The Yale Murder - 454

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True Crime, Case, Trial, Conspiracies, 855520, Government, Unsolved, Society & Culture, Missing Person, Controversy, Exhibit C, Serial Killer, Crime, Murder, Documentary, Conspiracy

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

July 7th, 1977. Scarsdale, New York. Bonnie Garland met Richard Herrin at Yale when she was 20 years old. Herrin was more than 3 years older and was head over heels for Bonnie. After Richard changed schools, Bonnie began to grow distant and finally let Richard know that she wanted to remain friends but that she intended to date other people. On July 7th, 1977, Bonnie's mother walked into her daughter's room and saw her covered in blood and fighting to breathe. She would not survive.

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0:00.0	from Wondery.
0:30.0	How are you doing tonight, Aaron?
0:41.0	Doing good, Justin?
0:42.0	How are you this evening?
0:44.0	I'm doing all right.
0:46.0	I had a weird thing happen this morning.
0:48.0	I was woken up at like, I don't know, 6.37 o'clock
0:53.0	by somebody screaming and yelling out on the street
0:56.0	and it sounded like a woman was in distress.
0:59.0	So I was peeking through my blinds to see if I could see what was going on
1:04.0	and I just, I couldn't see anything.
1:06.0	The street was empty and about 5 more minutes passes
1:10.0	and I hear it again and I look out again and I don't see anything.
1:14.0	And then about 15 minutes later, maybe less, I don't know.
1:17.0	I wasn't looking at the clock.
1:19.0	Another like, yelp.
1:20.0	And this one sounded like painful.
1:22.0	And this time I like pulled open my blinds
1:25.0	and I see this lady, poor lady, has tripped over the curb.
1:30.0	I think broken her ankle and I'm up on like the third floor.
1:33.0	So I couldn't see her when I was just looking at my blinds
1:36.0	because she was like right below my window.
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