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Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family Massacre
Blood in the Rocket City: The 1998 Franklin Family Massacre On March 10, 1998, seventeen-year-old Jeffrey Brendan Franklin attacked his own family inside their home at 1305 Camelot Drive in Huntsville, Alabama, killing his parents Gerald and Cynthia Franklin and critically wounding three of his four younger siblings with a sledgehammer, hatchet, butcher knife, and a mechanic’s rat-tail file. The Huntsville Police investigation led by detective Mac McCutcheon, the journals and Satanic writings recovered from Jeffrey’s bedroom, the prescription psychiatric medications he had been taking, and Alabama’s pursuit of the juvenile death penalty turned one afternoon into one of the most studied family-violence cases of the late twentieth century. You always hear about cases like this happening in the bad part of town, and this one happened in the part of town where every dad worked for NASA. Camelot was a subdivision in the safest stretch of Rocket City, Alabama, and it sat at the center of the wildest convergence of late-nineties American chaos you can think of: pediatric Prozac, the Satanic Panic, a cop who was also a Baptist preacher, and a global human rights fight that helped reshape American law four years later. This is the story of an honors-track American family, the seventeen-year-old who came home from school first, and the quiet that settled over a brick house on Camelot Drive that nobody on the cul-de-sac has ever fully shaken. 🔔 Subscribe for True Crime Cases multiple times a week Never miss a story. Subscribe to 10 Minute Murder for bite-sized true crime episodes delivered fresh every week. Get a weekly email from me about the upcoming cases and more: 10minutemurder.com/newsletter 📱 Follow for Behind-the-Scenes Content Get exclusive case updates, research photos, and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes: Instagram: @10minutemurder on IGFacebook: 10 Minute Murder on FBTikTok: 10 Minute Murder on TikTok💬 Have a Case Suggestion? Know a fascinating case that deserves coverage? I love listener suggestions and feature the best ones in upcoming episodes. Email: joe@10minutemurder.com Website: 10minutemurder.com ⭐ Help Grow the True Crime Community Rate & Review: Leave a 5-star review to help other true crime fans discover the showShare: Send this episode to fellow true crime enthusiastsJoin the Discussion: Tag us in your episode reactions on social media🎧 Want Even More True Crime? Check out True Crime Blueprint, also created and hosted by Joe. Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/43zuDpH01HtdIrH0ShCAid?si=86b2281063334139 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-crime-blueprint/id1877878404 iHeartRadio: https://iheart.com/podcast/323307878 Amazon Music/Audible: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/b7d5eaae-9d27-40f9-8efb-6864c2af8055 Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/1002664071 Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/true-crime-blueprint/6785639 Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/true-crime-blueprint-6381660 Spreaker: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/true-crime-blueprint--6879387 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/1113943 Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/podcast/true-crime-blueprint/PC:1001113943 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/10-minute-murder-bingeable-true-crime-stories--4603604/support.
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