Episode 3: “The Skull in the Creek Bed:”
Paper Ghosts: The Ozarks
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
As the 1989 holiday season looms, Dana Stidham’s body is discovered by a local hunter in a Bella Vista creek bed. Law enforcement shifts its focus from missing person to murder… and begins to zero in on a suspect after he is arrested for a bizarre theft. Phelps’s contemporary, real-time investigation branches out and he questions whether the evidence against the chief suspect supports law enforcement’s push to arrest him – and whether Dana’s case is part of a more widespread series of murders by a serial killer targeting victims throughout the Ozarks during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
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| 0:00.0 | 47 years ago on a warm summer night in Melbourne, Susan Bartlett and Suzanne Armstrong |
| 0:05.8 | were stabbed to death in their home in Easy Street, Collingwood. |
| 0:09.5 | Suzanne's 16-month-old son was asleep in his cot at the time. |
| 0:14.0 | The double homicide left the community shocked. |
| 0:16.6 | No one has ever been charged, and critical questions remain unanswered. |
| 0:21.4 | Listen to Case File presents the Easy Street Murders on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:27.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:29.2 | Hi everyone, I'm Paul Anker. And I'm skip Bronson and what happens when two old friends take their decades of experience in the business and entertainment roles and sit down with our buddies. You get Our Way, a brand new show from My Heart |
| 0:45.6 | podcast where we chop it up with our palace about everything under the sun. |
| 0:49.0 | This is our podcast and we're going to do it our way. |
| 0:53.6 | Listen to our way on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:00.6 | On our new podcast, True Crimes of John Indiana, returning our online |
| 1:04.2 | investigative skills to some of the most unexplained, unsolved, and most ignored |
| 1:08.6 | cases. Police say 33-year-old was shot dead. Gunned down in front of his two-year-old daughter. It was at 33 year old d' |
| 1:20.6 | old daughter. |
| 1:14.4 | It was a targeted attack. |
| 1:16.0 | It appears to be an execution style of assassination. |
| 1:19.0 | This is very active, so we have to be careful. |
| 1:21.6 | Listen to two crimes with John Indiana every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app or wherever you get your |
| 1:27.6 | podcast. I've been interviewing the families of murder victims since 1999. It's one of the most profound and personal aspects of my job |
| 1:46.7 | because, well, I'm one of them. In 1996, my brother's wife five months pregnant was strangled to death. |
| 1:57.0 | Her case remains unsolved. |
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