Mountain Murders

A serial killer in training slips through the justice system after assaulting and attempting to abduct several women in South Carolina.

Larry Gene Bell was responsible for one of South Carolina's most high profile cases. Shari Smith, 17, was a beautiful young woman with a bright future. 9 year old Debra Helmick was kidnapped from her front yard.

Bell continued tormenting Smith's family with phone calls, weeks after Shari's body is found.

Bell never confessed. It is believed more bodies may be tied to this killer.

Join Mountain Murders as we take a look into the twisted mind of a cold blooded murderer.

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Patty Jo Pulley, a devoted wife of a youth minister, goes missing on May 14, 1999. After Patty's disappearance, cracks in the marriage are revealed. Her husband, Rick, becomes a prime suspect in the case. His behavior and actions are riddled with guilt.

Mountain Murder's takes a look at the ultimate betrayal. Adultery, phone sex and pornography addiction, and lies that lead to murder.

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An Army Private named Calvin Glover was convicted of beating a fellow soldier to death with a baseball bat in 1999.

Many believed the murder of Barry Winchell was a hate crime. Winchell was perceived as a homosexual by some soldiers in his unit at Fort Campbell, KY. His death sparked a heated conversation in the United States.

Mountain Murders takes a look at Winchell's life m his relationship with a transgender woman, his attempt to hide his private life from the military and ultimately his tragic murder.

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In West Virginia, a restaurant owner suspects his wife of cheating. Instead of ending the relationship, he hires his wife's cousin to kill an employee who may be her lover.

Mountain Murders takes on the murder of Joshua Oberg by two guys who are definitely not geniuses nor professional assassins.The botched hit only takes a few months to uncover sending three to prison.

In another mysterious turn of events, is a second missing man also tied up in the scheme?

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Gary Hilton earned the nickname "The National Forest Serial Killer" after killing hikers in National parks throughout the Southeastern United States.

Mountain Murders brings you the second half of Hilton's story. Hilton, unlike most serial killers, waited until he was in his 60s to start acting on murderous impulses. In part two, learn about the cruel death of Florida nurse Cheryl Dunlap and the victim who nearly defeated him, Meredith Emerson.


Theme song: Joe Buck Yourself

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Gary Hilton is America's only known serial killer to prey specifically in the national forests. Hilton struck in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina notoriously preying on hikers and unsuspecting outdoors enthusiasts.

In part one, Mountain Murders investigates Hilton's background. From an abusive childhood to mental illness, his time serving in the US Army until he ultimately became a criminal and drifter. Mountain Murders wraps part one of two with his first known murders.

Join us for a haunting tale of mountain murder.

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New Hampshire is picture perfect. Beneath the natural beauty, there's a history of murder that no one seems to talk about. Spanning over 40 years, women of all ages and backgrounds have been abducted and murdered. The woods of New Hampshire became a dumping grounds for discarded women.

Some of those killings have been attributed to an unknown serial killer known only as the Connecticut River Valley Killer who mostly operated in the 1980s before going silent. Or did he?

Mountain Murders takes a DEEP look into some of the 55 unsolved murders in New Hampshire.

Was the Connecticut River Valley Killer responsible for more deaths? Or was there multiple killers operating in the same area?

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In Central Pennsylvania from the 1800s-mid 1900s, many people practiced a type of "witchcraft" blending Christianity and European folk magic called Powwow.

30 year John Blymire, a practitioner of Powwow, believed he was laboring under a curse. In order to exorcise the alleged hex, Blymire consulted a number of fellow witches in hopes of discovering the origination of said curse.

Blymire along with two teenage accomplices raid the home of a local man, Nelson Rehmeyer, believing him to be the witch behind the curse.

Mountain Murders explores the sordid tale of murder, revenge, witchcraft and legend. Join us for the Hex Hollow Pennsylvania Witchcraft Murder.

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Financial ruin can be a motive for murder. John Kemmler, a German Immigrant, was let go from his mill job in the industrial town of Holyoke. The fear of failure led Kemmler to commit one of the most heinous crimes in Massachusetts history.

Captain James Purrington, a Maine farmer, was driven to massacre his entire family in the early 1800s.

Mountain Murders discusses two tales of murder in 19th century New England examining why two family men would snap.

Resources include A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Murder New England by M William Phelps and various newspaper articles of the period.

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David Earl Miller was a drifter who dabbled in drugs and alcohol. In 1981, Miller was accused of brutally murdering a young woman named Lee Standifer in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was ultimately convicted and sentenced to die by electric chair for the horrific crime.

Join Heather and Dylan as they discuss Miller's nightmarish childhood filled with all kinds of abuses and the road that ultimately led to the murder of an innocent person.

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