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🗓️ 9 July 2020
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The Sneak: Murders at Whiskey Creek premieres on Apple Podcasts on July 29th.
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How did Jack Roland Murphy go from world-champion surfer to notorious jewel thief? How did it all go wrong and end in at least two murders in the murky waterways of southern Florida? Find out this season on The Sneak.
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0:00.0 | You ready? |
0:03.5 | Okay. |
0:04.0 | Okay. My name is Jack Murphy. |
0:08.0 | It was October 29, 1964, |
0:11.0 | and National Surfing Champion Jack Roland Murphy, better known as Murf the Surf, was about |
0:16.5 | to pull off the biggest jewel heist in American history. |
0:19.3 | They said, hey, the heck with this, let's go ahead and get it. |
0:21.9 | Murf's crime, burglarizing New York City's museum of natural history, |
0:26.2 | would make him internationally famous. |
0:28.6 | But that was just the beginning of his story, one that would quickly turn dark. |
0:32.4 | The first thing that I did, I went and got a pistol. |
0:35.0 | And then get out of control. |
0:37.0 | Meanwhile, the grand jury's meeting on these murder charges. |
0:40.0 | I mean, everything is Helter-Skelter. |
0:42.0 | In season two of the sneak, a true crime podcast from For the Win in USA Today, we will follow Murf |
0:47.2 | the surf from his days riding waves in Cocoa Beach to his daring heist in New York City, to the murky waters of a tiny waterway in Florida called Whiskey Creek. |
0:57.0 | Jack is a shame to talk about the things that he knows, which people. |
1:02.0 | Jack did talk, however. |
1:03.6 | She thread, she said, I'll tell you what. |
1:05.9 | We were told that we would get some money and blah, blah, this, and that, and the other, |
1:09.9 | that we don't get some money by tomorrow. |
1:11.4 | She said, I'm going to the FBI. |
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