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Weldon Bradshaw has been a coach, a teacher and a writer. He is still writing and his knowledge of Richmond, Virginia high school sports is unparalleled. Weldon taught and coached at the The Collegiate School for fifty years and retired two years ago. Before that he was covering sports for the old News Leader newspaper and the Times Dispatch. He is in his 56th year of covering high school basketball, 55th year of high school football and he's covered many other sports along the way. Weldon was quick to point out that he would not have been able to do that without the wonderful support of his wife Emily. Paul and Weldon discussed sports and competition stories, but they also talked about the behind the scenes stories that Weldon would observe and then write about. They also discussed a life changing experience for Weldon when he became the benefactor of an organ donation in 2012. They finished by talking about Emily, their kids and grand kids and how he believes he has led a fulfilling life with all its challenges and joys along the way.

In November of 1996, Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond, Virginia was the site of the still-unsolved double murder of Cheryl Edwards and Charlita Singleton, two mall employees found stabbed to death in the back office of the dollar store where they worked. In 2004, investigators briefly thought they'd uncovered new leads... that don't appear to have resulted in progress on the case. In the latest episode of Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles, host Nat Cardona speaks with Scott Bass of the Richmond Times-Dispatch who extensively covered the mall's fallout from the double homicide and the impact it had on the surrounding community. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Hello and welcome to Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles. I'm your host, Nat Cardona, and I'm happy to be back after a little bit of a hiatus. The last time you listened, I introduced you to the unsolved case of the Cloverleaf Mall stabbings in Richmond, Virginia. This week, I'm talking with Richmond Times Dispatch opinion editor Scott Bass, who extensively covered the mall's fallout from the double homicide and the impact it had on the surrounding community. Tell me a little bit about yourself, your career now and when you first laid your hands on this topic and coverage and what you were doing then, because I know it's like 15 plus years ago, right? As far as what you were. It was a long time. Right. I'm the Opinion Page editor at the Times Dispatch in Richmond. I've only been here for about a year. In essence, I've been a journalist in the Richmond area for almost 30 years now. Almost 30 years. So I've just kind of jumped around from place to place. I worked in magazine journalism for probably the bulk of my career. Richmond Magazine There was a publication here as an alternative weekly called Style Weekly, where I worked for about ten years. Prior to that, I worked at the Small Daily out in Petersburg, Virginia, the Progress-Index, for about two years. And then, oddly enough, I started my career as a business reporter for a monthly that a weekly business journal called Inside Business. And when the homicides took place in 96, I was I had just kind of started my career as a business journalist. Wasn't very good. Still learning. So most of my focus was kind of on the development side of things. In this particular mall was Richmond's first. The Richmond area's first sort of regional shopping destination was a reasonable shot. We didn't have anything like it, and it kind of replaced in the Richmond area, you know, in most a lot of cities where, you know, the main shopping district was downtown in Richmond, it was Broad Street. And Broad Street had the military roads. It had a big, tall Hammer's big, beautiful department stores. It's where everyone kind of collected during the holidays. It was the primary sort of retail shopping district. And then somewhere around, starting in the mid fifties, early sixties, shopping malls started to replace downtown retail districts as whites that not white flight, but as sort of the great suburban explosion took place after World War Two. Everyone moved out of urban areas into suburban the suburbs, and the retail sort of followed back. And this was Cloverleaf Mall was our first sort of big regional shopping destination that was outside of East Broad Street, downtown. And sort of a big deal. Yeah, we were a little late. Like Richmond was always kind of wait things. So, you know, this opened and the first mall Cloverleaf opened in 1972. But right about this time, within three or four years, several malls had been kind of built, were built right after Regency or excuse me, right after Cloverleaf Mall was built in 72, the Regency Mall, which was a bigger, much nicer facility. It was two stories that was built in 74 five. And then, oddly enough, Cloverleaf, which is located south of Richmond and Chesterfield County, which is sort of the biggest jurisdiction in our metro region, opened a second mall much further down the road, about three miles down the road from Cloverleaf, where there was nothing. It was a real tiny shopping strip with one anchor, and it did no business for several years. They used to call it the Chesterfield morgue. But it's interesting because just as an aside, you mall development really took off in the fifties after Congress kind of passed this as a law, basically making it, allowing developers to depreciate real estate development really, really quickly. And that was in 54. And that just jumpstarted mall development. And all of a sudden there was an explosion. Malls were built literally all over the country because it was very easy for developers to build a mall and get their money back paid off within a few years independent of how the mall actually was doing. From a retail perspective. So it just led to a proliferation of malls. And that's kind of what happened at Cloverleaf Club, which was the first. But there were several others that had built up not far away. And slowly but surely it was eagerness. It started E Cloverleaf to launch. This cloverleaf was sort of on the edge of Richmond or just across the border, and that's in Chesterfield from Richmond. And there's an interesting racial history, too, obviously, in Virginia we have independent cities, which means that our cities are actually they have separate governments from the counties next to them. Whereas if you go and everywhere else in the country, cities are tended to be centers of commerce that are part of another jurisdiction. In Virginia, we have independent cities, which means they have no connection whatsoever to the municipalities around them, which meant that in order for the city to grow, it had to annex the surrounding jurisdictions and its property residents. And this had been going on in Virginia. And, you know, the first part of the 20th century, the last one of the last big annexations and I think it might have been the last one was the city of Richmond, annexing about 23 square miles of Chesterfield County in 1970. Chesterfield County is just south of the city, sort of south and east. And they basically absorbed 23 square miles in about 40,000, 47,000 or so residents understanding that there was a racial backdrop here because this came a few years after desegregation and Richmond was sort of ground zero in massive resistance to segregation of integration in schools. And once that happened in the sixties, there was a white flight, a lot of white flight out of Richmond. People just white folks just left and they moved into Chesterfield and Henrico and some of the surrounding jurisdictions. The sort of last gasp for Richmond to sort of maintain some of its tax base occur in 1970 with the annexation. But it was also an attempt to sort of bolster the white political structure because most of the residents that they absorb were white. They were beginning to lose their political power. And that was a primary motivator for the annexation. The mall was built by Chesterfield Camp in Chesterfield County is kind of a big F-you to the city of Richmond. Like, okay, you can you took our land, you took our residents and we're going to build this big fancy mall and we're going to suck all the retail dollars out of the city into Chesterfield County. That's the way a lot of people read that. So it's just she has an interesting history there. The location was just across the city border, the border with Richmond and Chesterfield. They wouldn't even allow busses to venture into Chesterfield County because the idea was to allow busses to come into the county. We're going to be allowing black folks to come here and no one wanted that because there was a lot of there was this perception that once black residents moved in to Chesterfield County, then, you know, everything was lost. This was a difficult time for the Richmond region from a racial perspective, was not a healthy, healthy time or a place. So the mall had always had sort of this slight stigma attached to it in that regard. But in the very beginning, Cloverleaf Mall was really the center of fashion for a couple of years in Richmond. Everyone coalesced there. You know, the local department stores, which had they had stores all up and down the East Coast, Tom Heimer and Miller Roads that were founded here for hire was there. Railroads came a little bit later and Richmond really was for a period of time, kind of a center of retail innovation. This was in the seventies, sixties and seventies. A lot of the big, big format, big box stores kind of came out of Richmond and Circuit City best products. Back in those days. They were the kind of first to actually do big, big box retail. So it was an interesting time and an interesting place for Richmond because we had this history of sort of retail innovation in New York on the East Coast and in the south. And the mall came along. It was a brand new concept and everyone's letter to the mall that lasted for a few years until the other malls started showing up and duplicating those efforts. And it just kind of splintered the market. The homicides came, I guess it was 96. So several years later, the mall was in decline, had been for several years as a sort of suburban development, really took off in Chesterfield further out where around that other mall that built in that direction. So the mall completely mall was in decline, had been struggling. They had struggled to keep their department stores. They would leave, they would have new ones come in. It was difficult, but during the early nineties, things really started to take a turn. Richmond at that time was becoming known as one of the murder capitals of the U.S. during the crack cocaine epidemic, and a lot of people in the surrounding jurisdictions kind of looked at Richmond as this dangerous place to be and it was drug infested. You didn't want to go into the city. And Cloverleaf kind of was right on the edge. People kind of associated Richmond with Cloverleaf on some level. So it was in decline. People began to view Cloverleaf as a dangerous place or potentially a dangerous place. And then when the double homicides took place in 96, that was kind of the end of it. But a lot of the tenants at the mall decided not to renew their leases. The decline just accelerated and that was, I think, most people who are here in Richmond, you can recall this time period, would agree that that double homicide was kind of the nail in the coffin for Clover Moore, for lack of a better word. Sure. They only. We need to take a quick break, so don't go too far. See you all soon during your you know, your coverage of that and the decline and talking in the nineties, Do you have any recollection of what else was going on there? I mean, goofy things happen when there's like vacant stores and that kind of thing. I mean, there had but like, like what didn't what was going on inside a, I mean, murderous aside, like as far as trouble, whatever you want to label it as. There have been some, you know, some reports of, you know, teenagers walking around the mall intimidating, you know, shoppers, that kind of thing. The mall had changed in terms of the retail mix. So as as it became less of a destination and other malls had kind of cornered the market in more populous areas, the demographics around Cloverleaf were lower income. You know, there was a higher black population, higher Latino population, and you started to see a change in retail mix. So you didn't have some of the higher end retailers or the big chains had already kind of breaking. So the gaps, you know, the limited and those kinds of stores had kind of long had and left the place. So you ended up with smaller stores that didn't quite fill the spaces that had been originally, you know, it was designed for a larger footprint and it created more vacancies. And it became a place where, you know, people kind of viewed all that's at the mall is the low income, you know, mall for for people who don't have as much money. And the clientele kind of matched that. And that's the way a lot of people used. CLOVERLEAF But the vacancies were there. I mean, I don't know that it was anything I don't recall any any other major episodes. There had been, I think, another where every now and then there would be a report of someone who had been fired or a gun or a shooting or something like that. But it wasn't. But thanks for clarifying that. Yeah, I just didn't know if there was like other stuff going on there. It's more just like we don't go there because it's more. That's what made this case so bizarre, is because it was a state. It was a you know, I think they were both staffed at least ten times, from what I recall. And, you know, they they couldn't quite figure out sort of, well, who was this someone who was just passing through? Because it was kind of an it was right off of Chippenham Parkway, was close to the interstate. Could this been someone who was just passing through where they're looking around? Who knows? But the fact that they were stabbed multiple times kind of raised the question of it seemed personal. There was nothing I mean, not I mean, they scoured I mean, the police really did put everything into this, as far as I recall. And they just kept coming up empty. They couldn't that they had every lead that they had. There was a U-Haul at one point in the parking lot that it had been left unlocked with the lights on. I think that turned out to not be connected. They just they just got run into dead ends. And yeah, it's just bizarre. I have no one really ever I don't think that. I suspect today they are not any closer than they were. We know whatever happened in 2004 as a possible break in the case or we did, you know, obviously fizzled out. And it's been there almost 20 years since. So, yeah, it's definitely really. 30 years here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, from 24 for there to be like this possible break. But that was like the last that we've seen. Right. That's the most completely They gone now. They tore down that wall. Right. So, so 1990. So November 1996, these murders happened. I was your one style Weekly article that I first came across was, you know, eight years later in 2004. So when you were covering that, where where was the mall at at that time? Was it about like literally on its last legs or. Yes, it was. It was literally on this last legs. I mean, in terms of the other day, gosh, I can't recall who was actually if one of the department stores was still there. wow. Sears might have still been there in 2004. Okay. But I believe they were the last anchor. But yeah, at that point in time, I mean, you know, a lot of it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. Chesterfield County had pegged it for redevelopment a few years earlier. And, you know, if you spend enough time talking about the mom and dad to your constituents and the news and with plans of what we're going to do to fix it, it kind of seals the enamel. Yeah. And by 2004, it was done. Okay. It was just a matter of who was going to pay for the redevelopment. Sure. And then on as an aside to that on the fringe, it really could never shake that. This is the place where two women were murdered and they still don't know what happened. True. Yeah. No, absolutely true. There was a real estate agent. Real estate agent or a commercial real estate broker. We followed all of this with me, and the story that I wrote made the comment that, you know, that was got death written all over it. And that was really true. Like no one wanted to touch them all. You couldn't get content to resign. It just had this perception of being in a bad area. There's some racial undertones to it, of course, but by that point it was so far gone that I don't think anyone reasonably thought it could be resurrected as a retail destination. Sure. And then do you have any idea how long that all in $1 store where they were murdered out? Like how long did that survive? Any clue after they were murdered? Yeah, I don't imagine a real oak. That's a really good question. I don't know the answer to every you know. Have you talked have you tried to talk to Jay Latham? I know that the feelers have been out with that. I he he would probably have more insight on that. Right. He's a great interview. Yeah. And he actually had he did two stints there. So he was I thought he was the original loan manager, but he came in I think 75 or six, 76 somewhere. There came a couple of years after they left and then came back and he was the manager at the mall where the homicides took place. And it was like a really crazy time period, really. He just returned five weeks before or something. He hadn't been there long, and they were in the process of trying to revive it. So he worked for a Think Simon Property group, which is either just purchased the mall or believe it and have to go back and check. But yeah he was with a group that had was they had taken it over and they were had hopes of sort of reviving and then that happened and yeah, changed his plans. So. Right, so what, what's there now. They had this sort of mixed use thing. It's, there's a big Kroger, one of the biggest doesn't have me, there's nothing exciting there. They basically replace it with a mix of retail and residential and Chester County had gotten involved in issuing health issue bonds to kind of pay for some of the infrastructure and got Kroger to build. I think at the time it might still be one of the biggest Kroger's in Virginia and it's just massive Kroger marketplace. And that was the big anchor. Well, interestingly, there is one little remnant of the mall still left, which is a tire shop that was part of the mall and it still has the old sixties and early seventies sort of architecture that refused to sell. And it's still there. And it's right in the middle of this sort of new development because they put him on kind of sticking out like a sore thumb. So you can appreciate. The entire place. Yeah, and it's exciting, but they're in the process of redeveloping the whole area now. You know, there's some stuff going to put it in a couple of ice skating rinks across the street and there's a big sort of office park that have been there for years. They're trying to interconnect their office park with some shopping district slash entertainment complex right next to it that's close to the mall. You know. This is like any to pop that in any city kind of thing. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. What's different? Right. Well, what's the what's the demographics in the area now? It's still primarily it's not a high income. You know, the area of of just, you know, just was big is about 400 square miles. So it's a big, big footprint. The sort of the as the suburban development kind of shifted further out, you know, that there was sort of inner edge parts of both counties is just kind of, you know. The one last thing that pops in my mind here is, I mean, I know you weren't a crime reporter and you are not one currently, but just for more context, because we're I'm not there and I know that Richmond was at one time, you know, the murder capital, like you say. Are there more cases like this? Like I just I guess it's interesting to me that there's so little coverage of an unsolved murder of two women at a mall, something so public. And you know, seemingly random. And it's just like, is this? And I was just kind of one of those earmarked cases in the area that people like. Definitely. No, definitely remember like or other like tons of these. I just I just don't get it. I think at the time I mean the be just what I remember of this time period, you know, Richmond was I think two years early. We had 160 murder incidents in a city of less than 200,000 people. It was a problem. We had a higher murder rate. So it wasn't it didn't happen often in Chesterfield, the jurisdictions around the city. I mean, they always had it and we've always had issues, but not not 160 murders year. So when the Cleveland murders happened, I think it just kind of got lost a little bit. I was like, okay, it's there's a racial element to it. You know, if it were two white women, then there would be way more attention focused on it. That's just tends to be the case. And because these were minority women who were found stabbed to death and all that, people had stopped caring about at least those with political power and stopped caring about allowing it to sort of just kind of drift. That's quite a bit of that here. No, it's almost. Yeah. Is there anything else you just want to add about your realm of things in connection with cool relief? Yeah, I'm so, I mean, you know, I hope it's I hope it's enough for you to sink your teeth into. And I guess I'm not having a lot of information about the actual case itself. I know Chesterfield was very close to the vest about what they were, what they would release the police department was. So I recall just kind of during when I was reporting on this, just kind of being in my head against the wall because they wanted this to be out there. But they were very it was very difficult to get them to talk about some of the leads that they had and didn't have them. All that good stuff. You know, I think for me, just going back and looking at the the case itself, I was always fascinated with it. I mean, I'm I'm a local, you know, journalist, you know, So outside of Richmond, maybe you wouldn't care about such things. But, you know, there are there are so many different layers to it from understanding like the connection between annexation and sort of the racial history. There was always like another layer to it that maybe I didn't think about or didn't realize until I went back and looked at everything again. And that's all for now. Subscribe. So that you don't come back and you episodes cases are coming your way.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The latest episode of Late Edition: Crime Beat Chronicles is centered on the unsolved 1996 stabbing murders of Cheryl Edwards and Charlita Singleton at the Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond, Virginia. In this episode, host Nat Cardona gives an overview of the crimes and the location where they took place. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: If a case isn't solved within the first 72 hours, the chances of solving that crime becomes exponentially lower. The case we're going to start on today is a cold case that's remained unsolved for 27 years. I'm Nat Cardona and welcome to Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles. In this episode, we take a look at the Cloverleaf Mall murders from November of 1996. And November 7th, 1996, 25 year old Cheryl Edwards and 36 year old Charlita Singleton were working at the all for one store at Cloverleaf Mark's out of Richmond, Virginia. Early the next day, Charlita's family called the police to report her missing after she failed to return home from work. The two women were found stabbed to death, their bodies discovered in the office at the rear of the store. Now some background on the mall. Cloverleaf was like so many other malls in that golden age of malls in America. It opened in August of 1972 and was the largest in Richmond, Virginia. 42 stores in over 750,000 square feet of retail space. And again, like so many other malls, and it was anchored by retailers like JCPenney and Sears. The mall was designed by local architects and featured a center court with a 20 foot pool, crystal trees and falling water. It was named Cloverleaf because of its proximity to the Cloverleaf intersection at Chippenham Parkway and Midlothian Turnpike. Cloverleaf Mall was the place to be. Teens hanging out in common areas on weekends. Movie fans taking in a show at the Multiplex theater and families having lunch. Any good suburbanites version of downtown.  Back to November of 1996. By the time the two women were working at the mall, many of Cloverleaf Best customers women with disposable income to spend at the malls. More than 20 women's clothing stores were choosing other malls for their shopping. The then mall manager, Jay LaFleur, said at the time that people were starting to see kids with huge baggy pants and jeans hanging off their belts and people were intimidated. Details about the double murder are scarce, not surprising for a decades old unsolved murder case. What we do know is that the Singleton family called the police early on November 8th to report that Charlita was missing, and both families met the first patrol officer in the mall parking lot around 5:15 a.m.. Lieutenant Robert Skowron of the Chesterfield County Police, used a key from story management to enter the back door of the All for $1 store. That door opened from the parking lot into the store's office. When reflecting about the incident, the lieutenant said he felt uneasy as he approached that locked door scar and recalled with both of their vehicles out front. He strongly suspected that foul play was involved. He opened the door and he found Cheryl Edwards and Charlita Singleton's body stabbed multiple times in the safe open, presumably with money missing. The lieutenant returned to the parking lot to tell the families in the mall was closed for the day so that law enforcement could scour the crime scene in the surrounding areas for evidence. Family members of both women were quickly cleared of suspicion. They only. We need to take a quick break, so don't go too far with you on on. Investigators believe that the killer or killers seemingly entered through the back door of the store's mall was closing or already close at the time that they approximate the murder to have happened. However, the police were never able to determine a motive. So typical victimology work the understanding that victims tend to know their murderers resulted in zero leads. Investigators dug into both women's backgrounds and weren't able to find any enemies or persons who would want to harm them- no angry spouses or partners, jealous girlfriend or any type of the usual suspects.  Now back to that empty safe was the motive robbery? If so, why viciously stabbed Singleton and Edwards to death? Could it have been a mall worker or someone who knew their schedules around $20,000 in reward money failed to yield any productive leads, although there were some promising clues at one point in time, a stolen U-Haul from Chattanooga, Tennessee, causing people to hypothesize that maybe it was an out of town robbery, though unlikely for a dollar store type of robbery. There was that in a man seen running outside of the mall around the presumed time of the murders. Police believe it was soon after the store closed around 9 p.m., but that turned out to be a dead end. So in 1997, a year after the murders, police said that they had no leads. At the time, Singleton and Edwards were killed. They left behind small kids who were forced to grow up without their mothers. Eight years after the murders and 24 lieutenants score and said the case was getting a fresh look but shared few details. The fallout from the murders is believed to have hastened the closing of the Cloverleaf Mall. Jay LaFleur said at the time that after the tragedy, the national tenants just couldn't get help. Parents wouldn't want their kids to work there. It was catastrophic. Cloverleaf Mall became the murder mall. And that's where I leave you today. Make sure you hit the subscribe and so you don't miss my interview with Scott Bass of the Times Dispatch. And don't forget to listen to our past episodes of Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles, a Lee Enterprises podcast. 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0:00 - Tony Gwynn Jr. joins Cheek to discuss the MLB league championship series as they stand, break down the Padres' early-series struggles and how the Astros' offense has continued working despite turnover. 12:00 - The Richmond Times-Dispatch's Michael Phillips calls in to discuss the Commanders, including Taylor Heinicke taking over at quarterback and the Dan Snyder controversy, and preview Week 7 in the NFL as a whole. 24:35 - Zach Joachim of the Times-Dispatch joins Cheek in studio to break down the best teams in local high school football, which matchups he's keeping his eye on and more. 40:45 - Frontstretch's Tom Bowles joins Adam Cheek to discuss Bubba Wallace's suspension, the precedent it sets for NASCAR going forward and to preview the race weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway. 56:00 - Times-Dispatch VCU reporter Wayne Epps calls in and gives some of his takeaways from the Black and Gold Game this past weekend while previewing the Rams' 2022-23 basketball season.

10/18/22 Hour 3 0:00 - AWadd takes calls regarding the Lamar Jackson comments from the second hour and is joined by the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Mike Barber, who talks about NBA preseason as well as the NFL. 14:45 - In Netclix, Epstein and producer Adam Cheek discuss the Rock's newest movie, Black Adam, and his prominence in Hollywood. 22:45 - The Times-Dispatch's Wayne Epps Jr. joins the show to recap VCU basketball's Black & Gold Game and preview the Rams' upcoming season. 33:15 - Epstein and Cheek look ahead to the evening's MLB postseason games and predict what will happen in the ALDS between the Yankees and Guardians, as well as the NLCS between the Padres and Phillies.

CBS6's Lane Casadonte calls in to break down the week in local high school football, plus the Commanders and local stars currently in the NFL, and then AWadd is joined by the Richmond Times-Dispatch's Mike Barber, who talks about NBA preseason as well as the NFL. Later, in Netclix, Epstein and producer Adam Cheek discuss the Rock's newest movie and his prominence in Hollywood, and then the Times-Dispatch's Wayne Epps Jr. joins the show to recap VCU basketball's Black & Gold Game and preview the Rams' upcoming season.

Tambra Ellis lays down for a short nap after working the night shift while her two sons are outside. When she calls them in for dinner, they are nowhere to be found. Three days later, Basil Abdul Faruq's body is found in a landfill. But there's no sign of Jamal anywhere. To access earlier episodes of Corpus Delicti and to help support the show, please visit patreon.com/corpusdelictiOur merch store can be found at teepublic.com/stores/corpus-delicti-podcastMusic by:Kai Engel"Daemones"Blooper music by:Art of Escapism"Coal Miners"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.Sources:107DMVA - Jamal Abdul'Faruq (doenetwork.org)The Abduction of the Abdul'Faruq Brothers | MediumFor many parents of missing children grief is extreme, prolonged (richmond.com)CNN's Nancy Grace profiles county murder case - Chesterfield ObserverJamal Abdul'Faruq – The Charley ProjectAfter boy's slaying, brother missing for 19 years - CNN.comMissing child, now in his 20s possibly spotted in Hinesville Wal-Mart - Coastal Courier18 Apr 1990, 5 - The Daily News Leader at Newspapers.com22 Apr 1990, 1 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com20 Apr 1990, 1 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com25 Apr 1990, 6 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com31 Jul 1990, 20 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com01 May 1990, 17 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com16 Apr 1991, 12 - Kingsport Times-News at Newspapers.com03 Jun 1990, 23 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com08 May 1990, 2 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com05 May 1990, 19 - The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com

Michael joins the Huddle to give his weekly update on the commanders. Michael talked about the Commanders last game and gave his thoughts along with thoughts on this weekends upcoming game.

Michael joins the Huddle to give his weekly update on the commanders. Michael talked about the Commanders last game and gave his thoughts along with thoughts on this weekends upcoming game.

In the second hour of the Huddle Bob took us on a trip up I-95 to listen to Jack Del Rio's press conference at Commanders training camp. Michael Phillips of the Times-Dispatch joins to discuss Commanders training camp and preseason football.

In the second hour of the Huddle Bob took us on a trip up I-95 to listen to Jack Del Rio's press conference at Commanders training camp. Michael Phillips of the Times-Dispatch joins to discuss Commanders training camp and preseason football.

It's been a busy week for the Commanders who are now a full week into training camp and getting set for its most public practice so far, Saturday night at FedEx Field. The Times-Dispatch beat writer has been there the entire way and brings us the latest from Ashburn.

It's been a busy week for the Commanders who are now a full week into training camp and getting set for its most public practice so far, Saturday night at FedEx Field. The Times-Dispatch beat writer has been there the entire way and brings us the latest from Ashburn.

Bob and Michael talk all things Commanders including predictions about how Carson Wentz will look in training camp.

Bob and Michael talk all things Commanders including predictions about how Carson Wentz will look in training camp.

Dan Snyder may finally be talking now that training camp is just around the corner, will he actually? What more is to come from college football realignment? Michael has a lot of questions to answer as he joins The Huddle today.

Dan Snyder may finally be talking now that training camp is just around the corner, will he actually? What more is to come from college football realignment? Michael has a lot of questions to answer as he joins The Huddle today.

Most Americans want to believe that the United States of America as a bastion of liberal democracy.  But Michael Paul Williams is a columnist whose work exposes the illiberal elements in American society, including white supremacy, banning books, and vigilantism. Michael Paul Williams is a native of Richmond and longtime columnist at the Richmond Times Dispatch.  Williams joined The Times Dispatch in 1982 and covered local government for a decade before becoming the paper's first Black columnist a decade later.  His columns have never shied away from sensitive public issues, including race.  His unflinching truth telling has secured numerous honors; among them a Nieman Fellowship and in 2021, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his series of columns that changed the conversation about race and remembrance in the former capital of the Confederacy following George Floyd's murder in 2020.  Williams was named the 2021 recipient of the Pell Center Prize for Story in the Public Square, which honors storytellers whose work has a meaningful, positive impact on the public dialogue. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mike Barber of the Times Dispatch Discusses the College Football Playoffs, Bronco Mendenhall, & More

Mike Barber of the Times Dispatch joins Wes to discuss the 2021 Commonwealth Cup & what it means for both programs moving forward

There is no shortage of stories when it comes to both UVA and VT football this week. Mike Barber from the Times-Dispatch looks at all the headlines, good and bad, on Tuesday afternoons show.

Michael Phillips of the Times Dispatch on the WFT, leaked emails and how this organization botched what should be a special day Sunday to honor Sean Taylor.

Mike Barber of the Times Dispatch on ACC Tip Off, what's ahead for the Hokies and Hoos, and how to fill out an AP Poll after another crazy Saturday in CFB.

"Covering the Commonwealth" Mike McDaniel of SonsofSaturday.com on the Hokies and Wayne Epps of the Times Dispatch on VCU Basketball.

​Michael Phillips of the Times Dispatch on the WFT, the week that was including the DEA raid, offensive injuries and a defensive diagnosis.

Mike Barber of the Times Dispatch on Virginia Tech and UVA football and the thoughts of an AP voter after an another eventful Saturday in CFB. 

In 1945, a U.S. Army transport plane crashed in New Guinea, leaving three survivors marooned in the island's mountainous interior. Injured, starving, and exhausted, the group seemed beyond the hope of rescue. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the plight of the stranded survivors and the remarkable plan to save them. We'll also reflect on synthetic fingerprints and puzzle over a suspicious notebook. Intro: What's the shortest possible game of Monopoly if each player plays optimally? Omen or crated inkwell. Sources for our feature on the Gremlin Special: Mitchell Zuckoff, Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II, 2011. Randy Roughton, "Impossible Rescue," Airman, Jan. 26, 2015. John Cirafici, "Lost in Shangri-La," Air Power History 58:3 (Fall 2011), 65. Sara Hov, "Lost in Shangri-La," Army 61:8 (August 2011), 70. Harrison T. Beardsley, "Harrowing Crash in New Guinea," Aviation History 10:2 (November 1999), 46. David Grann, "Plane Crash Compounded by Cannibals," Washington Post, May 22, 2011. Mitchell Zuckoff, "Escape From the Valley of the Lost," Calgary Herald, May 8, 2011. Mitchell Zuckoff, "In 1945, a U.S. Military Plane Crashed in New Guinea," Vancouver Sun, May 7, 2011. Brian Schofield, "A Tumble in the Jungle," Sunday Times, May 1, 2011. Mitchell Zuckoff, "Return to Shangri-La," Boston Globe, April 24, 2011. "Wartime Plane Crash," Kalgoorlie [W.A.] Miner, Sept. 17, 1947. "Glider Saved Fliers, WAC in Wild Valley," [Hagerstown, Md.] Daily Mail, Aug. 14, 1945. Margaret Hastings, "Shangri-La Diary," Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, July 22, 1945. Bob Myers, "Rescued Wac Is En Route to Washington," [Binghamton, N.Y.] Press and Sun-Bulletin, July 9, 1945. "3 Crash Survivors Dramatically Rescued From New Guinea Valley by Glider Snatch Pickup," St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 30, 1945. "New Guinea's 'Hidden Valley,'" St. Louis Globe-Democrat, June 28, 1945. "Survivors of Mishap in Shangri-La Valley Reach Their Rescuers," Birmingham [Ala.] News, June 20, 1945. "Two Airmen, Wac Await Rescue in Fantastic 'Hidden Valley,'" [Richmond, Va.] Times Dispatch, June 8, 1945. "Plan Rescue of Survivors of Crash in Shangri-La Dutch New Guinea," Del Rio [Texas] News Herald, June 8, 1945. Lynn Neary, "A WWII Survival Epic Unfolds Deep In 'Shangri-La,'" All Things Considered, National Public Radio, April 26, 2011. Listener mail: Sophie Weiner, "These Synthetic Fingerprint Gloves Can Unlock Your Phone," Popular Mechanics, Nov. 12, 2016. "TAPS - Make Touchscreen Gloves Using a Sticker w/ Touch ID," Kickstarter.com (accessed Sept. 23, 2021). Nanotips (last accessed Sept. 23, 2021). Jon Porter, "This Picture of Cheese Helped Send a Man to Prison for 13 Years," The Verge, May 24, 2021. Alex Mistlin, "Feeling Blue: Drug Dealer's 'Love of Stilton' Leads to His Arrest," Guardian, May 24, 2021. Rob Picheta, "Drug Dealer Jailed After Sharing a Photo of Cheese That Included His Fingerprints," CNN, May 25, 2021. Chaim Gartenberg, "WhatsApp Drug Dealer Convicted Using Fingerprints Taken From Photo," The Verge, April 16, 2018. Chris Wood, "WhatsApp Photo Drug Dealer Caught by 'Groundbreaking' Work," BBC News, April 15, 2018. CSChawaii, "CSC Presents Japanese Sign Language - Family" (video), Sept. 25, 2017. Ian Sample, "Copying Keys From Photos Is Child's Play," Guardian, Nov. 14, 2008. Elinor Mills, "Duplicating Keys From a Photograph," CNET, Nov. 19, 2008. "KeyMe: Access & Share Saved Keys" (accessed Sept. 25, 2021). "KeyMe: Access & Share Keys" (accessed Sept. 25, 2021). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Bill Spencer. Here's a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Michael Phillips of the Times Dispatch on the Washington Football team, the defensive issues, the matchup vs Atlanta, and a Heinicke bounce back.

Mike Barber of the Times Dispatch joins Wes on the Hokies offensive issues, UVA's defensive problems, the Atlantic and Coastal chaos, and "who let the dogs out?

Before meeting President Bill Clinton and them becoming lifelong friends, H.T. made a name for himself in 1964 as a journalist for the Times Dispatch in Walnut Ridge, AR when he penned the story of The Beatles taking off at the local airport.

"Covering the Commonwealth" with Damon Dillman of CavsCorner.com on UVA and Wayne Epps of the Times Dispatch on Richmond football and VCU basketball. 

Abandoned for well over a decade, the Winderbourne Mansion in Boyds, Maryland is a decaying reminder of a tragic past.  Once belonging to the wealthy Totten family, things quickly took a turn as their children died.  Is this property cursed?   Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors Submit your feedback or personal stories to crimesandwitchdemeanors@gmail.com  Like Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors  Episode Transcript: Available below the sources in the show notes Visit the website: https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com  Main podcast illustration by GiAnna Ligammari: https://gialigammari.wixsite.com/portfolio    Sources: 6 Jun 1915, 14—Evening Star at Newspapers.com. (n.d.). World Collection. Retrieved February 8, 2021, from http://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/332078312/?terms=%22Winderbourne%22%2BNOT%2BKennels&pqsid=x3NN_YD5pyhW_nx6SDusZg:1063000:1697821625   7 Nov 1901, Page 15—Evening Star at Newspapers.com. (n.d.). World Collection. Retrieved February 8, 2021, from http://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/207674218/?terms=%22Edith%2BTotten%22&pqsid=x3NN_YD5pyhW_nx6SDusZg:489000:332569778   17 Nov 1927, 1—The Times Dispatch at Newspapers.com. (n.d.). World Collection. Retrieved February 8, 2021, from http://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/615380246/?terms=Dr.%2BEdith%2BTotten&pqsid=x3NN_YD5pyhW_nx6SDusZg:12000:1740180449   22 Mar 1908, 6—Evening Star at Newspapers.com. (n.d.). World Collection. Retrieved February 9, 2021, from http://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/330817925/?terms=%22edith%2Btotten%22&pqsid=9JF4FvyGyHeayxOjkNzP5g:84000:1858908365   1880 United States Federal Census—AncestryLibrary.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 8, 2021, from https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/35148805:6742?tid=&pid=&queryId=77426bcee4ef96704997c9b6b70ace89&_phsrc=eBA275&_phstart=successSource   1900 United States Federal Census—AncestryLibrary.com. (n.d.). Retrieved February 8, 2021, from https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/33891257:7602?tid=&pid=&queryId=77426bcee4ef96704997c9b6b70ace89&_phsrc=eBA275&_phstart=successSource   Alice Crosby Totten (1869-1884)—Find A Grave... (n.d.). Retrieved February 8, 2021, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38919506/alice-crosby-totten   Coleman, Peg, et al. (1978). Winderbourne ACHS Summary Form. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/016000/016900/016957/pdf/msa_se5_16957.pdf   Document | America's Historical Newspapers | Readex. (n.d.). Retrieved February 8, 2021, from https://infoweb-newsbank-com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&sort=YMD_date%3AA&fld-base-0=alltext&val-base-0=%22alice%20crosby%20totten%22&val-database-0=&fld-database-0=database&fld-nav-0=YMD_date&val-nav-0=&docref=image/v2%3A11BE946A9536E73A%40EANX-11C7E39797D27AF0%402409458-11C7E397DEA90B78%402-11C7E3988129E5B8%40Mortuary%2BNotice&firsthit=yes   Elias Howe. (2021). 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Retrieved February 7, 2021, from http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/winderbourne-mansion   TRANSCRIPT:  Hello and welcome back to your regularly scheduled Crimes and Witch-Demeanors programming; I'm your host – Joshua Spellman!  Last week we took a small detour and discussed the Deuel House, the site of one of my personal paranormal experiences and switched meandered around history with no clear direction.  However, while this week we are covering yet another haunted Victorian, a Queen-Anne to be precise, it has a much more unified and chilling history and yet again, somehow it circles back to me…I knew the name sounded familiar.  However, as we have found out with most ghost stories on this podcast – the information that is perpetuated in the modern day is not often truthful or accurate. This week we are headed to Boyds, Maryland to investigate the Winderbourne Mansion.  Now, I am saying Winderbourne because that's what everyone says and it sounds enchanting and like something from a Neil Gaman novel…but through my research I have my suspicions it's actually supposed to be pronounced Winder-bourne…even if it doesn't quite roll off the tongue or make any phonetical sense whatsoever.  You'll have to let me know what you think.  This legend is interesting, and I thought it had to be true since one of my sources is a government source but – spoiler – I don't think it is.  This mansion has seen its fair share of tragedy and has been left abandoned for well over a decade.  It was on the real estate market for probably just as long, but now it seems it is no longer for sale, so its future is uncertain, as is its past.  Join me now to learn the alleged history of our Windy…or Windy…mansion.     Winderbourne Mansion was built in 1884 at the behest of Enoch and Mary Totten.  The Tottens lived in Washington DC but wished for a summer home to escape the hustle, bustle, and stifling heat of the city.  The couple decided on a plot of land near Little Seneca Creek, where the B&O railroad line gently curved around the property on two sides.  Access to the parcel of land was from Clopper Road, which the Tottens also purchased.  Eventually, the railroad expanded from a single track to a double track and needed to cut off the road.  The Tottens and the railroad came to a compromise, each paying half the cost of a bridge that went over the track and the railroad agreed to maintain the bridge in perpetuity. Enoch Totten did well for himself, as he was a prominent lawyer in DC and was a Civil War Veteran…he even managed to survive being shot four times at the Battle of Spotslyvania Court House…in fact, one of these shots may have been his own fault as a projectile bounced off of his sabre and hit his right hand.  Regardless of this strange mishap and his career as a lawyer – the capital for the construction of Winderbourne mansion came from his wife, Mary. Mary was the daughter of a Wisconsin senator named Timothy Howe who was the cousin and heir to the massive fortune of Elias Howe, the inventor of the Bobbin-Winder.  This device is what inevitably inspired the name of Winderbourne. When Winderbourne was completed it was painted a pale pink with dark rose trim and shutters of a deep plum – a vibrant contrast to its current pallid, moss-covered facade.  It's architecture was unique, sporting a triangular fireplace, a room suspended above the foyer, and hidden rain spouts that directed water to an underground cistern. The Tottens hosted elaborate formal affairs on their lawn, landscaped with rare and exotic plants imported from around the world.  And while Winderbourne acted as the Totten's summer home, it was staffed all year long, with increased staff during their stay. In addition to the parties on their lawn, they also hosted extravagant dinner events.  However, the food was never set upon the table; instead maids would carry around silver platters and bowls and served those who were seated at the table.  Sadly, the Totten's life was soon struck by tragedy.  The three Totten children contracted typhoid fever from drinking contaminated water.  Two of the children survived, while one of their sons died from the grisly disease. This tragedy soured the Totten's love of the Winderbourne property.  However, they kept the property and it stayed in the family.  One of the Totten daughter's, Edith, inspired by her tragic childhood experience became a physician and came into ownership of Winderbourne sometime before 1915.  She did not marry but adopted a daughter. The little girl loved Winderbourne, exploring its every nook and cranny, running through its magic halls that seemed to never end.  One of her favourite activities was to slide down the bannister of the massive staircase that led to the foyer.  However, one day when she slid down the bannister as always, she gained a little bit too much speed, lost control, flew off, and fell to her death. The curved railroad track around the home was straightened and the bridge that was supposed to have been maintained by the railroad company was demolished.  Leaving the Tottens with no access to their home.  The Tottens took the case to court and the home and surrounding property was sold off to the railroad. Not long after, Edith Totten dropped dead unexpectedly after giving a lecture at John Hopkins University at only 48 years old. Winderbourne Mansion was repurchased by the Pickrell family in 1929.  Edward and Beulah Pickrell raised their two sons, Edward Jr. and Paxton on the property.  Both Edward and Beulah passed away, leaving the property to Edward in their will.  During Edward Jr.'s ownership the house began to fall into disrepair, and he eventually passed away in 2004, leaving the responsibility of the quickly decaying property to Paxton. To this day the house remains abandoned.  Vines and the surrounding vegetation have completely engulfed the property.  Blending in more and more with Black Hills regional park that sits against the estate.  Winderbourne Mansion, once elegantly groomed, now appears like a map from a post-apocalyptic video game with several old muscle cars left abandoned in the yard and furniture, clothes, books, and magazines still left inside.  While the house has decayed and succumbed to the elements, the ghosts of its past still roam its halls in opulence; ignorant to the passing of time and the erosion of their beloved mansion.   This story continues to befuddle me.  I've spent so much time trying to confirm parts of this story, that as of now seem impossible.  Let's see…where should we start?  There are a few articles on this house and its history, they all seem to refer back to an article from the Washington Post.  I dug a little deeper and hit the jackpot!  Or what I thought was the jackpot: a 1978 report on the home's history available through Maryland's government website.  It is an ACHS summary form, I cannot figure out what it stands for but I'm guessing it's a historical site or historical society. This form seems legitimate, I had no reason to doubt it.  It compiles the history and it seems this is where most of the information available on the home and the Tottens stems from. When I started doing my own research though…I found some conflicting information.  All sources say that Enoch and Mary Totten had three children and that they lost a son to typhoid fever after all the children fell ill after drinking some contaminated drinking water at Winderbourne.  The historic report also details this while also saying that all drinking water there was boiled prior to use and that the cisterns that collected the water were regularly cleaned.  Still, there is always room for error, this is not what I found strange. Instead, I found that the Tottens had four children: Edith, Howe, Gerald, and Alice.  Even stranger still only one of them died…a daughter…but before the house was ever built.  Alice Crosby Totten died at the age of 16 on October 6, 1881 according to Washington D.C.'s Evening Critic and her tombstone.  Both of the Totten sons outlived Edith by decades and died in their seventies. Now, I did find the obituary for Edith Totten.  Which…goes to show the stupidity of machine reading or people, I haven't decided.  Some databases let you “clip” stories for collections and you can add information.  For whatever reason her one obituary in the Richmond Times Dispatch was clipped with her name being recorded as “Edith Tettea Saeeamba” while her siblings names' were recorded accurately.  This happened because of the title: Lecturer Dies: Dr. Edith Totten Succumbs at John Hopkins.  I'm assuming this is yet another OCR issue but luckily the search picked up Edith and the Totten of her brothers and I was able to locate it.  But I digress.  Edith passed away after she completed a lecture on “Imagination and Thought” of a cerebral hemorrhage.  So it appears this story is true. I was not able to find any record of her adopted daughter but it is entirely possible it happened.  I am really curious about Edith's story as she never married, inherited Winderbourne, and became a doctor and professor at John Hopkins.  For a woman produced of the Victorian age I find that so fascinating and impressive.  However, there isn't too much on her.  I was also surprised there were no pre-researched family trees for the family.  Her father, mother, and brothers all had some historical significance and I found it odd. The name Winderbourne or Winderbourne or Winterbourne sounded so familiar to me and I found out that is because one of Howe Totten founded Winderbourne Kennels who bred Great Danes.  Now you're probably like…why…does that make the name familiar to you?  For those of you who don't know I used to serve as the librarian for the American Kennel Club; and a lot of my time was spent researching pedigrees or dog genealogy for various researchers as well as digitizing and archiving old photographs.  I spent a good time with Great Danes and yes, this was a prominent kennel name I had seen time and time again!  They bred a lot of champions and if I'm not mistaken were one of the more foundational kennels for the breed.   I just always thought it was pronounced Winderbourne.  So the more you know!  It really is a small, small world.  But I digress!  Enough about dogs. So how did all this information about the family's three children and a son dying get so…wrong?  I looked into the report a little deeper.  All the stories about the Totten family tragedies were not from written record but were instead from a 1978 personal interview with a Hershey Ayton.  While I love oral histories and I think they're great for personal experiences, preserving indigenous languages, and folklore…I do not believe they're great for accurately recording events before your lifetime from another family.  Now, perhaps Ayton was some type of authority on the subject and they have information we're not privy to…that cannot be known.  But, insofar as the documents available to me, since I cannot access a lot of paper records without visiting institutions in Maryland, it doesn't seem like their accounts are wholly accurate.  Alice Totten surely died very young but it was before the home was built and she was not, to my knowledge, a son. Another fascinating facet of this story is how Mary Totten got her money.  I won't go into it but Elias Howe does not get enough credit in these news stories.  Elias Howe while he was not the inventor of the sewing machine per say, he is the one that perfected it, creating the lockstitch sewing machine.  He was awarded the first patent for the device in 1846.  His machine included the three foundational mechanisms of modern sewing machines: a needle with the eye at the point instead of the back, an automatic feed, and a shuttle beneath the fabric to form the lock stitch. However, despite being awarded the patent he could not find investors in the United States and so went to England.  There were some business disputes and so despite selling the machine, he did not make any money.  Upon his return to the United States he found that many other entrepreneurs were selling and manufacturing sewing machines using his methods.  Most famously, he became embroiled, or maybe we'll say embroidered, in a court case lasting from 1849 to 1854 with none other than Isaac Singer of Singer machine fame.  Isaac Singer and Walter Hunt had perfected a version of Elias Howe's machine and were selling it with the exact lockstitch that Howe had invented and patented.  In the end, Howe won the lawsuit and gained a rather amazing deal in the process: he was able to collect royalties on all lockstitch sewing machines sold by not only Singer, but a number of other manufacturers as well.  This is how the Howe's became filthy, filthy rich.  Howe also patented the zipper, or as he called it, “automatic continuous clothing closure” which doesn't have the same ring to it.  He never pursued it seriously so he is not credited with its creation. Elias Howe died at age 48 of a massive blood clot in 1867.  So how did Mary Howe Totten receive his fortune?  Elias' first wife died, leaving him no children and Howe's brothers also died.  While Elias' did remarry, his cousin, Timothy Howe, Mary's father, became the heir to the fortune, which is eventually passed down to Mary herself.  Very convoluted, very confusing.  But extremely interesting nonetheless. Insofar as the ghosts of the mansion…if there are any…you could technically visit yourself.  But I do not recommend it, at least physically speaking.  It is still private property as Paxton Pickrell has been trying to sell it since 2004.  It was originally listed at 2 million dollars, dropping to 1.5, and then to 895,000.  It never sold.  It's very tragic since it is such a unique home, described by the Maryland historical document as “the only grand and elegant structure in the simple rural town of Boyds”  However, elegant it is no longer.  The gardens are overgrown, with some of the rare vegetation from the Totten's exotic gardens still flourishing.  Many people still come to the property, trespassing, I may add.  But lucky for you, if you're interested you can find many urban explorers who have recorded their visits.  Some of their personalities are grating while others are not, but you can explore the whole of the property through these videos.  Some people come because it's creepy, strangely many people visit for the abandoned muscle cars on the lawn.  Regardless of their motivations, it surely looks quite haunted…but I have not been able to locate any tales of real ghost sightings or encounters.  The real horror here is the home's history…or…the urban legend of it, rather. However, Paxton Pickrell, who grew up in the house said “That place to me was just a wonderful home” and was rather perturbed when the home was first published on a list of “the spookiest, creepiest old houses for sale in America” on a real estate website.  The house is dilapidated, the local government has purchased all the land surrounding it.  According to Pickrell, the county has been trying to take the 9 acres of the property and that his defiance in selling it is standing in the way of progress.  I stand with Pickrell on this one.  While the property itself may not be haunted, what remains is a skeleton of the past.  Once a place of grandeur and wealth, it sits covered in vines looking more like the home of the Addams family or the set of a Scooby Doo cartoon.  Daring urban explorers frequent the site to catch a glimpse into the past, and I recommend checking it out.  I will post some images of its current state on the podcast Instagram, @CrimesAndWitchDemeanors, but I also recommend checking out some of the videos.  It's eerie how many objects are still left in the house. But that is all for today's episode.  Please, if you enjoy the podcast, tell a friend or two, force them into listening by any means necessary.  Leave a review if you're particularly cool.  And until next time; don't slide down the bannister, adamantly defend your patents, and of course, stay curious, and stay spooky.  Bye~

Good morning, RVA! It’s 32 °F, and my weather app has lied to me, saying that it’s snowing right now. Today you can expect pretty much the opposite: Highs in the 50s and sunshine. Good New Day weather, for sure.Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 4,515 new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealthand 63 new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 496 new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 200, Henrico: 189, and Richmond: 107). Since this pandemic began, 634 people have died in the Richmond region. I’m still confused about the statewide case counts! The average number of new cases over the last two days is 4,521. The average number of new cases over last Monday through Friday was 4,756. Over the long weekend, though? 7,972. That seems weird, right? You definitely don’t see the same weekend spike in either the hospitalization or death numbers. Anyway, none of that really matters, at least not like this 23-page PDF the Biden Administration (!) released detailing the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The strategy is organized into seven broad goals, including Goal #2: “Mount a safe, effective, comprehensive vaccination campaign.” I’m cautiously excited about this supporting strategy: “the federal government—in partnership with state and local governments—will create…federally run community vaccination events.” Aside from needing straight up more vaccine, we also need more pathways for folks to get vaccinated—and that can’t just be asking local governments, health departments, and organizations to magically do more. Also, lots of folks will have opinions on Goal #5, to “Safely reopen schools, businesses, and travel, while protecting workers,” in which it specifically states that “The United States is committed to ensuring that students and educators are able to resume safe, in-person learning as quickly as possible, with the goal of getting a majority of K–8 schools safely open in 100 days.” For context, 100 days from now is May 1st, just 48 calendar days before the end of the 2021 school year. Anyway, it’s a good PDF and worth reading and tracking over the next couple of months. The New York Times has a summary if it’s a little too early in the morning for strategy documents.You’ll want to read this story in the RTD by Sabrina Moreno about a pharmacy in Chesterfield that would have conducted a vaccination clinic for more than 400 realtors and credit union workers had either 1) Moreno not started asking questions or 2) more vaccine been on hand. The Chesterfield Health District, like most of the Commonwealth, has moved into Phase 1b of their vaccination rollout, which includes frontline essential workers, folks aged over 65, and people with underlying conditions or disabilities that increase the risk of severe illness from COVID-19. I suppose you could argue that some of those 400 employees fall into the latter two categories. There’s also some statements from those involved about how maybe these 400 people would volunteer at future vaccination events, thereby making them a higher priority to vaccinate. Although: “…in a Tuesday email obtained by The Times-Dispatch, Joyner Fine Properties President John Stone did not once mention volunteer opportunities and called the event a ‘part of our outgoing efforts to support your safety and well-being as an essentially designated business.’” I’ve got a lot of feeling about this. To be clear, this is just me speaking as Ross the Person, but individuals and institutions need to think real hard before taking advantage of opportunities like this. Our actual frontline workers—bus operators, grocery store workers, teachers, and EMS—still haven’t had the chance to get vaccinated. Given the extremely limited supply of vaccine, folks need to take a minute and consider the implications of jumping to the front of the line.Today, Council’s Finance and Economic Development Committee will meet to discuss, among other things, ORD.2020–256 which would establish a Participatory Budgeting Steering Commission. Participatory Budgeting, or PB, is just what it sounds like: You, Jane Q. Citizen, participate in budgeting a chunk of the City’s money on small, local capital projects across the city. We’re always talking about how the City’s budget illustrates its priorities. Well, PB puts those priorities right into the public’s hands. The main goal of this specific ordinance is to formalize the commission that will set up and oversee the process. If you’re interested in that sort of wonkery, I recommend opening up the actual ordinance PDF and reading through the staff report beginning on page nine. If you’re interested but not “read through the actual ordinance PDF” interested, sit tight. Once finalized, the PB process should be open and accessible to the public—especially those that don’t want to read staff reports on legislation.Nerdy but cool: Henrico’s running a broadband survey where you can complete an internet speed test to help them track gaps in the County’s high-speed internet coverage. WRIC says its part of a county effort to bring broadband into communities not currently served!Do the two, totally unrelated Cobra-based restaurants need to go fight it out in the All-Valley Karate Championships? I don’t know how much more of this our streets can handle!The Richmond and Henrico Health Districts will host a free community testing event today at Regency Square (1420 N. Parham Road) from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM. If you’re in need of a COVID-19 test through the health districts, you can now register online!This morning’s longreadWhat Joe Biden Can’t Bring Himself to SayHere’s an honest piece from one year ago about Biden’s stutter that felt good to read today.After trying and failing at speech therapy in kinder­garten, Biden waged a personal war on his stutter in his bedroom as a young teen. He’d hold a flashlight to his face in front of his bedroom mirror and recite Yeats and Emerson with attention to rhythm, searching for that elusive control. He still knows the lines by heart: “Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.” Biden performs the passage for me with total fluency, knowing where and when to pause, knowing how many words he can say before needing a breath. This is what stutterers learn to do: reclaim control of their airflow; think in full phrases, not individual words. I ask Biden what his moment of dread used to be in that essay.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

President of Karen Michael, PLC Karen Michael disucsses that on Monday, Karen published a new Column in the Times-Dispatch on how businesses can voluntarily provide paid sick leave in exchange for tax credits.

70 years ago today with Bing! Der Bingle will try to demonstrate that Bing (Sagalong) Crosby is somebody to be reckoned with too, when William Boyd, CBS’ Hopalong Cassidy, is guest on the CBS Bing Crosby Show at 9:30 p.m. Crosby’s vocal guest is to be Peggy Lee… (The Times Dispatch, 13th December, 1950) No. 46  13th December 1950  (a)        Transcribed in Hollywood (9th December 1950).  Announced by Ken Carpenter.  With Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, Peggy Lee and Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd).   *Chesterfield Jingle                                         with Rhythmaires *Where The Blue Of The Night                      Opening Theme   Comedy Dialogue                                         Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee *A Bushel And A Peck                      (b)        with Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires *And You’ll Be Home                        (c)        with Rhythmaires   Orange Coloured Sky                                   Peggy Lee   Comedy Dialogue                                         Bing Crosby & Hopalong Cassidy   ‘Smoking Guns’ Sketch                                Bing Crosby, Hopalong Cassidy, Peggy Lee & Ken Carpenter *Silver Bells                                        (d)       with Peggy Lee & Rhythmaires *Chesterfield Jingle                                         with Rhythmaires        *White Christmas                                (e)       with Rhythmaires   Where The Blue Of The Night                       Closing Theme

In 1913, New York publicist John Duval Gluck founded an association to answer Santa's mail. For 15 years its volunteers fulfilled children's Christmas wishes, until Gluck's motivation began to shift. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the rise and fall of "Santa's Secretary" in New York City. We'll also survey some splitting trains and puzzle over a difference between twins. Intro: Edward Lear once had to prove his own existence. Paul Dirac proposed that a math problem could be solved with -2 fish. Sources for our feature on John Duval Gluck and the Santa Claus Association: Alex Palmer, The Santa Claus Man: The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Age Con Man and the Invention of Christmas in New York, 2015. Harry Pelle Hartkemeier, John Duvall Gluck, and Emma Croft Germond, "Social Science and Belief," Social Science 9:2 (April 1934), 202-208. Eve M. Kahn, "'Mama Says That Santa Claus Does Not Come to Poor People,'" New York Times, Nov. 26, 2015. Alex Palmer, "Meet the Con Artist Who Popularized Writing to Santa Claus," New York Post, Sept. 20, 2015. Kathleen Read, "What Becomes of Santa Claus Letters?", [Washington, D.C.] Evening Star, Dec. 21, 1930, 3. "'Santa Claus' Gluck Ignores His Critics," New York Times, Dec. 11, 1928. "Submits Accounting on Santa Claus Fund," New York Times, Jan. 11, 1928. "Santa Claus Group Again Balks Inquiry," New York Times, Dec. 31, 1927. "Santa Claus, Inc., Now Offers Books," New York Times, Dec. 25, 1927. "Santa Claus Group in Postal Inquiry," New York Times, Dec. 24, 1927. "Santa Claus Group Under Coler's Fire," New York Times, Dec. 23, 1927. "Now the Santa Claus Letters Are Falling Into the Mail," New York Times, Dec. 4, 1927. "Santa Claus Association Will Send Gifts To 12,000 Poor Children Who Wrote Letters," New York Times, Dec. 20, 1925. "Thousands Write Santa," Richmond [Va.] Times-Dispatch, Dec. 21, 1919, 4. "Probe Upholds Contentions of the Boy Scout Leaders," Harrisburg [Pa.] Telegraph, Aug. 24, 1917. John Duval Gluck, "Boy Scouts: Suggestion That the Rival Bodies End Their Quarrel and Get to Work," New York Times, Aug. 19, 1917. Max Abelman and John Duval Gluck, "Methods Proposed to Control Charity; Plans for a Charity Service League," New York Times, Aug. 5, 1917. "Making Santa Real to Poor Children," New York Times, Nov. 22, 1914. "Santa Claus Association Incorporated," New York Times, March 26, 1914. "Played Santa Claus and Solved an Economic Problem," New York Times, Jan. 18, 1914. "Letters to Santa Really Answered," New York Times, Dec. 25, 1913. "Plays Santa Claus to Poor," New York Times, Dec. 12, 1913. "Santa Claus Will Answer His Mail," New York Times, Dec. 7, 1913. "Form Santa Claus Body," New York Times, Dec. 6, 1913. USPS Operation Santa. Listener mail: Wikipedia, "S1 (Munich)" (accessed Aug. 22, 2020). S1 (Munich) schedule. Wikipedia, "Dividing Train" (accessed Sept. 17, 2020). "France in Detail: Getting Around," Lonely Planet, accessed Aug. 22, 2020. "'Where the Train Will Divide...' - Portion Working," Southern Electric Group (accessed Aug. 22, 2020). Wikitravel, "Wakayama" (accessed Aug. 22, 2020). Amtrak Empire Builder schedule, March 16, 2020. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Sharon. Here are two corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Times-Dispatch's Mike Barber and guest host Michael Phillips welcome Richmond radio personality Greg Burton to the podcast to talk about rivalries. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch sports reporter Mike Barber and columnist David Teel are joined by Wes McElroy of Sports Radio 910 The Fan Wes McElroy 17:00 Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics editor Andrew Cain and Jeff Schapiro, politics editor, preview this weekend's candidate guide in which Democrats and Republicans running in the Richmond area for the House of Delegates and Virginia Senate lay out their views and concerns. The guide, available in print and online, is a collaboration with the newspaper's opinion section, led by Pamela Stallsmith. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics reporter Patrick Wilson and Jeff Schapiro, politics columnist, discuss the state Senate candidacies of Republican Amanda Chase and Democrat Joe Morrissey. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch metro columnist Michael Paul Williams and politics columnist Jeff Schapiro discuss the controversies that have ensnared Levar Stoney and what they might mean for the political future of Richmond's millennial mayor. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Historian Brent Tarter discusses with Jeff Schapiro, Times-Dispatch politics columnist, the long history in the Old Dominion of legislative and congressional gerrymandering. Then and now, it's been driven by political rivalries, regional tension and racial hostility. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guns as a political target: The make-up of the legislature will decide whether Virginia remains guns friendly, despite the Virginia Beach mass shooting that left 12 dead. Philip Van Cleave of the Virginia Citizens Defense League discusses the stakes for the gun lobby with Jeff Schapiro, Times-Dispatch politics columnist. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the latest Capitol Chat podcast, Times-Dispatch politics reporters Michael Martz, Mel Leonor and Patrick Wilson discuss with columnist Jeff Schapiro the partisan eruptions in Jamestown and Richmond that overshadowed the state's $24 million birthday party for American democracy, established 400 years ago in Virginia. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Graham Moomaw, Times-Dispatch politics reporter, and columnist Jeff Schapiro discuss the controversial invitation to President Donald Trump – from Republicans and Democrats – to speak at Jamestown on the 400th anniversary of the birth there of American representative government. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom Kapsidelis, the former Times-Dispatch editor who supervised the newspaper's initial coverage of the mass slaying, discusses his book on the tragedy and its aftermath, After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch education reporter Justin Mattingly joins Jeff Schapiro to look at the education bills that have drawn the attention of Virginia's General Assembly Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics editor Andrew Cain joins Jeff Schapiro in a discussion of the stories to watch in the 2019 GA in Virginia Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch political reporters Graham Moomaw and Michael Martz join Jeff Schapiro in a look at the 2019 agenda for the General Assembly on Capitol Chat Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch reporter Michael Martz joins Jeff Schapiro to talk about Gov. Ralph Northam's budget proposals Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics reporter Graham Moomaw and Jeff Schapiro, politics columnist, discuss the latest twist in the long-running legal fight over House of Delegates boundaries as well as House Democrats' new, historic leader: Eileen Filler-Corn, the first woman in either party to lead a Virginia legislative caucus. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics editor Andrew Cain and politics columnist Jeff Schapiro discuss the late president's long shadow over Virginia. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch reporter Michael Martz joins Jeff Schapiro to talk about Amazon's second headquarters arrival in northern Virginia Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics editor Andrew Cain joins columnist Jeff Schapiro in an examination of the political races we're watching in Virginia. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Politics columnist Jeff Schapiro and Times-Dispatch reporter Graham Moomaw discuss efforts designed to slowly move toward legal cannabis in the state. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Times-Dispatch politics columnist Jeff Schapiro is joined by Metro columnist Michael Paul Williams in a discussion of some of the hurdles Richmond faces in the quest to rename The Boulevard in honor of Richmonder Arthur Ashe. Support the show: http://www.richmond.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hobbit sits down with The Last Gang (Fat Wreck Chords) to talk about their new full length, the Punk in Drublic tour, their influences, and bad food choices on the road. Check out The Last Gang on tour, and pick up their LP "Keep Them Coming" on Fat Wreck Chords! https://www.thelastgang.com/ http://www.fatwreck.com/ https://punkindrublicfest.com/ _________________________________________________ Join Us Every 1st and 3rd Monday at Fallout, and every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Wonderland for GUI Trivia! 8-10 pm www.facebook.com/FalloutGUITrivia/ www.facebook.com/WonderlandTrivia/ Nominate your favorite GUI Network show in the Times-Dispatch 2018 "Best of Richmond" Podcast category! http://richmond.secondstreetapp.com/2018-The-Best-2/gallery/?category=1496913 GUI Home - www.guipodcast.com GUI Hotline: (804) 505-4GUI (4484) (Message & data rates may apply) Thanks to our sponsors: Emily Cee Digital Design: www.emilycee.com Support GUI by shopping Amazon - amzn.to/2cg3FF8 Support GUI by subscribing to Lootcrate - lootcrate.7eer.net/c/317432/237077/4019 Twitter - twitter.com/GUIPodcastRVA Facebook - www.facebook.com/guipodcastrva/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/geeksundertheinfluence/

Hobbit talks with Mad Caddies guitarist Sascha Lazor (Fat Wreck Chords) about gateway rock 'n' roll, The Punk in Drublic tour, staying relevant, and the "weird beer" that is The Mad Caddies. Check out The Mad Caddies on tour, and pick up their cover album "Punk Rocksteady" on Fat Wreck Chords June 15th! http://madcaddies.com/ www.fatwreck.com/ punkindrublicfest.com/ _________________________________________________ Come out for Off-The-Wall Movies @The Circuit 5/31!! www.facebook.com/events/1533588650282008/ Join Us Every 1st and 3rd Monday at Fallout, and every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at Wonderland for GUI Trivia! 8-10 pm www.facebook.com/FalloutGUITrivia/ www.facebook.com/WonderlandTrivia/ Nominate your favorite GUI Network show in the Times-Dispatch 2018 "Best of Richmond" Podcast category! http://richmond.secondstreetapp.com/2018-The-Best-2/gallery/?category=1496913 GUI Home - www.guipodcast.com GUI Hotline: (804) 505-4GUI (4484) (Message & data rates may apply) Thanks to our sponsors: Emily Cee Digital Design: www.emilycee.com Support GUI by shopping Amazon - amzn.to/2cg3FF8 Support GUI by subscribing to Lootcrate - lootcrate.7eer.net/c/317432/237077/4019 Twitter - twitter.com/GUIPodcastRVA Facebook - www.facebook.com/guipodcastrva/ Instagram - www.instagram.com/geeksundertheinfluence/

Basketball season starts TONIGHT! Preview of Virginia game with Jerry Radcliffe of the Daily Progress and Michael Barber of the Times Dispatch.

On October 20 at noon, Bob Brown and Bill Lohmann delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “On the Back Roads Again: More People, Places, and Pie Around Virginia.” Head out on the back roads of Virginia again with Richmond Times-Dispatch senior photographer Bob Brown and columnist Bill Lohmann as they encounter memorable characters, explore charming places, and search for their next piece of pie in their new book, On the Back Roads Again: More People, Places, and Pie from Around Virginia. Featuring Brown’s award-winning photographs and Lohmann’s good-humored commentary, this lecture will lead us on a casual journey to many of the places that make Virginia unique. Bob Brown, a Rockbridge County native, joined the Richmond Times-Dispatch photo staff in 1968 after working in television for the previous 10 years. Bill Lohmann, an award-winning columnist and a Richmond native, has worked for the Times-Dispatch and, previously, the Richmond News Leader since 1988. He also has reported for United Press International in Richmond, Orlando, and Atlanta, and he began his career as a sports writer for the Charlottesville Daily Progress.

...in which Rex and Paul talk about the arrival of TV in certain parts of rural Arkansas, Paul's first trip to Memphis, radio stations in northeast Arkansas, the Ozark Journal, Times-Dispatch, Memphis Press-Scimitar, Commercial Appeal, Jonesboro Sun, Sentinel Record, Hot Springs New Era, Texarkana Gazette, Paul's paper route, Oaklawn, Pete's Newstand in Pocahontas, Red's and Woody's in Arkadelphia, drink boxes and questionable magazines at newstands, Jeff Root's discovery of a signed copy of the play Our Town at Woody's on its last day in business, Rex's performance in Our Town at Ouachita Baptist University, Paul's award-winning performance in Grandpa's Red Pajamas at the Lawrence County 4-H festival, Rex's taxing performance in Damn Yankees, Paul's disastrous experience playing the male lead in Our Miss Brooks at Sloan-Hendrix High School in Imboden, how Rex and Paul made it onscreen in Larry Foley's documentary First Boys of Spring, on spring training in Hot Springs, the Bulldog, Who Dats, and Kelly's in Bald Knob, strawberry shortcake, catfish, Trio's in Little Rock, and the proper base for strawberry shortcake (pie crust, not cake).