Phantasmal Crime

The Flagstaff of 1937 was quite different from the sleepy little railroad town it had once been. Emigrants from Boston had passed through this pine forest near the mountains in 1876 and marked their camp with a pine tree stripped of its bark and branches and crowned with an American flag in honor of the country's centennial. Their flag staff became a landmark and eventually the name of the town. By the 1930s, Flagstaff had become a thriving small town thanks to the local university, the Lowell Observatory and tourists coming to see the Grand Canyon. The wealthy side of town was on Leroux Street. And it was here on North Leroux Street that the Walkup family home was located. In our modern era, its sad to say, but family annihilators are not as shocking as they had once been. While not common, a family member slaughtering several members of their own family happens far too often. The Amityville Horror occurred in the aftermath of Ronald Defeo Jr. killing his parents and four of his s

The true crime this episode features is a recent event dating back to just the 1980s. It is a crime that shook the small town of Summerville, Georgia. A gay couple lost their lives during the robbery of their home, Corpsewood Manor, which was located in an isolated area of the woods. The manor is just a ruin today due to a fire, but it attracts visitors of all kinds from teenagers looking for a party hangout to paranormal investigators. Stories of curses, Satanic worship and hauntings have been spawned by the Corpsewood Manor Murders. Charles Lee Scudder was born in Wisconsin in 1926 to Charles and Eleanor Scudder. He studied at Oberlin College in the 1940s and married Helen Hayslette. That marriage dissolved quickly because Charles was struggling with his sexual orientation. He tried marriage again in the 1950s with Bourtai Bunting and they had four sons. The couple eventually separated. Charles began studies at Loyola University in Chicago and became an Associate Profe