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Appalachian Mysteria
Hosted by Kromatic Media · EN
A crime journalism podcast series focused on unusual horrors in the hills and hollers of Appalachia. Created and hosted by Kendall Perkinson and Sarah James McLaughlin.
Season 1 - Mared & Karen: The WVU Coed Murders
Season 2 - Big Savage: The Death Of Alexander Stevens
Season 3 - Outlandish
Season 4 - Listener Suggestions
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Unfinished Business | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep 7
Oct 2800:46:24Tap to summarizeJoan Ann Charlton was the first of her family to attend college. Three weeks into her freshman year at Frostburg State University, she was brutally murdered in the campus arboretum.This episode tracks three generations of college students, from 1980s Frostburg to current-day Morgantown, each story centering around the memory of one 19-year-old woman who seems perpetually on the cusp of being forgotten. But it’s also about how Appalachian college students are laying entirely new groundwork for all cold case law enforcement around the country.Revisiting the 1983 Murder of Joan Ann Charlton - The article produced by Andy Duncan's class, including photographs of Joan and her familySarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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Updates: New Season! / No More Ads / Facebook Deleted / Big Savage on YouTube
Oct 1400:06:35Tap to summarizeFour big updates from the Mysteria Crew.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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Away in a Hangar: A Christmas Special
Dec 17, 202400:20:10Tap to summarizeThis short Christmas special tells the story of a Pennsylvania Santa Claus (and his chauffeur) who definitely ended up on the naughty list in 1983. Taking listeners from the top of the tallest skyscraper in Pittsburgh to a backwoods hangar in West Virginia, this episode throws our own rules to the wind with a solved case, zero interviews, and way too much humor.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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Wild Updates: Cases Solved! Suspect Killed! Gravestone Stolen!
Aug 28, 202400:44:44Tap to summarizeIn one month, the killers of Julie Williams, Lollie Winans and at least two victims of the Colonial Parkway murders are identified. Bill Thomas joins us to discuss the details, and why there are still so many questions unanswered. Meanwhile the grave of Harry Spitz, which inexplicably exploded in 1975, has its headstone stolen by thieves. A Morgantown resident and Appalachian Mysteria producer step up to set things right.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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The Sunnyside Rapist, Part 2 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep 6
Jul 31, 202400:56:16Tap to summarizeIn the second of this 2-part series, Jack Edward Hawkins is put on trial without physical evidence for three assaults committed by the Sunnyside rapist, but prosecutors refuse to claim he is a suspect in any others. Neighbors of the Hawkins family come forward to describe their experience with Jack and his children. As Hawkins’ involvement in a 1975 incident comes to light, the Mysteria team learns that a new West Virginia law now makes it impossible to learn details about any sexual assault cases. And a team of New Zealand researchers is hired by the defense to explain the problems with the eyewitness testimony used against Hawkins.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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The Sunnyside Rapist, Part 1 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep5
Jul 11, 202400:41:12Tap to summarizeFifteen years after the events of Season 1 (The WVU Coed Murders), Morgantown women are faced with a new predator: a rapist so meticulous and organized that he vanishes through police checkpoints and neighborhood lockdowns every summer.In the first of this two part series, we speak with two women who met the Sunnyside rapist face-to-face at both ends of his 10-year crime spree. Geoff Fuller (season 1) returns to help set the scene for a trial that will become studied internationally. Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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Hell’s Square Mile, Part 3 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep 4
Jun 5, 202400:51:04Tap to summarizeIn the last of this 3-part series, we examine Mabel’s top suspects in the murder of Walter Curnutte. Years later, Tim and Becky discover an entirely new motive connected to a forged document, a federal racketeering case, South American cocaine, and, potentially, the West Virginia mafia.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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Hell’s Square Mile, Part 2 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep 3
May 15, 202400:44:05Tap to summarizeAfter Walter Curnutte’s murder, his sister Mabel takes on the case, recording interviews, writing letters to powerful officials, and hiring a private detective. The community’s war on Walter comes to light – from protests to arson to civil disobedience. We look back at the strange month preceding Walter’s death – including his hiring of Herb Willie, the man tried for his murder. Was Herb a drunken liar, a murderer, or both? A state trooper who investigated the case has an opinion. Tim and Becky beg to differ.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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Yelling in my Car: A Specialist Critique of Big Savage (Season 2)
May 8, 202400:29:54Tap to summarizeAfter the Mysteria crew receives a concerned email from a professional working on sexual assault issues, we invite her on the show to critique Season 2, Big Savage. What follows is a discussion of Megan Shaffer’s poor defense, the biological response to trauma, how the absence of expert testimony may have worked against her, and some ways that language affects how we perceive issues surrounding rape. Thank you to our sponsor June’s Journey! Discover your inner detective when you download June’s Journey for free on iOS and Android. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hell’s Square Mile, Part 1 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep 2
May 1, 202400:39:13Tap to summarizeThis is the beginning of a 3-part story about one square mile of the West Virginia mountains. The story winds its way through a savage war between Indians and settlers, a poor boy adopted into wealth for his ruthlessness, more than one murder trial, the infamous black hand mafia, environmental protests, and international cocaine smuggling.In Part 1, the descendants of West Virginia’s first white settlers find themselves at war with Indian tribes, eventually building a home that will become the center of a web of controversy, violence and crime.Sarah & Geoff's book about the WVU Coed Murders(available on Amazon)Kendall's Appalachian Motorcycling Travel Channel(@motoappalachiadiscovery on YouTube)Kromatic Media
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