Murder, Mysteries and Conspiracies with Glenn P Clinger III

Glenn looks at elections in America. He talks about Tammany Hall, the elections of 1824, 1864 and 2000 and the impact of the media and electronic voting.

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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/debate-over-mail-voting-dates-back-civil-war-180976091/

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/mail-in-ballot-fraud-dates-back-to-lincoln-and-the-civil-war

https://theconversation.com/stolen-elections-open-wounds-that-may-never-heal-128613

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicol%C3%A1s_Maduro

Glenn, takes a look back at the Reichstag Fire and how it played a key role in allowing Hitler to rise to power in Germany.

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https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/reichstag-fire

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-reichstag-fire-and-nazis-rise-power-180962240/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Night-of-the-Long-Knives

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-reichstag-fire#:~:text=Commonly%20known%20as%20the%20Reichstag%20Fire%20Decree%2C%20the%20resulting%20act,the%20way%20for%20Nazi%20dictatorship

Glenn talks about the Lindbergh baby, Patty Hearst and Frank Sinatra Jr. kidnappings. These cases are all different, but all include some interesting aspects that you will want to hear about.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patty_Hearst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra_Jr.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a37106130/frank-sinatra-jr-kidnapping-barry-keenan-true-story/

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/frank-sinatra-jr-kidnapping

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindbergh_kidnapping

Glenn talks about the elaborate escape attempts from Colditz Prison and Stalag Luft III during WWII. He also talks about WWII Ace Douglas Bader.

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https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/the-extraordinary-life-of-douglas-bader/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/naziprison/colditz.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colditz-Castle

https://coffeeordie.com/escaping-nazi-supermax-prison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colditz_Story

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Bader

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/12/28/irish-woman-whose-weather-forecast-changed-course-of-d-day-dies-100.html/amp

Glenn talks about the drugs given to Nazi troops during WWII to increase efficiency and how the allied forces had to come up with their own performance enhancing drugs to combat it.

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https://museumofhealthcare.blog/benzedrine-sulfate-from-military-stimulant-to-weight-management/ 

https://time.com/5752114/nazi-military-drugs/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Nazi_Germany

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/preview-world-war-speed/4337/

https://www.livescience.com/65788-world-war-ii-nazis-methamphetamines.html

https://fherehab.com/learning/amphetamine-history

Glenn, discusses some of the most interesting bank and train robberies in history.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Train_Robbery_(1963)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_Armored_robbery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Bank_of_America_robbery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery

Glenn talks about the small town in Ohio that was haunted for twenty years. Many of the residents of the small town of Circleville were receiving disturbing letters. One man died and while an arrest was made, many people feel that the wrong person was charged in this event.

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https://medium.com/illumination/inside-the-circleville-letters-the-shocking-true-story-of-a-small-towns-secret-44cb995ad6b2

https://eightify.app/summary/true-crime/unsolved-mystery-the-circleville-letters-wrongful-conviction

https://thecrimewire.com/multifarious/the-circleville-letters-anonymous-writer-torments-local-residents-for-decades

Glenn looks at the life of lawman Eliot Ness. Ness played a part in helping to shut down the alcohol distribution operations for the Capone organization in Chicago. Many people don't know that later in his career he tried to find the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. The murderer in Cleveland, Ohio killed at least twelve times. The brutal Jack the Ripper type killings terrified the city and Ness worked to find the identity and put an end to the murders.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Ness

https://unsolved.com/gallery/eliot-ness/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Torso_Murderer

https://case.edu/ech/articles/t/torso-murders

https://nypost.com/2022/10/15/clevelands-torso-killer-was-more-vicious-than-jack-the-ripper/

Glenn talks about possibly the first US serial killer, Harry Powers. Powers would use his advertisements in lonely hearts papers to lure victims to his murder farm outside of Clarksburg, West Virginia.

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https://wvexplorer.com/2022/02/21/harry-powers-serial-killer-west-virginia/

https://murderpedia.org/male.P/p/powers-harry.htm

https://news.lib.wvu.edu/2014/10/28/the-harry-powers-murders-crimes-that-inspired-west-virginia-authors/

https://peoplepill.com/i/harry-powers

Glenn talks about the CIA mind control program in the 1950's to 1970's. Many people may not have heard of this program, but it was the attempt to develop truth serums and was an extension of Nazi experiments carried out during WWII.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/13/cia-mind-control-1266649

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/06/11/unabomber-ted-kaczynski-harvard-experiment/

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2023-04-13/70-years-of-mkultra-the-cia-mind-control-program-that-inspired-stranger-things.html

https://www.thecollector.com/project-mk-ultra-cia-secret-experiments/

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0by2ybb/mk-ultra-the-cia-s-secret-pursuit-of-mind-control-

https://www.history.com/topics/us-government-and-politics/history-of-mk-ultra

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-we-know-about-cias-midcentury-mind-control-project-180962836/

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06760269

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKUltra