Chillingworth

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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 c…

Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productions


    • Sep 18, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 25m AVG DURATION
    • 15 EPISODES


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    Episode 12 (Part2): Electro-Shock Therapy

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2019 43:26


    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.

    Episode 12 (Part 1): The Creech Cell

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2019 25:41


    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.

    Special Chillingworth/Hurricane Dorian Advisory

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2019 1:00


    Episode 11: Room 127

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2019 24:26


    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. 

    Episode 10: Reel to Reel

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2019 19:42


    Floyd returns to Florida from Brazil, compelled to settle accounts with Joe. Joe takes steps to ensure his safety.  

    Episode 9: Country of the Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 5, 2019 32:17


    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.    

    Episode 8: Tommy Gun

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 29, 2019 32:32


    After Detective Henry Lovern takes over the Chillingworth case, he and his colleagues bring Space Age technology into the investigation.  

    Episode 7: Lying, Thieving, Murderous People

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2019 25:07


    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.

    Episode 6: Twenty Mile Bend

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 14, 2019 42:42


    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. 

    Episode 5: The Chi-Chi Club

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2019 34:48


    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.   

    Episode 4: The $64,000 Question

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2019 28:36


    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. 

    Episode 3: Government by Assassination

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2019 27:55


    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 since he left the Army. 

    Episode 2: Manalapan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2019 21:47


    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.  

    Episode 1: Pleasant City

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2019 22:56


    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. 

    Chillingworth Intro

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2019 2:04


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