Episode Source:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstance

Source:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/12/13/mysterious-circumstances

We hope you enjoy the TRULY bizarre & horrible story we have for y’all this week: the extremely controversial pop culture phenomenon of the deadly “Glee Curse”—& the series of tragic deaths of three of the beloved television show’s breakout young stars.

Sources:

BOOK: "Sister of Darkness: The Chronicles of a Modern Exorcist" by R.H. Stavis

https://time.com/6248035/the-price-of-glee-docuseries-curse/#:~:text=It's%20as%20simple%20as%20it,Glee's%20fourth%20and%20fifth%20seasons.

Article: "No, Glee is not cursed. Please stop saying that." By James Hibberd

ARTICLE: "Cory Monteith remembered on tenth anniversary of his death" By Lisa Respers France

The Truth About Cory Monteith's Relationship With Lea Michele: https://www.thelist.com/952614/the-truth-about-cory-monteiths-relationship-with-lea-michele/

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/8591068/when-glee-cory-monteith-lea-michele-date/

https://www.distractify.com/p/were-cory-monteith-and-lea-michele-engaged

https://people.com/tv/mark-salling-ex-speaks-out-after-glee-actor-died-suicide/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/01/30/reports-glee-actor-mark-salling-who-pleaded-guilty-child-porn-found-dead/1079288001/

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/mark-salling-death-details-emerge-8097437/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/naya-riveras-family-reaches-settlement-wrongful-death-lawsuit-rcna18316#:~:text=Rivera%20was%20reported%20missing%2C%20and,have%20been%20an%20accidental%20drowning.

https://abc7.com/naya-rivera-glee-toxicology-report-lake/6419478/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/19/naya-rivera-drowning-wrongful-death-lawsuit-filed-on-behalf-of-glee-actors-son

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/entertainment/naya-rivera-search-body-found/index.html

When a young blonde woman is found terribly disoriented & severely injured in a Florida swamp after barely surviving a horrific attack, the investigation is almost instantly dismissed for typical BS reasons (including but not limited to “well she was probably JUST an add*ct or JUST a s*x worker, so who really cares🙄” ….until a Private Detective with a reputation for refusing to sit down & shut up decides to take on the bizarre case, and surprise surprise…NOTHING is as it seems.

Listen to us do a BLIND READ (meaning neither of us knew ANYTHING about the case going in, so we react in real time) of highly acclaimed true crime journalist Mark Bowden’s famous article for Vanity Fair December 2010: “The Case of the Vanishing Blonde” right now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Lights Out Campers🏕️

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/12/vanishing-blonde-201012

PART TWO OUT NOW

On May 3rd, 1969, high school sweethearts Michael “Mike” Morrison & Debra “Debbie” Means never came home from the prom.

After a frantic search for the missing teenagers, the close-knit & quiet midwest farmtown of Mascoutah, IL would have its innocence forever shattered, & the search for answers surrounding their brutal m*rders would continue for the next 50 years.

**PARTs 1 & 2 of this two-part story available now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

🏕️Lights Out Campers🏕️

***********link to scholarship not available,

but you can mail & make checks payable to:

Mascoutah Comm. High School

c/o Scholarship Coordinator

1313 West Main St

Mascoutah IL 62258

**checks payable to:

Means-Morrison Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Link to Ed & Mindy Morrisons book : Bad Moon Rising

On May 3rd, 1969, high school sweethearts Michael “Mike” Morrison & Debra “Debbie” Means never came home from the prom.

After a frantic search for the missing teenagers, the close-knit & quiet midwest farmtown of Mascoutah, IL would have its innocence forever shattered, & the search for answers surrounding their brutal m*rders would continue for the next 50 years.

**PART 1 of this two-part story available now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

🏕️Lights Out Campers🏕️

Sources:

Book:

“Bad Moon Rising: The Prom Night Murders Memoir” by Ed Morrison with Mindy Morrison

Articles:

https://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/2019/dec/16/prom-murders-still-echo-50-years-later-illinois-it/

https://amp.bnd.com/news/local/article225238605.html

Basically, rural roads in the 1970's coastal Carolinas were NOT where ya wanted to be. (surprise surprise) You also didn't even want to be a loose acquaintance of Donald "PeeWee" Gaskins...because the more his violence escalated, the more unhinged he became. If want he says is true, his victim count was well above 100.

Even after three parts, we feel like we barely scratched the surface attempting to understand his twisted mind. This is the conclusion (thank god) of his horrendous beyond belief story.

Sources:

Book:

Final Truth: The AutoBiography of PeeWee Gaskins, by Donald "PeeWee" Gaskins and Wilton Earle

Article:

Donald Henry Gaskins, Jr. “Pee Wee” : Information researched and summarized by Briana Kirby; Kayla Wolford; Lindsay Hayward ; Department of Psychology Radford University Radford, VA 24142-6946

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Henry_Gaskins

PART II of our coverage of Donald “PeeWee” Gaskins: South Carolina’s Coastal K*ller” is out now…

& we aren’t quite sure if we need to say we’re sorry or y’all welcome, because once again this is a real disturbing doozy of an episode (consider this a serious content warning that we have to talk about some really dark stuff😖)…& PeeWee was a REAL bad egg.

In Part II, we take you through his formative years in South Carolina Juvenile “Reform School”, multiple escape attempts, eventual arrival in Federal prison, and ultimately, his first murder.

Let’s just say….he was not reformed at “reform school”.

🏕️Lights Out Campers🏕️

Sources:

Book:

Final Truth: The AutoBiography of PeeWee Gaskins, by Donald "PeeWee" Gaskins and Wilton Earle

Article:

Donald Henry Gaskins, Jr. “Pee Wee” : Information researched and summarized by Briana Kirby; Kayla Wolford; Lindsay Hayward ; Department of Psychology Radford University Radford, VA 24142-6946

**CONTENT WARNING this episode does contain mentions of childhood DA & SA, animal abuse, and in general contains extremely adult content.

Something ain't right with PeeWee....and in PART ONE we're here to tell you all about his tumultuous childhood in the 1930's & 40's in rural Florence County, SC, and the budding disturbing pathologies that would eventually manifest themselves in the most heinous crimes against men, women, and children. Donald "PeeWee" Gaskins is oddly not talked about as much as other serial killers, and we think maybe its because there's quite simply nothing about his story that can be weirdly romanticized. It's just all bad. Lights Out Campers.

Sources:

Book:

Final Truth: The AutoBiography of PeeWee Gaskins, by Donald "PeeWee" Gaskins and Wilton Earle

Article:

Donald Henry Gaskins, Jr. “Pee Wee” : Information researched and summarized by Briana Kirby; Kayla Wolford; Lindsay Hayward ; Department of Psychology Radford University Radford, VA 24142-6946

THE CONCLUSION IS HERE.

On March 11, 1989, fourteen-year-old Aundria Bowman disappeared from her home in Hamilton, Michigan. Her adoptive parents & police declared her a runaway & shelved her disappearance for over a decade….until an armchair detective and a determined mother teamed up to discover the real truth.

Article read for today’s episode:

“The Girl In The Picture” by Niles Cappello for Atavist Magazine

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-girl-in-the-picture-aundria-bowman-dennis-murder-michigan-cold-case/