Jo Ellen Weigel | The Erasing of Michael Cline

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🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Michael Kline is an American fugitive who has been on the run for 54 years. Strangely, his attorney was also the attorney of another of America’s longest lasting fugitives, Sharon Kinne. Is there a connection? And more importantly, will either be found?

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0:00.0	Michael Klein is an American fugitive who has been on the run for the last 54 years.
0:14.9	Strangely, his attorney was also the attorney of another of America's longest lasting fugitives, Sharon Kinney.
0:22.2	Is there a connection? And more importantly, we'll either be found. I'm Charlie and welcome to
0:27.2	Crime Lines. Welcome to Crime Lines. Welcome to Crime Lines. This episode is a case that I actually covered on my Patreon years ago.
0:42.6	I made a list of the old Patreon cases that I need to redo and release on the main feed,
0:49.2	because these are cases that either are unsolved or they have an unsolved element to them, and they frankly
0:55.8	never should have been put behind a paywall to begin with. So expect to hear a few more of these
1:01.8	old Patreon ones over the next year or so. They'll mostly be on my second Wednesday cold case
1:07.8	episodes. I don't really have a year's worth of them, I don't think,
1:11.5	but I will be spreading them out. I could just repost the audio that I initially recorded,
1:17.8	but the longer I've been podcasting, the better I am at finding information and presenting it.
1:23.8	And there are more resources being uploaded to my favorite place,
1:29.0	newspapers.com, constantly. So I think it's better to just redo them so that they're the best
1:35.4	that they can be. So even if you heard this on Patreon, there is a little bit more information
1:40.2	in this episode and it's presented a little differently. My friend Marla, who is local to my area,
1:46.8	recommended this case to me back when I first covered it, so I want to give her credit.
1:51.9	We're going to start with Joe Ellen Weigle, who was born in Kansas City in March of 1952.
1:57.9	She and her family moved to the suburb of Lee Summit, Missouri when she was about seven years old.
2:03.2	I have not seen any reporting indicating that Joe Ellen was adopted, and if she wasn't,
2:09.8	I'm sure her arrival surprised her parents. When her parents, Joe and Esther, had their first
2:16.1	daughter, they were 23 and 20 years old.
2:19.6	I don't think they expected it to take 22 years before their second daughter arrived when they were in their early to mid-40s.
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