Secret drug labs; Satanic rituals; a "pleasure chamber"; and a portrait that allegedly predicted their death. It’s a lot…and some of it is actually true.
On this episode we’ll examine how Charles Scudder and Joey Odom became fictional characters in their own stories and try to recover the humanity from the tall tales. We’ll also look at what happens when well-intentioned attempts to correct the conservative bias introduces a new bias of its own.
A major source for this episode: The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia by Amy Petulla.
0:00 - Intro
2:08 - Alleged History
12:08 - The Corpsewood Curse
15:35 - Media Bias & the "Documentary"
18:12 - The Real Charles Scudder & Joey Odom
24:32 - What the Trion Townspeople Thought
25:44 - The Dark Side of Corpsewood
27:45 - The Murderers
30:04 - The Plot
31:35 - The Fateful Night
38:47 - The Aftermath
41:01 - Outro
42:45 - Charles Playing His Harp
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