Children's Day
CelebrationWikipedia
70
MENTIONS
38
EPISODES
30
PODCASTS
Search complete. 70 mentions across 38 episodes found for "Children's Day".
Oct 29, 2026
Carter RoyHOST
sometime before dawn somebody came into that house with an axe and killed all eight of them while they slept then they locked the door on their way out and disappeared the town spent that whole summer hunting for the killer hundreds of tips came in and none of them went anywhere but one name kept coming up a traveling minister named reverend george kelly Kelly had been in Villisca the night of the murders.
Carter RoyHOST
He'd sat in the pews at the Children's Day program, and he was on a train out of town before the bodies were found.
Carter RoyHOST
Two weeks later, he came back, told the men working the scene he was a detective from Scotland Yard, and got himself a tour of the house.
Carter RoyHOST
The story didn't hold up for long.
Carter RoyHOST
Once eight people were dead, standing out started to look like something else.
Carter RoyHOST
As investigators worked, the details from that weekend started stacking up in a way that was hard to ignore.
Carter RoyHOST
Kelly spent Sunday evening at the Presbyterian Church for the Children's Day program, sitting with the family of a local minister, Reverend Wesley Ewing.
Carter RoyHOST
That name should sound familiar.
Robert BittoGUEST
You know, we have Mother's Day and Father's Day in America.
Robert BittoGUEST
They also, in Mexico, they have Children's Day.
Robert BittoGUEST
And I think it's sometime in April.
Robert BittoGUEST
And that's when a lot of people go and visit that tomb.
Carter RoyHOST
Their older sister Blanche was about 17 and she helped run the household, answering the phone, keeping track of the younger kids, holding things together while their parents worked the farm.
Carter RoyHOST
On Sunday, June 9th, 1912, the Stillinger girls came into town for Children's Day at the Presbyterian Church, which was one of the biggest events of the year.
Carter RoyHOST
Sarah Moore had helped plan it, and her own children had parts in the program alongside Lena and Ina.
Carter RoyHOST
The program wasn't starting until the evening, and it was going to run late, so around 6 p.m., Joe Moore picked up the phone and called the Stillinger farm.
31 MINS LATER
Carter RoyHOST
That June weekend, he'd come to the area to preach at two little county congregations north of Villisca.
Carter RoyHOST
On Sunday evening, he'd ended up in town.
Carter RoyHOST
He sat in the pews of the Presbyterian Church that night at the Children's Day program, watching the Moore children and the Stillinger sisters perform.
Carter RoyHOST
Then he spent the night in Villisca.
Swasti SahooGUEST
And I realized how passionate I was, like to give back to community and do something for them and advocate for them and debate.
Swasti SahooGUEST
And through my UNICEF volunteering through for my community service at Goshka, that was through what I met like the Taoiseach as well for the World Children's Day.
Swasti SahooGUEST
And I got to do so many different things.
Swasti SahooGUEST
And it was all because Goshka provided the platform.
BettyHOST
He can't remember what he's bought her.
BettyHOST
for a birthday and for, you know, for Children's Day.
BettyHOST
He's just kind of outsourcing, buying presents, really.
BettyHOST
And, you know, he doesn't want to take time out of his, and, you know, but that line, that line, I think, kind of frames it a little bit.
Josh CarpenterHOST
He stayed with Reverend William Ewing and his family.
Josh CarpenterHOST
He attended the Children's Day program that evening.
Josh CarpenterHOST
And that placed him in the same congregation, at the same time, in the same place as the murder victims shortly before they went home.
Josh CarpenterHOST
Now consider how extraordinary, really, that coincidence appears to investigators.
Carter RoyHOST
Their older sister Blanche was about 17 and she helped run the household, answering the phone, keeping track of the younger kids, holding things together while their parents worked the farm.
Carter RoyHOST
On Sunday, June 9, 1912, the Stillinger girls came into town for Children's Day at the Presbyterian Church, which was one of the biggest events of the year.
Carter RoyHOST
Sarah Moore had helped plan it, and her own children had parts in the program alongside Lena and Ina.
Carter RoyHOST
The program wasn't starting until the evening, and it was going to run late, so around 6 p.m., Jo Moore picked up the phone and called the Stillinger farm.
33 MINS LATER
Carter RoyHOST
That June weekend, he'd come to the area to preach at two little county congregations north of Villisca.
Carter RoyHOST
On Sunday evening, he'd ended up in town.
Carter RoyHOST
He sat in the pews of the Presbyterian Church that night at the Children's Day program, watching the Moore children and the Stillinger sisters perform.
Carter RoyHOST
Then he spent the night in Villisca.
Josh CarpenterHOST
By 1912, Sarah was the mother of four, and she was active in the Presbyterian Church.
Josh CarpenterHOST
And in the weeks leading up to the murders, she helped organize the congregation's Children's Day program.
Josh CarpenterHOST
That detail matters because it tells us of something important about Sarah beyond her identity as just a victim.
Josh CarpenterHOST
What we know about Sarah is that she was actually quite engaged in the community.
Josh CarpenterHOST
The Stillinger family was actually quite well established.
Josh CarpenterHOST
The girls had an older sister named Blanche.
Josh CarpenterHOST
And on June 9, 1912, Lena and Ina attended the Children's Day program with the Moore family.
Josh CarpenterHOST
And during the afternoon or early evening, arrangements were made for the sisters to spend the night at the Moore house.
Gautam SinhaHOST
And that is relevant because? It's
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
celebrated as Children's Day in India.
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
Oh, still? Yeah.
Jawahar MalhotraHOST
Well, come out and bring your kids.
Brandon AndersonGUEST
See your family another time.
Brandon AndersonGUEST
There is Children's Day.
Brandon AndersonGUEST
There is Mother's Day.
Brandon AndersonGUEST
There's anniversaries.
28 more episodes mention Children's Day.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.