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The Casual Criminalist

The Greenbrier Ghost: The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

A ghostly wife returns from the grave to accuse her husband of murder—sparking the only U.S. case where a spirit helped convict a killer. Was justice served… or conjured? Sponsors:Shopify: ⁠shopify.com/casual⁠ - start your $1 per month trial periodRocket Money: Download the Rocket Money app today and tell them you heard about them from my show! (Note: Although the introduction may suggest otherwise, this is an episode of The Casual Criminalist, not Decoding the Unknown) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.

0:04.0

Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.

0:08.0

Tea break.

0:09.0

Lunch break.

0:10.0

Maybe listen to the outbreak.

0:12.0

Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?

0:15.0

It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time. Go on some other time put your phone down tombollah open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware dot org

0:29.3

you know when you're listening to a true crime story that has an unbelievable plot twist that makes you stop in your tracks that's what what our podcast, People Are the Worst, brings you with each episode.

0:39.9

I'm Rachel.

0:40.7

And I'm Rebecca.

0:41.6

We're identical twins who love true crime cases that make you say, didn't see that coming,

0:45.4

and we hate the people responsible for them.

0:47.9

Listen to People Are the Worst now on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:57.0

Hello, everybody.

0:57.7

Welcome back to another episode of Decoding the Unknown.

1:00.0

Another episode of Decoding the Unknown.

1:04.3

With me, your host, Simon, the script today, the Green Briar Ghost, the woman who sold

1:08.5

her own murder, ooh, spicy, is written by Danny. Thank you so much, Danny the former of the show. I've never read it before. We're going to explore this greenbri Cemetery in Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier County, West Virginia.

1:34.6

West Virginia!

1:37.1

That's the only thing I know about West Virginia.

1:38.8

It bears the name of Zona Heister Shoe, who apparently lived a short life between 1876 and 1897. That is short.

1:47.0

That's sad, 21 years old. But another name appears in the quotation marks in the middle of the

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