The Felon File

The Halloween Episode Greetings Mortal Listeners. You have discovered the Halloween Episode of the Felon File Podcast. Please just sit back and listen. The felon file podcast is A Discussion of law enforcement history. issues and incidents in the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. Hosted by Scott Lunsford, retired police detective sergeant. author and researcher. Scott’s shade of blue Stories for t...

6-19. 1999 abduction of a 10-year-old. Two decades for justice. Ten-year-old Pamela Butler was rollerblading in front of her Kansas City, Kansas home in 1999. A strange man drove up to the home and abducted her. Neighbors gave case, her older sister who saw it happen also chased down the street after the man who had taken her little sister.  Getting away the suspect later raped her before str...

Episode 6-18. “poisoning mania” The life and activities of Mrs. Elizabeth G. Wharton. A member of Baltimore Maryland’s higher social class of individuals.  Four people had died mysteriously in her household. Her husband and son, both heavily insured. Her daughter and sister-in-law were taken gravely ill.  Was she affected by what the press termed a “poisoning mania”? Or was she a victim...

6-17. Who killed the lady golfer? 1941 Sunday, morning September 1941. A woman is found at a neighbor’s front door.  Her clothing soaked with blood. The woman, the office manager at the clubhouse country club and a golf course next door. She had been shot three times. Her daughter a famous female golfer and friend to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope among others, Miss Marion Miley had also been murdered....

Episode 6-16. The Devil in the Orange Grove Before the Devil went down to Georgia he spent some time in Florida. What does he look like? Does he wear a star? Sheriff Willis McCall, 28 years in office. The Sheriff, his family, and their impacts on many from 1944 to today. On line Oct 2, 2021. @ 7:00 pm EST FelonFile.com

 6-15. The 2014  Munchhausen Murder The Lacey Spears 2014 murder investigation.   Did she murder her own son?  Was it a case of the mental illness of Munchhausen?   Was it her fault or was she set up? What did the courts say? Listen to discover on line Sept 25, 2021. @ 7:00 pm EST. USA Felonfile.com

Episode 6-14. Kidnapped in the '70s A look at several Kidnapping cases from the 1970s.  Ransoms paid but millions of dollars still remain missing.  Was there an increase in Kidnapping cases at this time due to media coverage?  Who got away and who did not.  Including one case where Scott met the defendant 20 years after the kidnapping occurred.   She threw a refrigera...

Episode 6-12  1986 Death of Debra Wolf. Murder or accident? New Year’s Day 1986, the body of 28-year-old Deborah Ann Wolfe was found at the bottom of a small pond outside her isolated cabin near Fort Bragg North Carolina.  Wolf lived alone with her dogs Mason and Morgan. Why was the case file destroyed? Evidence was observed, but it disappeared? Murder or accident?    List...

Episode 6-11. Dillon the 14-year-old Double Murderer.  Many of Scott’s shade of blue stories occur or involve locations in the Blue Ridge mountains on the eastern coast of the united states.   In this episode, Scott is looking at some different  Blue Mountains.  The Blue Mountain range of the Pacific Northwest in the northeastern part of Oregon. A story of a famous first P...

Episode 6-10. Justifying the Means or just a Conman? Do the ends justify the Means? Gaston Means of Concord North Carolina.  School Teacher, School superintendent.  Salesman extraordinaire.  Liar.  FBI agent. Treasury and Custom Agent.  Conman.  Spy.  Book Author. Thief and possibly a murderer. Or just a misunderstood southern gentleman, who just wanted to help....

Episode 6-9 Unidentified murder victims in North Carolina and other cold cases  Just what is a cold case? A cold case is a crime , or suspected crime, that has not been fully resolved.  And is not presently being investigated.   New information could emerge from new witness testimony, re-examined case files, Discovered evidence, as well as new activities or actions of the suspe...

6-8 The Model Murder Investigation. Scott looks once more down under, for the start of this shade of blue story.  If you recall in the podcast Episode 5 - 13. The wicked stepmother.  Truth or Fiction.    The story of murdered little Zahra Baker. Started in Australia like today's story and concluded in North Carolina.  Today's killer is Christopher Wilder.  Born in Australia in 1945. Son of an Amer...

Episode 6-7. The 1927 North Carolina Miller manhunt  The Story of the Broadus Miller manhunt in 1927. Newspapers Nationwide that year wrote about the 13-day murder and manhunt incident. It was called “The Largest Manhunt in Western North Carolina History”. How did it end?  Is there more to the story than what the papers said? Listen and decide. On line 7-31-2021 @ 7 PM EST USA. FelonFile...

Bonus 6 3. Victoria's Special level of hell for Offenders Victoria's latest collection of candidates for that special level of Hell reserved for Child Molesters and people who talk in the theater. 11 Recent arrests of individuals using the internet to lure children into abuse. Felonfile.com https://anchor.fm/felonfile/episodes/Bonus-6-3--Victorias-Special-level-of-hell-for-Offenders-e1599ho

Felon File Podcast 6-6. The Bluebeard of Paris. Who was the Serial Killer called the Bluebeard of Paris?  Who and how many did he kill?  Murdering women and their family members from January 1915 to January 1919. He was arrested and given a standing-room-only trial. It was thought Madam Guillotine had finished the story.  Yet in  1966 Bluebeard once more was in the world of med...

Episode 6-5.  The Shooting of Sheriff Merrill & the first shot of the Civil War in North Carolina. It was Election day May 13th, 1861 in a Small North Carolina Mountain town.  There is a disturbance in the street. A  pistol shot, then a pursuit of the shooter.  A young boy is shot and  Sheriff Ranson Merrill is killed.  Who did it and why? Was this the first shot...

Episode 6-4 The Taco Bell Strangler of the 1990s Henry Louis Wallace, labeled the "The Taco Bell Strangler", by the press of the early 1990s. An American serial killer who targeted women in  Charlotte, North Carolina.  How was he caught and where is he today? Listen to discover.  FelonFile.com

The 1907 Western North Carolina trial of Zeke Austin.  Was it murder or justified homicide?   Why was Evidence unrelated to the death of the victim put before the jury?   Should the judge be allowed to tell his opinion on the case to the jury?   Before the jury is dismissed?   Did the murder occur because the defendant learned how to smoke from neighborhood boys?   Let's listen and decide for ours...

Episode 6-2, A Certified Nursing Assistant on Death Row Are individuals as fragile as a porcelain statue? The younger the person is, the thinner the protective glaze. When the glaze or porcelain is broken, we can do our best to repair it. Sometimes the breakage is too extensive and will change how it appears, and how it will now sit on the shelf of life.  CNA Carlette Parker could be an example of...

Episode 6-1. Season Six  The 1926 trial of Deputy Sheriff Two-Gun Ben Fowler In our first story of season, Six of Felon File.  Scott discusses The 1926 trial of Deputy Sheriff Two-Gun Ben Fowler Was he guilty? Or as he claimed framed by his enemies.  Listen and decide for yourself. FelonFile.com https://anchor.fm/felonfile

Bonus start of season 6. Murder of a 7-year-old. A bonus episode by Podcast Producer Victoria, while Scott is doing some research and investigation for the upcoming season six of the felon file podcast.   The Cold case murder of a 7-year-old young man, Knowledge Sims . One year ago April 2020.   The murders still at large. Hiding from justice. felonfile.com https://anchor.fm/felonfi...

Episode 5-20. Two Homicides from 2011 Ten years.  One decade ago. 2011 was a busy year.   A Lot was going on in the world.   In 2011, Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was killed by a very serious group of people who didn't like him very much. In May, 2011 the United States killed Osama bin Laden. This was also done by a very, very serious group of people, who did not care for hi...

Episode 5-19. Executed twice. Was it Double Jeopardy? 1944 murder of a Louisiana druggist in his own backyard.  Lost evidence and unchallenged confessions. There was a trial of one 15-year-old defendant. He was found guilty and executed.  Twice. On line 5-29-2021 at 7:00 PM EST Felonfile.com anchor.fm/felonfile

Episode 5-18.  The thirty-year murder case.  A 1900 argument over one man’s wife ends in the death of one of two Mountain cousins.   The shooter disappears only to reappear at the sheriffs office turning himself in and demanding a trial 30 years later.  Why then? No one was looking for him. The crime had mostly been forgotten.   Listen and find out the reasons. O...

Episode 5-17, That Special Place in Hell.   Scott discusses three shade of blue stories where the victims are some of our most vulnerable in our society. Three current stories of how the perpetrators were stopped. What they face after being caught and tried.  One suspect receiving the ultimate penalty and his case being heard in a very high court.  On line on 5-15-2021 at 7:00 PM ES...