Baking A Murder

Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow Award - winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. 

Starting in the sixties, a loose-knit confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its hundreds of members, unofficially headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, specialized in scams, heists and murder. Their alleged leader — the estranged son of a prominent Oklahoma politician — was a skilled and charismatic outlaw named Kirksey Nix. In 1972, when Nix was sentenced to life in prison at Angola for a murder he committed in New Orleans, The Dixie Mafia was thought to be extinct. But fifteen years later, a sitting criminal court judge named Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a mayoral candidate for the city of Biloxi, were assassinated. As the case ran cold, authorities were forced to confront a disturbing reality: The Dixie Mafia was not done yet. 

Gone South is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 studio, in association with Jed and Tom Lipinski.

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He was known as “The Grabber.” If you so much as whispered his name, he would hear it, and come snatch you away from your life. 

This wasn’t an urban legend in this tiny little town. It was the reality. Many boys had been snatched by The Grabber, and all of them had said his name. 

Finn knew better than anyone to not take the risk… all of his friends had been snatched and now it was just him left. And then one day, his sister whispered the one who shouldn’t be named and like clockwork Finn was taken. 

He woke up in a bunker with nothing but a mattress and a disconnected phone on the wall. The Grabber was setting up to play a sick, depraved game with him called “naughty boy.” The torture was just beginning. 

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She didn’t know how to read or write - she only knew how to survive. She knew what the townspeople called her. “Marsh Girl.” They made fun of her, made up tall tales about how her eyes glowed in the dark, and how she was “feral.” 

She did raise herself in the wilderness with nobody to depend on, and she was comfortable with it. This was how her life was going to be, forever. But when two of the most popular guys in town fall in love with her, her life got ripped apart. 

When one ends up murdered, she knew that everyone would suspect it was her. The one lesson she learned in the wild - sometimes predators need to die in order for prey to survive. 

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Everything was going to be perfect after their wedding. She could feel it - he was the one for her. I mean what kind of perfect husband buys you your dream house as a wedding gift? A multi-million dollar house at that. 

He was kind, intelligent, an attorney representing domestic violence victims; he was everything she had dreamed of in a man. But of course, everyone has their secrets - his was a locked secret room in the basement. 

The room was unsettling. The whole room was red. The walls, the floors, and even the ceiling was red, and it could only be opened from the outside. If only she knew what he planned to do with her in that room… she should have run the other way when she saw him. There is no such thing as a perfect man. 

Book: https://www.strandbooks.com/product/9781250132369?title=behind_closed_doors 

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They were called the Final Girls. They had each survived a serial killer - they even had the scars to prove it. The whole world was fascinated by their stories.

They each had their own stories though. Lisa’s serial killer was raging terror in a sorority house. Samantha’s serial killer was releasing his anger onto innocent motel guests. Quincy’s serial killer killed all 5 of her closets friends in a cabin in the woods.

But what the world didn’t know is that all 3 girls had their secrets. Lisa was keeping files on everyone in her life. Samantha had vanished and when she came back she was acting strange. Quincy said she didn’t remember anything about the crime - but it might be a lie right?

And now that someone was out to get all 3 of them, and finish the job all their secrets were going to come to light.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Final-Girls-Novel-Riley-Sager/dp/1101985364/ref=asc_df_1101985364/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312134237227&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16894346780389317924&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010943&hvtargid=pla-434972326268&psc=1

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He was asked to investigate the case of an escaped prisoner from the mysterious mental asylum on Shutter Island.

The island itself housed some of the most dangerous criminals in the entire world, and they were all considered “criminally insane.” And the only way on and off the island was by boat that was controlled by the asylum. 

One of the prisoners had gotten loose and was somewhere on that very island, and it was pertinent that the detective finds her. But the minute he stepped foot on the island, something felt off. Like nobody wanted to find the escaped prisoner. The guards, the doctors, the nurses, they all seemed more interested in him. And they were making him feel crazy. They were treating him like he was losing his mind. Is insanity contagious, or was that part of the asylum’s plan? To never let him go?

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Do you know what it’s like to be married for years and still not recognize your wife’s face? That’s what face blindness is. But that’s not Adam’s only problem… this weekend is turning out to be a nightmare.

It was supposed to fix their marriage but instead, all it’s doing is slowly revealing all the dirty little secrets the couple tried to keep from each other all these years. 

How she resents him, how he still has nightmares about who killed his mom, and how they both slept with someone they shouldn’t have. They’re stuck in an abandoned chapel, completely snowed in, and someone starts messing with them. 

But how can Adam even tell which one is his wife and which one is the one out to get him? They’re starting to feel like the same person anyway. 

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Sye the photo guy… that’s what they all called him. He had been working at the local film developing booth for over a decade now. He had his regulars. The families that always came in with rolls of pictures every week. 

He sat there and saw the most intimate parts of everyone’s lives - love, marriage, kids, vacations, holidays, even the NSFW moments. 

But one day when his favorite customer walked into the store and as he developed her pictures… he noticed something. Someone in the background. Someone that shouldn’t be. Was she being followed? Stalked? What was going on?

Sye would stop at nothing to find out all the secrets of the complicated web of his favorite family. 

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Nats loved her job. She loved being in the sound proof all by herself, no distractions, just a mic dangling in front of her. Normally, she did commercial voice acting but this job was different.

Recently, a new “it girl” had taken the world by storm. She was every guy’s fantasy. Every straight man wanted this girl as their partner. She was the ultimate dream. But she was a doll.

And every doll needs a good voice in order to feel real. For the guys to fall in love with. Sure, Nat’s would have some not safe for work lines but what was the big worry? It’s not like anyone would know it was her… right?

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Sara’s boyfriend was easily bored. He loved new, exciting, sexy things and dying just wasn’t sexy. 

Sara was dying. She had a terminal illness, and she was worried about what her boyfriend would do when she was gone. So she cloned herself. 

But when her doctor tells her that she’s soon going to make a full recovery it’s too late. Sara 2.0 is now dating Sara’s boyfriend, hanging out with her mom, and is determined to take over her life. But there can’t be two Sara’s, now can there be? 

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