The Parrot Wants to Know What Happened to Gus - PART ONE

In late January 1887 a trunk is shipped from New York City to Balimore. It sits unclaimed at the shipping company for two days until the stink emanating from it is so bad that the police are called. When the trunk is opened, the blood-soaked insides contain the butchered, (not a figure of speech - literally butchered like a calf) mutilated and decapitated body of a mysterious male victim. Also in the trunk is compelling and contradictory evidence supporting more than one possible identity for the murder victim. Is he a philandering Dutchman? A disloyal Irish revolutionary? Or, a mafia counterfeiter? No one knows for sure. And then, the police receive a report from a cranky old woman complaining that her upstairs neighbor has a parrot that won't stop shreiking, "Where's Gus?" all day and all night... Where is Gus? What happened to him? Was he killed? If so, who did it, and why? Find out on this episode of Kinda Murdery!CALL 888-MURDERY that's 888-687-3379 to share YOUR Kinda Murdery story and inspire an episode of the show!Sources: http://www.bizarrejournal.com/2018/01/haunted-by-his-victim-bizarre-tale-of.html https://ia801406.us.archive.org/29/items/true-detective-april-1929/TrueDetectiveApril1929.pdfBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/kinda-murdery-true-crime-murder-stories--5496890/support.Zevon Odelberg is a true crime podcast host and disability advocate.  Zevon has cerebral palsy and he wants Kinda Murdery to be welcoming community for people with disabilities and for people living with challenges of any kind.  Life can be hard, but being together makes it better.