#123 - The Tragedies of Frank and Viola

Shaken and Disturbed

John Thrasher and Daryn Carp

News, Improv, News Commentary, Comedy, True Crime

4.6 • 549 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Viola Manville, a 74-year-old woman, was brutally attacked and killed during her walk in 1988. Frank Sterling, despite having an alibi, confessed to the crime after a lengthy interrogation. He spent almost two decades in prison until DNA evidence pointed to another suspect.

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0:00.0	I'm I'm not going to be. I Disturbed everyone.
0:30.7	We're working out.
0:31.6	We're doing our aerobics and our exercise.
0:34.8	But welcome to shake it and disturbed to everyone.
0:36.8	I am Darren Karp here with my lovely co-host,
0:39.4	John Thrashor. How you doing, Johnny Boy? Oh, I'm well. I will say that little, if you're watching
0:44.2	us on our video podcast as a sussy radish on Patreon, which if you're not, you need to sign up in the show
0:50.4	notes, you know, we're doing like a fun little jazz or size.
0:55.0	And I will say it kind of felt nice because, you know, we've both been sitting here
0:59.4	podcasting for the last hour.
1:01.8	And we recorded a couple shows, you guys.
1:04.2	And yeah, feels good to get the blood flowing before we start today's episode.
1:08.0	It feels good to get the blood flowing.
1:08.4	I'm in a new, I'm having nice, I'm not backlit, I'm getting the full window view right now. So those who are watching on Patreon, welcome to my guest bedroom. I really, this is where John, this is John's room right here. That's right. This is where I stayed. If you listen to, the Patreon NMR episode that just went up recently, you know,
1:29.9	I described that that's where I slept when I stayed there. And that bed is pretty comfortable,
1:34.8	Darren, behind you to your right there. That's right. That's right. Well, I want to get right
1:39.6	into this week's case because I know you guys come here to listen to some murder stories. But
1:43.9	I wanted to remind you for those who don't listen to NMR that John and I will be covering
1:49.0	the curious case of Natalia Grace either next week, depending on if John can fucking get his act
1:55.4	together and watch the full six episodes, which lets be frank, if you've been listening to us for
1:58.8	the past five or six years, we could be delivering this in eight months. I don't know. This is, this is well wishes. This is like, I don't even know. I think I can make it happen, though. I think you can make it happen. It's on max right now, six episodes. I highly encourage everyone to watch it because I would really like this to be a discussion in some sort of way.
2:18.1	And I think that that, I think it kind of requires that because there's so many questions.
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