The Spectator: Who Killed Molly Zelko
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The Spectator: Who Killed Molly Zelko
Podcast by Greg Peerbolte
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8 episodes
Episode 7 - "A Business of Favors"
As the 1978 Joliet Herald News series reignited the Molly Zelko story, a newspaper landed on top of a rural Coal City, Illinois bar run by Dennis Enri...
Episode 6 - "Come Pleasing to the Eye."
The year is 1978, over two decades since Molly's disappearance. A fateful move brings Lynne Lichtenauer and John Whiteside together, and Molly's story...
Episode 5 - "Aunt Molly"
Episode 5: “Aunt Molly.” Though Molly has since become a larger than life folk hero in Joliet, she was a daughter, sister and an aunt to Jim Zelko and...
Episode 4 - "Prison-wise, Street-wise, and Other-wise."
A bizarre break in the Molly Zelko occurs when it is revealed that Robert F. Kennedy traveled to Joliet to search for her after a confession was made...
Episode 3 - "We Knew Them Well"
Francis “The Thin Man” Curry was the syndicate’s manager of gambling operations in Joliet and Will County. His path to leadership was a bloody one, an...
Episode 2 - "Speculation"
Episode 2: “Speculation” Perhaps no one held more influence over Molly Zelko than the Spectator’s owner and her longtime mentor Bill McCabe. Almost a...
Episode 1 - "Hell A' Poppin"
On the morning of September 26, 1957, Joliet Newspaper Editor Molly Zelko disappears. All that remains are two black, high-heeled shoes tossed careles...