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La Murray a handsome native and 12 years ago today she disappeared just moments after a car crash on Route 112 in haal
New Hampshire today in New Hampshire they will remember Mara and keep her name in the
[Music] line S guys I don't know what I could have done I was in a bed here I wish I had listen to other
people Brian Schaefer was last seen at the Ugly Tuna saluna bar near Ohio State University campus between 1:30 and 2:
a.m. on April 1st 2006 Amy melic went missing October 27th 1989 in Bay Village Ohio she was led by what
she thought was a family friend to a shopping [Music] plaza she of death was it the
devil the 6-year-old Adam W Sunday October 16th 1983 the mutilated body of a boy is
discovered men looking for deer spotted garbage bags near a wooded area on the side of a country
road one of the men told police I thought I saw an elbow sticking out of the bag but it turned out to be a
leg police said the boy's arms had been cut off at the shoulder and his torso had been
mutilated with the knife a woman driving on Highway 98 pulls into a convenience store parking
lot she parks next to a cargo van and she goes into the store when she returns to her vehicle
the van is gone she notices something in the empty space next to her it appears to be a Polaroid
picture the West Memphis Daman Eckles Jason Bal see Miss jelly the West Memphis Cree Damen
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episode and kind of reflect on our show as a whole we've done 100 of them now which I think it's really important to
Pat yourself on the back yeah once in a while every now and then and plus we just you know a big question that people
ask often is well well so I think the speculation is that that oh you get to talk about True Crime every week that
must be amazing it is some weeks it is some weeks most weeks I would say but the thing here is uh one thing I think
that people don't get is that we kind of get eyeballs deep in a new case every week so we have about three or four days
to really dive into something and then as fascinated as we get with some of these cases we have to move on with our
time because we're back here next week putting out new shows right more content so let's take this episode captain and
let's both review what we believe to be our top 10 unsolved cases that we have covered on this show so far it's a good
chance to kind of reflect on things that we've done and if anybody is late to the
party they can get caught up and check out some of the old cases that we have covered ones that are near and dear to
our hearts so the trailer that you heard earlier was just kind of compilation of
all those different cases mhm so without further Ado captain let's count backwards from 10 down to one and we'll
review our top 10 unsolved cases of True Crime garage history th far is this some
kind of weird sobriety test so first up on my list Captain I have at number 10 the very strange disappearance of UMass
college student Mara Murray uh who disappeared in February of 2004 she was 21 years old this case is over 13 years
old now and it's a very popular case uh to say the least it's been covered by most of the big mystery type TV shows uh
it's really and you know and I hate saying this because it's somebody's life that we're talking about but it's very
much a movie like Disappearance in my mind right uh you know when you first look at it it's as simple as she leaves
her dorm room she's driving out in the middle of white Hills New Hampshire which is basically the middle of nowhere
uh she gets in a car accident and then she disappears and on the surface that is what this case looks like but then
when you start peeling back and peeling off the layers we learn that Mara's movements are pretty strange before her
disappearance things also don't seem to be so bright and shiny with her boyfriend Billy um we covered this in
episodes 29 and 30 plus we did we quite a bit more information on this case and our true crime addict uh show which we
did uh episode 31 yeah with James rener and the the very interesting thing with this case is the strong opinions yeah
you know what if you believe this it's almost like you're on a football team you know like that you believe in the
Patriots and if you believe in the Patriots then then we can't be friends and somebody that you know I respect as
a interesting author James rener gets a lot of flak for his ideas I personally do not agree with his ideas on this case
but but you know people like they like to shine some hate on people right based off this case it's a very interesting
case and a very interesting Community around the case the great thing about this case is that there's so many
different theories out there but that can be the bad thing too because not everybody likes to you know when when
people sit around and they share their theories about this case it's like you said people have gotten so involved in
this thing that they get very opinionated and when you discuss theories they're they're rather trying
to convince you than to just join in the conversation and me personally I like to
sit down and hear anybody's theories and I don't really need them to carry much weight at all when you have a
disappearance as strange as this I think any theory is worth listening to and the
thing here with her case it's it's such a fascinating case because you know before she once we learn about her
movements then you create all these other questions you know was this was this a suicide was this a a purposeful
disappearance did somebody abduct her um you know the list goes on and on and to
be frank you know we know she leaves her dorm room we're not even really certain
where she was going that night before she disappeared yeah this is a case that to this day if somebody sends me a text
saying that you know here's a new article about it or here's a new episode of a podcast about Mara Murray's
disappearance I will check it out probably that day mhm so big uh big interest in this case
all right for my number 10 uh I have Joey leut M Joey leut was a kid that went missing and I say kid he was in his
20s right and he a young man out at a local bar in Columbus a bar that I've gone to several times called the Union
uh he went missing his body would L later be discovered in the scota river and uh there was no punctures or
anything there was no wounds so how he actually died there was autopsy done and there's still the investigation is still
going on but uh his father actually reached out to us because we did a you know covered his case uh Joseph and um
that do meant a lot because it meant to me it felt like I was doing something with a purpose yeah and it it's also
really brings makes us aware of the rest of the world around us you know we talk
about these different cases and there are ones out there that are that still need answers you know they they they
absolutely need these answers and the thing is you know once in a it doesn't happen often but once in a while we will
get contacted by a family member that stumbled across our show and and I I have to believe that sometimes these
people that that you know these victims and their families you know that there's
a big loss in their heart and I think that sometimes they wake up some mornings and they may just Google their
lost loved ones name and see what comes up and you know we may happen to come up
in that search and you know it it it really meant a lot that he uh that that his father reached out to us and kind of
gave us a a little bit of a thank you uh for for covering the case it was a case
that didn't get a whole lot of media attention outside of uh Franklin County outside of Columbus um it's well and and
let's be honest I mean normally you have we we have the white girl syndrome you know and kind of like with Mara Murray's
case well maybe one of the reasons why it's so big and in this case Joey is he is a white male but he's homosexual and
those cases don't get covered as often and the thing too you know he was somewhat a friend of a friend of ours we
didn't know Joey uh we didn't have the privilege of knowing him um but uh you know somebody that is close to us worked
with Joey and had nothing but really great things to say say about him you know I believe we even talked about it
in the episode you know when you hear that somebody has disappeared or something terrible has happened to
somebody you kind of wonder what circles this person may be running in and that certainly wasn't the case with Joey
labut he was he was absolutely a victim uh somebody somebody took advantage of a
situation and and ended his life and you know we are here in Columbus this is a story that we're not going to let go
away and and hopefully the local media stays on top of it as well well and then back to it you know the
idea that you know we spend a lot of time and energy and effort and and yeah there's part of the show that is a show
we kind of have these roles that we play uh you know or kind of not roles that we
play but kind of things that just kind of happen naturally you know I'm the guy that interrupts with some Sometimes some
dumbass comments but it's to lighten the mood to you know so when when we're dealing with this heavy stuff or
whatever but you put all this time and effort in and sometimes 12-hour days sometimes 15-hour days and to actually
feel like you're doing something that maybe makes a difference You Know It Means A Lot number nine on the Nick list
we have photograph uh episode 37 this is about the very strange Polaroid photograph that was found in a parking
lot in Port St Joe Florida back in June of 1989 a very strange case uh this woman
woman finds a photograph of what appears to be a teenage girl and a younger boy bound and tied up and they look very
afraid the crazy thing is we don't there's nothing more to this photo than just what you see in the image and it's
a it's a haunting image as well as one that you when you do see it you will stare at it and you will try to pick up
on little Clues trying to identify these people are they actual victims are they
being held hos hostage and for what purpose is it a hoax mhm right and I think there's a lot of questions to this
one one is there a victim and and and if there is a victim then who is the victim
and one thing that was pretty neat after we covered it you know we posted the picture and a lot of the listeners
checked out the picture some people seeing it for the very first time and some people contacted us with little you
know little things that they noticed in the picture that we had not had not noticed in and reported on the show yeah
and a lot of dissecting of the t-shirt that the girl wore yeah trying to pick up pick up any type of identifier
regarding these these kids and where they may be located where they may be from all right my number nine would be
matrice Richardson that would be episode 75 and 76 so when we started doing the two-parters I think this is a case that
could definitely be solved and I think um there's a lot of law enforcement involvement and a lot of law enforcement
covering up in this case and I think with her you know strong family uh pushing to the Forefront and maybe more
people covering this case I I think this one is something that could actually be
solved and maybe in the next year or so maybe we'll get an update on this case yeah I I applaud her mother and father
for keeping this case active I think you and I might have disagreed a little bit
on this case it's extremely fascinating I have no clue how she ended up where she did yeah simply this girl goes out
to dinner by herself they arrest her cuz she's not going to pay a bill when they
take her into the station they eventually let her go and uh then she kind of goes wandering and she's never
heard from again the problem with this is that the mother came out and said hey don't let her go right you know they
were in contact with her family members so it just seems like you know law enforcement dropped the ball they they
said they wouldn't let her go too yeah it does seem like this this one is very frustrating and I think it would
be covered a lot more more often I mean let's just say it's a it's a black victim I think because she's a black
victim the case isn't as covered as often as it should be and the thing Captain you and I we always have law
enforcements back we we are you know big on backing the people that keep us safe
the thing here is though where I think we disagreed you you kind of lean towards the side of some maybe police
involvement in her death or disappearance where I I certainly my thoughts where that that they're just
not doing the work that they should do uh I don't know that there's that they're involved in the death they could
be there's evidence to point to that but they certainly aren't I I don't see the
effort being made to solve this case which angers me number eight on my list I have Tony Muny uh his his full length
name is John Anthony Muny uh he was last seen October 15th 1983 his body was found shortly after
that dismembered out on a country road now this is a case that most people wouldn't be very familiar with it's uh
not something you can find on the internet very well um it was our bonus episode that we covered uh but this case
is one that is always in the back of my mind um this is I've been to the location where the body was found I've
studied maps of of the way that the roads were at the time um has these files on it that are super thick this
this is a case that to me uh should have been solved there there were certainly were some good
suspects uh the crazy thing here is you know we have this disappearance and then
the the murder of this boy and it turns out that we learned that there's some pretty bad dudes in the area at the time
and we covered them in this case you know one one of them I won't go into all of it because we have just a limited
amount of time here today but one in particular we have Timothy Hall um who was sentenced to 15 years to life in
prison for the murder of an elderly man and and uh this guy is a guy that I kind
of keep tabs on because every couple years he comes up for parole um now I'm very happy to report that at the last
parole hearing uh that the people this is what they this is what they said about Timothy Hall when they denied him
parole they said that he is the worst of the worst and he poses a deadly combination and he possesses a deadly
combination of Pure Evil and Insanity now this guy will be up for parole again August of
2018 um I'm hoping that he is somebody that they keep behind bars for a very long time because he's an extremely
dangerous person certainly capable of having killed Tony Muny uh remember he was the one he became Under Suspicion
because he was the one that was seen in his cell talking to a person that wasn't
there and and calling him John and it's it's thought that he was speaking to the
ghost of of Tony Muny his murder victim well and this is one we spent a lot of extra time on I mean one all the
research that you did for it and then you know this was a probably an hour and 40 minute episode this before we're
doing any two-parter type things and um yeah and then there was multiple trailers in it it's it's pretty
interesting it's definitely something I'm proud that we produced it's one of my favorite episodes number eight for me
would be Johnny gosh so uh I think I feel like a social justice warrior with I'm not I'm not and I not a big fan of
social justice Warriors you know just saying uh the politically correct thing or or whatever but the thing that I was
thinking about the Johnny gosh cases one I was a paper boy so I have a connection
there you know a kid goes out on his paper route goes missing there's possibly you know uh a sex trafficking
ring that's involved and but what what I love about this case was his mother you
know that there's there's a there's a documentary on this and his mother is really interesting to me and I think
she's a different breed and I think a lot of people didn't cover this case or not even cover the case but I think a
lot of people start saying I yeah she's a different breed and she's a very strong female right and
therefore people call her crazy and I think and I think that's that's the thing that drives me nuts about that's
what I I sound like a social justice war is what it sound like but I think if it
was a father doing it it wouldn't happened that way right it wouldn't have been oh well this guy's crazy I think
she was uncovering stuff that people just don't want to hear about and when they don't want to hear about something
like that they start using the stupid word conspiracy MH oh well this is just a conspiracy she's just a wacka Doo
she's not a wacka do she's a strong female that you know her son went missing and she's going to fight until
her death to try to figure out what happened yeah you're you're exactly right yeah some of the things she's done
and said are a little out there to me but at the same time you got to keep in mind this is a person that has dealt
with a traumatic thing in her life that none of us can comprehend the thing that
I love though is that she like you said she's going to she's going to fight to the end to get this thing solved to to
try to figure out what happened to Young Johnny gosh right and like I said at the
end of the day if it was the father Champion for you know the to find out what happened to his son people wouldn't
be calling him crazy number seven on my list I have April Tinsley this was way back in episode seven Captain seems like
uh quite some time ago uh this i' say it seems like yesterday but no it it feels
like it feels like we've been doing this show for 10 years yeah th this was the young girl that was abducted near her
home in Fort Wayne Indiana um and her body was found on April 1st 198 uh you know just a strange coincidence
there her name is April she's found on the first day of April has always been very eerie to me but this is this too is
one of those cases that outside of the lines of Indiana not a whole lot of people know about this case and it's
it's a terrifyingly fascinating case because we have we have a killer uh of the worst kind who has gone on to taunt
the the neighborhood and taunt the the public in the um and further terrify the public by leaving notes and threatening
letters and claiming responsibility for the death of April Tinsley uh this is a case that's always fascinated me the
thing here too is we got DNA on this guy right um so it's a very solvable case it's just a matter of finding the right
match well I think anytime that you know a killer taunts you know the the public
it's like what better case to have solved to say hey we got you yeah you know uh this one I also think we missed
a couple things in this episode well we were unaware of uh there was some detail
about her shoe um uh that that he had he had taken some of the shoes and left them elsewhere and to further back up
that he was the killer that left those notes he he kind of reminded them about the shoes something that only the killer
would know this guy though man you know he leaves her body way back in 1988 and then he goes on to leave a note on a
barn in 1990 and then in 2004 he's leaving notes and mailboxes of of homes of little girls and leaving a note on
the bicycle of a little girl in the area this is a this is a very scary person mhm so April Tinsley that is your number
number seven and that was way back in episode seven yeah coincidence number seven for me will be Kurt Cobain uh this
was an episode that I was really excited about doing um if you go back and listen
to the trailer I actually uh adapted uh Smells Like Teen Spirit and kind of Twisted that around so if anybody's
interested in that you can kind of hear the melody kind of faint in there or the
idea of that tune faint in there uh inspired by watching soaked and bleach I thought that was a really fun
documentary um and I was never a huge Nirvana fan um but you know he became such an icon I
thought well this will be an interesting case fascinating enough though it's a case that I feel like we dropped the
ball on you know what I mean like when when I look back you know I wouldn't tell some if somebody said oh well this
Kurt Cain case should I check that out nah CU I think I think when we went into it I think one I think your mind was
made up on it on what happened yeah or or what the evidence kind of points to and I just feel feel like there was this
whole conspiracy side of things it's not a conspiracy I mean here here at the end
of the day this this lady this you know Courtney Love she had a lot to you know gain or to lose if they were to get
divorced right so anyways I think there's a lot more to the story and it's not that it was like bad that I thought
it was like just a garbage episode or anything it was just it was just the one ones at the end of the day when we put
out it was like ah this would be good and then a couple weeks later it was like yeah we could have done a little
bit better on that and I didn't mean to disappoint you Captain I I you know I do
think it was a suicide at the end of the day however you know there's millions of
people out there that are saying this was a murder and and and I'm not going to lie there were plenty of questionable
things out there and there is some evidence pointing the other direction than what I was thinking yeah and I just
I think that's the thing is I think when you have evidence leaning either way we
should I just think we could have done a better job of presenting the other side
of things number six I have the Austin yogurt shop murders uh four teenage girls killed all shot um two of them
were 17 one was 15 one 13 uh two of them were shop workers uh this case is is extremely intriguing to me um I I think
that there's there's a lot here this is a very famous case in Texas we covered it in episodes 81 and 82 um discussing
some of the serial killers that were in the area at the time that have fallen to
become suspects in this case um I think you know we also talked about the the uh
four teenage boys that were brought up on charges and the strange confessions that that were that took place um yeah
very similar to like uh West Memphis type thing yeah these were very aggressive interrogators uh come up with
confessions two of the guys end up getting convicted and then those convictions later get overturned uh this
is an extremely intriguing case one that I do think can be solved the the problem
is the evidence because the fire was set um but we still have that question of there were a couple people that went
into that shop that night that have not been accounted for I think that's where you're going to find your answers number
six for me will be Emma Philip off this is a girl that went missing in Canada there's episodes 52 and
53 uh as we're making the this list I I find that um missing person cases seem to be your thing yeah I think it's just
the you know if somebody you know it's sad if somebody gets murdered right and they get taken off this Earth but at
least we know that and we at least we know that their life ended there's a start and there was an end and
I think the fact that somebody just disappears off the face of this Earth uh I think that brings up so much questions
and then you know when I after my divorce um I I dated this very well not I can't even say it was dates but it's a
very similar situation where I start hanging out with somebody that's very artsy very unique mhm and you become
kind of infatuated and Emma had a you know people call him a stalker M but a guy that was pretty infatuated with her
so just the whole story uh seemed a little familiar but I'm rambling so let's get to this right after the beer
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cases tap on your brain a little more than the others because there's so many questions about them or is it because
there's still that that small hope of of something good happening at the end that
there there could be a positive outcome that the person could be found and is happy somewhere mhm I think part of that
but I think it's just the wh if game I think my my brain likes to play that game all right number five I have
Brandon Lawson uh episodes 8586 um this is the why is this one going to be on my list well it's the 911
call it absolutely is the 911 call um this this young man leaves his home uh just before midnight back in 2013 he
calls 911 in a very very strange call it's it's hard to understand what he's saying he sounds he sounds scared um I'm
not going to lie to you Captain the hearing the 911 call frightens me um and also trying to decipher what he's saying
is really the big mystery because I think every one of us when when it first hits our ears when we first hear it that
we all think you know what I'm going to be able to pick up on something that somebody else didn't hear and I'm going
to know what happened to Brandon you know now Brandon was kind of this he he was kind of he comes I don't know him
but he looks to me like kind of a tough guy you know kind of somebody that could
handle himself that wouldn't be easily frightened um and he saw something out there in the dark that night that sounds
to me like it terrified him and to this day we don't know where Brandon is we can't find his cell phone there's been
no activity on his bank accounts it's it's one of those cases that's haunting well and the fact of the matter is that
we have evidence that he called after he left the scene mhm and that's another Wrinkle in the mystery number five for
me is Adam Walsh which technically this is noted as a solved case just like with
the Kirk oain that is marked down as a suicide in your defense uh just like the Kurt Cobain case I think there's
millions of people out there that would argue that it's not solved so that that's that's getting your back right
there right so Adam Walsh we we know John Walsh from America's Most Wanted it was his son he was at you know going to
play it was just that case to me was very nostalgic thinking about like The Ataris and stuff and being about the
same age you know roughly around that time period and just growing up in the 80s so a little Nostalgia there but for
me um the interesting thing was you know when we started this thing in the garage
you know we always talked about True Crime but it was always well you're the True Crime guy you know this is I I
enjoy talking and I can write music and I can I can record it and I can produce the show but you know you got to take
the lead as far as the the research and stuff goes but I would always dive into the cases I always help direct the shows
but this one I I remember telling you hey this this Jeffrey Dothan has some weight to it and I remember at first you
going no probably won't talk about it much and I remember thinking well I think there's some more
here so I dove into it and and this is what really kind of sunk the teeth in for me on this case it's claimed to be
solved it's claim that he was murdered by Otis tool MH there also we got a lot of hate mail because people go it's Otis
you stupid it depends on who you talk to it's ois if the if if the family m numers of the Dead kid says it's oddest
tool yeah call him oddest tool dummy um that's how it works so but I think for the for me it was the it was the
eyewitnesses at the mall 10 years later seeing Jeffrey dmer being arrested in in Milwaukee
Milwaukee and they're they're 100% sure that they saw him at the at the mall mall that day the day that he went
missing and I think there is really something to that and then also just a fascination with somebody like Jeffrey
dmer kind of ties that in and I think and then there's there's this this whole other speculation that Adam Walsh is not
dead yeah that that that has come about quite a bit Yeah so it's definitely a case for me early on you know that has
fascinated me well and I'll tell you what I remember watching the made for TV movie uh way back when you know I was
very very little when that came out uh but I remember watching it and being so young you know maybe my parents
shouldn't have been letting me watch something like that but horrible parents I remember being so young and it being
so crazy that I didn't believe it was real I just thought it was a movie you know what I mean I saw it on TV and then
the the terrifying thing for me is Fast Forward 10 12 years later and I'm reading about True Crime all the time
and I stumble upon this case and I realize that movie that scared scared me enough when I was a little kid that I
remembered parts of it uh still as a teenager right realizing that it's oh my God that's that's a real case that
really happened those were true events number four for me we already talked about Mara Murray oh yeah uh we started
doing the show and uh I to be honest with you I mean we've talked about this before I haven't listened to many True
Crime podcast uhhuh I was just like what you know here's the thing we both were podcast lovers
yeah right and you oh yeah yeah what's your favorite right now um well you're top three I'm going to be laughed at you
really want me to get laughed at yeah it's better you than me well we're two weeks away well well we're one week away
now from the NFL draft so Cleveland Browns daily is my I'm still the idiot that's drinking the Kool-Aid that thinks
that someday something's going to happen with this team they're not going to be a
laughing stock so around this time every year I start listening to that I love true murder everybody knows that I love
True Crime garage um I listen to my own show every day um you you know those guys in the garage
they're great no actually number three for me would be maybe a little known podcast called Ripper cast um I've I've
been intrigued by Jack the Ripper for many many years and it's a it's a pretty random show cuz they don't have like a
regular schedule they just pop up an episode every now and then uh but they been covering Jack the Ripper for years
years so those are my three my top three right now uh well I listened to the missing Richard Simmons I thought that
was pretty interesting yeah uh I feel bad for that guy uh I thought uh swn was pretty good I would have produced it
better I thought it was entertaining it was very entertaining I just think they could have produced a little bit better
uh but I'm always listening to Joe Rogan or or Adam Corolla but my my new my new
favorite one that just crack cracks the [ __ ] out of me I mean and I need to stop
listening to it cuz I'm I'll probably do his Cadence but Congratulations by crystalia mhm that [ __ ] is ESS a good
well you know what Captain I knew that Mara Murray would be higher on your list for you than it was for me not because I
don't I don't find it you know to be an interesting case I mean obviously it's on my top 10 here but for you man you
were wrapped up in that thing for it felt like two months like every time I showed up to the garage he was like Mar
Murray and I mean I was calling people listen what I just found out I just talked to this person they said this I
just found this bit of information and and every time we're getting in the garage I'm going yeah but we're working
on this other case here Captain we we got to move on yeah and when and I met a lot of people in the True Crime
Community through that and like I said there are some nut nut jobs that are connected to that case but you know we
we met you know when we first started doing the show we met our our good friend aelia and she was the one that
saying hey you guys you guys got to do social media and I was like what do you mean social media we're we're not doing
social now I take a selfie every two seconds number four for me Captain uh Brian schaer uh you know this case
was what this case had to be just going to jump to my three your you're going to
jump to your three yeah my number three is schaer oh okay well then let's just talk about it together we uh the
captain's weird about these list he he will he will view mine but he never lets me see his list in advance I'm changing
I go he's making it up as he goes no but Brian Schaefer um and when I say it had
to be covered we were just we live in Columbus he went he disappeared from from the Ugly Tuna saluna in Columbus uh
it's it's become it's hard to know how famous this case is because we're in the heart of it all um but the thing here
was we we covered this just before the 10year anniversary of his disappearance well it was one of the cases that really
people started talking about our podcast because we covered this case and the thing is you couldn't go you know it was
every few months you'd be somewhere and you would hear somebody go hey remember that guy that disappeared from the bar
downtown uh whatever happened to that guy and it was it became one of these cases here where it's almost urban
legend you know what I mean it's it's the guy that disappeared from the bar downtown and at some point unfortunately
people forget the guy's name uh and forget what happened you know you could you could be in a bar talking to
somebody and they'd say yeah they found Brian Schaefer he was so and so uh he was at this place or that place and it
was a case that locally has not gone away it's um like I said it's almost become some bit of a of an urban legend
well and that's a popular area of campus and the thing for me was you know that whole area of Campus changed it used to
be grungy and gritty and now it's kind of a little more Posh but it started becoming Posh when they put the Ugly
Tuna in but uh in the last couple years I've played down there a lot so I go through the same garage that he drove to
I park in roughly the same spot I walk through the same doors and it's something that I can't get off my mind
and that's one thing that I don't think a lot of people get when you've walked the ground when you've been to the
location where somebody was had disappeared or where a body was found the case takes on a whole different
angle for you doesn't it I mean it it's once when you can see the place when you
can see the layout of things you kind of understand or have a better understanding of what may have happened
um you know and what a lot of people don't know we haven't we didn't really talk about this much but uh we had a
company from Australia come over uh no roles for Sam is the name of the company company production company that they
listened to our show they believed in us as individuals and talents and they came
all the way from Australia and they we did some recording as if we were shooting a documentary about the Brian
Schaefer case uh then they took this material and they've actually shopped us to different networks and stuff like
that so we met a whole other team that's why when you hear cheers mates M that's
not us that's because we we we became friends with a bunch of Aussies and uh and and we've done a lot of work with
them and and had these es and flows of the whole are you going to have a TV show are you not going to have a TV show
we don't really care if we have a TV show yeah we got podcast faces bro uh Brian Schaefer case was way back in
episodes 16 and 17 if you if you haven't heard those uh you know the other crazy
thing here is you know cuz some people speculate that he that he took off on his own that he wanted to start a new
life elsewhere and he chose to disappear on April 1st April Fool's Day and what where you originally thought yeah you I
mean like when we first started looking at it you kept on saying to me no I I I think he wanted to leave yeah and I I
kept on saying that doesn't make any sense but you know like I said I played up there so much and I pulled this
up I don't I don't know if this story is interesting to anybody but i' play at that World of Beer and I'd be in the
corner which is right across the street or right across the walkway just across the walkway and this really old security
guard would come in and he' order food from him and uh but he kind of always look at me like yeah you're doing it BL
me so I pulled him aside one gig and I just I was looking around and I was taking pictures and I think I was
posting him on Instagram and stuff like that I just asked him I said hey uh you know the guy that went missing he said
oh yeah yeah he said uh but that's all Hollywood stuff and I said really I said what you what do you mean and he said
well he said well they they make it seem like he was Harry Houdini you know right
just disappeared in just disappeared and because the craziest thing about that that case is that we got video footage
of him going in the bar yes and we have video footage of him of him walking around talking to people stumbling
around pretty drunk having a good time right the but the main exit was to go down escalator and we should have seen
him right but if you study the film there's no Brian Schaefer and he was just saying that yeah when they reported
on it and when people talk about it they always say well there was cameras everywhere yeah and he just said look
those cameras didn't work yeah and and there and there was a bunch of blank spots and because the building was new
and he was just saying that that if if that guy wasn't to leave he could have left and nobody
would have seen him and there's probably a bunch of people that left that bar that night that are not on film and the
crazy thing too you know I I wasn't down there in 2006 when he disappeared but I
went down there many years later just happened to be there meeting people um and remembered oh yeah this is where
Brian Schaefer went he had Miss missing from and looking around down there the thing that shocked me because you're
right the the the TV shows made such a big deal of not seeing him exit the bar the story was always well he walked into
a bar and Ne never was to be seen again right uh but the first thing I noticed down there now I don't know the workings
of the building but there's a lot more doors on that building than I expected to see uh after having heard the report
well we know my number three uh number three for me is Amy mahalic um the 10-year-old girl from Bay Village Ohio
who disappeared in October of 1989 uh she was it's believed that she was lured to a shopping plaza by a
person who was pretending to be a friend of the family that she was receiving some strange phone calls leading up to
her disappearance and unfortunately her uh murdered body was found in February of 1990 in Ashlin County which is quite
a bit of a drive from Bay Village where she disappeared for me Captain this is the
reason why this will always be a case that's with me is she was my age um and this was really the first time I
remember watching some of the news footage when they were looking for her uh on TV and it was kind of the the
break of the Age of Innocence for me as as a as a boy um you know where where somebody you know a girl my age in my
home state nobody can find her and then when you find out months later that she's
been killed it was really kind of it was kind of an Awakening for me that that these things do happen they're not just
in movies and um you know I've been to I've been to where she pretty naive as a kid yeah but I mean keep I watched this
movie and then I realized it was real yeah then I saw this thing on the news and then I realized it was real well let
me put it into better perspective I was trying not to date myself so much with the Adam Walsh thing but I was probably
five when I saw that movie uh this is not real and as far as Amy mahalic goes her and I were the same age
I was 10 at the time when she went missing I don't think that that's I think it's no secret that we're bunch of
old dudes we're extremely old I got my AARP card on me right now no uh but but to me this case will always be with me
it will always be in my mind um I've seen the picture of the person that they think was last seen with her the drawing
the composite drawing uh I'm one of those people that I think that I've you know at the corner of my eye sometimes I
think that I saw the guy uh the crazy thing to me Captain and this is going to sound absolutely crazy to everybody out
there but I've driven from the the plaza where she was last seen to the A area where she was found um it's supposed to
be like a 50-minute drive and I got to tell you it felt like eternity driving that route uh the thing here is I think
you know we've seen some new evidence come out with this potential new evidence I think this could be solved um
I I think that think that I'm rambling right now I'm a rambling guy rambling rambling
I've always thought and will always think that somebody from the Ashlin area Ashlin County where the body was found I
think the person that was responsible for this terrible murder lived in that area at the time the drive to me just
felt so long to have to have a victim in the car with you that you would have to
be heading to a point for a reason other than just to dump the body if that makes
sense yeah here's here's some little backstory here's a little uh behind the scenes to crme Gat uhhuh uh probably a
year before we actually started doing the podcast I remember you would you were telling me I'm going to drive to
listen to this author speak yeah we've known each other forever but it's just it's funny because you have and I admire
this about you but you have all these Hobbies where I've never had Hobbies like well you play a lot of music right
but it's a job you I mean like I I normally just turn my hobby into a job and then it's like okay well I play
music and but you always have all these interesting hobbies you know you always do a a bracket for the NCAA you do
fantasy football you have all this stuff and you're like well I'm going you always were into True Crime and you're
like well I'm going to go listen to this author talk yeah cut to a year later we're having that author come in and to
a studio for you to do do an interview with them yeah and if I could give a personal recommendation out there to our
true crime fans listening if you ever have the opportunity and it's actually it happens all the time you're just
unaware of it cuz you don't search for these things but these True Crime authors they travel around and they give
talks from time to time and you get an opportunity to meet them or to hear their story uh it's it's a it's one
thing that I've done for years I do it a few times every year when one comes around or or if I have to go up to
Cleveland or Cincinnati to hear somebody but it's incredibly fascinating I recommend if you have that opportunity
to check something like that out well and and you you know I heard the name James rener because of the mara Murray
case now I don't agree with a lot of stuff that he says but I do think he's a great author he's a great Storyteller
and when people want to talk whether he's a journalist or whatever I don't I don't care look at the end of the day
it's hard to write a book at the end of the day it's hard to spend a bunch of time and energy looking into a cases yes
I understand that people put blinders on sometimes but so we have him come to this recording studio and we record a
couple different interviews with this guy yeah it was kind of cool to go okay well that's kind of cool Nick gets to
that'd be like me meeting some famous jazz-based player I'd be like geeking out um so I got to see James rener and
Nick just two True Crime dorks just going at it Dorking it up I mean it was like God I had to like put on some boots
to weigh through the dorky [ __ ] it was just but that Amy mahalic interview I I
left the room yeah I was like and all the captain haters at the time probably were like yes this is such a better
episode then I sat in the other room with a a producer friend of mine and we turned the volume off and we didn't
listen to the episode so when I get the files back and I actually created the episode um you know I I normally post
the show and then I listen back so I was listening back and we started uh you guys were doing the interview with the
Amy mahalic case and uh it was just crazy cuz like about 5 minutes in I was like this [ __ ] is fascinating well I
wouldn't claim to be an expert on on hardly anything at all but but definitely not but one thing I would say
um outside of the Bay Village Law Enforcement and maybe some FBI agents I I would argue that few people in the
state of Ohio have spent more time researching the Amy case than James and myself uh separately which what what was
so great for me was getting the opportunity to kind of discuss uh his thoughts and my thoughts at the same
time the thing too is you know I I really enjoy James rener because of his work that he did with the Amy mahalic
case he was the first person that started putting names and started coming up with suspect names nobody else had
done that up until that that son of a [ __ ] made in on this episode again it's it's hard to listen to
yourself and so anybody that you know it's just it's frankly just ridiculously silly when people go you
got a sexy voice uh no no no no because when you hear back yourself it's like nails on a chalkboard mhm so maybe
that's why it's one of my favorite episodes cuz I'm actually not on the episode that's episode 22 by the way I
me that is a a fascinating Story number two for me is the long serial killer case um we've probably I I know we've
done we recently did the four parter with the boys on the tracks um so you know we did four parts on the Long
Island serial killer well side note with the boys on the track the reason why that's not on my list it's because I
believe that the evidence is there that the case is solved there's just no justice there right I agree 100% with
you uh but as far as Long Island serial Killer goes I mean this this is a case that of course wrapped up the nation's
attention uh but it's crazy that somebody has been killing this amount of people or maybe even two two killers
have been killing this amount of people for this length of time and not been caught the thing that I thought that was
interesting as far as true crime garage goes is that we we never intentionally sat sat down and intended to do this
many episodes on the Long Island serial killer it just kind of came about as new
information came out we covered this in episodes 4 and 5 then again uh in episode 20 and episode 74 so this is a
case that's been with the garage since season 1 well and I think one of the things that's really interesting about
this is back to your idea of True Crime authors I mean look if you're into if you're into uh True Crime podcast do
yourself a favor and listen to a good True Crime book like an audio book I mean you want to talk about that you
know people are all into you know these like you know sown or whatever or missing Richard Simmons and those are
great Productions or whatever but to listen you know I'm listening to the devil's not now oh my goodness oh man
that's one of the best true crime books ever man and here's the thing it's not the author's voice because it's not her
reading it it's somebody else reading it h wor it's a worse voice than you but the author is is Mara Leverett one of
the best one of the best True Crime authors out there it Devil's not fantastic and then we kind of got onto
you well you got really sucked into the Long Island serial K case based off of Lost Girls yeah and that's a book that
if you have by Robert cker he's a fantastic author as well hands down one of the best maybe one of the best books
oh yeah one of the best true crime books and and and I tell you what the Long Island serial killer case I was one of
the dorks that was on that the Long Island serial killer.com website for years listening to all these trolls bash
each other and it it was crazy because because you you'd have this community of people that sounded like they wanted to
get together and work to try to solve the case it was basically like web slle except for it was very specific it was
only going to cover Long Island serial killer what ended up happening after you f you know you get through this year and
a half and it was the same similar to Mara Murray where people had strong opinions about their theories and they
were going to kind of force them upon you at some point it got so bad on that website that some of the people were
accused other people on the website of being the Long Island serial killer right that's that's always fun to wake
up and read huh yeah hey hey by the way you're the killer what plus remember the
the rap that we played on our on our episode The because I killed him you know I don't remember the words it sound
like a country song yeah but don't do that again but there was some creepy person came up with this hold Long
Island serial killer rap that sounded like they were the Killer and they posted it on on on the website and it
was just randomly on there one day for a couple weeks and then they took it down
yeah well it was it was a catchy tune though it was it was a catchy tune catchy little number but it was about
these murders yeah that's and and you know this The Prostitute that came out and said hey I think
there's I look I think there's your original thought was there was really something to Shannon Gilbert going to
this like almost like sex party right and I think there or Brewer's house right and I think that's where your
answers are going to are going to lie if they ever get into that and and all the
stuff with the chief of the the new police officer that got in trouble and all that stuff interesting case and
that's one that if it sucks you in byebye be in there for a while byebye see you later you'll get back to us
episode 200 yeah check in when you resurface my number two is Brandon in Lawson oh fantastic um it's very simple
it's exactly what you said the N1 you are exactly right well thank you when you said I I listened to the tape and
and being a audio engineer for years I thought I can manipulate this and I can know what he
says and I couldn't and it was really frustrating I don't I don't hear fear as much as maybe other people do um I've
read almost every post on our blog about what people think he says yeah that was
really cool we had like what 70 or 80 people right in what they think he's saying yeah it was interesting though
because when we did the when we decided to do it you know that's one of the things anytime there's a case it's can
we put a spin on it if the case hasn't been covered before we just cover the case right but it's but with all these
other cases it's just what can can we bring to the table can we bring a different Viewpoint you know can we add
anything to the conversation if we can't then we're just not going to cover it you know my my thing was I think I could
dissect this and then we should dissect it live so I had all these clips that I dissected and then we were playing it
for you and we're trying to get our reactions on the spot which was really interesting and yeah everybody would say
oh well he's he's saying this it's clear that he's saying this which is good calm down we wanted we
wanted to hear what other ears were hearing our ears aren't always right and and the the the loss in 911 tape is is
just that if you listen to it 10 times you might hear nine different things you know it's you might have a different
outcome nine out of 10 times well what's what's the town he was heading towards abalene right we all like we didn't we
didn't hear at the time and we didn't look up a map because we were just trying to keep going and and just you
know here's our initial reaction let's see see what happens when we hit record M so yeah we didn't look up a map and
then no that's all I'm saying I I've heard that 300 times yes I know he's saying that now I
knew I think we knew after we push uh publish on the podcast we knew that oh that's what he said you know but we're
not going to go back and fix that so that was a fun night in the garage show cuz we did both episodes in one
recording and we we sat in here and listened to that thing probably four or 500 times uh and you know the listeners
are probably thankful that we didn't put all four or 500 of them on the episodes
but we we manipulated it changed it tweaked it did everything we could to try to dissect the thing and come up
with what poor Brandon Lawson was saying on that 911 call you know the editing on
the computer sometimes just physically makes me ill mhm and after that that night it was just like head was spinning
and I just thought uh you know and everybody's going to say well that's just too much beer
Captain shut up um no so yeah that's my number two number one for me will be the
West Memphis 3 case um again this kind of falls into the whole Kurt Cobain thing where maybe it you know some would
argue that it's solved you know we have we have three guys that took an Alfred plea and uh that's going to be the end
of it I me that just angers me more uh you know we we have three child victims here that were brutally killed we have
three guys that I'm not going to lie to you Captain I I'm not convinced either way on Damen Eckles in that situation
were they guilty were they not guilty I think that oh God I think that the the take it back no I'm I'm saying I could
be swayed either way depending on what day it is I I I see things that point towards their guilt I see a lot of
things that point towards their innocence the problem I see is that the problem with the investigation the the
investigation was mishandled from the get-go and I think that's how they ended at at that conclusion the problem here
is when you give when you let three guys out of prison but you say as a state oh
we're letting them out but they're guilty what kind of justice is that for anybody it's not it's it's an unsolved
case uh unfortunately I don't think they're ever going to work on it anymore uh because the state of the case but I
mean the it's like we said the devil's not is one of one of the best true crime books out there and this is one of those
cases for me that about once every year and and I never know well and the Paradise Lost I mean is kind of what is
you know the uh what the Godfather of all true crime documentaries you know yep and and for me though Captain as far
as the West Memphis 3 case goes I never know when or where it's going to happen but about once or twice a year it pops
up in my mind and it won't it won't get out of there I have to I fall back into that case uh you know once a year twice
a year it's it's it's always with me I call it a red light case you know when you're sitting on a
red light M and just pops into your head like this is what happened pull up to a
red light oh my God that son of a [ __ ] killed them yep that son of that those boys killed those boys yep the and and
no look and before I get any hate mail that's what happens just random thought my random thought will be what if Damen
Eckles did it and then my brain goes down that thought and then I got to recollect my
brain starts recollecting all the evidence and then I go what if Terry Hobbs did it what if you know yeah
buyers did it and then I go down this rabbit hole for a little bit then I sto it could be a week later you know pulled
up get myself Subway I'll take a Italian BMT on on wheat please oh my God Terry Hobbs is guilty
is sing it's Terry hop and then and then the other thing about too is I I start going I start just talking like this all
the time I made that Moon water Jesse Miss Kelly Jesse Miss Kelly no you're exactly right though it's it it's you
hit the nail on the head it's a red light case because it randomly pops in your head and then you're like you know
what damn I just wasted 8 hours of free time looking into this case again and still have no idea what happened at the
end of the day yeah and and those I think we did a really good job uh you know we bicker back and forth on how how
the that's another one I still we did a good job we did a and we you're wrong we
did a damn good job yeah but it the the way the case was supposed to go down was
supposed to be uh the timeline then the confessions and the evidence and then the whole third part was
supposed to be discussing the boys just not discussing the three victims but discussing the West Memphis 3 each
individually and we kind of did that and whether they were guilty or not right and so but it's it's a look if you don't
know much about that case uh you know it's it's one that will suck you and I think a lot of it too is because we were
those teenage boys you know we were the we were somewhat well well let me put this
out there I mean yes yeah somewhat and this just kind of hit me um maybe the reason why I'm so fascinated about that
case is or by that case is is that we're actually both sides of the fence you know what I mean that we
are the three victims mhm you know young boys 8-year-old boys and what did you do
with your 8-year-old friends you rode your bikes around yeah and where did we hang out you know we ride bikes around
town and you did too and in the neighborhood in the neighborhood and right in the neighborhood was a creek
yeah Creek cek however you want to say it that's where we'd play and that's where we could have died
mhm and we were just 8 years old we're just 10 years old 12 years old just doing that and how many times we come
across teenagers that maybe wanted to bully some kids and how many times do we get
beat up by those kids but that could have turned into you know death MH and then on the other side of things um as
you get older and you dive into some some new interests music or whatever it is Arts um you might not line up with
Society or the way I think most teenagers feel like they don't line up with Society whether whether they're in
the mainstream or off in some other click you know um right which I understand but I think also but we we
did wear the black t-shirts you know we're in a rock band yeah Metallica was was pretty much the [ __ ] I mean come on
right come on but yeah I think maybe that's what it is like both sides of the fence and then you know Jason Baldwin
didn't want to take the plea and I still to this day I mean I can't I'm probably never going to meet
them you know and they're probably never going to hear this but it's like I don't know there's there's a part
of me that wishes they wouldn't up taken it um and there's a part of me that wish
is that you know people look Johnny Depp all these guys did all this stuff in their power to get these boys free but
let's keep fighting that that's one of those cases I just wish was solved you know at the end of the day man I wish
that case was solved all right so let's go through our list real quick mine I'll
do mine first cuz mine's the best number 10 Joey leut number nine matrice Richardson number eight Johnny gosh
number seven Kurt Cobain number six Emma philippoff number five Adam Walsh number
four Mara Murray number three Brian Schaefer number two Brandon Lawson and number one on West Memphis 3 and my list
we got to make sure we put these on the website right so people don't have to write them down as they're listening but
we'll do something yeah for me number 10 Mara muray guess wait hold on I guess I'll do something the for me number 10
The Disappearance of Mara Murray number nine our photograph episode number eight
Tony Muny number seven April Tinsley number six the Austin yogurt shop murders five Brandon Lawson four Brian
Schaefer three Amy mahalic two the Long Island serial killer and number one the West Memphis 3 case you know we've done
a 100 episodes how the hell do you feel about that oh I feel extremely positive I mean when we set out and we first
started doing this we started in my garage and then we moved to your garage um cuz I was tired of carrying my
equipment to your house and when we recorded in my garage um it was for the first few episodes of of season 1 maybe
the first handful of episodes and um uh I wish I would have recorded our fight in your garage but but no it's been
amazing to me it's been a it's been a hell of a ride it's been a thrilling ride um glad it's over we still keep
getting new listeners every day uh we started off with uh one listener yeah and now we're all the way up to uh well
no there was two we both listened that's right that's right but uh some surprising moments to me um would
probably be you know each week we we're we're picking a different case and you know I've always been the True Crime
dork and so maybe I'm able to kind of review these things and look at them uh with kind of a cold heart from time to
time because you it's tough not to let these things get to you um but the probably the surprising thing to me is
that it's always been very easy for me to read about these things learning how tough it can be to talk about some of
them uh and I mean from an emotional standpoint um way back when we covered you know it's a few of these cases have
hit me very hard um maybe even thrown me into a a short bout of depression um because you start to feel like maybe
this whole world's just sick and evil and then you realize no that's that's actually a small percentage of what's
going on um but you know not to recall all the accounts but but when we were researching The Tika Lewis case the the
young uh girl that disappeared in Washington um man that one really really hit me hard uh borderline like tears a
few times during that week uh studying that case so well yeah well West Memphis 3 I mean you know having uh stepsons
that I raised for a while and I just remember you know that case being so fascinating and as far as like the
documentaries have always been on you know not always but the the main focus is on that these boys were wrongly
wrongfully convicted mhm and yes I feel for them if that is the case uh I you know I think deep down I believe that's
the case but 8-year-old kids and you start reading about that stuff and I just remember one day just balling in my
garage just going you know is this is this worth it yeah you know uh but then excite you know but then uh you know we
kind of started doing this for for ourselves you know for people purely purely for fun actually well no but but
for me it was you know I would drive to gigs and I was just by myself driving for 2 hours and if it wasn't for people
like Adam Corolla you know my life my quality of life would have been down mhm and so I'd get in that car at 3:00 4:00
in the morning and be driving home and wow you know I'm I'm now in Cora Studio listening to Bal bran uh Gina
grad uh at at the time Alison Rosen and uh if it wasn't for them you know my quality of life would have been down and
so when we get these messages of saying I listen to you at work I listen to you at my commute I listen to you why I cook
dinner I mean that's to me it's like oh I I actually matter you know what I'm doing actually matters to some somebody
M and we've had times uh twice now that our server has gone down yeah because the listenership has grown so big MH and
at first we had a free plan we had a free plan and then the people said to us hey you're too big you're costing us
thousands of dollars do a subscription so we did a subscription paid for that and a couple
weeks ago it crashed we had to upgrade and everybody come going I can't get your damn episodes I go well so I
contacted them and they go you guys are too big you need a network server yeah okay well we'll get one of those and
those are proud moments or or you know when they write you up at in Rolling Stone magazine or or you know you know I
I wasn't hip to the congratulation podcast but when you're such a fan of somebody's work and uh he he says uh
I've been listening to murder garage I mean a true crime garage to hear somebody that you admire say your show's
name that's pretty uh it makes you feel like you did something with your life and I think we all you know are capable
of doing great things and doing so much more with our lives and we all have been
at the point where you just kind of sit around and just go this is I mean we were both laid off mhm and we both felt
like pieces of [ __ ] falling on tough times I mean we're both were we both got paid a severance you especially as a
musician I mean I think you go through these times you know I just played in a cover band yeah you know I'd play in the
corner most of the time people would even clap you know so to think that you're just never going to have your
chance or you're never going to have your moment to do something great and uh we've put a lot of work and a lot of
time and energy and uh you know but when those people say I listen to you or you
make my week better makes it all worth it yeah so appreciate you guys listening a surprising thing for me on the upside
would be you know you talked about you getting a message or or you know I've I've got a few messages bumped into a
few people and uh been told you know the these are the ones that really uplift me
and make me feel great is that you know I've had people say you know what I was going through a tough time or I had a
lot going on uh that was that was really bad in my life you know bringing me down
and I was able to put on your show for one hour a week and kind of just disappear it took me away from from
whatever was bothering me I was able to laugh a little bit I it took my mind away and I was able to take a mental
vacation for an hour and you've really helped me through a tough time um and and sometimes people that have to be
away on long trips away from their family um you know speaking of which I I got a good friend that's in the Air
Force he's over overseas right now serving his country yeah big shout out to my friend
Ryan uh praying for you buddy want you to come home um all in one piece for us and uh we thank you for your service and
your sacrifice uh we miss you uh but it's it's things like that where people that have to be away from their families
I don't know them that that have said you know you just the little that you do has has passed the time faster for me um
so that that's really incredible but I got a lot of hate early on I still get a lot of
hate and truth truthfully I mean it's at first man oh it it bothered me a lot but
I and I think and this is going to sound kind of cheesy I guess but I think it was funny cuz like you know especially
like when the server went down the one time I think I was up for 30 some hours just working on it and then I'd go to
the website and some jackass would be going shut up Captain shut up well guess what it's my show M I'll say what
whatever I want whenever I want don't be a douche canoe but in the process it I think made
me give a [ __ ] about myself a little bit more and say well nah haters going to
hate anter going to ain't and uh but you know seriously I mean appreciate everybody listening and telling people
and it's uh it's been a fun ride and that's it now we got to gear up for 100 more well I'm done this is my last one I
told you I'd do 100 101 with Nick only Nick's Nick will be back next week I taught him how to record so should be
interesting I want to thank all the listeners for giving us our 100th episode because it's it's it's because
of them that we've had 100 episodes so thank you guys for giving us our 100 episodes thank you Captain for all your
hard work and that you've done thanks for showing up thank you for showing up over you know the the span of almost two
years now and no this guy would come in Works 60 hours a week sometimes 70 hours a week and
when we're doing a West Memphis 3 he was working insane hours but then we recorded almost every
night so uh thank you for doing that and somebody right now is listening and they're going these guys are really
giving themselves pats on the back godamn right I am godamn right I am to welcome to Parts Unknown thanks for
listening all right we will see everybody back here in the garage for episode 101 next week and until then be
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Wow, one hundred shows in the books! It's been a great run and a fun run. Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the garage. Especially those of you that have been here since season one. Tonight we are going to have a little fun as we discuss our top ten unsolved cases covered on True Crime Garage. Join us for a drink won't you?Cheers, peace and love! Nic & The Captain

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Brief Summary

Nick and Captain celebrate 100 episodes by discussing their top 10 unsolved cases and reflecting on their journey in true crime podcasting.

Key points

Mara Murray's Disappearance. A deep dive into the mysterious case of Mara Murray, who vanished in 2004.
The Strange Polaroid Photograph. Exploring a haunting Polaroid found in 1989 that raises more questions than answers.
Matric Richardson's Case. A look into the troubling disappearance of Matrice Richardson and the police's role.
The Johnny Gosh Case. A mother fights tirelessly to uncover the truth about her missing son.
The April Tinsley Case. A chilling case of a young girl's abduction and the taunting killer.
Kurt Cobain's Controversial Legacy. Exploring the complexities and conspiracy theories surrounding the iconic musician's death.

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