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Shaker Heights - Episode 1: A Scream in the Night

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🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Shaker Heights - Episode 1: A Scream in the Night www.TrueCrimeGarage.com In the early morning hours of Friday, September 14, 1990, 16 year old Lisa Pruett was stabbed to death in Shaker Heights. This is a 6 part true crime series. The bulk of the sto...

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0:30.0

Welcome to Shaker Heights, episode one, a scream in the night.

0:38.8

On the east side of Cleveland, there's a quaint little town called Shaker Heights.

0:44.8

It's a planned community, originally designed by the Van Swarajan brothers, two eccentric

0:50.3

railroad tycoons over a hundred years ago.

0:54.9

They built grand mansions and gardens, and in the middle of the town is around about,

1:00.8

with a classic movie theater and coffee shop.

1:04.8

Today, Shaker Heights is an odd mix of upper-class blue bloods and severely poor, multi-generational

1:12.3

families of immigrants who live on the edge of town where the big city encroaches.

1:21.6

Nowhere else in Greater Cleveland is the racial and economic disparity of the region so

1:27.5

apparent.

1:30.2

Shaker Heights is the best and worst of everything we have to offer.

1:36.3

But in its heart, Shaker Heights is still a small town.

1:41.6

It's a small town with a small police department used to small town problems.

1:47.6

On September 14, 1990, the murder of a young woman tore this town apart.

1:56.3

This podcast revisits the murder of 16-year-old Lisa Proud, who was stabbed 21 times and left

2:03.8

for dead, behind a mansion at the corner of Lee and South Woodland.

2:10.2

We present to you the mystery, as it transpired from the point of view of the detectives,

2:15.8

who worked the case.

2:18.2

Each episode presents reenactments of conversations between witnesses and detectives that have

2:24.3

been taken verbatim from official court documents.

2:28.6

A classmate of Lisa's, a young man named Kevin Young, was ultimately charged with her murder,

2:34.7

but was acquitted by a jury of his peers.

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