The Michigan Murders part 2

Already Gone Podcast

Nina Innsted

True Crime, Mystery, Missing, History, Murder, Truecrime, Unsolved

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In 1967 a serial killer attacked the first of six victims near the University of Michigan Campus in Ann Arbor. Before Bundy, before Gacy and before the Manson murders, the state and the nation was rocked by this brutal killer.

#Michigan, #SerialKiller, #Murder

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0:00.0	This is part two of the Michigan murders, an update and re-release of these early episodes ahead of our coverage of the murder of Jane Mixer.
0:08.0	If you haven't listened to part one, check that out before listening to this episode.
0:15.0	Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours.
0:17.0	Right now there is no trace.
0:19.0	The investigators say evidence leads them to believe that she's dead.
0:23.0	Stick my nose back in the trail, that's all I can do.
0:26.0	This is already gone.
0:39.0	Ronald Reagan is best known for being the 40th president of the United States.
0:44.0	But before he was in politics, he was an actor, and he made dozens of movies for Warner Bros. Studio, going all the way back to the 1930s.
0:53.0	In the 1940s and 50s, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, serving in a leadership role helped him decide to run for public office.
1:02.0	Reagan was elected governor of California in 1966, taking office in 1967, and he would serve until 1975.
1:12.0	During his second term as governor, he was faced with an unusual dilemma, to extradite or not to extradite.
1:20.0	It's not often that I can link a US president and a serial killer, but today we're going to do just that.
1:27.0	Before we can talk about the decision that Reagan faced, we're headed north to Canada to 1947, when John Norman Chapman was born.
1:36.0	His parents, Loretta and Richard Chapman already had two children, making John the baby of the family.
1:43.0	Unfortunately, Richard was suffering physically and emotionally from his experiences in World War II. He'd lost a leg in battle, and once the war was over, he struggled with depression and addiction.
1:56.0	Unable to pull himself together, he abandoned his family.
2:00.0	Loretta soon remarried, but her second marriage didn't last. She found herself twice divorced with three young children.
2:08.0	Hoping that a change of scene would improve her lot, she moved herself and her children from Ontario, Canada, to the Detroit area, where she met and married William Collins.
2:19.0	Collins adopted her three children, and their surname was changed from Chapman to Collins.
2:25.0	Listeners, it seems like Loretta's man-pecker was on the threats, because William was physically abusive and a drinker.
2:32.0	He was known to beat Loretta and their children, and she would leave him in 1956.
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