True Crime on Easy Street

This week Katy ends our Season 1 by taking us to Mobile, AL where we meet a man who later is known as the generic Ted Bunny. Jeremy Bryan Jones AKA John Paul Chapman takes his crime spree from Oklahoma to Missouri to Alabama to Georgia and back to Alabama.

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965

Sources:

https://murderpedia.org/male.J/j/jones-jeremy.htm

https://www.thoughtco.com/psychological-profile-jeremy-bryan-jones-973169

https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/netflix-unsolved-mysteries-reboot-features-alabama-serial-killer-jeremy-jones.html

https://thecinemaholic.com/is-jeremy-jones-dead-or-alive/

The year is winding to a close and the holidays are upon us this week! This episode starts off a little lighter hearted than usual with some of your local experts' favorite Christmas memories. We end the episode bringing to light some missing persons and unsolved crimes from all across the state. If you have any information we have included the local law enforcement contact numbers below.

Walker County Sheriff's Office 205-302-6464

Auburn Police Department 334-501-3100

Crime Stoppers St. Clair County 205-254-7777

Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office 205-752-0616

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965

Sources:

https://www.facebook.com/secretscrime/photos/rebecca-becky-ferguson-has-been-missing-since-september-16-1988-she-was-32-years/730597187453972/

https://charleyproject.org/case/rebecca-ferguson

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/137390960/rebecca-ferguson

https://www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/news/crime/2019/08/19/heaven-lashae-ross-death-is-still-unsolved-16-years-later/4414695007/

https://www.al.com/news/2018/08/heaven_lashae_ross_vanished_15.html

https://www.al.com/news/montgomery/2015/07/twenty_years_later_auburn_poli.html

https://www.wsfa.com/story/29620999/auburn-pd-revisit-20-year-old-au-student-death-case/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/kelleyhendersonhoward/

This week Kelly takes us to Geneva County in south Alabama to recap what is now known as the Geneva County Massacre. This tragic tale rocked a small community but also brought it together.

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965

This week these non experts travel across the state line to the Noble community in Northwest Georgia. Noble community was the home of the infamous Tri-State Crematory, and Scott is going to give you all the gory details on what makes it so infamous.

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965

Sources:

"A Long Day at the End of the World: A Story of Desecration and Revelation in the Deep South" by Brent Hendricks

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/us/georgia-crematory-manager-pleads-guilty-and-gives-apology.html

https://wickedhorror.com/features/editorials/horrifying-true-story-scandal-tri-state-crematory/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_Crematory_scandal

This week Katy takes us to Auburn, Alabama. The case of Aniah Blanchard is tragic, but it did lead to change.

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Aniah_Blanchard

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aniah-blanchard-murder-family-justice-48-hours/

https://oanow.com/news/crime_courts/updated-3-05-p-m-wednesday-affidavit-aniah-blanchard-put-up-fight-went-for-the/article_145273bc-9d87-5d3e-b2cc-f36e86b0afe2.html

https://www.wdhn.com/news/forever-aniah-day-to-be-held-in-auburn-oct-23-in-honor-of-aniah-blanchard/

We really can't believe we are back in the Blue Mountain area of Anniston, AL. There really seems to be a pattern around here. Kelly takes us to Granny's house this Thanksgiving week.

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965

Sources:

https://blog.newspapers.com/lonely-hearts/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/nannie-doss-giggling-granny

http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3619

https://www.alabamaheritage.com/from-the-vault/the-giggling-granny

https://www.grunge.com/448088/the-giggling-granny-serial-killer-relied-on-this-method-to-murder-her-family/

https://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-giggling-granny-682820e063b8

This week we travel right across the state line from us to Rome, GA to look into the story of a young woman in 1946 named Bertha Hill. Don't worry, we do get to spend some time this episode in a cemetery right here in Centre, AL. You may have some memories of a past case triggered with this one.

This week we travel right across the state line to a little town named Trion, GA to Corpsewood Manor. Scott gives us all the shocking details surrounding this crime clouded by folklore and gossip.

Sources:

"Corpsewood" by Daniel Ellis

"The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia" by Amy Petulla

"Corpsewood: The Eyewitness Account" by Susan E. Scott, Teresa Hudgins and Shannon West

https://crimecapsule.com/the-curse-of-corpsewood-and-the-corpsewood-murders/

https://thecinemaholic.com/dr-charles-scudder-murder-where-are-tony-west-and-avery-brock-now/

Santa Cruz Sentinel March 9. 1983 addition https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31788732/corpsewood-guilty-verdict/

We know we are a few days past Halloween, but this story had to be told. This week we are back in North Alabama near Huntsville for the gruesome murder of a WWII Veteran conducted by a guy dubbed "The Halloween Killer".

Sources:

http://Al.com

http://Murderpedia.org

http://Eji.org

http://Caselaw.findlaw.com

We are back this week for part 2 in our very own Cherokee County, Alabama. It was worth the wait!

Resources:

First hand account from then Investigator Bo Jolly

Blood Ambush by Sheila Johnson

https://www.gadsdentimes.com/news/20161008/cherokee-county-murderess-turns-tables

https://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/archive/roberts-convicted-of-capital-murder/article_e586e2bb-58d5-5acd-9539-ed6af108b80d.html

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2014/04/05/tutwiler-inmate-wins-2m-judgment-against-her-former-attorney/7340089/

Theme song is The Legend of Hannah Brady by the Shane Givens Band

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-legend-of-hannah-brady/1013006958?i=1013006965