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415 Dauphine Street
Episode 40
The Dauphine Street Room (415 Dauphine Street)
Description
In the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter stands a narrow rental building on Dauphine Street that has spent more than a century welcoming strangers. Sailors, tourists, musicians, and drifters have all passed through its doors, staying just long enough to be forgotten.
In nineteen seventy one, two visitors checked into an upstairs room and never came out.
What police uncovered was not a crime of passion, but a system. A man who had lived inside the building long enough to learn its blind spots, its service corridors, and its quiet places. A man who used keys and patience instead of force, choosing rooms the way others choose victims.
Today, the same space is marketed online as a short term rental. Fresh paint. Clean sheets. A carefully staged photograph of a place built for temporary lives.
This episode explores how buildings designed for strangers can become perfect hunting grounds, and how places that make money on forgetting are very good at hiding what they remember.
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The Dauphine Street Room (415 Dauphine Street)
Description
In the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter stands a narrow rental building on Dauphine Street that has spent more than a century welcoming strangers. Sailors, tourists, musicians, and drifters have all passed through its doors, staying just long enough to be forgotten.
In nineteen seventy one, two visitors checked into an upstairs room and never came out.
What police uncovered was not a crime of passion, but a system. A man who had lived inside the building long enough to learn its blind spots, its service corridors, and its quiet places. A man who used keys and patience instead of force, choosing rooms the way others choose victims.
Today, the same space is marketed online as a short term rental. Fresh paint. Clean sheets. A carefully staged photograph of a place built for temporary lives.
This episode explores how buildings designed for strangers can become perfect hunting grounds, and how places that make money on forgetting are very good at hiding what they remember.