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309. [VIRGINIA] The Red Sleeping Bag || The Murder of Emma Compton

Big Mad True Crime

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True Crime

4.75.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Emma Compton was a smart, independent woman, who earned her way to adoration and success. But when she didn’t show up to visit her mom in the hospital…her family knew…something was wrong. Contributing Writing & Research: The Queen of All Things Haley Gray  For information pertaining to this case, check out the highlight at the top of my profile at Instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley.  Sponsors: Get your Alloy prescription today. Visit Myalloy.com/bigmad⁠  today for $20 off your first order! ⁠Joinbilt.com/bigmad⁠ - Make sure to use our URL so they know we sent you. Start earning points on your rent payment today! Gabb.com/bigmad ⁠- Protecting your kids has never been easier. For the best deals, sign up to Gabb today –no contract required. Curehydration.com/bigmad - Use code BIGMAD for 20% off your first order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime, where we get Big Mad over True Crime.

0:36.5

I'm your host Heather Ashley, and today's case is out

0:39.4

of Halifax County, Virginia. Small Winona, and a brother named Taza.

1:09.4

Emma and Shana were actually born on the same day just three

1:12.7

years apart, so they called themselves the birthday twins. Those two were absolutely inseparable

1:19.0

and spent as much time together as humanly possible. I'm talking playing games and just imagining

1:25.6

what life was going to look like when they were grownups.

1:28.8

Shawna actually told me that their big plans for the future that they would share with each other

1:33.2

were buying houses next door to each other with this zip line in between them

1:38.0

and a slide that would start at one of their bedroom windows and end in a pool.

1:42.9

It was the kind of childhood dreams that only two

1:45.7

best friend's sisters could come up with. Shana adored everything about Emma. She said that Emma was

1:53.1

a bundle of energy, always laughing and smiling. She called her a caretaker, I mean, someone who would

1:59.2

put band-aids on her emotional boo-boos, as she said.

2:03.2

And in an interview with 13 News, Shana said, she may as well have been the big sister.

2:08.8

She kept me in line.

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