In part one Darlene and  Melody discuss the disappearance of  Walter Collins.  On March 8, 1928 Christine Collins was called in to  work for a few hours at her job as a telephone operator. Her son, nine year old Walter Collins, wanted to go see a movie, so  Christine gave him  a dime to go. She  instructed  Walter to come home directly after the movie. That would be  last time Christine Collins would ever see her son. Walter's disappearance made national headlines. The LAPD were desperate to solve this case because of recent bad publicity but they were getting nowhere. Five months later a boy claiming to be Walter Collins showed up.
In a seemingly unrelated incident  police were called out to a chicken farm in Riverside County to check on the immigration status of a young worker.  Police would soon make a very horrifying discovery.

Intro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Intro and Outro Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
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Resources:

The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
by Anthony Flacco and Jerry Clark

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Collins
newspapers.com (including articles from the LA Times, LA Evening Post, and the  LA Evening Express) 
findagrave.com
casetext.com
jhgraham.com

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In the summer of 1967, on a small island off the coast of NC a young intern at the outdoor drama, The Lost Colony, vanished. Nineteen year old Brenda Holland's body was found five days later in the Albemarle Sound. The suspect list is long but the evidence is lacking, and no arrest is ever made. The case remains unsolved to this day. 

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In 1896 a young woman's headless body was found in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky.  During the autopsy it was discovered she had been pregnant at the time of her death.  She was identified by her shoes and a birth defect that left her with webbed toes. Pearl Bryan was a beautiful  22 year old socialite from Green Castle, Indiana.  Her family thought she was visiting friends. In reality, she was visiting her lover, Scott Jackson, a 30 year old dental student in Cincinnati.


Music by Isaiah Hildreth
Male Narrator Curtis Hildreth

Sources

Photos
Pearl Bryan photo Public Domain

Crimes of the Century Podcast
Most Notorious Podcast
The Betrayal of Pearl Bryan -Unraveling the Gilded AgeMystery By Larry Tippin
Murder By Gaslight
Newspapers.com
https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-gruesome-murder-of-pearl-bryan-492eb83a859ehttps://www.gutenberg.org/files/29569/29569-h/29569-h.htm
https://cemeteryindex.com/wordpress/featured-cemeteries/mt-washington-cemetery/julie-rimer-historical-ramblings/unwed-and-pregnant-in-1893/

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 Five year old Garnett Spears has spent most of his childhood in and out of hospitals. Doctors become suspicious when unusually high  sodium levels show up and can not be explained by natural causes. 

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In 1913 a little girl was found brutally murdered in the basement of the  pencil factory where she worked.  The trial of the century would follow an arrest. Was the right man convicted? 

Music:
"Hard Times" By Isaiah Hildreth

Male Narrator:
Curtis Hildreth

Sources:
newspapers.com

findagrave.com

Wikipedia

Prash's Murder Map : True Crime Podcast
Crimes of the Centuries Podcast

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Phagan

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/02/20/alonzo-mann-says-jim-conley-murdered-mary-phagan/4819312002/

https://pbsnc.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/61f1242e-ef0f-41ce-8465-f4f830e406b9/georgia-stories-child-labor-and-the-textile-mills/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40578524

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/textile-industry/

https://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/online-exhibits/online-
exhibits/three-centuries-of-georgia-history/nineteenth-century/growth-and-change-in-georgia/

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/henry-w-grady-1850-1889/

And the Sea Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Written By Steve Oney

The Silent and the Damed: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
Written By  Frey Sietz  and Nancy Thompson Frey

The Frank Case:Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery
Author is anonymous

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One morning in May 1866, just before daybreak Laura Foster quietly left her home with a bundle of clothes and her father's horse. She was going to rendezvous with her beau, Tom Dooley. Rumor had it they were going to run off and get married. However, Tom did not run off and Laura never returned home. When her body was found in a shallow grave, someone was bound to hang for her murder. The question is whether the right person was hung or was someone else guilty as well?

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An Appalachian, snake handling  preacher named Glenn Summerford tried to murder his wife using a rattlesnake as his weapon. Or did he?

Music:
"Hard Times" By Isaiah Hildreth

Male Narrator :
Curtis Hildreth

Sources:
Salvation on Sand Mountain by Glenn Covington
Alabama Snake Documentary
https://youtu.be/nnnvicF9emU
https://youtu.be/7OcoUyXiuU0https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/928/snake-handling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_handling_in_Christianity
newspapers.com
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In the spring of 1987,  a young woman shows up at the hospital after allegedly giving birth in her car. After a medical exam reveals that she has not given birth, authorities discover the unthinkable lengths she went to to get this baby. 

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 In the 1940's Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck preyed on lonely women    looking for love through lonely hearts advertisements. The duo started out as con artists but greed and jealousy led them to  serial killing.

Sources :
The Lonely Hearts Killers: The Bloody Passions of Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez   By Tobin T. Buhk
newspapers.com
findagrave.com

Music :
"Guilty" By Al Bowlly
Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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One of Hollywood's golden girls, Lana Turner,  lived a life that could have been a movie itself.  Unfortunately the life of a movie star is not always as glamorous as it is portrayed. By the time she realized she was involved with a known gangster, it was too late. The arguments, the threats, and  the abuse eventually led to murder. 

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