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Speaker 1: Welcome to Unexplained Extra with Me Richard McClean Smith, where

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Speaker 1: for the weeks in between episodes, we look at stories

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Speaker 1: and ideas that, for one reason or other, didn't make

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Speaker 1: it into the previous show. In the last episode, Learning

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Speaker 1: to See, we followed the extraordinary story of self described

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Speaker 1: psychic Peter Herkos and his questionable contribution to the Boston

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Speaker 1: Strangler case. The seemingly related murders of thirteen women that

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Speaker 1: occurred between nineteen sixty two to nineteen sixty four, most

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Speaker 1: of whom were also sexually assaulted, were eventually attributed to

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Speaker 1: factory worker Albert DeSalvo, who confessed to them in nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty five. There were many, however, who remained convinced that

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Speaker 1: DeSalvo was not the only culprit, including Peter Herkos himself,

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Speaker 1: who was adamant that Anne often referred to as Thomas p.

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Speaker 1: O'Brien had in fact been responsible for at least some

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Speaker 1: of the crimes. Her cous's involvement in the case was

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Speaker 1: hugely controversial, not only due to the fact that he

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Speaker 1: failed to pick out de Salvo, but also for how

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Speaker 1: he influenced the investigation into O'Brien, which led many, including

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Speaker 1: the Civil Liberties Union, to question whether O'Brien's rights had

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Speaker 1: been violated in the process, which, of course they had.

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Speaker 1: Whatever you believe about the use of Hercus's supposed talents,

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Speaker 1: it is hard to deny the extra layer of fascination

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Speaker 1: his involvement brings to a police investigation. With that in mind,

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Speaker 1: there is one case in particular that makes for intriguing listening,

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Speaker 1: not least of all because it also happened to involve

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Speaker 1: one of America's most curious and shocking crimes of the

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Speaker 1: twentieth century. The following story contained scenes of murder and

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Speaker 1: sexual abuse that some may find disturbing. Parental disc is advised.

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Speaker 1: On one balmy evening in June nineteen forty seven, two

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Speaker 1: cars are parked up by the side of the road

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Speaker 1: on the outskirts of Annapolis in Maryland. One car, an

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Speaker 1: old green Chrysler, sits empty, while the other, a few

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Speaker 1: yards in front, rocks back and forth, seemingly occupied by

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Speaker 1: two people in the midst of an intimate embrace. Moments later,

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Speaker 1: a tall, clean shaven, dark haired man steps out of

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Speaker 1: the vehicle and into the warm summer air, his hands

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Speaker 1: and clothes covered in blood. The man looks to the

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Speaker 1: sky and challenges God to strike him down for what

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Speaker 1: he has just done, but nothing happens. Soon after, local

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Speaker 1: police receive a frantic call from a sergeant home on leave.

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Speaker 1: The man, breathless and in shock, explains that he and

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Speaker 1: a woman he was seeing named Margaret Harold, had been

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Speaker 1: parked up on a back road when another car pulled

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Speaker 1: money and cigarettes. When they refused to give them to him,

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Speaker 1: the other car remains inside it, they find the lifeless

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Speaker 1: body of Margaret Harold, stripped of all her clothes, showing

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Speaker 1: The horrified officers fan out to search the surrounding area,

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Speaker 1: Inside they find the walls plastered with strange and violent

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Speaker 1: ornographic images, alongside mortuary photos of dead women and a

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Speaker 1: picture of one young woman taken from a university yearbook.

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Speaker 1: The woman, Wander Tipton, is found to have been a

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Speaker 1: nineteen fifty five graduate of the University of Maryland. After

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Speaker 1: later given to police by the sergeant, but she does not.

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Speaker 1: Months later, on January eleventh, nineteen fifty nine, a car

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Speaker 1: old Janet, are declared missing soon after. In March, fifty

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Speaker 1: miles away, near the town of Fredericksburg, two men are

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Speaker 1: mound of dirt where something has clearly been buried. Curious

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Speaker 1: Both had been raped and brutally murdered. Another eighteen months later,

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Speaker 1: and the police are yet to find the culprits to

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Speaker 1: the Margaret, Harold and Jackson family murders, having questioned around

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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred people but only managing to whittle them down

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Speaker 1: to one hundred and sixty five potential suspects. In June

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, Peter Herkos receives a call from a doctor,

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Speaker 1: Francis Reasonman, a forensic psychiatrist based in Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: Two of Reasonman's private patients have been included on the

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Speaker 1: list of suspects, despite his conviction that they are completely

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Speaker 1: innocent of the crimes. Looking for a way to clear

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Speaker 1: their names, Reasonman turns to her Coos in the hope

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Speaker 1: that he might be able to provide some clues that

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Speaker 1: could exonerate them once and for all. Incredibly, after reaching

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Speaker 1: a deal with the police, they agree to let Reasonman

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Speaker 1: fly her Coos out to consult on the case. A

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Speaker 1: few days later, Peter arrives in the city of Fall's Church, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: under a flurry of media attention. Asked for his predictions

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Speaker 1: Peter then proceeds to draw a picture of a house,

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Speaker 1: you find the house, he says, you will find the killer.

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Speaker 1: The following day, Peter leads the police to the very

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Speaker 1: is it exactly how he described, but it is also

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Speaker 1: occupied by a thirty four year old man who just

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Speaker 1: sooner have they arrived when Peter leads them to a

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Speaker 1: second building, a small wooden shack about fifty feet from

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Speaker 1: where Mildred and Susan Jackson's bodies were discovered. Police had

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Speaker 1: already searched the shack eighteen months previously and found a

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Speaker 1: During his time with police, Peter is also taken to

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Speaker 1: given some of their clothing to handle. Moments later, he

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Speaker 1: and the added detail that Mildred had been sexually assaulted,

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Speaker 1: Harold might be linked to the Jackson family murders. Peter

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Speaker 1: He calls out moments later for the police to follow him.

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Speaker 1: unnoticed by the investigating team for three years. The thirty

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Speaker 1: regarding the Jackson murders. The year before, he'd written to

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Speaker 1: police anonymously suggesting they look into his friend, Melvin David

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Speaker 1: Reese as a possible suspect. The twenty six year old

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Speaker 1: Reese was a touring jazz musician. Riese and Moser had

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Speaker 1: That night, Reese had been high on Ben's adream and

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Speaker 1: Mosa had given the police an address where they could

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Speaker 1: After digging a little further into his past, investigators discovered

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Speaker 1: He'd also once dated Wander Tipton, the woman whose yearbook

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Speaker 1: Reese giving the address he was now living at in Hyattsville, Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: Prior to Peter's involvement in the case, police had already

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Speaker 1: Opening it up, they find inside a point thirty eight

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