The Circleville Letters and Paul Freshour

September 24, 2020 Matthew Wasilowski

In the 1970’s a small manufacturing town in Ohio started to be plagued by an upsetting and mysterious series of letters. On this episode, we talk about the well known case of the Circleville Letters and the story of a man who went to prison for a crime he may not have committed.

Sources:

circlevilleletters Wordpress
Medium True Crime Blog
True Crime Database
Dwight Radcliff Obit (music warning)
Unsolved Mysteries
Dark Histories
Ray Carroll Arrest
Reddit
Circleville Bombing of 1967
The Lineup
Victims of the State
The Trail Went Cold Episode
Mysterious Universe
Historic Mysteries
Wikipedia

Art:

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The Cowden Family Murders - Part 2

August 31, 2020 Matthew Wasilowski

In the finale of this two-part serie, we take a look at the disappearance of the Cowden family. On Labor Day weekend in 1974, Richard and Belinda June Cowden and their two young children went camping in the Pacific Northwest and were never seen alive again. This case has been described as one of Oregon’s most haunting and baffling mysteries in the state’s history. What happened to the Cowden family?

Sources:

Eugene Register-Guard, Feb 11, 1966
The Bulletin, Jul 9, 1975
Eugene Register-Guard, Nov 2, 1980
Find A Case - Oregon v. Little
Mail Tribune, May 4, 2003
WikiMili
Phantoms and Monsters
James Donahue
Wikipedia
Reddit
Strange Outdoors
Find A Grave - Orla Fay Fipps
Find A Grave - David James Phillips
Find A Grade - Melissa Dawn Cowden
Newspapers Archive
Google Maps
The Trail Went Cold - Episode 113
But I Trusted You and Other True Cases by Ann Rule

Art:

The Cowden Family Murders - Part 1

August 17, 2020 Matthew Wasilowski

In this two-part series, we take a look at the disappearance of the Cowden family. On Labor Day weekend in 1974, Richard and Belinda June Cowden and their two young children went camping in the Pacific Northwest and were never seen alive again. This case has been described as one of Oregon’s most haunting and baffling mysteries in the state’s history. What happened to the Cowden family?

Sources:

Note: Sources contain information also discussed in Episode Two of this two-part series.
Eugene Register-Guard, Feb 11, 1966
The Bulletin, Jul 9, 1975
Eugene Register-Guard, Nov 2, 1980
Find A Case - Oregon v. Little
Mail Tribune, May 4, 2003
WikiMili
Phantoms and Monsters
James Donahue
Wikipedia
Reddit
Strange Outdoors
Find A Grave - Orla Fay Fipps
Find A Grave - David James Phillips
Find A Grade - Melissa Dawn Cowden
Newspapers Archive
Google Maps
The Trail Went Cold - Episode 113
But I Trusted You and Other True Cases by Ann Rule

Art:

The Disappearance of Nicole and Arianna Fitts

July 31, 2020 Matthew Wasilowski

In early 2016, Nicole Fitts and her 2-year old daughter Arianna went missing in the San Francisco. In this episode, we discuss the tragic disappearance of these two and what’s known about the fate of Arianna and her mother.

Sources:

The Charley Project
@TheBestNuala
SF Weekly
Finding Nicole and Arianna Fitts Facebook Page
CBS SF BayArea
Wikipedia
FBI
ABC News
Oxygen
Reddit Unsolved Mysteries Thread
True Crime Daily

Art:

The Disappearance of Paula Weldon

July 17, 2020 Matthew Wasilowski

On December 1st, 1946, Paul Jean Weldon went for a walk in the college town of Bennington, VA and was never heard from again. The mystery of her disappearance would spark legislative change in Vermont that persists to present day. But her disappearance was neither the first nor the last in this small town.

What to do if lost in the woods.

Sources:

Wikipedia
The Long Trail
Historic Mysteries
Bennington Banner
Charley Project

Art: