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Listener discretion is advised. Welcome to True Crime Brewery. I'm Jill. And I'm Dick. So just outside of Columbus, Ohio,

and here we're going back to the early summer of 1929, so almost 100 years ago.

Two teenage boys set out to settle a friendly argument over who was the better shot.

The sky was clear after a night of rain, and the world was only months away from the Great Depression.

But that morning, in a field known to locals

as Shirtail Alley, the boys discovered something that would ignite one of the most scandalous

murder investigations in history at that point. So join us for Shirtail Alley. This is about

the murder of Theora Hicks. The body of Theora was there in the

tall grass, brutally beaten and unrecognizable. Within hours, she would be identified as a 24-year-old

medical student at Ohio State University. So as police scrambled for answers, a shocking truth emerged, exposing a web

of secret relationships, elicit rendezvous, and a killer no one would ever have suspected.

And this was recommended to us by Laura G. of Michigan. And my husband's here with a beer for us to drink, which is always nice. Yeah, I got a beer that's brewed in Columbus, actually. It's Buchenrach from Wolfs Ridge Brewing. It's a Rauk beer, which is smoked beer. I know you're not a big fan of smoked beers. I don't think I'm a big fan of smoked anything, to be honest. Okay. This is a pretty

nice one. It's a dark amber color, small tan head, nice aroma. You can smell smoke, some bread,

and interestingly, some bacon. But it's a vegan beer. Yes, it is. A taste of smoking bacon up front.

Some bread following that finishes with a nice caramel taste.

Very light in the mouth. And I liked it because it was obviously smoke. You could taste that, but it wasn't too

smoky. All right. So not overwhelming. Not at all. All right. Well, open it up. Yeah. Try it. me. I'll drink anything.

All right, down here to the quiet end, and we're going to go back in time.

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Back to 1929, Dickie.

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