The Ford Heights Four - May 11 2022

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Our New Website: https://morningcupofmurder.com/ May 11th: Ford Heights Four Kill (1978) With the luxury of hindsight, we are, time and time again, looking at old cases and wondering how such blatant injustices could have ever occurred. On May 11th 1978 a young couple was brutally murdered in a crime that saw 4 individuals behind bars for a crime that, with the beauty of hindsight, we know they did not commit. MERCH IS OUT NOW! https://www.bonfire.com/store/morningcupofmurder/ Join the Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange local true crime story you want to share, or you just want to say hi? Email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Morning Cup of Murder is Edited and Produced by Dillon Biemesderfer Follow Dillon on instagram: @dungeonsanddillons Information for this episode collected from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ford_Heights_Four, https://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-ford-heights-four-coverage-20140409-htmlstory.html, https://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/il/dennis-williams.html, https://innocenceproject.org/cases/paula-gray/,https://www.hawaiiinnocenceproject.org/evidence-preservation, https://loevy.com/big-wins/ford-heights-four-lawsuit-settled/, https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=2982, https://law.stanford.edu/press/exonerated-not-free-of-past-ford-heights-four-were-released-from-prison-in-1996-but-struggles-didnt-end/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:32.7	When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:36.1	We have a weird homicide.
0:38.9	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:42.3	With the luxury of hindsight, we are time and time again, looking at old cases and wondering
0:50.3	how such blatant injustices could have ever occurred.
0:53.5	On May 11, 1978, a young couple was brutally murdered in a crime that saw four individuals
1:00.1	behind bars for a crime that, with the beauty of hindsight, we know that they did not commit.
1:06.6	So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a
1:11.2	morning cup of murder.
1:17.1	In the early morning hours of May 11, 1978, 28-year-old Lawrence Lyonberg, who was working
1:24.0	in the late shift at a gas station in Homewood, Illinois, and his 23-year-old
1:28.4	brand-new fiancé, Carol Schmaugh, were kidnapped by unknown assailants.
1:34.1	Throughout the night, Carol was brutally raped, and, when they were finished with her, both
1:38.9	she and Lawrence were shot in the back of the head. Their brutalized bodies were found the
1:43.7	next day in Ford Heights, Illinois.
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