American Dread: Five Little Birds

American Hauntings Podcast by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

Jul 29, 202625:01Society & Culture

On April 27, 1968, five children from the Cox family were murdered near their rural home outside Mattoon, Illinois. The killer was someone they knew and trusted: 18-year-old Thomas Charles Fuller II, who was dating their...

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