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Chillingworth
by Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions
“Chillingworth” recounts the lurid saga of the men behind the most notorious crime in Florida’s history: the grisly 1955 murder of a brilliant judge revered as an icon of integrity. Each of the three killers was horrifying enough on his own, but once they crossed racial lines to form an integrated criminal alliance, the state would never be the same. Their viciousness shook the faith Floridians had in their criminal justice system, the only institution they could trust to keep them safe. The ten-episode podcast uncovers mesmerizing surveillance audio tapes that broke the case open, unheard in over half a century. “Chillingworth” is the first story in the captivating series, "Worst of Men".
Episodes
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Episode 12 (Part2): Electro-Shock Therapy
Detective Henry Lovern forces Floyd, Joe, and Bobby to rendezvous in a sleepy little town north of Palm Beach. All three have murder on their minds.
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Episode 12 (Part 1): The Creech Cell
Floyd has deep regrets about leaving Rio de Janeiro. Joe slips off to Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Bobby reads all about the Chillingworth murders in the paper.
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Episode 11: Room 127
Floyd recounts his life story to two close friends, with all of the sordid details. Detective Henry Lovern takes on the greatest challenge of his career.
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Episode 10: Reel to Reel
Floyd returns to Florida from Brazil, compelled to settle accounts with Joe. Joe takes steps to ensure his safety.
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Episode 9: Country of the Future
Joe and Floyd develop their most profitable enterprise yet, capitalizing on greedy investors of all ages. But just as their company has become a well-oiled machine, his past exploits force Floyd into exile.
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Episode 8: Tommy Gun
After Detective Henry Lovern takes over the Chillingworth case, he and his colleagues bring Space Age technology into the investigation.
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Episode 7: Lying, Thieving, Murderous People
Sheriff John Kirk reaches out to the Florida Sheriff’s Bureau for help when the body of a young man from Jacksonville surfaces in a canal. The Sheriff’s Bureau assigns the case to a progressive, relentless young detective, Henry Lovern.
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Episode 6: Twenty Mile Bend
When the feds arrest Bobby in a moonshine sting operation, Floyd offers to take extreme steps to improve his friend’s chances for acquittal in his upcoming trial.
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Episode 5: The Chi-Chi Club
Shortly after they enter the bookmaking business, Joe and Floyd incur a huge debt to an unforgiving customer connected to the Tampa mob. Joe concocts a risky plan to generate the cash they need to make their customer whole.
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Episode 4: The $64,000 Question
Joe and Floyd join forces with Bobby Lincoln, a sharp, ambitious racketeer who runs a diversified group of illicit enterprises in the black community. The unlikely brethren cross racial lines and develop a scheme to capitalize on Joe’s influence as a judge.
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Episode 3: Government by Assassination
Joe Peel, a charismatic attorney and city magistrate, intends to become Governor of Florida, regardless of who or what stands in his way. As he sets out on his journey towards the governor’s mansion, Joe enlists the aid of Floyd Holzapfel, a war hero from Oklahoma who has dabbled in criminality...
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Episode 2: Manalapan
The overwhelmed, corrupt Palm Beach County Sheriff takes control of the crime scene investigation. Law enforcement agents from all over Florida join the search for the people responsible for Florida’s Crime of the Century.
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Episode 1: Pleasant City
In the summer of 1955, Judge Curtis Chillingworth and his wife vanish from their beach house south of Palm Beach, Florida. Chillingworth had made hundreds of unsavory people very unhappy with his decisions in the courtroom during his thirty years on the bench.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
“Chillingworth” recounts the lurid saga of the men behind the most notorious crime in Florida’s history: the grisly 1955 murder of a brilliant judge revered as an icon of integrity. Each of the three killers was horrifying enough on his own, but once they crossed racial lines to form an integrated criminal alliance, the state would never be the same. Their viciousness shook the faith Floridians had in their criminal justice system, the only institution they could trust to keep them safe. The ten-episode podcast uncovers mesmerizing surveillance audio tapes that broke the case open, unheard in over half a century. “Chillingworth” is the first story in the captivating series, "Worst of Men".
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Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions
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“Chillingworth” recounts the lurid saga of the men behind the most notorious crime in Florida’s history: the grisly 1955 murder of a brilliant judge revered as an icon of integrity. Each of the three killers was horrifying enough on his own, but once they crossed racial lines to form an integrated...
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