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Chillingworth

Nighthouse & Texas Crew Productionsworstofmen.com
“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. The ten-episode podcast uncovers mesmerizing surveillance audio tapes that broke the case open, unheard in over half a century. “Chillingworth” is the first story in the captivating series, "Worst of Men".
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Episodes

Episode 12 (Part2): Electro-Shock Therapy

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.

Sep 18, 201943 minEp. 15

Episode 12 (Part 1): The Creech Cell

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.

Sep 10, 201926 minEp. 14

Episode 11: Room 127

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.

Aug 20, 201924 minEp. 12

Episode 10: Reel to Reel

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

Aug 12, 201920 minEp. 11

Episode 9: Country of the Future

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.

Aug 05, 201932 minEp. 10

Episode 8: Tommy Gun

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

Jul 29, 201933 minEp. 9

Episode 7: Lying, Thieving, Murderous People

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.

Jul 21, 201925 minEp. 8

Episode 6: Twenty Mile Bend

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.

Jul 14, 201943 minEp. 7

Episode 5: The Chi-Chi Club

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.

Jul 07, 201935 minEp. 6

Episode 4: The $64,000 Question

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.

Jun 30, 201929 minEp. 5

Episode 3: Government by Assassination

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.

Jun 23, 201928 minEp. 4

Episode 2: Manalapan

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.

Jun 16, 201922 minEp. 3

Episode 1: Pleasant City

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.

Jun 15, 201923 minEp. 2
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