SC EP:679 The Murderers Creek Incident

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🗓️ 9 August 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Murderer’s Creek, Oregon was named in the 1860s, or so the story goes, after a party of eight prospectors who were exploring its banks were murdered. On tonight's show a group of hunters have a couple of run ins with a creature who has been watching them.

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0:00.0	Oregon was officially admitted to the Union as a state on February 14th, 1859.
0:16.5	Since 54 years earlier, Lewis and Clark had made their way through the Oregon territory.
0:33.5	For many years there had been a flood of settlers coming to Oregon, be the Oregon Trail, but
0:39.9	now officially becoming a state, more and more people were making their way to Oregon.
0:46.9	Most of the people coming to Oregon were looking for a better life, but with an influx of people,
0:53.9	you also get murders, thieves, and your average scumbag.
1:01.9	On February 8th, 1862, Andrew Pate and George Lamb made their way up the banks of what was called back then Fisher's Creek,
1:14.9	also known as Palkree by the nearby settlers.
1:19.9	Andrew Pate and George Lamb have been writing for most of the day.
1:26.9	Andrew had a hidden agenda. He thought George Lamb had $100 on him.
1:32.9	That's equivalent to about $2,500 today. As the men made their way up the creek, they stopped.
1:39.9	George dismounted from his horse and Andrew murdered him.
1:46.9	After killing George, Andrew took George's body and threw it in the creek.
1:52.9	George didn't have the $100 on him.
1:57.9	Andrew was later captured. The locals were outraged.
2:04.9	They wanted justice.
2:11.9	Andrew would later be tried, sentenced, and hung.
2:18.9	He would be the first man to be hanged in Lin County.
2:27.9	Not even one year later, eight prospectors who were exploring the banks of the stream were found murdered.
2:37.9	The prospectors had set up camp by the stream. They had gone to bed with their heads close under the high Rim Rock.
2:48.9	A band of Native American warriors had found the prospectors.
2:53.9	Not happy with their new neighbors. The Native Americans threw rocks and forced large boulders to fall onto the prospectors while they slept.
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