Snow in the Mountains

The ladies are soaking up what’s left of summer and are hard at work researching all new episodes for you! Enjoy the rest of your July. We’ll be back with all new stories for you in August. In the meantime…please behave!

Decades before Melvin Crowe's hate crime against Miguel Marcelli, the 1912 murder of his distant relative Mae Crow incites a riot in which over 2,000 white men storm the Forsyth County jail, brutally lynching Rob Edwards in the streets. These events led to a shameful era in Georgia history referred to as "the sundown", culminating in the 1987 civil rights march through downtown Cummi...

Melvin Crowe and his own disgusting flavor of vigilante justice sparked outrage (and potential unrest) in Forsyth County, Georgia when he stalked, shot, and committed a hate crime against Miguel Marcelli and Shirley Webb on July 26, 1980--simply because of their skin color. While Melvin received a pathetic 10 year sentence for this crime, the conversation is much bigger. Fran and Danielle are expl...

We're traveling back in time this week to 1977 in a teeny town in North Georgia--Mount Airy--where three men are smuggling bales of marijuana in watermelon truck. It's just your average bust, until one agent with Stormtrooper-caliber aim misfires and hits a suspect. SHOW NOTES & AFFILIATE LINKS ⁠One Killed, Two Arrested in Mount Airy Pot Raid Pot Raid Shooting Death Accidental New epis...

It's 1981, and Fran is called out to a single-story brick ranch in rural Pickens County, Georgia, where a hard-working man and woman are found dead at the hands of a shocking killer. Bear, the 16 gauge shotgun, is the murder weapon. Larry Romine, aged 29, is the murderer. Descriptions of Larry range from "gospel singer and occasional preacher" to adulterer, acid-tripper, to thief. Al...

Oh, that's your story? IF YOU DID IT, YOU DON'T REMEMBER? Nice try, Tony Pruitt. Dive into the remarkable details of another twisted case this week as Fran explores the memory of the tragic murder of 13 year old Lisa Garrish on November 1st, 1978 in Demorest, Georgia, and the decades-long wait for justice that followed. We're so grateful for retired GBI agent Jim Hallman and the time h...

This week on Snow in the Mountains, the ladies are diving into the history of Tybee Island--and a true tragedy that unfolded--in tribute to family friend of Fran's, fallen police Chief David Albert McCutchen Sr., who was shot and killed in the line of duty on April 10th, 1963...mere inches from Fran's father. SHOW NOTES AND AFFILIATE LINKS Wade in the Water tybeeislandpolice.org tybeeislan...

The family who started Goodyear Tires is defrauded by "the local tax lady" in Oglethorpe County, Georgia in 1979. Fran's on the case, but the plot is still twisted today. Rae Sisson and John Matthews certainly had a unique plan to gather their personal wealth. Special guests this week include Kem Caldwell, Chief Appraiser and Tom Gresham, retired archaeologist and Historian, both of...

It's 1977, and the Epps family has a sinister agenda within the walls of the Maranatha Children's Home in Sandy Cross, Georgia. This "Christian" home for displaced children isn't what it appears to be--it's unlicensed, unsafe, and Fran isn't going to sit idly by. She's going to shut it down. SHOW NOTES AND AFFILIATE LINKS The Haunted Cheese Stands Alone The Anders...

Quaaludes, weed, greed, and crooked sheriffs. It's a mess down in Dawson County, Georgia, in 1981 and who's there to clean it all up? Fran, of course. Get to know Red, the One-Armed Bandit, his law enforcement co-conspirator, and the juror with the shit-eating grin on this week's episode of Snow in the Mountains! SHOW NOTES AND AFFILIATE LINKS "The Rise and Fall of Quaaludes" New episodes are rele...

It's September of 1982. Fran is in Ellijay, Georgia, where yet another plane has dropped cocaine into the North Georgia mountains. 3 duffel bags. 18 containers. 550 pounds of cocaine. Half a billion dollars. Who's the mastermind behind this plan? Listen this week to hear about our namesake case and the moonshining history that brought us to this moment in time. SHOW NOTES AND AFFILIATE LIN...

JACKSON COUNTY SHERIFF TIP LINE 706-387-6043 BRING JOSH ADAMS HOME FACEBOOK GROUP thecharleyproject.org article uncovered.com article THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION HAS BEEN TAKEN FROM THECHARLEYPROJECT.ORG Adams was last seen in Jefferson, Georgia on May 20, 2013. That day, he left home driving his white 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. Later that day, he cashed a personal check for $400; he'd stolen the ch...

It's September of 1982. Fran is in Ellijay, Georgia, where yet another plane has dropped cocaine into the North Georgia mountains. 3 duffel bags. 18 containers. 550 pounds of cocaine. Half a billion dollars. Who's the mastermind behind this plan? Listen this week to hear about our namesake case and the moonshining history that brought us to this moment in time. SHOW NOTES AND AFFILIATE LIN...

Fran and Danielle dig deeper into the infamous lore behind Andrew C. Thornton, the pilot and drug smuggler behind the Cocaine Bear story. Thornton, DOA when agents found him in the driveway of 85 year old Fred Myers in Knoxville, TN, was a law enforcement officer gone rogue and a member of "The Company", a drug smuggling ring bringing literal TONS of cocaine and marijuana into the United...

Fran's most infamous case, the Cocaine Bear, is detailed in our first episode! Hear it from the agent responding to the scene--the true story isn't what you've read about on social media or what you've seen recently in the movie theater. Come back for Cocaine Bear Part 2: Andrew C. Thornton next week! Follow us on Instagram @snowinthemountains.pod and on Facebook ! SHOW NOTES &...

Have you ever wanted to hear true crime stories told from the other side of the law? What if you had a key to the 1980's evidence room of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation? Fran Bishop, along with her co-host, Danielle Iglehart, are going to take you straight to the scenes of the major crimes that unfolded in the southeastern USA, told from Fran's perspective as one of the first female G...