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This Is Monsters

The Newhall Incident : Bobby Davis & Jack Twining

This Is Monsters

Jiles

True Crime

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Season 19 : Killer Pairs 

Jack Twining was a lifetime criminal who had no concern with anyone else's life. When he met Bobby Davis, together they spent their time stealing anything they could and killing anyone who got in their way, even the police.

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0:00.0

Road rage seems more common today than it was decades ago, but it still happened.

0:06.0

In 1970, a man named Ivory Jack Tidwell was driving south on I-5 towards Santa Clarita, California,

0:13.0

with his wife Pamela Tidwell.

0:16.0

He had to suddenly slam on the brakes of his Volkswagen Beetle when a red Pontiac made a U-turn in the

0:21.7

middle of the interstate right in front of him. His anger got the better of him, and he pulled up

0:26.8

next to the offending vehicle and began yelling. After the car stopped and Ivory stepped out of his

0:32.6

VW, the driver of the Pontiac pulled out a 38-caliber revolver and pointed it directly at the angry man.

0:40.5

Ivory knew better than to instigate a shooting, so he got back in his car and drove away.

0:45.9

That wasn't the end of the ordeal for him, though, as Pam had managed to write down the license plate number of the Pontiac,

0:52.9

so they pulled over at an emergency

0:55.1

roadside phone and alerted the authorities. The California Highway Patrol was dispatched to find

1:01.8

the Pontiac and that road rage incident was the catalyst for what would become known as the

1:06.9

Newhall incident. This is Monsters. Jack Wright-Twining was born on September 11th and 1935 in North Carolina and put up for adoption.

1:43.2

He was in an orphanage until he was about six years old before going to his first foster

1:47.8

home.

1:49.0

He would later say that the woman who fostered him had two or three other boys and seemed

1:53.4

to hate children.

1:54.9

She just tolerated them in order to get paid by the government.

1:59.2

Like many orphaned children, his life was plagued with questions

2:02.7

about his own existence. He struggled to understand his place in the world and was told that he

2:08.3

wasn't meeting expectations, but never really understood what that meant. He began getting into

2:14.4

trouble with the law when he was only 12 years old. He was arrested for the

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