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The Manhunt for America's First Coast-to-Coast Racist Sniper
Season 1
Episode 259
Published 1 month, 4 weeks ago
Description
A cross-country manhunt narrative tracing Joseph Paul Franklin's transformation from an abused, half-blind Alabama boy into a self-styled racist assassin who murdered strangers across eleven states. It follows the painstaking detective work, tire tread analysis, handwriting comparisons, jailhouse confessions, that finally connected disparate killings to one elusive sniper. Ultimately the piece reflects on radicalization, the birth of federal hate crime prosecution, and how ordinary citizens' vigilance unraveled a case investigators once thought unsolvable.
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