The Kennedy Family Curse

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03/14/22 • 46 min

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From plane crashes to assassinations, overdoses to terrible illness, the Kennedy family has been struck by a bizarre amount of devastating tragedies over the years. After a car crash in 1969, Ted Kennedy, who had by this point lost 4 of his siblings under tragic circumstances, wondered aloud if “some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys”.
The sheer number of tragic illnesses and deaths involving the family has led many to deem them ‘cursed’ in some respect. The tragedies suffered by the Kennedys, combined with their glamour, ambition, and power, have captured the imagination of people across the world for decades.
SOURCES
https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/the-kennedy-family/rosemary-kennedy
The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years; book by Edward Klein
https://www.scribd.com/read/200210777/Curse-Of-The-Kennedys-And-Other-Powerful-Family-Tragedies
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-f-kennedy-assassinated
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SOURCES
https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/sarahs-story/
https://www.scribd.com/read/250305991/The-House-Built-By-Ghosts-The-Strange-Tale-of-the-Winchester-Mystery-House
https://facts.net/winchester-house-facts/
https://www.biography.com/personality/sarah-winchester
http://thetruthaboutsarahwinchester.com/
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In the early 1990’s, Fox Hollow Farm in Westfield, Indiana was bought by Herb Baumeister, a local business owner, and family man. Although never brought to trial, he was the prime suspect in the disappearance of a number of men from the Midwest over two decades.
Investigators recovered more than 5,000 human bone fragments on the property from as many as 17 different victims. Only five of those victims were able to be identified. It’s believed that most of them were murdered in and around the home’s indoor pool.
SOURCES
You Think You Know Me: The True Story of Herb Baumeister and the Horror at Fox Hollow Farm (Ryan Green's True Crime) – April 12, 2018
by Ryan Green
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/westfield/2019/05/17/fox-hollow-farm-murders-where-bodies-were-buried-now-sale/3667251002/
https://serialkillersinfo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/herbertbaumeister.pdf
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