Episode 24 - Wayne Garrison

Wayne Garrison mutilated, drugged and murdered several children in the 70s-90s, with a certain fondness for severing penises.

Stephen Morin raped, tortured, and murdered his way across the United States in the 70's and 80s, sometimes holding his victims captive for weeks. Successfully convicted of four murders, this obscure American serial killer is thought to have possibly killed upwards of 30 people by the time he was in his thirties.

On an October night in 2006, 28 year old Zack Bowen jumps off the side of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel. Inside the man's pocket, they find a note addressed to them.

Peter Connelly was a seventeen month old boy living in London, when he sustained over fifty injuries at the hands of his mother Tracey Connelly, and her boyfriend Steven Barker. From 2006-2007 Peter Connelly visited the hospital several times for his numerous injuries, but still slipped through the cracks of Haringey child services.

**Includes update to Episode 2** Just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2010, a mentally disabled woman was found deceased and tortured, stuffed head-first into a trash can, shoved under a work truck in the parking lot of a Middle School. Six people were involved in the homicide, and some one them met each other, as well as the victim, only four days prior to the death of Jennifer Daugherty.

In late September of 2006, 53 year old Duane Morrison walked into Platte Canyon High School with two loaded weapons, and a backpack. Morrison would go on to hold several students hostage in an English class, while sexually assaulting seven victims during the crisis. Morrison had no known connection to the school or students, and no clear motive was ever discovered for the senseless tragedy.

Four United States Army soldiers were charged in the murders of several unarmed Afghan men from 2009-2010 in the Afghanistan War. This episode details what is known about the backgrounds of each soldier, and how these murders got carried out and hidden until one whistleblower came forward.  The Rolling Stone published leaked, explicit photos from these crimes. https://rol.st/2uxe2iR

This episode looks at a different type of true crime, as two firework-related tragedies are explored. The Scottown Fire in 1996 claimed nine lives, while the Paterson tenement fire of 1901 killed seventeen people.

This episode covers the most five recent murder cases on the Appalachian Trail. This case spans from 1990-2011, and exploring the circumstances of seven deaths . Three of these recent murders still remain unsolved today.

While statistically fairly safe and a lovely place to hike, Part 1 of the Appalachian Trail covers the earliest four convicted murderers who chose their victims on the Appalachian Trail.