Season 4 of Appalachian Mysteria will be a little different than our previous seasons.

We're asking you, the listeners, to suggest cases that you think are important to the

region. We'll be selecting stories that we think are a good fit, and crediting those

who bring our attention to them, each story will be at least one full episode in length.

What makes for a good story? Lots of things, some of which you hopefully already appreciate

on the show, twists and turns, aspects of the unexplained, and the less it's been reported

on, the more interesting it is, of course. If you've got an Appalachian mystery, send

it our way. We set up an email address just for you at mysterious suggestions at gmail.com.

That email address again is mysterious suggestions at gmail.com. Help us make season 4 awesome.

One with the episode. Previously on Appalachian Mysteria, the year is 1996. February, a man

in a dark color pickup tries to pull over more than 20 female drivers along Route 29. A

Filipino immigrant named Carmelie De Showmo escapes after the man turns violent. March,

Alicia Showalter Reynolds vanishes with the Route 29 stalker. May, Julian Lali are murdered

in Shenandoah National Park 30 miles away, and the body of Alicia Showalter Reynolds is

found near Lignum, Virginia. July, church organist, Thelma Scroggins, is shot to death in her

Lignum home. September, and McDaniel disappears, possibly while hitchhiking, and is found

four days later, again in the Lignum area, is fixated, burned, and dismembered. It's natural

to focus on this eight month time frame before the arrest of Darryl Rice, because there's

such a concentration of violent crimes against women in this relatively small region. But

real investigators of crimes like these often have to zoom out on the timeline and the

map, looking for similar crimes in the past. This is precisely why retired special agent

Tim Alley reminded us that when thinking about Julian Lali, it's impossible to ignore

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