The Golden Age of Murder: A True Crime Podcast · Golden Age of Murder

The Bogey Network - John D Norman Ft Sean P McCarthy

·2 hr 7 min·5 clips
30,000 index cards of client names including high-level politicians were shipped to the State Department where they were destroyed.
This episode examines John D. Norman, kingpin of a nationwide child trafficking network from the 1950s-1980s. The hosts trace connections between Norman's Odyssey Foundation, serial killers Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy, and institutional cover-ups including the State Department's destruction of 30,000 index cards containing client names.

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A grim, sprawling look at predators, panic, and the fear they created.

The episode opens with John D. Norman and the wider panic around missing boys in the 1970s and 80s, with Dean Corll and John Wayne Gacy setting the tone for how dangerous that era felt.

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Press play if you want true crime about one predator inside a much larger web of abuse and panic.

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