Five Four Two And The Blue

Episode -S2 18  Shootout at the Ironton jail Pulp detective magazines and the stories they have run have documented incidents in the Appalachian Mountains going back to the 40’s .  True Detective Mysteries in the article The shootout at the Ironton jail. Wrote about the former World war II Veteran who became Chief of police of his home town.   He survived  the battle of Iwo Jima and other island hopping battles in the Pacific.  To  loose  his life protecting his town. Reviewing court records, newspapers and family interviews tells more of this Shade of Blue Story.  Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2- 18. The Thorny Rose- Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch connection to Tnn. Laura Bullion was  a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.  At 15 she was romantically involved with the outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), bank and train robber.   Nicknamed "The Thorny Rose". Her story started in the Wild West and ends as one of our Shade of Blue stories in Appalachia.  Scottlunsfordauthor.com  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S 2-17 Repeat offenders and killers. This Shade of Blue Story, for Five Four Two and the Blue, starts in Asheville North Carolina in the mid 1970s. Two Asheville Police officers on patrol locate a body in the snow. Addiction, Murder, and more drugs. It ends years later in Virginia Beach Virginia. A second shade of Blue, tells the story of a repeat offender from 1910. A murder that impacts on the Gov. of North Carolina, but also ends in Virginia.  A demonstration of how things can be connected through time. Scottlunsfordauthor.com anchor.fm/scott-lunsford --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S 2-16,  The Unitarian Universalist Church Shooting at youth play Sometimes when a major crime occurs its not a who done it situation. At times offenders get caught or stopped in the act. There are also times when the suspect admits to the crime, tells you why they did it and how.  This does not make investigations any easier. Leads still have to be followed. Such is the case of the Knoxville Unitarian Universalist Church Shooting at a youth production of Annie.  Who did it and why?   Listen to learn. Online 12-7-19 @ 7pm  Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S 2-15, Outlaw Whiskey Moonshine, "clear, un-aged whiskey”. The Devils Drink?  At one time used as currency,  taxed, protested about, the cause of rebellions, fought for and murdered because of.  Did Moonshine once come to the rescue of the Asheville Police Department?  Listen and decide.  Five Four Two and the Blue looks at the history and stories of “That Good Ole Mountain Dew. With music by Outlaw Whiskey and there new single Outlaw Whiskey and Guns. scottlunsfordauthor.com  On line 11-30-1 @ 7pm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S 2-14, A 1982 medieval murder with Satanic connections in Kentucky The day after Halloween, 1982. Twenty-two-year-old Carol Frances Mudd went to work at the Stone Castle Museum in Bardstown, Kentucky.  A Small museum. of miniature toy soldiers, antique weapons and related retail items.   Nothing unusual at all about her work day, but her work day came to a tragic end before it started.  At the end at the point of a broad sword. Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2- 13.  The Civilian and War Crimes of Champ Ferguson Thought of by many as a criminal before the civil war he was best know as a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader.   Accused of many cold-blooded murderers and war crimes, he was thought of as a thief, robber, boot legger, con man and counterfeiter before the Civil War begun.  He personally claimed to have killed over 100 Union soldiers and pro-Union civilians during the war.    Champ Ferguson is one of only two men to be tried, and convicted, for war crimes during the United States Civil War --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2- 12 The Bunch Gang and the murder of Sheriff Lewis Bratch (L.B.) Hutcheson.   A shade of blue story about Sheriff Lewis Bratch (L.B.) Hutcheson.  Of Union Co. Tenn. His death in 1935 at the hands of a far reaching criminal gang and how his wife carried on after his death.  Many have heard of the Dalton Gang. The James brothers, the Wild bunch and  Bonnie and Clyde  but few recall the notorious Bunch gang of Tennessee, and the crimes  of robbery and violence they committed during the 1930’s in the Appalachian mountains. Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode s2-11-  Tragic 911 call and the Story of Lucky Joe.  A two part Episode. A 911 call starts a shade of blue story. A young man calls for help because of his actions. County First responders in the small town of Pilot North Carolina arrived to a shocking, almost unbelievable crime scene.  What did the Deputy see and do, and what was the outcome of this sad and tragic incident. Listen to the episode to learn.  Part two. Luck Joe. Just how man lives did lucky Joe have ?  And how did he use them to get what he wanted? scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2-10- The worst woman on Earth?  When Lizzie Halliday died in 1918, the New York Times called her “the worst woman on Earth.” That pretty harsh you have to admit.  True or not that's kind of up to personal opinion. Listen to Lizzie’s story and decide for your self. Was  she the worst woman on the planet.  Perhaps you have your own nomination. scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode s2-9- The Pennsylvania Turnpike Phantom of 1953. On the night of July 25. Lester Woodward, a 30 year old freight driver did what freight drivers have been doing for 1000s of years. He got tired and pulled his vehicle over to get some sleep. Hauling freight is an old profession. The methods of doing it have evolved but its still a matter of moving goods from one place to another. Lester had no reason to think it would be a problem, he had been doing it for years.  Unfortunately Lester never woke up. He was shot once. With .32 caliber pistol. The bullet going straight into his brain. This was the first attack of the murder named the Turnpike Phantom. There would be more death and violence before the Phantom was identified and stopped.  Could this happen again or has it already?  Listen and decide for your self. On line and free to listen to. Published 10-19-19 at 7:00 pm scottlunsfordauthor.com https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsf

Episode s2-8- 100 sticks of Dynamite and the murder of 3 little girls. 1937 A  mother readies her three daughters for bed, but feels something is not right.  Its an  ominous feeling of protection, A feeling that something was wrong. She tries to purposefully keep the girls up later than normal because of those feelings. Once the children couldn’t stay awake any longer, they all go to bed. She spends the rest of the restless night tossing and turning. Just after 3:00 in the morning, shes awoken to an unimaginable roar. She fights back the blackness long enough to hear one of her daughter’s scream and see plaster and dust falling.   She blacks out as her home implodes around her. At first its thought of as a tragic accident. Then a famous arson investigator from the 1930s is given the responsibility by the Governor of Tnn to solve the mystery but only 48 hours to do it. What did he discover and why?  Listen to the Podcast to find out.   A story from the “good old days” th

Episode S2-7- A 15 day snow storm, domestic violence, & national attention to a small town in Mtns. of N.C. A fifteen-day severe weather snow storm struck the east coast in1881.   It became the prequel to a fatal domestic violence incident in McDowell Co. North Carolina. The resulting murder gained national attention and was highlighted in the nationally published magazine the POLICE GAZETTE.  The media documentation quite different than the official records.  Part two is another domestic incident but from a different direction.  Yet just as unfortunate. On line on 10-05-19 at 7:00 PM --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2-6-  The Doctor did it. The Shade of Blue Story of the Doctor from New Jersey charged with a federal mail robbery in Asheville NC.  His luck to escape justice lasted many years but Karma finally caught up with the  “Good Doctor”.  The story of his luck and how he almost fooled the FBI, and why he is still referenced in the FBI academy for his surgical skills. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2- 5-  A murder solved but still not closed. 1936  In the 1930’s, a senseless homicide took place on the campus of Berea College, A school known as an institution of higher learning and its advocacy of the work ethic. Providing educational opportunities for the young people of  Appalachia.  A murder from the 1930s that you would not be surprised to see on today's  evening news. And you might have.  A 1936  murder, solved but still not closed.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode Bonus # 3-  Police Chiefs coming and going.   Chiefs and heads of law enforcement have been resigning for as long as there has been law enforcement. Is recent coverage in the media different than any other time. Is there more to the story. Listen and decide for your self. Scottlunsfordauthor.com https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2- 4- The Buncombe County Smith Cold Case Scheduled for September 14, 2019 at 7:00 PM 1997,  A man and his son are looking for deer tracks in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest. Instead of deer sign they came across human bones, clothing, and other items scattered in the woods near a primitive campsite.   The remains, were centered around a shallow grave. The grave of a murdered woman.   Investigation found the body to be of a Pennsylvania  missing person, Judy Smith.  Today the murder investigation has never been solved. Was the killing the act of a serial killer or is the answer more simple. Listen and make your own decision.   Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode S2-3-  The Murder of 3 year old Lillian Patrick Three year old Lillian Patrick's step father John Gibson, lived with his eighteen-year-old wife; her three-year old daughter from a previous marriage Lillian. Gibson's 16 year old brother Henry .   In late November 1900, an anonymous person informed the city health Inspector-Doctor that the Gibson stepdaughter was suffering from smallpox. When the Dr. went to the Gibson house to investigate, he found the three year old dying, but not of smallpox. Instead of a contagious disease a fatal case of sever child abuse was located. This Shade of blue is about the investigation, manhunt and trial of a child killer. Episode to air Saturday 9-24-19 at 7:00 pm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode s2-2- 160 years ago a Congressman shot & killed the son of Francis Scott Key near the white house and witnesses In April of 1859, New York Congressman Daniel Sickles became the first person in history to ever be acquitted of a crime due to temporary insanity. The crime in this case was the  murder of Philip Barton Key II, the son of Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the national anthem of the United States. Sickles approached Key in DC’s Lafayette Square — a short distance from the White House –and shot him in the groin. “You villain, you have dishonored my house, and you must die!” Sickles reportedly said. He shot Key again in the chest and would have shot him directly in the head had the gun not misfired. On line 8-13-2019 at 7:00 pm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode Bonus - 2- More Appalachian trail murder mysteries. Schedule for 8/17/19 at 7:00 PM A Bonus edition of Five  Four Two and the Blue More Appalachian trail murder mysteries. As Scott related in podcast Episode eight .   Murder and attempted Murder on the Appalachian Trail.    The Trail is mostly a quiet, serene, and blissful place.  Many go there to escape the pressure of modern urban society.   A devise collection of people can be found hiking on the trail. But like the society that  many hike get away from.  There are still individuals with evil intents. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message