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Appalachian Mysteria

Trailed

Appalachian Mysteria

Jam Street Media

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As Appalachian Mysteria finished covering the story of Julie and Lollie, author Kathryn Miles completed her own book about the murders. In this episode, Kathryn uses her total access to Dierdre Enright's evidence to bring to light new information — including how we've been wrong about a key piece of evidence. Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders — Purchase Kathryn’s book here. Interviewees: Kathryn Miles — Kathryn Miles is an award-winning journalist and science writer. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and took both her Master of Arts and Doctorate in English from the University of Delaware. Miles is the author of five books: Adventures with Ari, All Standing, Superstorm, Quakeland, and Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders. Her essays and articles have appeared in publications including Audubon, Best American Essays, The Boston Globe, Down East, Ecotone, History, The New York Times, Outside, Pacific Standard, Politico, Popular Mechanics, and Time. Thank you to our sponsor Killer Pysche Podcast!

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0:00.0

Asira and I began working on Outlandish over a year ago.

0:04.1

A New York-based author named Catherine Miles was signing a deal for her new book, The

0:09.5

Title Trailed, One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders.

0:14.4

It wasn't published yet, but we had heard about it, and even contacted Catherine about appearing

0:19.3

on the show.

0:20.5

Unfortunately, her contract with the publisher did not allow her to give interviews until

0:24.5

after its release, but the book is out now, and we recently got a chance to sit down with

0:29.8

Catherine Miles to talk about all kinds of things.

0:32.7

The inexplicable piece of paper connecting Darryl Rice to Richard Markovonets, what it's

0:38.2

like to inform strangers that they were stalked by a serial killer and which piece of evidence

0:43.1

and its surrounding narrative literally everyone else in this season has been wrong about.

0:48.3

From Chromatic Media and Jamstreet Media, this is still Appalachian Mysteria Season 3 Outlandish.

1:18.3

Catherine's investigation was remarkably similar to our own in the sense that we ended up

1:28.8

talking to many of the same people.

1:31.2

Tim Alley, Bill Thomas, Paul Berkowitz, Jerry Zirken, her book is more personal and written

1:37.1

in the first person, but in some ways it definitely reads like a companion to this season.

1:42.8

Can you give us your name and what your connection is to the case?

1:48.5

Sure, I'm Catherine Miles and I am a professor and investigative journalist and I've been researching

1:55.5

this case for about five years now.

1:58.8

I mean, that's a really long time.

2:00.6

This kind of sounds a little bit like an obsession.

2:04.3

Is it the thrill of the hunt that's kept you on this for five years?

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