The Stamford Bra Murders
Morbid

The Stamford Bra Murders

B2Upper-intermediateAugust 31, 20261h 2m

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Stamford, Connecticut was terrorized by a killer who was strangling women and leaving their bodies by the side of the parkway. After four years and five confirmed victims, police arrested a local self-proclaimed preacher named Benjamin Miller, bringing the murders to an end and closing the case on what the press had dubbed the Bra Murders—or so they thought. From the moment Miller was arrested, there were some in the community who questioned whether the police had arrested the right man or if they’d simply chosen Miller as a sca...

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Hey weirdos, I'm Elena. You are? Yeah, I'm Ash. What? This is morbid There you go I was gonna say it. I don't know. I was gonna hang us all out here. That's okay

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What if we just did an episode once where we just never said and this is morbid and we just like kept talking No one would know where they were and then we were like, oh and it's more by the way like at the end We said it. I think everyone would be like I know Yeah, probably

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Yeah, yeah, probably I'm like it's like a Sunday morning right now. The rain is not falling Mm-hmm, but I feel so tie-tie. I am also tired. Yeah, so you didn't sleep last night. I slept last night I did not. I'm ready for it to be.

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