Danny King

The Murder In My Family

AbJack Entertainment

True Crime

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 8 Danny King

In June of 1982, 20 year old Danny King of St Louis had everything going for him. He was a young man with a bright future, a good job, a young wife at home, and a 3 day old daughter. Then, in the early morning hours of June 18th of that year, his life ended on a highway under a mysterious set of circumstances. What initially appeared to be a single car accident, turned out to be a murder and 36 years later, it remains unsolved. Danny’s Brother Jim is a guest in this episode, and he’s still searching for answers after all this time.

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0:00.0	This episode may contain unsettling material or subject matter.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised. In the early morning hours of June 18th, 1982, in St. Louis County, Missouri, a driver notified police that they had witnessed a car accident.
0:28.5	According to the witness, a silver and black 1981 Ford Futura had been driving the wrong way in the westbound lane,
0:36.0	and it had gone down the embankment on I-270, 130 feet west of Old Hall's Ferry Road.
0:42.0	The car had crossed a grass median and struck of Old Hall's Ferry Road.
0:42.5	The car had crossed a grass median and struck a concrete medium barrier where it came
0:47.0	to rest.
0:48.0	Given the time a day, police responded to the single car accident possibly expecting to find a drunk driver behind the wheel.
0:54.0	But when they arrived at the scene sometime around 4 a.m. they found that the driver of the car was dead.
0:59.0	Police identified the driver as 20 year old Daniel W. King, a county resident. The police noticed fresh blood on the right side of his body, but no closer investigation was done and his body was sent via ambulance to the coroner's office.
1:15.9	Within an hour, the coroner called police and told them that the cause of death was gunshot wounds
1:21.2	and warned police that they needed to rope off the accident scene and treat it as a crime scene.
1:26.0	The body, the car, and other possible evidence had already been compromised,
1:31.0	but detectives headed to the scene and began to investigate the crime.
1:35.6	King had been shot a total of three times in the chest, side, and arm.
1:40.0	The weapon was a 22 caliber handgun, and robbery didn't seem to be a motive as the victim's wallet with cash inside it were found in the car.
1:48.0	Detectives arrived at the scene just after 5 a.m. and carefully studied the area where the car had come to rest.
1:54.7	They noted that the Ford Futura had damage to the left side of the vehicle, the same
1:58.8	side that was resting against the concrete median.
2:01.4	The car was facing east and there was mud underneath and on the sides of the
2:05.5	car. Glass from a shattered window was inside the car and the trunk was ajar. It was when the police began
2:11.6	to look at the events leading up to the crash that a mix of unanswered questions,
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