Short Stories #2 (Tony Harrelson & Robert Pillsen-Rahier)
Unresolved
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In October of 2009, 46-year-old Tony Harrelson was shot and killed in Camp Hill, Alabama. A truck driver for the U.S. Postal Service, Tony is believed to have fallen prey to a gunman who had been robbing postal workers throughout eastern Alabama between 2008 and 2009.
In July of 1990, 15-year-old Robert Pillsen-Rahier would disappear while spending time at the Cheyenne Mesa Adolescent Treatment Facility in Colorado Springs. While investigators never found any evidence of foul-play, Robert's mother continues to believe that employees of the facility know more than they ever told police.
Episode researched, written, hosted, and produced by Micheal Whelan
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Michael. |
| 0:02.9 | Before we get started, I just want to let you know that we're going to be doing something |
| 0:06.5 | a little bit different on today's episode of Unresolved. |
| 0:09.9 | Instead of me telling one story, I'm going to be telling two separate unrelated stories, |
| 0:15.3 | which don't have a lot of available information out there about them. |
| 0:18.5 | I always try and highlight under-reported stories on this podcast, and this format will |
| 0:23.7 | allow me to do that even more by highlighting stories that haven't received much in the |
| 0:28.1 | way of coverage over the years. |
| 0:29.9 | First, you'll hear the story of a postal worker who was shot and killed while on duty |
| 0:34.5 | roughly 11 years ago. |
| 0:36.5 | And then after the break, you will learn about a young man that disappeared from a behavioral |
| 0:40.6 | treatment facility more than three decades ago. |
| 0:43.8 | Both have received very little coverage in the years since, and as always, remain unresolved. |
| 0:49.8 | Now here's today's episode. |
| 0:54.1 | The US Postal Service is an independent agency of the Executive Branch, which provides |
| 0:59.6 | postal service to every corner of the country, no matter how isolated or rural. |
| 1:04.9 | Despite being seen as one of the many extraneous services of government, the USPS is actually |
| 1:10.4 | one of the few governmental bodies laid out in the US Constitution. |
| 1:14.8 | With Article 1, Section 8, clause 7, the postal clause, laying out pretty clearly. |
| 1:21.0 | The postal service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal |
| 1:25.5 | services to bind the nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business |
| 1:31.2 | correspondence of the people. |
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