The Onion Field Incident

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Dark History, Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime

4.5 • 95.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

On the night of March 9, 1963, officers Karl Hettinger and Ian Campbell made a traffic stop on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Gower Street and Hollywood. After Campbell instructed both men to step out of the car, the driver, Gregory Powell, pulled out a pistol and held it on Campbell, effectively disarming him, while other man, Jimmy Smith, disarmed Hettinger. The two officers were then forced into Powell’s car and driven more than one hundred miles away, where they executed Ian Campbell, while Hettinger escaped into a nearby onion field and managed to find help at the home of a farmer.

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0:00.0	Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash.
0:02.1	And I'm Alena.
0:03.4	And this is morbid.
0:22.5	That's what I would sound like if I was AI. That's what I would sound like if I was AI.
0:24.6	AI.
0:25.3	Yeah, AI.
0:26.2	Yeah, I am a robot talking to you.
0:30.4	Longing.
0:31.1	You.
0:31.7	I feel like, I sound like Roddy and Ben's impression of a girl from the Valley.
0:54.5	Who they think is AI. I. Honestly valid, I think. I don't watch that show, but I feel like that's valid. It's one of the saddest shows of all the times who don't. I could handle the, I don't know if we've talked about this before. Maybe we have, my brain is old now. And it gets older by the day. I feel like I know what you're going to say and it's actually like pertinent so go ahead and say it like i can watch like bander pump rules i can watch
1:00.0	all that i mouthed it as she said it because like it's just adults being dumb and it's like sure
1:06.3	watch that i don't give a shit if you blow up your life like that's your that's your business you do
1:10.4	what you want but once it brings kids into it, I back off. Yeah. Because I'm like, I can't watch you
1:17.0	act this way with kids around. Well, I think it's fun to like, Housewives is like a thing in and of itself.
1:23.9	And then like other reality shows, it's fun to watch like early 20s, 30s people.
1:29.0	Yeah. Like fuck up their lives and like be ridiculous. But like when real life shit, like divorce and like
1:34.3	kids and houses and like d-narly gets brought into it. I don't want to know anything about that.
1:40.1	Because then I kind of feel like too voyeuristic in that scenario where I'm like, I shouldn't be watching you go through this.
1:46.4	I'm not a shot in Freud.
1:48.0	Do I want to watch like 20 somethings and 30 somethings like cheat on each other while they're dating and shit?
1:53.8	All day.
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