Well, we apologize but the sound quality is not great, since we have to record partially over the phone. Anyway, we’re back after a week away with the deep dive I promised during the last episode on the 1965 death of Kentucky socialite Mary Marrs Cawein. In this episode we discuss her background, her difficult relationships with her husband and his many mistresses, and what happened on the night of July 4-5, 1965.

This year will mark 25 years since Rod Ferrell and his vampire clan committed a double homicide, and this episode of Creepy Kentucky discusses what led to these horrific killings. (Trigger warnings for animal abuse at about 11:55-12:15 and 13:25-13:45.)

Welcome to a bit of a train wreck because we do go off track somewhat in this episode. Mostly, though, we talk about Jesse James, his parents, his upbringing, his career as a robber, and the loose network of friends and relatives who kept him safe from his pursuers. (This episode is made possible by Rhinegeist and their wonderful Bubbles rosé ale—not in any monetary sense, only in the sense of “that’s what we drank before we recorded.”)

On today’s episode, we discuss the Gates-Heaton House on 34th Street in Louisville, otherwise known as the Louisville Torture House. (Get ready because we spend the whole time urging long-dead people to call the police in this one.). Also, we discuss the Mary Cawein murder of 1965, also known as the Carbolic Acid Cocktail Murder. (Get ready because we spend the whole time urging long-dead people to call the police in this one as well.)

In this episode of Tangentville, we discuss the death of French horse bloodstock expert Jean Michel Gambet. His burning BMW was found on the side of a lonely road near Lexington in December 1982. But was his death a suicide—or could he have been murdered? And how does a famous kidnapping factor into it?

In this week’s episode we discuss the 1994 Prostitution Murders of Oak Grove, Kentucky. Two massage parlor employees were killed in a case with ties to local government, the police and the nearby Ft Campbell army base. Twenty seven years later, the murders remain unsolved.

This episode discusses the Shakers and the beautiful community they established over 200 years ago at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County. Unfortunately it goes off the rails pretty quickly as we devolve into discussing how the Shakers would have made a certain “personal care” item. However, there are also lots of ghostly anecdotes to savor and ponder over, so it’s not a total embarrassment for us!

Welcome to our new podcast, Tangentville! Or our old podcast, Creepy Kentucky—same difference. Today we talk about some incredible ghost stories from the Castle on the Cumberland, the Kentucky State Penitentiary, in between all the other things we talk about. Don’t forget—if you have a better nickname for the electric chair than “Old Sparky, “ email us at [email protected]!

In this week’s episode, we take a look at how people in the Appalachian region approached and handled death, especially before the advent of funeral homes put distance between the living and the dead. Also, we discuss Quinn’s recent viewing of the movie American Animals, which was a dramatization of the Transylvania Book Heist and was based on the book written by Eric Borsuk, one of the four people who took part in the heist.

This week’s episode is a continuation into our analysis of the mysterious death of Verna Garr Taylor. We discuss the trial of the man accused of her murder, its tragic aftermath, and the odd evidence surrounding this case that just doesn’t quite add up.