The mysterious murder of Hannah Truelove

This week's Offbeat focuses on your stories! That's right, listeners like you emailed or messaged us great stories ranging from black eyed people to spooky stuff in the woods! Email us your story at mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

31 Mars 202146min

Mountain Murders episode 151 takes a look at one of Virginia's most famous cases. Gina Hall was a college freshman who went to a Blacksburg night club on a summer night in 1980. She was never seen again. An investigation leads police to a former college football player with a violent past. Despite the fact there was no body, Stephen Epperly was charged with her murder. The case set a precedent and became known as Virginia's first entirely circumstantial murder conviction. Intro Music by Joe Buck YourselfHosts: Heather and Dylan PackerEmail: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comTo support the show, considering joining us at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast to access exclusive content available only to patrons!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

28 Mars 20211h 33min

Support the show at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcast where you can access bonus content! This week's Offbeat continues our series on asylums. Pennhurst State School and Hospital located in Spring City, PA was known as the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic. Very quickly, conditions at the institute deteroriated due to overcrowding and funding issues. Pennhurst gained a reputation as one of the worst facilities in the nation. Eventually, a tv documentary series exposed the conditions. Join Mountain Murders as we discuss some of the brutality at Pennhurst. Hosts:Heather and DylanEmail: MountainMurdersPodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

24 Mars 202127min

Keith Gordan Ham was swept up in the counter culture movements of the 1960s and went in search of a guru. He began studying under a Swami in New York City who was spreading a message of love and peace. Ham became Kirtananda betrays his guru in an attempt to seize control of the Krishna movement in America. Kirtandana decides to form his own Krishna commune in West Virginia. Followers flock to the community known as New Vrindaban. But life on the compoud is not what it seems. Join Mountain Murders as we discuss drug dealing, murder, pedophilia and corruption disguised under the robes of a con artist who exploited the Krishna religion for his own means. Intro music by Joe Buck YourselfHosts: Heather and Dylan PackerEmail: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

21 Mars 20211h 7min

On this week's Offbeat, we continue our series on asylums. The Trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (formerly the Weston State Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital that opened in 1864. It was in operation until 1994. The hospital has a unique history through the Civil War and became a participant of the West Virginia Lobotomy Project. It's dark history has become a hot bed of paranormal activity over the years being featured on multiple ghost shows. Hosts: Heather and DylanEmail: Mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comwww.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

17 Mars 202154min

Marc Evonitz was a serial rapist and murderer who killed three teenage girls in Spotsylvania, Virginia as well as abducted a teenager in South Carolina. From a troubled childhood to a disturbed young man, Marc learned how to play the part of a normal guy. Intro Music by Joe Buck YourselfHosts: Heather & DylanEmail: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

15 Mars 20211h 1min

Mountain Murder's Offbeat brings you the first asylum in our series! Broughton Hospital is a psychiatric hospital located in Morganton, North Carolina with an interesting history. We examine former psychiatric techniques, the paranormal associated with Broughton, and some of the strange true stories at the hospital. Hosts: Heather and Dylan Email: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comTo support the show consider becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/mountainmurderspodcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

10 Mars 202144min

During the 1970s in Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, there were numerous unsolved homicides--mostly of young women--fitting similar patterns. Our first case involves the murder a 17 year old named Donna Lee Dustin who was killed while her family was on vacation. Her murder has haunted residents of Bowie, Maryland for over 40 years. A story of sex, drugs, and rock n roll we look into Donna's case which has baffled investigators. Then we discuss several murders of young women that may have connections to the famous Maryland murder of Sister Cathy Cesnik. Cesnik's case was featured on the Netflix series, The Keepers. Our unsolved cases are eerily similar to Cesniks with the victims having ties to Father Joseph Maskell, a Catholic priest implicated in numerous sexual assaults. Were these murders the works of individuals, a serial killer or perhaps multiple serial killers working in Maryland during the 1970s? Mountain Murders checks out differing possibilities and theories surrounding these unsolved cold cases. Intro Music by Joe Buck YourselfHosts: Heather & Dylan Email: mountainmurderspodcast@gmail.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/mountain-murders--3281847/support.

7 Mars 20211h 3min