From January 1, 1976 through the end of March, 1977, the Maturity Trade Area was the site of nine child murders.

Three of those cases are resolved, but the other six cases remain open, with most of these deaths attributed to the as-yet-unidentified Oakland County child killer.

Don't talk to strangers as a long-form podcast focused on this series of unresolved child murders.

Join us as we explore the stories of these young victims, the impact on their families and the community, and what happened to the investigation into these crimes.

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Southern Fried true crime covers cases that are not suitable for young listeners, and there may also be some explicit language used.

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The famous quote, well-behaved women seldom make history, is often attributed to the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt or other noted figures.

But it was actually written by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich in 1976.

That was two years after the death of a thalya pawn cell lensley, a woman who took St. Augustine Florida by storm a few years earlier.

A beautiful and interesting woman, a thalya moved from Jacksonville to St. Augustine with her ailing mother seeking a new place to settle, and one where she had fond childhood memories.

She soon found that though she might be old money, she wasn't St. Augustine old money, and that made her an outsider from the beginning.

She has been called a shrew, as well as a washed up husband, and many other demeaning, agist and sexist names over the years.

But she was actually quite intellectual and a feminist, though a conservative.

She was also a socialite and politically ambitious, but she would not suffer fools quietly.

As her widower put it, she simply had more courage than discretion.

It was that outspoken courage that would lead to her brutal murder and broad daylight on the front porch of her home.

She was hacked to death and nearly decapitated with a machete, and it was her reputation in St. Augustine, as well as the city's affection for her murderer that would lead to the unimagine.

She would lead to the unimaginable miscarriage of justice that set him free.

Welcome to Episode 33, an inconvenient woman, the murder of Athalia Poncelle Linsley.

Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, St. Augustine is the oldest European established settlement that has been continuously inhabited in the continental United States.

It was 20 years before Ronaque was established in Virginia, 42 years before Jamestown, and 55 years before the Pilgrims established what is known as America's hometown in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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