Five Four Two And The Blue

Episode 4-6  A 12 year old Murderer. Did the medicine make him do it?  Christopher Frank Pittman a 12 year old  child. He was tried and convicted as an adult of two murders in 2001  in Alabama.  His trial drew national attention in part because of his age and his defense was that proscribed medication made him do it. What was the truth?   Listen and decide. scottlunsfordauthor.com fivefourtwoandtheblue.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 4-4   Will we ever know how many children he killed? A 1985 cold case murder and kidnapping of children by Fred Howard Coffey. A  follow up to the 1975 murder cold case investigation discussed in Episode 4-3. How many children has Fred Coffey murdered?  Will we ever know the total number? Fivefourtwoandtheblue.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 4-4 Victoria's L.I.C. (Low Intelligence Criminal News) More commonly referred to as dumb crook news, Victoria has selected some of her favorite for today's Shade Of Blue Stories.  "Truth is stranger than fiction but it is because fiction is obligated to stick to possibilities.   The truth isn’t."  Mark Twain. Never say, that's the dumbest thing I ever heard of or seen.   Simply enjoy the bus ride cause there are more strange things and stories, right around the corner and you ain’t seen or heard nothing yet. scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 4-3 -  1975 Child abduction/Cold case  A Child abduction/Murder  cold case investigation from 1975. The Murder of two children who disappeared during a trip to a shopping mall.  Justice for the two little girls taking 42 years to arrive. Why was the investigation open for over 40 years? Listen and decide for yourself.  On line  10/3/20 at 7:00 PM --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -4-2.   N.C. Officer killed in his living room. Season four Episode two. K-9 officer Witherspoon with the Concord North Carolina Police Department Is killed on his couch in his home.  Murder?  A suicide gone wrong?  Accident or killed for money?  Why and how did wife, mother and church employee, Misty Witherspoon, do it? Listen for your self and decide. On Line 9-26-2020 at 7pm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 4-1   3-25  The Hunt for Rudolph Season 4 Sept-5 -2020    Between 1996 to 1998, bombs exploded or were located in Atlanta, Birmingham, and Asheville.  The Blasts killing two and injuring hundreds.  This  started a five-year manhunt for  Eric Robert Rudolph. On May 31, 2003,  FBI Top Ten Fugitive Eric Robert Rudolph was arrested by North Carolina police officer J.S. Postell. While on patrol he located Rudolph dumpster diving behind a grocery story in Murphy, North Carolina. Rudolph had managed to elude the F.B.I. for five years while hiding out in the mountains after the bombings.  Rudolph began his attacks July, 1996, when he planted a backpack bomb in crowded Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, Georgia. fivefourtwoandtheblue.com scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -3-25- Sometimes a man just needs to be shot( and sometimes the Court Agrees.)  A Civil War atrocity.  A Year after the war, revenge is found on  the small town Southern College Campus of Mars Hill NC.  The killer is caught and tried. What did the court rule on the criminal murder charge?  Right or Wrong?  Did it even occur? Listen to Pod Cast 3-25 and hear for your self and decide.  On line August 29, 2020  for free on 9 major podcast apps. Scottlunsfordauthor.com  fivefourtwoandtheblue.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-24. Murder with a stick? or Honor killing? The story of one man’s honor when his wife is attacked. Or is it?  Revenge?  Honor Killing? Or just murder with a big stick? Listen and you decide. fivefourtwoandtheblue.com  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-23 A tale of a truly Evil man. Carl Panzram 1920and 30’s  American serial killer, rapist, arsonist, robber, and burglar. In prison he confessions and writes his autobiography. Claiming to have killed at least 22, and committing over 1000 acts of sex offenses.  Panzran operated cost to coast in the United States and even Africa. At one point stealing a pistol from President Taft that he used in his murdering ways. Was he a serial killer?         Or truly Evil in person. Listen to the Five Four Two and the Blue Podcast and decide for yourself.  On line 8-15-2020 @ 7pm Fivefourtwoandtheblue.com Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -3-22  Murder and death in 1936 and 1937 Shade of Blue Stories of murder and accidental death in 1936 and 1937. Domestic calls for service are some of the most dangerous for law enforcement response.  Murder can have many possible causes.  Greed, jealousy, anger and possibly accidental?  A look at several of the investigations during the years of 1936 and 1937. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode -3-21  Murder of a Swedish Assassin In Western North Carolina?    Investigations are many times all about connections and sometimes connections can cloud the direction of an investigation.  How is the assignation of the Prime Minister of Sweden related to Western North Carolina?  How does this connect to the arrest and conviction of a North Carolina Police Officer for Murder?  Why does the former officer claim he was set up and framed by the U.S. Government.   Listen and discover why.   On line 8-1-2020 @ 7pm Scottlunsfordauthor.com fivefourtwoandtheblue.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-19. The newspaper man and the Klan.  Episode three nineteen. A shade of blue story from the 1870s. The owner and editor of the Asheville Citizen news paper assaults the court solicitor in pack square. Two shots are fired. One man arrested but both men charged.  Was the assault on orders from the KKK?  Was the Owner and Editor of the Asheville Citizen Newspaper controlled by the Klan? Or was he the Klan  Controller? Listen to Episode 3-19 and you decide. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-18 A Black Widow on Death Row Another serial killer grandmother on N.C. Death Row on line 7-11-2020 at 7pm --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-17 - Grandmother on Death Row The first woman in the United States to be executed after the death penalties punishment was returned in 1976.  The first woman since 1962. to be executed.  Another first that North Carolina can claim in this trail is the first woman to be executed by lethal injection.  Daughter,  wife,  mother, girlfriend,  grandmother, Serial Killer.  The Shade of Blue Story of Velma Barfield.  Did she deserve to die?  Listen and decide. Scottlunsfordauthor.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-16   "Big" and "Little" Harpe  terrorized  the western frontier in the 1790s A shade of blue story of a murder spree stretching from North Carolina, the Cumberland Gap in western Virginia to Cave-in-Rock and Potts Spring in southeastern Illinois.   The spree lasted nine months.  the Harps killed at least 40 men, women and children on the frontier until  caught. Micajah and Wiley Harpe –known  as "Big" and "Little" Harpe  spread misery and terror through the western frontier in the 1790s. They took what they wanted and recognized no law, leaving a trail of death and destruction.   Not just outlaws but it seemed the Harpes had declared a war on humanity itself, killing men, women, and children indiscriminately.  "Big" and "Little" Harpe  terrorized  the western frontier in the 1790s.  The first documented serial killers in the United States? Listen and decide for yourself. On line  6-27-2020. scottlunsfordauthor.com f

Episode 3-15- The Giggling Granny, self made widow  & killer. Nannie Doss 1950 grandmother serial killer. She killed from  the 1920s  to 1954. Nannie Doss was referred to as the Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Black Widow, and Lady Blue Beard. She was not your average granny / me-maw.  Listen to find out more and decide if you would go to her house for Sunday dinner. On line June 20th, 2020. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-14 Mass murder in Virginia 2010  Five Four Two and the Blue Podcast on line June 13, 2020 What caused a Security Officer to commit Mass Murder? Grief, madness,  or Underlying evil some say  is in every one. Listen and decide for yourself   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-13- Triple jeopardy? Tried three time for the same murder. 1985 Fort Bragg N.C. A Soldier  tried three time for the murder of the same victim.  Once found guilty, on appeal a second trial was ordered. The suspect was found not guilty and acquitted.  A third trial was held.  With new information and evidence,  this time he is found guilty for murdering the same victim and given the death penalty.  How is this possible?  The founding fathers wrote that  a citizen would not be subjected to double jeopardy.  But do we have that here? Or do we? Look and listen closer to the situation and decide for yourself .  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-12--  Listen to the trees they can testify too. A shade of blue story, for five for two and the blue on a murder investigation from the 1980's. An interesting investigation that took several  years to solve and bring to court.  Interesting for its use of forensic evidence collection and the interpretation of that evidence. And the connections to other crimes. scottlunsfordauthor.com https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message

Episode 3-11---  30 year old murder investigation solved by public genealogy company A 23 year old mother’s cold case murder in Ohio has been solved with an arrest after  29 years. The victim was  raped, beaten, stabbed and set on fire on March 30, 1991. Her daughter was three at the time. In 2020 almost 30 years after the crime, DNA collected evidence has been matched.   A suspect was identified  after a private Texas company uploaded crime scene DNA to a public genealogy website. Getting a partial match to a relative of the suspect. https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford/message