If you are looking for a new true crime miniseries that will keep you on the edge of your seat, you should check out the newest season of Wondery's hit podcast, Over My Dead Body Season three is set in the small town of Fox Lake, Illinois, and is the shocking true story of Officer Joe Gleniwitz. Joe is a hometown hero and a thirty year veteran of the local police department.
On September first, two thousand fifteen, just one month from retirement, he was found dead outside of an abandoned cement plant, shot in the chest twice at close range. While the town and Joe's family mourned his passing, hundreds of police officers launched a man hunt to find his killer. After weeks of searching, the lead investigator discovered chilling secrets about Joe, the local police department, and the village of Fox Lake, secrets that, once uncovered, would put the town in the
national spotlight and haunt them for years to come. Over My Dead Body's third season is a story about corruption, betrayal, and the secrets of a fallen hero. I'm about to play you a preview of Over My Dead Bodies new season. Fox Lake. While you're listening, be sure to follow over My Dead Body Season three Fox Lake on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening right now, or you can listen early and add free by subscribing to Wondery Plus in the Wondery app.
On any other Labor Day, the town of Fox Lake, Illinois would be filled with people out for a good time boating and drinking in the bars. But on Labor Day twenty fifteen, the streets were lined with thousands of mourners, all here to pay tribute to a fallen hero, a local police officer, the twenty fifth cop nitionwide to be shot dead in the line of duty.
That year.
It had been one of the hottest summers on record, and inside the crowded high school theater where the funeral was taking place, the temperature was almost unbearable. I'm the Patrol Division commander for the Fox Lake Police Department. At the front of the theater was the officer's casket, draped in an American flag. With great honor that I make this presentation. Sitting in the back was a gray haired man in his late fifties with a silver go tee and a thick pair of glasses.
When I got there, it kind of took me back and I was like, Wow, this is unbelievable.
Metal of honor. George Falinko was a police chief in a neighboring town. He'd been to officer funerals before, but nothing like this.
It was just incredible. How many officers were there, from how many departments, from all over the country.
George was dressed in his one good suit. He watched as the other Fox Lake officers took the stage to speak.
Joe's a friend of mine for thirty years, his saying embrace the suck. Well, we're doing it today. When we were growing up, we all knew Joe was a hero. But now the nation knows he's a hero.
We are Glen, what strong? I love you, brother. George sat in the cushion seat, sweating from too many bodies crowded into the theater. He gazed forward, trying to focus on the speakers. Joe was a father to those boys, but his mind was elsewhere because George had been tasked with leading the investigation into the officer's death.
I was just thinking, let's get back to the station.
All eyes in the room were focused on the stage, but for the last week they'd been on George. It was up to him to bring Joe's killers to justice.
I was focused on where we were going, what we had, when our next steps are going to be constantly thinking. When you're so absorbed in these cases, especially something like this, your mind just just runs about a thousand miles an hour.
George thought about all the people in the room who loved Lieutenant Joe Glenowitz. He couldn't let them down. I'm here to tell you broke the mold with Joe. George and the other cops still had a lot to uncover about what had happened to their fallen brother. But there was one big thing George didn't know that day. The killer was right there in the room. From wondering the makers of Joe Exotic and the Shrink next Door comes a story about how the hunt for a killer.
He said, when you find these motherfuckers, take your safeties off shoot.
The kill revealed secrets hidden just below the surface. I was told in a very strong voice, it's none in your business.
You don't need to know.
That, doctor secrets that everyone in fox Lake would rather forget.
Foxley kid get reputation a little bit on the Dark Side. We saw that the packet of the powder, which later turned out to be you know, cocaine.
I wouldn't shock me if you try to plant something on her, but to kill her, no.
I got the hell out of that town because small towns are just no good for anybody. Follow over My dead Body Season three, Fox Lake on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, or you can listen early and add free by subscribing to Wondering Plus and The Underia.
I don't think we ever knew what was behind that closed door with g I Joe Glenowitz