The Fall Line: True Crime

This week, in honor of National Native American Heritage Day, we are re-releasing one of our most popular series: our three-part interview with Carolyn DeFord. Carolyn DeFord—MMIWG advocate, Trafficking Project Coordinator for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians, and founder of Missing and Murdered Native Americans Facebook page has another role: daughter of a missing person. In the first of a three-part series, we hear Carolyn’s story—and that of her mother, Leona LeClair Kinsey.   Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Learn about War Cry Podcast: https://twitter.com/warcrypodcast Listen To The Vanished’s coverage of Leona’s Case:  https://art19.com/shows/the-vanished-podcast-wondery/episodes/76152ac4-587f-488f-b852-7f33e71cdab3   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

23 Nov 202251min

Atypical Homicide researcher Enzo Yaksic shares his perspective on cultural myths regarding the “average” serial killer, what—and who—has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, and why it’s so important that experts, law enforcement, and consumers begin to understand what serial murder is, and how serial murderers operate in the modern age.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Buy Enzo Yaksic’s Killer Data from any retailer or directly from the publisher: https://www.routledge.com/Killer-Data-Modern-Perspectives-on-Serial-Murder/Yaksic/p/book/9780367672706   Go to Uncommongoods.com/FALL to get 15% off your next gift! Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and use code FALLLINE to to get free ribeyes for a year plus $10 off. Get 50% off any new system at SIMPLISAFE.com/FALLLINE  today   Go to Framebridge.com and place your order today!    Check out Haley Gray Research: http://haleygrayresearch.com/ Season of Justice: https://seasonofjustice.org/ Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Nov 202231min

Atypical Homicide researcher Enzo Yaksic shares his perspective on cultural myths regarding the “average” serial killer, what—and who—has skewed our perceptions of serial killers, and why it’s so important that experts, law enforcement, and consumers begin to understand what serial murder is, and how serial murderers operate in the modern age.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Buy Enzo Yaksic’s Killer Data from any retailer or directly from the publisher: https://www.routledge.com/Killer-Data-Modern-Perspectives-on-Serial-Murder/Yaksic/p/book/9780367672706   Go to Uncommongoods.com/FALL to get 15% off your next gift! Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and use code FALLLINE to to get free ribeyes for a year plus $10 off. Get 50% off any new system at SIMPLISAFE.com/FALLLINE  today   Go to Framebridge.com and place your order today!    Check out Haley Gray Research: http://haleygrayresearch.com/ Season of Justice: https://seasonofjustice.org/ Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Nov 202236min

On July 10th, 2010, Larry “LJ” Sanders, Jr., an Edgefield, SC-area father of two, was murdered during a home invasion; his mother, Carolyn Bates, wants to know why, and who, and when someone will be ready to come forward. After all, the North Augusta metro area isn’t large; someone, somewhere, knows something.   Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Thanks again Vessi! Click the link vessi.com and use our code [FALLLINE] for 15% off your entire order! Free shipping to CA, US, AU,JP, TW, KR, SGP   Go to Framebridge.com and use promo code FALLLINE to save an additional 15% off your first order. Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and use code FALLLINE to get one 10-14 lb Turkey FREE in your first box.   Check out Haley Gray Research: http://haleygrayresearch.com/ Season of Justice: https://seasonofjustice.org/ Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2 Nov 202245min

In the early morning hours of September 28, 2015, Joseph Smedley, who was an Indiana University student, chemistry major, and Sigma Pi fraternity brother, sent his sister, Vivanne, a strange late-night text message: she shouldn’t try to contact him—he was leaving the country. Vivianne knew something was wrong; she began a near-week long search for her brother that ended when his body was pulled from a nearby lake. A bookbag weighed down with close to 70 lbs of rock was strapped to his body. Joseph’s death was ruled a suicide, and his case was closed. Today, his sister, Vivianne, and a local Indiana podcaster, Stacy Bridavsky, are working to have his case re-examined.    Thanks again Vessi! Click the link vessi.com and use my code [FALLLINE] for 15% off your entire order! Free shipping to CA, US, AU,JP, TW, KR, SGP   Go to Framebridge.com and use promo code FALLLINE to save an additional 15% off your first order. Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and use code FALLLINE to get one 10-14 lb Turkey FREE in your first box. Listen to A Heavy Weight: https://www.aheavyweight.com/ Joseph’s Petition: https://chng.it/2CccgVzCQg Contact A Heavy Weight: aheavyweightpodcast@gmail.com Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Okt 202258min

Welcome to Season Two of Gone South, the Edward R. Murrow-Award winning documentary podcast from C13Originals. Starting in the early sixties, a rag-tag confederation of traveling criminals known as The Dixie Mafia terrorized every state from Georgia to Oklahoma. Its hundreds of members, unofficially headquartered in Biloxi, Mississippi, specialized in scams, heists and murder. Their ringleader — the estranged son of a prominent Oklahoma politician — was a skilled and charismatic outlaw named Kirksey Nix. When Nix was sentenced to life in prison at Angola for a murder he committed in New Orleans, The Dixie Mafia was thought to be extinct. But fifteen years later, a sitting criminal court judge named Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a mayoral candidate for the city of Biloxi, were assassinated. As the case ran cold, authorities were forced to confront a disturbing reality: the reign of Kirksey Nix and The Dixie Mafia was far from over. Gone South is a creation and production of Peabody-nominated C13Originals, a Cadence13 studio, in association with Jed and Tom Lipinski. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

25 Okt 20223min

We’re a show primarily focused on the Southeastern United States, but this week, Kristen Seavey of Murder, She Told walks us through some of New England’s least-known cold cases that are in most need of advocacy and support--and tells us how a victim’s advocate can participate in the genre of true crime to enact change.   Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Sign up today at http://butcherbox.com/FALLLINE and use code FALLLINE to get one 10-14 lb Turkey FREE in your first box. Sign Danielle’s Petition: https://chng.it/JzMpG6tZfL Check out Murder, She Told: https://www.murdershetold.com/   Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

12 Okt 202246min

On Friday, June 7th, 1985, Nashville’s The Fan Fair, also known as “The Country Explosion” was days from its grand opening, and the city was flooded with strangers; the same afternoon, a man named Ricky Lee Franks would return to Nashville, his hometown, and see his family—briefly—before disappearing. Ricky Lee Franks had been living in a group home in Dickson, TN, and no one—not the cold-case detective now assigned to his case, or Ricky’s eldest sister, Sylvia—is quite sure how Ricky made his way back to Nashville that Friday. They also don’t know what happened afterward. . . though there have been leads that have taken investigators across state lines. That’s because years later, his family would hear startling reports of a stranger, calling himself Ricky Franks, traveling across the Southeast.  This two-part series looks at Ricky’s disappearance and Sylvia’s near-40-year-quest to find her brother.  Pre order Laurah’s book LAY THEM TO REST: https://www.hachettebooks.com/titles/laurah-norton/lay-them-to-rest/9780306828805/ Go to https://www.framebridge.com/ and use promo code FALLLINE to save an additional 15% off your first order.   Tickets to The Raymond Green International Outreach Gala: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-night-of-unity-black-tie-gala-tickets-404902402987?aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=listing   Submit a case to The Fall Line: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/case-submissions   Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters, Kyana Burgess, and Michaela Morrill/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd, Liz Lipka, and Sarah Turney  Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2022 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? Contact Glassbox Media https://glassboxmedia.com/contact-us/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5 Okt 202237min