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TCG writer Jim Pitts takes charge for this bonus episode discussing episode 41, When Sharon met Bobby. This is a cracking discussion on a fascinating story.
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TCG writer Jim Pitts and i go through this episode he wrote that was covered back in episode 38.
The Danielle Thomas story is an all to familiar tragedy as a result of domestic violence.
If you or anyone you know is a victim of domestic abuse then please do what you can to help and support them or yourself.
Some contacts that maybe of use are as follows:
USA domestic violence hotline 1-800-799-7233 or visit www.thehotline.org or text LOVEIS to 22522
In the United Kingdom contact the national domestic abuse helpline on 0808 2000 247
In Australia call 1-800-respect(737-732)
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In the early hours of February 17th 1974, seventeen year old Carla Walker was abducted as she and her boyfriend Rodney sat in his car at a bowling alley parking lot.
Two days later, her body was found just a few miles away. She had been raped and strangled to death.
46 years, 7 months and 5 days after her abduction and an arrest is made. Glen Samuel McCurley now sits in a cell charged with Carla's murder.
This episode I'm joined by true crime grapple writer Lauren Daryani who wrote this story for the show, covered in episodes 13 and 14.
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Just a personal update from me as to why there's been no episode for a month now and to reassure you all we will be back.
Thanks for your support and patience.
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To her husband and people around her, Sharon Lopatka seemed like just a regular person, living a normal life.
But what no one knew was that Sharon liked go online to internet chat rooms and talk about her fantasies with strangers. These weren't just regular sexual fantasies though, they involved torture and ended with her being murdered at the height of her sexual pleasure.
She deeply wanted to find someone to partake in this deadly liaison, and she eventually found her man...Robert Glass.
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Show researched, written and narrated by Dan Kelton.
Music and editing by baba beats @bvbvbeats
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Show promo from The human spices podcast
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sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/01/28/murder-charge-dropped-in-96-internet-sex-case/0829f8da-802a-42be-a0e0-40c9c9b1b7c5/
https://www.dailydot.com/society/internet-assisted-suicide-sharon-lopatka/
https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/16932/usenet-sharon-lopatka-consensual-murder/
https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-sharon-lopatka/cat-mcauliffe
https://www.dailydot.com/society/internet-assisted-suicide-sharon-lopatka/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1996/10/30/slain-womans-e-mail-reveals-violent-intentions/d941faa0-4d6a-4aa5-9add-bfd1813e2f9b/
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Mark Kilroy bonus discussion with True crime grapple writer Lauren Daryani.
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Mark Kilroy bonus discussion with True crime grapple writer Lauren Daryani.
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Mark Kilroy bonus discussion with True crime grapple writer Lauren Daryani.
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Mark Kilroy bonus discussion with True crime grapple writer Lauren Daryani
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A Republican “law-and-order” president under fire after eight years of a Democratic leadership, citizens protesting for change as marginalized groups fought for equality, the rise of conservative populism as the working- and middle-class became concerned with the decline of “traditional” social values, environmental activism, and a country divided by all of these issues…the United States today in 2020? Not quite – try a half-century ago. True Crime Grapple takes you back 50 years to 1970 as the divisions and the disappointments suffered then are still with us today.
As the world struggles with a turbulent 2020 with a pandemic and social unrest, we can see parallels to 1970 and a university in small town Ohio. At scores of American colleges, thousands of students protested President Nixon’s escalation of the Vietnam War. But at Kent State University, no one foresaw the tragic consequences of the first weekend in May 1970 that ended with “four dead in Ohio”.
Show researched and written by Jim Pitts
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Editing and music by Baba beats
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Sources
Books:
The Kent State Massacre: The History and Legacy of the Shootings That Shocked
America by Charles River Editors (2014, CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Platform).
Surviving: A Kent State Memoir by Paula Tucker (2019, Sunbury Press, Inc.).
Tiananmen West: Why Nixon Ordered the Kent State Massacre by Jenny Deason
Copeland (2017, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform).
Newspaper Articles:
“’Down With Nixon,’ Scream 500 Rioting Kent Students” by Sanford Levenson and Jeff
Sallot, The Akron Beacon Journal, May 2, 1970.
“Kent Under ‘State of Emergency’”, The Akron Beacon Journal, May 3, 1970.
“KSU Rioters Put Torch to ROTC Building” by Jeff Sallot, Ray Redmond, and Bob
Schumacher, The Akron Beacon Journal, May 3, 1970.
“4 Dead, 11 Wounded in New KSU Trouble”, The Akron Beacon Journal, May 4, 1970.
“General: The Guardsmen Were Not Ordered To Fire” by Robert Batz, The Akron
Beacon Journal, May 5, 1970.
“’Rhodes Nixed KSU Closure’” by John de Groot, The Akron Beacon Journal, May 6,
1970.
“It Ended As It Began -- With Sound of Guns” by John M. Dunphy, The Akron Beacon
Journal, November 9, 1974.
“U.S. Halts Role in KSU Case” by Bruce Larrick, The Akron Beacon Journal, November
9, 1974.
Websites:
“The May 4 Shootings at Kent State University: The Search for Historical Accuracy” by
Jerry M. Lewis and Thomas R. Hensley, Kent State University, 1998.
“Kent State: Coming of age 40 years after May 4, 1970 shootings that stunned America”
by Michael Scott, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), May 2, 2010.
“Kent State Shooting” by Editors, History.com, September 8, 2017.
“Student unrest rocked Ohio State University in 1969, ‘70” by Mark Ferenchik, The
Columbus Dispatch, October 5, 2017.
“How 13 Seconds Changed Kent State Forever” by Vince Guerrieri, The Smithsonian
Magazine, May 1, 2020.
"The Kent State shootings: Thirteen seconds of chaos that forever changed rock
history" by Jeffery Peeno, Far Out Magazine, May 4, 2020.
“He told a Kent State classmate he was ‘scared’ of the unrest. Two days later, he was
dead.” by Paula Schleis, The Akron Beacon Journal via Cincinnati.com, May 4, 2020.
“Kent State shootings: Jeffrey Miller despised violence. He died in a hail of gunfire” by
Paula Schleis, The Akron Beacon Journal via Cincinnati.com, May 4, 2020.
“Making the call: Why Kent’s mayor asked the governor to send the Guard to Kent
State” by Paula Schleis, The Akron Beacon Journal via Cincinnati.com, May 4, 2020.
“She studied to help stroke victims find their...
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Issei Sagawa was a small, shy, and studious man from Japan who had always been preoccupied with thoughts of eating another human being. After moving to Paris, France, to obtain a PhD at Sorbonne University, he felt more alone and out-of-place than ever as he struggled to suppress his darkest desires. He was never good at making friends until he met Dutch expatriate Renee Hartevelt, herself a doctoral student. As their friendship continued over the weeks, Issei was finally coming out of his shell but not without bringing him to commit the vilest of acts on the least likely of victims.
Show researched and written by Lauren Daryani
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Editing and Music by Baba Beats @bvbvbeats on Insta
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SOURCES
“Bois de Boulogne.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 18 February 2020. Web. 28 April 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bois_de_Boulogne
Cannibal That Walked Free, The. Directed by Dye, Toby. Visual Voodo, 2007. URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdXPJWODzjo
Chang, Peggy. “Issei Sagawa.” S I X P E G S. 21 January 2010. WordPress.com. peggychang.wordpress.com/2010/01/21/issei-sagawa/ *GRAPHIC IMAGES*
Excuse Me For Living: The Curious Case of the Japanese Cannibal. Directed by Evans, Nigel and Tezuka Yoshi. Channel Four Film, 1993. URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCRnWYiq7uQ
France, Clive. In the Fog. WordPress.com https://bookreviewsjapan.wordpress.com/. Accessed 01 May 2020.
Harritz, Pia D. "Consuming the Female Body: Pinku Eiga and the case of Sagawa Issei". Mediavidenskab. Archived from the original on July 2, 2007.
Interview With A Cannibal. Directed by Stelley, Santiago. VBS.TV, 2010. URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BosZxa1bYcE
“Issei Sagawa.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 16 April 2020. Web. 20 April 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issei_Sagawa
"Issei Sagawa: Cannibal Killer". Learning History. Retrieved April 29,...
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Domestic abuse cases are sadly all too common, and are on the increase due to lock downs around the world due to COVID-19.
In today's show we tell the tragic story of Danielle Thomas who became a victim at the hands of her violent boyfriend Jason Bohn.
Show researched and written by Jim Pitts
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Music and Editing by Baba beats.
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If you or anyone you know is the victim of domestic violence, in the United States, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, visit the website at thehotline.org, or text LOVEIS to 22522.
In the United Kingdom, please call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline at 0808 2000 247.
In Australia, please call 1-800-RESPECT (737-732) or visit the website at 1800respect.org.au.
Sources: https://abovethelaw.com/2012/06/debt-laden-law-grad-featured-in-nyt-article-on-perils-of-law-school-suspected-of-murder/
https://abovethelaw.com/2012/07/icy-details-emerge-from-debtormurder-suspect-jason-bohn/
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=143622&start=375
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=1532193&mc=3&forum_id=2
https://nypost.com/2012/06/28/cops-hunt-for-abusive-lawyer-boyfriend-in-queens-execs-slay/
https://books.google.com/books?id=QQQoDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT193&ots=p4wk2iTHeS&dq=jewish%20child%20care%20association%20in%20their%20own%20words%20bohn&pg=PT193#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/48-hours-jason-bohn-danielle-thomas-murder-a-raging-son/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2562207/Jason-Bohn-claims-murdered-Weight-Watchers-executive-girlfriend-27-traumatized-career-obsessed-MOM-child-shes-footing-legal-bills.html
https://gothamist.com/news/boyfriend-accused-of-killing-girlfriend-posts-on-facebook-in-all-honesty-it-was-an-accident-please-pray-for-me
https://nypost.com/2014/02/27/he-said-hed-kill-me-ivy-league-killers-ex-breaks-down-in-court/
https://nypost.com/2014/02/03/neighbors-of-slain-woman-called-911-on-couple-for-fighting/ (Neighbors 9-1-1 calls)
https://nypost.com/2014/02/14/lawyer-accused-of-strangling-girlfriend-busted-before/
https://nypost.com/2014/02/21/slay-lawyer-punched-pregnant-teen-forced-miscarriage/
https://nypost.com/2014/01/13/gal-pal-slay-suspect-will-blame-it-on-his-mom/
https://nypost.com/2014/02/17/hollywood-shrink-taking-stand-for-weight-watchers-killer/
https://nypost.com/2014/02/20/psychiatrist-compares-weight-watchers-killer-to-the-hulk/
https://nypost.com/2014/04/15/ivy-league-killer-who-murdered-weight-watchers-executive-gets-life/
https://nypost.com/2014/03/05/ivy-league-killer-convicted-of-brutally-murdering-girlfriend/
https://nypost.com/2014/03/05/ivy-league-killer-convicted-of-brutally-murdering-girlfriend/
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120628/astoria/murdered-astoria-womans-new-york-dream-cut-short/
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When Allison McGarrigle went missing in the small coastal town of Largs on the west coast of Scotland in 1997, suspicions turned to her two flat mates Charles O'neill and William Lauchlan who she had not long moved in with . The pair had a dark past as child sexual predators and with no body, police would find it hard to get a conviction...
Show written, researched and narrated by Dan Kelton
Music and editing by Baba beats
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Sources:
https://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/Nigel/id333.htm
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Twenty-year-old Hazel Drew from East Poestenkill, New York, was well-loved by the community that knew her and noted for her beauty and kind nature. On July 11, 1908, after years of living in nearby Troy as a domestic servant for the wealthy, Hazel’s body was discovered floating in a pond over 10 miles away in the town of Sand Lake. Despite an intense investigation, the unusual circumstances surrounding Hazel’s death left locals wondering not just who her murderer was but if she was leading a double life. More than 100 years later, Hazel Drew’s unsolved murder has again garnered national attention with the revelation that she was the inspiration for Laura Palmer, whose murder is the central focus of the cult TV crime series Twin Peaks.
Written and researched by Lauren Daryani
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Music and editing by Baba Beats.
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SOURCES
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3564270/the-mystery-of-hazel-drew-the-real-unsolved-murder-behind-the-original-twin-peaks-series/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4336146/The-real-life-murder-Sand-Lake-NY-inspired-Twin-Peaks.html
Brad Dukes book - Oral History
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36451324/hazel-irene-drew
https://www.tvovermind.com/real-life-murder-inspired-twin-peaks/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/hazels-brutal-murder-was-all-but-forgotten-until-she-inspired-twin-peaks/2017/05/10/b0d064a4-31dd-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html?noredirect=on
https://members.huntakiller.com/blog-articles/the-1908-murder-that-inspired-twin-peaks
https://hazeldrew.com/women-working-in-troy-new-york-interview-kathy-t-sheehan/
https://hazeldrew.com/did-a-promise-become-the-reason-for-hazel-drews-murder/
https://hazeldrew.com/troy-was-booming-with-opportunity-danger/
https://hazeldrew.com/category/murder-mystery-backstory/
https://hazeldrew.com/hazel-drews-friend-tells-of-her-expensive-lifestyle/
https://hazeldrew.com/the-mysterious-secret-life-of-hazel-drew-unfolds/
https://www.vulture.com/2017/05/twin-peaks-showtime-revival-timeline.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensselaer_Plateau
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After living their dream of sailing the warm Pacific Coast for two years, retired middle-aged couple Thomas and Jackie Hawks of Prescott, Arizona, were ready to come back ashore. Family was all-important to them, so with the arrival of their first grandchild, it took no time to put their beloved ocean home, their yacht the Well Deserved, on the market. They planned for many more moments shared with their new grandson, but there was only one to be had before meeting a sure buyer on November 15, 2004, for a final sea trial. They were never heard from again.
Show written and researched by Lauren Daryani
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Music and editing by Bababeats
Check out our website www.truecrime-grapple.captivate.fm for all of our social media and previous episodes.
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After living their dream of sailing the warm Pacific Coast for two years, retired middle-aged couple Thomas and Jackie Hawks of Prescott, Arizona, were ready to come back ashore. Family was all-important to them, so with the arrival of their first grandchild, it took no time to put their beloved ocean home, their yacht the Well Deserved, on the market. They planned for many more moments shared with their new grandson, but there was only one to be had before meeting a sure buyer on November 15, 2004, for a final sea trial. They were never heard from again.
Show written and researched by Lauren Daryani
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Music and editing by Bababeats
Check out our website www.truecrime-grapple.captivate.fm for all of our social media and previous episodes.
Please subscribe and if you can, rate and leave a review *****
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After living their dream of sailing the warm Pacific Coast for two years, retired middle-aged couple Thomas and Jackie Hawks of Prescott, Arizona, were ready to come back ashore. Family was all-important to them, so with the arrival of their first grandchild, it took no time to put their beloved ocean home, their yacht the Well Deserved, on the market. They planned for many more moments shared with their new grandson, but there was only one to be had before meeting a sure buyer on November 15, 2004, for a final sea trial. They were never heard from again.
Check out our website www.truecrime-grapple.captivate.fm for all of our social media and previous episodes.
Please subscribe and if you can, rate and leave a review *****
Check out friends of the show The true crime horror story podcast https://www.truecrimehorrorstory.com/
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Part 2 of my discussion with Lana McCall on Melanie McGuire a.k.a the suitcase killer.
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Bonus show on Melanie McGuire a.k.a The Suitcase killer with Lana McCall.
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Marriage is sacred! However, no one ever REALLY knows what happens behind closed doors even though a couple on the outside might seem like the perfect couple.
That's what people thought about church going couple Betty and Allen Gore and for the most part, people were correct. However, introduce a third person into the mix and the dynamic would change...
Show written and researched by Jim Pitts
Narrated by Dan Kelton
Music and editing by Bababeats
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Show sources: Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson. Bloom is sometimes known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs.
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