Valerie Bauerlein
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Valerie Bauerlein’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So he was the detective on homicide scenes and who was right, who was wrong.
Were you drunk when you crashed your car or not?
That was the power of that person to make...
I mean, to make murders go away, quite frankly.
And the family held that office from 1920 up until effectively the time of these homicides.
So they just had this immense amount of power to decide right and wrong.
And it doesn't matter if you're talking about the Ming dynasty, if you're talking about some family in the Old Testament, the royal family, the Ford family, dynasties inevitably fail.
And they fail on the fourth or the fifth generation because typically,
From inside, the moral rot, it sustains itself, but there's no ethical weight there anymore.
And outside forces, whether that's famine or other things.
And in this case, it was the moral rot from Alec Murdoch, the fourth generation, and may he rest in peace, Paul Murdoch, the fifth generation, as well as outside forces that
Someone finally taking a hard look at what Alec was doing, which was, as it turns out, stealing from his clients and applying a lot of pressure on him.
Each generation is fascinating in their own right and malevolent in their own right.
But what I found out about Randolph Murdoch Sr., who was very successful from the get-go and then in 1920 was elected solicitor, he was a great athlete, a great scholar, but he, like so many people in that part of the world, lost everything when the banks collapsed.
And I found lots of evidence that he started cutting corners ethically.
Every single crime that Ellick is convicted of
has an echo in every generation.
And for him, the most stunning thing I found out was that he had died in kind of this incredible wreck where his old black Ford had pulled up on a railroad track in the middle of the night, 2 o'clock in the morning.
The rumor was always that he was coming home from a poker game, was crossing the railroad track, got stuck, and was hit by a train.
That's true, but I found all these old documents where he'd signed IOUs.
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