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Dec 2019
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E175: “Elliott Speer” Pt. 2

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In 1934, Elliott Speer was shot on the Mount Hermon School for Boys campus—a murder eerily similar to the plot of a novel found in his study. The case only became stranger when the school's dean tried to claim the headmaster position with a pair of suspicious letters from the deceased man. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 
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