Episode 3  -  7-    An 80 year old open child abduction investigation

Eighty years ago, Marjorie vanished while at a Mother’s Day picnic in the forest with her family. To this day she is the subject of one of the oldest unsolved cases recorded by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Her search was one of the largest for a child since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping six years earlier. Residents of western Pennsylvania and Marjorie’s surviving relatives still hold out hope she’s alive

Episode 3-5,  Power, control and death 

A shad of Blue about power, control and death.  How is the birth of the first surviving set of identical quadruplets on May 23, 1946, connected to a crime spree that ended dramatically almost 40 years latter. 

 A story that starts 74 years ago in Milton, North Carolina that explodes in the death of 9 family members in 1985. Listen to find out how.

Episode 3-4 A view of the Asheville Police Dept from 1970 and 1983

Mr. Bob Terrell.  Terrell wrote for the Asheville Citizen-Times for over fifty years.  Terrell is also the author of several Police related books.  A must read for history and law enforcement historians is The Will Harris Murders: November 13, 1906, a Night in Which Asheville Was a Tougher Town Than Tombstone and Dodge City Rolled into One.

The stories tell of two unusual assignments given Asheville Police Patrolmen separated by 13 years.

Episode 3-3   --- Political Prisoner or Murderer ?

The 1957 Murder of Two North Carolina Highway Patrolmen. Is the killer, Frank Wetzel a cold-blooded killer or a political prisoner?

Some say the most notorious prisoner in North Carolina history was silvery-haired, sparkly-eyed Frank Edward Wetzel, inmate No. 11021-OS, serving two consecutive life terms at the Vance Correctional Center.

The state said he’s a calculating killer who gunned down two young highway patrolmen one “sad, bad night” back in 1957.

Supporters called him a “political prisoner,” denied fair treatment and any hope of release by vote-counting officeholders.

Justice or Politics, listen and decide for yourself.

Episode 3-2   Justice denied and justice delivered.  

 The Killing of an Asheville North Carolina police officer in 1911.

Episode 3-1 The Satanic Panic - Dungeon and Dragons and murder.   

In the late 80’s  a phenomenon know as the Satanic Panic characterized by  a fear about the presence of Satanic ritual abuse in one's community, state or country showed up in many cities and communities.  

Today's Shade of Blue is about the game that allegedly led to the Murder of a step father over a two million dollar inheritance. 

Bonus 3 #6  Wyatt Outlaw

Today's shade of blue story is about one of the First African American  Law enforcement Officers in the state of North Carolina.    Mr. Wyatt Outlaw.

Bonus 5  Redhead Murder and Nazi Found and removed. 

Serial killer

1983 to 1985

and

A monster  found hiding in the United States.

Federal Court orders him to be removed from the U.S.

Bonus season 3 #4

The killing of the father in law.

A short look at a domestic incident that went wrong.

Bonus 3  #3  Two N.C. Cold Cases

As time passes  felonious minds have been attempting to get better at getting away with murder. According to the F  B  I. Uniform Crime Reports.  In 2016.  nearly 40 percent of murder and non-negligent manslaughter cases went uncleared,

This can cause grief for victims’ families and frustration for investigators.  some of whom retire without being able to say question . Who did it in reference to a citizen’s violent demise that happened on their watch.

It seems with the popularity of true crime Television. Books. Movies. And podcasts just like this one.  For the general public, unsolved deaths are a ceaseless source of mystery and fascination.   Apparently its true. every one loves a mystery.

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