Historical Murders: The Babies in the Chest
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English - February 16, 2020 00:00 - 11 minutes - 7.98 MB - ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSociety & Culture True Crime colorado denver true crime murder mile high crime homicide mile high city rocky mountain colorado springs Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On a warm April day in 1943, an apartment manager was searching an apartment building in Denver, CO for the source of a bad odor. He eventually found the source in the form of a painted wooden hope chest. What he found in the chest would launch an investigation into a tenant in the building named Bernice Williams. This story is short but tragic and, in a way, it highlights how few options women had at the time.