This week Beth and Wendy discuss the Duck Island murders, which took place in the 30’s and 40’s in New Jersey. AKAs were The Duck Island Killer and The Spooner Slayer. A man named Clarence Hill was convicted of the murders, but did he do it?
This episode was researched & scripted by Wendy & Beth Williams and edited by Minnie Williams.
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Footnotes:
Articles/Websites
Wikipedia. (07/23/2023). Duck Island, New Jersey. Retrieved 07/06/2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Island,_New_Jersey
Blackwell, Jon. (n.d.). 1939: A shotgun killer stalks lover’s lane. The Trentonian. Retrieved 07/07/2024 from http://capitalcentury.com/1939.html
Levins, Peter. (07/15/1945). Lovers Murdered On Duck Island. The Knoxville Journal. Retrieved 07/07/2024 from https://www.newspapers.com/image/587608190/
Wikipedia. (05/18/2024). The Trenton Six. Retrieved 07/15/2024 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenton_Six
Reynolds, Ruth. (09/27/1964). A Place to Die Together. Daily News. Retrieved 07/16/2024 from https://www.newspapers.com/image/460519272/
History
National Geographic. (n.d.). George Washington Crosses the Delaware. Retrieved 07/21/2024 from https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/george-washington-crosses-delaware/
Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (07/15/2024). Trenton. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 07/21/2024 from https://www.britannica.com/place/Trenton-New-Jersey
Greater Trenton. (09/22/2023). Historic Happenings: A Tribute to Trenton’s First People. Retrieved 07/21/2024 from https://www.greatertrenton.org/2023/09/22/historic-happenings-a-tribute-to-trentons-first-people/
Leynes, Jennifer B. (09/2011). Three Centuries of African American History in Trenton: A Preliminary Inventory of Historic Sites. Richard Grubb & Associates, Inc. Retrieved 07/21/2024 from https://www.trentonhistory.org/THS–Trenton_AA_report-2.pdf
Books
Josephson, Lee. (2020). Frame-up to Freedom- the story of the Duck Island murder case. Pennsauken, NJ: BookBaby.
Camisa, Harry; Franklin, Jim. (2003). In Inside Out: Fifty Years Behind the Walls of New Jersey’s Trenton State Prison (p. 8-14). Windsor, NJ: Windsor Press and Publishing LLC.
How Not to Get Murdered
https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline-true-crime-weekly/former-secret-service-agent-shares-rideshare-safety-tips-rcna162495
Music
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“Severe Tire Damage” & “Furious Freak” by Kevin MacLeod
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