Joan Ann Charlton was the first of her family to attend college. Three weeks into her freshman year at Frostburg State University, she was brutally murdered in the campus arboretum. This episode tracks three generations of college students, from 1980s Frostburg to current-day Morgantown, each story centering around the memory of one 19-year-old woman who seems perpetually on the cusp of being forgotten. But it’s also about how Appalachian college students are laying entirely new ...
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Joan Ann Charlton was the first of her family to attend college. Three weeks into her freshman year at Frostburg State University, she was brutally murdered in the campus arboretum. This episode tracks three generations of college students, from 1980s Frostburg to current-day Morgantown, each story centering around the memory of one 19-year-old woman who seems perpetually on the cusp of being forgotten. But it’s also about how Appalachian college students are laying entirely new ...
The Sunnyside Rapist, Part 1 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep5
Appalachian Mysteria
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The Sunnyside Rapist, Part 1 | Season 4: Listener Suggestions, Ep5
Fifteen years after the events of Season 1 (The WVU Coed Murders), Morgantown women are faced with a new predator: a rapist so meticulous and organized that he vanishes through police checkpoints and neighborhood lockdowns every summer. In the first of this two part series, we speak with two women who met the Sunnyside rapist face-to-face at both ends of his 10-year crime spree. Geoff Fuller (season 1) returns to help set the scene for a trial that will become studied internationally. S...
Appalachian Mysteria
Joan Ann Charlton was the first of her family to attend college. Three weeks into her freshman year at Frostburg State University, she was brutally murdered in the campus arboretum. This episode tracks three generations of college students, from 1980s Frostburg to current-day Morgantown, each story centering around the memory of one 19-year-old woman who seems perpetually on the cusp of being forgotten. But it’s also about how Appalachian college students are laying entirely new ...
