HeyJaredBlue Ridge True Crime
Appalachian true crime stories and history, examining crimes and stories from the notorious to the obscure, from frontier times to modern-day mysteries.
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Conn Man: The $550 Million Social Security Heist (opens the original)
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For nearly two decades, Eric C. Conn ran what federal prosecutors would later call a “$550 million Social Security heist,” a scheme that defrauded the government, devastated thousands of vulnerable clients, and made Conn one of the most notorious legal figures in Appalachian history.His story ended, as these stories often do, in a Pizza Hut in Honduras.Prefer to listen? This story is also a podcast episode. Just click this link.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="
Hit Man: A Blueprint for Murder (opens the original)
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False Sunset: Death at a Blue Ridge Parkway Overlook (opens the original)
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On the evening of October 17, 1988, James and Helen Gibbs and their friend Susan Haire left their five children at the Skyline Motel in Spruce Pine. They drove to the Chestoa View Overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway to take photos. What happened there would change all their lives forever.Sometime after 7:00 pm, tourists Mike Mallory of Decatur, IL, and James Manning of Indianapolis, IN, stopped at the overlook. There was a truck in the parking lot.It was already dark. They grabbed a flashlight an
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