Phantasmal Crime 15 - Corpsewood Manor Murders

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

History, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

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🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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The true crime this episode features is a recent event dating back to just the 1980s. It is a crime that shook the small town of Summerville, Georgia. A gay couple lost their lives during the robbery of their home, Corpsewood Manor, which was located in an isolated area of the woods. The manor is just a ruin today due to a fire, but it attracts visitors of all kinds from teenagers looking for a party hangout to paranormal investigators. Stories of curses, Satanic worship and hauntings have been spawned by the Corpsewood Manor Murders.

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0:00.0	Troup crime can be strangely fascinating. This troup crime is odd, macabre, and haunted.
0:18.5	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to Fantasmo Crime.
0:30.0	The Troup crime, this episode features, is a recent event dating back to just the 1980s.
0:51.4	It's a crime that shook the small town of Somerville, Georgia. The gay couple lost their
0:56.4	lives during the robbery of their home, Corpse Wood Manor, which was located in an isolated
1:00.9	area of the woods. The manor is just a ruin today due to fires, but it attracts visitors
1:05.9	of all kinds from teenagers looking for a party hangout to paranormal investigators.
1:11.1	Stories of curses, satanic worship, and hauntings have been spawned by the Corpse Wood Manor murders.
1:27.3	Charles Lee Schutter was born in Wisconsin in 1926 to Charles and Eleanor Schutter. He studied
1:33.9	at Oberlin College in the 1940s and married Helen Hayslett. That marriage dissolved quickly
1:39.6	because Charles was struggling with his sexual orientation. He tried marriage again in the 1950s
1:45.9	with birthday bunting and they had four sons. The couple eventually separated. Charles began
1:52.6	studies at Loyoli University in Chicago and became an associate professor in pharmacology and was
1:58.3	associate director of the Mind Drugs and Behavior Institute. He was an eccentric guy who decorated
2:04.2	his Chicago home with Baroque furniture. He bought from a theater cell-off and he regularly died
2:09.8	his hair bold colors like purple. 1959, Charles hired Joseph Odom to help out with his kids and
2:16.8	housekeeping. Joseph Odom was born in Cook County in Chicago in 1938 to Conrad and Mary Odom.
2:24.8	Joey is everyone called him, had trouble in school, and got in trouble with a lawn a few occasions.
2:31.0	He quit school after the fifth grade. He was a good cook and enjoyed a simpler life,
2:36.0	free from technology. He rarely used electrical appliances and usually stored them with their
2:41.8	cords wound tightly around them. He preferred to cook over a wood stove. Joey was gay and moved
2:48.2	in with Charles in 1959 under the pretense of a cook and housekeeper, but the reality was that
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