It Felt Like The World Exploded

Appalachian Mysteria

Jam Street Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

A massive hunt for Julie & Lollie's killer begins. Some demand a hate crime investigation, drawing parallels to the attack of another lesbian couple hiking the Appalachian Trail. A lesbian defense lawyer finds herself arguing for the prosecution. Resources and links: "Panic Defense" — Podcast episode from Criminal with Phoebe Judge explaining the fascinating history of the gay/trans panic defense. "In the Hollow" — 15-minute documentary/short film featuring Claudia Brenner returning to the scene of Rebecca Wight's murder for the first time in decades. Supplemented with scene reenactments. The Claudia Brenner Papers — Tons of resources on the Brenner/Wight story from the Cornell University Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Interviewees: Abbe Smith — Director of the Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic, Co-Director of the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship Program, and Professor of Law at Georgetown University. (Importantly for our story, she was also the personal lawyer for Claudia Brenner during the prosecution of Stephen Roy Carr.) 3:25 – New evidence on Lollie & Julie case 13:00 – Steven Roy Carr’s arrest 16:30 – Claudia Brenner explains the encounter with Steven Roy Carr 21:00 – Abby Smith: personal lawyer of Claudia Brenner 26:40 – Trial in court Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Last time on Appalachian Mysteria, a Canadian bicyclist named Ivan Maubaasha is attacked
0:09.2	by a Virginia man named Darryl Rice in Shenandoah National Park in 1997.
0:15.9	As he's being taken to jail, he asks whether authorities have apprehended the murderer
0:20.6	of Julie Williams and Lolly Wynan's.
0:23.7	NPS agents search for Julie and Lolly, eventually finding their bodies at a backcountry campsite,
0:29.9	as the girl's sexuality becomes a primary focus for the media.
0:34.4	Barry Yomin writes the only substantial article detailing the personal lives of Julie and Lolly
0:40.2	for Out Magazine.
0:42.1	On this episode, Tim Alley takes us back to the crime scene, where one piece of evidence
0:47.0	reveals the disappearance of another.
0:49.7	We also explore another murder along the Appalachian Trail and explain why it prompted gay and lesbian
0:55.3	advocacy groups to begin calling for Julie and Lolly's murder to be investigated as a hate
1:00.6	crime.
1:01.6	And finally, the death of the couple starts to seem like just a single part of a much
1:06.0	wider series of murders and abductions in the region.
1:09.7	From Chromatic Media and Jamstreet Media, this is Appalachian Mysteria.
1:39.7	Shenandoah National Park, 1996.
1:51.2	Tim Alley receives word that two national park rangers have just discovered Julie and
1:55.8	Lolly's campsite, where they've been tied up and gagged with duct tape, their throats
2:00.4	cut.
2:01.4	The trail itself is not one of those trails that's very well marked, there's nothing, there's
2:07.4	no waterfall, there's no features there.
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