Step into the shadows of history as we delve deep into the perplexing case of Meriwether Lewis, the renowned explorer and leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition. In this spine-chilling episode of our true crime podcast, we unravel the mysteries surrounding his untimely demise and explore the enduring questions that still haunt historians to this day.

Join us on an exhilarating journey as we retrace the steps of Lewis, retracing his final days and probing the darkness that surrounded his tragic end. Was it suicide, as the official narrative suggests, or was there a sinister plot lurking behind the scenes? Our team of expert researchers and seasoned investigators leave no stone unturned in their quest for the truth.

Through riveting storytelling, meticulous examination of historical records, and exclusive interviews with contemporary experts, we expose the veiled secrets that surround this case. From obscure clues and cryptic letters to conflicting accounts and suspicious circumstances, we meticulously dissect the evidence, separating fact from speculation.

This gripping episode will keep you on the edge of your seat as we explore the psychological and historical complexities that encompass Lewis's final days. As we explore the web of intrigue, we draw connections to hidden agendas, political rivalries, and the dark underbelly of the early American frontier.

Prepare to be captivated as our team uncovers shocking revelations and challenges established narratives. With each twist and turn, we paint a vivid portrait of Meriwether Lewis, the man behind the myth, and shed light on the mysteries that shroud his mysterious death.

Tune in to our true crime podcast and experience a compelling narrative that transcends time, revealing the enigmatic truth behind one of history's most perplexing unsolved mysteries.

Source: Diastrous Deaths, by Ridley Wills II

My thoughts on the tragedy at Covenant last week in Nashville.

Sources:

• By the Sword, by Larry Brinton, The Nashville Scene

• Something’s Not Right Podcast

In this episode, we have a Nashville true crime story involving a 28-inch Japanese samurai sword. On the night of April 6, 1963—almost 60 years to the day—John B. Wilson and his wife Gene Wilson return from a party for one of them to be killed with a samurai sword. What in the hell happened that night? Find out on the newest episode of Music City Murder, your favorite podcast for Nashville murder and crime.

This five minute Patreon Preview follows the further crimes of Richard Ramirez. This will be the penultimate episode in the saga of LA's famous Night Stalker murders.

The third and final episode in the Claude Garrett arson murder case. Tyler discusses Claude Garrett's many attempts at post-conviction relief for his first-degree murder conviction in the death of Lorie Lance.

If you're interested in the full story, check out this lengthy article on The Intercept, penned by Liliana Segura: http://bit.ly/3ILtHlz

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In part 2 of our true crime exploration of the death of Lorie Lance, the podcast will discuss what happened after Claude Garrett was convicted of first-degree murder. The main article guiding my discussion comes from a report by Liliana Segura on The Intercept, entitled "Playing with Fire: How Junk Science Sent Claude Garrett to Prison for Life." 

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• The Music City Murder Patreon
• My new novel, Not Dark Yet, on Amazon
• Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts

Here comes yet another true crime case from Nashville, TN. Claude Garrett lived with his girlfriend, Lorie Lance, in a ramshackle place just outside Nashville. They went out drinking one night, which ended in tragedy when a fire ignited inside their home, trapping Lance inside and ultimately killing her. The question at hand: was it an accident, or murder? 

Welcome to the third season of Music City Murder! In this inaugural episode, we are going to head a little bit outside of Nashville to dig into some famous Nashville hauntings.

There's also several bits of history related to the main content, so you'll learn something about the 2010 Nashville Flood, along with some background on a famous burial in New York City and...the famous "skeleton" scene from Poltergeist.

• https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches
• https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/535662/cemeteries-unearthed-at-construction-sites
• https://nashvilleghosts.com/pegram-county-cemetery/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/28/tennessee-flooding/

Police shootings are of particular interest to the people of America right now, and the shooting of Daniel Hambrick is yet another in a long line of these kinds of cases.

The shooting of a young black man at the hands of one Metro Nashville police officer has sparked a nationwide conversation. Here is a podcast episode to lay out the facts in the case, so that listeners can make up their minds about what happened.

Sources:

• Shooting Video, Expert Witnesses At The Center Of Debate As Nashville Police Officer Heads Toward Murder Trial
• Prosecution And Defense Spar Over Evidence Ahead Of Nashville Police Officer’s Murder Trial
• A Timeline of Police Brutality in Nashville (Nashville Scene) by Abby Lee Hood
• Nashville police officer charged with criminal homicide after shooting black man in the back

This episode of Music City Murder begins in Nashville but ends in Marietta (Atlanta), GA. It still counts as a Nashville true crime case, however, and the unsolved mystery of Heather Uffelman's death will send chills down your spine.

Sources:

• Unsolved Mysteries l Season 6 l Episode 20
• A Reddit Thread on /r/UnresolvedMysteries by /u/ElementaryFan

Show Notes:

• In September 1992, in Nashville, a local music video company ran two ads in the classifieds trying to sell the central processing unit and monitor for an Apple Quadra 950.
• • They put 22-year-old Jeremy Rolfs—a 22-year-old senior at Tennessee State University—in charge of the process.
  • One of the ads read ULTIMATE Power (ultimate in all caps): Apple Quadra 950 + plus some other details...$24,000 obo.
  • • I think this is the first mistake. Putting the price for such a huge and costly piece of equipment will draw criminals.
• On October 7, 1992, a man calling himself “Tom Johnson” called about the ad and said he was a freelance computer programmer
• Jeremy Rolfs even met up with this “Tom Johnson” to preview how the equipment worked.
• • Unfortunately, there were no other witnesses to this event, and so it went completely unnoticed.
• Since the destination was over 200 miles away, he decided to drive through the night, and his fiance, Heather Uffelman, joined him to keep him awake.
• At 1:30 AM on October 24, Jeremy and Heather set off for Marietta.
• • They arrived at the motel at 7:30 AM. Originally, they had been set up to meet at an industrial park.
  • • But “Tom” said the directions were so complicated that it would be better to meet somewhere else.
    • Since Jeremy had spent plenty of time wandering through industrial parks looking for unmarked addresses, he thought it was reasonable.
  • “Tom” said his business partner had the check and would be along in an hour, so the couple went to breakfast.
  • When they came back a half-hour later, “Tom” said he’d spoken with the business partner and he was on the way.
  • • Rolfs so trusted the guy that none of this struck him as odd, and so he just went along with it.
    • There were no clues that this guy was anything but what he said he was.
  • At 8, he suggested that they load the computer into the car, so they did.
  • They made small talk for about 20 minutes before Jeremy asked “Tom” where the president of the company was with the check so they could close the deal.
  • Then, “Tom” pulled a gun on them and said, “I think we can close this deal right now.”
• “Tom” had Jeremy and Heather lie down on the ground before rolling them up in a blanket. 
• • He had Jeremy turn away from Heather, and then he suddenly heard a loud buzzing in his ear, and the room began to spin, because he’d just struck Jeremy in the back of the head with a claw hammer.
  • He then went over to Heather and hit her with the hammer, and Heather let out these horrible, bloodcurdling screams.
  • When Jeremy said “stop screaming, and he’ll leave,” “Tom” hit Jeremy over the head several more times before returning to Heather Uffelman.
  • Jeremy remained conscious throughout the whole ordeal and was able to see Tom dust the counter for fingerprints.
• As soon as “Tom” left, Jeremy freed himself and crawled over to Heather to tell her he would get help for them and that they would be all right.
• • What he saw would haunt him until his dying day.
• to get help for himself and Heather.
• They were rushed to the hospital, where Heather succumbed to her injuries around 12:30 PM that day. 
• • Jeremy was released from the hospital on Oct. 27.

Note: this episode is a Patreon Preview and therefore will only be about 10 minutes long.

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In the grand saga of serial killer Richard Ramirez, there are a lot of unsettling details. 

This episode has a lot of those details.

The Night Stalker is one of America's most vicious and horrific serial murderers.

Plenty of other true crime podcasts have covered him, but Music City Murder is going on a DEEP dive.

To get full access to the episode, join the Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/musiccitymurder

Richard Ramirez (AKA The Night Stalker) is one of the most infamous serial killers in American history. 

Fueled by cocaine and haunted by Satan, Ramirez cut a swath of destruction as wide as the I-10 in the early 1980s.

He's so famous, he's been immortalized in the series American Horror Story and plastered all over the covers of cheap true crime books.

The Netflix documentary, Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer has reignited my interest in the case. It's a horrific case, for sure, but one I think needs to be told.

67-year-old Jacob Ade and his wife, Pauline, had lived along Clarksville Road for 20 years. Well-liked and prosperous, they had over 400 acres of farmland and a five room house, valued at just over $10,000—which would be easily over a quarter-million dollars in today’s money.

On the night of Tuesday, March 24, 1897, at about 9:30, one of the Ade’s neighbors woke up to see that the Ade house was on fire.

They hurried over to help and discovered a gruesome crime scene.

It's a story made for true crime obsession.

On February 22, 1996, two eighteen-year-old girls were found murdered in a seedy establishment named "Exotic Tan for Men," just off Church Street in Nashville.

The case quickly went cold, and that's how it remains today. 

How could such a brutal murder go unsolved for so long?

It even has an ominous-sounding name: The Tanning Bed Murders.

Outlaw: Waylon, Willie, Kris, and the Renegades of Nashville

It really is amazing that so little is known about the deaths of Melissa Chilton and Tiffany Campbell.

This episode does not take place in Nashville. It's about as far, geographically, as you can get from Music City.

But it is a FASCINATING case, and even though it doesn't deal with my adoptive hometown, I hope that you'll enjoy it, just the same.

In the early morning hours of January 1, 1998, Ben Smart and Olivia Hope went missing after attending a lake party near a site called Furneaux Lodge.

It's one of the most famous true crime cases in all of New Zealand's history.

I won't spoil any of the other details, but just know it's a story worth checking out!

My main source for the episode was a book entitled Ben & Olivia: What Really Happened. I also enlisted the help of user Emmao123 for the intro, so if you have any Australian voiceover needs, she's your go-to person!

In this Christmas edition of Music City Murder, we dig into a true crime story from December 2019.

On Division Street in Midtown Nashville, former students of Battle Ground Academy in Franklin named Clayton Beathard, AJ Buthurum, and Paul Trapeni III join a female friend at a bar called Dogwood.

Toward the end of the night, everything turns bloody when they encounter a troubled young man named Michael Mosley.

Music City Murder is a true crime podcast about the crimes and history of Nashville, TN. 

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• Suspect involved in fatal stabbing outside Midtown bar enters not guilty plea

• Neighbor recounts capture of Midtown stabbing suspect

• Nashville stabbing suspect Michael Mosley tied to 2016 Cheatham County homicide suspects

The Bell Witch (or the Bell Witch Haunting) is one of the South's most famous legends, and it happened right down the road from Nashville! It is the precursor to most haunting stories you've ever heard, and movies like An American Haunting take cues from the Bell Witch.

The episode is based on the book An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch by MV Ingram, which tells the story of the Bell family's run-in with a witch named Kate. It's based on an eccentric local woman named Kate Batts and the horrors that John Bell and Betsy Bell and the rest of the family endured over a half decade.

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After a brief hiatus, Music City Murder has returned. Listen for details about the upcoming episodes and why I was gone for a month.