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Hello everyone and welcome to episode 243 of the True Crime All the Time on Soft Podcast. I'm Mike Ferguson and with me as always is my partner in True Crime Mike Gibson. Give me how are you?

I'm doing good man, how about you? I'm doing real well. Good. You and I just finished up recording a brand new Patreon episode on both video and audio. It's Patreon episode number 40. Yeah.

Kind of hard to believe we've put that many of those out. Yeah, we also put out a lot of these too. So we put out a lot of stuff. But you know, 40 of those. So there's a lot of stuff on Patreon.

If you're not a Patreon supporter, now's a great time to sign up, check it out. Yeah, we got a big year coming up for Patreon. So it's a good time to get a board.

It is. We have some new ideas that we're working on for 2022. Exactly. It's going to be hard to say. Speaking of Patreon, let's give our shout outs. We had Julie. Hey, Julie. Sarah. What's going on Sarah?

Britannia Walker. What up Britannia? Holly Levitt. Hey, Holly. Mark Lemon. I appreciate that. Mark Tristan Fisher. Well, thank you Tristan. Jennifer Jolly. What's up, JJ?

Crystal Adams. Hey, Crystal. Sendle Morris. What's it going on? Sendle Jenna. Good old Jenna. Angela Bessette. Very famous Angela. No. Hannah Abshire. Hey, Hannah.

What's up, Sav? Stefania Sweet. SS Tanner. What's going on, Tanner? Aubrey Wood. Hey, Aubrey. Denita Key. Appreciate that, Denita. Theresa Fio. Hey, what's going on? Fio and Beth Marinavitch.

So there's a lot of great new support, Giz. We really appreciate it. We do. We have no vault this week because we have no T-cat. No. So we only do the vault when we have both episodes out. I don't want a short change anybody on the vault. They may listen to one and not the other. So we only do it when we have episodes on both. Well, they've been in the vault long enough. So it's not another week or two is not going to hurt them. There's not going to hurt them. They're still in there.

I mentioned that we just put out a Patreon episode last night. It's on Matthew Cheltbait. Yeah. It's an interesting case about, you know, a pretty young person. He was 21, right?

Kind of brought in an 18 year old into kind of this group. They were into some shady stuff. Yeah. And essentially they use this kid James for what he had his car, his bank account. And then when they were done with him, Matthew, you killed him. Yeah. It's a good case. It is. Yeah. It is. It's got some interesting facets to it. All right, buddy. Are you ready to get into this episode of True Crime all the time, months off?

And I am ready. We are talking about the Edge Cone County serial killer were headed to North Carolina from 2003 to 2009, 10 women and one man, all African American in their late 20s to their early 50s disappeared from the Edge Cone County area of North Carolina. They were Denise Williams, Melody Wiggins, Travis Harrison, Christine Boone, Jackie Thorpe,

Ernestine Battle, Yolanda Lancaster, Elizabeth Smallwood, Tara Nicholson, Jarni's Hargrove and Roberta Williams. That's a lot of people. That's a lot to go missing from, you know, essentially this area in a six year span. Yeah. Definitely race in my brows.

One by one, the bodies were found mostly along seven bridges road in Edge Cone County. This led the mystery killer to be called the Edge Cone County serial killer. You'll also see this case referred as the seven bridges serial killer after the 13 mile stretch and the surrounding area where he dumped some of his victims bodies.

And we've covered many unsolved and solve cases where the serial killer had two, three, even four names sometimes. Yeah, the media likes to get a little creative. We know that with naming conventions of serial killers of killers, the Edge Cone County serial killers victims generally came from similar backgrounds.

And we're living under similar circumstances at the time of their disappearances. Most of them had had run ends with the law were sex workers and had a history of drug dependency. Many of the victims had been stabbed beaten or strangled before the killer dumped their bodies.

However, the cause of death couldn't be identified for three of the victims, a possible 12th victim, Joyce Durham is believed to have been murdered by the Edge Cone killer as well. However, her body has never been found in 2009 DNA helped law enforcement find a suspect linked to one of the victims.

The investigators had hoped to connect the suspect to the rest of the murder victims. The suspect in question was eventually convicted of the murder of Tara Nicholson.

Unfortunately for prosecutors and the remaining victims families, investigators have been unable to charge the suspect with any of the other murders to date. So, you know, there's a big question here.

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