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Aug 2023
31m 32s

No Choice

They Walk Among Us / Law&Crime
About this episode

On this episode of They Walk Among America… It was the mid-afternoon of Wednesday, June 6th, 1962, in the Jamaica Estates North area of Queens. The street was cordoned off outside of one of the large ranch-style houses on Union Turnpike. The road had been torn up by heavy machinery, and construction workers were standing idly by. It would have been reasonable to assume that there were maintenance works underway if not for the heavy police presence. Crime scene investigators were reaching down into the sewer line that was flowing from the house and pulling out pieces of human flesh. The homeowner was nowhere to be found, but the police suspected that the victim was a teenage girl who had been brought to the residence for an illegal abortion…


*** LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED *** 


‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.


This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.


Researched and written by Eileen Macfarlane.


Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann


Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.


MUSIC: 


Things Gone Wrong by Moments

Old Moor by Lincoln Davis

In Search of Discovery by Cast of Characters

Unrelenting by Dakota Mack

Wooden by Wicked Cinema

Evil Intent by Kurtis Parks

C'est La Vie by Reveille

Tippy Toe by VOLK

Shadow Passage by Cody Martin

Trench by Lincoln Davis

Haunted by Emorie


For more information, visit https://lawandcrime.com/podcasts/ or https://theywalkamonguspodcast.com/ 



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