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A Voice Broadcasts Live as She Dies: The WMLF Murders

A Voice Broadcasts Live as She Dies: The WMLF Murders

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A Voice Broadcasts Live as She Dies: The WMLF Murders

A radio transmitter in a converted grain tower outside Mill Fork went live at 10:40 PM on March 8, 1937, broadcasting sixty thousand listeners the sound of a woman seated at the console as she was strangled with copper wire; who turned on the transmitter and why was a jar of strawberry preserves placed beside her? The unexplained details-reels still turning, a half-hitch knot tied with 14-gauge wire from the station spool, and a padlock shown later to be properly seated-leave one central question: who with access and skill staged this scene for thousands to hear?

In this episode, we present the sequence of events, the key people at WMLF, and the physical evidence investigators recorded at the transmitter building, ending on the unresolved question that drew the county to the grain tower that spring night.

Person: Brenda York
Date: March 8, 1937
Location: WMLF transmitter building, converted grain tower outside Mill Fork, Indiana
Case: WMLF murders
Investigator: Marvin Tillman

- 10:40 PM: transmitter went live seventeen minutes after the 10:23 PM sign-off tone.
- 60,000: estimated listening area households across two counties who could have heard the broadcast.
- 55: Brenda York's age at the time of death.
- 14-gauge: copper wire used to strangle York, cut from a spool inside the transmitter cabinet.
- 12 jars: Brenda sold preserves twelve jars at a time for 15 cents each at Farmer's Exchange; the last batch sold out Feb 6, 1937.

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