Carol Blades
Crimelines® True Crime
Crimelines True Crime
4.5 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In December 1969, Carol Blades left her home to go to the laundromat in Nixa, Missouri. She never returned. The local sheriff insisted she ran off with another man, but her husband and parents wouldn't accept that answer. As the 50 year anniversary approaches without justice, many wonder if the sheriff's snap judgment closed the case before it was ever properly investigated.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the October Premium episode for crime lines. |
| 0:15.6 | I want to thank you guys so much for your support, whether you're hearing this on Himalaya |
| 0:19.7 | Plus or on Patreon. |
| 0:22.5 | I am recording this as I wait for my morning coffee to kick in, so let's go ahead and get |
| 0:28.6 | started. |
| 0:29.6 | This month's bonus episode is on the disappearance and murder of Carol Blades from the small town |
| 0:36.7 | of Nyxah, Missouri. |
| 0:39.1 | Nyxah is located in Christian County and it is due south of Springfield's Missouri, so |
| 0:45.6 | we're talking about the same area that the Springfield 3 went missing in. |
| 0:52.0 | Nyxah's best known as the birthplace of Jason Bourne, the utterly fictional character |
| 0:58.4 | in the Bourne movies and books. |
| 1:00.9 | In spite of this rather exciting usage in a book, it's actually just a very standard Midwest |
| 1:08.1 | small town. |
| 1:09.5 | It's a nice town, it's really pretty, it's got its rough side though. |
| 1:15.7 | And in 1969, the time we're talking about the population was around 1600 people. |
| 1:22.2 | A 20 year old man named Larry Blades was working alongside, someone named Louis Horan in |
| 1:29.5 | 1966. |
| 1:31.3 | Louis was married to Geraldine and had three children. |
| 1:34.8 | One of those children was a 17 year old daughter named Carol. |
| 1:39.7 | One day in October 1966, the daughter Carol called Larry and asked him if he would take |
| 1:46.4 | her out to her school play. |
| 1:49.4 | This was a bold move for Carol who was really rather shy and reserved. |
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