On February 1st, 1893, an African-American teen named John Howling, walking to work in the morning, spotted a young girl, lying in the grass on the side of the road to Fort Thomas Kentucky. At first, John thought she might be sleeping, or worse, taken by the late-winter cold and freezing (or already frozen.) Howling approached and laid a hand gently on the girls shoulder to awaken her. Suddenly, Howling was howling. He let out a blood curdling scream. The girl was headless. John didn't know it yet, but he had discovered the body of beloved Greencastle, Indiana socialite, Pearl Bryan. She was obviously dead, but why had the killer decapitated her, and where was Pearl's head now? Find out on the latest episode of Kinda Murdery!

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Sources: https://ia601502.us.archive.org/9/items/true-detective-march-1929/TrueDetectiveMarch1929.pdf
https://www.nkytribune.com/2020/08/our-rich-history-shoe-dealer-solves-ghastly-murder-of-pearl-bryan-found-missing-her-head-in-1893/

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The murder of Patrolman Masterson started out a a commonplace peak-easy stick-up in which a police officer and a girl were wounded, at 2 :55am on the morning of January 31st, 1927, in New York City. Masterson died on the evening of the same and was buried with full departmental honors three days later. But it was anything but commonplace. In fact, an accidentally overheard conversation leading up the shooting, caused one poor man to go insane...

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Sources: https://archive.org/details/TrueDetectiveFeb1930/page/n27/mode/2up



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An American golden boy. He was born in 1947, the early years of the baby boom, he was an honor student, an athlete and a student council member. But, somewhere along the way, things went sideways and by 2007, at age 60, Verle Dills became internationally famous as the man who spent years videotaping himself humping street signs - which sounds like an internet punchline, but the truth is much darker than that...What went so horribly wrong?

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Sources:
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/bubba-humps#lightbox-popup-1
https://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-278-21-insane-true-sex-stories-you-thought-were-urban-legends
https://jalopnik.com/south-dakota-man-arrested-for-sex-with-street-signs-285080
https://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/services/publications/fhwaop02084/index.htm
Various articles from www.newspapers.com search term: "Verle Dills"

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Anson Maddocks returns to discuss the case of Samuel Little, the "Choke & Stroke" killer - the most prolific serial murderer in United States History. Little was convicted of killing four women, but then confessed to 89 more murders. He used his photographic memory to paint his vicims, and helped the authorities close 60 (yes, SIXTY!!!) Jane Doe murder cases before he died in 2020. If you'd like to hear more about Little, as well as Anson's opinion of a serial killer's artistic ability, and a story about eight-year-old Mark Tedin, then this is the Kinda Murdery episode for you...

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Sources:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/samuel-little-dead.html
https://www.dps.texas.gov/news/new-details-released-unsolved-samuel-little-murders https://www.insider.com/samuel-little-fbi-most-prolific-serial-killer-us-history-2019-10 https://www.insider.com/samuel-little-portraits-victims-paint-drawings-2019-10#:~:text=America's%20most%20prolific%20serial%20killer%2C%20Samuel%20Little%2C%20has%20been%20helping,victims%20by%20painting%20their%20portraits.

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For months, the skeleton of an unknown girl had lain in the Islip woods, still covered in expensive jewelry, a bullet-hole in her skull. Who was she? How could she be identified? Who killed her? What was there motive? In October 1909, the answers to those questions were left up to New York City Police Detectives, William Roddy and Tom Murray. Find out what they uncover on the latest episode of, Kinda Murdery...

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Sources:
https://ia902206.us.archive.org/20/items/TrueDetectiveNov1925/TrueDetectiveNov1925.pdf

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On April 12th, 1903, Mrs. Frances Connors spotted a overcoat draped over a barrel at the corner of 11th Street and Avenue D in Manhattan's Alphabet City. The coat looked new, and it wasn't wet, even though it had been raining all night. "Who gets rid of a perfectly good overcoat?" Mrs. Connors wondered, and, "What's in that barrel?" Curiosity got the better of her, she sidled over to the barrel, lifted the coat, and SCREAMED...

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Sources: The Ananconda Standard, "The Baffling Mystery of the Barrel Murder," by William J. Flynn, Sunday, April 19th and April 26th, 1914.
Accessed via Newspapers.com

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In 2014, FBI agents raided Stephen Gore's Body Resource Center in Phoenix Arizona and recovered a total of 10 tons of frozen human remains comprised of 1,755 total body parts. These included: 281 heads, 241 shoulders, 337 legs, and 97 spines. Was Stephen Gore a serial killer? Not exactly. Find out now, on Kinda Murdery...

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The American Revolution? Serial Killers? Pirate treasure? WITCHES? Is this a true crime podcast or a conspiracy podcast? It's a true crime podcast, and this true story has EVERYTHING...Also the Harp Brothers were f*****g monsters. Find out why.

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Sources:
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-harpes/#:~:text=Earning%20the%20dubious%20distinction%20of,Mississippi%20in%20the%20late%201700s. https://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-samuelmason/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_before_1900

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On September 15th, 2010, Texas Oil man, Greg Fleniken, died in his hotel room. Greg had a sterling reputation. The kind of standup, privately introverted man who everyone loved and respected. He had no enemies, and he wasn't a womanizer. There was no sign of forced entry, no sign of struggle, no sign of injury, none of his posessions had been disturbed, and no one had seen or heard anything out of the ordinary The ripple effects of Greg Fleniken's sudden death emanated far beyond his hotel room. For a man who valued his routines, failing to call his wife, Susie, in the morning was more than an oversight; it was an alarm bell. His silence set a series of events into motion. Concerned co-workers, unanswered knocks, an unlocked door—these were the first steps into unraveling what had happened in that room. Susie had been expecting a routine call, but instead, she set off a cascade of inquiries that led two of Greg's co-workers to his hotel room. Once the door swung open, what they found was a tableau of stillness, life interrupted. Greg lay prone, with a cigarette arrested in its journey to his lips. The room was suffocatingly warm, in stark contrast to Greg's preference for a cool environment...

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Sources:
https://973thedawg.com/greg-fleniken-death-true-crime-mystery-body-in-room-348-vanity-fair/ https://thecinemaholic.com/greg-fleniken-murder-where-is-lance-mueller-now/ https://medium.com/illumination/room-no-348-mystery-man-smashed-to-death-with-no-major-external-injuries-b0217bbf0837 https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/wife-of-man-found-dead-at-mcm-elegante-proceeds-4725451.php https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegante-hotel-texas-murder

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In the wake of Kari Baker's funeral, the community turned its gaze toward Matt, her husband. A minister of just 35 years, Matt sat on the front row at the service, his demeanor a tableau of inconsolable sorrow. When he lifted his head from his hands, his eyes, a light blue hue that was almost startling, met the congregation's gaze.

After the eulogy, Matt found the strength to stand beside the pulpit, his two remaining daughters flanking him. With each hug and expression of condolences he received, he assured the congregation that he'd be back to preach on the most hopeful day in the Christian calendar—Easter Sunday. "God has not abandoned me," he whispered to one close friend, "He will give me the strength to carry on."

But something unsettling began to shift about a month later. Rumors surfaced that Kari's mother, Linda Dulin, backed by her sisters and niece, was conducting her own investigation into Kari's death. The whispers intensified when word got out that Linda and her husband, Jim, had engaged a lawyer and private investigators. This was puzzling to many; after all, the Hewitt police had been convinced enough of Kari's suicide that they hadn't even requested an autopsy...

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Sources:
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna34983893
https://wacotrib.com/news/local/crime-courts/judge-denies-matt-bakers-request-for-new-trial/article_11218a26-8d83-504d-ad7f-c27aaf7a2a26.html#:~:text=Matt%20Baker%20walks%20out%20of,a%20new%20trial%20was%20denied.&text=Former%20Central%20Texas%20Baptist%20minister,Strother's%2019th%20State%20District%20Court
https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death/ https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/witness-for-theprosecution/#:~:text=Skip%20Hollandsworth%20specializes%20in%20long%2Dform%20narratives.&text=Editor's%20note%3A%20On%20January%2020,suspected%20of%20murdering%20his%20wife.

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