaying of John R. Sanders, a farmer residing near Aileen, |
| 0:33.7 | whose dead body with a bullet wound through the heart was found by school children yesterday afternoon in a culvert in Aquedocalo, |
| 0:42.0 | has been practically cleared up by the confession of Francis R. Campbell, 19. |
| 0:47.7 | Campbell admitted having shot at an unknown man soon after midnight Sunday. |
| 0:53.1 | Campbell declared that he was returning home from Port |
| 0:55.6 | Treverton about 2.30 Sunday morning when a strange man attempted to intercept him in Aquedoc |
| 1:00.9 | Hollow. Believing he was bent on robbery, Campbell whipped forth a revolver and fired at the man |
| 1:07.0 | and then applied the gas to his automobile and fled from the scene without determining whether |
| 1:12.4 | the bullet had taken effect. The mystery was further clarified by the arrest of John Falkrod, a resident |
| 1:19.9 | of Kramer, who was taken into custody at his home by Chief of Police Wolf and Constable Gemberling |
| 1:26.0 | and was held without bail. |
| 1:28.6 | At the hearing, Falkrod admitted that he had accompanied Sanders on Sunday night |
| 1:32.9 | to a point near Aqueduct Hollow for the purpose of robbing the hunting cabin of Ira Spearing of Sunbury. |
| 1:39.9 | He said that they had driven Falkrod's truck to a secluded spot in the hollow, |
| 1:43.8 | and the latter remained with the machine while Sanders proceeded to the cabin on his mission of robbery. |
| 1:50.0 | When Sanders failed to return within a reasonable length of time, Falkrod started on a search for him, and failing to find any trace of him, drove home. |
| 1:59.0 | Falkrod's story is borne out by a subsequent investigation, |
| 2:03.6 | which revealed that the hunting cabin had been entered. |
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