Season 2 Episode 5 The Mystery of Washington’s Crossing

05/30/22 • 65 min

In the early 1970’s on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania there were several cars found at rest areas and the occupants just disappeared.
In this true crime podcast Hadden Clark first blamed a friend of his named Jim. Clark claimed his friend would hitchhike on I80 and kill some of the girls that picked him up. He ditched their cars at rest stops and would bury the bodies at Washington’s Crossing.
Using phone conversations and letters from Hadden Clark, Tony Ciaglia proves that there was no Jim and Clark is in fact the one who is committing these crimes.
Revenge killer Hadden Clark describes in detail how he killed a girl named Debbie and buried her along with 4 other bodies in a single grave near Bowman Tower.
This podcast builds suspense as we keep hearing bits and pieces about this underground den that could hold a trove of information about unsolved cold cases. The psychological game of beast and mouse continues as Hadden continues to drop clues about a mysterious root cellar.

In the early 1970’s on Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania there were several cars found at rest areas and the occupants just disappeared.
In this true crime podcast Hadden Clark first blamed a friend of his named Jim. Clark claimed his friend would hitchhike on I80 and kill some of the girls that picked him up. He ditched their cars at rest stops and would bury the bodies at Washington’s Crossing.
Using phone conversations and letters from Hadden Clark, Tony Ciaglia proves that there was no Jim and Clark is in fact the one who is committing these crimes.
Revenge killer Hadden Clark describes in detail how he killed a girl named Debbie and buried her along with 4 other bodies in a single grave near Bowman Tower.
This podcast builds suspense as we keep hearing bits and pieces about this underground den that could hold a trove of information about unsolved cold cases. The psychological game of beast and mouse continues as Hadden continues to drop clues about a mysterious root cellar.

The year was 1964 and at the age of 12 revenge killer Hadden Clark killed his first victim. He drowned a boy at the Woods School, a school for special needs children.
The school thought it was an accident but young serial killer Hadden said if they had done an autopsy they would have found chlorine in the boys lungs from the pool. Hadden had moved the body to a septic tank and made it look like an accident.
FBI profilers have said that Serial Killers love fire and this Murder Phone podcast episode shows that Clark fits this description.
In a letter to Tony Ciaglia, Hadden admits to burning down a historical landmark The Ocean View Hotel on Block Island. Hadden was only 14 years old on July 6th, 1966 when he decided to burn down the famous hotel.
Over the years of communication with Tony, Hadden has described his love of fires and talked of many instances where he set fires just so he could sit and watch the flames burn out of control.

In this thriller podcast Hadden Clark discusses with Tony Ciaglia the murders of girls from around the Meriden Ct. area.
It’s significant because the police took him out of prison to visit these areas and as Hadden points out “If I didn’t give the police good information they never would have taken me on these trips.” Clark says in conversations with Tony that he also identified pictures of certain girls that went missing from that area.
Clark starts off blaming an old friend named Bob Cardinal, claiming he murdered the girls and Hadden just got rid of the bodies for him. Hadden Clark finally admits that Cardinal never murdered anyone, it was all Hadden.
Hadden talks of bars in the floor of his grandfather’s garage, where he would chain the girls and torture them before he killed them. In morbid detail Clark tells Tony Ciaglia how he froze their bodies and used a chain saw to cut them up. He then dumped them in the ocean, and used them for chum.
When Hadden went there with the police the bars were gone so they thought he was a liar. Shockingly they found out from the new owner of the house that the bars had actually been there, and he had removed them.