64. The Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
The docs tackle the most well-known of the cases in their vintage Los Angels crime series, the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. They take you through the twisted background of the perpetrator (including the research on intrafamilial sexual abuse), as well as the crimes, locations, and unbelievable story of the most infamous victim and his mother that inspired the film, Changeling.
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Promo: The Mind Over Murder podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mind-over-murder/id1494058129
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