Leaning Toward Allegorical Meaning & Other Great Reasons to Prevent a Brain-Dead Jury from Assessing the Psychology of Story: Alex Stevens and Megan Shaffer

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🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 266 minutes

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On the evening of January 3, 2017, 24-year-old Alex Stevens and 20-year-old Megan Shaffer ventured to High Rock overlook in Western Maryland accompanied by multiple animals, where they abandoned their cars, hiked a mile up a dark trail in the freezing cold, and held a strange ritual in the nude near the edge of a cliff. As the hours passed, and nobody heard from them, a friend became concerned enough that he drove to their location to check on them. But they were nowhere to be found. By the next morning, one of them will call 911 for help, and the other will be dead. Join host Ryan Kraus for another trip down the rabbit hole to assess the psychology lurking within this fascinating mystery.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host
0:09.3	Ryan Kraus coming at you once again to explore the very strange almost inexplicable case of
0:15.1	24-year-old Alex Stevens and 20-year-old Megan Schaefer. On the night of
0:20.3	January 3rd, 2017, the young pair engaged in some sort of ritualistic ceremony
0:26.5	that included a bizarre suicide attempt.
0:29.5	And by the end, one of them was dead. Yet while a jury decided that the death in question was
0:35.2	murder and not suicide, we still have no answers about what really happened that
0:40.6	night. It remains a mystery. Now at the time of the incident
0:45.3	Alexander Stevens and Megan Schaver have reportedly known each other for about three
0:49.3	months during which time it's claimed they had sex a few times but were not a couple when the death occurred.
0:55.6	What I mean is that this event wasn't driven by a bond of love.
1:00.0	So why did this happen?
1:02.0	Let's examine the psychology of that night, January 3rd, 2017, into the next morning when the surviving party is rescued.
1:11.0	I'll provide background info on the players as we move through the timeline.
1:15.0	There's so much about this story we can never know for sure, but I think we'll extract many vital elements along the way.
1:22.0	Now, the location in question is a place called
1:25.2	High Rock Overlook in Western Maryland which offers stunning views of the
1:29.6	forestry along the state's borders with Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
1:33.0	It's a popular place for hikers and other tourists to the area,
1:37.0	accessible by a one mile walk from the trailhead
1:40.0	where you can park your car.
1:41.0	Now, while the overlook itself is purged far above all of this
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