97. Vintage Crime: The Devil's Gate Murders

A dry river bed is the backdrop for our first monthly vintage episode. An already mysterious place to Native Americans, this area is also said to be a portal to hell after a brilliant rocket scientist performed experiments and occult rituals on the lands in the 1930's. Join the docs as they travel back to 1950's & 60's Pasadena to get to the bottom of a series of child murders that supposedly occurred in the Arroyo Seco at the hands of Mack Ray Edwards.

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• “17 Mar 2007, Page 18 - the Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com.” Newspapers.com, www.newspapers.com/image/194234984/?terms=Long-dead%20killer%20back%20in%20sights%20of%20police&match=1. Accessed 24 May 2022.

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