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I Was Never There

Episode 5: Yacht Babes

I Was Never There

Acast Creative Studios

True Crime, Drugs, Investigate, Crime, 80s, Mudd Farm, Bars, Marijuana, Society & Culture, Disappearance, West Virginia, Leisure, 70s, Counterculture, Marsha Ferber, Hippies, Commune

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In a swirl of partial truths and murky theories, Jamie and Karen find one person who believes he knows exactly what happened to Marsha. What Jamie and Karen find out sounds like a plot line from an action movie, not what they expected to hear about someone Karen considered a close friend. Did Marsha really just get in over her head? 

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I Was Never There is a Wonder Media Network production. It's hosted by Jamie Zelermyer and Karen Zelermyer. It's produced by Allie Wollner, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, and Liz Smith. It's edited by Jenny Kaplan and Liz Smith. Our executive producers are Jenny Kaplan, Jamie Zelermyer and Karen Zelermyer. Production assistance by Alesandra Tejeda. Our music supervisor is Sarah Tembeckjian. The theme music is "Take Me Home, Country Roads" performed by Brandi Carlile, courtesy of Elektra Records / A Low Country Sound, written by John Denver, Taffy Nivert, William Thomas Danoff.


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0:00.0

I read Marsha completely wrong.

0:07.0

She was absolutely playing us all.

0:10.0

I can't believe I miss it.

0:14.0

That's Marty Biafora.

0:17.0

His name came up in one of our interviews as someone who had information about Marcia.

0:23.1

He owned the bar before she bought it from him.

0:25.8

They were also both pot dealers in Morgantown in the 80s.

0:30.4

So, as we often do for this show, we cold called him.

0:35.6

That's when he told us something we hadn't heard.

0:38.8

Oh, I know exactly where she is and what happened to her.

0:41.7

Of course, she snitched on everybody.

0:44.2

Marco, Phil, the boys in Jersey, the hash connection, the whole old story.

0:50.0

Marsha, snitching.

0:52.9

She was selling pot, sure.

0:55.1

But as far as I knew, it wasn't that much.

0:58.2

What could she possibly have been doing that would turn her into a police informant?

1:03.2

It's just not who she was.

1:05.8

It merits a lot of shit, and it's still so hard for me to think that she could be a snitch.

1:14.5

Somehow it's just feels cold.

1:16.5

Yeah, I know.

1:16.6

You know, it's family.

1:18.6

Yeah.

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