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Richard Jensen: Problem Child

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Richard Jensen was a very bad boy, about this there was no doubt. Nine of his 14 years had been spent in reform school.

Still, questions remained about just how bad he was, and if he’d ever outgrow it.

The answer to the first question came on Aug. 22, 1939, when Jensen’s mother, Frances, heard a weird sound coming from her son’s playroom, which his stepfather had built under their Los Angeles home.

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