THE KLUXEN WOODS MYSTERY: A Babysitter, a Murder, and a Boy Suspect – Who Killed Janette Lawrence?

Weird Darkness: Stories of the Paranormal, True Crime, Legends, Lore, Mysterious, Macabre, Unsolved

Darren Marlar

True Crime, Science, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A century after 11-year-old Janette Lawrence was brutally murdered walking home from a babysitting job, her ghost is still seen wandering the streets of Madison — seeking justice that never came.
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IN THIS EPISODE: I narrate a chapter from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings” by Troy Taylor. The chapter is entitled “1921: Murder at Kluxen’s Woods” - a murder that has yet to be officially solved, although many hundreds of people in the area feel they know exactly who got away with murder. A murder that resulted in a haunting!

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“Murder at Kluxen’s Woods” is from the audiobook, “Suffer the Children: American Horrors, Homicides and Hauntings” by Troy Taylor: https://amzn.to/45NQExh
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Originally aired: June 2021
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0:00.0	The weather. Tomorrow, expect a biting cold front. Hmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be
0:06.8	wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain
0:13.0	that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching
0:18.7	their peak in the afternoon.
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1:42.9	The sun had just dipped below the skyline in the town of Madison, New Jersey.
1:48.4	Along Fairview Avenue, the street was already soaked in deep shadows by 5.30 in the evening.
1:54.9	It was the woods that made the street so dark. The tall trees and the thick underbrush
2:00.7	of what everyone called Cluxens'
2:02.6	woods loomed over the roadway. It would have made the journey of the young girl who was
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