Episode 173: The Butcher of Boise: Idaho’s Jack the Ripper

Today we’re stepping outside our usual territory to haunt the Pacific Northwest for a tale of 1950s brutality and a lingering, botched justice. We’re digging into the case of Raymond Snowden, a drifter whose alcohol-fueled rage turned a Boise night out into a scene so savage the newspapers branded him "Idaho’s Jack the Ripper." From the frantic, 30-plus stabs that ended the life of widow Cora Lucyle Dean to the chillingly swift one-month turnaround from arrest to a death sentence, this story is a time capsule of mid-century crime and punishment. But the horror didn’t end at the trial; we’re going inside Cell House #5 at the Old Idaho State Penitentiary to recount Snowden’s final, agonizing fifteen minutes on a poorly measured rope. Whether it’s the botched execution or the sheer violence of the act, something still isn’t right within those sandstone walls—visitors still report disembodied whispers and a heavy, suffocating presence in the gallows room. Grab your coffee, or maybe something stronger, because we’re exploring why the man they couldn't hang cleanly might still be wandering the cell blocks.

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