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Halloween-week story: Spence Auto Sales and Ottis Toole Death Car

Posted on October 30, 2019 | Leave a comment

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It was November 1983, six months since Spence had last seen Ottis Toole, the great fake serial killer. Detectives thought they could pin the Ottis Toole death car and a rusty machete to Spence Auto Sales. Two months later, Spencer Bennett was dead.

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New Story: Ottis Toole’s Mother’s House (Until He Burnt It Down)

Posted on July 27, 2019 | Leave a comment

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The first time Ottis Toole burnt down his mother’s house, he was 10 or 11 years old. When he burnt down his mother’s house on Day Avenue in 1981, his name wasn’t yet famous as either one of the worst serial killers in history, or one of the biggest fakes.

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New Story: Jacksonville Beach: New Trinity, Killing the Devil, and the Murder of Vera Gould

Posted on November 8, 2018 | 1 comment

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After the three young people stabbed K.’s grandmother to death in her Jacksonville Beach home, newspapers quoted them calling her “Satan,” themselves “the New Trinity” and Lex Hester, one of the most prominent men in Jacksonville’s political history, “the Antichrist.”

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Part Two: What Ever Happened to Beverly June?

Posted on July 29, 2017 | Leave a comment

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Emmett Spencer was in jail on charges of two murders and told police he’d dreamt about seven others. Soon headlines would refer to Spencer as the “Dream Killer.”

“I knew I couldn’t go on living as I had those six months. If I had, I believe I would have become totally insane.”

Tim Gilmore’s talk on the case will take place at Chamblin’s Uptown, August 16th, at 7 pm.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1637767666267952/

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Part One of a New Series: What Ever Happened to Beverly June?

Posted on July 22, 2017 | 1 comment

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Every day, he replayed the Wednesday he’d come home from work at 6 pm—February 24, 1960—to find his wife gone, the baby crying alone in her crib.

Neighbors said the stranger had been parking a blue 1958 Ford across the street from the Cochrans’ for three weeks and reading a newspaper for hours at a time.

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