July 10, 2023 • 56 mins
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Several of the podcasts within the Darkcast Network worked together to bring you this amazing collaboration of dark tales and horrifying crimes, all that have occurred or have been said to take place during the scorching summer months...
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Several of the podcasts within the Darkcast Network worked together to bring you this amazing collaboration of dark tales and horrifying crimes, all that have occurred or have been said to take place during the scorching summer months...
Join us for this two part episode of "Cruel Summer" and be sure to tune in tomorrow to hear part II where we feature even more disturbing summer horror!
Check out all of the other podcasts on the Darkcast Network by visiting us over at: https://darkcastnetwork.com
And until next time…
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Darkcast Network indie pods with a darkSide. Hello, I'm Jackie Morante,
I host Cause of Death one hundredseconds to Midnight, and I'll be your
guide for this special Darkcast Network eventas we embark on our Cruel Summer Part
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one. Summertime usually it's about vacationslike going to the beach, cooling down
in the swimming pool, and lotsand lots of ice cream. These are
much different scenarios than what we seea few months later in autumn. The
fall months bring us an array ofleaf colors, punk and spice everything and
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spooky season for all of us hereat Darkcast Network. Spooky Season is a
year round event, which is whywe would like to present to you a
cruel summer true crime and paranormal storiesthat occurred during summertime. My name is
Brenda and I'm the host of HorrifyingHistory where dark history and the paranormal collide,
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and today I will tell you allthe story of the Ghost of the
Headless Mary Gallagher now Griffintown is ahistoric neighborhood in Montreal, Quebec, in
Canada. It was first populated inthe early nineteenth century by mostly Irish immigrant
workers. Who were building some ofthe most famous places in Montreal today,
like the Port of Montreal and theLachine Canal. In the nineteen sixties,
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this neighborhood started to depopulate, andsince the twenty tens it has been seeing
new life as it has been redeveloped. Located near the Lachine Canal, this
neighborhood was like any other nineteenth centuryindustrial slum. It was filled with stables,
taverns, mills and warehouses. Drifters, laborers and their families all called
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this place home. But on Junetwenty seventh, eighteen seventy nine, this
neighborhood gained a threw some reputation thatlists on today, even though everyone who
was involved is now long gone.On that day, two young sex workers
and best friends named Mary Gallagher andSusie Kennedy met a new client. His
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name was Michael Flanagan, and thetrio decided to go back to Susie's second
floor apartment to do some early morningdrinking and partying. Now, everything started
out okay, and it stayed thatway for a couple hours, But then
the other tenants from the apartment belowSusie's heard a very loud thud, and
then came what sounded like hitting noisesthat were so forceful that it cracked the
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plaster ceiling of the unit below.As dusty bits and chunks of plaster fell
onto the tenants below Susie, theyheard a female voice say, and I
quote, I've wanted revenge for along time, and I finally got it.
This is when the tenants saw acrimson stain start to spread out on
their ceiling, and soon blood startedtripping from the plaster cracks. The tenants
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immediately went to the police, andwhen they arrived at the apartment building,
a crowd of onlookers were already swarming. When the police entered Susie's apartment,
they found Mary's dead body lying facedown on the floor, wearing a very
thin nightgown, but she wasn't actuallyfaced down since she didn't have a face.
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Her head and one severed hand layin a bucket near by. The
police found Susie standing right by thebody, and she was drenched in blood.
But according to Susie, she didn'tdo anything wrong. She claimed she
didn't hurt Mary, she just simplyslipped and fell in the horrific mess that
covered her home. The police foundSusie standing right by the body and she
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was drenched in blood. But accordingto Susie, she didn't do anything wrong.
She claimed that she didn't hurt Mary, she just simply slipped and fell
in the horrific mess that now coveredher home. Susie told police that while
she and Michael slept in the frontroom, an unknown man who looked like
a sea captain walked into her homeand had an argument with Mary. He
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called her names, and Susie toldthe police that he must have killed her
since she watched him washing blood offof his hands before he left. So,
just to sum up here, Susieand Michael were sleeping while Mary was
not. Even though Susie and Michaelwere sleeping, they saw this random sea
captain just walk into Susie's home.Then somehow there was a massive gap of
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time where the murder occurred and thevictim had their head and their hand cut
off, and then this mysterious seacaptain just walked away after washing his hands.
So, as you guys can imagine, no one believed this story.
There also was the fact that themurder weapon, which was a hatchet that
belonged to Susie was left right nearthe body and it was covered in Mary's
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blood and hair. The police immediatelyarrested both Susie and Michael. Susie was
charged with murder and was later sentencedto die by the hangman's noose, but
Michael, on the other hand,was released. Susie didn't die for her
crimes, though her sentence was commutedand she was sent to the Kingston Penitentiary
for sixteen years. Now, ina bizarre coincidence, on the day that
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Susie was opposed to hang Michael died. He lost his footing while aboard a
boat, He fell through the iceand he drowned. Now, the thing
is that Mary did not receive thejustice that she deserved. The building where
she died in used to sit onthe corner of William and Murray Streets.
In today's time, the old factoriesand apartments are long gone and have been
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replaced with film studios and trendy condos. In the years since Mary's death,
there have been countless reports a peopleseeing the ghost of Mary, who is
said to be looking for her head. These sightings occur every seven years on
the anniversary of her death. Onthis date, many people go down to
the corner of William and Murray Streetsto hopefully catch a glimpse of Mary.
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And if you want to see herfor yourself, it is said that your
next chance would be on June twentyseventh, twenty twenty five. You can
hear stories like this and so muchmore on our show Horrifying History, which
you can find on any podcast provider. You also can follow us on Facebook
at Horrifying History, on Instagram atHorrifying Underscore History, and on Twitter at
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Horrifying Hi st one, Hey everybody. My name is Josh and I'm Jamie
and we are from the Paranormal Peepspodcast and we have a great story for
you guys lined up tonight, andit's going to be a Japanese ghost story.
Yeah. So they're big spooky seasonfor us in the States. It's
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in October. For Japan, it'sactually in the summer, yeah, which
seems a little strange well for usbecause we weren't brought up in that culture.
But I find it fascinating. Nonetheless, I like seeing how other cultures
differ from ours. Yeah, andso what is the one belief that they
have about the summertime ghost season essentially, I don't know. They believe that
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their ancestors come back and they'll leavefires, inviting fires for them to come
and hang out with their families.Is it like fires for them to find
their way to the to their stillliving relatives, and yeah, in as
cases were, but yeah, okay, yeah, and it's you know,
and the interesting thing is the Japaneseculture is so much more ancient than anything
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we have in the US. Ohyeah, yeah, by leaps and bounds.
And they call it the season ofbond. And there are good spirits.
Most of the spirits are actually youknow, ancestral happy spirits. Yeah,
but then you have the yokai,which are evil spirits. And what
are we going to hear about today? I would say, let's figure that
out at the end of this wonderfulstory. Okay, let's get to it.
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So the name of the story isIngua Bananche. Is it Bonanche?
It looks like banshee to me,it looks like banshee, but I don't
think it spelt the same way,so we'll just say Banshee. That's fine
too. It actually essentially translates intothe tale of Ingua. Okay, so
maybe it's Banshee. I mean,it's kind of have banshee like characteristics.
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So okay, well, let's getstraight to it. Then the Damio's wife
was dying, and knew that shewas dying. She had not been able
to leave her bed since the earlyautumn of the tenth Buon Saie, And
it was now the fourth month ofthe twelfth bun Sai, the year eighteen
twenty nine by western counting, andthe cherry trees were blossoming. She thought
of the cherry trees in her garden, and of the gladness of spring.
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She thought of her children. Shethought of her husband's various concubines, especially
the lady Yukiko nineteen years old.My dear wife, said the Damio,
you have suffered very much for thethree long years. We have done all
that we could could to get youwell, watching beside you night and day,
praying for you, and often fastingfor your sake. But in spite
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of our loving care, and inspite of the skill of our best physicians,
it would now seem the end ofyour life is not far off.
Probably we shall sorrow more than youwill sorrow because of your having to leave
what the Buddha so truly termed thisburning house of the world. I shall
order to be performed, no matterwhat the cost, every religious rite that
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can serve you in the regard toyour next rebirth, and all of us
will pray without ceasing for you,that you may not have to wander in
the black space, but may quicklyenter paradise and attain to Buddha hood.
He spoke with the uttermost tenderness,caressing her the while, then with Eyelid's
clothes. She answered him in avoice then as the voice of an insect.
I am grateful, most grateful foryour kind words. Yes, it
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is true as you say that Ihave been sick for three long years,
and that I have been treated withall possible care and affection. Why indeed
shall I turn away from the onetrue path at the very moment of my
death, perhaps to think of worldlymatters. That such a time is not
right. But I have one lastrequest to make, only one call here
to me, the lady Yokiko,And you know that I love her like
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a sister. I want to speakto her about the affairs of this household.
Yukiko came at the summons of theLord and in obedience to the sign
from him, knelt down beside thecouch. The Damio's wife opened her eyes
and looked at Yukiko and spoke,Ah, here is Yukiko. I am
so pleased to see you. Yukiko. Come a little closer so that you
can hear me well. I amnot able to speak loud, Yukiko.
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I am going to die, andI hope that you will be faithful in
all things to our dear Lord,for I want you to take my place
when I am gone. I hopethat you will always be loved by him,
yes, even a hundred times morethan I have been, and that
you will very soon be promoted toa higher rank, become his honored wife.
And I beg of you always tocherish our dear Lord, never allow
another woman to rob you of hisaffection. This is what I want to
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say to you, dear Yukiko.Have you been able to understand? Oh,
my dear lady protested Yukiko. Donot I entreat you say such strange
things to me. You well knowthat I am of poor and mean condition.
How could I ever dare to aspireto become the wife of our lord?
Nay nay returned the wife huskily.This is not a time for words
of ceremony. Let us speak onlyin the truth to each other. After
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death, you will certainly be promotedto a higher place. And I now
assure you again that I wish youto become the wife of our Lord.
Yes, I wish this, Yukiko, even more than I wish to become
a Buddha. And I have almostforgotten. I want you to do something
for me, Yukiko. I knowthat in the garden there is a ye
zakura which is brought here the yearbefore last from Mount Yoshino in Yamato.
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I have been told that this isnow full bloom. I want to see
it in flower. In a littlewhile I shall be dead. I must
see the tree before I die.Now, I wish you to carry me
into the garden at once, Yukiko, so that I can see it.
Yes, upon your back, Yukiko, take me upon your back. While
thus asking, her voice was graduallybecoming clear and strong, as if the
intensity of the wish had given hernew force. Then she suddenly burst into
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tears. Yukiko knelt motionless, notknowing what to do. But the Lord
not an assent. It is herlast wish in this world, he said,
you always loved cherry flowers, andI know that she wanted very much
to see that yomado tree in blossom. Come, my dear Jokiko, let
her have her will. As thenurse turns her back to a child,
the child may cling to it.Yokiko offered her shoulders to the wife and
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said, lady, I am ready. Please tell me how I can best
help you. Why this way,responded the dying woman, lifting herself with
an almost superhuman effort by clinging toYokiko's shoulders. But as she stood erect,
she quickly slipped her thin hands downover her shoulders, under the robe
and clutched the breasts of the girland burst into a wicked laugh. I
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have my wish, she cried,I have my wish for the cherry blossom,
but not the cherry blossom of thegarden. I could not die before
I got my wish, and nowI have it, and oh what a
delight. And with these words shefell upon the crouching girl and died.
The attendants at once attempted to liftthe body from Yokiko's shoulders and to laying
it upon the bed but strange tosay, this seemingly easy thing cannot be
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done. The cold hands had attachedthemselves in some unaccountable way to the bad
So the girl, appearing to havegrown into the quick flesh, Yukiko,
became senseless with fear and pain.Physicians were called. They could not understand
what had taken place. By noordinary methods could the hands of the dead
woman be unfastened from the body ofher victim. They so clung that any
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effort to remove them brought blood.This was not because the fingers held It
was because the flush of the palmshad united itself in some inexplicable manner to
the flush of the breasts. Atthat time, the most skillful physician in
Tokyo was a foreigner, a Dutchsurgeon. It was decided to summon him.
After a careful examination, he saidit could not could not understand the
case, and then, at theimmediate relief of Yokiko, there was nothing
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to be done except cut the handsfrom the corpse. He decided that it
would be dangerous to attempt to detachthem from the breasts. His advice was
accepted, and the hands were amputatedat the wrists, but they remained clinging
to the breast, and they're soondarkened and dried up, like the hands
of a person long dead. Yetthis was only the beginning of the horror.
Withered and bloodless, though they seemed, those hands were not dead.
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At intervals they would stir stealthily likegreat gray spiders, and nightly thereafter,
beginning always at the hour of theox, they would clutch and compress and
torture. Only at the hour ofthe tiger the pain would succeed, would
cease. Yokiko cut off her hairand became a mendicant nune, taking the
religious name a Dassett Sue, andshe had a mortuary tablet maid bearing the
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cameo of her dead mistress, andthis she carried about with her in all
her wanderings. And every day beforeit she had humbled besot the dead for
pardon and performed a Buddhist service inorder that the jealous spirit might find rest.
But the evil karma that had beenrendered such an affliction possible, could
not soon be exhausted. Every nightat the hour of the ox, the
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hands never failed to charge her duringmore than seventeen years, According to the
testimony of those persons to whom shehad last told her story when she had
stopped from one evening at the houseof Naguchi Tango Zayemum in the village of
Tanaka and the of Kawachi in theprovidence Ashimatsuki. This is the third year
of Kokwai, which is eighteen fortysix. Therefore nothing more was ever heard
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of her. So basically, thisthis dying woman, this dying wife was
jealous, and before she died inher trickery, she told her husband,
you know, she's like a sisterto me. Yeah, you know,
I love her like a sister,Bring her here to me. Yeah.
And then deceptive, misleading and jealousand spiteful, yes, yeah. And
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so she would definitely be a yokaievil spirit. Well yeah, I mean,
you you leave the world, andthat is your last act, dying
wish an act yeau. She hadto you know, attach herself obviously,
So yeah, yeah, that's akind of a terrifying story. I mean,
yeah, I mean we're so usedhere, especially here in the States,
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we're so used to these you know, scary movies and haunting tales,
and they're much more graphic, they'reyou know, but and I've said this
before on a handful of occasions.If something like this happened to you in
real life, would you not beterrified? It would be absolutely horrifying.
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I mean, imagine a dead person'shands sees to your chest like they melted
with your into your skin. Yeah, they binded with you. Yeah.
And then every night from two tofour, which is the hour of the
ox, they twitch and torture you. Yeah, for seventeen years. Yeah,
how do you know they're insane?That's a very good question. I
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think I would cut off my breasts. Yeah. Yeah, but what if
that didn't work. Well, eventhat's even more terrifying. That's a terrifying
thought as well. So yeah,everybody check us out on the Paranoria Peep's
podcast. We are part of thedark Cast Network and as always, stay
ghosting my peeps. Hey there,this is CJ hosted Beyond the Rainbow,
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True Crimes of the LGBTQ plus.Regardless of your gin or sexual identity,
Beyond the Rainbow was made for listenersfrom just about all walks of life as
well. I'm the founder of DarkcastNetwork and I feel so honored to be
working with the fantastic shows of ournetwork the case I have for you this
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cruel summer takes us back a bitto the Bill Clinton administration. While many
may believe in searching a cigar intoMonica Lewinsky's huha might have been the dumbest
thing Clinton didn't office, I'd haveto disagree. I personally believe the militaries
Don't Ask, Don't Tell is whattook the cake. While the law was
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enacted in nineteen ninety three to protectgay and bisexual military personnel, it did
nothing more than disallow them to livetheir truth and it put a bigger target
on their backs. The law basicallystated, if you're gay or by and
a member of the military, yourband from telling anyone. At the time,
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thousands of LGBTQ people served to defendthe United States and our freedoms.
They gave their lives to protect theirfellow soldiers and American citizens, but it
wasn't easy. On top of theirassigned duties, they had to grapple every
day with don't Ask, don't tell, and that required them to hide their
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truths, their identities, their coreparts of themselves. Every single day they
felt the weight of that Don't Ask, Don't tell turned into a punishment for
patriotic LGBTQ Americans, and all theywanted to do was serve their country and
fight for freedoms Americans are supposed tohave. More than thirteen thousand qualified service
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members were discharged under that policy.I'm even lost their lives due to it,
because they were frightened to report harassment, like Private First Class Barry Winchell,
who I covered in Season nine,episode fifteen when Barry mccalie and the
young man whose case I'm presenting foryou today. In two thousand and ten,
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President Obama revoked the donass, don'ttell policy, much to the delight
of the LGBTQ community. This particularcase I'm going to tell you about was
a twenty nine year old gay militaryman in the summer of two thousand and
nine, just before the donass,don't tell policy ended. August Provost was
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a handsome black Navy sailor from Houston, Texas. In two thousand and nine,
he was assigned to the Camp PendletonNaval Base near San Diego, California.
August had a secret he was supposedto be keeping, otherwise he could
be discharged from the Navy or worse. Before the military August was a proud
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and open gay man, and hepresented masculine as a naval sailor and if
he all do ope mine, I'dlike to avoid calling him a seaman.
There's just too many sexual connotations associatedwith that word. As a naval sailor.
Aside from his family, only aselect few he really trusted knew about
his sexual identity. Friends and familydescribed Augus as a harmonious man, non
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judgmental, fully accepting of just abouteveryone, no matter they're sexual or gender
identities or ethnicities. August was alsovery loving and he had a beautiful,
contagious smile. The beginning of Junetwo thousand and nine, however, he
was being bullied at his naval base. August complained to the members of his
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family that he was being harassed bya fellow sailor that knew he was gay.
His sister told him to report theother sailor to his commanding officer,
but with the donas, don'tell policyin place, August was reluctant to do
so. Instead, August, whowas non confrontational most of the time,
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he just sat on the harassment andlet it happen. The night of Tuesday,
June thirtieth, two thousand and nine, August had taken his post in
the guard tower at Camp Pendleton.At some point his killer had also gained
entry to the tower and confronted August. Then his killer shot him multiple times,
leaving August to die at a sentrypost. The killer left the tower
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and he tried to set it ablazeto hide the evidence of the murder.
August's body was found the following day, on Wednesday, July first, two
thousand and nine. While many ofAugust's family and friends felt August was the
target of a hate crime for beinggay, his commanding office or an other
military personnel didn't believe this was thecase. They seemed to think it was
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coincidental, and since he was murderedwhile on sentry duty in the tower.
Had any other soldier also been assignedto that detail that night, they too
would have been murdered in the samemanner. But a military investigation into august
murder ensued, and the next dayanother sailor was arrested and placed into the
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Navy's custody in the brig of CampPendleton. There was strong evidence against thirty
two year old Petty Officer Jonathan campus. The Navy felt Jonathan, who had
been pulled over for a driving underthe influence charge earlier in June, they
felt like he was retaliating for anypunishment he received for the DUI. They
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also believed that he planned to setfire to the watchtower regardless who was in
it, and when he came acrossAugust, he stole his gun and fatally
shot him. However, many otherssurmise Jonathan was hiding in securities about his
own sexual identity and that he killedAugust to keep everyone from finding out he
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too was gay or bisexual. Simplyput, Jonathan thought August was going to
out him, but there's no concreteevidence for either theory. Friday, July
thirty first, two thousand and nine, military police checked on Jonathan in his
holding cell around twelve twenty pm.He was checked on less than an hour
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before this and everything seemed fine,But during this twelve twenty check, Jonathan
was unresponsive and he was rushed toa hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Jonathan had taken his own life viaself afphixiation. He had stuffed into his
mouth and ingested an incredible amount oftoilet paper, and this caused him to
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suffocate. The completion of suicide leftmany to believe Jonathan had killed August in
order to keep his secrets about hisown sexual identity. It's unknown whether Jonathan
in August had something sexual going onwith one another. August did have a
boyfriend back home in Texas at thetime of his murder, and because Jonathan
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took his own life, august familyfelt that Jonathan took away any closure and
answers as to why their beloved Augustwas killed. Rest in power, August.
Remember it's not a crime to begay unless you're a murderer. And
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dartcast network you rock. Guess whatchicken box? Summer time, I'm living
sleazy, sweating your balls off.Absolutely seriously, what summer means. When
you hit a certain age, itis time to chuck your children into the
arms of whoever will take them.I don't drive you insane. Anybody want
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this kid, yep, because it'sgoing to be home for like three months.
Did you ever do a summer campout? No? I did at
once, a place called camp toLully, Hollard to Central New York.
But that's where I got my profoundfear of the outdoors. It was just
a mild fear at first, butsleepaway camp is where the profound fear really
started. I was a home buddy, I would have got homesick. I
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would have cried. My mom wouldhave had to come and get me.
Today, we are going to giveyou a small taste of a notorious crime
that happened in nineteen seventy seven,A gruesome and tragic mystery that to this
day remains unsolved. Founded in theearly twentieth century, the Girl Scouts,
if you don't know, is anorganization dedicated to the empowerment of young girls.
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It instills this confidence and courage,you know. They bond over activities
like community service, camping, Theyget their badges, They sell their cookies,
right, I don't want to gopedal your cookies. I was into
that because I was a fat kid, and I was like, yeah,
I want to get some badges forselling cookies to myself. So it's fairly
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innocuous promise of a good time andit shouldn't be dangerous, right, it
shouldn't be. June thirteenth, nineteenseventy seven, marked one of the most
terrible and shocking crimes in Oklahoma history, which kicked off an investigation that would
continue for decades and now abandoned.Camp Scott is in a densely wooded location
on four hundred and ten acres inMay's County, Oklahoma. Camp Scott,
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a cornerstone of Oklahoma Girl Scouting,had been operated by generations of Girl Scouts
going as far back as nineteen twentyeight. Many parents of the campers had
experienced this two week getaway themselves andlooked forward to sharing the experience with their
littles. Get out by and goswimming and ships. See now do something
shit micvam Brims. Earlier that day, ten year old Doris Denise Milner expressed
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hesitation about the trip to her mom, but was convinced to board the bus
on the promise that her parents wouldpick her up if she felt like coming
home once she got there, like, hey, you know, try it
out. See what happens. We'llcome and get you. Might be more
fun than you think. Months leadingup to this particular trip, there was
some very odd activity happening around thecamp. A counselor found that one of
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the tents had been slashed open.Others on the campground reported some of their
items were missing, some heard strangenoises off in the distance, and one
counselor even found that a donut hadbeen stolen from a box of a dozen,
and in its place was a handwrittennote which, first of all,
you do not replace a donut witha note that ists you, because now,
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depending on where that donut is,two to four donuts are inedible.
Yeah, because they've touched your grimynote. Yeah, like, keep your
folded up, greasy threat paper awayfrom the donuts. Donuts and threats don't
go together anyway. This glazed threatsaid, we are on a mission to
kill three girls in Tent one.All of these incidents, all of the
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ship, including that, including thenote and the donuts. Yeah, it
was all dismissed as a prank.I don't like it. On the first
night of camp, a thunderstorm rolledin and the girls and their counselors all
hunkered down in their tents to goto sleep. In order to keep a
close eye on the scouts, thecounselors had the tents fanned out around their
own sleeping quarters. Milner was inthe farthest tent, accompanied by eight year
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old Laurie Lee Farmer and nine yearold Michelle Heather Goose. Laurie Farmer,
a bright little girl who was saidto be mature beyond her years and the
youngest Girl Scout at camp that week, was excited to write home to her
family and Tulsa. She told herloved ones about her two new friends and
her roommates. No stranger to CampScott, having attended the camp the year
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prior. Michelle Goose was a shy, athletic girl with a love four plants.
In fact, before leaving her homein Broken Arrow, her mother,
Georgianne, told a newspaper that Michelleinsisted she take care of her plants while
she was away at camp. Africanviolets were one of her favorites. Having
sold enough Girl Scout cookies to beable to attend camp with her friends,
Denise Milner had been excited about goingto camp. She was a straight A
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student and had already been admitted toa Tulsa school that was created for exceptionally
bright students. However, at thelast minute, her friends backed out,
and Denise reluctantly went alone to camp. She was not keen on the idea
of leaving her mom and her fiveyear old sister on the bus Denise cried.
After the trio finished their letters,the girls gathered for story time before
heading to bed. During storytime,Denise was again upset and asked to call
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her mom. One of the Kiowacounselors, a young woman named d Elder,
comforted Denise. After some convincing,Denise agreed she would wait and call
her mom the next day. Meanwhile, as the girls were winding down for
the evening and the first day ofcamp was coming to a close, a
counselor in the Comanche unit stared outinto the dark night through the dense trees.
Movement caught her eye. A dimlight was moving through the woods toward
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the Kiowa unit. Anybody wal walkingthrough that camp, unless you had a
good flashlight, it'd be pretty muchpitch black, Wilson said. As with
any camp, the first nights arealways loud. Excited campers enjoyed their newfound
freedom with their friends, away fromtheir parents, and free to do whatever
they wanted, you know, withinreason. Around midnight, counselor Carlo Willhight
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heard some campers giggling outside near thelatrine. She woke up, got the
girls and kay go back to bed, brought them back to their camp site
probably was really annoyed again. Atone thirty am, will Height was awakened
by girls giggling in Tent six.From the door of her tent, Will
Height shone a flashlight toward their tentand hollared go to sleep. Then Will
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Height and a fellow counselor d Elder, walked over to Tent six to get
these girls to quiet down. Theywere just like, I'm a party all
night. We do what we won't. From the darkness behind Tents one and
two, Will Height heard a lowgutturals sound or a moaning coming from the
woods, though they assumed it wasan animal. When will Hight went to
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investigate and shown her flashlight in thedirection of the noise, the sound stopped.
She turned around and started going backto her tent. As soon as
she did that, with the lightnot being shined in that direction anymore,
the sound started back up, Wilsonsaid, so she turned around a second
time and started walking back that direction, and as she shined the flashlight in
that direction again, the sound stoppedagain. Will Kite would say later that
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when she was back in her tenttrying to fall asleep, she could still
hear that sound. I wouldn't beable to fall asleep. No, I
mean this day and age with cellphones, definitely what I called someone not
to like right. Yeah, butyou know, this is nineteen seventy seven.
So around the same time, acamper in Tent seven saw a light
approaching the tent. Suddenly, thelight flooded the tent and a male figure
stood in the entryway, terrifying JesusChrist those poor kids. Just as quickly
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as he appeared, he disappeared backinto the dark, closing the flap of
the tent behind him, which,by the way, that the tents that
these kids were in were basically justlike it was like an eight by ten
wooden palette with like some cots withlike a cloth tent around it, no
security, no, just open flapsin a tent. I wouldn't sleep in
that ship. Bugs are definitely gettingin, oh my god, yeah,
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forget it. Definitely forget if thisdude's getting in. So are spiders for
sure. One camper said they hearda scream in the night, and another
camper said they heard someone crying fortheir mama. That would also, I
mean, that makes me so sad. Oh my god, yeah, I
mean too. The next morning,the sun rose on another day at Camp
Scott. This morning probably promised tobe pretty cool, I would imagine.
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I mean, those kids spent allnight during a thunderstorm, like getting no
each other and like bonding. Itmakes me sad to think that this is
how they woke up the next day. We'll go up to a nightmare.
Will Height woke early around six amto get into the shower before the other
campers woke up. She headed outof her tent. She spotted what appeared
to be sleeping bags a little wayaway. When she approached, she realized
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it was three sleeping bags sprawled acrossthe ground. Two of the sleeping bags
were zipped closed, but one wasopen. Milner, Farmer and Goose lay
dead on the trail about one hundredand fifty yards from their tent. Two
bodies were stuffed into the bottom oftheir sleeping bag, while one was left
out into the open. The younggirls had been brutally sexually assaulted before being
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bludgeoned and strangled to death. Aninvestigation turned up a well of evidence.
A large red flashlight was found ontop of the bodies, and while there
was a fingerprint on the lens.It was unfortunately too smudge to be idd
newspaper had been stuffed into the casingto prevent batteries from rattling. There was
even a piece of fabric that he'dput over the light, like it was
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duct taped over it so it wouldlike dim the light while it was walking
through the woods. Yeah, thegirl's tent was covered in blood, and
in that blood was the print ofa nine and a half sized shoe.
A larger search of the four hundredacre camp turned up duct tape rope in
women's eyeglasses. Police found a nearbycave that showed signs that someone had been
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living there, and they were newpapers scattered around. It matched the issue
that were used to stuff the batteriesin the flashlight. That's pretty damning.
In case that wasn't enough evidence,somebody had also just kind of like doodled
on the wall. The killer washere, Bye bye fools seven seven,
six seventeen, the way that theywrote the date like six seventeen, nineteen
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seventy seven. Oh yeah, theyears first. As soon the police identified
a suspect, thirty three year oldJeane Leroy Hart Heart had a documented history
of violence, which included sexual assault. He was arrested for the kidnap and
rape of two pregnant women in Tulsa, and he got out on parole shortly
after. Yeah, the fuck iswrong with people think pregnant women would be
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kind of safe. You'd think.Oh, he was in and out of
jail burglary charges. Managed to escapein nineteen seventy three. Escaped fucking jail,
like, just got out. Well, it was the seventies. It
was the seventies. He probably hada damn poster of some bikini clad sweetheart
in his cell. Yeah, witha big hole behind it. Yep.
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Tunneled his way through a rever asshit and came out clean on the other
side. WHOA, Now, fuckthis guy. Though this guy really did
do the things I think that hewas accused of. Anyway, he was
a member of the Cherokee Nation,and tensions began to mount as the police
focus their search on him. Heartwas eventually arrested, though the sheriff at
the time said he was one hundredpercent certain of his involvement. Heart was
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acquitted in nineteen seventy nine, whena jerry unanimously found him not guilty of
murdering the girls. Yeah, becauseapparently the whole town loved this guy.
Yeah, and there were a lotof people that were like, nah,
he couldn't have done it. DNAtesting has come a really long way,
and recently they have linked him,Like I think it was twenty twenty two
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they were able to confirm Heart's involvement. So it kind of sucks like he
didn't serve time for that. Hedidn't go like, he didn't go to
prison for killing the girls, buthe did have three hundred and five years
to serve for his prior sentences forraping pregnant ladies and escaping from prison.
In June of nineteen seventy nine,he died of a heart attack in the
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prison exercise yard. Yeah wasn't long. Yeah, a heart attack. You
know, got murdered. People foundout what he did and they were like,
we don't take too kindly to childmolestation, and they pilled him.
Tis possible. Eventually Camp Scott wasshut down alleging negligence. Two of the
victims families sued the Magic Empire Council, which ran the Girl Scouts of Eastern
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Oklahoma, for five million dollars.Jurors voted nine to three in favor of
Magic Empire. Attorneys claimed that scoutingofficials showed an unbelievable lack of caution and
alertness despite numerous incidences which should haveprompted them to improve camp security. There's
all these things that were going onfor years prior to this incident, and
they just gave one of the counselors, an underage counselor, a gun and
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was like, yeah, just defendand them. Yeah, just like,
holy shit, the seventies, Oklahoma, just shoot him. Richard Goose,
the father of Michelle Heather Goose,helped the state legislature pass the Oklahoma Victim's
Bill of Rights. He also wenton to found the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation
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Board. Laurie Leef Farmer's mother,Sherry Farmer, founded the Oklahoma Chapter of
the Parents of Murdered Children's Support Group. There's never any good that comes out
of anything like this, but timehas gone on. It's been like forty
five years and people are still feelingthe effects of it. And if you
want to take an even deeper lookat this disturbing case, Hulu actually did
come out with a documentary called Keeperof the Ashes. The Oklahoma Girl Scout
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murders. It is hosted by asuperstar celebrity, Kristin Chenowith. Chennawith said
of this incident that occurred as aneight year old girl to children that she
vaguely remembers passing in the hallways ofschool, quote, this happened. There's
no closure, there's no pretty redbow at the end. And when I
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think of those three girls, Iwonder what's the best way to honor them.
And that's why I have come backhome to find answers once and for
all and make it about me.It has to be seen to be believed.
Honestly, it's very self congratulatory abouther survival of something that she was.
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Joanna Wright, a girl who waslegitimately affected by this nightmare, almost
chose tent number seven in the camp'sKiawa unit, but ultimately chose another tent.
I just didn't like the location,she said. There were a lot
of woods around it, and Ijust didn't like it. I wouldn't have
liked it either. Got some vibesthat camp was set up weird, and
those poor kids were like the furthestaway from any kind of authority figure authority
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in quotation marks because they were teenagers, but they were the furthest ones away.
The counselors were in the middle,and then the campers fanned off out
to the side. And so therewere two tents that were like super crazy,
far away from any kind of assistance. Absolutely the tent, the furthest
away. I have the least amountof kids in there. Like, if
there was a free space, acounselor should have gone them there. Right,
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they could just give them a gun. I mean, yeah, just
give them a gun. Fuck it, they'll be fine. All right,
eight year all, here, havea gun. Here's a handgun. You
know how it works, right,Yeah, you do. You're from Oklahoma.
It's fine. And they were Oklahomians, Oklahomi's. Oh if that's what
they call themselves. They batter creepytapas. Check us out wherever you listen
to podcast, guys. We haveall kinds of cool stuff. Thanks for
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listening, y'all. Thanks y'all,Bye, bye, Hay their friend.
My name is Keily. I'm thehost of Misty Mysteries, a true crime
and peromo podcast that brings you ghostlyspooks and chilling crimes every Wednesday. Today,
I'm telling you about the well knowncase known as Lady of the Dunes,
a former Jane Doe case but stillunsolved homicide. In the morning of
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July twenty six, nineteen seventy four, a twelve year old girl, new
Leslie Metcalf, was playing outside withher dog in Cape Cod, a Providence
town, Mattachusetts, when she noticedher dog had taken off. She went
off to search for her pup.She only walked a hundred yards when she
reached the Race Point Sand Dunes,where she heard her dog barking and decided
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to follow his barks. Following hisbarks, she found him barking at the
decomposing remains of a woman. Thewoman was found naked, lying face down.
Half of her body was on agreen beach towel, as if she
had been sharing the towel with afriend. Her head rested on regular blue
jeans and a blue bandana that hadbeen folded and was covered in blood.
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She had green eyes and auburn hair. Her toe nails had been painted a
pink color. Her hair had beentied back with a golden flaked hair tie,
but her ponytail had been varied disheveled. She was determined to be between
the ages of twenty five to fortyyears old. She was five foot six
inches, but initially police believed herto be two inches taller at five foot
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eight inches. She weighed one hundredforty five pounds with an athletic built and
though some of her teeth had beenmissing, presumably taken by her killer,
it was determined she had expensive dentalwork done, including crowns ranging between five
thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars.When her remains were found, it was
believed she could have been deceased anywherebetween ten days to three weeks, but
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it wasn't hard for police to markher death a homicide. Her hands had
been removed at the wrist and takenfrom the scene, teeth were taken from
her mouth, and she had beennearly decapitated. Her cause of death was
from blunt force trauma that caused theleft side of her skull to be crushed.
Police believed she either knew her killeror was asleep when this attack happened,
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because the scene showed no signs ofa fight. On the scene,
very little evidence to basically none wasfound. What was found on seen where
footprints approaching her remains and stopping afew yards away, then fifty yards from
her retire tracks that led to thedooms. The police chief at the time
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said there was no way to knowif these were or weren't connected to her
homicide. After her remains had beenremoved from the scene, they searched for
a weapon or any further evidence aroundthe area, using a bloodhound in a
fresh set of eyes, bringing innew law enforcement personnel, but nothing else
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was found. Away from the scene, her body was examined for anything that
may offer clues to her identity orwho was responsible for this horrific crime.
Her clothes were searched for any identifyinginformation, but again nothing was found,
so police set off to search elsewhere. They went to motels, hotels,
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and other locations those vacationing may stayto see if someone had gone missing,
but nothing came of this. Theythen used the victim's characteristics and appearance to
compare her to the thousands of missingpersons. Reports looked into the owners of
every vehicle with permits to drive inthe dunes, or those who had abandoned
their vehicles in the dunes, butthis led nowhere. Finally, in the
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efforts to help her be known asmore than the Lady of the Dunes.
They asked the public for help sharingher characteristics and started to send out her
dental charts. Her dental charts weresent to the FBI, dental groups,
five thousand dentists in Mattachusetts alone,and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but
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this didn't get them anywhere closer tofinding her identity. Without any solid leads
to her identity or her killer,she was laid to rest in Saint Peter's
Cemetery in Providence Town with a gravemarked unidentified female. For forty eight years,
she was known as the Lady ofthe Doones while police work to identify
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her, using her school to createsketches and exhuming her body for DNA.
After forty eight years lay to restwithout her identity, the Lady of the
Dunes was identified in October of twentytwenty two as thirty seven year old Ruth
Marie Terry. Ruth was married toa man named Guy Rockwell. Guy was
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an antique dealer who was suspected ofthe deaths of his previous wife and stepdaughter
in nineteen sixty. Knowing that Ruthis the Lady of the Dunes, the
investigators are now looking for more informationabout Guy, although he did pass away
in two thousand and two in California, and they're looking for more information on
her time in Massachusetts before her death. If you want to hear more about
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Ruth in depths details of this investigation, including theories of her possibly being a
background in the movie Jaws or afalse confession of a serial killer, you
can tuck out the longer and waymore detailed coverage of this case on the
Missy Mysteries podcast. I hope youjoined me soon. Until then, I
hope you have a safe and cruelsummer and you enjoy all the rest of
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the stories from my dark Cast friends. Hello everyone, my name is Sinister
Steph and welcome to the Dark CastNetwork's Cruel Summer episode. Today. I
wanted to share a little sinister summerstory with you. Unfortunately, bitter custody
battles between parents are a tale asold as time. However, the battles
that are taken much further than acourt of law are thankfully a little less
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common. During the summer of twentyeleven, twenty seven year old Laura Jean
Akerson was going through a terrible fightfor custody of her toddler sons, Grant
Hayes, the fourth and gentle Herex boyfriend Grant Hayes was making life hell
for her. The two had jointcustody over the children, but that wasn't
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enough for greedy Grant. He hadalready moved on with another woman named Amanda,
and they were married in two thousandand ten. Shortly after they were
married, Grant and Amanda welcomed anew baby of their own. So why
couldn't Grant just leave Laura alone.She was a fantastic mother, very loving
and nurturing, but for some reason, Grant seemed determined to try to take
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any happiness away from Laura that hecould. In spite of all this,
Laura was really trying to move onwith her life as well, but it
seemed like every time something positive wouldhappen for her, there was Grant,
a big gray rain cloud looming overher head. Laura lived in Kinston,
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North Carolina, and worked successfully inthe marketing industry. She was well liked
for her cheerfulness by just about everyonewho came in contact with her. On
July twelfth, two eleven, Laurawas emailed by Grant to come visit their
boys on Wednesday, July thirteen,after her work, but in order to
make the visit, Laura would haveto go to Grant and Amanda's apartment in
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Raleigh instead of meeting at a neutralsite like a family restaurant. Laura,
however, would never miss the opportunityto see her children and I can identify
with that, so of course shesaid that she would be there. She
was supposed to be present for aconference call with a co worker later that
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evening for work, but she missedit. Her coworker did know that Laura
was going to Raleigh to visit herkids for a bit, but Laura missing
the phone meeting still worried her alittle bit. Two days later, on
July fifteenth, Laura was due topick up the boys for her parenting portion
of the week. However, shenever showed. On July eighteenth, that
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same coworker I previously mentioned reported hermissing because Laura had still not shown up
for work and it had been nowseveral days that she could not be reached.
A few days after she was reportedmissing, Laura's carr was found in
the parking lot of an apartment complexthat her and her boys used to live.
In with Grant when they were alltogether the complex was in Raleigh.
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On July twenty fourth, Laura's remainswere discovered in Richmond, Texas. She
had been dismembered. Her body partswere located in three different spots in a
creek, and because of the gruelingsummer heat in Texas, the decomposition of
her remains had settled in rapidly,making it nearly impossible for the medical examiner
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to determine exactly how Laura had beenkilled. It was finally ruled as undetermined
homicidal violence, but their final findingssuggested she either succumbed to asphyxiation or blunt
force trauma to her neck. Investigatorshad their work cut out for them.
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They started to first look into thecircle of people in Laura's life, beginning
with her ex boyfriend and father ofher children. Detectives visited Grant at the
apartment he shared with his wife,Amanda, and their children. Immediately,
detectives noticed a strong, bleached smellemanating from the apartment. They found a
note with Laura's signature stating she wouldgive up the kids to Grant for twenty
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five thousand dollars, but after speakingto Laura's friends and co workers. Investigators
believed that Laura's signature was forged onthe document. Detectives were also somehow able
to determine a shower curtain, avacuum, and bathroom rugs were missing from
the apartment. Grant and Amanda movedquickly to the top of their suspect list.
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With a little searching, law enforcementdiscovered that Grant had recently purchased gloves,
bleech plastic, sheeting of reciprocal sawgoggles, garbage bags, ice,
and some ice chests. Nothing suspiciousthere with his ex girlfriend and mother of
his toddler son's missing right. Theyalso found all of these items were purchased
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before Grant, Amanda, and thekids had left for a trip to Texas.
After arriving in Texas, Grant purchasedsome bottles of mariatic acid and was
seen on a home improvement store surveillancedoing this. Amanda was seen on video
footage dumping some of those empty bottlesof mariatic acid near her sister's residence.
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There were also witnesses that could placeGrant and Amanda near the creek in Texas
where Laura's remains were found. Detectivessurmised that Laura was murdered in Grant in
Amanda's apartment. The couple dismembered herwith the reciprocal saw, and her body
parts were stored in the ice chests. When none of the couple's previous attempts
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to dispose of Laura's body were effective, they rented a U haul and drove
to Richmond, Texas, where Amanda'ssister lived. In Texas, they had
tried to dissolve Amanda's body in themuriatic acid, but they were again unsuccessful,
so the couple rented a boat anddumped Laura's remains in Oyster Creek,
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where alligators were prevalent. Grant andAmanda hoped that alligators would eat all of
the evidence, but thankfully, thealligators were non compliant with the couple's plan.
Grant and Amanda Hayes were arrested onfirst degree murder charges, and,
as often happens when couples are arrestedtogether for crimes, they turned on each
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other pretty quickly. Amanda insisted thatshe was fearful of Grant, and he
threatened her if she didn't help him. Grant insisted that Amanda had strangled Laura
to death, but it was anaccident. I don't know how you accidentally
strangle someone. Two years later,in twenty thirteen, Amanda and Grant would
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have separate trials. Amanda's defense wasonce again that she was coerced by her
violent, scary husband to play apart in the murder of Laura. Her
defense team painted Grant as a classicsociopath who murdered Laura without Amanda's knowledge,
and then Grant tricked Amanda into thetrip to Texas to dispose of Laura's body
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parts. Amanda's sentence was lowered fromfirst degree murder two second degree murder.
Before the end of the court proceedings, Amanda apologized to just about everyone,
Laura's family, her son's, Grant'sfamily, the court room. The judge
tolder she most likely could have savedLaura's life but had chosen not to.
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Amanda was guilty, and by thetime her trial concluded in February twenty fourteen,
she was sentenced to a thirteen tosixteen year incarceration. She received an
additional twenty years for tampering with evidenceand trying to feed Laura's body parts to
alligators. As soon as her trialwas over, she served Grant with divorce
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papers. Imagine that Grant's trial wenta little differently. After introducing over five
hundred pieces of evidence and interviewing fortyseven witnesses on the stand, the prosecution
played the jury a song. WhatI haven't mentioned yet is that Grant was
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a musician. His stage name wasGrant Hayes h a Ze. The song
they played was written and recorded byGrant himself, now the defendant in his
own trial. On it, Grantcan be heard singing, quote, my
baby's mama, don't talk to me, don't want your drama. I got
two kids by you. I can'ttake any more from you. I put
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a price tag on your head.You must have told your attorney I got
intentions on killing you. You musthave told your attorney I got intentions on
killing you. End quote. Otherverses of the song are quote given to
me. I want it all.I want your scream, I want your
crawl. I'll make you bleed.I'm not the one to make you scream.
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I'm just the one to make youbleed. Don't raise your arms.
You can't stop me. I'll putmy hands on your throat and squeeze end
quote. He titled the song BroomstickWriter, which of course, in itself,
seems like a reference to his exbeing a witch. This song isn't
really a ballad as you can imagine. It has more of a hip hop
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wrap vibe to it, and it'sactually still available to hear on YouTube,
but I wouldn't recommend it. It'snot a great song. After the song
was played, the prosecution rested itscase, which was probably a great place
to rest. Grant had pretty muchsaid it all in his musical verses and
it didn't seem metaphorical at all.The jury came back with a guilty verdict.
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Grant was sentenced to life in prisonwithout the possibility of parole. And
that, my friends, concludes mycruel Summer Story with Darkcast Network and the
disturbing murder of Laura Akerson. Thankyou for listening to Sinister Story Hour and
all of my other favorite podcasts fromthe Darkcast Network. We wish you a
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sinister summer. Well. If Iwasn't sweating from the heat, I'm certainly
sweating from the variety of chilling tales. Just told tomorrow we'll release part two
of our Cruel summer tour, besure to join me back here, and
in the meantime, be careful outthere. Real life is spooky.
Darkcast Network indie pods with a darkSide. Hello, I'm Jackie Morante,
I host Cause of Death one hundredseconds to Midnight, and I'll be your
guide for this special Darkcast Network eventas we embark on our Cruel Summer Part
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one. Summertime usually it's about vacationslike going to the beach, cooling down
in the swimming pool, and lotsand lots of ice cream. These are
much different scenarios than what we seea few months later in autumn. The
fall months bring us an array ofleaf colors, punk and spice everything and
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spooky season for all of us hereat Darkcast Network. Spooky Season is a
year round event, which is whywe would like to present to you a
cruel summer true crime and paranormal storiesthat occurred during summertime. My name is
Brenda and I'm the host of HorrifyingHistory where dark history and the paranormal collide,
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and today I will tell you allthe story of the Ghost of the
Headless Mary Gallagher now Griffintown is ahistoric neighborhood in Montreal, Quebec, in
Canada. It was first populated inthe early nineteenth century by mostly Irish immigrant
workers. Who were building some ofthe most famous places in Montreal today,
like the Port of Montreal and theLachine Canal. In the nineteen sixties,
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this neighborhood started to depopulate, andsince the twenty tens it has been seeing
new life as it has been redeveloped. Located near the Lachine Canal, this
neighborhood was like any other nineteenth centuryindustrial slum. It was filled with stables,
taverns, mills and warehouses. Drifters, laborers and their families all called
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this place home. But on Junetwenty seventh, eighteen seventy nine, this
neighborhood gained a threw some reputation thatlists on today, even though everyone who
was involved is now long gone.On that day, two young sex workers
and best friends named Mary Gallagher andSusie Kennedy met a new client. His
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name was Michael Flanagan, and thetrio decided to go back to Susie's second
floor apartment to do some early morningdrinking and partying. Now, everything started
out okay, and it stayed thatway for a couple hours, But then
the other tenants from the apartment belowSusie's heard a very loud thud, and
then came what sounded like hitting noisesthat were so forceful that it cracked the
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plaster ceiling of the unit below.As dusty bits and chunks of plaster fell
onto the tenants below Susie, theyheard a female voice say, and I
quote, I've wanted revenge for along time, and I finally got it.
This is when the tenants saw acrimson stain start to spread out on
their ceiling, and soon blood startedtripping from the plaster cracks. The tenants
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immediately went to the police, andwhen they arrived at the apartment building,
a crowd of onlookers were already swarming. When the police entered Susie's apartment,
they found Mary's dead body lying facedown on the floor, wearing a very
thin nightgown, but she wasn't actuallyfaced down since she didn't have a face.
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Her head and one severed hand layin a bucket near by. The
police found Susie standing right by thebody, and she was drenched in blood.
But according to Susie, she didn'tdo anything wrong. She claimed she
didn't hurt Mary, she just simplyslipped and fell in the horrific mess that
covered her home. The police foundSusie standing right by the body and she
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was drenched in blood. But accordingto Susie, she didn't do anything wrong.
She claimed that she didn't hurt Mary, she just simply slipped and fell
in the horrific mess that now coveredher home. Susie told police that while
she and Michael slept in the frontroom, an unknown man who looked like
a sea captain walked into her homeand had an argument with Mary. He
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called her names, and Susie toldthe police that he must have killed her
since she watched him washing blood offof his hands before he left. So,
just to sum up here, Susieand Michael were sleeping while Mary was
not. Even though Susie and Michaelwere sleeping, they saw this random sea
captain just walk into Susie's home.Then somehow there was a massive gap of
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time where the murder occurred and thevictim had their head and their hand cut
off, and then this mysterious seacaptain just walked away after washing his hands.
So, as you guys can imagine, no one believed this story.
There also was the fact that themurder weapon, which was a hatchet that
belonged to Susie was left right nearthe body and it was covered in Mary's
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blood and hair. The police immediatelyarrested both Susie and Michael. Susie was
charged with murder and was later sentencedto die by the hangman's noose, but
Michael, on the other hand,was released. Susie didn't die for her
crimes, though her sentence was commutedand she was sent to the Kingston Penitentiary
for sixteen years. Now, ina bizarre coincidence, on the day that
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Susie was opposed to hang Michael died. He lost his footing while aboard a
boat, He fell through the iceand he drowned. Now, the thing
is that Mary did not receive thejustice that she deserved. The building where
she died in used to sit onthe corner of William and Murray Streets.
In today's time, the old factoriesand apartments are long gone and have been
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replaced with film studios and trendy condos. In the years since Mary's death,
there have been countless reports a peopleseeing the ghost of Mary, who is
said to be looking for her head. These sightings occur every seven years on
the anniversary of her death. Onthis date, many people go down to
the corner of William and Murray Streetsto hopefully catch a glimpse of Mary.
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And if you want to see herfor yourself, it is said that your
next chance would be on June twentyseventh, twenty twenty five. You can
hear stories like this and so muchmore on our show Horrifying History, which
you can find on any podcast provider. You also can follow us on Facebook
at Horrifying History, on Instagram atHorrifying Underscore History, and on Twitter at
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Horrifying Hi st one, Hey everybody. My name is Josh and I'm Jamie
and we are from the Paranormal Peepspodcast and we have a great story for
you guys lined up tonight, andit's going to be a Japanese ghost story.
Yeah. So they're big spooky seasonfor us in the States. It's
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in October. For Japan, it'sactually in the summer, yeah, which
seems a little strange well for usbecause we weren't brought up in that culture.
But I find it fascinating. Nonetheless, I like seeing how other cultures
differ from ours. Yeah, andso what is the one belief that they
have about the summertime ghost season essentially, I don't know. They believe that
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their ancestors come back and they'll leavefires, inviting fires for them to come
and hang out with their families.Is it like fires for them to find
their way to the to their stillliving relatives, and yeah, in as
cases were, but yeah, okay, yeah, and it's you know,
and the interesting thing is the Japaneseculture is so much more ancient than anything
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we have in the US. Ohyeah, yeah, by leaps and bounds.
And they call it the season ofbond. And there are good spirits.
Most of the spirits are actually youknow, ancestral happy spirits. Yeah,
but then you have the yokai,which are evil spirits. And what
are we going to hear about today? I would say, let's figure that
out at the end of this wonderfulstory. Okay, let's get to it.
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So the name of the story isIngua Bananche. Is it Bonanche?
It looks like banshee to me,it looks like banshee, but I don't
think it spelt the same way,so we'll just say Banshee. That's fine
too. It actually essentially translates intothe tale of Ingua. Okay, so
maybe it's Banshee. I mean,it's kind of have banshee like characteristics.
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So okay, well, let's getstraight to it. Then the Damio's wife
was dying, and knew that shewas dying. She had not been able
to leave her bed since the earlyautumn of the tenth Buon Saie, And
it was now the fourth month ofthe twelfth bun Sai, the year eighteen
twenty nine by western counting, andthe cherry trees were blossoming. She thought
of the cherry trees in her garden, and of the gladness of spring.
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She thought of her children. Shethought of her husband's various concubines, especially
the lady Yukiko nineteen years old.My dear wife, said the Damio,
you have suffered very much for thethree long years. We have done all
that we could could to get youwell, watching beside you night and day,
praying for you, and often fastingfor your sake. But in spite
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of our loving care, and inspite of the skill of our best physicians,
it would now seem the end ofyour life is not far off.
Probably we shall sorrow more than youwill sorrow because of your having to leave
what the Buddha so truly termed thisburning house of the world. I shall
order to be performed, no matterwhat the cost, every religious rite that
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can serve you in the regard toyour next rebirth, and all of us
will pray without ceasing for you,that you may not have to wander in
the black space, but may quicklyenter paradise and attain to Buddha hood.
He spoke with the uttermost tenderness,caressing her the while, then with Eyelid's
clothes. She answered him in avoice then as the voice of an insect.
I am grateful, most grateful foryour kind words. Yes, it
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is true as you say that Ihave been sick for three long years,
and that I have been treated withall possible care and affection. Why indeed
shall I turn away from the onetrue path at the very moment of my
death, perhaps to think of worldlymatters. That such a time is not
right. But I have one lastrequest to make, only one call here
to me, the lady Yokiko,And you know that I love her like
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a sister. I want to speakto her about the affairs of this household.
Yukiko came at the summons of theLord and in obedience to the sign
from him, knelt down beside thecouch. The Damio's wife opened her eyes
and looked at Yukiko and spoke,Ah, here is Yukiko. I am
so pleased to see you. Yukiko. Come a little closer so that you
can hear me well. I amnot able to speak loud, Yukiko.
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I am going to die, andI hope that you will be faithful in
all things to our dear Lord,for I want you to take my place
when I am gone. I hopethat you will always be loved by him,
yes, even a hundred times morethan I have been, and that
you will very soon be promoted toa higher rank, become his honored wife.
And I beg of you always tocherish our dear Lord, never allow
another woman to rob you of hisaffection. This is what I want to
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say to you, dear Yukiko.Have you been able to understand? Oh,
my dear lady protested Yukiko. Donot I entreat you say such strange
things to me. You well knowthat I am of poor and mean condition.
How could I ever dare to aspireto become the wife of our lord?
Nay nay returned the wife huskily.This is not a time for words
of ceremony. Let us speak onlyin the truth to each other. After
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death, you will certainly be promotedto a higher place. And I now
assure you again that I wish youto become the wife of our Lord.
Yes, I wish this, Yukiko, even more than I wish to become
a Buddha. And I have almostforgotten. I want you to do something
for me, Yukiko. I knowthat in the garden there is a ye
zakura which is brought here the yearbefore last from Mount Yoshino in Yamato.
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I have been told that this isnow full bloom. I want to see
it in flower. In a littlewhile I shall be dead. I must
see the tree before I die.Now, I wish you to carry me
into the garden at once, Yukiko, so that I can see it.
Yes, upon your back, Yukiko, take me upon your back. While
thus asking, her voice was graduallybecoming clear and strong, as if the
intensity of the wish had given hernew force. Then she suddenly burst into
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tears. Yukiko knelt motionless, notknowing what to do. But the Lord
not an assent. It is herlast wish in this world, he said,
you always loved cherry flowers, andI know that she wanted very much
to see that yomado tree in blossom. Come, my dear Jokiko, let
her have her will. As thenurse turns her back to a child,
the child may cling to it.Yokiko offered her shoulders to the wife and
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said, lady, I am ready. Please tell me how I can best
help you. Why this way,responded the dying woman, lifting herself with
an almost superhuman effort by clinging toYokiko's shoulders. But as she stood erect,
she quickly slipped her thin hands downover her shoulders, under the robe
and clutched the breasts of the girland burst into a wicked laugh. I
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have my wish, she cried,I have my wish for the cherry blossom,
but not the cherry blossom of thegarden. I could not die before
I got my wish, and nowI have it, and oh what a
delight. And with these words shefell upon the crouching girl and died.
The attendants at once attempted to liftthe body from Yokiko's shoulders and to laying
it upon the bed but strange tosay, this seemingly easy thing cannot be
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done. The cold hands had attachedthemselves in some unaccountable way to the bad
So the girl, appearing to havegrown into the quick flesh, Yukiko,
became senseless with fear and pain.Physicians were called. They could not understand
what had taken place. By noordinary methods could the hands of the dead
woman be unfastened from the body ofher victim. They so clung that any
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effort to remove them brought blood.This was not because the fingers held It
was because the flush of the palmshad united itself in some inexplicable manner to
the flush of the breasts. Atthat time, the most skillful physician in
Tokyo was a foreigner, a Dutchsurgeon. It was decided to summon him.
After a careful examination, he saidit could not could not understand the
case, and then, at theimmediate relief of Yokiko, there was nothing
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to be done except cut the handsfrom the corpse. He decided that it
would be dangerous to attempt to detachthem from the breasts. His advice was
accepted, and the hands were amputatedat the wrists, but they remained clinging
to the breast, and they're soondarkened and dried up, like the hands
of a person long dead. Yetthis was only the beginning of the horror.
Withered and bloodless, though they seemed, those hands were not dead.
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At intervals they would stir stealthily likegreat gray spiders, and nightly thereafter,
beginning always at the hour of theox, they would clutch and compress and
torture. Only at the hour ofthe tiger the pain would succeed, would
cease. Yokiko cut off her hairand became a mendicant nune, taking the
religious name a Dassett Sue, andshe had a mortuary tablet maid bearing the
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cameo of her dead mistress, andthis she carried about with her in all
her wanderings. And every day beforeit she had humbled besot the dead for
pardon and performed a Buddhist service inorder that the jealous spirit might find rest.
But the evil karma that had beenrendered such an affliction possible, could
not soon be exhausted. Every nightat the hour of the ox, the
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hands never failed to charge her duringmore than seventeen years, According to the
testimony of those persons to whom shehad last told her story when she had
stopped from one evening at the houseof Naguchi Tango Zayemum in the village of
Tanaka and the of Kawachi in theprovidence Ashimatsuki. This is the third year
of Kokwai, which is eighteen fortysix. Therefore nothing more was ever heard
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of her. So basically, thisthis dying woman, this dying wife was
jealous, and before she died inher trickery, she told her husband,
you know, she's like a sisterto me. Yeah, you know,
I love her like a sister,Bring her here to me. Yeah.
And then deceptive, misleading and jealousand spiteful, yes, yeah. And
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so she would definitely be a yokaievil spirit. Well yeah, I mean,
you you leave the world, andthat is your last act, dying
wish an act yeau. She hadto you know, attach herself obviously,
So yeah, yeah, that's akind of a terrifying story. I mean,
yeah, I mean we're so usedhere, especially here in the States,
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we're so used to these you know, scary movies and haunting tales,
and they're much more graphic, they'reyou know, but and I've said this
before on a handful of occasions.If something like this happened to you in
real life, would you not beterrified? It would be absolutely horrifying.
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I mean, imagine a dead person'shands sees to your chest like they melted
with your into your skin. Yeah, they binded with you. Yeah.
And then every night from two tofour, which is the hour of the
ox, they twitch and torture you. Yeah, for seventeen years. Yeah,
how do you know they're insane?That's a very good question. I
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think I would cut off my breasts. Yeah. Yeah, but what if
that didn't work. Well, eventhat's even more terrifying. That's a terrifying
thought as well. So yeah,everybody check us out on the Paranoria Peep's
podcast. We are part of thedark Cast Network and as always, stay
ghosting my peeps. Hey there,this is CJ hosted Beyond the Rainbow,
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True Crimes of the LGBTQ plus.Regardless of your gin or sexual identity,
Beyond the Rainbow was made for listenersfrom just about all walks of life as
well. I'm the founder of DarkcastNetwork and I feel so honored to be
working with the fantastic shows of ournetwork the case I have for you this
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cruel summer takes us back a bitto the Bill Clinton administration. While many
may believe in searching a cigar intoMonica Lewinsky's huha might have been the dumbest
thing Clinton didn't office, I'd haveto disagree. I personally believe the militaries
Don't Ask, Don't Tell is whattook the cake. While the law was
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enacted in nineteen ninety three to protectgay and bisexual military personnel, it did
nothing more than disallow them to livetheir truth and it put a bigger target
on their backs. The law basicallystated, if you're gay or by and
a member of the military, yourband from telling anyone. At the time,
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thousands of LGBTQ people served to defendthe United States and our freedoms.
They gave their lives to protect theirfellow soldiers and American citizens, but it
wasn't easy. On top of theirassigned duties, they had to grapple every
day with don't Ask, don't tell, and that required them to hide their
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truths, their identities, their coreparts of themselves. Every single day they
felt the weight of that Don't Ask, Don't tell turned into a punishment for
patriotic LGBTQ Americans, and all theywanted to do was serve their country and
fight for freedoms Americans are supposed tohave. More than thirteen thousand qualified service
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members were discharged under that policy.I'm even lost their lives due to it,
because they were frightened to report harassment, like Private First Class Barry Winchell,
who I covered in Season nine,episode fifteen when Barry mccalie and the
young man whose case I'm presenting foryou today. In two thousand and ten,
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President Obama revoked the donass, don'ttell policy, much to the delight
of the LGBTQ community. This particularcase I'm going to tell you about was
a twenty nine year old gay militaryman in the summer of two thousand and
nine, just before the donass,don't tell policy ended. August Provost was
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a handsome black Navy sailor from Houston, Texas. In two thousand and nine,
he was assigned to the Camp PendletonNaval Base near San Diego, California.
August had a secret he was supposedto be keeping, otherwise he could
be discharged from the Navy or worse. Before the military August was a proud
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and open gay man, and hepresented masculine as a naval sailor and if
he all do ope mine, I'dlike to avoid calling him a seaman.
There's just too many sexual connotations associatedwith that word. As a naval sailor.
Aside from his family, only aselect few he really trusted knew about
his sexual identity. Friends and familydescribed Augus as a harmonious man, non
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judgmental, fully accepting of just abouteveryone, no matter they're sexual or gender
identities or ethnicities. August was alsovery loving and he had a beautiful,
contagious smile. The beginning of Junetwo thousand and nine, however, he
was being bullied at his naval base. August complained to the members of his
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family that he was being harassed bya fellow sailor that knew he was gay.
His sister told him to report theother sailor to his commanding officer,
but with the donas, don'tell policyin place, August was reluctant to do
so. Instead, August, whowas non confrontational most of the time,
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he just sat on the harassment andlet it happen. The night of Tuesday,
June thirtieth, two thousand and nine, August had taken his post in
the guard tower at Camp Pendleton.At some point his killer had also gained
entry to the tower and confronted August. Then his killer shot him multiple times,
leaving August to die at a sentrypost. The killer left the tower
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and he tried to set it ablazeto hide the evidence of the murder.
August's body was found the following day, on Wednesday, July first, two
thousand and nine. While many ofAugust's family and friends felt August was the
target of a hate crime for beinggay, his commanding office or an other
military personnel didn't believe this was thecase. They seemed to think it was
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coincidental, and since he was murderedwhile on sentry duty in the tower.
Had any other soldier also been assignedto that detail that night, they too
would have been murdered in the samemanner. But a military investigation into august
murder ensued, and the next dayanother sailor was arrested and placed into the
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Navy's custody in the brig of CampPendleton. There was strong evidence against thirty
two year old Petty Officer Jonathan campus. The Navy felt Jonathan, who had
been pulled over for a driving underthe influence charge earlier in June, they
felt like he was retaliating for anypunishment he received for the DUI. They
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also believed that he planned to setfire to the watchtower regardless who was in
it, and when he came acrossAugust, he stole his gun and fatally
shot him. However, many otherssurmise Jonathan was hiding in securities about his
own sexual identity and that he killedAugust to keep everyone from finding out he
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too was gay or bisexual. Simplyput, Jonathan thought August was going to
out him, but there's no concreteevidence for either theory. Friday, July
thirty first, two thousand and nine, military police checked on Jonathan in his
holding cell around twelve twenty pm.He was checked on less than an hour
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before this and everything seemed fine,But during this twelve twenty check, Jonathan
was unresponsive and he was rushed toa hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Jonathan had taken his own life viaself afphixiation. He had stuffed into his
mouth and ingested an incredible amount oftoilet paper, and this caused him to
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suffocate. The completion of suicide leftmany to believe Jonathan had killed August in
order to keep his secrets about hisown sexual identity. It's unknown whether Jonathan
in August had something sexual going onwith one another. August did have a
boyfriend back home in Texas at thetime of his murder, and because Jonathan
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took his own life, august familyfelt that Jonathan took away any closure and
answers as to why their beloved Augustwas killed. Rest in power, August.
Remember it's not a crime to begay unless you're a murderer. And
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dartcast network you rock. Guess whatchicken box? Summer time, I'm living
sleazy, sweating your balls off.Absolutely seriously, what summer means. When
you hit a certain age, itis time to chuck your children into the
arms of whoever will take them.I don't drive you insane. Anybody want
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this kid, yep, because it'sgoing to be home for like three months.
Did you ever do a summer campout? No? I did at
once, a place called camp toLully, Hollard to Central New York.
But that's where I got my profoundfear of the outdoors. It was just
a mild fear at first, butsleepaway camp is where the profound fear really
started. I was a home buddy, I would have got homesick. I
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would have cried. My mom wouldhave had to come and get me.
Today, we are going to giveyou a small taste of a notorious crime
that happened in nineteen seventy seven,A gruesome and tragic mystery that to this
day remains unsolved. Founded in theearly twentieth century, the Girl Scouts,
if you don't know, is anorganization dedicated to the empowerment of young girls.
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It instills this confidence and courage,you know. They bond over activities
like community service, camping, Theyget their badges, They sell their cookies,
right, I don't want to gopedal your cookies. I was into
that because I was a fat kid, and I was like, yeah,
I want to get some badges forselling cookies to myself. So it's fairly
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innocuous promise of a good time andit shouldn't be dangerous, right, it
shouldn't be. June thirteenth, nineteenseventy seven, marked one of the most
terrible and shocking crimes in Oklahoma history, which kicked off an investigation that would
continue for decades and now abandoned.Camp Scott is in a densely wooded location
on four hundred and ten acres inMay's County, Oklahoma. Camp Scott,
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a cornerstone of Oklahoma Girl Scouting,had been operated by generations of Girl Scouts
going as far back as nineteen twentyeight. Many parents of the campers had
experienced this two week getaway themselves andlooked forward to sharing the experience with their
littles. Get out by and goswimming and ships. See now do something
shit micvam Brims. Earlier that day, ten year old Doris Denise Milner expressed
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hesitation about the trip to her mom, but was convinced to board the bus
on the promise that her parents wouldpick her up if she felt like coming
home once she got there, like, hey, you know, try it
out. See what happens. We'llcome and get you. Might be more
fun than you think. Months leadingup to this particular trip, there was
some very odd activity happening around thecamp. A counselor found that one of
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the tents had been slashed open.Others on the campground reported some of their
items were missing, some heard strangenoises off in the distance, and one
counselor even found that a donut hadbeen stolen from a box of a dozen,
and in its place was a handwrittennote which, first of all,
you do not replace a donut witha note that ists you, because now,
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depending on where that donut is,two to four donuts are inedible.
Yeah, because they've touched your grimynote. Yeah, like, keep your
folded up, greasy threat paper awayfrom the donuts. Donuts and threats don't
go together anyway. This glazed threatsaid, we are on a mission to
kill three girls in Tent one.All of these incidents, all of the
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ship, including that, including thenote and the donuts. Yeah, it
was all dismissed as a prank.I don't like it. On the first
night of camp, a thunderstorm rolledin and the girls and their counselors all
hunkered down in their tents to goto sleep. In order to keep a
close eye on the scouts, thecounselors had the tents fanned out around their
own sleeping quarters. Milner was inthe farthest tent, accompanied by eight year
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old Laurie Lee Farmer and nine yearold Michelle Heather Goose. Laurie Farmer,
a bright little girl who was saidto be mature beyond her years and the
youngest Girl Scout at camp that week, was excited to write home to her
family and Tulsa. She told herloved ones about her two new friends and
her roommates. No stranger to CampScott, having attended the camp the year
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prior. Michelle Goose was a shy, athletic girl with a love four plants.
In fact, before leaving her homein Broken Arrow, her mother,
Georgianne, told a newspaper that Michelleinsisted she take care of her plants while
she was away at camp. Africanviolets were one of her favorites. Having
sold enough Girl Scout cookies to beable to attend camp with her friends,
Denise Milner had been excited about goingto camp. She was a straight A
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student and had already been admitted toa Tulsa school that was created for exceptionally
bright students. However, at thelast minute, her friends backed out,
and Denise reluctantly went alone to camp. She was not keen on the idea
of leaving her mom and her fiveyear old sister on the bus Denise cried.
After the trio finished their letters,the girls gathered for story time before
heading to bed. During storytime,Denise was again upset and asked to call
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her mom. One of the Kiowacounselors, a young woman named d Elder,
comforted Denise. After some convincing,Denise agreed she would wait and call
her mom the next day. Meanwhile, as the girls were winding down for
the evening and the first day ofcamp was coming to a close, a
counselor in the Comanche unit stared outinto the dark night through the dense trees.
Movement caught her eye. A dimlight was moving through the woods toward
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the Kiowa unit. Anybody wal walkingthrough that camp, unless you had a
good flashlight, it'd be pretty muchpitch black, Wilson said. As with
any camp, the first nights arealways loud. Excited campers enjoyed their newfound
freedom with their friends, away fromtheir parents, and free to do whatever
they wanted, you know, withinreason. Around midnight, counselor Carlo Willhight
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heard some campers giggling outside near thelatrine. She woke up, got the
girls and kay go back to bed, brought them back to their camp site
probably was really annoyed again. Atone thirty am, will Height was awakened
by girls giggling in Tent six.From the door of her tent, Will
Height shone a flashlight toward their tentand hollared go to sleep. Then Will
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Height and a fellow counselor d Elder, walked over to Tent six to get
these girls to quiet down. Theywere just like, I'm a party all
night. We do what we won't. From the darkness behind Tents one and
two, Will Height heard a lowgutturals sound or a moaning coming from the
woods, though they assumed it wasan animal. When will Hight went to
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investigate and shown her flashlight in thedirection of the noise, the sound stopped.
She turned around and started going backto her tent. As soon as
she did that, with the lightnot being shined in that direction anymore,
the sound started back up, Wilsonsaid, so she turned around a second
time and started walking back that direction, and as she shined the flashlight in
that direction again, the sound stoppedagain. Will Kite would say later that
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when she was back in her tenttrying to fall asleep, she could still
hear that sound. I wouldn't beable to fall asleep. No, I
mean this day and age with cellphones, definitely what I called someone not
to like right. Yeah, butyou know, this is nineteen seventy seven.
So around the same time, acamper in Tent seven saw a light
approaching the tent. Suddenly, thelight flooded the tent and a male figure
stood in the entryway, terrifying JesusChrist those poor kids. Just as quickly
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as he appeared, he disappeared backinto the dark, closing the flap of
the tent behind him, which,by the way, that the tents that
these kids were in were basically justlike it was like an eight by ten
wooden palette with like some cots withlike a cloth tent around it, no
security, no, just open flapsin a tent. I wouldn't sleep in
that ship. Bugs are definitely gettingin, oh my god, yeah,
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forget it. Definitely forget if thisdude's getting in. So are spiders for
sure. One camper said they hearda scream in the night, and another
camper said they heard someone crying fortheir mama. That would also, I
mean, that makes me so sad. Oh my god, yeah, I
mean too. The next morning,the sun rose on another day at Camp
Scott. This morning probably promised tobe pretty cool, I would imagine.
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I mean, those kids spent allnight during a thunderstorm, like getting no
each other and like bonding. Itmakes me sad to think that this is
how they woke up the next day. We'll go up to a nightmare.
Will Height woke early around six amto get into the shower before the other
campers woke up. She headed outof her tent. She spotted what appeared
to be sleeping bags a little wayaway. When she approached, she realized
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it was three sleeping bags sprawled acrossthe ground. Two of the sleeping bags
were zipped closed, but one wasopen. Milner, Farmer and Goose lay
dead on the trail about one hundredand fifty yards from their tent. Two
bodies were stuffed into the bottom oftheir sleeping bag, while one was left
out into the open. The younggirls had been brutally sexually assaulted before being
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bludgeoned and strangled to death. Aninvestigation turned up a well of evidence.
A large red flashlight was found ontop of the bodies, and while there
was a fingerprint on the lens.It was unfortunately too smudge to be idd
newspaper had been stuffed into the casingto prevent batteries from rattling. There was
even a piece of fabric that he'dput over the light, like it was
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duct taped over it so it wouldlike dim the light while it was walking
through the woods. Yeah, thegirl's tent was covered in blood, and
in that blood was the print ofa nine and a half sized shoe.
A larger search of the four hundredacre camp turned up duct tape rope in
women's eyeglasses. Police found a nearbycave that showed signs that someone had been
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living there, and they were newpapers scattered around. It matched the issue
that were used to stuff the batteriesin the flashlight. That's pretty damning.
In case that wasn't enough evidence,somebody had also just kind of like doodled
on the wall. The killer washere, Bye bye fools seven seven,
six seventeen, the way that theywrote the date like six seventeen, nineteen
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seventy seven. Oh yeah, theyears first. As soon the police identified
a suspect, thirty three year oldJeane Leroy Hart Heart had a documented history
of violence, which included sexual assault. He was arrested for the kidnap and
rape of two pregnant women in Tulsa, and he got out on parole shortly
after. Yeah, the fuck iswrong with people think pregnant women would be
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kind of safe. You'd think.Oh, he was in and out of
jail burglary charges. Managed to escapein nineteen seventy three. Escaped fucking jail,
like, just got out. Well, it was the seventies. It
was the seventies. He probably hada damn poster of some bikini clad sweetheart
in his cell. Yeah, witha big hole behind it. Yep.
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Tunneled his way through a rever asshit and came out clean on the other
side. WHOA, Now, fuckthis guy. Though this guy really did
do the things I think that hewas accused of. Anyway, he was
a member of the Cherokee Nation,and tensions began to mount as the police
focus their search on him. Heartwas eventually arrested, though the sheriff at
the time said he was one hundredpercent certain of his involvement. Heart was
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acquitted in nineteen seventy nine, whena jerry unanimously found him not guilty of
murdering the girls. Yeah, becauseapparently the whole town loved this guy.
Yeah, and there were a lotof people that were like, nah,
he couldn't have done it. DNAtesting has come a really long way,
and recently they have linked him,Like I think it was twenty twenty two
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they were able to confirm Heart's involvement. So it kind of sucks like he
didn't serve time for that. Hedidn't go like, he didn't go to
prison for killing the girls, buthe did have three hundred and five years
to serve for his prior sentences forraping pregnant ladies and escaping from prison.
In June of nineteen seventy nine,he died of a heart attack in the
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prison exercise yard. Yeah wasn't long. Yeah, a heart attack. You
know, got murdered. People foundout what he did and they were like,
we don't take too kindly to childmolestation, and they pilled him.
Tis possible. Eventually Camp Scott wasshut down alleging negligence. Two of the
victims families sued the Magic Empire Council, which ran the Girl Scouts of Eastern
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Oklahoma, for five million dollars.Jurors voted nine to three in favor of
Magic Empire. Attorneys claimed that scoutingofficials showed an unbelievable lack of caution and
alertness despite numerous incidences which should haveprompted them to improve camp security. There's
all these things that were going onfor years prior to this incident, and
they just gave one of the counselors, an underage counselor, a gun and
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was like, yeah, just defendand them. Yeah, just like,
holy shit, the seventies, Oklahoma, just shoot him. Richard Goose,
the father of Michelle Heather Goose,helped the state legislature pass the Oklahoma Victim's
Bill of Rights. He also wenton to found the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation
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Board. Laurie Leef Farmer's mother,Sherry Farmer, founded the Oklahoma Chapter of
the Parents of Murdered Children's Support Group. There's never any good that comes out
of anything like this, but timehas gone on. It's been like forty
five years and people are still feelingthe effects of it. And if you
want to take an even deeper lookat this disturbing case, Hulu actually did
come out with a documentary called Keeperof the Ashes. The Oklahoma Girl Scout
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murders. It is hosted by asuperstar celebrity, Kristin Chenowith. Chennawith said
of this incident that occurred as aneight year old girl to children that she
vaguely remembers passing in the hallways ofschool, quote, this happened. There's
no closure, there's no pretty redbow at the end. And when I
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think of those three girls, Iwonder what's the best way to honor them.
And that's why I have come backhome to find answers once and for
all and make it about me.It has to be seen to be believed.
Honestly, it's very self congratulatory abouther survival of something that she was.
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Joanna Wright, a girl who waslegitimately affected by this nightmare, almost
chose tent number seven in the camp'sKiawa unit, but ultimately chose another tent.
I just didn't like the location,she said. There were a lot
of woods around it, and Ijust didn't like it. I wouldn't have
liked it either. Got some vibesthat camp was set up weird, and
those poor kids were like the furthestaway from any kind of authority figure authority
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in quotation marks because they were teenagers, but they were the furthest ones away.
The counselors were in the middle,and then the campers fanned off out
to the side. And so therewere two tents that were like super crazy,
far away from any kind of assistance. Absolutely the tent, the furthest
away. I have the least amountof kids in there. Like, if
there was a free space, acounselor should have gone them there. Right,
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they could just give them a gun. I mean, yeah, just
give them a gun. Fuck it, they'll be fine. All right,
eight year all, here, havea gun. Here's a handgun. You
know how it works, right,Yeah, you do. You're from Oklahoma.
It's fine. And they were Oklahomians, Oklahomi's. Oh if that's what
they call themselves. They batter creepytapas. Check us out wherever you listen
to podcast, guys. We haveall kinds of cool stuff. Thanks for
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listening, y'all. Thanks y'all,Bye, bye, Hay their friend.
My name is Keily. I'm thehost of Misty Mysteries, a true crime
and peromo podcast that brings you ghostlyspooks and chilling crimes every Wednesday. Today,
I'm telling you about the well knowncase known as Lady of the Dunes,
a former Jane Doe case but stillunsolved homicide. In the morning of
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July twenty six, nineteen seventy four, a twelve year old girl, new
Leslie Metcalf, was playing outside withher dog in Cape Cod, a Providence
town, Mattachusetts, when she noticedher dog had taken off. She went
off to search for her pup.She only walked a hundred yards when she
reached the Race Point Sand Dunes,where she heard her dog barking and decided
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to follow his barks. Following hisbarks, she found him barking at the
decomposing remains of a woman. Thewoman was found naked, lying face down.
Half of her body was on agreen beach towel, as if she
had been sharing the towel with afriend. Her head rested on regular blue
jeans and a blue bandana that hadbeen folded and was covered in blood.
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She had green eyes and auburn hair. Her toe nails had been painted a
pink color. Her hair had beentied back with a golden flaked hair tie,
but her ponytail had been varied disheveled. She was determined to be between
the ages of twenty five to fortyyears old. She was five foot six
inches, but initially police believed herto be two inches taller at five foot
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eight inches. She weighed one hundredforty five pounds with an athletic built and
though some of her teeth had beenmissing, presumably taken by her killer,
it was determined she had expensive dentalwork done, including crowns ranging between five
thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars.When her remains were found, it was
believed she could have been deceased anywherebetween ten days to three weeks, but
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it wasn't hard for police to markher death a homicide. Her hands had
been removed at the wrist and takenfrom the scene, teeth were taken from
her mouth, and she had beennearly decapitated. Her cause of death was
from blunt force trauma that caused theleft side of her skull to be crushed.
Police believed she either knew her killeror was asleep when this attack happened,
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because the scene showed no signs ofa fight. On the scene,
very little evidence to basically none wasfound. What was found on seen where
footprints approaching her remains and stopping afew yards away, then fifty yards from
her retire tracks that led to thedooms. The police chief at the time
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said there was no way to knowif these were or weren't connected to her
homicide. After her remains had beenremoved from the scene, they searched for
a weapon or any further evidence aroundthe area, using a bloodhound in a
fresh set of eyes, bringing innew law enforcement personnel, but nothing else
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was found. Away from the scene, her body was examined for anything that
may offer clues to her identity orwho was responsible for this horrific crime.
Her clothes were searched for any identifyinginformation, but again nothing was found,
so police set off to search elsewhere. They went to motels, hotels,
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and other locations those vacationing may stayto see if someone had gone missing,
but nothing came of this. Theythen used the victim's characteristics and appearance to
compare her to the thousands of missingpersons. Reports looked into the owners of
every vehicle with permits to drive inthe dunes, or those who had abandoned
their vehicles in the dunes, butthis led nowhere. Finally, in the
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efforts to help her be known asmore than the Lady of the Dunes.
They asked the public for help sharingher characteristics and started to send out her
dental charts. Her dental charts weresent to the FBI, dental groups,
five thousand dentists in Mattachusetts alone,and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, but
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this didn't get them anywhere closer tofinding her identity. Without any solid leads
to her identity or her killer,she was laid to rest in Saint Peter's
Cemetery in Providence Town with a gravemarked unidentified female. For forty eight years,
she was known as the Lady ofthe Doones while police work to identify
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her, using her school to createsketches and exhuming her body for DNA.
After forty eight years lay to restwithout her identity, the Lady of the
Dunes was identified in October of twentytwenty two as thirty seven year old Ruth
Marie Terry. Ruth was married toa man named Guy Rockwell. Guy was
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an antique dealer who was suspected ofthe deaths of his previous wife and stepdaughter
in nineteen sixty. Knowing that Ruthis the Lady of the Dunes, the
investigators are now looking for more informationabout Guy, although he did pass away
in two thousand and two in California, and they're looking for more information on
her time in Massachusetts before her death. If you want to hear more about
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Ruth in depths details of this investigation, including theories of her possibly being a
background in the movie Jaws or afalse confession of a serial killer, you
can tuck out the longer and waymore detailed coverage of this case on the
Missy Mysteries podcast. I hope youjoined me soon. Until then, I
hope you have a safe and cruelsummer and you enjoy all the rest of
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the stories from my dark Cast friends. Hello everyone, my name is Sinister
Steph and welcome to the Dark CastNetwork's Cruel Summer episode. Today. I
wanted to share a little sinister summerstory with you. Unfortunately, bitter custody
battles between parents are a tale asold as time. However, the battles
that are taken much further than acourt of law are thankfully a little less
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common. During the summer of twentyeleven, twenty seven year old Laura Jean
Akerson was going through a terrible fightfor custody of her toddler sons, Grant
Hayes, the fourth and gentle Herex boyfriend Grant Hayes was making life hell
for her. The two had jointcustody over the children, but that wasn't
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enough for greedy Grant. He hadalready moved on with another woman named Amanda,
and they were married in two thousandand ten. Shortly after they were
married, Grant and Amanda welcomed anew baby of their own. So why
couldn't Grant just leave Laura alone.She was a fantastic mother, very loving
and nurturing, but for some reason, Grant seemed determined to try to take
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any happiness away from Laura that hecould. In spite of all this,
Laura was really trying to move onwith her life as well, but it
seemed like every time something positive wouldhappen for her, there was Grant,
a big gray rain cloud looming overher head. Laura lived in Kinston,
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North Carolina, and worked successfully inthe marketing industry. She was well liked
for her cheerfulness by just about everyonewho came in contact with her. On
July twelfth, two eleven, Laurawas emailed by Grant to come visit their
boys on Wednesday, July thirteen,after her work, but in order to
make the visit, Laura would haveto go to Grant and Amanda's apartment in
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Raleigh instead of meeting at a neutralsite like a family restaurant. Laura,
however, would never miss the opportunityto see her children and I can identify
with that, so of course shesaid that she would be there. She
was supposed to be present for aconference call with a co worker later that
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evening for work, but she missedit. Her coworker did know that Laura
was going to Raleigh to visit herkids for a bit, but Laura missing
the phone meeting still worried her alittle bit. Two days later, on
July fifteenth, Laura was due topick up the boys for her parenting portion
of the week. However, shenever showed. On July eighteenth, that
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same coworker I previously mentioned reported hermissing because Laura had still not shown up
for work and it had been nowseveral days that she could not be reached.
A few days after she was reportedmissing, Laura's carr was found in
the parking lot of an apartment complexthat her and her boys used to live.
In with Grant when they were alltogether the complex was in Raleigh.
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On July twenty fourth, Laura's remainswere discovered in Richmond, Texas. She
had been dismembered. Her body partswere located in three different spots in a
creek, and because of the gruelingsummer heat in Texas, the decomposition of
her remains had settled in rapidly,making it nearly impossible for the medical examiner
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to determine exactly how Laura had beenkilled. It was finally ruled as undetermined
homicidal violence, but their final findingssuggested she either succumbed to asphyxiation or blunt
force trauma to her neck. Investigatorshad their work cut out for them.
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They started to first look into thecircle of people in Laura's life, beginning
with her ex boyfriend and father ofher children. Detectives visited Grant at the
apartment he shared with his wife,Amanda, and their children. Immediately,
detectives noticed a strong, bleached smellemanating from the apartment. They found a
note with Laura's signature stating she wouldgive up the kids to Grant for twenty
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five thousand dollars, but after speakingto Laura's friends and co workers. Investigators
believed that Laura's signature was forged onthe document. Detectives were also somehow able
to determine a shower curtain, avacuum, and bathroom rugs were missing from
the apartment. Grant and Amanda movedquickly to the top of their suspect list.
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With a little searching, law enforcementdiscovered that Grant had recently purchased gloves,
bleech plastic, sheeting of reciprocal sawgoggles, garbage bags, ice,
and some ice chests. Nothing suspiciousthere with his ex girlfriend and mother of
his toddler son's missing right. Theyalso found all of these items were purchased
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before Grant, Amanda, and thekids had left for a trip to Texas.
After arriving in Texas, Grant purchasedsome bottles of mariatic acid and was
seen on a home improvement store surveillancedoing this. Amanda was seen on video
footage dumping some of those empty bottlesof mariatic acid near her sister's residence.
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There were also witnesses that could placeGrant and Amanda near the creek in Texas
where Laura's remains were found. Detectivessurmised that Laura was murdered in Grant in
Amanda's apartment. The couple dismembered herwith the reciprocal saw, and her body
parts were stored in the ice chests. When none of the couple's previous attempts
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to dispose of Laura's body were effective, they rented a U haul and drove
to Richmond, Texas, where Amanda'ssister lived. In Texas, they had
tried to dissolve Amanda's body in themuriatic acid, but they were again unsuccessful,
so the couple rented a boat anddumped Laura's remains in Oyster Creek,
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where alligators were prevalent. Grant andAmanda hoped that alligators would eat all of
the evidence, but thankfully, thealligators were non compliant with the couple's plan.
Grant and Amanda Hayes were arrested onfirst degree murder charges, and,
as often happens when couples are arrestedtogether for crimes, they turned on each
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other pretty quickly. Amanda insisted thatshe was fearful of Grant, and he
threatened her if she didn't help him. Grant insisted that Amanda had strangled Laura
to death, but it was anaccident. I don't know how you accidentally
strangle someone. Two years later,in twenty thirteen, Amanda and Grant would
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have separate trials. Amanda's defense wasonce again that she was coerced by her
violent, scary husband to play apart in the murder of Laura. Her
defense team painted Grant as a classicsociopath who murdered Laura without Amanda's knowledge,
and then Grant tricked Amanda into thetrip to Texas to dispose of Laura's body
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parts. Amanda's sentence was lowered fromfirst degree murder two second degree murder.
Before the end of the court proceedings, Amanda apologized to just about everyone,
Laura's family, her son's, Grant'sfamily, the court room. The judge
tolder she most likely could have savedLaura's life but had chosen not to.
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Amanda was guilty, and by thetime her trial concluded in February twenty fourteen,
she was sentenced to a thirteen tosixteen year incarceration. She received an
additional twenty years for tampering with evidenceand trying to feed Laura's body parts to
alligators. As soon as her trialwas over, she served Grant with divorce
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papers. Imagine that Grant's trial wenta little differently. After introducing over five
hundred pieces of evidence and interviewing fortyseven witnesses on the stand, the prosecution
played the jury a song. WhatI haven't mentioned yet is that Grant was
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a musician. His stage name wasGrant Hayes h a Ze. The song
they played was written and recorded byGrant himself, now the defendant in his
own trial. On it, Grantcan be heard singing, quote, my
baby's mama, don't talk to me, don't want your drama. I got
two kids by you. I can'ttake any more from you. I put
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a price tag on your head.You must have told your attorney I got
intentions on killing you. You musthave told your attorney I got intentions on
killing you. End quote. Otherverses of the song are quote given to
me. I want it all.I want your scream, I want your
crawl. I'll make you bleed.I'm not the one to make you scream.
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I'm just the one to make youbleed. Don't raise your arms.
You can't stop me. I'll putmy hands on your throat and squeeze end
quote. He titled the song BroomstickWriter, which of course, in itself,
seems like a reference to his exbeing a witch. This song isn't
really a ballad as you can imagine. It has more of a hip hop
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wrap vibe to it, and it'sactually still available to hear on YouTube,
but I wouldn't recommend it. It'snot a great song. After the song
was played, the prosecution rested itscase, which was probably a great place
to rest. Grant had pretty muchsaid it all in his musical verses and
it didn't seem metaphorical at all.The jury came back with a guilty verdict.
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Grant was sentenced to life in prisonwithout the possibility of parole. And
that, my friends, concludes mycruel Summer Story with Darkcast Network and the
disturbing murder of Laura Akerson. Thankyou for listening to Sinister Story Hour and
all of my other favorite podcasts fromthe Darkcast Network. We wish you a
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sinister summer. Well. If Iwasn't sweating from the heat, I'm certainly
sweating from the variety of chilling tales. Just told tomorrow we'll release part two
of our Cruel summer tour, besure to join me back here, and
in the meantime, be careful outthere. Real life is spooky.
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