Show Notes
On a quiet summer night in 1912, an entire family and two young guests were brutally murdered in the small town of Villisca, Iowa. Was the killer never found... or just never found guilty?
Thank you The Courier, The Evening Nonpariel, The Rockford Register Star, The Daily Review, Rockford Daily Republic, St Louis Post Dispatch, The Casual Criminalist, Scott on Tape and Bedtime Stories YouTube Channels, Smithsonianmag.com, factualamerica.com, notesfromthefrontier.com and Wikipedia for information contributing to today’s story.
Written by Frederick Crook - check out our other collaboration WRAITHWORKS - Wraithworks at Amazon https://www.amzn.com/dp/B07HXNCW4L (audiobook narrated by John Lordan) Also avaible on iTunes: https://apple.co/2OFXb8L
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This is not intended to act as a means of proving or disproving anything related to the investigation. It is a conversation about the current known facts and theories being discussed. Everyone directly or indirectly referred to is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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