The South doesn’t forget easily, but some secrets it keeps buried deep. In this episode we uncover three chilling cold cases where predators vanished without a trace, leaving investigators haunted decades later.
First, follow the trail of the so-called Flat-Tire Killer, whose hunting ground stretched from California to the canals of South Florida, perhaps claiming more than 30 lives. Even today, DNA evidence only muddies the waters. Then head to the swamp and scrubs of Charlotte County, where Dan Conahan, the convicted Hog Trail Killer, sits on death row. But a mass grave of eight more victims raises a terrifying question: was he working alone, or is a second killer still out there? Finally, travel to Richmond, Virginia, where the Golden Years Killer targeted elderly women in their own homes for six brutal years, leaving behind a confession so unreliable it may have obscured the truth forever.
Three killers, dozens of victims and zero convictions that fully close the books. Are these predators dead, imprisoned for other crimes, or still walking among us?
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Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South
Haunts & Hollows: True Tales of the Gothic South is the podcast for anyone who yearns for stories of haunted plantations, of deals made at midnight crossroads, of creatures lurking in moss-draped cemeteries. But where did these tales actually start? Turns out, the real history behind Southern folklore is wilder, stranger, and a whole lot darker than the stories themselves. With each episode, mystery author Liam Ashe uncovers the true tales hiding underneath the myths of the Gothic South.
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