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Mar 2023
38m 13s

Ransom

They Walk Among Us / Law&Crime
About this episode

On this episode of They Walk Among America… It was the summer of 1973 in Three Forks, Montana, and the Jaeger family were on a month-long camping vacation, touring the west. On June 25th, they were camping in Missouri Headwaters State Park, a recreational area comprising 535 acres of woodland alongside the Missouri River. The State Park is known as a popular haunt for vacation makers, wanting to be close to nature, and is replete with bountiful fishing spots, hiking trails, hunting areas, and water-related activities. Just five years earlier, the state park had become a no-go zone after a little boy was stabbed in the arm and then clubbed to death after an unknown person cut a hole in his tent. But by now, that was just a faded memory, and the state park was as popular as ever…


*** LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED *** 


‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.


This episode was hosted by Nina Innsted.


Researched and written by Emily G. Thompson.


Editing and scoring by Kory Hilpmann


Script editing, additional writing and production direction by Rosanna and Benjamin Fitton.


MUSIC: 


Shadow Passage by Cody Martin

Still by Alsever Lake

Haunted by Emorie

Sharaf by Cast of Characters

Revenant by Clark Walker

Petalstone by Cody Martin

Turpentine by BRASKO

Unrelenting by Dakota Mack

Insidiously by Wicked Cinema

Leatherface by Wicked Cinema

Evil Intent by Kurtis Parks

Mind Over Matter by Chelsea McGough

The Curse of the Hourglass by Phillip Mount

The Evil Within by Dresden The Flamingo

A Most Sinister Kind by Dresden, The Flamingo


Additional musical compositions by Kory Hilpmann.


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