Season 2 Episode 6 The Meriden Ct. Murders

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06/06/22 • 70 min

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.

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.

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 this weeks true crime podcast Tony Ciaglia discusses with Hadden Clark how his older brother Bradfield wound up in prison for murder.
In Los Gatos a small town south of San Francisco in June 1984, Bradfield Clark -- two years older than Hadden -- invited a co-worker Trish Mak to his apartment for dinner. Bradfield tortured and murdered the girl then dismembered her body with a kitchen knife and actually cooked some parts on his BBQ grill. He wrapped the rest of the pieces in garbage bags and stored the bags in his Datsun 200 SX,
Two days later he called the police and turned himself in. In June 1985 Bradfield pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder and was sentenced to 18 years to Life.
Clark was in the Navy at this time and was stationed on a ship in Alameda Ca. close to his brother. Hadden told Tony that he was there the night his brother killed the girl and claims he has never told anyone this. He said his brother was so drunk and drugged up that he doesn’t even remember Hadden being there.
Clark discusses in morbid detail on phone calls and in letters how his brother brutally tortured and murdered the girl.
If this is true and knowing what we know about Hadden he may have helped his brother or even did the killing himself. Hadden was interviewed by the police but as usual had an alibi.