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🗓️ 11 February 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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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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