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. Last time on Appalachian Mysteria, Bill Thomas

shared the story of the murder of his sister Kathy Thomas and her girlfriend Rebecca

Dowski on Virginia's colonial parkway. That was 10 years before the death of Julie and

Lolly. Both were lesbian couples in a Virginia national park on a holiday weekend who'd

been restrained, their throats cut. We heard the story of con man Fred Atwell, who sometimes

seemed to genuinely care about finding the killer while also being willing to defraud

the victim's families. And finally Sarah and Bill pointed out that for a long time, authorities

have had suspicions about one of their own. Three or four days after Kathy died when two

agents from the Boston office came up to meet with my parents, they said, we believe that

your sister and Ms. Dowski were approached by an authority figure. They met somebody

in law enforcement or let's be fair, someone who presenting as law enforcement.

On this episode, Bill Thomas shares more on this theory and a former national park service

whistleblower details some of the lesser points of the federal agency sharing a story from

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