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Episode Transcript
This is the WBZ Book Club. I'm Jordan Rich. Cold
case crimes continue to fascinate readers, and here's a local
story that's called Murder in Rockport, Massachusetts, Terror in a
Small Town by Robert Fitzgibbon and Wayne Soyney. The book
takes us back in time to the early nineteen thirties
when Arthur Oker, an immigrant from Finland, a well liked,
mild mannered taylor, was brutally killed during the daytime in
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his shop in the small coastal town of Rockport. Fear
was greatly elevated after another murder, that of a Swedish
immigrant and fellow church goer, Augusta Johnson, on Halloween night
in her home. The book offers an in depth look
at the investigation that followed, rewards that were posted, and
all kinds of people from psychics to local school kids
wearing badges provided by a breakfast cereal while they all
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joined the search for the killer, and for decades the
case remained unsolved. But in the book, our authors present
a possible suspect and try to peel back some of
the mystery that's nearly one hundred years old. Murder in Rockport,
Massachusetts terror in a small town. The book Club WZ
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