In this episode we talk about Joe Savino's murder of Thomas McWaters in 1988 and the death penalty advocacy of Marie Deans.
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In this episode we talk about Joe Savino's murder of Thomas McWaters in 1988 and the death penalty advocacy of Marie Deans.
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In this episode we tell the story of the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner to free himself and other enslaved people in Southampton, Virginia.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1861/08/nat-turners-insurrection/308736/
https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/nat-turners-rebellion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_Turner
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner
https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/turner.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html
https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/online_classroom/shaping_the_constitution/doc/slavemap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_Census
https://www.evblog.virginiahumanities.org/2017/08/slavery-by-the-numbers-redux/
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Virginia_Slavery_Debate_of_1831-1832_The#start_entry
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/population/pop1860numbers.html
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/congress-abolishes-the-african-slave-trade
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Virginia
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Free_Blacks_During_the_Civil_War
In this episode we tell the story of Wallace Thrasher who flew planes loaded with drugs into the mountains of Virginia until a plane crash killed a man and he himself disappeared. Did he die in his own plane crash or did he fake his death and escape to freedom? Listen to the episode and decide for yourself.
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https://openjurist.org/820/f2d/1220/united-states-v-j-king
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Wallace_Thrasher
https://apnews.com/37bd91ffea67486589176c99d70c28df
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/162976
https://unsolved.com/gallery/wallace-thrasher/
https://www.swvatoday.com/bland_county/news/article_08e94d9a-4b67-11e5-8bfb-b7631d40fe6b.html
https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/WDBJ-7/script_archives/00/1000/102900/102900.m.htm
In this episode we tell the story of Larry Bill Elliott who murdered Dana Thrall and Robert Finch on January 2nd, 2001.
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In this episode we talk about Earl Bramblett and his 1993 murder of the Hodges Family in Vinton, Virginia and his suspected participation in the disappearance of Tammy Akers and Angela Rogers in 1977.
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https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b1/bramblett-earl.htm
http://charleyproject.org/case/tammy-lynn-akers
https://whereaboutsstillunknown.wordpress.com/2017/08/30/tammy-akers-angela-rader/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bramblett
https://www.wsls.com/news/2015/05/05/family-members-ask-for-help-in-roanoke-citys-cold-case/
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2003/apr/9/20030409-090624-2374r/
https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1996/rt9608/960801/08010066.htm
https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1994/rt9410/941016/10170083.htm
In this episode we tell the story of serial killer Melvin David Rees and his murders of Margaret Harold and the Jackson Family.
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In this episode we tell the story of serial killer Marc Evonitz and the girls he abducted and murdered: Sofia Silva, and Kristin and Kati Lisk.
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https://apnews.com/0a2cd85c1d3258f1af723ef944a8e956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Evonitz
https://www.heraldtribune.com/article/LK/20020706/News/605231070/SH
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/serial-killer-meets-match-15-year-old-article-1.2384136
http://www.readthehook.com/92455/news-heros-reward-surviving-teen-gets-150000-nabbing-evonitz
http://www.readthehook.com/95583/news-evonitz-revealed-serial-killer-story-reveals-tale-terrors
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125152
https://www.wistv.com/story/841310/7-2-2002-va-residents-look-for-slaying-clues/
https://books.google.com/books/about/Into_the_Water.html?id=hyawmAEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
In this episode we cover the Route 29 Stalker and the 1996 abduction and murder of Alicia Reynolds.
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https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Alicia_Showalter_Reynolds
https://unsolved.com/gallery/alicia-showalter/
http://www.readthehook.com/81209/news-unwanted-neighbor-island-reels-rices-arrival
http://www.readthehook.com/93612/news-rice-trial-hiker-can-testify-park-murders
http://www.readthehook.com/85806/cover-murder-park-rice-release-revives-memories
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_persons_cases_along_U.S._Route_29_in_Virginia
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/police-still-hunting-rt-29-stalker-after-21-years/418785268
https://wina.com/news/064460-state-police-have-not-forgotten-the-alicia-reynolds-case/
https://durangoherald.com/articles/47562
http://www.readthehook.com/category/tags/darrell-rice
In this episode we tell the story of Gina Hall who was murdered by Stephen Epperly on June 28th, 1980.
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In this episode we talk about the murders of Marion Marshall and Marion Newman in Springfield, VA in 2006 and how new DNA techniques may help find their killer.
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On this episode we talk about the disappearance of Katie Worsky in 1982 and other crimes Glenn Barker got away with.
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https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/no-one-has-anything-to-fear-about-me/Content?oid=1376823
https://murderpedia.org/male.B/b/barker-glenn-photos.htm
https://www.c-ville.com/law-enforcement-worsky-family-react-convicted-killer-glenn-barkers-death/
http://www.readthehook.com/86065/cover-glenn-barker-serial-killer-or-convenient-scapegoat
http://www.readthehook.com/86035/cover-little-girl-lost-remembering-katie-worsky-after-25-years
On this Thanksgiving week episode we take a field trip to the earliest days of the Jamestown Colony where starving settlers resorted to cannibalism for survival.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsenacommacah
https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/the-starving-time/
https://allthatsinteresting.com/starving-time
https://historicjamestowne.org/history/history-of-jamestown/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)
In this episode we tell the story of the murders of Debra Kelley, Mark Niederbrock, Emma Niederbrock, and Melanie Wells in Farmville, Virginia in September of 2009 by Sam McCroskey.
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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-us-virginia-killings-092609-2009sep26-story.html
https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mccroskey-richard.htm
https://www.nbc12.com/story/13182458/quadruple-murder-suspect-due-in-court/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmville_murders
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Gruesome-Details-Revealed-in-Virigina-Killings-60278252.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syko-sams-alleged-victims-remembered-suspect-was-horrorcore-rapper/
On this episode we talk about the murder/abduction of the Short family from their home in Henry County, Virginia in 2002.
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SOURCES
https://truenoirstories.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/the-short-family-murders/
https://www2.fbi.gov/wanted/seekinfo/short_j2.htm
https://myfox8.com/2012/08/12/short-family-murders-still-unsolved-after-ten-years/
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-15-murder-abduction_x.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081302431_2.html
In this episode we tell the story of serial killer Charles Severance.
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https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/severance-charles.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19082-2004Jun5.html
https://wjla.com/news/local/prosecutors-charles-severance-killed-3-to-get-revenge-on-citys-elite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Virginia#Demographics
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Ronald-Kirbys-Widow-Speaks-Out-After-Murder-231969321.html
In this Halloween Week episode we tell the story of the mysterious Sisters in Black whose lives were marked by bizarre ritual and criminality and who are said to still haunt a Christiansburg, Virginia middle school today.
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In this episode we talk about the disappearance of Sage Smith from Charlottesville, Virginia on November 20th, 2012.
This is an active investigation. If you know anything about Sage Smith’s or Erik McFadden’s disappearance, please contact Detective Wright at 434-970-3381. You can also call in an anonymous tip to Crimestoppers at 434-977-4000.
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https://splinternews.com/i-am-a-girl-now-sage-smith-wrote-then-she-went-missin-1797178002
https://www.flickr.com/photos/vinegarhill/sets
https://www.c-ville.com/details-sage-smith-disappearance-come-light/
https://www.nbc29.com/story/40716269/charlottesville-police-discuss-sage-smith-investigation
https://wtvr.com/2019/06/27/erik-mcfadden-missing/
https://www.c-ville.com/wheres-mcfadden-emotional-plea-from-family-of-missing-teen/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinegar_Hill_(Charlottesville,_Virginia)
https://timeline.com/charlottesville-vinegar-hill-demolished-ba27b6ea69e1
In this episode we tell the story of the murder of Jocelyn Earnest on December 19th, 2007 in Forest, Virginia.
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In this episode we tell the story of the Muse Brothers who were kidnapped and sold into a life of slavery in the circus freak shows.
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This episode is part two of a two part series. Please listen to episode 9 first.
In this episode we tell the story of Alexis Murphy who disappeared on August 3rd, 2013 in Lovingston, Virginia.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Alexis_Murphy
https://medium.com/@ashleyhorsfall/the-abduction-murder-of-alexis-tiara-murphy-66a69b601c57
https://www.nbc29.com/category/268932/in-depth-alexis-murphy-investigation
http://www.readthehook.com/110023/taylors-encounters-aquaintances-recall-abduction-suspect