Deathcast

This is a special wrap-up episode. To skip my small rant on what is going on in the world, go to 00:10:23

On May, 5 1993 three eight year old boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers went missing. The next day, their mutilated, naked bodies were discovered inside of a drainage ditch in a heavily wooded area of the 10 Mile Bayou known as "Robin Hood Hills." Eventually, a 17 year old named Jessie Misskelley, Jr. would confess to the crime, implicating his friends, 18 year old Damien Echols and 16 year old Charles 'Jason" Baldwin as the masterminds behind the slaying. Wrongly lumped in as part of the "Satanic Panic" craze of the 80s and 90s, the case, and the conviction of the three men responsible, has divided people for years, with many contending their innocence based upon numerous misrepresentations of the facts in various forms of media.  In Part Three I will be looking at the trials, convictions, multiple confessions, and eventually wronful release of the killers. Follow The Deathcast on Instagram and Twitter @AuthorTotten

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On May, 5 1993 three eight year old boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers went missing. The next day, their mutilated, naked bodies were discovered inside of a drainage ditch in a heavily wooded area of the 10 Mile Bayou known as "Robin Hood Hills." Eventually, a 17 year old named Jessie Misskelley, Jr. would confess to the crime, implicating his friends, 18 year old Damien Echols and 16 year old Charles 'Jason" Baldwin as the masterminds behind the slaying. Wrongly lumped in as part of the "Satanic Panic" craze of the 80s and 90s, the case, and the conviction of the three men responsible, has divided people for years, with many contending their innocence based upon numerous misrepresentations of the facts in various forms of media.  In Part Two, I will be looking at the three killers, how they were caught, Misskelley's first confession, and their failed alibis. Follow The Deathcast on Instagram and Twitter @AuthorTotten

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#truecrime #truecrimepodcasts #truecrimeaddict #podcasts #WM3 #WestMemphisThree #DamienEchols #Occult #tripplehomicide

On May, 5 1993 three eight year old boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers went missing. The next day, their mutilated, naked bodies were discovered inside of a drainage ditch in a heavily wooded area of the 10 Mile Bayou known as "Robin Hood Hills." Eventually, a 17 year old named Jessie Misskelley, Jr. would confess to the crime, implicating his friends, 18 year old Damien Echols and 16 year old Charles 'Jason" Baldwin as the masterminds behind the slaying. Wrongly lumped in as part of the "Satanic Panic" craze of the 80s and 90s, the case, and the conviction of the three men responsible, has divided people for years, with many contending their innocence based upon numerous misrepresentations of the facts in various forms of media.  In this first part, I will be looking at the crime, and the first and most notorious of the (still) convicted murderers, Damien Echols. Follow The Deathcast on Instagram and Twitter @AuthorTotten

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In February 1994 police and social services in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, began investigating Fred West for rape and incest involving his 13 year old daughter. Soon however, their attention turned to the whereabouts of another of his daughters, Heather West, who had not been seen by anyone in the family since 1986. They listened as the West children told of their parent's family joke, how they would wind up buried beneath the patio like their sister should they misbehave. Soon the police discovered that, much to their horror, the joke was grounded in reality, and that Heather West wasn't the only secret the garden at 25 Cromwell Street held.

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On the morning of April 12, 1981, 14 year old Sheila Sharp walked from the home of her friends, the Seabolt family, to Cabin 28 in the small resort community of Keddie, California. She was looking forward to seeing her mother, Sue, three brothers, John, Ricky, and Greg, and her younger sister, Tina. Instead, she stepped into a nightmare made flesh, with the bodies of her mother, John, and his friend Dana Windgate lying dead in the cabins living room. Worse still was the fact that Tina was missing. This week we look at one of the most fascinating and tragic unsolved murders in modern American history. The Keddie Cabin Murders, which have inspired numerous films, books, and television shows.Follow The Deathcast on Instagram and Twitter @AuthorTotten

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On August 24, 2002 the body of a young girl was found inside of a storage shed, stuffed into a discarded refrigerator box. The following day another body, this one inside of a steel drum, was discovered buried beneath a concrete slab. Here is the true story of these girls, 12 year old Ashley Marie Pond, and her friend, 13 year old Miranda Diane Gaddis, and the monster who ended their young lives.

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On July, 4 1984 police in Northport, NY found a body in a heavily wooden area known as "Aztecia Woods." Within days, three teenagers would be arrested for murder and the horror of what they had done would sweep across the nation as part of the Satanic Panic. Before all was said and done, one of the teens, 17 year old Ricky Kasso would be dead by his own hands, and the story of "The Acid King" would go down in history.

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On July, 10 1981 town bully Ken McElroy was murdered in a hail of bullets in the small town of Skidmore, Missouri. Despite dozens of witnesses, no one has ever been convicted for the crime. This is the tale of that fateful day, and the story of the violence that has brought Skidmore to national prominence in the decades since time and again. 

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In 1980, a desk clerk at a hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida, called the police. A woman had come in bleeding from multiple wounds. She claimed a man had attempted to kill her. Not long afterwards, the police arrested 29 year old Gerald Eugene Stano. While admitting to the assault, he soon began confessing to a series of murders dating back to the late 1960s. This is his story, the story of a self-professed ladies man who would "find a girl walking" and them murder them with callous abandon before leaving their bodies on the roadside to rot.

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On December, 31 1993, less than a week after being brutally raped and beaten, transgender man Brandon Teena was murdered along with Lisa Lamber and Phillip DeVine inside of a small farmhouse in rural Humboldt, Nebraska. His death would go on to inspire a documentary and later, an Academy Award winning film as well as being one of the impetuous of America's hate crime laws. This is his story.

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