Episode 317 - Automatic Trio: The Car Barn Murders

Sixteen years before Al Capone came to Chicago and long before anyone could blame violence on video games, three boys just out of their teens became robbers and killers in Chicago with brazen acts of thievery and the taking of human lives. Today we’re discussing the Automatic Trio and the Car Barn Murders.

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