What Happens When A Hero is Really the Villain? - August 23 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 723 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away.
0:02.6	When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines.
0:06.0	We have a weird homicide.
0:08.8	A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...
0:13.0	You never know when an opportunity will come knocking.
0:18.3	On August 23, 2001, a man who seized opportunity was arrested for a plot that
0:24.6	cost two individuals their lives. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back
0:31.5	and start your day with a morning cup of murder. Mark and Donna Winger, as far as everyone was concerned, were the perfect match.
0:40.9	Both respected members of their community, Mark, born November 26, 1962, was a nuclear engineer
0:47.7	for the state of Illinois, while Donna was an operating room technician. When the happy couple
0:53.7	found out that Donna could not have any children,
0:56.6	they shifted their plan and adopted a baby girl that they called Bailey in June of 1995.
1:03.3	Completing their beautiful family, Mark and Donna were absolutely elated.
1:09.6	All their joy and happiness, however, came to an abrupt end in August of
1:14.3	1995. Taking Little Bailey on a trip to Florida to visit with her family, Donna flew into the St. Louis
1:21.9	Airport on August 23rd and got into a cab being driven by Roger Harrington to start the two-hour ride back to Springfield.
1:30.8	During their ride, Roger allegedly began flirting with Donna and started talking about drugs and orgies.
1:38.5	According to what Detective Charlie Cox later told the media, Roger claimed there was a voice in his head named Damn, who would tell
1:46.2	him to do bad things. Recently, that little voice had been telling him to hurt people. Though shaken
1:53.5	up by the conversation in the cab, Donna made it home safely with Bailey and called the transit company
1:59.5	to make a formal complaint against Roger Harrington.
2:02.9	The company suspended the driver, and of course, Donna told her husband all about her journey.
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