The Dark Web, A Death Wish & Consensual Homicide
They Walk Among America - US True Crime
Fitton Benjamin
4.1 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of They Walk Among America… October 13, 1996. Maryland native Sharon Lopatka tells her husband she is going to visit friends in Georgia for the week. Instead, she boards an Amtrak train in Baltimore, with what one can only assume is a one-way ticket, bound for Charlotte. 12 days later, her bound body would be found buried under 2 and a half feet of soil. What transpired over the course of the investigation would expose the taboo underground world of a dark web, filled with sex, torture, bondage and a death wish…
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‘They Walk Among America’ is a Law & Crime podcast network production.
This episode was researched and written by Kelly McLear. Editing by Brad Maybe.
Script editing, additional writing, illustrations and production direction by Rosanna Fitton
Narration, narration editing, and production direction by Benjamin Fitton
Thank you to Jillian Jalali and Charles Walters for their voice work on this episode.
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Insidiously by Wicked Cinema
Moonbeam by Falls
Siege By Hill
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this. Static cars, idling engines, angry horns. |
| 0:08.6 | Now, picture you, zooming past it all. |
| 0:13.8 | Light and breezy. |
| 0:16.2 | Ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
| 0:20.8 | Book your train journey via avantiwestcoastcoast.com.com. |
| 0:25.1 | Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. |
| 0:30.3 | You might want to step back from your speaker or remove your headphones. |
| 0:34.2 | Yes! I can't. I just can't believe it. |
| 0:38.2 | Marks found out his 11.4 million pounds on Lotto. |
| 0:42.3 | This is just... |
| 0:44.0 | I don't... |
| 0:44.6 | You know what? |
| 0:46.9 | I've got tears in my eyes. |
| 0:50.5 | Yep, that's 11.4 million. |
| 0:53.4 | Lotto. |
| 0:55.7 | Will you be the next millionaire? |
| 0:58.4 | The National Lottery. Rules and procedures apply. |
| 1:00.0 | Players must be 18 or over. |
| 1:02.0 | This is a message from ACAS. |
| 1:06.4 | This is an urgent appeal from the Disasters Emergency Committee. |
| 1:09.1 | Conflict in the Middle East is devastating lives. |
| 1:12.6 | Millions of people urgently need food, shelter and medical care. |
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