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The Horror House of the Cleveland Strangeler

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Our last episode of this month's theme is truly gut-wrenching. One of America's most notorious serial killers kept the bodies of his victims (mostly sex workers and women struggling with addiction issues) in his yard, basement, crawl space and third floor. The house was in filthy, terrifying conditions and that's where he took an unknown number of lives. And though the police had heard horror stories about Anthony Sowell before? They did nothing to stop it. TW/CW: SA, Violence
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Unseen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36zT65N6TKY

Vice: The Cleveland Strangler. https://youtu.be/WymiIAVczso
https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/39the-cleveland-strangler39-the-story-of-a-brutal-serial-killer-and-his-forgotten-victims/5627aef60318acf87853d72e

Oxygen: https://www.oxygen.com/snapped/crime-news/how-cleveland-strangler-anthony-sowell-was-caught

A&E True Crime Blog: https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/anthony-sowell-victims

Timeline of Events https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/anthony_sowell_timeline.html

SWAT Raid: https://www.nbc.com/living-with-a-serial-killer/video/a-swat-unit-raids-anthony-sowells-house/OXYN811461960

That Chapter: The Deadly Cleveland Strangler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS9E7Y88Quk

cleveland cold cases solved https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/the-read/articles/the-other-serial-killer

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42002990

victims: Vanessa Gay: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2021/02/theres-life-after-trauma-anthony-sowell-survivor-opens-up-about-the-struggles-of-being-a-victim-the-system-brushed-aside.html

Tishana clover

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/03/the_women_of_imperial_avenue_t.html

Lashanda Long

https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/03/the_women_of_imperial_avenue_l.html

The Imperial Eleven

https://theblacksheeptribune.home.blog/2019/12/06/the-imperial-eleven/

Part of the interrogation video

https://youtu.be/Favi4Dq

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During the month of December, we'll be playing episodes that were formerly only available to our patrons! These are our greatest hits and our patrons' gift to y'all! Merris Monday will still be new every week. Happy Holidays!
On August 17th, 1980, nine week old Azaria Chamberlain went missing in the Australian Outback. Her mother and father, Lindy and Michael Chamberlain had taken their three children camping. While Michael was grilling and talking to other campers, Lindy was getting her sons ready for bed. It was then she saw a dingo, an Australian wild dog, rummaging in the tent Azaria was in. When she frantically went to check, Azaria was gone and a few drops of blood remained. What happened next was a spectacle. It become one of Australia's most infamous murder cases. Lindy was convicted but that wasn't the end of the story. Did a Dingo really take the Chamberlains' baby girl?
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Specifically, the character James Patrick Marsh from Hotel and the Hotel itself! Just like our previous cases that have taken on a folklore tall tale type status, there's a lot of misinformation out there! Like, was HH Holmes Jack the Ripper (spoiler alert: NO). In this episode, Willow does a deep dive on "America's First Serial Killer" Herman Mudgett, more famously known as HH Holmes.

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https://youtu.be/UFSkNY-Nb-k

From mysteriouschicago.com

https://youtu.be/3Fg_QSbSeqs
victims list: https://mysteriouschicago.com/new-master-list-of-hh-holmes-victims/

https://www.salon.com/2017/07/29/the-white-city-devils-early-life-i-think-that-he-would-have-killed-her/

https://casocriminal.org/en/serial-killer/h-h-holmes-the-serial-killer-who-built-a-castle-to-kill-people/

https://allthatsinteresting.com/hh-holmes-hotel

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/h-h-holmes-tests-confirm-serial-killers-body-in-grave-124868/amp/http://martinhillortiz.blogspot.com/2016/03/the-twenty-seven-murders-of-henry-h_27.html
Wild Society: True Crime Podcast
H.H. Holmes + Lake Michigan Triangle https://www.buzzsprout.com/1358788/6211951
H.H. Holmes “own story” autobiography https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko5ayT9nHO8
Murder Hotel Documentaryhttps://tubitv.com/movies/521153/murder-hotel?start=true

UM Medical School Class of 1884 Holmes is #38 and Leacock is #73https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs1501/HS1501?chaperone=S-BHL-X-HS1501+HS1501;evl=full-image;quality=6;size=50;subview=detail;view=entry

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On May 3rd 2021, Susan Fast Eagle went missing in Rapid City South Dakota. There have been no leads and her case has gone cold. With few details to go on, Lissa Yellow Bird-Chase, an indigenous woman who searches for the missing took up her case. Join us as we discuss how and why so many indigenous women go missing and why their cases almost always go cold.
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If you have any information please call the Rapid City Police Department 605-394-4131

There is a 3,000 reward for information that will bring Susan home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25RSLxVCgnc

https://www.sdpb.org/blogs/news-and-information/the-search-for-susan-fast-eagle/

https://charleyproject.org/case/susan-lacee-fast-eagle

https://charleyproject.org/case/verdell-james-brown-bull

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btjau4nDAQ8

https://www.kxnet.com/remarkable-women/remarkable-woman-lissa-yellow-bird-chase-a-woman-devoting-her-life-to-searching-for-missing-murdered-people/

https://www.sahnishscouts.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahnish_Scouts

https://www.hcn.org/articles/tribal-affairs-the-woman-who-searches-for-indian-countrys-missing

Great book about Lissa: https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Bird-Murder-Justice-Country/dp/0399589155

Great podcast on Lissa:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/706/a-mess-to-be-reckoned-with

Sahnish Scouts on Facebook. There’s no donation link on the scouts website, so I would reach out to the facebook page if you want to donate so they can get equipment, pay for fliers and other support for the families of the missing.

https://www.facebook.com/ScoutsND

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Our file got corrupted for today's episode, but Producer Will is on it! It will be up this afternoon, but in the meantime, please enjoy this older episode that was released last year on our Patreon!
Nicholas Barclay, aged 13, went missing in June of 1994. His mother didn't alert police right away because Nicky was a rebellious child and often took off for a day or two. When three days passed, she finally called the police. Years would pass before any leads emerged and where those leads came from was a shock to everyone. Nicky was found. In Spain. Over three thousand miles away. Join us for this case where nothing is as it seems and everything you think you know is wrong.
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