True Crime Tuesday: The Madness of John Terrell
WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast
WIBC
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
While doing some family history research, Hoosier author Stephen Terrell discovered that a relative of his committed a murder in the early 1900s that made headlines across the nation. Terrell joins to tell the story of his great-uncle John Terrell's sensational murder of his estranged son-in-law.
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| 0:00.0 | Kendall and Casey present True Crime Tuesday on 93 WIBC. |
| 0:09.6 | Casey, it is that time. |
| 0:10.7 | It is. |
| 0:11.1 | It's Tuesday. |
| 0:11.9 | You know what we do at this time on Tuesdays, Rob? |
| 0:14.9 | We delve into the underworld. |
| 0:16.6 | Yes, we do. |
| 0:17.7 | It's true crime Tuesday. |
| 0:19.4 | World of crime and murder. |
| 0:21.8 | Yes. |
| 0:22.2 | The worst humanity has to offer, which some people would describe our show as. |
| 0:26.5 | Yes, every Tuesday at this time, we take a look back at a case that captivated the imagination. |
| 0:31.6 | Some you may be aware of. Some you may not. |
| 0:34.1 | And whenever possible, we try to stay close to home here in Indiana. |
| 0:39.4 | We do that today. We have another great local author that'll be with this his name is stephen terrell and this is a |
| 0:43.6 | story about an indiana man it's called the madness of john terrell stephen joins us now stephen |
| 0:48.4 | hello oh good morning all right so tell us about this the book that you wrote the madness of john tarrell revenge and insanity on trial in the. So tell us about the book that you wrote, The Madness of John Terrell, Revenge and Insanity |
| 0:56.0 | on Trial in the Heartland. |
| 0:58.0 | Tell us about the book. |
| 0:59.0 | Well, during the pandemic, I was doing some family tree research, and I stumbled on a story |
| 1:08.0 | that despite all of the family stories that were handed down, this one was |
| 1:13.5 | never spoken of. It was the murder by my great uncle of his son-in-law, which made newspapers |
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