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Family Betrayal: The Susie Newsom Lynch Story (Pt 1)
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A Note this episode contains mature content and quite graphic descriptions of violence that may be disturbing for some listeners. I mean it y' all. This episode especially. Please take care and listening. Dolores lynch lived in a two story pink brick 14 bedroom and 4 1/2 bath country house outside of Louisville, Kentucky. It was on 4 1/2 acres. She had lived there with her husband until his death eight months ago. Now she lived there by herself except for when her daughter Janie visited every weekend up from University. Janie was 39, but she and her mother were close. Too close some of her friends thought, and Janie's boyfriend's definitely thought so. None of them were good enough for Janie, just like none of Dolores son's girlfriends were good enough for Tom. Dolores's friends knew that the Lynches could afford help around the house. But Dolores mowed her own four acre lawn. And when her longtime housekeeper and friend went up on her rates, Dolores let her go. She was the type of person to clean behind the housekeeper anyway. Even though she was rich, Dolores didn't act like it. She'd grown up in the Great Depression and it showed through her frugality. She mashed old bars of soap together and she bought all her clothes secondhand. But she wasn't humble. Dolores was vocally conservative and very judgmental. People liked her adult children, Sweet Janie and all American Tom. And Dolores thought no one was good enough for either of them. Although she mothered some kids in her neighborhood, she made enemies of others. She threatened to shoot a neighbor's dog if it pooped on her lawn again. When it did, she shot the dog. Not fatally, but still she shot her neighbor's dog. She also popped out of her front hedges when a horseback rider happened to pass in front, taking photos as if he was trespassing, which he wasn't. Dolores was also quite paranoid. Her security alarms were always set and when she left the house, she took the phone off the hook so no one could call to see if she was home. In short, Delores was the type to ask to see the manager. And she was very resentful of her husband when he was alive. It's probably part of what drove him to the alcoholism that eventually ended his life. Dolores very seldom missed church. On this day, July 22, 1984, she left the pew with her friend Marjorie Chit, chatted with her frenemies on the way to the car, and then said she had to leave because Janie would be coming home with their Sunday donuts soon. Her friend Susan called that evening and the next morning. She even called Tuesday morning without reaching her. Susan didn't need anything in particular, but she thought it odd when the phone rang and rang. After work, Susan decided she would just drop by and make sure Dolores was all right. She brought her dog just to visit, but when Susan pulled into the long driveway, she saw all three family cars in the driveway. And then when she topped the hill, she saw Dolores's body lying at the garage door. Later, one of Janie's ex boyfriends would tell police Dolores was a pain in the ass. She was the kind of person you'd invite to leave, then take an aspirin and sit down to rest. For an hour or two. But, you know, shooting her in the head is a bit extreme. Welcome to the Greatest True crime Stories Ever Told. I'm Mary Kay McBrayer. Today's episode we're calling family the Susie Newsome Lynch Story. It's the story of Susie Newsome lynch, and it has everything you'd expect from a Southern Gothic. Aristocratic families, Old south, racism, paranoia, a feud, and of course, murder. I'll tell you all about it after this quick break. Normally, I try to empathize with pretty much all our characters, especially the protagonists. But listeners, I need y' all to know I can't stand any of these people. I'm clearly from the South. And there is nothing more annoying about the south than old money. Because the thing is, their money really ain't that old. Because the south ain't really that old. There's a kind of new money that's only a couple generations old, too. Like the kind that makes people not know how to act with actual old money. There's the dignity of the noblesse oblige. It's the reason why Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey isn't an asshole to his servants. He's got nothing to prove he's rich, and his family probably has been rich since before Hadrian's Wall. But new money, this type, it's the most annoying. People wave it around like it's an indication of their goodness, but without doing anything good with it. Let me give you an example. In my hometown, there was a private school. Generally, when you think about private schools, you'd think that the education would be better. The teachers would have masters and doctorates, and the curriculum would be so tight that everyone graduates and everyone gets into top tier colleges. But not this school. This school was actually inside a mega church. There were no honors or AP offerings, and grades were inflated. Actually, there were no entrance exams or qualifications. You literally just bought your way in into a lesser education. But among elitists, I cannot abide this. And I really couldn't abide the attitude that those kids thought they were better than we lowly public school kids who graduated high school with a year of college credits just because their parents had money and they thought it was important to show that they had money in that weird flex which made the kids mostly insufferable. I mean, like, you didn't earn that money. Your daddy did. Put him on the phone. Also, no one cares about your money. At least I don't. Maybe other people with money care about whether you have money, but the rest of us are busy. Granted, not all the kids were evil or rotten, of course, and a few of them went there instead of going to the reform school they got expelled to, which was an interesting dynamic. But that was the general attitude. And anyone who came out of there without their nose in the air was kind of an anomaly. So that's the class of people we're dealing with in this story. And again, to be fair, being well off does not necessarily make someone evil or bad or wrong. It's the holier endow attitude because of the money, not because of any sincere altruism that makes these folks so gross to me. I don't like any of them. Not the victims, not the predators. But I'm still going to try to be fair because they do deserve that. I mentioned in the cold open that Dolores was resentful of her husband Chuck, and that was a gross understatement. She hated him. Chuck had been a big deal at George, and because he loved his work so much and it was a good job, he had to relocate several times across the States. They were originally from Pennsylvania, but they lived all over, from New York to New Jersey, Washington D.C. to Maryland, Chicago to Louisville. That's when he retired and Dolores swore she would never move again. She took every chance she could to belittle her husband in front of her friends, even cooking for him. Horrible combinations like green beans and scrambled eggs. She often said, I wish he'd die. When her friend said, surely you don't mean that, Dolores doubled down. Her maid Helen said he never walked out the door, that she didn't wish him dead. None of their friends understood why they never divorced. One friend said, he seemed like a moral guy. I think he considered this was his payback for the suffering he inflicted on Dolores. It seems like Chuck felt he was atoning for making her move so many times, a sort of she was miserable before, so I'll be miserable now mentality. He started drinking to cope and then she called him a worthless drunk. Chuck said, she's a good woman. Personally, I don't see it. She may have been a moral person, but even the people who knew her best said she was irritated by everything. But by the time Chuck died, Dolores begrudgingly called the police when she couldn't find his pulse as he lay on the floor in front of the tv. She was an empty nester. That is, until Janie moved back east. Janie had already earned two degrees and she'd been studying dental work in Santa Monica, California for a while before deciding to return to Kentucky. Janie was sweet and really pretty. And she had no problems finding boyfriends. But her boyfriends did have trouble appeasing her mother, and Dolores was overbearing. Janie took it all in stride, but I have to think it affected her somehow, since even though she'd been engaged several times, she always begged off when it came down to the real commitment. Such was the case with her boyfriend Phil. They were very much in love at the University of Louisville School of Dentistry. Despite that, she was 14 years older than he. Phil actually had thought she was joking when she told him her age, but she wasn't. After Phil had asked her to meet his parents, Janie got spooked. At least I think she did. That's why she didn't go on the trip to meet them. Instead, Dolores's son Tom, Janie's brother, was supposed to visit the family in Kentucky in just a few days. And Janie would be home for that. Tom lynch had moved to Albuquerque with his first wife in 1970. She was two years older than he was when he proposed after he graduated. Tom was 22 when they made the move, and he started his dental practice in New Mexico. Since then, his practice had been steadily growing, and he didn't mind that in New Mexico, no one cared about his pedigree. Tom was actually in New Mexico, just leaving work when he learned the news. Officer Steve Nobles was the one who responded to Susan's police call. He didn't notice anything amiss at the lynch house until he got out of the car. That's when the smell hit him, and he saw the body laid out by the garage. Steve realized he was exposed, and he took cover until his backup arrived just a few minutes later. His first thought while he waited was that the daughter might have killed her mother and could still be in the house. Officer Steve Swinney knew the Lynches, though, and he was familiar with the house, too. He'd investigated Chuck's death a few months earlier. Now they both approached the body of his wife. She lay on her left side, jerry Bledsoe says in his book. The top of her head and the left side of her face were gone. The hot sun had blackened the remains of her head, which squirmed with maggots and was swarmed by flies and ants. The most grotesque sight those police officers had ever seen. But they had to move on. A third officer arrived. As they rounded the back of the house, the officers saw a bullet hole in the gutter drain at the end of the house. When they slid open the unlocked storm door. Two tiny Hungry dogs yapped at them. They saw two drops of blood by the counter next to the telephone. The house was big but mismatched in decor, and the officers crept down the hallway, pushing open doors until they came to Janie's room. Her purse and jewelry box had been dumped onto the bed. Janie lay face down in the sun room. She was barefoot and she had curlers in her hair. One of them had been driven into her skull by the second bullet. The first was lodged in her right shoulder blade. The police continued to secure the house. Then they called in the mobile evidence lab. They knew this would be a difficult case to solve. It was two white women in a wealthy neighborhood days after the murder, and the trail had gone cold. The state police department had to be called in. This one was no match for Oldham County. It was just an hour after the murders made the news in Louisville when a volunteer minister at the Albuquerque Police Department came to notify Tom Lynch. Tom was rushing to meet his wife Kathy and his sons from his first marriage at the movies. The chaplain said he had bad news. His mother and sister had been killed. Tom assumed it was a car wreck. The chaplain said otherwise. Still in shock, Tom drove to the movie theater to round up his family. His wife was shocked. His 8 year old Jim, asked, well, daddy, who shot him? Tom didn't know what would make a child ask that. But he was right. And they didn't know who had killed them. Just one day before he was scheduled to go see his mother in Louisville, Tom touched down at the airport. The police met him at the airport and they drove him to the station. Tom looked devastated, but they still had to question him. Detective Dan Davidson offered his condolences and then asked basic questions. When was the last time they talked? Had she expressed any fears? And after they got the preliminary questions out of the way, the policeman said, doctor, to be quite candid with you, I don't know if you realize this. And Tom replied, I think I know what you're going to say. I'm the sole heir. I think you'd be negligent if you didn't look at that possibility, too. Tom agreed to take a polygraph test. This is elimination, a detective said. The detectives asked him about his financial condition. Tom said that he'd been practicing for eight years and he made about 120,000 a year. He had some bills, a nice house, two cars, an IRA and a little money in the bank. And then he added that he paid $500 a month in child support. After the polygraph, the detectives turned to one another and agreed even though the polygraph proved inconclusive. Tom was tense and upset. They didn't think that Tom lynch did it. So who did? We'll take a closer look after the break.
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Tom lynch met his first wife when he was in college at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C. when he was a freshman, he was a basketball player, and they struck up a conversation at the library. Susie Newsome had transferred to this private school in her hometown of Winston Salem from another small, expensive private girls school, Queens College. She hadn't liked it much there because the girls were frivolous. They were almost all wealthy, but they weren't what she thought of as good families. She thought you didn't have to be wealthy to be good. She felt there was such a thing as. Listen to this shit. Genteel poverty. Is that not the most condescending thing you've ever heard? Anyway, Susie was drawn to Tom because he looked wholesome and he was medically ambitious. She had always liked doctors, but she hated hippies, war protesters and civil rights activists. This was 1968 and she was in college and she strongly supported the war in Vietnam. She was also a sorority sweetheart, which is a title that still makes no damn sense to me. So when she met Dolores, it didn't go great. It didn't go well at all. They immediately disliked each other. Dolores didn't like when someone looked down on her origins. Susie was a privileged kid, and she absolutely looked down on Dolores for her hardscrabble upbringing. Tom didn't know of any actual conflict during the meeting, but afterward, Susie told her family that Dolores was, quote, overbearing and domineering. And Dolores told her friend that Susie was, quote, snooty and pretentious. And both of them were right. It's not that uncommon for there to be drama between mother and daughter in law. Dolores and Susie were both bullheaded about bossing Tom around. They didn't want to get along. They both wanted to win. Obviously, Susie won. Daughters in law always do. At least she won Tom. They got married in 1970, right after Tom's graduation. Even though Dolores did everything she could to try to dissuade him. She said she had a gut feeling that made her dislike Susie even after she had tried to get close to her. I don't know what trying to get close to her looked like, but it didn't work. They moved to the University of Kentucky in Lexington to complete dental school. Dolores tried to be friendly, but her friendly looked like surprise visits and doting on Tom. And I can't blame Susie for being annoyed at that. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should drop by your house unannounced, ever. It is the most rude thing you can do, especially when telephones exist and there are small napping children involved. And soon there were. Susie had John Wesley in 1974 and then James Thomas in 1976. And then they moved to New Mexico for Tom to open his own dental practice. Susie didn't like New Mexico. More specifically, she didn't like that people there didn't already know who she was and they didn't respect her. Out of habit. At Christmas of 1978, Susie brought the boys home to Winston Salem on her own. Tom stayed behind with no explanation. While she was home. Susie often complained about Dolores. But it wasn't just the normal pest type complaints of her dropping in or being overbearing. Susie said, quote, she's mean and evil. When she returned, Susie said that it might be better for everyone if she took the boys back home for good. Susie was unhappy in Albuquerque and apparently unhappy in her marriage as well. Tom resisted for a while. He didn't want to lose his sons. Susie favored Jim, the younger boy, big time. She thought Jim was more like her, really. He just looked more like her. He was laid back and relaxed like Tom. So John, the child who acted more like Susie, sad and withdrawn, was the one who was punished more naturally. He acted out this unfairness in tantrums and destroying his things. But by the following spring of 1979, Jim displayed behavioral concerns, too. He put objects in his eyes. And then one day, Tom came home from work and John was holding his arm in a weird way. As soon as he took off the boy's shirt, he could see the arm was broken. John said he fell off the bed at his babysitter's home. But that was a lie. The babysitter's husband worked nights and he slept all day. They never played on the bed there. And both boys had bedwetting problems, which is another sign of abuse. So the sitter had pallets fixed for them on the floor just in case. The babysitter said she Saw injuries on the boys all the time, like bruises and bloody noses. One day Jim showed up with red eyes, which not unusual for him. And then she saw that Jim had a big mushy lump on the side of his head. He didn't get to the doctor until Tom came home from work and Tom saw the three year old's eyes were starting to blacken. The doctors suspected something wasn't right, especially after they diagnosed Jim with a mild concussion. The nurses strongly suggested it might not have been an accident. Both parents were pretty offended at the implied accusation, but especially Susie. Nothing came of it. There were no further investigations by Child Services. Susie and Tom separated soon after. And while it was not hard for Tom to say goodbye to Susie at this point, it was hard for him to say goodbye to his two little boys. Susie took them with her back to Winston Salem. In the divorce, Tom got two weeks summer vacation. That wasn't enough. He wanted more visitation, but Susie denied him that. I just want to note he's not suing her for custody, not even partial custody. Tom just wanted more visitation, like four weeks instead of two. And not even necessarily all at the same time. It wasn't a lot to ask, but Susie wouldn't have it. Instead, she tried to keep the boys away from Tom completely. She took them with her to Taiwan for a year while she was studying Chinese. At one point, Tom didn't see John and Jim for two years. Not only is that some evil shit, but it's completely unnecessary. And the reason why Susie was keeping the kids from him is even more disturbing. She thought Tom was a drug dealer with a mafia connection. To recap, Tom was a dentist. That's might be just my personal opinion, but it seems to me like there might have been some jealousy at play. Tom had married his dental hygienist, Kathy after he and Susie divorced. And I say it might have been jealousy because John and Jim really liked Kathy. When a child psychologist asked them about it, they said they felt even more comfortable with Kathy than their own dad. Although they felt good around him too. Remember, it was Kathy who had taken the boys to the movies when Tom got the news that his family had been murdered. So the boys happened to be on that two week visitation with Tom when his family died. He actually asked Susie to extend their visitation just by a few days. But of course she declined. She was going camping. Tom thought that was weird. Susie going camping. But he had other concerns. He was back in Louisville for the arrangements when he received a bouquet of flowers from his former in laws. Susie's parents. Tom felt like that opened a line of communication. So after a few interactions, Tom asked Bob, that's his former father in law, if he would be willing to testify in the custody hearing. Bob agreed to do it again. Tom was just asking for more visitation. Not full custody, not even joint custody, just more visitation. It shouldn't have been all that surprising that Bob agreed to testify on Tom's behalf, but I imagine it felt pretty relieving to Tom. Besides, Bob had noticed the kids were acting weird. Tom had noticed it too. First was their appearance. They were so pale, they had deep circles under their eyes and the plaque buildup on their teeth was egregious. Especially, I'm guessing, to Tom as a dentist. But John and Jim were also behaving weirdly. They talked mostly to each other, they didn't say much about their mother, and they seemed to check themselves when they were about to speak about her. Plus, over the course of the stay, each of them had accidentally called Tom Papa a handful of times. And if Bob had noticed the kids were acting weird, it was nothing compared to how weird Susie was acting. I'll tell you all about it after the break.
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When Susie and Tom had divorced in 1979, Susie moved back to Winston Salem. Back in with her parents. She wasn't feeling right. Susie chose to go to Dr. Fred Kleiner. Fred was her uncle and depending on whom you asked, he was either a man treating patients at the end of the line with cutting edge experimental vitamin treatments or a complete crackpot mad scientist. If you want to know my opinion on Dr. Fred Klenner, well, let me just describe his practice for you. Firstly, his practice was on the second floor above a drugstore in an old building in downtown Reidsville. Up a steep wooden staircase, plaster crumbled from the rain stained walls. Doors led to separate segregated waiting rooms in the 1980s. In the waiting rooms, the magazines were for gun aficionados. Stuff like tracts from the white Citizens Councils, Christian Crusades, pamphlets about how integration was a communist plot, that FDR was a traitor and how women's rights were sacrilegious. He was a first generation American from Austria and his whole family had been Nazi Sympathizers claiming to date that Adolf Hitler was misunderstood on this side of the pond. He was also a Civil War buff who claimed the wrong side had won the war, and he spoke favorably of the kkk. I'm not sure I personally would have even made it up the staircase, let alone into the hallway, to wonder which waiting room I was supposed to enter. Since I'm not really black or white. But people with progressed neurological disorders, people who had already been told by multiple doctors that there was no hope for them, I can imagine that they would overlook a lot on the off chance of a miracle. It's actually really strange to me how much educated people can overlook. Not only did Susie go to Fred for treatment, but her family encouraged it because they were family listeners. Do y' all overlook this kind of thing in favor of your family? I get that to a degree. You have to, like, not cause a scene at Thanksgiving at a stupid political comment or whatever. And I understand that a certain amount of loyalty in, like, getting your roof replaced by your brother rather than a rando, but only if they're good at their job, right? Or if it's very low stakes. But this didn't seem low stakes. Fred was a doctor, but he was not a neurologist. Actual neurological doctors almost always disagreed with Fred's diagnoses. So his success rate was flawed because basically, it's easy to cure someone of a disease they never had. So when he diagnosed Susie with multiple sclerosis, he treated her with vitamin C injections, and she started to feel better. Vitamin C will do that. It will give you more energy. Susie had more energy, and Fred claimed that the vitamin C was helping her multiple sclerosis listeners. I don't know a lot about ms, but I know it's a chronic condition that's hard to diagnose. A lot of tests happen before you can secure that diagnosis, like MRIs, blood tests, even spinal taps. And while some symptoms of it might be treated with vitamins, vitamin C is not a cure for that neurological disease. There is no cure for Ms. Most doctors try to slow its progression. Much of the treatment addresses attacks. So when Fred pronounced Susie cured of a disease that only he confirmed even existed, I should tell you, too, that Fred's son Fritz worked at the clinic. Fritz is Susie's first cousin, and the whole family thinks he's weird. He prowls around at night. He's too enthralled with guns and intrigue. Susie didn't know him well when she was growing up, and she had barely seen him in Years now, though they were both going through a divorce. He started pecking around Susie's parents house a lot, spending time with her. Fritz was also not a doctor. The family thought he was in medical school, but he wasn't. He was a fraud. He just helped his dad out and lied to everyone about his medical studies. Fritz was actually pretty obsessed with his dad, like wanted to be him. He would sign Fred Kleiner on forms that were addressed to him and stuff. It was a weird relationship. Susie's mom Florence also thought Fritz's relationship with Susie was weird. She thought they were getting too close and Florence confronted Susie about having a romantic relationship with Fritz. Susie was irate, so upset that she left the house with the boys and she rented an apartment for the three of them. After that, Susie's parents and siblings didn't see them all that much. They wanted to, but Susie kept them away. When the boys showed up to visit, their appearance was shocking. They had sallow skin and deep circles under their eyes. They showed up with bags and bags of vitamins and supplements which Tom threw away. How could he know what was in those pills, really? 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