The Other Long Island Serial Killer: Checkerboard Dreams
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🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
During the summer of 1959, Francis Bloeth killed three people working in restaurants across Long Island's Suffolk County.
But before that, he was just a 27-year-old husband and father who worked a construction job and rented an apartment. Today, we talk to the woman who spent a few months living downstairs from Long Island's "mad killer."
Here are the other episodes in our "The Other Long Island Serial Killer" miniseries:
- Part one: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/be6f0724-90fc-4c28-b53d-c94f955fc062
- Part two: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/84457427-f6cc-4f1e-9354-bb51fa7bae93
- Part three: https://art19.com/shows/murder-sheet/episodes/8e154b01-87f9-485f-bd6b-a04f49c74ef8
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| 0:28.4 | Content warning. This episode contains discussion of murder. |
| 0:35.6 | For years, Lucy returned to the house on Irving Place in her dreams. |
| 0:42.2 | She'd fall asleep and find herself standing in her grandmother's living room, |
| 0:47.8 | gazing out the window. |
| 0:58.4 | One day I asked my dad, you know, have this weird dream. |
| 1:02.6 | Her dad knew right away what she was talking about. |
| 1:06.8 | Lucy's grandmother had rented out a room to a man who drove such a car. |
| 1:12.4 | And it turns out it was a sticker on the guy's car. |
| 1:16.4 | That man's name was Francis Blow. In 1959, he brutally murdered three people in restaurants |
| 1:25.5 | across Suffolk County in Long Island. That was the summer that nine-year-old Lucy |
| 1:32.5 | lived downstairs from a ruthless serial killer. |
| 1:40.3 | My name is Anya Cain, and I'm Kevin Greenley. |
| 1:44.1 | And this is The Murder Sheet, a weekly true crime podcast. |
| 1:48.5 | Anya Knight connected over the Berger Chef murders, a 1978 unsolved case involving the killings |
| 1:55.2 | of four young restaurant employees. Now we're looking to track restaurant homicides. |
| 2:00.8 | To help us understand the patterns of these crimes, we created a spreadsheet of nearly a thousand |
| 2:06.4 | eatery-related killings, the murder sheet. We'll be drawing on that data throughout season one |
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