WEBVTT 00:00.091 --> 00:00.531 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we talk 7-ounce? 00:00.551 --> 00:01.112 [SPEAKER_01]: Can we talk about 7-ounce? 00:01.152 --> 00:27.332 [SPEAKER_01]: Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 00:27.651 --> 00:32.353 [SPEAKER_01]: It's important to stop while walking along life's path and take a look around. 00:33.174 --> 00:37.055 [SPEAKER_01]: Just to make sure you're not lost, going to hell in a handbasket. 00:38.036 --> 00:49.341 [SPEAKER_01]: It's important to assess, to look back at where we've been and adjust the direction we'd like to head, otherwise one day we'll find ourselves worn out, ready to quit because we're sick of the journey. 00:50.101 --> 00:54.043 [SPEAKER_01]: The one we went strolling into with at a second thought of where we might end up. 00:55.357 --> 01:01.122 [SPEAKER_01]: Some of us just go stumbling into the woods, falling into creek beds, not even bothering to find a path. 01:01.782 --> 01:05.705 [SPEAKER_01]: Helping things work out, blaming God when it doesn't. 01:06.626 --> 01:07.206 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's fine. 01:07.867 --> 01:16.173 [SPEAKER_01]: As long as you're not dragging anyone else around with you or forcing them up ahead with a gun to their back, some of us didn't even pack a lunch. 01:16.854 --> 01:21.818 [SPEAKER_01]: We have an empty hand basket with us, one will climb into the warmth of eventually, like 01:48.278 --> 01:51.421 [SPEAKER_01]: 1913, Fockner County Arkansas. 01:52.242 --> 01:57.428 [SPEAKER_01]: A little place named Happy Valley sees two neighboring farm families come together through a wedding. 01:58.269 --> 01:59.490 [SPEAKER_01]: Samuel Jerome Hall. 01:59.977 --> 02:02.199 [SPEAKER_01]: a farmer and local preacher for the Baptist Church. 02:02.839 --> 02:07.903 [SPEAKER_01]: Takes the hand of young Eva Ingram, and the two soon established the area's first factory. 02:08.603 --> 02:11.566 [SPEAKER_01]: A baby making factory, located in Eva's womb. 02:12.106 --> 02:19.171 [SPEAKER_01]: Five girls, five boys, one dies in infancy, and one later dies in infamy. 02:19.752 --> 02:21.173 [SPEAKER_01]: It's like a Johnny Cash song. 02:23.450 --> 02:27.112 [SPEAKER_01]: On January 28, 1921, the fourth child was born. 02:27.832 --> 02:32.655 [SPEAKER_01]: James Weber and Hall, better known as Red, seemed to come into the world on fire. 02:33.476 --> 02:35.457 [SPEAKER_01]: His hair would mark him as trouble from the start. 02:36.057 --> 02:44.702 [SPEAKER_01]: Red hair, seen as a sign of the devil in a child, especially by a small Baptist community like Happy Valley, was pretty spot on in this case. 02:45.635 --> 02:50.138 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall did nothing to prevent the spread of such stereotypes he perpetrated them. 02:50.918 --> 02:56.701 [SPEAKER_01]: Born to raise Hal was how his father saw him, but truly, Red simply favored his father in demeanor. 02:57.282 --> 02:58.022 [SPEAKER_01]: Heavy on the mean. 02:58.642 --> 03:03.505 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, we can go all the way to demeanor, though preacher Hal was a tough act to follow. 03:04.045 --> 03:07.848 [SPEAKER_01]: He beat the shit out of his wife and kids, as was the style of the time. 03:08.669 --> 03:09.209 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it wasn't. 03:09.550 --> 03:10.871 [SPEAKER_01]: At least it wasn't supposed to be. 03:11.371 --> 03:14.554 [SPEAKER_01]: But for men like Red Hall's father, the family was property. 03:15.074 --> 03:19.918 [SPEAKER_01]: And property, apparently, needed to be kept in check, usually by backhand. 03:20.338 --> 03:21.499 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a difficult upbringing. 03:21.939 --> 03:28.705 [SPEAKER_01]: The eldest daughter was born mentally disabled and had to stay home as she couldn't control herself or her bladder at school. 03:29.505 --> 03:36.411 [SPEAKER_01]: Two of his brothers were widely regarded as mentally disabled as well, but more in the realm of moron or idiot, 03:37.252 --> 03:43.716 [SPEAKER_01]: This brought shame to the family, and Father Hall did his best to make it worse by be raiding and beating everybody up. 03:44.456 --> 03:45.977 [SPEAKER_01]: The kids were put to work on the farm. 03:46.677 --> 03:53.541 [SPEAKER_01]: Red, known to be a fighter, and as determined and headstrong as his dad, soon had his head nearly caved in. 03:54.301 --> 03:55.962 [SPEAKER_01]: It was said to be a farming accident. 03:56.643 --> 04:00.124 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's a quote from Red's friggin' father on the incident quote. 04:00.925 --> 04:05.067 [SPEAKER_01]: We was all in hay when he was 12 or 13, and he was a big boy. 04:07.228 --> 04:10.051 [SPEAKER_01]: He was dragging Hay to the bailer with a pole in each hand. 04:10.712 --> 04:17.159 [SPEAKER_01]: We would be on the other side of the Haystack pole and with a mule and he let a pole slip over and strike him on the back of the hat. 04:17.979 --> 04:19.701 [SPEAKER_01]: He was unconscious an hour or so. 04:20.402 --> 04:23.846 [SPEAKER_01]: We put him in the truck and took him to Dr. H. H. Hardy's home for treatment. 04:24.782 --> 04:37.671 [SPEAKER_01]: And quote, those who knew of the preacher's behavior at home called them the preacher with horns, meaner than a junkyard dog, some said, and nobody believed this rendition of the gospel, said of help to make. 04:38.531 --> 04:49.058 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall, a boy they remembered having had typhoid fever at four, a major head injury by 12, and all the while was works like a mule as the most competent farmhand of the 04:50.743 --> 04:52.363 [SPEAKER_01]: He grew up quick and he grew up mean. 04:52.783 --> 04:56.364 [SPEAKER_01]: His fish got hard in his wits got keen, and those name wasn't sue. 04:57.124 --> 04:57.885 [SPEAKER_01]: Life weren't easy. 04:58.705 --> 05:07.247 [SPEAKER_01]: Right-hall ran away as soon as he recovered, though some believe that head injury stayed with him, making some of his questionable decision making later makes some sense. 05:07.947 --> 05:12.988 [SPEAKER_01]: Though his first decision to get away from happy Valley Arkansas seems sound enough. 05:16.801 --> 05:19.443 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall went on to live the life of a hobo. 05:20.103 --> 05:22.965 [SPEAKER_01]: Catching rides all across the country, trains included. 05:23.826 --> 05:29.049 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes he'd rob those people who had been nice enough to stop for him, but I bet that that was the least of it. 05:29.569 --> 05:35.633 [SPEAKER_01]: Being so young at on the road likely led to some trouble, not only for those across Red's path, but for Red himself. 05:36.454 --> 05:41.317 [SPEAKER_01]: Hobos, especially a midnight trains, were notorious for raping young men like Red. 05:41.977 --> 05:42.738 [SPEAKER_01]: Not all Hobos. 05:43.160 --> 05:50.485 [SPEAKER_01]: Many were out just looking for work and freedom, but some the bombs were aptly named as that was what they were after. 05:51.365 --> 05:53.066 [SPEAKER_01]: I doubt they got red, I really do. 05:53.627 --> 05:58.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Unless 5 or 6 jumped them, though perhaps that's how red became such a prolific fighter. 05:58.870 --> 06:04.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Known to take on three or four guys at a time outside bars and come at on top, almost killed one in the end. 06:05.655 --> 06:09.417 [SPEAKER_01]: Every day drunks would have been no match for a young man accustomed to fighting off 06:13.380 --> 06:17.824 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall claimed to have began his killing spree in 1938 at the age of 17. 06:18.544 --> 06:23.609 [SPEAKER_01]: He would later guess that he killed 2 dozen people or so, mostly men who died under his fists. 06:24.109 --> 06:27.172 [SPEAKER_01]: After having been robbed by the so-called Arkansas H.I. 06:27.232 --> 06:27.552 [SPEAKER_01]: Killer. 06:28.373 --> 06:39.382 [SPEAKER_01]: But the wrath of Red flowed through Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, some believe Red Hall could have killed closer to 50, for how far and wide the spree potentially, but have extended. 06:40.137 --> 06:44.800 [SPEAKER_01]: But he would confess to beating an unidentified black woman to death, and Selena Kansas. 06:45.381 --> 06:54.167 [SPEAKER_01]: The killing was never confirmed, no name or details can be found, but he said it happened, a sexual encounter turned violent, and an alleyway is all I could find. 06:54.928 --> 07:00.192 [SPEAKER_01]: Red didn't target women as far as we know, but he had no problem beating one to death that they pissed him off. 07:01.132 --> 07:07.297 [SPEAKER_01]: Kinds like Red are a dangerous breed, often friendly, charming, but prone to snap what they feel slighted. 07:07.849 --> 07:14.093 [SPEAKER_01]: a hair-trigger temper, and who knows, maybe being made fun of for his red hair, was a time to trigger. 07:14.993 --> 07:16.715 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a constant point of conversation. 07:17.335 --> 07:18.876 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, your hair sure is red. 07:19.556 --> 07:23.459 [SPEAKER_01]: Then you're floating above your body, looking down on yourself being beaten beyond death. 07:24.840 --> 07:26.220 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow, I sure am dead. 07:26.781 --> 07:33.505 [SPEAKER_01]: All later claimed that while working on an Arizona farm in 1938, he murdered 10 Mexican migrant workers. 07:34.143 --> 07:41.328 [SPEAKER_01]: He said he took them out to the desert, killed them one by one, shooting or beating them to death before robbing them of their meager wages. 07:42.129 --> 07:43.810 [SPEAKER_01]: None of those killings was ever proven. 07:44.530 --> 07:45.151 [SPEAKER_01]: But I believe it. 07:45.791 --> 07:51.856 [SPEAKER_01]: Back then a dead Mexican and the desert got as much recognition as Roadkill, and a black woman found beaten to death in an alley? 07:52.516 --> 07:53.097 [SPEAKER_01]: About the same. 07:54.076 --> 07:55.657 [SPEAKER_01]: Red was a real mean mother. 07:56.258 --> 07:57.518 [SPEAKER_01]: They don't make him like that anymore. 07:58.099 --> 08:00.440 [SPEAKER_01]: Mainly because it would be considered child labor today. 08:00.801 --> 08:02.462 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, God, I'm looking like a brick shit house. 08:02.962 --> 08:05.784 [SPEAKER_01]: And acting like he was haunted by the age of 14. 08:06.965 --> 08:08.326 [SPEAKER_01]: Later, he'd be sent to the chair. 08:08.846 --> 08:13.410 [SPEAKER_01]: But if they tried to hang him, that neck of his might have fought the rope off for a good 20 minutes. 08:14.190 --> 08:24.077 [SPEAKER_01]: Red had wrists that made officers later hesitate to put cuffs on them, his forearms were so coiled with muscle that a flex of his massive hands seemed capable of snapping steel. 08:24.898 --> 08:31.963 [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm making right out to be a roving raging right-headed maniac without any regard whatsoever for his own life or the lives of others. 08:32.723 --> 08:35.485 [SPEAKER_01]: He was capable of settling down from time to time. 08:36.058 --> 08:47.828 [SPEAKER_01]: getting married at 18 to an innocent church girl and having a child, though his preferred lifestyle of hitting the road, then hitting those that picked them up into their eyeballs were in the back of their heads, wasn't conducive to a long lasting marriage. 08:48.809 --> 08:50.851 [SPEAKER_01]: Wal-Cee was his first wife's name. 08:51.371 --> 08:54.394 [SPEAKER_01]: They were young and had suffered their first child dying in childbirth. 08:55.235 --> 08:56.636 [SPEAKER_01]: Red was deeply troubled by this. 08:57.216 --> 08:58.798 [SPEAKER_01]: He'd been there when it happened and 09:02.012 --> 09:14.416 [SPEAKER_01]: Walsy, of course, was the one who truly suffered, even more so when she continued to stick it up with red over the years, even though he occasionally claimed to be going for a pack of cigarettes, and ended up hitchhiking to Louisiana for them. 09:15.236 --> 09:20.058 [SPEAKER_01]: He said that he just couldn't help himself, but the open road called to him, and he couldn't ignore it. 09:21.027 --> 09:23.290 [SPEAKER_01]: Walsy was with Red through much of the killing spree. 09:23.790 --> 09:24.311 [SPEAKER_01]: She never knew. 09:24.331 --> 09:28.236 [SPEAKER_01]: It was just something Red did, while out there sewing his wild oats. 09:28.957 --> 09:36.827 [SPEAKER_01]: Speaking of oats, Red and Walsy were sharecroppers back in Arkansas, but Red bailed out on bailing so much that they eventually had to give it up. 09:37.587 --> 09:43.069 [SPEAKER_01]: Surprisingly, Red's father tried to help them keep up, but it was a lost cause, like Red Hall. 09:43.889 --> 09:46.951 [SPEAKER_01]: Something just wasn't right when he couldn't help but be on his own. 09:47.631 --> 09:49.512 [SPEAKER_01]: It was like there was a bad connection inside. 09:50.012 --> 09:51.892 [SPEAKER_01]: He'd be completely turned on, right? 09:52.213 --> 09:55.334 [SPEAKER_01]: Present one moment, and then everything inside would go dark. 09:56.194 --> 10:01.176 [SPEAKER_01]: And then it was time to go, time to hitchhike, and raw but kill and then drink up the 10:07.166 --> 10:09.447 [SPEAKER_01]: as long as it was fun, bread was into it. 10:10.127 --> 10:11.868 [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just the way it is for some people. 10:12.468 --> 10:13.729 [SPEAKER_01]: There's something broken inside. 10:14.549 --> 10:16.770 [SPEAKER_01]: And hard as they try to be normal, they can't be. 10:17.431 --> 10:18.031 [SPEAKER_01]: Because they aren't. 10:18.751 --> 10:19.331 [SPEAKER_01]: They're broken. 10:20.152 --> 10:24.014 [SPEAKER_01]: And then longally prove this to themselves and others, the more broken they become. 10:24.794 --> 10:27.595 [SPEAKER_01]: Until one day they say, fuck it, I can't do it. 10:28.255 --> 10:33.418 [SPEAKER_01]: I give up and go full speed down something like a red hall. 10:34.233 --> 10:43.036 [SPEAKER_01]: Walsy and Red stuck it out until about 1943, they split amicably, Red sent her $10 a month for help with their second child that survived. 10:43.756 --> 10:55.380 [SPEAKER_01]: Later when Red was on death row, Walsy kept contact, supporting her ex husband and whatever she could, knowing he had good parts, and understanding that he'd taken the bad with them at the door whenever they'd overcome him. 10:56.060 --> 10:57.941 [SPEAKER_01]: But that's not romanticized Red too much. 10:58.753 --> 11:00.034 [SPEAKER_01]: He did, after all. 11:00.875 --> 11:02.016 [SPEAKER_01]: Kill a whole bunch of people. 11:02.696 --> 11:04.638 [SPEAKER_01]: He could have done it in an honorable way. 11:05.439 --> 11:08.781 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall's killing spree took place right in the pocket of World War II. 11:09.442 --> 11:16.728 [SPEAKER_01]: He was more than able-bodied, and certainly would have done some damage had he been capable of applying himself to anything outside of himself. 11:17.469 --> 11:22.373 [SPEAKER_01]: Red avoided it as long as he could, but was eventually drafted and endured a short stint in the Navy. 11:22.766 --> 11:30.517 [SPEAKER_01]: that lasted six weeks through the fall of 43, ending with Red being dishonorably discharged for, quote, in difference. 11:31.338 --> 11:36.225 [SPEAKER_01]: He just wasn't interested, which I found to be an interesting way to get kicked out of the service. 11:36.758 --> 11:45.160 [SPEAKER_01]: All these poor bugger shooting themselves in the foot to avoid battle, and here's Red Hall getting sent home for picking his nose while refusing to pick up a mob. 11:45.701 --> 11:50.382 [SPEAKER_01]: Back in Little Rock, Arkansas, he got work as a cab driver, which suited his lifestyle. 11:50.982 --> 11:51.662 [SPEAKER_01]: He was good at it. 11:52.202 --> 11:54.943 [SPEAKER_01]: Personalable with fairs and knowledgeable about the city. 11:55.663 --> 11:57.744 [SPEAKER_01]: Red may good money and could leave on a whim. 11:58.204 --> 11:59.565 [SPEAKER_01]: Come back and still have a job. 12:00.125 --> 12:00.925 [SPEAKER_01]: The perfect gig. 12:01.322 --> 12:07.846 [SPEAKER_01]: for a part-time serial killer, like Red Hall, Red soon met that eventually married his second wife in March of 1944. 12:07.866 --> 12:13.749 [SPEAKER_01]: Faye Rene Clemins Hall was said to be a lot more than Red was used to handling in a woman. 12:14.407 --> 12:29.617 [SPEAKER_01]: His first wife had been more like his own mother, Mousi, obedient, easy to intimidate, but feyrene, a pretty young woman who liked to dress nice and get out in the world, socialize have fun, would quickly rod as the apple of Red's eye. 12:30.378 --> 12:35.321 [SPEAKER_01]: She wanted to come along with him wherever he may go, and that, eventually, was a problem. 12:36.182 --> 12:40.365 [SPEAKER_01]: Feyrene, or fey as she was known, figured the best way to deal with Red's souring demeanor 12:43.800 --> 12:44.600 [SPEAKER_01]: and infatuated. 12:45.241 --> 12:51.984 [SPEAKER_01]: When that didn't work, she decided to gain his respect and start standing up for herself, which ended in her falling down after being punched in the face. 12:52.605 --> 12:56.447 [SPEAKER_01]: This wasn't the man she'd married, or at least the version Red had presented. 12:57.127 --> 13:00.189 [SPEAKER_01]: Now he was mean, often commenting on face teeth. 13:00.809 --> 13:05.692 [SPEAKER_01]: She had a buck tooth that the confident young woman had never seen as a flaw, rather an attribute. 13:06.247 --> 13:08.348 [SPEAKER_01]: a bit of character that she shared with her father. 13:09.069 --> 13:15.433 [SPEAKER_01]: Red beat up on Faye so often that her family couldn't help but notice the bruises, as much as she tried to hide them with clothing and makeup. 13:16.273 --> 13:25.359 [SPEAKER_01]: Mary and March took only until summer for Faye to begin admitting to her father that she couldn't make it much longer with red, which ironically would turn out to be true. 13:26.339 --> 13:27.260 [SPEAKER_01]: Her darker reasons. 13:30.685 --> 13:32.566 [SPEAKER_01]: September 14, 1944. 13:33.327 --> 13:36.349 [SPEAKER_01]: Fay and Red mean it for dinner with a friend of Fay's, Katie. 13:36.709 --> 13:38.270 [SPEAKER_01]: Then go dancing at the rainbow. 13:38.790 --> 13:44.714 [SPEAKER_01]: A swamp ballroom situated in downtown Little Rock, where everyone who was anyone went to strut their stuff. 13:45.335 --> 13:48.517 [SPEAKER_01]: It's Lady's night, and Red sticks out like a sore thumb. 13:49.117 --> 13:51.959 [SPEAKER_01]: His shock of Red hair seeming to throb over the dance floor. 13:52.880 --> 13:54.441 [SPEAKER_01]: He watches his Fay closely. 13:55.041 --> 13:58.264 [SPEAKER_01]: They had split up for a bit, and they're just coming back together. 13:59.079 --> 14:05.183 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been living with friends when Red's temper flares, and by the look on his face, she's about to need another reprieve. 14:06.024 --> 14:07.085 [SPEAKER_01]: Why she all dressed up? 14:07.785 --> 14:09.186 [SPEAKER_01]: Who's she trying to impress? 14:10.307 --> 14:14.530 [SPEAKER_01]: Faith dances the night away, knowing that Red's jealous nature wouldn't have been dampened to hatchy. 14:15.060 --> 14:16.520 [SPEAKER_01]: worn her pajamas to the ballroom. 14:17.121 --> 14:21.922 [SPEAKER_01]: So she cuts a rug, her feet becoming sore and her new shoes by the time red demands they go home. 14:22.662 --> 14:24.002 [SPEAKER_01]: Bang, Katie, must abide. 14:24.582 --> 14:25.423 [SPEAKER_01]: Red is their ride. 14:26.103 --> 14:30.484 [SPEAKER_01]: He basically drags Fae off the floor, then burrates her when she asked to use the elevator. 14:31.164 --> 14:32.144 [SPEAKER_01]: My feet hurt red. 14:32.905 --> 14:34.885 [SPEAKER_01]: I ain't used an old CC elevator, Fae. 14:35.345 --> 14:38.366 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe if you didn't need new shoes every damn time you go's dancing. 14:39.059 --> 14:48.142 [SPEAKER_01]: Face stumbles as she's dragged to the rainbow staircase and red turns on her, he grabs fame by the color of her red dress and rips, the clasps popping up and as he does so. 14:49.042 --> 14:51.303 [SPEAKER_01]: Katie steps in and helps her friend cover herself. 14:52.043 --> 14:55.244 [SPEAKER_01]: Red storms downstairs and the two women take the elevator. 14:55.824 --> 15:00.186 [SPEAKER_01]: Once met back up at the car outside, red slaps his wife and tells her to get in. 15:00.806 --> 15:05.087 [SPEAKER_01]: It's 1944 so onlookers, look away or just look right at it. 15:08.118 --> 15:09.058 [SPEAKER_01]: and red peels out. 15:09.739 --> 15:12.079 [SPEAKER_01]: The couple have allowed argument all the way to Katie's. 15:12.699 --> 15:16.321 [SPEAKER_01]: Faith is threatening to leave red and move to the coast when Katie gets out. 15:17.121 --> 15:21.062 [SPEAKER_01]: Katie doesn't even get a goodbye just the smoke of burnt rubber in her faces. 15:21.502 --> 15:22.583 [SPEAKER_01]: Red speeds off again. 15:23.523 --> 15:27.404 [SPEAKER_01]: This will be the last time anyone besides red sees Ferry in a life. 15:28.524 --> 15:30.905 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall will claim that his wife left him the next morning. 15:31.625 --> 15:32.846 [SPEAKER_01]: She said something about going to the 15:37.008 --> 15:53.814 [SPEAKER_01]: She did say that, though everybody who knows the couple understands red definitely had something to do with face-sutting disappearance, and that Fey wouldn't just up and leave without a word to family or friends, there's a quick investigation but without a body and with evidence that Fey wanted to leave red, nothing comes of it. 15:54.494 --> 15:59.636 [SPEAKER_01]: For now, red hall once he spent a few weeks doodifully acting as distressed as everyone 16:05.689 --> 16:06.809 [SPEAKER_01]: perhaps to look for Fay? 16:07.629 --> 16:07.949 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe? 16:08.830 --> 16:10.330 [SPEAKER_01]: He hopes that's the impression he's giving. 16:10.930 --> 16:11.850 [SPEAKER_01]: Either way, it doesn't matter. 16:12.430 --> 16:17.691 [SPEAKER_01]: The road beckons, and it's a relief to get away from all this anxiety surrounding his wife's disappearance. 16:18.632 --> 16:22.733 [SPEAKER_01]: An issue that read, at least, has peace of mind on. 16:26.333 --> 16:29.734 [SPEAKER_01]: There are quite a few unsolved murders thought to be the work of Red Hall. 16:30.460 --> 16:33.744 [SPEAKER_01]: One being an older brother of his who disappeared when Red was 14. 16:34.345 --> 16:40.713 [SPEAKER_01]: Later when Red was asked what he thought had happened to his brother, Red responded that he probably got murdered or something. 16:41.554 --> 16:48.803 [SPEAKER_01]: Considering that Red was open to admitting he killed 10 migrant workers and an unnamed black woman in an alley, both crimes couldn't be. 16:49.448 --> 17:05.141 [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, proven by the way, which may be part of the reason he admitted to these, it's strange that he wouldn't admit to the many unsolved murders he was accused of, most of those being bodies found in cars or a roadside after a hitchhiker had killed the driver than stolen the vehicle, and I meet my words here. 17:05.680 --> 17:07.880 [SPEAKER_01]: The reason why he didn't admit to those is because they could be proven. 17:08.421 --> 17:19.083 [SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps once the Arkansas Hite Killer in Hall hit the papers, law enforcement across the country saw an easy way to solve similar cases in their jurisdiction, and he didn't do a lot of these additional crimes. 17:19.763 --> 17:30.985 [SPEAKER_01]: The thing is, back when Hite hiking and riding the rails was a common way to travel for adventurous and sometimes questionable, hobo types, getting robbed as a good Samaritan picking up Hite Chakers was a pretty common thing. 17:34.249 --> 17:35.370 [SPEAKER_01]: But not all that surprising. 17:36.211 --> 17:40.033 [SPEAKER_01]: My point is that Red wasn't the only one out there on the road killing people for the hell of it. 17:40.594 --> 17:50.982 [SPEAKER_01]: However this one, that occurred in Kansas on Devil's Night, October 30, 1944, while Red would have been driving through on his way to California, seems like his handy work. 17:55.052 --> 18:10.344 [SPEAKER_01]: 35-year-old Kansas osteopath, Dr. Merrill E. Lambert, and 21-year-old Charles Nipper III, a corporal of the 247th Army Airfield Division, were found dead together in a Wichita ditch, on November 3rd, 1944. 18:11.084 --> 18:12.946 [SPEAKER_01]: The two had been missing four days of peace. 18:13.602 --> 18:18.787 [SPEAKER_01]: They appeared to have been dragged from the road into a ditch by their shirt collar, which were stretched. 18:19.548 --> 18:22.291 [SPEAKER_01]: Each had been shot to death in the back, shoulder and neck. 18:22.992 --> 18:26.155 [SPEAKER_01]: Each was without their wallet and had their pockets pulled out. 18:27.145 --> 18:31.328 [SPEAKER_01]: Investigators of the time believe the two men in bed shot from a passenger in the back seat. 18:32.029 --> 18:37.653 [SPEAKER_01]: A broken chloroform bottle had been found days earlier, smashed in a lawn, staining the grass. 18:38.433 --> 18:45.298 [SPEAKER_01]: It was believed by interviewed cynicins that the doctor may have tossed it at his car window as a way to signal he was in distress. 18:45.998 --> 18:48.820 [SPEAKER_01]: But I doubt that, considering an upcoming detail. 18:49.401 --> 18:50.342 [SPEAKER_01]: A few others first. 18:50.822 --> 18:54.785 [SPEAKER_01]: The total number of bullets was found to be 9 from a 45 caliber handgun. 18:55.458 --> 19:01.663 [SPEAKER_01]: meaning the killer would have reloaded at some point, probably to finish the men off when stragging them with a ditch. 19:02.563 --> 19:09.489 [SPEAKER_01]: Corp. Nipper likely had been hitchhiking back to base, and was picked up by the good doctor, who then picked up the killer. 19:10.189 --> 19:12.231 [SPEAKER_01]: Risky enough to pick up one hitchhiker. 19:12.851 --> 19:15.133 [SPEAKER_01]: He paid dearly it seems by doubling the odds. 19:15.934 --> 19:21.838 [SPEAKER_01]: The doctor's vehicle was found at a cabin camp, on the outskirts of a nearby county, the seats were covered in blood. 19:22.337 --> 19:26.598 [SPEAKER_01]: And a hypodermic needle was found in the back seat in a face cloth. 19:27.579 --> 19:30.460 [SPEAKER_01]: Now you tell me what the chloroform may have been used for. 19:31.220 --> 19:31.800 [SPEAKER_01]: Good citizen. 19:32.080 --> 19:46.585 [SPEAKER_01]: Was it thrown at the window, the bottle by the doctor like an alarm bell, ordered the killer in the back seat with a needle in a face cloth, pulls something together, before tossing the bottle, maybe pulled chloroform from the bottle, with the needle spirited into a cloth, toss the bottle, I don't know. 19:47.520 --> 19:54.545 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a strange one, a hard to chloroform two men backed back from behind by the way, and don't ask me how I know that. 19:55.666 --> 20:06.254 [SPEAKER_01]: This case remains unsolved, the doctor was known as an excellent man and his young wife was ruined by this senseless killing, or Pearl Charles Nipper III's family, of course, was devastated as well. 20:06.834 --> 20:11.298 [SPEAKER_01]: The fallout involved his father, the second, committing suicide a few years later. 20:12.411 --> 20:13.992 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, we can't be sure it was Red Hall. 20:14.552 --> 20:20.794 [SPEAKER_01]: What we do know is that he made it to California, and by Christmas, the family of his missing wife received a postcard from Fay. 20:21.354 --> 20:28.117 [SPEAKER_01]: Talking about how great California was, and asking about Red, the handwriting on the card, wasn't hers. 20:29.177 --> 20:31.218 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll read you some of that postcard, actually. 20:31.618 --> 20:32.319 [SPEAKER_01]: Who walt. 20:33.259 --> 20:38.621 [SPEAKER_01]: Please tell Mom and all that it's really great out here, and I soon will feel settled and will write again. 20:42.266 --> 20:49.435 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall returned a little rock a few months later, driving a maroon Chevrolet with Texas Plates and a bunch of Bibles in the back. 20:50.236 --> 20:57.706 [SPEAKER_01]: Later, Redwood admit to having killed a man in San Marco's Texas, but to my knowledge, no connection was ever made to a missing Bible salesman. 20:58.288 --> 21:04.271 [SPEAKER_01]: From what I could tell after rifling through old newspapers.com, the Kansas Double Murder was prolific. 21:04.751 --> 21:07.532 [SPEAKER_01]: The Texas Bible Mystery, I found nothing whatsoever. 21:08.313 --> 21:14.035 [SPEAKER_01]: Strange that Redwood emit to one and not the other, especially because the known murders would have gained a much more notoriety. 21:14.535 --> 21:21.879 [SPEAKER_01]: Again, maybe he was just hesitant to emit anything with his much sophistication involved or evidence evolved as the Double Murder in Wichita. 21:22.459 --> 21:33.182 [SPEAKER_01]: Because truly in the end, Red Hall wanted badly for the public to believe he was just an insane drifter who couldn't help himself, so no need to help him into that electric chair. 21:34.143 --> 21:36.043 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hall, the Arkansas H.I. 21:36.063 --> 21:42.905 [SPEAKER_01]: Killer, at the age of 24, began his indisputable home state murder spree soon after returning from California. 21:43.465 --> 21:48.707 [SPEAKER_01]: A trip he'd taken for the purpose of sending a postcard from his missing wife Fayette, who were family. 21:49.372 --> 21:52.535 [SPEAKER_01]: Killing and robbing untold numbers of people along the way. 21:53.236 --> 21:58.682 [SPEAKER_01]: That trip had been a lot of miles to travel by hitch by stolen car by train, but it had been worth it. 21:59.443 --> 22:04.628 [SPEAKER_01]: Red was feeling pretty good, like he was maybe in the clear, like he'd found his calling in life. 22:05.469 --> 22:10.414 [SPEAKER_01]: But when a degenerate feels good, whether it be a drinker, a gambler, a smoker, a killer. 22:11.016 --> 22:28.066 [SPEAKER_01]: There's always the temptation to return to their vice, feeling as though they've earned it, that they deserve it, and reds vices involved all four I just mentioned, plus the most intoxicating of all, the thrill of the hunt, the blast of getting away with doing whatever the hell he wanted, on a whim. 22:28.726 --> 22:34.990 [SPEAKER_01]: He got going right away, in mid-January of 45, red gets a hold of a 45 revolver, after 22:40.010 --> 22:45.874 [SPEAKER_01]: Lonnie had left his weapon hidden in the car, loaded, telling Red where he could find it, should he need protection. 22:46.795 --> 22:51.979 [SPEAKER_01]: Red was going to confront Carl Hamilton, a Camden Barber, Boogie, and Bootleger. 22:52.839 --> 22:54.240 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and a black man. 22:55.041 --> 22:59.864 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's a quote from Red in the matter, when later asked how Hamilton ended up shot to death under a tree. 23:00.365 --> 23:00.885 [SPEAKER_01]: Whoa. 23:01.786 --> 23:06.529 [SPEAKER_01]: I had gone there planning to commit a robbery, and I met the Darky and got him at a town 23:09.453 --> 23:15.034 [SPEAKER_01]: I had Lonnie's 45, when I tried to rob Hamilton he drew a 38, so a shot him twice. 23:15.754 --> 23:25.636 [SPEAKER_01]: I took his money, his revolver, and some extra cartridges that I found in his pocket, and quote, and that 38 stole from poor Mr. Hamilton will come into play soon enough. 23:26.516 --> 23:35.678 [SPEAKER_01]: Because of the era we find ourselves in with a story, there wasn't a lot of information on Carl Hamilton, just a black bootlegger shot to death under a tree and had his money and gun stolen. 23:38.479 --> 23:41.441 [SPEAKER_01]: He would have hang Carl from said tree, don't improper. 23:42.301 --> 23:44.323 [SPEAKER_01]: It's very racist, not me, it's him. 23:45.143 --> 23:55.349 [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, he'd thought someone may have been coming after the shots rang out, so he robbed Carl quickly and ran, leaving the dead man with his jewelry but light on cash left only three bucks. 23:56.010 --> 23:57.391 [SPEAKER_01]: Took over $200. 23:58.051 --> 24:00.012 [SPEAKER_01]: It said that Carl Hamilton was a cool cat. 24:00.533 --> 24:04.675 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, like to connect it, always with a lot of money on him because of his side hustles. 24:08.210 --> 24:15.013 [SPEAKER_01]: with a bright red mane, who apparently possessed a few more lives, and would take at least three more. 24:15.993 --> 24:22.215 [SPEAKER_01]: February 1, 1945, bread is hitchhiking south, heading quickly down the hall to his ultimate doom. 24:23.036 --> 24:33.660 [SPEAKER_01]: He'd taken the day off from work, as a competent cabbie who pulled good numbers anytime he showed that was one of the perks, taking the day off you want, your loss when you return again our game. 24:34.440 --> 24:34.921 [SPEAKER_01]: No problem. 24:35.562 --> 24:37.044 [SPEAKER_01]: But there was a problem in Reds World. 24:37.605 --> 24:46.157 [SPEAKER_01]: You didn't take a day off, he took weeks, always to go in a bender and adventure, and to fun such episodes someone would have to foot the tab. 24:48.557 --> 24:49.118 [SPEAKER_01]: It's raining. 24:49.738 --> 24:52.961 [SPEAKER_01]: Red stands by the highway outside little rock acting uncomfortable. 24:53.562 --> 25:05.994 [SPEAKER_01]: Eventually a stutabaker rolls past and that potentially footed tab becomes possible when the sweet, well-dressed, mild-mannered and respectful EC atoms and mechanic and carpenter on his way to work at the war plant. 25:06.675 --> 25:07.376 [SPEAKER_01]: What's the break? 25:08.216 --> 25:10.319 [SPEAKER_01]: The red tail lights come on like a bad idea. 25:10.967 --> 25:16.631 [SPEAKER_01]: Summoning Red Hall, his straightens, suddenly not seeming so shaky, despite being soaked. 25:17.532 --> 25:23.516 [SPEAKER_01]: He gets in, and a ways down the road gets back out, with his gun to the back of Adams. 25:24.396 --> 25:25.877 [SPEAKER_01]: Red would later describe what happened. 25:26.558 --> 25:26.998 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow. 25:27.879 --> 25:36.424 [SPEAKER_01]: I flagged him down on the arch street via deck near 33rd Street, and rode almost a four dice with him before I drew my revolver and forced him to stop the car. 25:40.961 --> 25:42.623 [SPEAKER_01]: I got twenty-six dollars from his pockets. 25:43.103 --> 25:47.287 [SPEAKER_01]: I took his two watches and suitcase and even took off his shoes and hunted for money. 25:47.987 --> 25:52.131 [SPEAKER_01]: I took the suitcase to Camden on the way I threw away his engraved watch. 25:52.731 --> 25:56.315 [SPEAKER_01]: I sold the other one to a palm broker in Alexandria, Louisiana. 25:56.975 --> 26:00.078 [SPEAKER_01]: The suitcase was filled with cigarettes and I sold those. 26:00.979 --> 26:01.359 [SPEAKER_01]: Ain't quite well. 26:02.400 --> 26:04.382 [SPEAKER_01]: I told you red was a smoker, previous. 26:04.742 --> 26:06.564 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a smoker of cigars and not cigarettes. 26:06.884 --> 26:07.785 [SPEAKER_01]: That's why he sold those. 26:08.955 --> 26:14.239 [SPEAKER_01]: Adams had apparently hit his keys in a secret pocket of his coat when forced out of his vehicle. 26:14.919 --> 26:15.960 [SPEAKER_01]: Red failed to find them. 26:16.541 --> 26:18.902 [SPEAKER_01]: He was forced to hitchhike from this murder scene. 26:19.523 --> 26:26.048 [SPEAKER_01]: When Mr. Adams' wife was contacted following a state trooper discovering the roadside murder, she had this to say. 26:26.688 --> 26:28.429 [SPEAKER_01]: Wout, it can't be him. 26:28.990 --> 26:29.830 [SPEAKER_01]: It mustn't be him. 26:30.531 --> 26:31.932 [SPEAKER_01]: We have a two week old baby. 26:33.310 --> 26:40.172 [SPEAKER_01]: Hall is next picked up by a truck driver of the western meat company, that same afternoon of February 1st, 1945. 26:41.052 --> 26:47.054 [SPEAKER_01]: Thirty-year-old Doyle Mulherin was seen by a fellow driver talking with a red-haired man in his passenger seat. 26:47.734 --> 26:54.576 [SPEAKER_01]: Doyle didn't wave back as he usually did when these trucks frequently passed one another, traveling back and forth to customers surrounding Little Rock. 26:55.237 --> 26:59.238 [SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps Doyle, and not waving, was signaling, is distress. 27:00.175 --> 27:11.183 [SPEAKER_01]: His truck would be found at around 6 p.m. by the town, Grocer and mayor of Stoogard, Arkansas, Barley Stump, who was duly stumped to discover an empty meat truck on the outskirts of his quiet town. 27:11.684 --> 27:14.986 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't completely empty, there was some meat in the back, dead meat. 27:15.727 --> 27:18.729 [SPEAKER_01]: There was also dead meat, and by the river nearby. 27:19.329 --> 27:22.692 [SPEAKER_01]: Doyle had made three deliveries that day, but it disappeared in the afternoon. 27:23.572 --> 27:29.097 [SPEAKER_01]: Some local kids came forward and said they'd seen a red-headed man, skulking under a nearby bridge that afternoon. 27:29.937 --> 27:34.000 [SPEAKER_01]: Doyle's body is soon found by two fishermen, down by the river of this bridge. 27:34.681 --> 27:36.162 [SPEAKER_01]: He had been shot in the back of the head. 27:36.822 --> 27:38.003 [SPEAKER_01]: His pockets were turned out. 27:38.724 --> 27:40.805 [SPEAKER_01]: Doyle would have been holding about $125. 27:41.065 --> 27:42.907 [SPEAKER_01]: A big score for red. 27:43.908 --> 27:49.392 [SPEAKER_01]: Later, Ballistics would determine that the bullet and Doyle's head came from the same weapon used to kill EC Adams. 27:49.932 --> 27:51.093 [SPEAKER_01]: Earlier that same day, a 38. 27:53.126 --> 27:58.727 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're wondering what happened to the initial 45, that was given back to Lonnie Blaine. 27:59.448 --> 28:06.650 [SPEAKER_01]: So, Red used the 45 to kill Mr. Hamilton, stole his 38, and then went on this crime spray. 28:07.290 --> 28:10.070 [SPEAKER_01]: The papers get a hold of the story and the Arkansas H.I. 28:10.110 --> 28:11.671 [SPEAKER_01]: Killer enters the public psyche. 28:12.351 --> 28:20.133 [SPEAKER_01]: All that read of the case will stop to read, thumbing past the page main impossible by the sensational nature of Red Hall's sudden rampaging. 28:20.922 --> 28:29.164 [SPEAKER_01]: A litter quote from red on the truck driver killing, he gave this insight while cuffed in doing a tour of his crime scenes, investigators primed for more information. 28:29.844 --> 28:38.166 [SPEAKER_01]: This particular quote came at roadside, red just wanted to get out of its cell and maybe be treated to a hamburger and a coke, a few cigars and return. 28:38.886 --> 28:44.888 [SPEAKER_01]: He was likely smoking a cigar as he spoke here, trucks moaning past, as if grieving what had happened to doile here. 28:45.768 --> 28:46.068 [SPEAKER_01]: Quote. 28:47.095 --> 28:52.079 [SPEAKER_01]: I bet you I could get out on the highway right now and get a ride with the first or second driver who comes along. 28:52.760 --> 28:57.984 [SPEAKER_01]: It's not the way you wiggle your thumb or the gesture you make, it's all on the look you give the driver. 28:58.665 --> 29:00.026 [SPEAKER_01]: It's the same about anything else. 29:00.706 --> 29:03.469 [SPEAKER_01]: I could walk up to a perfect stranger and ask him for $20. 29:04.309 --> 29:06.651 [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to ask many before I get it. 29:07.572 --> 29:07.972 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you. 29:08.773 --> 29:11.215 [SPEAKER_01]: On his second line there about asking for money, 29:12.110 --> 29:15.831 [SPEAKER_01]: It helped, too, that Red was fucking enormous and scary. 29:16.291 --> 29:22.613 [SPEAKER_01]: On his first about getting a ride, the gesture he makes, the wiggle of his thumb saying that that's not what matters. 29:23.013 --> 29:25.234 [SPEAKER_01]: What did matter was him making himself look small. 29:25.654 --> 29:26.454 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he's getting at. 29:26.874 --> 29:30.535 [SPEAKER_01]: Him making himself look pathetic and destitute. 29:31.076 --> 29:33.036 [SPEAKER_01]: That's how he would get people to pull over for him. 29:34.096 --> 29:39.338 [SPEAKER_01]: March 8, 1945, the last chance Red would get to kill an innocent person for their money. 29:39.725 --> 29:40.786 [SPEAKER_01]: and no doubt for the hell of it. 29:41.506 --> 29:42.047 [SPEAKER_01]: J.D. 29:42.127 --> 29:51.754 [SPEAKER_01]: Newcome Jr., the Chief Boiler Inspector for the Arkansas State Labor Department, picks up Red Hitchhiking, just after lunch, and while on his way to make an inspection. 29:52.474 --> 29:54.776 [SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Newcome, of course, doesn't make it. 29:55.436 --> 30:02.443 [SPEAKER_01]: By the next day, an APB is released for officers in the public to be on the lookout for new combs, 1941 model, Oldsmobile. 30:02.883 --> 30:17.458 [SPEAKER_01]: A farming couple at it and a drive around their property find the vehicle that same afternoon, the front section has been torched on the back half on the driver's side, strangely, can be seen as spray of blood, like flames, spread out from the bottom of the back door. 30:18.499 --> 30:19.920 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, and I've buried the lead here. 30:20.593 --> 30:22.054 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a charred corpse inside. 30:22.595 --> 30:25.197 [SPEAKER_01]: Investigators soon find it once summoned to the scene. 30:25.738 --> 30:26.999 [SPEAKER_01]: It's on the back floorboard. 30:27.559 --> 30:31.462 [SPEAKER_01]: The victim, it will be found to be JD Nukem, have been shot in the face. 30:31.923 --> 30:35.526 [SPEAKER_01]: With a 38 bullet, later found to match the weapon used in the previous murders. 30:36.046 --> 30:38.809 [SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Nukem had bled out before being burned. 30:39.329 --> 30:47.737 [SPEAKER_01]: A half set of false teeth will be recovered from the ma of the torch face of Mr. Nukem and dental records will confirm, Tim. 30:48.379 --> 30:52.262 [SPEAKER_01]: of note, newcomers missing his coat, along with his valuables. 30:52.982 --> 31:00.207 [SPEAKER_01]: The blood on the side of the vehicle seems strange until a couple of kids come forward, saying they saw the car bouncing at a high speed through a field. 31:00.907 --> 31:10.974 [SPEAKER_01]: It seems the blood had streamed out under the back door, and wind, sprayed it on the speeding cars tail end, as it seeped out, leaving kind of like a flame-looking 31:11.588 --> 31:12.689 [SPEAKER_01]: a custom paint job. 31:13.370 --> 31:20.696 [SPEAKER_01]: A gray-hand bus driver came forward to share he picked up a red-headed man in an ill-fitting coat, close to the crime scene that evening. 31:21.236 --> 31:24.559 [SPEAKER_01]: Not at a bus stop, just out on a dusty road between towns. 31:25.180 --> 31:26.561 [SPEAKER_01]: Here's a quote from that bus driver. 31:27.541 --> 31:31.325 [SPEAKER_01]: The coat didn't fit him very well, and I thought it was odd in being out there. 31:31.945 --> 31:33.206 [SPEAKER_01]: Funny place to catch a bus. 31:33.927 --> 31:38.671 [SPEAKER_01]: The driver shared that he had picked the red-headed man up, and then dropped him off at a connection for another bus, 31:40.638 --> 31:44.720 [SPEAKER_01]: Investigators are now going on the assumption that their killer could be a little rock citizen. 31:45.320 --> 31:52.464 [SPEAKER_01]: They asked the public for assistance, the papers push all the available information, and six days later, a small tip comes in. 31:53.004 --> 31:56.846 [SPEAKER_01]: They quickly develops into a big tip that stretches this case wide open. 31:57.907 --> 32:04.770 [SPEAKER_01]: A female friend of Lonnie Blaine, the ex-con who had loaned red as vehicle before the Black Barber Boot Lager and Mr. Hamilton, 32:05.120 --> 32:06.961 [SPEAKER_01]: Have an executed and robbed under a tree? 32:07.641 --> 32:14.222 [SPEAKER_01]: She called in, asking to be protected as well as her friend Lonnie, if she gave them information that could help solve a murder or two. 32:15.043 --> 32:26.486 [SPEAKER_01]: The investigation agrees, and soon Lonnie blamed his inquisiting, spilling the beans and how a friend of his, read, had borrowed his vehicle and returned it with his 45 revolver, missing two bullets. 32:31.972 --> 32:33.973 [SPEAKER_01]: Lonnie has complete protection assured. 32:34.394 --> 32:37.235 [SPEAKER_01]: He points investigators to the person who now owns the revolver. 32:37.676 --> 32:41.238 [SPEAKER_01]: And ballistics confirms it to be the weapon used to kill Mr. Hamilton. 32:42.018 --> 32:44.540 [SPEAKER_01]: Red Hollis picked up at work, the taxi stand. 32:45.120 --> 32:46.201 [SPEAKER_01]: He goes in with at a fight. 32:46.601 --> 32:48.042 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been in a lot of fights lately. 32:48.122 --> 32:51.925 [SPEAKER_01]: He just been in a brutal one and a bar weeks earlier where he'd almost killed a guy. 32:52.345 --> 32:54.106 [SPEAKER_01]: So figured that was why he was being picked up. 32:54.566 --> 32:55.947 [SPEAKER_01]: When he was told that wasn't it. 33:00.989 --> 33:07.954 [SPEAKER_01]: No, that's not any, either red, but considering why we have you in custody, perhaps that will be a possibility. 33:08.334 --> 33:15.659 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, a search of Red Hall's apartment turned up all sorts of damming evidence, including the 38 used in the three other murders. 33:16.319 --> 33:21.082 [SPEAKER_01]: This weapon I believe he stole from Mr. Hamilton after killing him with his buddy Lonnie Blaine's 45. 33:21.743 --> 33:22.964 [SPEAKER_01]: A revolver he had to return. 33:23.744 --> 33:28.207 [SPEAKER_01]: The 38 was more than enough to doom red, along with belongings of the many dropped 33:28.719 --> 33:37.685 [SPEAKER_01]: monogram watches clocks in one case, read it a thing for time, probably because deep down he knew there wasn't much of it left for a man such as himself. 33:38.586 --> 33:47.292 [SPEAKER_01]: Only 24 by his arrest, I guess you can get a lot done in a decade, read start it around the age of 14, and they don't make him like they used to, they say. 33:48.212 --> 33:50.414 [SPEAKER_01]: I say sometimes, that's a good thing. 33:51.385 --> 33:55.766 [SPEAKER_01]: I've shared quite a few quotes from Red along the road of our story, there's only a couple more. 33:56.467 --> 33:59.528 [SPEAKER_01]: The first comes from an admission about his last victim, Mr. Newcomb. 34:00.128 --> 34:06.550 [SPEAKER_01]: The second comes from his first, and his second wife, Bay, and I don't want to confuse anyone, so that's to the last one first. 34:07.230 --> 34:16.453 [SPEAKER_01]: A quote from Red, and how he killed the boiler inspector who was nice enough to pick him up and was shot in the face for it, before accidentally giving his own vehicle a gruesome custom 34:20.647 --> 34:22.969 [SPEAKER_01]: I wrote a bus from Markham and Main Street to Levi. 34:23.589 --> 34:26.551 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember telling a friend I was going out in the highway to make some money. 34:27.292 --> 34:31.034 [SPEAKER_01]: I thumbed my way to Marsh where Mr. Newcome came gave me a ride. 34:31.054 --> 34:35.638 [SPEAKER_01]: I bet a mile south of Conway I drew my revolver and forced him to stop his car. 34:36.378 --> 34:41.482 [SPEAKER_01]: He jumped out, but I caught his coat tail, and after a short struggle I pushed him into the back seat. 34:41.982 --> 34:44.304 [SPEAKER_01]: He still showed fight so I shot him. 34:44.324 --> 34:46.846 [SPEAKER_01]: He must have been looking at me because I think the bullet hit him in the face. 34:51.275 --> 34:59.942 [SPEAKER_01]: and quote, read as we know, then sped through a farm field and torched the Oldsmobile before catching a bus in a two small coat. 35:00.782 --> 35:04.825 [SPEAKER_01]: And then there was Faye, read finally admitted what everyone already suspected. 35:05.446 --> 35:14.833 [SPEAKER_01]: He told investigators he took her down by the Arkansas River near the Riverside Gulf course the 9th of September 14th, 1944, after the fight outside the rainbow and 35:15.231 --> 35:25.466 [SPEAKER_01]: the silent drive after dropping Katie off, something in and a snap for Goodie said he beat her to death with his fists at the woods, over and over a hitter, and tells you died. 35:26.046 --> 35:32.035 [SPEAKER_01]: Then he left her body on the riverbank, he figured the water or the animals would finish the job, he never bothered to bury her. 35:32.879 --> 35:39.904 [SPEAKER_01]: when they drove him out there after the confession, the place looked empty at first, then a local woodcutter named Cecil Foster wandered over. 35:40.525 --> 35:50.292 [SPEAKER_01]: He'd found a human skull weeks earlier, figured it belonged to some drowned stranger, and it tossed it up in his barn loft, which is kind of fucked up Cecil, why didn't you call us? 35:50.952 --> 35:55.696 [SPEAKER_01]: Cecil answers by spit and tobacco juice and sonturing off pointing, changing the subject. 35:56.536 --> 35:59.018 [SPEAKER_01]: He remember seeing a job on somewhere's nearby here, 36:02.113 --> 36:03.534 [SPEAKER_01]: and then incredibly he finds it. 36:04.135 --> 36:09.919 [SPEAKER_01]: The jaw bone is kind of stuck into the stump with the buck tooth embedded in the wood. 36:10.900 --> 36:12.741 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is the tooth of fey. 36:13.202 --> 36:16.784 [SPEAKER_01]: The tooth that fey had always been proud of until red said it was an ugly nuisance. 36:17.665 --> 36:26.092 [SPEAKER_01]: Also found this day are pieces of red dress with the same class broken class that Katy remembered red tearing up and from fey that last fateful night. 36:26.892 --> 36:28.894 [SPEAKER_01]: A pair of women's shoes are found, some hair, 36:32.089 --> 36:35.930 [SPEAKER_01]: Red looked at the jawbone and said, quote, that's fail, right? 36:36.470 --> 36:37.371 [SPEAKER_01]: See that buck tooth? 36:38.051 --> 36:39.631 [SPEAKER_01]: That shit used to hurt me when we kissed. 36:40.472 --> 36:48.815 [SPEAKER_01]: And quote, and I tell you this last part to make sure you understand that this man, who claimed to be crazy, maybe wise, but he was also mean. 36:49.615 --> 36:52.776 [SPEAKER_01]: And for that comment alone, my opinion deserves to die. 36:53.625 --> 37:03.973 [SPEAKER_01]: There was a trial where Red and his lawyers unsuccessfully tried to establish it in sanity defense, Red Hall was crazy, sure, but not in a way that would save him from the electric chair. 37:04.733 --> 37:06.294 [SPEAKER_01]: Red was crazy like your uncle. 37:07.095 --> 37:10.818 [SPEAKER_01]: When he was eventually sentenced to fry, Red took the news well enough. 37:11.498 --> 37:14.100 [SPEAKER_01]: He requested a last meal of strawberries and steak, 37:20.717 --> 37:27.420 [SPEAKER_01]: If they don't explode, oh, in strawberries or at a season, steak isn't available, it'll be pork chops and ice cream. 37:28.501 --> 37:29.241 [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, shit. 37:29.722 --> 37:31.242 [SPEAKER_01]: And I wish those were his last words. 37:32.123 --> 37:36.545 [SPEAKER_01]: Instead we have these, quote, I have no ill-feeling toward any man. 37:37.225 --> 37:42.408 [SPEAKER_01]: The man who sent me here to die performed their duty as they saw, and I can't be resentful towards them. 37:43.148 --> 37:45.289 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know grudge against anyone. 37:46.150 --> 37:46.570 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you all. 37:47.483 --> 37:49.925 [SPEAKER_01]: Faze's father spoke to Brad before he was executed. 37:50.425 --> 37:51.706 [SPEAKER_01]: He asked Red Why he did it. 37:52.587 --> 37:54.348 [SPEAKER_01]: Red claimed it was an accident. 37:54.908 --> 37:57.470 [SPEAKER_01]: The father had hoped to be able to forgive Red. 37:58.131 --> 38:00.132 [SPEAKER_01]: But couldn't, with this clear lie. 38:00.993 --> 38:04.676 [SPEAKER_01]: He told Red this, quote, May God have mercy on you. 38:05.716 --> 38:06.117 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't. 38:07.097 --> 38:09.099 [SPEAKER_01]: But I hold no will, will towards your folks. 38:09.819 --> 38:10.140 [SPEAKER_01]: James. 38:11.621 --> 38:12.021 [SPEAKER_01]: And quote. 38:12.978 --> 38:18.820 [SPEAKER_01]: James, no longer read, as his head had been shaved, a lock of it given to his mother. 38:19.720 --> 38:23.801 [SPEAKER_01]: James whispered in a shamed thank you to the man that was led to the chamber. 38:24.902 --> 38:36.245 [SPEAKER_01]: At 7.15 a.m. of January the 4th, 1946, in the bowels of Tucker County Prison Arkansas, the Arkansas Hitchite Killer, prepares to have his soul, blush from him. 38:37.225 --> 38:41.487 [SPEAKER_01]: I like to imagine that he stuck at his thumb one last time before riding the lightning 38:43.567 --> 38:58.155 [SPEAKER_01]: when it was done so as he, a big burly husk, bleached white, left behind while his soul swirled away, dragged down swiftly, through a red hall. 38:59.155 --> 39:00.016 [SPEAKER_01]: And that will do it. 39:00.736 --> 39:09.641 [SPEAKER_01]: For more dark topic and exclusives such as brutal, dark fiction and the loot have been joined dark topic plus on Patreon, Apple or Spotify, links in the show now. 39:10.541 --> 39:11.282 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening. 39:12.035 --> 39:16.726 [SPEAKER_01]: Until next time, keep those ice-coct, those doors locked, and stay paranoid.