This podcast contains graphic descriptions of death and decay.

Please listen with care. Wail.

Camp site Media. Walker County, Georgia and Noble, they're places where people and families are

entangled, where if a store closes, your neighbor might be the one to reopen it,

where your high school teacher knows you before you actually sit at a desk in their classroom,

because they also taught your parents and your cousins.

So imagine how it was when the bodies were just going to... your parents and your cousins.

So imagine how it was when the bodies were discovered

at tri-state crematory.

It must have been impossible for the families

to go to the grocery store or the bank

or the dairy-dipped diner without someone asking them how they were doing

and reminding them again about the horrible thing that had happened. But some families,

the lucky ones, do eventually get some relief.

Like Sheila Manus, the independent loyal wife of Ira Manus,

who died in August 2000.

Sheila loved her husband so much that she unwrapped her she kisses for him before his hunting trips.

In September 2002, seven months after the bodies were discovered,

Sheila learns that Ira's body has been found.

I was just laughing and I was just so glad that they had found him because I had no idea of what I would have done if I had not got a body, you know?

I couldn't have lived with that, I don't think.

You had immediate elation.

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