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Crime Countdown

Unsolved Murders: 1970s

Crime Countdown

Spotify Studios

True Crime, History

4.43.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Despite fifty years of investigation, a question mark still remains next to these crimes. But just because there's no answer doesn't mean there isn't disturbing evidence... or creepy suspects. Ash and Alaina dive into unsolved murders that are anything but groovy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ted Bundy, Jim Jones, Patty Hurst, all some of the biggest crime names of the 1970s,

0:11.4

but they're just the criminals who were caught. Some of the worst criminals from that era

0:15.4

don't even have famous names. Years later, their crimes remain unsolved. Today, we're

0:20.8

looking at 10 of the creepiest unsolved murders of the 1970s.

0:25.2

We don't know who committed these crimes and worse we don't know why.

0:28.7

It's even scarier when you look at all the details.

0:31.2

Some of these crimes are so gruesome and so puzzling you just know it had to be But all we can say for sure is that one person who did know the killer's name is the person who wound up dead. Hey all you weirdos, welcome to the Parcast Original, Crime Countdown.

1:08.2

I'm Ash.

1:09.3

And I'm Elena.

1:10.6

Every week will highlight 10 fascinating stories of history's most engaging and

1:15.2

unsettling crimes all picked by the Parcast research gods.

1:20.0

Today's topic is going to be unsolved murders of the 70s.

1:23.6

Ash, you belong in the 70s.

1:26.0

I'm so excited for this countdown, you have no idea.

1:28.6

Yeah, this is your time to shine, this is your decade.

1:30.7

Like I'm barefoot, I forgot my my flower crown I should have brought it you

1:34.2

really should have I would have been fully prepared to be a hippie for this fully in

1:37.2

character the 70s were awesome oh yeah there was there was David Bowie

1:42.3

Fleetwood Mac there There was, I mean, Rocky Horror Picture Show. Yup? All the horror movies of the 70s? All your favorites. All of them. And they all had that like gritty, nasty 70s vibe to them? Well the 70s did have like a

1:55.2

crazy amount of insane murders and people are always like why did the 70s

1:59.5

why were the 70s the time of crazy murders? Well nothing like there was no DNA evidence or anything like that.

2:04.9

Yeah, and I think it was like the early criminal profiling

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