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Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins is a true crime podcast hosted by retired Kansas City Police detective Gary Jenkins. Each episode investigates real murder cases, serial killers, cold cases, kidnappings,...
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Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins is a true crime podcast hosted by retired Kansas City Police detective Gary Jenkins. Each episode investigates real murder cases, serial killers, cold cases, kidnappings, missing persons, unsolved murders, criminal investigations, and the forensic evidence that helped solve—or failed to solve—some of the most shocking crimes.
Drawing on more than 25 years in law enforcement, Gary Jenkins takes listeners inside homicide investigations, police interviews, crime scene analysis, offender behavior, and the detective work behind major murder cases. You'll hear firsthand accounts from homicide detectives, FBI agents, prosecutors, authors, forensic experts, and survivors, along with detailed examinations of notorious serial killers and lesser-known crimes that deserve to be remembered.
If you enjoy investigative true crime, serial killer stories, homicide investigations, criminal psychology, police procedure, and real detective work, Murder Blueprint delivers factual, in-depth storytelling without sensationalism. Every episode explores how a murder was planned, committed, investigated, and ultimately solved—or why justice was never achieved.
Subscribe to Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins for new episodes featuring true crime investigations, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, forensic evidence, criminal profiling, police investigations, and the real stories behind history's most infamous murders.
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Drawing on more than 25 years in law enforcement, Gary Jenkins takes listeners inside homicide investigations, police interviews, crime scene analysis, offender behavior, and the detective work behind major murder cases. You'll hear firsthand accounts from homicide detectives, FBI agents, prosecutors, authors, forensic experts, and survivors, along with detailed examinations of notorious serial killers and lesser-known crimes that deserve to be remembered.
If you enjoy investigative true crime, serial killer stories, homicide investigations, criminal psychology, police procedure, and real detective work, Murder Blueprint delivers factual, in-depth storytelling without sensationalism. Every episode explores how a murder was planned, committed, investigated, and ultimately solved—or why justice was never achieved.
Subscribe to Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins for new episodes featuring true crime investigations, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, forensic evidence, criminal profiling, police investigations, and the real stories behind history's most infamous murders.
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4 OCT 2026 · A rumor about a $100,000 diamond ring led two Chicago thieves to the grave of Hollywood producer Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor’s late husband. In 1977, someone dug up Todd’s coffin and removed his remains. The ring was never found.
Retired police detective Gary Jenkins tells how the investigation stalled until famous Hollywood private eye Anthony Pelicano took on the case. He located Todd’s remains, and a witness connected to the Chicago Outfit’s Hole in the Wall Gang later helped identify the grave robbers.
It’s a strange story about a Hollywood legend, a costly rumor, and thieves willing to dig for a score. If you enjoy Murder Blueprint, follow the show and leave a review on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app.
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[0:03] Welcome, everyone. Lean in and listen to one of my strange and crazy stories. This one's about the grave robbing Chicago mobsters. This is kind of a short, fun story. I wanted to give you a break from the first four episodes filled with murder, torture, and kidnapping. I promise I'll get back to those subjects soon enough. I promise I'll get back to those subjects soon enough. Oh, and don't forget to like, subscribe, and review my new podcast on the Apple app or on your favorite app. Settle in and hear all about the grave robbing mobsters. I'm going to start talking about a Hollywood movie producer. He was born under the name of Avron Goldboggen, but he became known as Michael Todd. He grew up in the north central part of the United States and moved to Chicago, started out in the construction business, then got into the film industry when he was working on soundproofing stages when the pictures first changed from silent to talking films. [1:00] During the Depression, he would go bankrupt, but he came back in the construction business, and World War II came along. During World War II, he started getting into the movie business, and right after World War II, probably more like the early 50s, he developed a new big-screen film process in operation called Cinerama. I don't know if you remember Cinerama. I remember probably when I was in late grade school, they came out with these huge big screen productions that were Cinerama, [1:33] that were mainly westerns and had the big sky country as a background. He broke off from the company that developed Cinerama, which he had been involved with, and developed another widescreen film process that became known as Todd AO. And that was immensely popular. I think his first success with that was a film version of the popular musical Oklahoma. I'll try to sing Oklahoma for you, but it would not sound good. Just remember they spell out O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A, Oklahoma, O-K. That's the extent of my singing, folks. His next big hit was Around the World in 80 Days, and I remember seeing that. I think maybe I was a freshman in high school or something. It was a huge, big production. It had a lot of fun. It was a comedy. And won an Academy Award for the Best Picture in 1957. [2:23] In the very next year, 1958, Michael Todd was at the very peak of his success. He'd won an Academy Award. He was going all around the country. He was getting all kinds of offers, and he was going from one part of the country to the other. I can't remember exactly where. It was a small private plane, and he was killed in an airplane crash. At this point in time, he was also married to the most popular and what some would say the most beautiful actress in Hollywood, Elizabeth Taylor, who was at the peak of her career in the 50s. They lived the Hollywood legend. They threw huge big parties. They lived on a lavish scale. He left a huge big estate after he died in this airplane crash. It was estimated $3 to $5 million. Now, that doesn't seem like so much. Now, in 1957, $3 to $5 million was probably more than $40 to $50 million. Half the estate went to Elizabeth Taylor, and they'd had a daughter together named Elizabeth Francis. I wonder know, whatever happened to Elizabeth Frances Todd, or maybe she used the name of Goldboggen. I don't know. I've never heard of the daughter. [3:26] The other half of this estate went to his son by a former marriage, Michael Todd Jr. During the years since his death and internment, they had a big funeral in Chicago, and he was buried in Chicago, but people started a rumor that Elizabeth Taylor. [3:43] As they closed the coffin down on him, put a big 10-carat diamond ring that was valued at $100,000 on her husband's finger. Authorities would later say that anybody who did even a little bit of research and read the newspaper articles about the accent would figure that there probably wasn't enough left of Michael Todd's body to put any kind of a ring on, but maybe, I guess you might assume she just throw it in the casket with him. I don't know. There would be a grand gesture when people had that kind of money, live that lifestyle, you never know what they'll do. After the crash, the reporters had questioned the manager of the Albuquerque, New Mexico funeral home. The crash was down in New Mexico. That guy claimed at the time that his body had been burned 100% and could only be identified by dental charts. They reported they made no attempt to embalm the body. The family had said that to their knowledge, there was no valuables in the grave. [4:35] He was buried in the Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Forest Park. So this is 1958. Fast forward about 19 years later 1977 June, there's a lady visiting a grave in the. [4:53] Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park and she notices a recently opened grave of some fresh digging that was not dug in anticipation of putting a casket in it, and it was under the headstone that said Afron Goldboggen, but it also had the name Michael Todd on it. It was Michael Todd's grave. Responding coppers quickly learned that this was the famous movie director, Michael Todd, and third husband of Elizabeth Taylor. They described this grave at the time, for you guys that live in Chicago, if you happen to be in this area or driving by, it was on 100 feet south of Roosevelt Road, just west of Des Plaines Avenue. The cops found that the casket had been opened and the remains of Mr. Todd were missing. They believed that it happened sometime after 5 o'clock on Friday afternoon and Sunday morning when the cemetery reopened. I guess the cemetery, being a Jewish cemetery, was totally closed on Saturday. Interesting little sidelight. They noted the casket was buried about four and a half feet deep. [5:58] And it was in the Congregation Beth Aaron section of the cemetery. Okay. They took the coffin out and placed it reasonably close to the grave site, but it was hidden by some large branches. They smised open the top. There was a glass case in the top. They smised all that open. Crime scene technicians could not find any fingerprints. They did find some digging tools in the area. [6:21] Of interest, as you do these investigations, were any other graves disturbed? Was this some kind of anti-Jewish thing or something? But they had no other complaints about disturbed graves in the cemetery. [6:31] Cops got in touch with Elizabeth Taylor and learned that she had not received any threats or any demands. She didn't have any idea. Now, in an unusual coincidence, she had just visited the grave the Friday before they discovered it had been disturbed. She said that was the first time she'd been there in years. She happened to be coming through Chicago and she had a stopover with some time to kill at O'Hare Airport. At the time, she was married to Navy Secretary of the time, John Warner, who will go on to be the U.S. Senator from Virginia. I think he maybe even eventually was a governor, [7:05] but she was not the First Lady of Virginia. A couple weeks after this happened, the famous Hollywood private eye, Anthony Pelicano, got involved, and he claimed that he got information from an informant where the body could be found because they weren't finding any remains. He flew to Chicago. He directed the cemetery workers to a plastic body bag with some human remains inside of it, hidden under some other branches and leaves in an out-of-the-way section of this Jewish Waldheim cemetery. When they opened the bag, they couldn't really see any human characteristics to what was inside of there. They did say there was a heavy canvas web belt, like an airplane seatbelt, inside the bag. Authorities took it into a hospital or probably to the morgue and they determined that these remains were Michael Todd's remains. [7:56] Pelicano told the police that his informant had suggested to him that the thieves had removed the body because they believed that he was buried with this $100,000 10-carat ring. And once again, Ms. Taylor and the rest of the family assured the police that Mr. Todd had not been buried with any jewelry. This is 1977. Three years later, in an unrelated situation, authorities stumble [8:20] onto a guy who will end up solving this crime. And that's where we get into the hole-in-the-wall gang now. In 1980, after being caught with a load of stolen furs, FBI agents had turned a Chicago outfit thief named Sal Romano, and before they actually surfaced him as a witness, he was involved in the hole-in-the-wall gang, and they put him back into the gang to report on what they were doing, and this was about the time they were getting ready to do the Bertha score. We've talked about this several times before, and if you remember, Frank Culatta was the street boss of this gang. And Tony Spilatro liked Romano and really forced Culatta to take him on according to Culatta. During this time, another Chicago outfit thief named Peter Basile, and I believe that's Basile, B-A-I-S-L-E, Peter vouts for Sal Romano because they had stolen together before. So we're getting closer to the 4th of July weekend, 1981. [9:15] Sal Romano is going to have to come out of the closet, so to speak. 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20 SEP 2026 · In this episode of Murder Blueprint, retired Kansas City Police Detective Gary Jenkins examines one of America's most chilling unsolved serial murder cases—the Texarkana Moonlight Murders of 1946. Known to history as the work of the mysterious Phantom Killer, these attacks terrorized the twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and Arkansas during a ten-week reign of fear.
Young couples parked on lonely lovers' lanes became targets as the masked gunman brutally attacked eight people, killing five while leaving investigators with few answers and no arrest.
Gary reconstructs each attack in chronological order, beginning with the savage assault on Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jean Larey before moving through the murders of Richard Griffin, Polly Ann Moore, Betty Jo Booker, Paul Martin, and the deadly home invasion that claimed Virgil Starks' life. Drawing on original investigative records, Gary explains how local police, Texas Rangers, Arkansas State Police, and the FBI mounted one of the largest manhunts in the region's history.
The investigation introduced early criminal profiling, roadblocks, undercover decoy operations, forensic ballistics, and thousands of citizen tips—all while an entire community descended into panic.
The episode also explores the leading suspect, Yule Swinney, the evidence that pointed toward him, why prosecutors never filed murder charges, and the many false confessions and dead-end leads that have kept this case officially unsolved for nearly eighty years. Was the Phantom Killer identified but never prosecuted? Or did America's most elusive serial murderer escape justice forever?
Join Gary Jenkins as he separates documented fact from decades of legend. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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19 SEP 2026 · In this breaking-news bonus episode of Murder Blueprint, retired Kansas City detective Gary Jenkins examines a disturbing investigation unfolding at a Philadelphia home connected to several missing women. Police reportedly discovered an enormous collection of graphic photographs and videos involving dozens of women. Some appear unconscious, injured, or possibly deceased. Investigators have identified several missing women among those depicted, including Nicole Fusaro, Maribel Fresses, and Gabrielle Amarando.
Gary compares the discovery to the Kansas City investigation of serial killer Robert Berdella, whose photographs documented the torture of his victims.
Authorities are still reviewing the Philadelphia evidence, and many questions remain unanswered. This remains an active investigation. No bodies have been recovered from the property, and Eugene Horsch has not been charged with homicide or with crimes involving the women shown in the recordings. More recent reporting indicates that seven missing women may now be connected to the evidence. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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13 SEP 2026 · In this episode of Murder Blueprint, retired Kansas City Police detective Gary Jenkins sits down with retired KCPD homicide detective Mike Luster to go inside the investigation that finally identified Kansas City serial killer Lorenzo Gilyard.
For years, women were found murdered around Kansas City, many of them vulnerable women working the streets. The cases stretched back decades and initially appeared to be separate homicides. Then advances in DNA technology began connecting them.
Luster explains how he started digging through old homicide files and discovered striking similarities among the victims. What began with a few DNA-linked murders eventually grew into a much larger investigation. Detectives compiled thousands of names, eliminated suspects one by one, examined jail records and old police reports, and ultimately narrowed the investigation to Lorenzo Gilyard.
The breakthrough also came from evidence collected years earlier and preserved long before DNA technology became the investigative tool it is today. Luster describes the surveillance of Gilyard, his arrest at a North Kansas City restaurant, and the marathon interrogation that followed. He also reveals what Gilyard told detectives, why investigators struggled to get an emotional reaction from him, and what Luster would do differently if he could interrogate Gilyard again today.
Gary also shares his own encounter with Gilyard years before anyone knew he would eventually be identified as a serial killer. It is a firsthand look at cold-case detective work, DNA evidence, interrogation strategy and the painstaking police investigation that connected murders spanning decades. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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6 SEP 2026 · The interview introduces Ann Spry, a longtime editor and former newspaper publisher, and discusses her work with the host on several books. The main topic is Ann’s book, https://www.amazon.com/Searching-Summer-Unresolved-Missing-Persons/dp/1733026606. This is the story about the disappearance and killing of Summer Shipp.
Ann says she met Brandy Shipp, Summer’s daughter, after moving to Kansas City and having home remodeling work done. Brandy later introduced herself, and Ann asked whether she had considered writing about her mother’s case. Brandy had been approached before but was not ready at the time; later, she agreed to collaborate.
Summer Shipp is described as a former owner of the Bijou Theater in Westport who later worked in marketing surveys. In December 2004, she went to Independence, Missouri, for a survey assignment and did not return. Brandy and many of Summer’s friends organized a large search, and the case received major media attention, including appearances by Brandy on national television programs. The search found Summer’s car in Independence, which helped confirm she was missing.
The discussion also covers the investigation and the trial of suspect Jeffery Sauerbry. Police interviewed him and searched his home but found no clear evidence. Several months later some fishermen found Summer’s remains in the Little Blue River. The fisherman noticed a red scarf and when he pulled on it, he found it was attached to a dead body.
At trial, Sowerby was acquitted in Summer’s case, but he was later convicted in another murder case involving William Kellett. Ann says the book focuses less on the crime itself and more on Summer as a person, emphasizing the community support around her and Brandy. She describes the case as one where love, friendship, and grief were central themes. The interview ends with brief comments about writing and preaching as ongoing work, and Ann shares contact information for her publishing website and email. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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5 SEP 2026 · A short episode to update listeners on the outcome of jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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2 SEP 2026 · This episode of Murder Blueprint examines the Lindsay Clancy case as the jury deliberates her fate. At the center of the trial is a difficult legal question: how should severe mental illness be weighed against criminal responsibility?
We review the defense case, including testimony that Clancy sought help from numerous medical providers, received multiple psychotropic medications, visited emergency rooms, contacted crisis and suicide hotlines, and participated in outpatient treatment, partial hospitalization, and a psychiatric admission.
We also discuss concerns that her mental-health treatment was fragmented and lacked a single provider coordinating her care. The defense argues that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children.
Prosecutors contend that her actions demonstrate planning, pointing in part to evidence that she calculated how long her husband would be away from the house and used that opportunity to commit the killings.
We examine the distinction between suffering from mental illness and meeting the legal standard for insanity, along with the role premeditation could play in the jury's decision.
Whatever the verdict, the most important fact remains unchanged: Cora, Dawson, and Callahan Clancy lost their lives. Their deaths remain at the center of this case and the questions surrounding it. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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30 AUG 2026 · In this episode of Murder Blueprint, retired Kansas City police detective Gary Jenkins talks with Los Angeles crime writer and researcher Joan Renner about George and Stefan Spitzer, identical twin brothers who became known as the “Roofie Romeos.”
The brothers were convicted in 1998 of using Rohypnol to drug and sexually assault women in Southern California. Investigators searching their apartment discovered boxes of Rohypnol and videotapes documenting assaults. Sixteen women eventually came forward, although investigators believed there may have been additional victims. George Spitzer received a 60-year prison sentence and Stefan received 37 years.
Joan explains how the twins approached women, fabricated impressive backgrounds, gained their trust, and secretly drugged them. The discussion also examines why drug-facilitated sexual assault can be so difficult for victims to recognize and for investigators to prove.
The episode concludes with what happened after the brothers were released from prison and returned to Canada, along with an important discussion about personal safety, watching your drink, and trusting your instincts when something doesn't feel right Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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23 AUG 2026 · In this episode of Murder Blueprint, retired Kansas City Police detective Gary Jenkins examines the disturbing Lindsay Clancy case and the central question at the heart of her murder trial: Was she legally responsible for killing her three young children, or was she suffering from a severe postpartum mental illness that prevented her from understanding her actions?
The episode begins with listener Lilly outlining the case and the deaths of five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callahan. Gary then examines the prosecution’s case, including the narrow window of time while Clancy's husband was away, fitness-tracker data, her behavior before and after the killings, her writings, Internet searches, medications, and the method used to kill the children.
Prosecutors argue that the evidence demonstrates planning, awareness, and deliberate action. The defense presents a very different picture—one of a mother struggling with postpartum mental illness who repeatedly sought treatment but may have been failed by a fragmented mental-health system.
Gary also looks back at several other notorious cases involving mothers who killed their children, including Andrea Yates, Dena Schlosser, and Susan Smith, and considers why insanity defenses have produced dramatically different outcomes.
This episode explores the difficult intersection of murder, motherhood, mental illness, postpartum disorders, criminal responsibility, and the insanity defense. When there is no dispute about who committed the killings, the question becomes much more complicated: Why did it happen, and should the person who did it be held criminally responsible? Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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16 AUG 2026 · What would you do if your phone rang and you heard your child crying for help?
In this episode of Murder Blueprint, Gary Jenkins examines a disturbing form of fraud that uses AI voice cloning, caller ID spoofing, social media information, and psychological pressure to convince victims that a loved one has been kidnapped, injured, arrested, or is otherwise in immediate danger.
The episode begins with a frightening case from Arizona. A mother receives a call from what appears to be her daughter, who sounds terrified and says she is in trouble. A man then takes over the call, claims he has kidnapped her daughter, demands money, and warns the mother not to contact police. By keeping her on the phone and emotionally overwhelmed, the scammer attempts to prevent her from verifying whether her daughter is actually in danger.
Gary then talks with Mick, who experienced a remarkably similar call after leaving the gym. Mick heard what sounded like his own daughter telling him she had been in a car accident. A man then came on the line, claimed he was with her, made threats, and tried to maintain control of the conversation. Mick kept him talking long enough to contact family and confirm that his daughter was safe.
The episode also examines a scam targeting an elderly woman whose grandson was supposedly jailed in Mexico and desperately needed money. Subscribe to Murder Blueprint wherever you get your podcasts, and join us each week as we uncover the stories buried beneath the headlines—and the bodies.
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Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins is a true crime podcast hosted by retired Kansas City Police detective Gary Jenkins. Each episode investigates real murder cases, serial killers, cold cases, kidnappings,...
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Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins is a true crime podcast hosted by retired Kansas City Police detective Gary Jenkins. Each episode investigates real murder cases, serial killers, cold cases, kidnappings, missing persons, unsolved murders, criminal investigations, and the forensic evidence that helped solve—or failed to solve—some of the most shocking crimes.
Drawing on more than 25 years in law enforcement, Gary Jenkins takes listeners inside homicide investigations, police interviews, crime scene analysis, offender behavior, and the detective work behind major murder cases. You'll hear firsthand accounts from homicide detectives, FBI agents, prosecutors, authors, forensic experts, and survivors, along with detailed examinations of notorious serial killers and lesser-known crimes that deserve to be remembered.
If you enjoy investigative true crime, serial killer stories, homicide investigations, criminal psychology, police procedure, and real detective work, Murder Blueprint delivers factual, in-depth storytelling without sensationalism. Every episode explores how a murder was planned, committed, investigated, and ultimately solved—or why justice was never achieved.
Subscribe to Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins for new episodes featuring true crime investigations, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, forensic evidence, criminal profiling, police investigations, and the real stories behind history's most infamous murders.
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Drawing on more than 25 years in law enforcement, Gary Jenkins takes listeners inside homicide investigations, police interviews, crime scene analysis, offender behavior, and the detective work behind major murder cases. You'll hear firsthand accounts from homicide detectives, FBI agents, prosecutors, authors, forensic experts, and survivors, along with detailed examinations of notorious serial killers and lesser-known crimes that deserve to be remembered.
If you enjoy investigative true crime, serial killer stories, homicide investigations, criminal psychology, police procedure, and real detective work, Murder Blueprint delivers factual, in-depth storytelling without sensationalism. Every episode explores how a murder was planned, committed, investigated, and ultimately solved—or why justice was never achieved.
Subscribe to Murder Blueprint with Gary Jenkins for new episodes featuring true crime investigations, serial killers, unsolved mysteries, cold cases, forensic evidence, criminal profiling, police investigations, and the real stories behind history's most infamous murders.
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| Author | Gary Jenkins |
| Organization | Gangland Wire |
| Categories | True Crime |
| Website | - |
| jenkslaw@yahoo.com |
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