Demon of the Belfry: The True Story of San Francisco's "Jack the Ripper"
Apr 17, 2023 ·
35m 38s
San Francisco, CA. - 1895: Blanche Lamont, a member of the First Emanuel Baptist Church mysteriously disappears. Then, before the the mystery of Blanche's disapperance can be solved, horrified parishoners...
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San Francisco, CA. - 1895: Blanche Lamont, a member of the First Emanuel Baptist Church mysteriously disappears. Then, before the the mystery of Blanche's disapperance can be solved, horrified parishoners find the mutilated body of Blanche's best friend, Minnie Williams. Blanche died first, but was discovered second, Her body had been horribly disfigured and shoved up inside First Emanuel Baptist's church steeple, where it was eventually found. Both Minnie and Blanche had been sexually assaulted. These horrible killings were dubbed, "The Steeple Murders," and suspicion quicky centered on a young medical student, and ardent church-goer, named Theodore Durrant. But Durrant was handsome, charming, pious, and well-liked, from a good family, with no hint of violence or criminal activity either in his past, or in his social circle. He seemed an unlikely choice for, "The Demon of the Belfry," San Francisco's own Jack Ripper...But was he?
Find out on this episode of Kinda Murdery!
Sources:
https://archive.org/details/true-detective-feb-1929
https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/killer-theodore-durrant/
https://the-line-up.com/theo-durrant-the-demon-of-belfry
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Theodore-Durrant-Demon-of-the-Belfry-SF-murders-10418597.php
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Find out on this episode of Kinda Murdery!
Sources:
https://archive.org/details/true-detective-feb-1929
https://www.historicalcrimedetective.com/killer-theodore-durrant/
https://the-line-up.com/theo-durrant-the-demon-of-belfry
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Theodore-Durrant-Demon-of-the-Belfry-SF-murders-10418597.php
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