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The shoemaker who drowned his son in the basement

The shoemaker who drowned his son in the basement

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 The shoemaker who drowned his son in the basement: The murder of Joy Kinger

An adoptive father enters a flooded basement with his 13-year-old son. Hours later, he calls the police sobbing about the disappearance of his other son. What no one knew: he had already drowned him, chained in that same room. How did a well-known shoemaker from Pennsylvania hide a double life of incest, abuse, and murder for decades?

In this episode, we explore the criminal duo of father and son, the life insurance policy taken out weeks before the crime, and the psychiatric alerts ignored by a court that released him in 1972—a decision that enabled a cascade of murders. Two of his victims never had an official conviction. Why did the system declare him fit when all the specialists warned otherwise?

Victim: Joy Kinger
Date: July 28, 1974
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Status: Case closed - Joseph Kinger sentenced to 30 years in Pennsylvania, life imprisonment in New Jersey

- The life insurance policy was taken out weeks before the drowning; the insurer rejected it and alerted investigators.
- Joseph actively participated in the search for his missing son, showing theatrical distress while knowing exactly where the body was.
- The court declared Joseph fit in 1972 despite multiple psychiatric evaluations warning about his progressive mental state.
- The shirt with the embroidered name was discarded in bushes after another crime; it would directly link Joseph to the Roming crime scene in 1975.

Joy Kinger, Philadelphia 1974, murder, drowning, incest, psychotic, criminal duo, forensic, criminal minds, investigation, homicide, judicial corruption, Spanish true crime

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