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Twisted Loyalty

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Social, Culture, True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.440.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Chicago police search for a killer after Robert O’Dubaine, a nightclub owner, is gunned down in his home. As detectives investigate the motive, they discover it was a targeted killing, connected to a twisted sense of loyalty and tradition. Natalie Morales has chosen this episode as one of her most memorable episodes.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Natalie Morales. Family bonds are well complicated. This episode took us

0:06.9

to Chicago where an immigrant family was seeking a better life in America.

0:11.2

Tradition, greed and ambition would lead to one and possibly two murders. It's a

0:17.6

story that took us all the way to the other side of the world. A story filled

0:21.9

with phony identities, twists and twisted loyalty.

0:26.4

If houses could talk, imagine the stories they tell. About the families who

0:36.2

live there, who love and trust and support each other. It would be nice to think

0:41.6

that trust and loyalty always lead to happy endings. But in the story you're

0:46.9

about to hear, trust and loyalty got twisted into something monstrous. And a young

0:53.2

man paid the price after he stepped out of his house one rainy September night.

1:03.8

It happened in Bucktown, a trendy little neighborhood in Chicago. A neighborhood

1:09.6

gunshots and then the squeal of tires. He came running and saw the body of 31

1:15.4

-year-old Robert Odubain on the floor of his garage. So right here. Yeah, it was

1:20.6

laying down from two obvious gunshots to the head. Chicago police detected

1:25.7

Bill Johnston learned Robert had spent the afternoon with his father and had

1:30.1

gotten home earlier that evening. It appeared Robert was heading out again when

1:35.0

he was shot. And the door was open. The overhead door was open. None of the

1:40.3

neighbors reported seeing anybody coming or going but they didn't hear the

1:44.7

gunshots. Detective Pat McCarthy had seen plenty of killings working in the

1:49.8

gang and organized crime squad with the Chicago PD. When Robert was found in

1:54.6

his garage, his vehicle was gone and his keys were gone as well. It was gone and

2:00.8

it just looked to be a sad but true thing. Another crime in Chicago. They found

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