Hey everyone. In the last episode I mentioned that Murder,

Etcetera is taking a very brief production break just to handle some of the

information that's been coming in since we started two months ago.

We're planning to pick up the story again on April 30th, but the break's a good opportunity to give you some

insight into some of the people who have been contributing

their voices to murder, etc.

I've had a lot of people ask me how Andy Etheridge and I came to know each other.

And if you've been listening to the first few episodes of this show, you know you've heard

Andy in a lot of them. That's not really how he or I planned this. It just sort of happened.

He's not a cop. He's not a criminal. He's not a cop, not a criminal, he's not a journalist. More than anything, he's a

citizen of Greenville, which I found made his voice a vital part of telling this

story. So I thought I'd let him tell you a little bit about himself.

He's a naturally curious guy who ended up letting his curiosity lead him right into the

middle of one of this community's most tragic stories.

Well my name is Andy Athridge. I've lived in Greenville's all six years old.

You know, work currently in the software industry, but you know bounce around I fulfilled my dream of being a railroad conductor and had a lot of downtime and that's when a lot of this took hold. I was sitting in I'd be sitting in hotel rooms in Atlanta, Georgia and I have nothing but a computer and a subscription to newspapers.com and what else do you do you know but spend all your time digging through newspaper articles but pretty much your

historian. I think is the phrase that I use whenever people would ask me,

hey, what are you doing with this? Why are you into this? I'm an amateur historian.

I'm my major in college, you know. I really just always loved a good story.

And I think that's what this is a story with a very sad part of it

I mean for the most part it's fascinating you're dealing with the Dixie mafia. Just massive corruption

and small town politics and everything else and then you just pause for a minute and you think,

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