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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Welcome to Blood Trails, MeatEater's first venture into true crime. Follow our very own Jordan Sillars as he investigates an unsolved murder that took place over 20 years ago in the turkey woods of Virginia.
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0:00.0 | turkey season is here and it's time to break out those calls every serious turkey hunter knows every bird is a little different and you never know what will get them going you may need a trusty old box call light purrs from a pot call or maybe some sweet yelps from diaphragms to seal the deal on that old gobbler but sometimes the hardest part isn't calling them in. It's finding them in the first place. |
0:21.7 | That's where our locator calls come in. |
0:23.7 | From crow calls to Al Hooters, |
0:25.5 | we've got everything you need to get those shot gobbels out of those old Tom's |
0:29.2 | unwilling to give up their position. |
0:31.8 | Get fully geared up this season with the best tricky calls in the game. |
0:35.3 | Check out the full lineup at Phelpsgamecalls.com and make every call count. |
0:47.5 | In 2003, 44-year-old David Stack had everything a guy could want. |
0:52.5 | A loving family, a successful construction business, |
0:55.6 | and his own piece of wilderness, a sprawling 190 acres in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, |
1:02.6 | a place where he could disappear into the woods, hunt turkeys and deer, or just relax, |
1:08.1 | and enjoy the sounds of cicadas and cardinals. |
1:12.2 | It was a place he should have been safe. |
1:24.6 | David, his son Brian and his brother Jeff were excited to hunt turkeys on opening day |
1:29.6 | April 12th. They'd scouted the night before. They knew where the birds would be, and at 5.30 a.m. |
1:36.6 | They split up, each heading to their own pre-planned spots. |
1:42.1 | Then, a gunshot. |
1:47.5 | Jeff heard it first. |
1:49.1 | Too early, too close. |
1:50.8 | Something about it didn't feel right. |
1:54.1 | It was still dark. |
1:56.8 | I don't think it was legal shooting, and I heard a gunshot. |
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