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🗓️ 22 March 2020
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-race of time. |
0:04.0 | We have a weird... |
0:06.0 | ...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion. |
0:09.0 | A cop of murder. |
0:11.0 | Can a man be truly two different people in his lifetime? |
0:16.0 | Norman A. Porter Jr. was known in Massachusetts as the callous killer who took the lives of two men in the |
0:22.2 | 60s. While in Chicago, a man named J.J. Jameson was known as the city's most beloved anti-war poets |
0:30.3 | and was a valued member of the Westside Church. Then, on March 22nd, 2005, when officials discovered that these two very different men were one and the same, he was arrested and made to answer for his crimes. |
0:44.3 | So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder. |
0:53.1 | Norman Porter Jr. had a long criminal history that began with a string of robberies. |
0:58.7 | On September 29, 1960, he decided to rob a Robert Hall clothing store in Saugas, Massachusetts, |
1:05.5 | with a sawed-off shotgun in hand. He ordered all of the customers and employees into a back |
1:10.7 | room and ordered them to give up their valuables. ordered all of the customers and employees into a back room and ordered |
1:11.7 | them to give up their valuables. As one of the employees, Jackie Pigo, reached into his pocket |
1:17.2 | for his cash, Norman, for reasons unknown, placed the shotgun against the back of the man's head |
1:23.0 | and pulled the trigger. He was caught and sent to Middlesex County Jail to await trial. |
1:29.2 | While there, Norman committed a second murder, along with an accomplice, during an escape |
1:34.5 | attempt. |
1:35.5 | The head jailer, David Robinson Sr. perished during the attack. |
1:39.5 | They were able to escape, but only for a week. |
1:43.1 | Norman was brought back to jail, his accomplice had |
1:45.5 | killed himself, and made to answer for his crimes. He pled guilty to second-degree murder in both |
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