Thank you to Robin Warder of the Trail Went Cold Podcast for making time to join the show.

You can follow him on Twitter @robin_warder.We discuss the wild case of Tommy Ziegler. A man sitting on death row for a quadruple murder he may not have committed on Christmas Eve, 1974.Join us as we discuss the wild tale of Tommy Ziegler and the Winter Garden, Florida furniture store murders.

You'll never guess who he is accused of killing. 

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On this week's episode we take a look back at a case from 1990 that remains unsolved to this day. A quadruple murder which has become known as the Las Cruces Bowling Massacre remains unsolved to this day.

One of the most infamous unsolved murders in New Mexico is the 1990 Las Cruces Bowling Alley Massacre. In this incident, 7 people were shot, 4 which died, by two unknown assailants. The motive of the massacre was robbery; about $5,000 was stolen

Las Cruces Sun New reporter Bethany Fruedenthal's article was a major source for this episode. She is an excellent reporter.

SOURCES:

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2020/02/03/las-cruces-bowling-alley-massacre-30th-anniversary-nightmare-in-las-cruces/4645475002/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1lH7Hdwy4Y

www.readingeagle.com

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-prosecutors-disclose-internal-investigation-officer-bryan-kohber-rcna77262

https://www.krem.com/article/news/crime/university-of-idaho-students-killed/new-court-documents-bradygiglio-violation-kohberger-case/293-bc9fd29f-0284-4b69-a86a-1a706d327963

Bethany Fruedenthal- Las Cruces Sun [email protected], 575-541-5449 or @bethanyfreuden1 on Twitter

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-yogurt-shop-murders-austin-texas-families-investigators-haunted-by-unsolved-case/

Tips can be provided anonymously by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. Tips can also be provided online at NMCrimeStoppers.org or through the Crime Stoppers app, “P3 TIPS.”

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On this week's episode we head back into the Low Country and revisit another death that has been associated with the Murdaugh family. 

As most of you know, Alex Murdaugh was found GUILTY of killing his wife Maggie and Son Paul. With that case now wrapped up the focus has turned to another mysterious case involving the Murdaugh family, the alleged “hit & run” of 19 year old Stephen Smith.

If you would like to learn more about the Murdaugh case, please checkout the episode we did with former SLED Lt. Rita Shuler: LISTEN NOW

SOURCES:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-YQpEuj0A

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11888375/How-major-Netflix-HBO-documentaries-revived-Stephen-Smiths-2015-death.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11888251/Stephen-Smiths-death-ruled-homicide-eight-years-dead-near-Murdaugh-property.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9722907/Cops-investigating-Stephen-Smiths-death-questioned-ties-Buster-Murdaugh-docs-reveal.html

https://blandrichter.com/

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Who was Alfred Packer? Was he America's first Hannibal the Cannibal?

On February 9, 1874, Alferd Packer and five other men departed from the camp of Ute Chief Ouray, near what is now Montrose, Colorado. They were resuming a trek that had begun several months earlier in Provo, Utah, hoping to reach newly discovered gold prospects in Breckenridge, Colorado.

While the original party was considerably larger, only Packer (as guide) and Israel Swan, Shannon Wilson Bell, George Noon, James Humphrey, and Frank Miller dared risk the sometimes brutal Colorado winter in search of riches. And brutal it was, as not long after leaving the safety of Chief Ouray's camp, the group was engulfed in a furious blizzard near the present site of Lake City, Colorado.

Packer was next seen on April 16, 1874, straggling into the Los Pinos Indian Agency with little more than a rifle and a skinning knife belonging to members of his party. The story Packer told at that time was that, once the storm hit, he had set up camp while the others went forward in search of food. They never returned, and Packer subsequently headed out for Los Pinos. - https://www.museumtrail.org/alferd-packer

SOURCES:

https://www.museumtrail.org/alferd-packer

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120993735/the-oskaloosa-independent/

https://www.newspapers.com/image/535743336/?terms=Alfred%20Packer%20dead&match=1&clipping_id=120991548

https://www.newspapers.com/image/226969329/?terms=Alfred%20Packer%20&match=1

https://www.newspapers.com/image/728654362/?clipping_id=120990249&terms=Alfred%20Packer%20dea&match=1

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Former SLED employee, Rita Shuler, joins Crime Capsule to discuss the latest in the Murdaugh Murder trial. Retired Special Agent, Lieutenant Rita Y. Shuler, of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is also the author of The Lowcountry Murder of Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle: A Cold Case Solved.

Lieutenant Rita Y. Shuler was supervisory special agent of the Forensic Photography Department of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) for twenty-four and a half years. She interfaced with the Attorney General’s Office, solicitors and investigators, providing photographic evidence assistance in the prosecution of thousands of criminal cases. Her interest in photography started as a hobby at the age of nine with a Kodak “Brownie” camera. Before her career as a forensic photographer, she worked in the medical field as a radiologic technologist for twelve years. Her interest in forensic science evolved when she X-rayed homicide victims to assist with criminal investigations. Shuler received her specialized law enforcement photography training at the South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy in Columbia, South Carolina, and the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. She holds a special love for the South Carolina Lowcountry and enjoys walking, beaching, crabbing, fishing and shark tooth hunting. She resides in Johns Island, South Carolina.

Purchase her book HERE

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Alex Murdaugh is convicted of killing his wife & son.

Thank you to SLED for the audio.

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On December 20th, 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was abducted from her sleepy neighborhood north of Denver. Despite extensive searches and a national push for answers her case went cold... until it wasn't. Tune in for Who Killed Jonelle Matthews?

If you'd like to support this show directly, you can do so by donating via the Venmo app with my name @bill-huffman-3. Thank you for your continued support. For more information about this case and to stay up to date on the trial starting in October I recommend following me on Twitter @billhuffman3.

Thank you for listening!

SOURCES:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85783869/

https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2021/02/03/jonelle-matthews-murder-accused-killer-pleads-not-guilty-trial-set/4354316001/

https://account.idahostatesman.com/paywall/subscriber-only?resume=234982707&intcid=ab_archive

New trial date set for man accused of killing Jonelle Matthews ...https://www.coloradoan.com › story › news › 2021/06/23

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985

https://web.archive.org/web/20190727044806/https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/crime/jonelle-matthews-disappearance-anniversary-timeline-of-events/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85787267/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85787458/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRhg9G5D_hU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-REzgZGaY&t=5s

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Over the course of several months in 1982, Spisak, driven by his Nazi beliefs, killed three people at CSU - the Rev. Horace Rickerson; CSU student Brian Warford; and Timothy Sheehan, an assistant superintendent for buildings and grounds at the university. Spisak also shot John Hardaway, a factory worker, and Coletta Dartt, a CSU employee. - Cleveland.com

Spisak would go on "hunting parties" and targeted Rickerson, Warford and Hardaway because they were black, according to his parole records.

SOURCES:

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/frank_spisak_executed_for_csu.html

www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/02/as_nazi_sympathizer_frank_spis.html

blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/frank_spisak_executed_for_csu.html

www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/02/17/17-ohio-execution.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfP_tC7OWpI

www.users.on.net/~bundy23/wwom/spisak.htm

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A big thanks to Jim Harold, the man of a million podcasts, for joining me this week to discuss one of Cleveland’s oldest mysteries, the Torso Killings.

Thank YOU for tuning in to this week's episode of Who Killed...?

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On today’s episode we are going to start a look into the Kirtland Cult Killings from 1989 in Kirtland, Ohio. Located in Lake County and only a 25 minute drive east of Cleveland the small town became a national story in January 1990. After moving to town, Lundgren became a lay minister in Kirtland for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. 

Dale Luffman, president of the northeast Ohio chapter of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said Lundgren worked from 1985 to 1987 at a church temple in Kirtland. Lundgren conducted tours for the public of the church's 153-year-old temple in Kirtland when he moved from Kansas City, Mo. 

SOURCES:

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