Season 4 of Appalachian Mysteria will be a little different than our previous seasons.

We're asking you, the listeners, to suggest cases that you think are important to the

region. We'll be selecting stories that we think are a good fit, and crediting those

who bring our attention to them, each story will be at least one full episode in length.

What makes for a good story? Lots of things, some of which you hopefully already appreciate

on the show, twists and turns, aspects of the unexplained, and the less it's been reported

on, the more interesting it is, of course. If you've got an Appalachian mystery, send

it our way. We set up an email address just for you at mysterious suggestions at gmail.com.

That email address again is mysterious suggestions at gmail.com. Help us make season 4 awesome.

Season 4 of Appalachian Mysteria

Last time on Appalachian Mysteria, we heard the life story of Richard Mark Ivonets, ending

with the abduction of Cara Robinson from a front yard in Columbia, South Carolina. In this

episode, Cara details her escape. Ivonets meets his demise, and we have a serious conversation

about the ethics of true crime through the lens of survivor advocacy. From Chromatic

Media and Jamstreet Media, this is Appalachian Mysteria.

When we left off last episode, Cara had just awakened early in the morning, handcuffed

to Ivonets' bed. It could not have been much later than 6 or 7, and I saw just a little

bit of light coming around the edge of the curtains at the window, and he was asleep next

to me. I realized this was the point where he was the most complacent, and this was my

chance for escape. I began to try to unscrew the C clamp, the quick link that was connecting

my handcuffs to the rope, and I couldn't do it with my fingers, so I actually had to

get it to my teeth and unscrew it with my teeth, and then finish it with my fingers. Slid

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