Episode Bonus - 1- A Serial killer and murdering politicians Political corruption is a common thread that runs throughout the history of mankind. As is just regular old fashioned murder. It runs from the jaw bone of an ass to the voting both. We look at Serial Killer Little and the murdering Lt. Governor who killed a rival in broad daylight on the street in front of a police officer. Find out what happened and what is still happening in this Shade of Blue Podcast. on line 8-10-2019 8:00 pm...
Aug 10, 2019•12 min
The California Cold case that ended in a small town in Western North Carolina. Part 2: Moonshine! Today’s shade of blue story, is a 1985 story that starts all the way across the country to the west coast. The land of make be-leave and stories. But the story begins its ending here, in the mountains of Appalachia. If you grew up in the 70’s and 80’s the victim’s name might not be familiar, but his large body of work will be. His work in the TV industry influenced many. Part two: A quick look at pa...
Aug 03, 2019•22 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Episode-23- The Ballad of Poor Ellen Smith and the truth behind the song. This episode starts with The Ballad of Poor Ellen Smith . The morning of July 21, 1892, the body of Ellen Smith was found behind the Zinzendorf Hotel in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Shot through the heart. The story of Ellen Smith’s murder is a classic tale of seduction and betrayal. A beautiful but innocent young woman strays from the path of righteousness for a faithless shifty older lover who becomes her killer. It is...
Jul 20, 2019•17 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Episode -22- The 1970s Virginia Bunny man mystery and Investigation. Who was the Virginia Bunny man? Ghost? Specter from the past? A crazed ax welding man in a rabbit costume?. Perhaps a simply misunderstood guy who liked to dress up as a Bunny. If so why the ax? Find out the reality of the 1970’s story of the Virginia Bunny Man and the police investigation into his existence. scottlunsfordauthor.com
Jul 13, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Episode -20- The Right Rev. George Washington Carawan and the school teacher Charles Lassiter. 1852. Though a preacher of the gospel, The Reverend George Washington Carawan, was a prominent and powerful North Carolina Baptist minister. A man of violent temper and strong animal passions, more likely to inspire terror than piety in the community and those around him. The sorrows he begat in his relationships would follow him to the courtroom for a final tragic act in Carawan’s play of tragedy, lif...
Jun 29, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 20
A cold 1904 January in Mitchel County North Carolina, the body of a young man is found lying near the railroad tracks. Lying face first in or near a small creek, The young man shot three times in the head and five in the back. The county Coroner was summed and an inquest held. In 1900’s North Carolina many times the initial investigation of a death or homicide was completed by a coroner's jury. They would make the initial determination of foul play. If so the case would be sent to law-enforcemen...
Jun 22, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Episode-18- Why did the Deputy shoot Tom Mashburn? & Who killed the father of NC Ginseng Trade The song says Someone may have shot the sheriff and claims they did not shoot the deputy, but we do know for sure that the Deputy shot Tom Mashburn. Part 2- Is it true that the murder will return to the scene of the crime? The fact is sometimes he does. How this and 1800 CSI work solved the killing of Captain Garrett the man known as the father of the North Carolina Ginseng Business. Listen to Epis...
Jun 15, 2019•19 min
Episode- 17- A 1960s unusual disappearance and missing person case with connections to Western N.C. A new shade of blue looking at an unusual disappearance and missing person investigation. In the mid 1960’s Mary Little was a Bank secretary in Atlanta, Georgia, she disappeared from the parking lot of Lenox Square Mall shopping one night. Unusual evidence is uncovered in the investigation including connections to the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. A second missing young lady ove...
Jun 08, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 17
The Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole. Episode - 16- Part 2. Part two of the Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole. W. “Bill” Ormond, a veteran of the trench warfare of World War One was a young man returning home from war. He becomes romantically involved with Influential Mill owner, Mr. William Cole’s daughter. An excepted relationship, until the Young Miss Cole turns her attentions in another direction. This sets former suitor against father in ...
Jun 02, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Episode -15 The 1925 Murder of W. W. “Bill” Ormond by Mr. William Bonaparte Cole. Part one. Saturday June 1st at 7:00 pm. William Bonaparte Cole started in N.C. textiles at the age of fifteen as a mill bookkeeper in Rockingham, NC. Cole was able to advance himself to becoming a powerful Mill Owner, Businessman and resident of Rockingham North Carolina. W. “Bill” Ormond, a veteran of the trench warfare of World War One was a young man returning home from war. He becomes romantically involved with...
Jun 01, 2019•21 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Crime and punishment in the Appalachian Mountains. On Oct. 2, 1905, A man was hung at Marshall NC the County seat of Madison County. Most of us history nuts in the Western NC area are familiar with the Hanging of Peter Smith. Growing up in Madison Co. I had heard the stories and have seen the photographs of Smith standing on the gallows in Marshall out side of the Jail in 1905. The concussions over the years I was told was that Smith did not commit the crimes he had been accused of. A murder of ...
May 25, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Five Four Two and the Blue episode - 13 – 1901 murder of a sleeping family. On the night of September 21st, 1909, a knock on a cabin door and a neighborly welcome turned to murder. The family knew the visitor and quite naturally opened their home to him. By nine o’clock, all six family members were asleep. Using a pistol, a knife, and a hatchet the visitor is said to have slain the entire family, then set the cabin on fire and left. Bungled petty theft and non-premeditated murder. Or a planed ru...
May 18, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Episode -12- Big Al Capone in the Appalachians Big Al in the Appalachians. Did the famous gangster "Scarface" Al Capone keep an apartment and hide out in Johnson City Tnn? And was the Mob involved with the death of a whole family in N.C. on Christmas Day, all because of something the father saw in Johnson City?
May 11, 2019•21 min
Episode -11 The Murder of 17 year old Muriel Baldridge in 1947 The Podcast starts with a brief musical ballad telling the story of a tragic event from the Appalachian Mountains. The Ballad written in 1949, the recording made in 1977. The Ballad tell the story of the tragic Murder of Muriel Baldridge, the 17-year old high school cheerleader who was found beaten to death under a bridge the morning of June 28, 1949 in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The Murder after a decades of investigation by local, sta...
May 04, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Five Four Two and the Blue episode - 10 -gambling in the Mountains Scheduled for April 27, 2019 at 7:00 PM Illegal gambling in the Mountains. Cases from 1901, 1955 and 1977.A look at the differences of how the Evil of Gambling and "Gambling Dens" was handled. In 1901 the NC state Legislature passed a new Anti-Gambling Law. The previsions of the new law were put into strict force in several cities The Law was especially strict on Gambling in Barrooms, Hotels and private clubs. The if enforced, wa...
Apr 27, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Episode - 9. Witchcraft Trials in Tenn,, Ghostly evidence and Court testimony in West Virginia Episode 9. Three Shades of Blue stories, for Five Four Two and the Blue. Three stories of Law enforcement, and the court system. Two Witchcraft Trials in Tenn. and A Shade of Blue story of, Ghostly evidence and Court testimony in West Virginia.
Apr 20, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Episode -8- Murder and attempted Murder on the Appalachian Trail The shade of blue in this podcast on five for two and the blue. Puts us in the great outdoors along the Appalachian Trail. For those of you who don’t know The Appalachian National Scenic Trail , generally known as the Appalachian Trai l or simply the A.T. , is a marked hiking trail in the Eastern United States extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Maine. The trail is about 2,160 miles long, though the exact length chan...
Apr 13, 2019•18 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Episode -7 The Ghost Town incident of 1992 In this shades of blue story for Five Four Two and the Blue, it does not start in the mountains of Western North Carolina but the start of the ending does. It’s a story of the capture of a real bad guy, James Neil Tucker. Our story begins in a make believe world of a Wild West theme park. Ghost Town in the Sky, Maggie Valley, North Carolina. In 1992, A Private Security officer working for the Park, found James Tucker hiding under a bus after the Ghost T...
Apr 06, 2019•18 min•Ep. 7
Episode -6 The Miller Manhunt Many in the Appalachian Mountains are familiar with the murder and killing rampage that occurred in 1906 Asheville North Carolina. The Gunman, Will Harris’s manhunt and killing related to his shooting of several individuals both white and African American. Even today you can see the scars his stray bullets had made on the Vance Monument downtown, Asheville tour guides will point out the marks and tell how the story is famous, particularly in part to the Thomas Wolfe...
Mar 30, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Shortly before midnight Tuesday November 10, 1964, masks, guns and other disguises were collected by four young men. The burglary and robbery tools placed in a burlap bag, hidden under the hood of a pick-up truck just in case they were stopped by police at some point. The robbery team consisting of a 23, 27, 19, and a 16 year old, drove to the farm of Charlie Lunsford. The four men drove around the area several times to make sure police were not in the area. 16 year old Arrlie Fox had worked for...
Mar 24, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Episode- 4- Five dead in ten Minutes, Asheville NC 1906 A discussion about the Asheville North Carolina of 1906. The 5 homicides that occurred in a 10 minute span rampage, the investigation and man hunt reported as far away as New York City . The murder Will Harris is quoted as saying before shot by an avenging public. "I come from hell,…. from Charlotte , …...from state prison ...and from the chain gang," "And I'm surely going back to hell, ….sooner rather than later." Will Harris arrived in As...
Mar 16, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Episode- 3- Montford Avenue Murder / The Trial On the morning of May 10- 1927, a maid walking to work discovered the body of a women in a ravine on Montford Avenue. This begun one of the most sensational crimes, investigations and trials in that time period. The Investigation and trial had impact through out Buncombe County and the City of Asheville at that time. Allegations of a cover-up, involvement of the Klu Klux Klan and miss-handled evidence was the talk of the time. A reorganization of th...
Mar 10, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Episode 2 Asheville N.C. Montford Ave. Murder. On the morning of May 10- 1927, a maid walking to work discovered the body of a women in a ravine on Montford Avenue. This begun one of the most sensational crimes, investigations and trials in that time period. The infamous case was followed by 1000 in the media of the day. The court house from the trial of the accused, the crime scene and other locations related to the investigation were visited and tramped through by 100 of curious individuals. A...
Feb 20, 2019•31 min
The five four two and the Blue Podcast. .. Discussions of law enforcement history. issues and incidents in the Appalachian Mountains. Hosted by Scott Lunsford, retired police detective sergeant. Author and researcher. Some quick local history to gain some perspective of the area. For more information Go to SCOTTLUNSFORDAUTHOR.COM Here you will find a link to the podcast web site and information on Scott’s books and how to order them. Scott can also be reached through the message portal on the co...
Feb 08, 2019•19 min•Season 1Ep. 1
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Feb 07, 2019•59 sec
