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Weird Little Guys

The Nazi's Mary Sue: Hunter, Pt. 2

Weird Little Guys

iHeartPodcasts and Cool Zone Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

At the end of this exploration of nazi serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin and the novel loosely based on his crimes, the question remains: did any of his friends in the white power movement know what he was going to do before he did it? What clues does the novel hold?

Sources:
Pierce, Kelvin. Sins of My Father, Growing Up with America's Most Dangerous White Supremacist. Independently Published, 2020

Griffin, R. S. (2001). The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds. 1st Books Library.

Mel Ayton, Dark Soul of the South: The Life and Crimes of Racist Killer Joseph Paul Franklin, Potomac Press, Inc., 2011

Sunshine, Spencer (2024). Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege (1st ed.). New York, NY: Routledge

Bill Simmons, "Defendants All Acquitted In Sedition Trial," AP News, April 8, 1988

https://www.kcur.org/news/2024-04-12/overland-park-antisemitic-murders-jewish-community-center-shooting-survivors

https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article2595772.html

http://www.kansas.com/2014/04/15/3406670/records-suggest-federal-authorities.html

https://momentsthatsurvive.org/tribute/pierce-hastings/

https://www.wunc.org/2014-04-15/an-idiot-with-a-gun-leaves-families-in-kansas-reeling

https://www.kmbc.com/article/shooting-victim-remembered-for-upbeat-attitude-work-with-kids/3681879

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:05.9

Cool Zone Media.

0:11.7

It was raining in the suburbs outside of Kansas City on April 13, 2014.

0:19.3

Mindy Corparen's youngest son had a lacrosse game that morning, so she was out the

0:23.9

door early. As she left, she told her oldest son she loved him and wished him luck.

0:32.3

Her oldest son, 14-year-old Wreet Underwood, was auditioning for Casey Superstar, an American Idol-style competition for high schoolers in the Kansas City area.

0:43.4

Her father had volunteered to drive him to the audition.

0:47.8

William Corcoran was a few months away from retiring as a family physician, but he always made time to spend with his grandchildren on the weekends.

0:57.6

When the weather took a turn for the worse, and the lacrosse game was called off,

1:02.9

Mindy thought she might still be able to catch Reitz audition.

1:06.6

She arrived at the Jewish Community Center just a few minutes after her son and father had.

1:12.4

But they'd never made it inside.

1:15.3

She saw her father's truck in the parking lot, doors hanging wide open in the rain.

1:23.1

Across town, Jim La Mano was waiting for his wife Terry to come home so they could attend the evening mass together for Palm Sunday.

1:31.7

Terry Lamano, an occupational therapist who worked with visually impaired toddlers,

1:36.3

had lunch every Sunday with her mother at the village Shalom retirement home.

1:41.7

Jim was expecting Terry home any minute when the police knocked on his door to tell him she'd

1:47.6

been killed.

1:50.4

Reed Underwood, William Corpren, and Terry Lamano were dead.

1:56.8

William Corpren and his grandson, Reet, were shot in the parking lot of the Jewish

2:00.7

community center, and Terry was shot in the parking lot of the Jewish community center,

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