The Devil Tree - Crime Candy

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Found in Port St. Lucie, the Devil Tree is a big oak in a county park on canal C-24. A mighty oak, an ordinary tree, nothing to write home about…except the fact that thing might as well growl and snatch up little old ladies and unsuspecting kids and gobble them up like a throwback from a Grimm Fairy tale. The Devil Tree has an evil, macabre, and incredibly blood-soaked reputation; one that’s entwined with Florida history and its amazing capacity to attract the worse of the worse that humanity has to offer. Sources Gerard John Schaefer - Wikipedia The Devil Tree – Florida’s First Serial Killer & The Hauntings He Left - Miami Haunts CRIME HUNTER: How 'damn weird' Florida cop became a serial killer | Toronto Sun UNTANGLING TORTURED WEB OF A KILLER - Sun Sentinel (sun-sentinel.com) Gerard Schaefer Jr.’s horrifying 'Killer Fiction' stories could have been filed on memoir shelf - New York Daily News (nydailynews.com) Gerard Schaefer: Serial Killer Cop | by DeLani R. Bartlette | Lessons from History | Medium Gerard Schaefer | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers The Sexual Sadist | Officer --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

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Found in Port St. Lucie, the Devil Tree is a big oak in a county park on canal C-24. A mighty oak, an ordinary tree, nothing to write home about…except the fact that thing might as well growl and snatch up little old ladies and unsuspecting kids and...

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