Culpable Returns

In this new season of Culpable, host Dennis Cooper investigates a bizarre case in a small Ohio town. In the fall of '98, 17-year-old Danny Violette ran away from home and never returned. 11 days later, his body was found in a cornfield with a ligature mark around his neck and a tire impression across his bare torso. More than 25 years later, the question remains, what happened to Danny? From Tenderfoot TV, a new installment of Culpable begins.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, flashpoint listeners, this is Dennis Cooper, host of Culpable.
You may remember my investigations into the suspicious deaths of
twenty one year old Christian Andreachio and twenty two year
old Britney Stykes. Now I'm back with an all new case.
In the fall of nineteen ninety eight, seventeen year old
Danny Violet went missing from his home in the small

(00:21):
town of Willard, Ohio. Eleven days later, his body was
found in a nearby cornfield, with a ligature mark around
his neck and a tire impression across his bear torso.
Danny's case remains unsolved, but a fresh look at this
twenty five year old cold case could help change that.
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know who I am? Thinks Yep, there's your way
back doing.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
In the fall of ninety eight, a sleepy Ohio town
grew restless when one of their own vanished without a trace.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
When's the last time you saw Dan.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Friday?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
About five priory the David point his street.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
The locals searched tirelessly for eleven days until a farmer
happened upon a rather gruesome scene.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
But arnors that you've heard, let us finding the buy
out the form for for sure, Danny has been heard,
bad has faulted.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I've been lost out there.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
For more than a quarter of a century. Authorities and
loved ones have tried to unravel this mystery.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
Hey marks twenty six years since seventeen year old Danny
Violette went missing. His family still wants to know how
he ended up dead in a Hron County cornfield.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
But sometimes what a case really needs is a fresh look.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
We had verification from two or three other people that
Danny stopped breathing the night before.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
I got a young kid. He's got a ligature mark
around his neck. I said, you need more investigation. That's
where it ended.

Speaker 6 (02:02):
We have evidence, we have witnesses, we have suspects, so
we have a lot of solvability factors. Yet unfortunately there's
also some impediments.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
From Tenderfoot TV. An all new season of Culpable is
available now.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
If you're not the one that killed him, you're not
in trouble that you like to me. All I want
is the truth.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
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