The Felon File

Episode S 2-17 Repeat offenders and killers.

This Shade of Blue Story, for Five Four Two and the Blue, starts in Asheville North Carolina in the mid 1970s. Two Asheville Police officers on patrol locate a body in the snow. Addiction, Murder, and more drugs. It ends years later in Virginia Beach Virginia. A second shade of Blue, tells the story of a repeat offender from 1910. A murder that impacts on the Gov. of North Carolina, but also ends in Virginia...

Episode S2- 18. The Thorny Rose- Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch connection to Tnn.

Laura Bullion was  a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch.  At 15 she was romantically involved with the outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), bank and train robber.   Nicknamed "The Thorny Rose". Her story started in the Wild West and ends as one of our Shade of Blue stories in Appalachia. 

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Episode -S2 18  Shootout at the Ironton jail

Pulp detective magazines and the stories they have run have documented incidents in the Appalachian Mountains going back to the 40’s .  True Detective Mysteries in the article The shootout at the Ironton jail. Wrote about the former World war II Veteran who became Chief of police of his home town.   He survived  the battle of Iwo Jima and other island hopping battles in the Pacific...

Episode -S2-21-  Violence and school shootings

 Violence and shootings at schools is not a new phonomina.  The incidents in American go back to the 1800s.  An issue that should concern us greatly is that 70% of the perpetrators of school shootings were under the age of 18, with the median age of 16...

Episode -S2-22 The Atlanta Ripper of 1911

Most know of Jack the Ripper of London, Son of Sam, and Ted Bundy.

But many are not aware of the terror of the so called “Atlanta Ripper” who started his notoriety in 1911 in the City of Atlanta.

Seventy years later, the notion of a serial killer once again captured the city's imagination, when more than 20 young African American males were found murdered...

Episode -S2-23“Five O”

Stories from a Police agency  not in the Appalachian mountains yet still associated with mountains non the less.

Sharp mountains created by volcanic action  much more recently than our Appalachian mountains. During a visit to the state of Hawaii. I was curious how law enforcement was done in paradise and looked for some Hawaii shade of blue stories...

Episode -S2-24  Juvenile death penalties. 

Juvenile death penalties.   How young is two young to be executed for you crimes?

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Episode -S2-25   Wrongfully convicted - Illegally executed by South Carolina

Paxvill south Carolina Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery

There is a large dark tomb stone to be found here.  The stone reads,October twenty first 1929  - June 16 1944.

Wrongfully convicted    Illegally executed by South Carolina.

A shade of blue  discussion on George Stinney...