166. The Death of Tanner Ward

05/18/22 • 49 min

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On a beautiful Midwestern June evening in 2017, nineteen-year-old Tanner Scott Ward told his mom, Lisa, he was headed out to see his friend, Jeremiah, and to fix him a plate for dinner because he’d only be gone about thirty minutes. He kissed his baby girl, Sophia, and left on foot with only the clothes on his back. It was the last time his family would see him alive.
Six month
s later Tanner's body would be found hanging from a tree not far from his home. Tanner's death is ruled a suicide but the Ward family vehemently rejects the ruling. Considering some of the conflicting reports, it’s easy to understand their frustration.
Join Cam and Jen as we discuss The Death of Tanner Ward.
Special thanks to
Edward October of OctoberPodVHS. Now available on YouTube and your favorite podcast app
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Sound & Editing by Nico Vettese of We Talk of Dreams
www.wetalkofdreams
Researched and Written by Lauretta Allen
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m64p27u79q4
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/215367751/tanner-ward
https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/hanging-body-of-missing-father-found-with-no-feet-840f2a9a55f6
https://medium.com/serial-napper/murder-or-suicide-the-story-of-the-life-and-death-of-tanner-ward-bd5b56b63ee
https://original.newsbreak.com/@crimeneversleeps-1590148/2400727603702-tanner-ward-was-it-suicide-or-murder
https://www.change.org/p/missing-and-endangered-northwest-missouri-and-surrounding-areas-get-justice-for-tanner-ward
https://www.facebook.com/MissingPiecesNetwork/posts/sadly-the-remains-of-tanner-ward-were-recovered-early-on-the-morning-of-monday-d/1754735148165989/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/pf3yfx/lets_talk_about_tanner_ward/
https://truecrimedaily.com/2018/03/01/mystery-in-missouri-what-happened-to-tanner-ward/
https://republican-times.com/2018/04/18/wards-death-is-ruled-a-suicide/
https://www.kttn.com/arrest-warrant-issued-for-tanner-ward-of-trenton/
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/mo-tanner-ward-19-trenton-7-june-2017.340371/page-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6nt4sBBqEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqumE0Y_VCY
https://ktvo.com/news/local/autopsy-performed-on-trenton-human-remains
https://republican-times.com/2018/04/18/wards-death-is-ruled-a-suicide/
https://republican-times.com/2017/06/19/where-is-tanner-ward-family-seeks-answers/
https://www.kttn.com/two-trenton-brothers-arrested-on-weapons-charge-after-saturday-incident/
https://weatherspark.com/y/10300/Average-Weather-in-Trenton-Missouri-United-States-Year-Round
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165. The Eyes Have It: Charles Albright

Today we are headed to the outskirts of Dallas to a seedy area known as Oak Cliff, where income is low, and crime is high. It is 1990, and gangs, drugs, and sex workers frequent the area. Crack was big, and people would do almost anything to get it, including selling themselves for enough money to get a hit of crack, and then the cycle would repeat itself. Officer Regina Smith is on duty on December 13, 1990, when a call comes in pertaining to a body. It was a sex worker by the name of Mary Pratt. Her body was found on a street laid out for all the world to see. Obviously, the killer was proud of his work and wanted everyone to see her. Mary was a drug-addicted sex worker with the track marks to prove it, but there was something different about this murder, and it was gruesome.
Join Jen and Cam of Our True Crime Podcast on this episode entitled ‘The Eyes Have It: Charles Albright.’
Listener discretion is by the fabu Edward October @octoberpodVHS
The show is EP by Nico @wetalkofdreams; he is the best.
Make sure to check out the podcast ‘It’s Murder Up North’ @murderupnorth
Listen to their promo during our show.
Sources:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/see-no-evil-3/
http://maamodt.asp.radford.edu/Psyc%20405/serial%20killers/Albright,%20Charles.htm
https://murderpedia.org/male.A/a/albright-charles.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20030206063654/http://www.hbo.com/autopsy/episode/episode_5_the_eyeball_killer.html
https://www.audacy.com/krld/articles/news/dallas-historys-notorious-killer-of-prostitutes-has-died
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fAkgAAAAIBAJ&dq=charles%20albright%20murder&pg=5313%2C5601569
https://www.oxygen.com/mark-of-a-killer/season-1/videos/mark-of-a-killer-an-eye-for-murder-season-1-episode-3
http://oakcliff.advocatemag.com/2013/08/investigation-discovery-show-spotlights-oak-cliff-serial-killer/
http://www.parkaman.com/charles-albright-eyeball-killer/
http://documents.latimes.com/charles-f-albright/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1214469/
https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/serial-killer-charles-albright-the-texas-eyeball-killer/
https://www.justiceclearinghouse.com/resource/enucleated-a-case-study-of-charles-albright-the-eyeball-killer/
https://documentaryheaven.com/born-kill-charles-albright/

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167. Dressed to Kill: Hadden Clark

We are headed to Cape Cod where the Montgomery County police just received a phone about a female body on the beach. When they arrive, they found a young woman on her stomach, both her arms reaching into the sand. She was topless and her back was severely sunburned. As they get a closer look, they realize both of her hands have been cut off and part of her face is missing. Police discover she has been out here for several days, with beach-goers simply thought she was sunbathing. The woman had no identification and the media dubbed her the ‘lady in the dunes’. Police try to chase leads but they are coming up empty-handed and the case goes cold. There would be more and the person responsible was someone that no one would recognize...not yet anyway.
Join Jen and Cam on this episode of ‘Our True Crime Podcast’ entitled Dressed to Kill: Hadden Clark.
Listener discretion is by the fabu Edward October @octoberpodVHS
Show is EP by Nico @wetalkofdreams, he is the best.
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