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🗓️ 3 July 2024
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0:00.0 | There were two more murders, 15 miles away. |
0:02.6 | When police arrives, I found the telephones and electricity lines. |
0:06.0 | We have a weird homicide. |
0:08.8 | A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird... |
0:13.0 | A cup of murder. |
0:14.5 | While everyone experiences a bout of bad luck, sometimes too much of it seems suspicious. |
0:22.0 | On July 3, 1989, a woman was arrested for crimes that she claimed were nothing more than |
0:29.5 | bad luck. |
0:30.9 | So if you like your coffee hot but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a |
0:35.9 | morning cup of murder. |
0:38.2 | Martha Ann Johnson, born in 1955, was just 22 years old and on her third marriage. |
0:45.2 | The first saw the birth of her daughter in 1971. |
0:49.0 | The second brought the birth of her son in 1975 and her third to a man named Earl Bowen produced both a son |
0:57.4 | born in 1979 and a daughter born in 1980. A native of Georgia living in Clayton County, |
1:06.0 | this newest marriage wasn't all that she dreamed it would be, and the pair found themselves bitterly |
1:12.8 | fighting almost daily. Earl often walked out to cool his temper, but no matter what, they |
1:20.2 | always seemed to patch things up and move on. But eventually, it all became too much for Martha, |
1:30.4 | and it was her children that would end up suffering. |
1:46.4 | On September 23rd, 1977, Martha rushed her second child to the hospital and said that when she went to wake up 23-month-old James William Taylor from his nap, she found him completely unresponsive. |
1:51.4 | Though he was around two years old at the time, James' cause of death was determined to be sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, and his file was officially closed. Earl, who was out of the |
1:59.5 | house on one of his cooling off periods, came back home to |
2:03.4 | grieve with his wife. Tragedy struck again on November 30th, 1980, when Martha called emergency |
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