Bloody Drown Valley

"...here's Professor Loren Dawson sociologist at the University of Waterloo and an expert on new religious movements the Heyday of new religious movements and on public concern about them the so-called Great American Cults care which really spread all over the world primarily started in the States was definitely late 70s early 80s in responding to groups it mainly came into being at the end of the 60s and into the 70s and you know there seemed to be a sudden surge of hundreds if not thousands of groups at the time it was thought to be so urgent because it was that all this is something totally new and an affront to mainstream culture and if we don't immediately grab hold of us like a disease is going to take over our youth like Many religious groups of this period the students of Light have themselves been called a secretive cult with their leader John heinous accused of controlling and subjugating others in feeding his ego and lining his own pockets the story of the students of light will unfold over our coming episodes with much of it told Through The Eyes of former members who have agreed to share their you'll hear about why people chose to join the group in the first place I think we were all speakers really change the world to make a difference and about why many eventually became disillusioned and left you'll also hear about the group's Inception by its founder John heinous and how his leadership of the group evolved over the course of several decades I would say he changed quite a lot from being fairly humble sort of spiritual leader to being well learn it completely and yeah I think he turned into a bad man and you'll hear about some of the darker allegations that former members have leveled against John and the group allegations in from brainwashing and mind control and then of course we were told not to use our minds that our minds were destructive to sexual abuse he told her that it was for her spiritual growth pay extremely manipulative to the mistreatment of children sometimes it was a thing with the parents oh the parents aren't Towing the line will take your kid away or oh the kids acting up so yeah yeah we'll teach this family lesson join us as we take a deep dive into Toronto students of..."

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"...this week we will be diving into the possible players that could have been involved in the assassination who could have done it who could have planned it out who could have set the gears in motion who could have pulled the trigger whodunit there are some key groups that we have found out were part of this or could have been part of this we will go over all of them and we will start with one of the biggest in Notorious groups that could have been behind this assassination Ian and that is La Cosa Nostra the mafia so to understand how the mafia plays a possible part in the assassination of JFK we have to look at all the things prior to 1963 as well documented that the mafia and the CIA had a professional relationship they teamed up in a plot to kill Fidel Castro after the Bay of Pigs the casino operations of the mafia had taken a hit resulting in millions lost and in operation Mongoose the mafia would a the CIA by having one of the mafia Associates who worked in the kitchen of Castro attempt to poison him the reaches of the mafia even extended to the FBI as it said operation Mongoose was a secret program aimed against Cuba to remove communism from its power so right off the bat we have to look at the mafia as a very viable threat when it came to JFK it's no secret that JFK had quite a few enemies at the time of his assassination which makes the conspiracy ever-growing Lee Harvey Oswald it was later found out through investigation kind of had ties to the mafia was peripherally attached to them but Jack Ruby the man who ended up killing Lee Harvey Oswald definitely had ties to the mafia if you look back at Jack Ruby's history he was born in grew up in Chicago so he became an affiliate of the Chicago Mafia family's mainly the families who ran Chicago's big crime outfit from 57 mainly 2862 giancana family were also heavily involved in the 1960 presidential election Victory with Kennedy JFK in and Robert their father Joseph he was running bootlegging during the time of prohibition and he kind of had the ins and outs of when prohibition would end through being friends with politicians and people high up in the world and he ended up buying up all the scotch from these British importers and he bought up all the scotch so when prohibition ended he made this mass amount of and he stepped on the toes of the Mafia the time especially within the Chicago area and other major cities well I'm sure that doesn't float too well assuming that that was a huge massive income for the illicit markets of the time yeah you're looking at the time of prohibition where the mafia like..." Having Fun? Do you love the show? Hit the subscribe button and leave us 5-star ratings and/or great reviews.

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"...Emmitt Lewis Teal was a 14-year-old African-American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of a fennec a white woman in her family's grocery store the brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew the attention of the long history of violence persecuted against African Americans in the United States and he started Emmett Till was born in 1941 in Chicago he was the son of Mamie carthon and Louis to Emmett was largely raised by made me tear with the help of her mother she and Louis teal separated in 1942 after she discovered that he was being unfaithful maybe accused Louis to you of choking her Consciousness when he has violated orders to stay away from Amy the judge in 1943 forced Lewis Till's to choose between jail and enlisting in the United States Army in 1945 only weeks after his son's fourth birthday Louis to was executed in Italy due to willful misconduct when Louis Jill was a teenager in 1955 Emmett's Uncle Moses invited him to visit his Mississippi farm for two weeks his mother only agreed after a serious talk about the differences between Mississippi and Chicago even through racism existed in both places the rules for black people was much stricter in the South Mamie recommended metl avoid white people altogether the fourteen-year-old understood packed his travel bag at his father's ring so that he could show his cousins and headed for the train station met me and Emmett Till hug for so long the it almost missed his train unbeknownst to her it would nice time she'd see your son alive when Emmitt arrived in Money Mississippi in August 21st 1955 since Moses write with a sharecropper Emmett spent most of his days helping with the cotton Harvest on August 24th Emmett and a group of teens went to a local grocery store after a day of working in the fields accounts of what transpired varies because they were no Witnesses in the..." You love the show? Leave us your comments and 5-star ratings if we impress you.

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"...some sheets your son alive when Emmet arrived in Money Mississippi in August 21st 1955 since Moses write with a sharecropper Emmett spent most of his days helping with the cotton Harvest on August 24th Emmett and a group of teens went to the local grocery store after a day of working in the fields accounts of what transpired varies because there were no Witnesses in the store some witnesses state that one of the boys Derek immaterial to talk to the stores cassia curl Bryant a white woman it was reported that he either oh that her touched her hand flirting with the woman as he was leaving the store Moses right later stated the kidnapper is only mentioned..."

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"...today we're going to be learning about the murder of Susan Galvin Susan Galvin was born in Bedford Massachusetts on December thirty first nineteen forty-six her parents Helen and Lorimer Galvin Susan was the eldest of seven children and would regularly help take care of the kids while her parents were at work so it seems younger brother Larry says that Susan was kind of like a second mom to the younger kid at some point during her early childhood the family relocated to Spokane Washington Susan continued to help her parents run the family while she attended school at North Central High School once you graduated she decided to move out of her parent's house and start her own independent Life by all accounts Susan was a really caring and responsible woman so I don't get the feeling that she minded taking care of her siblings but she was officially an adult now and she had had this dream of moving to the capital city of Seattle so when Susan was 19 years old she made that dream a reality and move to Seattle to begin working as a records Clerk for the Seattle Police Department and this was really big for the time Susan have wanted to do something in law enforcement but this was the late 60s and women didn't really work in that field so Susan saw working as a records Clerk as a great start for her having lived in Seattle for a year the young girl was really enjoying living in the city she was dating a lot she was newly single and she lives right in the downtown core very close to all the action including the police department where she worked the Seattle Police Department was located in the Seattle Center at the bottom of the Space Needle it was a very busy popular area especially with tourists really it sounds like an awesome area to work in Susan regularly worked what was called the graveyard shift starting at midnight and not finish..."

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"...so far in our investigation we've discussed for victims and the night each of them vanished from Southwest Fort Worth Katherine Davis was last seen alive in late September of 1984 Cindy Heller was abducted not quite a month later and Sarah Costco was taken in late December those three women's bodies were all found the first month of 1985 Angie Ebert also disappeared in December of 1984 and was still missing when we left off her purse was found not far from where Cindy Heller's car was discovered abandoned with its interior burned if you haven't listened to the first three episodes go ahead and push pause here and go back to listen and get caught up although we didn't directly call them out some important Clues show up as we tribe each case my colleagues and I want to give you the opportunity to be aware of each of those details as we reason through who could be and who most likely isn't responsible for these murders there are three additional cases We Believe are likely connected to these four but we haven't discussed those just yet we'll get to them soon we already have a theory about a likely suspect and we think it's important for you to know what we know about him before we walk you through those three remaining cases we acknowledge that our Theory could be wrong our Prime Suspect may not have been involved at all or he could have committed some of these murders and someone else or several people could have carried out the others after all we're talking about 7 separate homicides..."

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"...could one person have killed all these women searching for that answer feels like jumping into the Vortex of a tornado and trying to pick out the truth as mere coincidence is mixed with the relevant similarities and fax swirling around you so you wait until the dust settles and the air is still as you plot the details of each case on paper you can clearly see the damage left by a terrible storm that swept through the lives of the victims' families and friends more than 35 years later they're still waiting for answers still waiting for justice still waiting for peace at the end of 1984 the southwest side of Fort Worth Texas was the epicenter of this storm but it's tendrils stretched over months and across boundaries and county lines as my colleagues and I started sifting through a mountain of cold cases from North Texas we saw patterns emerge that pointed to the real possibility of a serial killer I want to be clear though we don't think all the cases from this area and this time period are connected we looked at dozens of unsolved murders before we began to narrow the criteria and identify specific patterns echoed among we weren't the first to see those patterns police have analyzed them for years but without DNA proof and definitive evidence it would be a mistake to declare with certainty that one person committed multiple murders in fact when these murders happened police at first emphatically declared that they weren't connected the investigators who inherited these cold cases have benefited from the clarity of hindsight and like them we now know that more than..."

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"... the story I'm talking about involves sexual assault and suicide this is the story of Rehtaeh Parsons a 17-year-old girl from Dartmouth Nova Scotia Canada she experienced something that no one should ever have to go through an experience that would haunt her so deeply that she felt like there was no other way to escape the pain and to take her own life her story is not only heartbreaking but disturbing uncomfortable and it's a huge warning to all parents that we need to better protect our children and be more accountable of her parenting after listening if you have teenagers or preteens at home maybe it's time to open a dialogue with them about their own experiences because knowing what's going on in their lives is half the battle it's only then that we can take action as necessary rental Parsons who also went by Ray did not live a long life but she did leave a legacy behind she made a huge hacked on everyone she met in the 17 years that she walked this planet rehtaeh was born on December 9th 1995 to her parents Glenn canning and Leah person the couple had actually broken up before she was born but they did an incredible job of co-parenting and ensuring that Ray always knew she had the love and support from both her parents rehtaeh was named after her mother's nice Heather as rehtaeh was Heather spelled backwards Leah persons had fallen in love with the name when she was only 13 years old way before she was pregnant and she just knew if she were to have a daughter she would name her rehtaeh the name was as unique and beautiful as Ray would be so it was quite fitting growing up rehtaeh lived full time with her mother Leah in Coal Harbour Nova Scotia along with her two half sisters but her father lived close by so she would spend a ton of time with him too although not..."

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"...So today we're going to talk about Meredith Emerson and just up front just to tell you she was abducted in the North Georgia Mountains I'm really familiar with these parts of the story so when I start talking about where she was hiking I have been there a dozen times a so yeah we're going to be talking about Meredith Emerson she was a 24-year-old woman who lived in Buford Georgia which is about 30 miles or 48 km east of Atlanta Meredith was abducted from Blood Mountain in Union County Georgia on New Year's Day of 2008 how is that in relation to Stone Mountain, Stone Mountain is about 25 miles east of Atlanta and Blood Mountain...are hiking the entire Trail now there are some people that will travel for months all the way from Maine Down to Georgia or vice versa good Lord I know I mean I'm just first thing that I'm thinking is Bears very melt 3 million hikers is an awful large number yeah but that's spread out over that 14th state it is a lot but I'm going to save the majority of the population of hikers is the day Travelers that just go up for the day I'm not an outdoor expert but that's what I'm going to assume I know you know there when I go up to Blood Mountain there's a ton of people out there at all times yeah that's so that's what we're going to be talking about today now a question yeah Blood Mountain was it name before the murder or after I think that at some point in time there was conflict with the Native Indians that lived in the area so that's why they called it that okay yeah on another note just..."

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"...20 year old and loves games texting girls and most of all wrestling the sport might not seem like a natural fit for Damian who had 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs just 125 but the scrappy kid with a never-quit attitude trained hard with his dad Gary and fought his way to the top of the class Damien won a state championship wrestling title in 2013 his senior year he has a tattoo on his backside that says Fearless along with a panther the mascot at his alma mater Fossil Ridge High School in your list was like Damien was known as this is Damien's father Gary heard you never figured anything he took anything on and never back down from anything and how did you first get interested in wrestling we were early fans of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and from the time he was about three he would sit and watch those fights with me and we realize that the wrestlers always did the best we went and signed him up when he was 4 and he fell in love with it immediately and the rest is history wow signed him up when he was four that's an early love for sure yeah he started early this is Bryce basin one of Damien's childhood friends and wrestling Partners tell me how you met Damien by first or second grade and the wrestling room in Azle think he was wrestling 42 pounds at the time 42 pounds that's not much no not at all hey Betty what was it like to wrestle against him really hard because he's faster than anybody and can get out of any situation is one of the better wrestlers that's ever came out of Texas for dang sure Damian's dad Gary was also his youth wrestling coach how would you characterize his wrestling style what kind of a wrestler was he very aggressive he never would Coast he would always go after the land you had one gear that was high gear which is why he won as much as he want he would overwhelm his opponents and just attack attack attack did he have like a signature move as a wrestler is takedowns the speed in which he would hit his takedown in wrestling a takedown is scored when one person gains control over the other bringing in opponents knees thighs back side or hands to the mat and a supporting position according to statistics the wrestler who executes the first takedown in a match will win 85 to 90% of the time Damien did his best to take advantage of those odds even to set up the angles on the takedown so I would say..."

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