Five Four Two And The Blue

Episode Bonus - 1- A Serial killer and murdering politicians   Political corruption is a common thread that runs throughout the history of mankind.   As is just regular old fashioned murder.  It runs from the jaw bone of an ass to the voting both. We look at Serial Killer Little and the murdering Lt. Governor who killed a rival in broad daylight on the street in front of a police officer.  Find out what happened and what is still happening in this Shade of Blue Podcast.  on line 8-10-2019 8:00 pm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

The California Cold case that ended in a small town in Western North Carolina. Part 2: Moonshine! Today’s shade of blue story,  is a 1985 story that starts all the way across the country to the west coast. The land of make be-leave and stories. But the story begins its ending here, in the mountains of Appalachia.  If you grew up in the 70’s and 80’s the victim’s name might not be familiar, but his large body of work will be. His work in the TV industry influenced many. Part two: A quick look at part of the Moonshine business in the Appalachian Mountains. ScottLunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode-23-   The Ballad of Poor Ellen Smith and the truth behind the song. This episode starts with The Ballad of Poor Ellen Smith.  The morning of July 21, 1892, the body of Ellen Smith was found behind the Zinzendorf Hotel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Shot through the heart. The story of Ellen Smith’s murder is a classic tale of seduction and betrayal. A beautiful but innocent young woman strays from the path of righteousness for a faithless shifty older lover who  becomes her killer. It is the stuff of many Victorian cautionary tales and mountain murder ballads. scottlunsfordauthor.com On line 07-20-2019 @7:00 pm  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -22- The 1970s  Virginia Bunny man mystery and Investigation. Who was the Virginia Bunny man? Ghost? Specter from the past? A crazed ax welding man in a rabbit costume?. Perhaps a simply misunderstood guy who liked to dress up as a Bunny. If so why the ax? Find out the reality of the 1970’s story of the Virginia Bunny Man and the police investigation into his existence.  scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -20- The Right Rev. George Washington Carawan and the school teacher Charles  Lassiter. 1852. Though a preacher of the gospel, The Reverend George Washington Carawan, was a  prominent and powerful North Carolina Baptist minister. A man of violent temper and strong animal passions, more likely to inspire terror than piety in the community and those around him.  The sorrows he begat in his relationships would follow him to the courtroom for a final tragic act in Carawan’s play of tragedy, life and death. Dump choices?  Thinking himself smarter than every one else? Or did his luck run out?  Perhaps. several issues came together to solve the problem of The prominent and powerful Reverend George Washington Carawan.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

A cold 1904 January in Mitchel County North Carolina, the body of a young man is found lying near the railroad tracks. Lying face first in or near a small creek, The young man shot three times in the head and five in the back.   The county Coroner was summed and an inquest held. In 1900’s North Carolina many times the initial investigation of a death or homicide was completed by a coroner's jury. They would make the initial determination of foul play. If so the case would be sent to law-enforcement and the court system.   The murder of 19 year old Mr. Shell from Tennessee with 124 dollars gold in just paid wages in his pocket, would turn into a shade of blue involving attempted jail breaks, planed lynchings and the Sheriff under cover of darkness removing the suspect from the county for safe keeping. Murder or self defense? Were the jail breaks and escapes necessary to protect an innocent man?   Was justice found at the end of the story? Listen and decide for yourself. --- Send in a v

Episode-18- Why did the Deputy shoot Tom Mashburn? & Who killed the father of NC Ginseng Trade The song says Someone may have shot the sheriff and claims they did not shoot the deputy, but we do know for sure that the Deputy shot Tom Mashburn. Part 2- Is it true that the murder will return to the scene of the crime? The fact is sometimes he does. How this and 1800 CSI work solved the killing of Captain Garrett the man known as the  father of the North Carolina Ginseng Business.  Listen to Episode -18- to find out.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode- 17- A 1960s unusual disappearance and missing person case with connections to Western N.C.  A new shade of blue looking at an unusual disappearance and missing person investigation. In the mid 1960’s  Mary Little was a Bank secretary in Atlanta, Georgia, she disappeared from the parking lot of Lenox Square Mall shopping one night. Unusual evidence is uncovered in the investigation  including connections to the  Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. A second missing young lady over a year latter from the same bank with similar connections to Mary Little, fails to show up for work one morning. Her body is discovered in the trunk of her car abandoned in a joining town.  Are the investigations still on going? Are they connected? Listen to decide for yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

The Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole.   Episode - 16- Part 2.   Part two of the Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole.   W. “Bill” Ormond, a veteran of the trench warfare of World War One was a young man returning home from war. He becomes romantically involved with Influential Mill owner, Mr.  William Cole’s daughter.  An excepted relationship, until the Young Miss Cole turns her attentions in another direction.  This sets former suitor against father in a name calling and threatening confrontation that does not end well for Mr. Ormond.    Follow up to Episode - 15- Part 1- Scheduled for the next day, June 02, 2019 at 7:00 AM.   The Murder of  “Bill” Ormond.  At the 1925 murder trial the Idea of "The unwritten law" is also put on trial.  The increasingly more common acquittal concept coming from juries, that, “some times a guy just needs to get shot”.  Right or wrong? Was Fair and proper jus

Episode -15 The 1925 Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole.  Part one. Saturday June 1st at 7:00 pm. William Bonaparte Cole started in N.C. textiles at the age of fifteen as a mill bookkeeper in Rockingham, NC. Cole was able to advance himself to becoming a powerful Mill Owner, Businessman and resident of Rockingham North Carolina. W. “Bill” Ormond, a veteran of the trench warfare of World War One was a young man returning home from war. He becomes romantically involved with William Cole’s daughter.  An excepted relationship, until the Young Miss Cole turns her attentions in another direction.  This sets former suitor against father in a name calling and threatening confrontation that does not end well for Mr. Ormond.    Scheduled for the next day, June 02, 2019 at 7:00 PM.  Episode 16, Part two. The Murder of  “Bill” Ormond.  At the 1925  court case the Idea of "The unwritten law" is also put on trail.  The increasingly more common acqui

Crime and punishment in the Appalachian Mountains.  On Oct. 2, 1905, A man was hung at Marshall NC the County seat of Madison County.  Most of us history nuts in the Western NC area are familiar with the Hanging of Peter Smith.   Growing up in Madison Co. I had heard the stories and have seen the photographs of Smith standing on the gallows in Marshall out side of the Jail in  1905.   The concussions over the years I was told was that Smith did not commit the crimes he had been accused of. A murder of a young girl then several years later a rape of another young girl.  I had been told many times that he had been framed for the assault. Reviewing the media of 1900's, copies of the court testimony, the findings of the NC Supreme Court and the Governors Office.  Listen for yourself. Did he or didn't he?  Did North Carolina hang an innocent man?   scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Five Four Two and the Blue episode - 13 – 1901  murder of a sleeping family.   On the night of September 21st, 1909, a knock on a cabin door and a neighborly welcome turned to murder.  The family knew the visitor and quite naturally opened their home to him. By nine o’clock, all six family members were asleep. Using a pistol, a knife, and a hatchet the visitor is said to have slain the entire family, then set the cabin on fire and left. Bungled petty theft and non-premeditated murder. Or a planed ruthless killing of an entire family over money.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -12- Big Al Capone in the Appalachians Big Al in the Appalachians.    Did the famous gangster "Scarface" Al Capone keep an apartment and hide out in Johnson City Tnn?  And was the Mob involved with the death of a whole family in N.C. on Christmas Day,  all because of something the father saw in Johnson City? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -11 The Murder of 17 year old Muriel Baldridge  in 1947 The Podcast starts with a brief musical ballad telling the story of a  tragic event from the Appalachian Mountains.  The Ballad written in 1949, the recording made in 1977. The Ballad tell the story of the tragic Murder of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death under a bridge the morning of June 28, 1949 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.  The Murder after a decades of investigation by local, state and federal investigators follows a strange path of confessions, retracted confessions and finally a sensational  trial with a controversial verdict.  To this day the case remains unsolved and thought of as one  very confusing investigation and legal case in Eastern Kentucky  if not the South.  scottlunsfordauthor.com   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Five Four Two and the Blue episode - 10 -gambling in the Mountains Scheduled for April 27, 2019 at 7:00 PM Illegal gambling in the Mountains.  Cases from 1901, 1955 and 1977.A look at the differences of how the Evil of Gambling and "Gambling Dens" was handled.  In 1901 the NC state Legislature  passed a new Anti-Gambling Law.  The previsions of the new law were put into strict force in several cities   The Law was especially strict on Gambling in Barrooms, Hotels and private clubs. The if enforced, was thought would put an end to gambling in North Carolina.   link to web site --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

 Episode - 9. Witchcraft Trials in Tenn,, Ghostly evidence and Court testimony in West Virginia Episode 9.   Three Shades of Blue stories, for Five Four Two and the Blue.   Three stories of Law enforcement, and the court system.  Two Witchcraft Trials in Tenn. and A Shade of Blue story of, Ghostly evidence and Court testimony in West Virginia.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -8- Murder and attempted Murder on the Appalachian Trail The  shade of blue in this podcast on five for two and the blue. Puts us in the great outdoors along the Appalachian Trail. For those of you who don’t know The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply the A.T., is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Maine. The trail is about 2,160 miles long, though the exact length changes over time as parts are modified or rerouted. The Appalachian Trail is thought of as the longest marked hiking-only trail in the world. More than 2 million people hike on part of the trail at least once each year. Laura Susan Ramsay and Robert Mountford Jr,  in 1981 were hiking on part of the AT where it passes through Virginia. The two 27 year olds were vacationing social workers from the state of Maine.   While Hiking they met a man named Randall Smith. The two social workers observed how Smith app

        Episode -7 The Ghost Town incident of 1992  In this shades of blue story for Five Four Two and the Blue, it does not start in the mountains of Western North Carolina but the start of the ending does.           It’s a story of the capture of a real bad guy, James Neil Tucker. Our story begins in a make believe world of a Wild West theme park. Ghost  Town in the Sky, Maggie Valley, North Carolina.            In 1992, A Private Security officer working for the Park, found James Tucker hiding under a bus after the Ghost Town amusement park closed for the night, he didn't know at the time,  but Tucker was a wanted man.            Maggie Valley Police Chief Saralyn Carver, responded to the call to investigate the trespassing incident.  A normal radio check on the identity of the trespasser set in motion a

Episode -6 The Miller Manhunt Many in the Appalachian Mountains are familiar with the murder and killing rampage that occurred in 1906 Asheville North Carolina. The Gunman, Will Harris’s manhunt and killing related to his shooting of several individuals both white and  African American. Even today you can see the scars his stray bullets had made on the Vance Monument downtown, Asheville tour guides will point out the marks and tell how the story is famous, particularly in part to the Thomas Wolfe’s story, “The Child by Tiger.” Wolf was about 6 years old when the Harris incident and manhunt occurred. It seems to have made a strong impression on him. There was a similar incident that had happened in Morganton, N.C. in 1927. The news papers of the day wrote of the Story of Broadus Miller with headlines such as “The Largest Manhunt in Western North Carolina History”. In reality, it may possibly still be. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Shortly before midnight Tuesday November 10, 1964, masks, guns and other disguises were collected by four young men.  The burglary and robbery tools placed in a burlap bag, hidden under the hood of a pick-up truck just in case they were stopped by police at some point.    The robbery team consisting of a 23, 27, 19, and a 16 year old, drove to the farm of Charlie Lunsford. The four men drove around the area several times to make sure police were not in the area. 16 year old Arrlie Fox had worked for Lunsford the previous day. He discovered the farmer had a large amount of cash as he made change for customers.  The four planed a simple robbery to make some quick cash.  What would be called today a "Home Invasion" turned deadly.     The story starts, and before it ends multiple trials, a deadly prison riot, a prison escape, the Governor of NC. and another murder are involved.    --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message