The Felon File

Episode S-4-12- Methodist Camp Meeting Killing of 1889 Typical camp meetings were held in an area where people would travel from a large region to a campsite for the " camp meeting ".They would listen to itinerant preachers, pray, sing hymns, fellowship, and a bit of a vacation from the hard work of the farms.  As much a community event as a religious one.  A regular event in the Leicest...

Episode  4-11  He did the time / but did he do the crime?  Robert Duboise. Almost four decades in jail.  At first given the death penalty for rape and murder.  He said he didn't do it.  He did the time but did he really do the crime?   Listen and discover the facts.   scottlunsfordauthor.com  fivefourtwoandtheblue.com

Episode 4-9  More Young Killers How young is too young to be a murder?  Many states have guidelines established to determine when someone is to be charged or not charged due to there age.  Is this right or wrong?  Does it depend on the age, or on the facts related to certain investigations of crimes?  Listen and decide. What do you think?

Episode 4-8   44 years for justice? Justice is supposed to be fair. Justice is supposed to be blind to everything but the facts.  But what is positive is that justice is not always timely.

Episode 4-7 Before Columbine.  Many are familiar with the Columbine High School massacre of 1999. This shooting and bombing incident has impacted how schools are operated and will be operated from now on. Before students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students and one teacher, there were two other students Johnson and Golden.   What they did influence the Columbine kille...

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. scott...

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

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....

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

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 Lin...

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 Car...

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 fo...

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 

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...

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.

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...

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 b...

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

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...

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...

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...

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  

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 vi...

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. scottlunsford...

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.   ...