THE CRESCENT HOTEL-A 3 WAY: TRUE CRIME, GHOSTS, AND HISTORY!

EPISODE 9 

*WARNING BAD AUDIO*

The Crescent Hotel was built in 1886 as a resort for the rich and famous, but quickly became unmanageable and fell into disrepair. In 1908, it was reopened as the Crescent College and Conservatory for Young Women. This institution closed down in 1924, and then opened again in 1930 as a junior college. After the college closed in 1934, the Crescent was leased as a summer hotel. In 1937, it got a new owner, Norman G. Baker, who turned the place into a hospital and health resort. Baker, a millionaire inventor and radio personality, styled himself as a doctor, despite having had no medical training. He claimed to have discovered a number of "cures" for various ailments, including cancer, and launched frequent attacks on organized medicine, which he accused of being corrupt and profit-driven. Crescent Hotel in 2014 Having been run out of Iowa for practicing medicine without a license, Baker moved his cancer patients to Arkansas and advertised his new health resort at the Crescent. His "cure" consisted primarily of drinking the area's natural spring water. In 1940, federal charges were filed against Baker for mail fraud and he spent four years in prison.

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https://historycollection.co/norman-baker-man-claimed-cure-cancer/https://www.post-gazette.com/life/travel/2008/11/08/Welcome-to-the-1886-Crescent-Hotel-and-Spa-America-s-most-haunted-hotel/stories/200811080209https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2019/apr/12/glass-bottles-date-to-38-cancer-elixir-/https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/1886-crescent-hotel-and-spa/history.phphttps://daracook421.wordpress.com/2015/10/25/the-mad-scientist-dr-norman-baker-and-the-crescent-hotel/https://crescent-hotel.com/blog/unexplained-happenings-at-americas-most-haunted-hotel/https://moodymoons.com/2020/02/07/norman-baker-the-haunting-of-the-crescent-hotel/http://crescent-hotel.com/blog/tag/americas-most-haunted-hotel/

DAVID PARKER RAY READING OF THE TAPE VICTIM'S ARE FORCED TO LISTEN TO. EPISODE 8 PART 2/2:

David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), also known as the Toy-Box Killer, was an American kidnapper, torturer, rapist and suspected serial killer. Though no bodies were found, he was accused by his accomplices of killing several people and suspected by the police to have murdered as many as 60 women from Arizona and New Mexico, while living in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, approximately 7 miles north of Truth or Consequences. He soundproofed a truck trailer that he called his "toy box", and equipped it with items used for sexual torture. Ray was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 2001, for which he received a lengthy sentence, but he was never convicted of murder. He died of a heart attack about one year after his convictions in two cases (the second of which resulted in a plea deal).

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https://www.lifedeathprizes.com/real-life-crime/david-parker-ray-toybox-killer-67468

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/albuquerque/press-releases/2012/australian-federal-police-assist-fbi-in-david-parker-ray-missing-persons-case

https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f240/david-parker-ray-toy-box-killings-tape-transcripts-79489/

https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/David_Parker_Ray

https://www.serialkillers.ca/david-parker-ray/

https://www.abqjournal.com/70489/victim-tells-of-captivity.html

https://www.thoughtco.com/profile-of-serial-rapist-david-parker-ray-973147

https://dgomag.com/contents/3987

https://www.thecrimemag.com/listen-to-david-parker-rays-spine-chilling-torture-tape/

DAVID PARKER RAY READING OF THE TAPE VICTIM'S ARE FORCED TO LISTEN TO. EPISODE 8 PART 1/2:

LOVE KILLS! CRUEL COUPLES! THE TOYBOX KILLER: DAVID PARKER  RAY AND CYNTHIA HENDY MURDERS AND HIS RECORDING: EPISODE 8 PART 1/2

David Parker Ray (November 6, 1939 – May 28, 2002), also known as the Toy-Box Killer, was an American kidnapper, torturer, rapist and suspected serial killer. Though no bodies were found, he was accused by his accomplices of killing several people and suspected by the police to have murdered as many as 60 women from Arizona and New Mexico, while living in Elephant Butte, New Mexico, approximately 7 miles north of Truth or Consequences. He soundproofed a truck trailer that he called his "toy box", and equipped it with items used for sexual torture. Ray was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 2001, for which he received a lengthy sentence, but he was never convicted of murder. He died of a heart attack about one year after his convictions in two cases (the second of which resulted in a plea deal).

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https://www.lifedeathprizes.com/real-life-crime/david-parker-ray-toybox-killer-67468 https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/albuquerque/press-releases/2012/australian-federal-police-assist-fbi-in-david-parker-ray-missing-persons-case https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f240/david-parker-ray-toy-box-killings-tape-transcripts-79489/ https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/David_Parker_Ray https://www.serialkillers.ca/david-parker-ray/ https://www.abqjournal.com/70489/victim-tells-of-captivity.html https://www.thoughtco.com/profile-of-serial-rapist-david-parker-ray-973147 https://dgomag.com/contents/3987 https://www.thecrimemag.com/listen-to-david-parker-rays-spine-chilling-torture-tape/

THE “KITTY GENOVESE” CASE - EPISODE 7 SEASON 1

In the early hours of March 13, 1964, 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed outside the apartment building across the street from where she lived, in an apartment above a row of shops on Austin Street, in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens in New York City. Two weeks after the murder, The New York Times published an article claiming that 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack, and that none of them called the police or came to her aid.

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https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/a-new-look-at-the-killing-of-kitty-genovese-the-science-of-false-confessions.html

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/missing-story/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/winston-moseley-convicted-in-kitty-genovese-murder-dies-at-81/2016/04/05/925f0aae-fae1-11e5-886f-a037dba38301_story.html

https://www.history.com/topics/crime/kitty-genovese