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Chapter 1: What shocking crime occurred in Harrington, Delaware?
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Chapter 2: How did the community react to the brutal murders?
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Chapter 3: What evidence did detectives find at the crime scene?
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Chapter 4: Who were the suspects involved in the Smith murders?
That said... I think it's time, everybody, to sit back. What do you say? Clear the lungs here. Get ready for everything. Arms to the sky. Let's all shout. Shut up and give. Let's do this, everybody. All right. Let's go on a trip, shall we? Let's do it. We're going to Delaware. It's lovely. Every time, there's no real reaction to Delaware. Delaware. Oh, that's by Maryland, isn't it?
That's all you said.
I just consider it, it's probably just a lot of houses with blue and gold all over them.
A lot of blue, maybe some nautical themes, blue and white possibly.
A lot of boat wheels in these homes.
Oh, tons of them. This is in central Delaware. The whole thing's kind of one big panhandle. It's just like a strip that they cut out of another. Very long strip of land. That's it. It's 30 minutes to Dover, Delaware, about an hour and 40 minutes to Baltimore. You want to go that way. And about an hour and 10 minutes to Newcastle, Delaware, which was our last Delaware episode. This is episode 710.
That was episode 528.
Goddamn.
Been a minute since we've done some Delaware. So definitely, that's been a while. This is in Kent County. That episode was called Murder Math, by the way. That was a fun one. Area code here, 302. Population, 3,730. So pretty small place. And there's a lot of rural areas around here, too. There's some farmland, and it's very rural.
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Chapter 5: What were the confessions made by the accused?
I'd never heard of him before.
13 original colonies?
benjamin clark i feel like he was one of the authors of no did he not sign that i don't think so because in 1780 he was running a tavern in the middle of here so yeah maybe retired early yeah i can't imagine he fell that far in four years from hey ben will you sign this we need we need your signature on this day fuck off and go tell drunks to get out of your fucking place it's a little different i hope that didn't happen
That feels like an important name, though, unless he really just gave up on everything. He was like, fuck it, I'm selling boots.
Might have had a big scandal. Just had to open a bar. It's a huge scandal. Who knows? A scandal back then would have to be crazy because everybody was fucking everybody. The scandal would be you didn't go to church on Sunday or something. Scandal would be he didn't fuck those people. Yeah, but he could have had like 45 illegitimate children, half of them with fucking slaves.
It wouldn't have mattered. They would have been, well, I mean, that's fine, but he should have went to church Sunday. We're going to hold him responsible for that. So 1862 is when they named it Harrington, who was the chancellor of the Delaware Railroad.
Yeah, I don't think that matters.
Wow. No. Reviews of this town here. Five stars. Harrington is a nice small city in Delaware, and it is somewhere nice to move if you prefer small towns and not big cities. We have a couple of places that are walking distance, and overall is a nice town to live in. A couple of places that are walking distance. Yeah. Sounds like that person just had a stroke by the way they're writing.
There's only 4,000 people, and you got nothing walkable?
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Chapter 6: How did the trial unfold for the murder suspects?
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So we all watch pigs run for a cookie?
Run for a cookie. Pig races. And you can bet on them here because it's at the casino, I'm sure. And they have celebrity pig puns. That's what the draw is, is they name the pigs. There is Kevin Bacon, obviously. That's a given. Snoop Hoggy Hog. Britney Spare Ribs.
I like that.
Yeah. That's funny. Ari Hamagrande. That's my favorite. I knew there was going to be a ham reference. That's a good one there. So, yeah, there's also racing corgis. So tiny dogs racing, which is kind of hilarious.
The dog that looks most like a pig.
That's right, yeah. With their faces going.
Very small and long and fat.
And also performing there will be Jess Kelly Adams following the Hollywood pig races. That's who you want to follow. And also... Adam Calvert beats me. No idea.
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Chapter 7: What were the outcomes of the murder trials?
They came up during the depression.
Yeah.
They keep, they can get food. Now they stockpile it for later. That's how it is.
What kind of frozen food do they like freeze? Everything.
Frozen shit, boxes of it, bags of it, frozen dinners, frozen things, frozen. They're in the front. And that's, that must be a thing. Cause my, one of my grandmothers, the racist man was very much like that.
She had a freezer in the basement that was just packed with shit and I'm talking shit that when when she like when my grandfather died I remember my father went down he cleaned out the freezer and there was there was steaks in there that were twisted and white and the sell by date was like 14 years ago and. That's how much they just store shit. She'd have ate it, too. That's the sad part.
She'd have tried to serve it to somebody.
Well, you can freeze things. For a bit. It doesn't stop the breakdown, but it slows it tremendously. And it starts a different kind. So that's why they do that. Yeah, and a lot of the frozen foods that are in your frozen food section is full of fucking preservatives also. Oh, that's full of it.
It's a frozen preservative. Well, it's meant to be frozen and stay frozen for a while. So they would keep that. They have adult children, including a son named Arthur, who's about 35 years old and lives right across the street. They have a daughter who lives in the area. They have a lot of family right around them on the streets.
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Chapter 8: What impact did the murders have on local laws and community safety?
Real 70s style. Not the hand variety. No, there's only about a 10 year period of time in the world where you could have been jiving. And that's from about 71 to 81. Other side of that, there's no jiving going on. You could hand jive in the 50s. You could do that, but you can't be just partying and jiving. Just generally jiving? No, you got to get a job.
A general jive was a very small window to have a general jive here. And he said, I could drink a fifth at a time as well. Partying and driving, drinking a fifth, jiving. His mother lived elsewhere, but basically he said he saw his mom every day after she'd get off work when he was young. But he lived with his grandmother since the age of five.
He started drinking pretty much around then, like elementary school. He's an elementary school drinker. He started at that age. His mother said he was a good student until the 11th grade when he quit school and just started drinking full time. He was a good student and then was like, nah, I'm done. He just wanted to drink all the time. Wow.
And everybody says his personality would change, switch on a dime when he was drunk, which some people, that's what they do. He got married briefly. That didn't work out, mainly because he was drunk. 1976, he has a daughter as well. That's in the middle of jiving. I mean, partying, that's what happens when you're partying and jiving. You knock somebody up. That's part of the jiving.
Yeah.
I jived her into some unprotected, and this is what happened. So 1975, he's got some problems. He couldn't hold steady work. A lot of it was his drinking. And in 1975, he picks up two felony convictions for forgery. Shit. Because he's just trying to, like some check thing or something, trying to get a few bucks, and he's doing odd jobs. Because he's got a baby.
Yeah, he's doing odd jobs and part-time work. Now, he's got a friend of his who he hangs out with here named Andre Stanley Deputy, like a deputy officer. Wow. Now, Deputy was not from this town. No? Deputy's from Wilmington. He's about six years older than William and also pretty big, too. Oh? And he's got a fucking hell of a story here. Wow.
He's got, by 79, he's already had a bunch of convictions, one for manslaughter. What? One for sexual assault and one for the manufacturing of Molotov cocktails. Wow. He's a bad man. He's serious. He's not doing a little forgery. He's raping and killing and blowing shit up. There's bodies in his wake and things are getting set on fire. It's fucking crazy. Now, he was born in Wilmington.
He's the son of a preacher and one of 11 children.
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