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. scottlunsfordauthor.com fivefourtwoandtheblue.com...
Oct 10, 2020•20 min•Season 4Ep. 6
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
Oct 03, 2020•21 min•Season 4Ep. 13
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. Simply enjoy the bus ride cause there are more strange things and stories, right around the corner and you ain’t seen or hea...
Sep 26, 2020•23 min•Season 4Ep. 4
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
Sep 19, 2020•23 min•Season 4Ep. 3
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 Line 9-26-2020 at 7pm
Sep 12, 2020•31 min•Season 4Ep. 2
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 Carolina police officer J.S. Postell. While on patrol he located Rudolph dumpster diving behind a grocery story in Murphy, North Carolina. Rudolph had managed to el...
Sep 05, 2020•19 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 for your self and decide. On line August 29, 2020 for free on 9 major podcast apps. Scottlunsfordauthor.com fivefourtwoandtheblue.com...
Aug 29, 2020•24 min•Season 3Ep. 25
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
Aug 22, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 24
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 that he used in his murdering ways. Was he a serial killer? Or truly Evil in person. Listen to the Five Four Tw...
Aug 15, 2020•28 min•Season 3Ep. 23
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.
Aug 08, 2020•23 min•Season 3Ep. 22
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 for Murder? Why does the former officer claim he was set up and framed by the U.S. Government. Listen and discover why. On line 8-1...
Aug 01, 2020•26 min•Season 3Ep. 21
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 by the Klan? Or was he the Klan Controller? Listen to Episode 3-19 and you decide....
Jul 18, 2020•26 min•Season 3Ep. 19
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
Jul 11, 2020•32 min•Season 3Ep. 18
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 Killer. The Shade of Blue Story of Velma Barfield. Did she deserve to die? Listen and decide. Scottlunsfordauthor.com...
Jul 04, 2020•23 min•Season 3Ep. 17
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 caught. Micajah and Wiley Harpe –known as "Big" and "Little" Harpe spread misery and terror through the western frontier in the 1790s. They to...
Jun 27, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 16
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.
Jun 20, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 15
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
Jun 13, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 14
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 victim and given the death penalty. How is this possible? The founding fathers wrote that a citizen would not be subjected to double...
Jun 06, 2020•45 min•Season 3Ep. 13
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. scottlunsfordauthor.com https://anchor.fm/scott-lunsford...
May 30, 2020•34 min•Season 3Ep. 12
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. A suspect was identified after a private Texas company uploaded crime scene DNA to a public genealogy website. Getting a partial m...
May 23, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Episode 3-10 ---The JFK Assassination and the Boone N.C. triple Murder connection. Did a North Carolina man give President Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald a ride from Dealey Plaza to the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963? Was this man connected to Dallas Police Officer Tippet’s death? How is this man also connected to an unsolved 1972 triple homicide in Boone North Carolina? Listen and decide if there is a real connection....
May 16, 2020•31 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Episode 3-9 --- 1902 fratricide with an eleven year old killer. A shade of blue story, of a Juvenile offender homicide investigation. The idea of homicidal children is nothing new. In episode one of season two of 542 and the blue. We discussed a murder by a six year old in Kentucky. This not a symptom of the times we live in. Juvenile killers have been with us throughout history. Are young killers the results of over exposure to r- rated movies, the internet and video games? Or is it something e...
May 09, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Episode 3 - 8 - Arrest in Cold Case slaying of teenage boy 29 years ago Advancements in forensic technology, not available in 1991, when a 14 year old young man was found shot twice in the head. Have led to the arrest of a Restaurant Chain Company President in 2020.
May 02, 2020•23 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Episode 3 - 7- An 80 year old open child abduction investigation Eighty years ago, Marjorie vanished while at a Mother’s Day picnic in the forest with her family. To this day she is the subject of one of the oldest unsolved cases recorded by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children . Her search was one of the largest for a child since the Lindbergh baby kidnapping six years earlier. Residents of western Pennsylvania and Marjorie’s surviving relatives still hold out hope she’s alive...
Apr 25, 2020•35 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Episode 3-5, Power, control and death A shad of Blue about power, control and death. How is the birth of the first surviving set of identical quadruplets on May 23, 1946, connected to a crime spree that ended dramatically almost 40 years latter. A story that starts 74 years ago in Milton, North Carolina that explodes in the death of 9 family members in 1985. Listen to find out how.
Apr 18, 2020•37 min
Episode 3-4 A view of the Asheville Police Dept from 1970 and 1983 Mr. Bob Terrell. Terrell wrote for the Asheville Citizen-Times for over fifty years. Terrell is also the author of several Police related books. A must read for history and law enforcement historians is The Will Harris Murders: November 13, 1906, a Night in Which Asheville Was a Tougher Town Than Tombstone and Dodge City Rolled into One . The stories tell of two unusual assignments given Asheville Police Patrolmen separated by 13...
Apr 11, 2020•20 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Episode 3-3 --- Political Prisoner or Murderer ? The 1957 Murder of Two North Carolina Highway Patrolmen. Is the killer, Frank Wetzel a cold-blooded killer or a political prisoner? Some say the most notorious prisoner in North Carolina history was silvery-haired, sparkly-eyed Frank Edward Wetzel, inmate No. 11021-OS, serving two consecutive life terms at the Vance Correctional Center. The state said he’s a calculating killer who gunned down two young highway patrolmen one “sad, bad night” back i...
Apr 04, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Episode 3-2 Justice denied and justice delivered. The Killing of an Asheville North Carolina police officer in 1911.
Mar 29, 2020•21 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Episode 3-1 The Satanic Panic - Dungeon and Dragons and murder. In the late 80’s a phenomenon know as the Satanic Panic characterized by a fear about the presence of Satanic ritual abuse in one's community, state or country showed up in many cities and communities. Today's Shade of Blue is about the game that allegedly led to the Murder of a step father over a two million dollar inheritance.
Mar 21, 2020•23 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Bonus 3 #6 Wyatt Outlaw Today's shade of blue story is about one of the First African American Law enforcement Officers in the state of North Carolina. Mr. Wyatt Outlaw.
Mar 14, 2020•9 min
