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2:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 8^th, 1992. Indianapolis, Indiana.

Lucretia Gullet, who works at the Speedway Gas Station, picks up the phone at the station. On the other end is the district manager of Payless Shoes. He tells her that he’s worried – he’s been calling the Payless shop next door at 7325 Pendleton Pike for over 45 minutes — no one’s answering. When Lucretia goes over to check, she is alarmed. No one is in sight at the store and the cash register drawer is open and empty. She runs back to the gas station to call police. When they arrive at 2:15 pm, they find the body of store manager, Robin Fuldauer, aged 26. Robin has been shot twice execution-style in the back of the head.

No one knows it at the time — except the murder — but Robin’s murder is just the beginning…

Anyone with information about the case should contact St. Charles City Police Department at 636-949-3333 or 1-800-800-3510,

or e-mail:  i70killer@stcharlescitymo.gov

Sources

Composite of suspect:                              Possible weapon used:

https://questersite.wordpress.com/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1992/05/12/Authorities-hope-to-get-profile-of-I-70-serial-killer/9250705643200/

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/7vki47/missouri_i70_killer/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wicked-deeds/201509/the-zodiac-and-other-thrill-killers

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5kb548/where_is_the_i70_killer_now/

https://www.handgunforum.net/xf/threads/erma-werke-et-22.40046/

https://www.voxmagazine.com/magazine/i–holds-the-secrets-to-a-serial-killer/article_0e619dda-1232-11e6-a15a-4b82fff40a82.html

https://www.courierpress.com/story/opinion/columnists/jon-webb/2018/05/11/70-killer-terrorized-midwest-1992-hes-still-out-there/600805002/

https://www.insidehook.com/article/crime/ice-cold-trail-70-killer

https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Interstate_70_Killer

Unsolved Mysteries: (Prime TV) season 6 episode 21 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpaMkob9PLk&feature=youtu.be

https://www.ktgunsmith.com/firelapping.htm

https://www.indystar.com/

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/consumer-health/expert-answers/what-is-reflexology/faq-20058139

https://www.kansascity.com

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

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5:30 pm, Friday, October 1st, 1909.Swope Mansion, 406 South Pleasant Street, Independence, Missouri

James Moss Hunton dines alone in the huge dining room of the cavernous Swope mansion. Although Cousin Moss — as he is known to the family — has felt unwell for several days, he is not one to let an upset stomach overcome his natural friendliness and good manners. So, when Pearl Kellar, a private nurse to his cousin, multimillionaire developer, Thomas Hunton Swope, passes by the dining room, he politely asks her to join him. Shortly after, the lady of the house, Mrs. Margaret Swope (widowed sister-in-law of Thomas) returns home from an afternoon of ‘calling on friends,’ with her daughter, Mrs. Frances Hyde. Suddenly Cousin Moss announces “I feel so peculiar. Everything is so dizzy before me.”

Nurse Kellar attends to him in the library, while Mrs. Swope calls the family doctor and Frances’s husband, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde.

Cousin Moss’s condition rapidly deteriorates. Both doctors agree that he is suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The accepted treatment at the time is to ‘bleed off’ the patient to lessen the pressure on the brain. An incision is made in the patient’s arm and allowed to bleed for a time. This has no helpful effect, and Cousin Moss is dead by 8:30 pm.

According to Nurse Kellar, 20 minutes later, as she is preparing the body for the undertaker, Dr. Hyde pulls her aside and says, “As soon as you have some leisure, I want to have a private talk with you.”

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6948725/james-moss-hunton

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/kc-true-crime/article705889.html

https://kcparks.org/places/swope-park/

http://www.biologydiscussion.com/essay/essay-on-typhoid-history-signs-and-symptoms/5329

https://www.salon.com/1999/09/02/stewart/

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/how-does-a-grand-jury-work.html

https://crimejustice.law.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Admissibility-of-the-Defendant’s-Criminal-Records-at-Trial.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201207/psychological-profile-poisoner

https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%253A108961

https://www.kansascity.com

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

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5:30 pm, Friday, October 1st, 1909.Swope Mansion, 406 South Pleasant Street, Independence, Missouri

James Moss Hunton dines alone in the huge dining room of the cavernous Swope mansion. Although Cousin Moss — as he is known to the family — has felt unwell for several days, he is not one to let an upset stomach overcome his natural friendliness and good manners. So, when Pearl Kellar, a private nurse to his cousin, multimillionaire developer, Thomas Hunton Swope, passes by the dining room, he politely asks her to join him. Shortly after, the lady of the house, Mrs. Margaret Swope (widowed sister-in-law of Thomas) returns home from an afternoon of ‘calling on friends,’ with her daughter, Mrs. Frances Hyde. Suddenly Cousin Moss announces “I feel so peculiar. Everything is so dizzy before me.”

Nurse Kellar attends to him in the library, while Mrs. Swope calls the family doctor and Frances’s husband, Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde.

Cousin Moss’s condition rapidly deteriorates. Both doctors agree that he is suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. The accepted treatment at the time is to ‘bleed off’ the patient to lessen the pressure on the brain. An incision is made in the patient’s arm and allowed to bleed for a time. This has no helpful effect, and Cousin Moss is dead by 8:30 pm.

According to Nurse Kellar, 20 minutes later, as she is preparing the body for the undertaker, Dr. Hyde pulls her aside and says, “As soon as you have some leisure, I want to have a private talk with you.”

Sources

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6948725/james-moss-hunton

https://www.kansascity.com/news/special-reports/kc-true-crime/article705889.html

https://kcparks.org/places/swope-park/

http://www.biologydiscussion.com/essay/essay-on-typhoid-history-signs-and-symptoms/5329

https://www.salon.com/1999/09/02/stewart/

https://criminal.findlaw.com/criminal-procedure/how-does-a-grand-jury-work.html

https://crimejustice.law.nyu.edu/wp-content/uploads/Admissibility-of-the-Defendant’s-Criminal-Records-at-Trial.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-human-equation/201207/psychological-profile-poisoner

https://kchistory.org/islandora/object/kchistory%253A108961

https://www.kansascity.com

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

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8:00 pm, Wednesday, September 4th, 2002.  Great Bend, Kansas.

A truck driver makes his nightly delivery at the Dolly Madison Cases Discount Bakery Store. When he goes to the small office in the building to finish up his paperwork, he makes a grisly discovery: the bodies of two women lie face on the floor in pools of blood.  

http://www.karadahproject.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMsSXxLTFJ0

Sources

http://www.kansas.gov/kbi/mostwanted/mw_gbdollymadison.shtml

https://www.gbtribune.com/news/local-news/news2/double-homicide-remains-unsolved/

https://www.hutchnews.comhttp://missingpiecesshow.homestead.com/MissingPiecesEpisode56Archive.html

Great Bend Police Department: 620-793-4120

https://medium.com/true-crime-by-cat-leigh/women-brutally-killed-at-a-salon-b04834175b05

http://www.kansas.gov/kbi/mostwanted/mw_gbdollymadison.shtml

https://www.amazon.com/Ill-Be-Gone-Dark-Obsessive/dp/0062319787

https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/56i1gd/the_hair_gallery_massacre_florence_mt/

https://unsolved.com/gallery/i-70-serial-killer/

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

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Atchison Daily Champion Newpaper

Dateline: Thursday, July 9th, 1885. Atchison, Kansas.

The community was shocked shortly after the supper hour last night, by the announcement that Miss Mary Baldwin had been found cruelly and brutally murdered in her bed, and the circumstances which have developed make it the most shocking and atrocious homicide that has ever occurred in our midst.

Want to help change the world? Check out the Karadah Project International at https://www.karadahproject.com

Thanks for listening. You can comment about the episodes below or email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com.

Sources

https://www.atchisonglobenow.com

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

https://www.google.com

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Midnight, Zero Hundred Hours, July 10th, 1945. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

This night, 5 men await execution in their cells on death row at the United State central military prison. One by one, each is marched to the gallows — recently constructed over an elevator shaft at the prison salvage warehouse. All in attendance are called to attention by the prison commander, Colonel William Eley, who reads the sentence “to be hanged by the neck until dead.” Each condemned man is permitted to make a final statement. Colonel Eley pronounces “May God have mercy on your soul.” Then the prisoner is led to the gallows platform where his hands and feet are bound, while a black hood is placed over his head. A noose is guided around his neck. Silence fills the death chamber. At the commander’s signal, a lever is pushed forward, and the trapdoor of the gallows falls open. The process repeats 4 more times that night.

Zero hundred hours, July 14th, 1945. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Two prisoners are hanged at the warehouse.

Zero hundred hours, August 25th, 1945. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. 7 men meet their Maker in the dark elevator shaft.

Thank you for listening. Please visit the Karadah Project at http://www.karadahproject.com/ to find out how you can help change the world.

You can comment about this episode below or email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com

Werner Drechsler, recovering from a bullet wound to his right knee, disembarks USS Osmond Ingram assisted by Hermann Polowzyk

Sources

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Corporal-Kunze-Trummel-Parnell/dp/0818403136

http://www.basehorinfo.com/news/2008/may/28/wwii_german_pows_buried_fort_leavenworth/

http://genealogytrails.com/oka/powcamps.html

http://blogoklahoma.us/place.aspx?id=839

http://www.militarian.com/threads/murder-at-aiken-pow-camp.608/

http://www.uboatarchive.net/U-118A/U-118POWs.htm

https://starsandstripes.newspaperarchive.com

https://www.augustachronicle.com

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

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March 10th, 1873.  Southeastern Kansas.

In 1873, there are many ways to die on the road between Independence, Kansas, and Fort Scott, Kansas. The Osage Trail is a dangerous one. Never mind natural dangers – unforgiving terrain, tornados, blizzards, rattlesnakes — this area has a well-earned reputation for harboring outlaws and raiders from nearby Indian Territory. Lately, settlers are especially jumpy. For the past couple of years, a surprising number of people have disappeared while traveling the Osage Trail. Even seasoned settlers – used to the dangers of the Old West – are becoming uneasy. Remains of murdered men have turned up on the prairie. There is talk of forming a ‘vigilance committee.’

Matters come to a head when Dr. William York, the brother of a prominent Kansas State Senator goes missing on March 10th, 1873, on his way home from Fort Scott.

The Fort Scott Daily Monitor: “The trace of him is lost at Big Hill, or Drum Creek, where it is more than probable he was foully murdered to get possession of his horse and other property which he might have had about him. The locality where he disappeared is a notorious one, this not being the first event of a similar kind that has transpired in the neighborhood.”

SOURCES

https://www.amazon.com/Bender-Tragedy-Mary-York/dp/1981809171

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Southeast-Kansas-Larry/dp/1467141402

http://leatherockhotel.com/BloodyBenders.htm#Thumbnails

Wichita Eagle:    https://www.kansas.com

History of Labette County, Kansas (1901)

https://archive.org/details/historyoflabette00case/page/74/mode/2up

https://dailyjournalonline.com

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82015484/1873-05-22/ed-1/seq-2/

https://www.murderpedia.com

https://www.kansasmemory.org/

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

The Bender Tragedy by Mary York

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9:15 pm, November 15, 2013. Valley Center, Kansas.

A 911 call comes into Sedgewick County Emergency Communications from the quiet Wichita, Kansas, suburb of Valley Center. The caller is the 16-year-old son of Melissa and Roger Bluml. He reports that he parked behind his parents’ pickup truck in the driveway of their home. He notices that the driver’s side door is open slightly.

“Oh, my god…I just opened up the car and there’s blood everywhere.”

Thanks for listening. Please leave a 5-star review wherever you listen to podcasts. You can comment on the cases below and email me at prisoncitymurders@gmail.com. 

Until next time, please don’t murder anybody. I don’t think you can listen to podcasts behind bars.

Sources

Wichita Eagle: https://www.kansascity.com

Snapped (on Oxygen) Episode 12, Season 25:

https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-time/anthony-bluml-kisha-schaberg-murder-adoptive-parents

911 call: https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/season-25/videos/snapped-christopher-bluml-calls-911-season-25-episode-12

KSN TV (Wichita)

KAKE TV: (Wichita) https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=bluml+murders&view=detail&mid=FA1C96607650599A4C73FA1C96607650599A4C73&FORM=VIRE

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/

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8:45 am, June 22^nd, 1900. Merchant Street, El Dorado, Kansas.

Report from the Butler County Democrat newspaper:

Mrs. Emma Spangler and Mrs. Betty Mobberly … hear screams from the home of Olin and Clara Castle. They run to the front door of the house, but the screen door is locked. They hear to sounds of a struggle inside. They run to the back of the house, but that door is also locked. As they run back to the front of the house, they see through a window that Mrs. Castle is on the floor with a woman bending over her. Emma and Betty break in the front door and pull the woman away from Mrs. Castle. They both recognize her as Miss Jessie Lee Morrison. Mrs. Spangler starts to take Jessie to her home, but she breaks away saying “I must have that letter.” Both Jessie and Mrs. Castle are bleeding profusely. While, Betty attends to Clara Castle who has been slashed in the throat, Emma takes Jessie home and calls a doctor. “But a few moments passed until word was taken down town, all was excitement and business was practically suspend. Both men and women crowded to the scene.” Clara cannot speak, but she is conscious. She motions to Betty to bring her something to write with. She writes “Jessie Morrison killed me.”

    artist rendering for the Kansas City Star

Sources

https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Mayhem-Southeast-Kansas-Larry/dp/1467141402/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1576173576&sr=8-1

https://www.butlercountytimesgazette.com

https://www.facebook.com/ST-LOUIS-Globe-Democrat-317244905115627/

http://history.rays-place.com/ks/butler-eldorado.htm

www.kshs.org

https://www.kansasmemory.org/

https://newspaperarchive.com/

https://www.ancestry.com/

https://www.genealogybank.com/

https://www.newspapers.com/

https://www.findagrave.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/