S2 Ep57: Mountain Man

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History, True Crime

4.9 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1973, a Farmington, Michigan family set off on a month-long road trip out west. What was meant to be a time of adventure and family bonding instead became a nightmare when the youngest member of the family, a seven-year-old girl, was stolen out of her tent in the middle of the night. Over the next year, the family was taunted and tormented by anonymous calls purportedly from the kidnapper. But would the calls lead to answers in the unsolved case?

Case: David Mierhofer

Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Intro/Outro Edits: Ben Goldman

RESOURCES:
The FBI Files S5, E11 "Dark Woods"
newspapers.com
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0:00.0	This is a scream queen production.
0:13.0	I'm Jen Carpenter, and this is So Dead podcast.
0:17.7	Happy True Crime Tuesday, Deadheads.
0:20.4	And happy fall, guys. It's finally here, our favorite season. Halloween is coming. And as soon as I'm done recording this episode, I am going to go decorate for Halloween. Yes, at the beginning. It's the middle of September. I usually try to do it around
0:40.0	September first, but now that I've got the Festival of Oddities that first week of September,
0:44.7	it's probably going to always be mid-September before we get going. Anyway, you guys don't need to
0:49.7	know all that. Summer vacation is over. The kids are back in school, whatever that looks like this year.
0:58.7	My son's a senior, and he just started his senior year online, as I'm sure a lot of your
1:05.4	children are also doing online schooling this year. So that's new. Summer vacations, so those weren't really a thing this
1:15.2	year for a lot of us because of the whole, you know, pandemic going on. We've never really done
1:22.1	summer vacation in our house anyway. I always had to work. My husband always had to work. Three out of our four
1:28.7	kids played baseball growing up. So that just consumed all of our weekends every summer for many,
1:35.2	many years. You know, we try to do like a weekend away or maybe even just a beach day to Lake
1:41.1	Michigan, but nothing that I would call a vacation. Back in the day, though,
1:47.3	summer vacations were a whole thing. The family would pack up and hit the wide open road for
1:52.8	weeks, sometimes months at a time. They'd go up to the family cabin if they had one or on cross-country
1:59.9	adventures, and it was easier, you know, many,
2:02.8	many moons ago because mom was home anyways. Once the kids were done with school, dad would take a
2:09.0	couple weeks off or a month off during the summer, and everybody would just go. Such was the case with
2:15.2	the Yeager family of Farmington. Farmington is a suburb of Detroit that is
2:20.1	primarily inhabited by the families of Motor City's auto plants. Bill Yeager was a dye design
2:26.7	die design engineer. I don't know why that was hard for me to say. A dye design engineer at
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