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Here's al Go to beachbody 20 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: dot com to claim your free membership and start feeling great. 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,400 Speaker 1: The following episode contains deeply disturbing scenes of violence, murder, 22 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:20,240 Speaker 1: and sexual violence toward children. Parental discretion is advised. You're 23 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained, Season six, episode twelve, A Darkness on 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 1: the Edge of Town, Part three. Early in the autumn 25 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:39,240 Speaker 1: of nineteen eleven, just south of Olyska, a young barefoot 26 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:42,960 Speaker 1: girl picks her way through a patch of scrubland beside 27 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:47,720 Speaker 1: a disused and decaying slaughterhouse. Spotting an old wooden crate 28 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:51,160 Speaker 1: before her, the young girl hurries forward to retrieve it, 29 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: only to yelp out suddenly in pain and collapse to 30 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: the ground. Grabbing her foot, the girl winces at the 31 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 1: sy to the large hazel colored thorn, now deeply embedded 32 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: in the soul of it. She pulls it out. Bright 33 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: red blood oozes to the surface, and the girl cries 34 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,560 Speaker 1: out for her mother. Edith runs forward to help, pressing 35 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 1: her handkerchief to her daughter's foot, who then begins to cry. 36 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: Edith's friend, Vina, rushes to join them. It's no use, 37 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:28,799 Speaker 1: says Edith. They have to go back to patch it up. 38 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: Vina would have to carry on without them. Edith and 39 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: Vina had recently arrived in the county, having moved down 40 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:40,959 Speaker 1: with their husbands and children. The two couples were camped 41 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: a little further downstream, and with the men having both 42 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,840 Speaker 1: found work laying pavements in town, it was left to 43 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: the women to tend the camp. The sight of the 44 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: old slaughterhouse had proved fertile ground for finding good scraps 45 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,840 Speaker 1: to dismantle for firewood. After waving Edith and to order off, 46 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:03,960 Speaker 1: Vena grabs what she can and then veers toward the 47 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: river on her way back to the camp, when suddenly 48 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: she hears voices talking in hushed and ominous tones. Thinking 49 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,080 Speaker 1: it was probably a conversation that the men having it 50 00:03:16,120 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: didn't want overheard, Vena ducks behind a nearby bush, torn 51 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: between staying hidden or trying to get away unseen as 52 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: all the while, the men continue to talk. He's got 53 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:33,680 Speaker 1: to be killed, says one of them angrily. If it 54 00:03:33,720 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: can't be done any other way, it's got to be 55 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,920 Speaker 1: done while he's asleep. The man talking was in his 56 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 1: fifties with graying dark hair. Beside him stood another man 57 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: about half his age that looked noticeably similar. Then the 58 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 1: third man spoke up, who Vena couldn't see so well. 59 00:03:54,800 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: He seemed rougher somehow not like the other men. The 60 00:04:00,160 --> 00:04:05,280 Speaker 1: man mentions the name Levi Wood and possibly someone called Whipple, 61 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: the names of men that Vina knew all too well. 62 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: And these men talking, said Texan detective James Wilkerson, puncturing 63 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 1: the story. You believe you know who they are, well, 64 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,640 Speaker 1: if you'd let me finish, detective, said Vina Tomkins, taking 65 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: another drag on her cigarette. It was June nineteen fourteen, 66 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:34,160 Speaker 1: and Wilkerson was sat in Vienna's living room in Marshalltown, 67 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: about one hundred and sixty miles northeast of Veliska, listening 68 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: with all the restraint he could muster as she regaled 69 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: him finally with her story. The detective had made a 70 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 1: number of attempts to extract it from her, only for 71 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: Vena to change her mind at the last moment. Until now, 72 00:04:53,160 --> 00:04:57,960 Speaker 1: Wilkerson waited with bated breath. I couldn't very well see 73 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 1: the third man, said Vena, but I believe the other 74 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,719 Speaker 1: two were called Stone or Jones. Viena was later shown 75 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: a picture of the lisk And banker and current Iowan 76 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,520 Speaker 1: Senator Frank Fernando Jones, and asked to confirm if he 77 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 1: was one of the men that she saw, Vina nodded yes, 78 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:31,720 Speaker 1: she said it was him. Born Viena Whipple and raised 79 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,920 Speaker 1: in Guthrie County, near the town of Fansler in Iowa, 80 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:38,600 Speaker 1: Viena Tompkins was a smart, thirty six year old with 81 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 1: no formal education who grew up surrounded by career criminals, 82 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:47,000 Speaker 1: from her father to her brothers and most of the 83 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: men she dated, including her ex husband and father of 84 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: her children, Dave Clark. The lifestyle had dominated every aspect 85 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: of her life, and she was desperate to escape it. 86 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: The only problem was she wanted to save her children too, 87 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: one of whom was currently living with Clark. With Detective 88 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:11,920 Speaker 1: Wilkerson's promise that he could help, Fiena agreed to write 89 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: everything down in a statement, having also gone on to 90 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: explain that Levi Wood, who was apparently mentioned by the 91 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: men she claimed to see by the river, was well 92 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 1: known as a man who could be trusted to carry 93 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:29,039 Speaker 1: out dirty work. The man named Whipple, who they also 94 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:33,239 Speaker 1: apparently mentioned, she suspected was a reference to her own brother, 95 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:40,280 Speaker 1: Harry Whipple. With Tompkins's explosive statement, Wilkerson began steadily to 96 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: formulate his theory that the three men by the river 97 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: were Frank Jones, his son Albert, and one other, possibly 98 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,280 Speaker 1: Jake Weems, another member of the crime community that Fiena 99 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: was part of, and together these men conspired with Levi 100 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:01,359 Speaker 1: Wood to murder Joe Moore, take his entire family and 101 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:06,240 Speaker 1: the Stillinger girls with him. Any concrete evidence linking Jones 102 00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: to the crime, however, was nonexistent, and he'd need far 103 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:14,680 Speaker 1: more than Veena Tompkins's testimony to convince the jury. Then 104 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:20,280 Speaker 1: in July, another horrific murder hit the headlines, this time 105 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: twenty one year old Margaret Mansfield and her seven month 106 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: old daughter Maisie, along with her parents, Mary and Jacob Mislich, 107 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: all slaughtered horrifically in Blue Island, Illinois. Just like the 108 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,200 Speaker 1: Veliska murders, all the victims were attacked solely in the 109 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: head with an axe that was casually left behind at 110 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 1: the scene. After traveling to Blue Island to investigate, Wilkerson 111 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: quickly picked up the trail of William Mansfield, a two 112 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,240 Speaker 1: time military deserter who'd spent time in jail for other 113 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:57,679 Speaker 1: offenses too. William had also just eloped with another woman 114 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: a few months after he left town, Margaret and her 115 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 1: family were murdered. After digging deeper into Mansfield's backstory, Wilkerson 116 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: soon became convinced that he was not only responsible for 117 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: killing his family, but for the Veliska murders too, if 118 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,680 Speaker 1: he was right, Frank Jones had employed him to do it. 119 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: Wilkerson insisted also that Mansfield was in fact the third 120 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: man that Fena Tompkins had seen talking to Frank and 121 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:31,880 Speaker 1: Albert Jones by the river, and though he didn't have 122 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: enough evidence to get Frank Jones indicted, if he could 123 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: at least get Mansfield on the stand, it would be 124 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: all he needed to expose the Joneses too. For the 125 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: next few years, Wilkerson continued building his case against William 126 00:08:52,800 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 1: Mansfield as the man directly responsible for the murders of 127 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: the Moore family and the two Stillinger girls. For the while, 128 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:04,600 Speaker 1: Frank Jones did his best to ignore the now open 129 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: secret that one of the William Byrne's detective agencies top 130 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: investigators suspected he was involved. Two In July nineteen fifteen, 131 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: a man was arrested in Buffalo, New York. His name 132 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:25,400 Speaker 1: was Casimir Ariyazevski, a lodger who'd been staying with Margaret 133 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: Mansfield and her family when they were murdered. After his arrest, 134 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,520 Speaker 1: Ariyazevski confessed to the crime, but it was all too 135 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 1: late for William Mansfield. Thanks to Wilkerson's efforts, he was 136 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: promptly arrested some time later and successfully indicted for the 137 00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:47,880 Speaker 1: Valiska murders, with a trial set for July nineteen sixteen. 138 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: As the trial approached, on June third, nineteen sixteen, two 139 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: days before Frank Jones was due to stand in the 140 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:01,439 Speaker 1: Iowa Senate primary elections, a letter arrived on his desk. 141 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: Opening it, he found a large mug shot of William 142 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: Mansfield below the words this is the axe murderer he 143 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: murdered the more family at Veliska, the hypocrite whose dirty 144 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: money paid for the hellish job. Once your support for 145 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:23,239 Speaker 1: the state Senate will he get it? As Frank furiously 146 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: rang round for any information about where it had come from, 147 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: he soon discovered he wasn't the only one to receive 148 00:10:29,480 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: the letter. Over the next few days, the letters damning 149 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: contents spilled steadily out into the wider community. Frank's campaign 150 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:43,520 Speaker 1: was completely sunk, though no one admitted responsibility for the letter, 151 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Jones was in little doubt that Wilkerson was behind it. 152 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:59,439 Speaker 1: The following month, William Mansfield's trial began. The bulk of 153 00:10:59,520 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: wilkerson case hinged on the testimony of Veena Tompkins, which 154 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: by now he'd adapted to suit the new narrative that 155 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,760 Speaker 1: Mansfield had in fact been the man who wielded the 156 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:14,520 Speaker 1: acts at the behest of Frank Jones. Especially damning for 157 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:19,440 Speaker 1: Mansfield was the testimony given by a man named W. R. Tilson, 158 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: a county treasurer in Maryville, Missouri. Tilson claimed that on 159 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: May thirty first, nineteen sixteen, a man came into his 160 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:33,120 Speaker 1: office asking for some money. The man apparently gave his 161 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,320 Speaker 1: name as Bill Mansfield and explained that someone from Veliska 162 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: was supposed to leave it with Tilson for him to 163 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: pick up later. This money, Detective Wilkerson insisted, was part 164 00:11:45,960 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: of Mansfield's payment from Jones for committing the crime. When 165 00:11:50,720 --> 00:11:55,560 Speaker 1: Tilson came to take the stand, however, Mansfield's lawyer, Jacob Dettweiler, 166 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,680 Speaker 1: made the counterclaim that it couldn't possibly have been his 167 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 1: client because he was in Kansas City that day and 168 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 1: he had the evidence to prove it. Furthermore, when Tilson 169 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,760 Speaker 1: was asked to look again at William Mansfield in court, 170 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 1: he was forced to admit that he wasn't, in fact 171 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,359 Speaker 1: the man who'd come to see him. Fena Tompkins's testimony 172 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,760 Speaker 1: too fell flat when she was also forced to admit 173 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 1: that she couldn't be sure that Mansfield was one of 174 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: the men she'd apparently seen by the river. As a 175 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: last throw of the dice, Wilkerson had a young woman 176 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:35,360 Speaker 1: called Alice Willard brought to the stand. Willard had apparently 177 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: been out with friends on the Saturday night before the 178 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: murders back in nineteen twelve, when she walked past the 179 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 1: Moor's house and overheard some men in conversation saying that 180 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:50,679 Speaker 1: if they got Joe first, the rest would be easy. 181 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:56,040 Speaker 1: Willard then pointed confidently toward Mansfield, drawing gasps from many 182 00:12:56,080 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: of those present when she insisted that he was one 183 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 1: of the men that she'd heard. Willard's story was quickly dismantled, however, 184 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 1: not least of all by the fact that Mansfield quite 185 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: demonstrably had been nowhere near Vliska that night, having been 186 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:17,440 Speaker 1: in Montgomery, Illinois instead. With the trial concluded on July 187 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: twenty first, nineteen sixteen. It took the jury a little 188 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: more than an hour to decide not to have Mansfield 189 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: indicted for the murders. Later that day, he was released 190 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 1: from custody and promptly returned to Kansas City. Realizing the 191 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 1: trial had been a barely disguised effort to prove his 192 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 1: own apparent culpability, the increasingly frustrated Frank Jones, still smarting 193 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: from his election defeat, decided finally to take action and 194 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: sued James Wilkerson. Jones accused the detective of defaming his 195 00:13:53,760 --> 00:13:57,920 Speaker 1: character by unfairly and very publicly accusing him of being 196 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,160 Speaker 1: responsible for the Vliska murders. It was just about one 197 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: of the worst decisions of his life, as pointed out 198 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 1: by author Roy Marshall in his comprehensive twenty three retelling 199 00:14:16,559 --> 00:14:20,280 Speaker 1: of the Vliska Event Vliska, the True account of the 200 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:24,960 Speaker 1: unsolved nineteen twelve mass murder that stunned the Nation. Frank's 201 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: great mistake in taking Detective Wilkerson to court was that 202 00:14:28,680 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: he was, by extension, also criticizing the professional integrity of 203 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:38,320 Speaker 1: his employer, the William Burns Detective Agency. In response, no 204 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:42,400 Speaker 1: expense was spared in securing for Wilkerson the best legal 205 00:14:42,440 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: representation they could find. Perhaps even worse, however, was the 206 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: fact that in order to prove Wilkerson's innocence, his lawyer 207 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: Ed Mitchell had to prove that Wilkerson was entirely right 208 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:58,240 Speaker 1: to suspect Jones as the man who paid for the 209 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: more family to be murdered. In essence, Wilkerson's defamation trial 210 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: would be little more than a second opportunity for the 211 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: detective to prove that Jones was in fact guilty. In 212 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: the end, the case played out much like the Mansfield 213 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: indictment trial, only Ed Mitchell made a much better job 214 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: of it, and with the Folkers no longer on the 215 00:15:22,920 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 1: question of Mansfield's possible involvement, things only got worse for Jones. 216 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 1: Fiena Tompkins was once again brought forward to give her story, 217 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: appearing much more convincing the second time around, and stated 218 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: once again that Frank was one of the men she'd 219 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: seen by the river. Alice Willard also returned to repeat 220 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: her story once again. She stated that although she couldn't 221 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,920 Speaker 1: be sure that Mansfield was one of the men she'd overheard, 222 00:15:52,960 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: talking about killing Joe. Frank Fernando Jones definitely was. Other 223 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 1: witnesses would brought forward to say they'd seen Frank's son, Albert, 224 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 1: in the town of Grant at around six am on 225 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:09,280 Speaker 1: the morning of the murders, some seven miles or so 226 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:12,880 Speaker 1: further away than Albert had said he was when quizzed 227 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:17,520 Speaker 1: about his whereabouts by the authorities, a fact which Wilkerson's lawyer, 228 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:22,400 Speaker 1: Ed Mitchell argued gave Wilkinson genuine reason to believe he 229 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:28,280 Speaker 1: was hiding something. Montgomery County Sheriff Owen Jackson was also 230 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 1: brought to the stand to testify that he'd been with 231 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: Wilkinson when Veena Tompkins was shown the picture of Frank Jones, 232 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: who she then subsequently confirmed as one of the men 233 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: she'd seen. Others were also brought forward claiming to have 234 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:48,520 Speaker 1: seen or heard Jones in compromisable situations relating to the crime, 235 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,520 Speaker 1: though Frank's defense team were able to successfully challenge some 236 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,480 Speaker 1: of the accounts. When it was later revealed that an 237 00:16:56,480 --> 00:17:00,680 Speaker 1: associate of Jones had potentially tried to lean on Willard 238 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:03,840 Speaker 1: to retract her statement, the case was as good as 239 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 1: over after closing statements on Saturday, December ninth, and a 240 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: day of deliberations, the jury agreed unanimously the detective Wilkinson 241 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:19,000 Speaker 1: had every right to suspect that Frank Jones was involved 242 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:28,800 Speaker 1: in the murders. With everything that took place at the 243 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:32,800 Speaker 1: defamation trial and the ever growing support for Wilkerson's theory 244 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:37,200 Speaker 1: among the people of Veliska, including even Joe Moore's brother, 245 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: Ross Joe Stillinger, the father of the murdered Stillinger girls, 246 00:17:42,160 --> 00:17:46,920 Speaker 1: and John Montgomery, Sarah Moore's father, the state had little 247 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 1: option but to take the theory seriously. Many, however, suspected Wilkinson, 248 00:17:53,119 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: who seemed to have become obsessed with proving Frank Jones's guilt, 249 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: regardless of any evidence to the contrary, had like manufactured 250 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:05,639 Speaker 1: much of his evidence against him. In February nineteen seventeen, 251 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,359 Speaker 1: he was convicted of assaulting previous suspect William Mansfield in 252 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: an effort to secure a confession, and was eventually let 253 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: go by the William Burns Agency. No longer involved in 254 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:22,120 Speaker 1: the Valiska case, it was left and newly appointed Iowa 255 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 1: Attorney General Horace Hafner and County Attorney Oscar Wenstrand to 256 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:30,639 Speaker 1: build the case, but as the pair dug into the 257 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 1: history of it, with neither particularly convinced of Frank Jones's involvement, 258 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:42,119 Speaker 1: another name slowly bubbled back to the surface. In nineteen seventeen, 259 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: Reverend Lynn David Kelly was living in Sutton, Nebraska, since 260 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: his arrest and incarceration for tricking women interposing naked for him, 261 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,280 Speaker 1: and his multiple declarations to prison guards that he had 262 00:18:56,320 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: committed the murders in Vliska, some further facts had come 263 00:18:59,800 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: to light. Only three weeks before the crime, Kelly had 264 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: been chased off by a man who caught the reverend 265 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:12,920 Speaker 1: watching the man's wife undressing through their bedroom window, while 266 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,720 Speaker 1: further reports had also emerged of Kelly sharing details of 267 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,640 Speaker 1: the murders long before anyone could possibly have known about them, 268 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: to Havna, and when struant it was utterly mind boggling 269 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: that the man had never formerly been questioned about them. 270 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:32,680 Speaker 1: Kelly was promptly arrested and put in jail in Logan, Iowa, 271 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:36,560 Speaker 1: a town just to the northeast of Omaha, Nebraska, after 272 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 1: which it was agreed to proceed immediately with an indictment trial. 273 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 1: In truth, however, despite everything, his gut was telling him 274 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,680 Speaker 1: there was still nothing concrete linking Kelly to the crimes, 275 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: so Havner took action and arranged to have an informant 276 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: covertly share Kelly's prison cell with him. Incredibly, within only 277 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 1: a few days, the informant delivered the news that Kelly 278 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: wanted to confess. In early September, Kelly was taken from 279 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,120 Speaker 1: his cell late in the night and delivered to an 280 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: interview room where Haner, along with a handful of other 281 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 1: law enforcement officials and two journalists brought in to record 282 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,679 Speaker 1: the meeting, were waiting for him. By five thirty am 283 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: the following morning, they had everything they needed. With only 284 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,159 Speaker 1: days to go until Reverend Kelly's indictment trial, Attorney General 285 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: Haner received word from Kelly's lawyer that his client was 286 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 1: retracting his statement, claiming it had been extracted under duress. 287 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,159 Speaker 1: Kelly accused Havna of scaring him into signing it and 288 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: denying him the right to have a lawyer present at 289 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,920 Speaker 1: the time. Things were further complicated when hana was arrested 290 00:21:00,080 --> 00:21:04,040 Speaker 1: himself on a grand jury indictment for allegedly oppressing Alice 291 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: Willard in relation to the defamation case against Frank Jones, 292 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: throwing further doubt on his insistence that Kelly's confession had 293 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: been legally obtained either way. On September twenty fourth, the 294 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:23,240 Speaker 1: trial began. For the prosecution, it was simple Kelly was 295 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 1: a sexual deviant with a history of window peaking and 296 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,280 Speaker 1: a seed criminal obsession with young girls, and who had also, 297 00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:36,160 Speaker 1: on more than one occasion, confessed to committing the Valiska murders. 298 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,640 Speaker 1: Witnesses were brought forward to confirm some of the many 299 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: rumors about him. Mister and Missus Simons of Carson traveled 300 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,280 Speaker 1: on the train with Kelly on the morning of June tenth, 301 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:52,640 Speaker 1: nineteen twelve, the morning of the killings. They recalled how 302 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: Kelly had been talking excitedly about the murder of an 303 00:21:56,440 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: entire family in Vliska the night before. This conversation, they 304 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,280 Speaker 1: were sure had taken place at some time around seven 305 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:08,520 Speaker 1: fifteen am, a full hour before the murders were discovered. 306 00:22:09,960 --> 00:22:14,480 Speaker 1: Others from Macedonia, where Kelly lived then also confirmed that 307 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: he'd spoken to them too, back on his arrival in 308 00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: the town, before news of the crime had really gone public. 309 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: Coura Macarte was then brought forward the council Bluffs. Laundry 310 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: worker who'd washed Kelly's stained shirt, Marquard, reaffirmed her belief 311 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 1: that the stain was blood, being similar to other blood 312 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:45,439 Speaker 1: stains she'd frequently come across in her work. As more 313 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 1: and more evidence was presented to the jury, the slight 314 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: and scrawny Kelly was frequently reduced to tears protesting his innocence, 315 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: while his wife Laura sat stoically beside him, often wiping 316 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:02,560 Speaker 1: his tears and giving him comforting hugs. With Laura being 317 00:23:02,600 --> 00:23:05,439 Speaker 1: a good few inches taller than her husband, it was 318 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,440 Speaker 1: said that he seemed almost like a lost child being 319 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:13,440 Speaker 1: comforted by his mother. Then Kelly's confession was read out, 320 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:18,280 Speaker 1: though it was somewhat lacking in precise details, the sheer 321 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,000 Speaker 1: strangeness of Kelly's statement and the horror of what he, 322 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,639 Speaker 1: apparently in his own words, had meted out on the 323 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 1: victims stunned the court into silence. The statement was quickly challenged, however, 324 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:36,439 Speaker 1: by Kelly's defense, who encouraged the jury to disregard it 325 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,200 Speaker 1: entirely due to the fact that Kelly had allegedly been 326 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 1: forcefully coerced into signing it. Then the defense gave their 327 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:50,120 Speaker 1: side of the story Lenore Ewing, wife of the Valiscan 328 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:53,760 Speaker 1: Presbyterian minister at whose home Kelly had stayed on the 329 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: night at the crime, was brought forward. The prosecution had 330 00:23:58,000 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: argued that Kelly didn't actually sleep in the bed that 331 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: Lenore had prepared for him, since he'd been out all 332 00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:07,639 Speaker 1: night at the Moor's house. Ewing, however, testified that the 333 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 1: bed had been slept in, and that she found no 334 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:14,240 Speaker 1: blood stains or anything else to cause suspicion. The morning after, 335 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: Laura Kelly then took the stand and testified that she'd 336 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: packed her husband's bag for the trip and had not 337 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: supplied him with a change of clothes. According to her, 338 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: he couldn't possibly have done it because when he came 339 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: home he was wearing exactly the same clothes he left, 340 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 1: with not a spot of dirt on them. At one point, 341 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: the murder weapon was even brought into the court, with 342 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: which a demonstration was given to show whether or not 343 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 1: Kelly was tall enough to have made the dents and 344 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,600 Speaker 1: the ceiling of the Moor's property thought to have been 345 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: caused by the axe when the murderer swung it back. 346 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,400 Speaker 1: The prosecution argued he was more than tall and strong enough, 347 00:24:56,920 --> 00:25:01,719 Speaker 1: while the defense argued otherwise. Doctors were also brought to 348 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 1: the stand to confirm that Kelly was in his right 349 00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: mind when he gave his confession to Havener, while other 350 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:15,000 Speaker 1: doctors equally qualified argued he wasn't. And then, after twenty 351 00:25:15,040 --> 00:25:18,679 Speaker 1: two days of back and forth, on September twenty sixth, 352 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:29,879 Speaker 1: the trial came to an end. After four hours of deliberations, 353 00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:33,880 Speaker 1: the jury took a vote and found eleven in favor 354 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: of a quitting Reverend Kelly of all charges and one 355 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,600 Speaker 1: in favor of declaring him not guilty for reasons of insanity. 356 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:46,640 Speaker 1: After a further three days deliberating, with the jury unable 357 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 1: to reach a unanimous decision, the judge declared a hung 358 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:56,320 Speaker 1: jury and Kelly was released from custody. Needless to say, 359 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,719 Speaker 1: the result was a huge blow for Attorney General Havener, 360 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,679 Speaker 1: not least of all because he truly believed that Kelly 361 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:08,000 Speaker 1: was a deranged murderer who'd just been allowed back into society. 362 00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:14,159 Speaker 1: Haner felt morally obligated to request a retrial the second 363 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: time round. However, having known new evidence to add and 364 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: deciding not to use the confession at all, Havener's case 365 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:25,440 Speaker 1: was even more flimsy. In a trial that took half 366 00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,920 Speaker 1: as long to complete and the jury only five hours 367 00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:32,719 Speaker 1: to reach a verdict, Kelly was found not guilty of 368 00:26:32,760 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: all crimes. Over the next few years, Kelly continued to 369 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,959 Speaker 1: move from place to place with his wife Laura, and 370 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,200 Speaker 1: in nineteen nineteen attempted to soothe the state and Attorney 371 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: General Havener for damages, believing his reputation had been irrevocably 372 00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: damaged by the trials. The case was dismissed, however, after 373 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: which little more is known about him, other than he 374 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,879 Speaker 1: most likely returned to England, where he died sometime in 375 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: the late nineteen twenties. Frank Jones's son, Albert, who was 376 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,639 Speaker 1: also implicated in the crimes, died soon after due to 377 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,360 Speaker 1: general ill health. Frank is said to have sat tenderly 378 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: by his son's bedside for days until he took his 379 00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 1: last breath, although as writer Roy Marshall has pointed out, 380 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,960 Speaker 1: there are some who believed that Frank was merely there 381 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:30,200 Speaker 1: to stop Albert from making any incriminating last minute deathbed confessions. 382 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 1: As for Frank himself, though his major political aspirations were 383 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,840 Speaker 1: completely wrecked by the tragic events, he carried on regardless, 384 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,800 Speaker 1: and died in nineteen forty one in Veliska at the 385 00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: age of eighty one. As for Sarah and Joe Moore 386 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 1: and their children, Hermann, Mary, Arthur and Paul, as well 387 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,560 Speaker 1: as young Eina and Lena Stillinger, they remained fondly remembered 388 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 1: by the town and anyone else who encounters their story, 389 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,880 Speaker 1: some of whom continue to lay flowers by their graveside 390 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:18,160 Speaker 1: at Veliska Cemetery. The Reverend Lynn George Kelly's legal team 391 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: attempted to dismiss his apparent confession as nothing but a 392 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: sham that had been harassed out of him by Attorney 393 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: General Horace Hafner. Notes taken by the two journalists tasked 394 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:35,679 Speaker 1: with recording it, however, suggest a somewhat different story. Although 395 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,160 Speaker 1: both admitted they had not been present for the entire process, 396 00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:41,239 Speaker 1: and it can never be said for certain that they 397 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: didn't edit their words afterwards, there is good reason to 398 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:50,640 Speaker 1: believe that Kelly willfully volunteered his statement. Whatever we believe, 399 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: it certainly makes for harrowing reading. I Lynn, George J. 400 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,840 Speaker 1: Kelly say that I make the following affidavit it in confession, 401 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,320 Speaker 1: without any promises or threats having been made to me 402 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 1: of any kind whatever, and that this is a voluntary statement. 403 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:14,840 Speaker 1: After church, I returned home with Reverend Ewing and his wife, 404 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: and stayed up and visited with him until eleven or 405 00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: eleven thirty o'clock, when he showed me to my room 406 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:24,680 Speaker 1: and asked me if I would mind sleeping alone, as 407 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,840 Speaker 1: they were going to sleep in the tent. I said no, 408 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: as I was intending to go to sleep at once. 409 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 1: I undressed and went to bed, but was restless, being overtired. 410 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 1: I heard a noise like a windmill and opened the 411 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,920 Speaker 1: door of the balcony, then stood outside to see what 412 00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:49,120 Speaker 1: the noise was, but found nothing. Then I came back 413 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: and shut the door and tried to sleep, but could not. 414 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 1: My head was hot. I began to feel sick and 415 00:29:57,880 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: wanted to get a walk, so I dressed, went downstairs 416 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,640 Speaker 1: and left the house by the front door. I walked 417 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,080 Speaker 1: across to the Presbyterian Church. I did not intend to 418 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: go any further, but my mind was working on a 419 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:16,120 Speaker 1: sermon on a text called slagh utterly, and a voice 420 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:20,680 Speaker 1: said go on, and I went on because I was 421 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: in the grip of something that I did not understand. 422 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: I felt God wanted me to slay utterly, and I 423 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: did not know where I was going or where I was. 424 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,440 Speaker 1: I got down near the end of the street and 425 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,960 Speaker 1: saw a shadow on the side of a house, going 426 00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,680 Speaker 1: from the back to the front, and God told me 427 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: to follow that shadow. I walked on a little bit further, 428 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: still thinking about my sermon, and wanted to know where 429 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: that shadow began. I went hunting the shadow to the 430 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,640 Speaker 1: back of the house. I did not know who lived there, 431 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 1: but I kept hearing that voice sligh utterly. I said, yes, Lord, 432 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: I will I was walking around in the darkness around 433 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:11,520 Speaker 1: the house trying to find that shadow and accidentally saw 434 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 1: an axe. I picked it up. I went to where 435 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: the shadow went, for God wanted me to follow that shadow. 436 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: I went around toward the front door. A voice said, 437 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:29,080 Speaker 1: go in, do as I tell you, slay utterly. I 438 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 1: saw no light, but I had to do as God 439 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,960 Speaker 1: told me, and I dare not turn back because somebody 440 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:39,480 Speaker 1: was urging me on. I did not know who. I 441 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: went right ahead because I heard that voice, and as 442 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: soon as I got in the house, some one whispered, 443 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,719 Speaker 1: come up higher. I went up a flight of stairs 444 00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,160 Speaker 1: because I thought I was going up Jacob's ladder. I 445 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: walked through the middle room into the further room. I 446 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,240 Speaker 1: don't know what I went there for, only I was 447 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,640 Speaker 1: driven by an impulse and a voice. I saw some 448 00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 1: children lying there. The Bible says, suffer little children to 449 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: come unto me, and I said, they are coming Lord. 450 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,920 Speaker 1: Before I knew what I was doing, I started sending 451 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: those children somewhere I did not know. After killing the children, 452 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:26,360 Speaker 1: I went into the room where the parents were, and 453 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,800 Speaker 1: I don't remember which one of them I struck first, 454 00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: as my head was all wrong, and I kept on 455 00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:36,840 Speaker 1: hearing voices. I slayed utterly by using the acts led 456 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: by this impulse that I did not seem able to control. 457 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:44,560 Speaker 1: I then went downstairs and wanted to lay down and rest, 458 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: and saw a room and went in, not knowing who 459 00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: was there, but found two children in bed, and God 460 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:57,360 Speaker 1: said more work. Yet before I knew what I was doing, 461 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,080 Speaker 1: I had continued my sacrifices, killing these two children with 462 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:05,480 Speaker 1: the axe. 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