I can't help but think that a good way to know a large group of adults secrets is to spend your days around their kids who don't realize they are spilling secrets. Like in a school.
Listening to this while working in Circleville. Goosebumps! Great work on this by the way, glad I found your channel. Your voice is perfect for this sort of thing but I’m sure you have been told that often.
I was in Ms. Vicky Cocke's class and remember all of us kids being asked if anyone saw a stranger near the school in the days before her murder...Has anyone ever been accused or tried for it??? Thank you...Have a great day...
Do you know what, I never actually considered that, but it's actually a fair point! lol Not sure a 14-year-old could have afforded to send that many letters!
@@DarkHistories Not really. Postage rate in 1975 was 10 cents. It went up to 13 cents in December of that year, and 15 cents in 1978. Even at 15 cents per letter for 1000 letters, that comes to $150 spread over 20 years, that's $7.5 per year And if the letter writer worked in an office (or a school), the stamps could be gotten from office supplies and no one would noticed much less cared. And if the writer was a postman...
Let's see. There was somebody who somehow got to know very personal information about many in Circleville. This person had time to write thousands of letters which, although brought much pain to the recipients, brought no return to the writer. And the person was able to pull off a set up by successfully stealing someone's gun without anybody noticing. Above all, the person thought of one specific relationship to be so much of importance that he/she was ready to kill for it. What's going on with these people?
Pramod Herath If it was Paul's ex wife then she got everything she knew she was going to loose. Hell hath no fury...... Perhaps she should have got a franking machine.
Thanks for the correction! I try and search out funky looking pronunciations before I read the scripts but sometimes I get out with the more basic ones. Cheers for letting me know!
It was Sheriff Redcliffe, ...all along. He loved being the centre of attention in a tiny, no-where, be-nothing town, over looked for promotion and snubbed by Gillespie.
After Mary found the boobie-trap I started to suspect her. She wanted Massey to leave his wife, so she wrote the letters. But then Paul's letter to the FBI was the sort of accusation filled ramblings of the letter writer. lol What if people all over town started writing letters to out their neighbors while Paul was in jail! (I could go on)
So was Mary and Karen sisters?? Ron and Paul were brother in laws. So I'm assuming either Ron and Karen were siblings or Mary and Karen were. It wouldn't make since that Karen would move to Mary's if they weren't siblings??
Ron's sister Karen was married to Paul. They & his sister were the 3 initially engaged by Ron & Mary to help out with the problem. Mary & Karen both wanted their partners gone; one way or another. Mary, because she was having an affair & Karen because she wanted the spoils of divorce.
I can't help but think that a good way to know a large group of adults secrets is to spend your days around their kids who don't realize they are spilling secrets. Like in a school.
Or on a bus...
Listening to this while working in Circleville. Goosebumps! Great work on this by the way, glad I found your channel. Your voice is perfect for this sort of thing but I’m sure you have been told that often.
Oh, that must be a bit weird, ask around to see if anyone received a letter back in the day! :D Thanks very much for listening and your kind words!
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I was in Ms. Vicky Cocke's class and remember all of us kids being asked if anyone saw a stranger near the school in the days before her murder...Has anyone ever been accused or tried for it??? Thank you...Have a great day...
I know the writer of the those letters ...
It was Rikishi . He did it for The Rock !!
That's a lot of postage stamps.
Do you know what, I never actually considered that, but it's actually a fair point! lol Not sure a 14-year-old could have afforded to send that many letters!
They should of went to the post office to see who was buying so many stamps. Cause that's more than NORMAL amounts bought by anyone.
@@DarkHistories Not really. Postage rate in 1975 was 10 cents. It went up to 13 cents in December of that year, and 15 cents in 1978. Even at 15 cents per letter for 1000 letters, that comes to $150 spread over 20 years, that's $7.5 per year And if the letter writer worked in an office (or a school), the stamps could be gotten from office supplies and no one would noticed much less cared. And if the writer was a postman...
Let's see. There was somebody who somehow got to know very personal information about many in Circleville. This person had time to write thousands of letters which, although brought much pain to the recipients, brought no return to the writer. And the person was able to pull off a set up by successfully stealing someone's gun without anybody noticing. Above all, the person thought of one specific relationship to be so much of importance that he/she was ready to kill for it. What's going on with these people?
Pramod Herath If it was Paul's ex wife then she got everything she knew she was going to loose. Hell hath no fury...... Perhaps she should have got a franking machine.
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Were the accusations in the letters true? Did the writer have actual knowledge or was s/he making up malicious gossip?
Probably a she. After all, men don't make up malicious gossip or even share true gossip
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You’re joking, right???😂😂
Small detail...that's Lima, as in Li-ma. We like to mispronounce things in Ohia.
Thanks for the correction! I try and search out funky looking pronunciations before I read the scripts but sometimes I get out with the more basic ones. Cheers for letting me know!
Dark Histories Don’t get us started on Medina (meh-DYE-na) or Lancaster (LANK-as-ter).
Or Hilliard (HILL-yard) and Newark (Nu-erk)
Ellington Moose If you ask actually residents of Newark, OH, it’s NERK.
Were the letters processed for dna evidence, or did they not believe in that? Did he file a police report on his stolen gun?
My money is on Mary Gillespie
Yep. Absolutely 💯
It was Sheriff Redcliffe, ...all along. He loved being the centre of attention in a tiny, no-where, be-nothing town, over looked for promotion and snubbed by Gillespie.
No. It was a woman. Probably Mary. Men don't gossip like women; and certainly don't send threatening letters containing gossip.
After Mary found the boobie-trap I started to suspect her. She wanted Massey to leave his wife, so she wrote the letters. But then Paul's letter to the FBI was the sort of accusation filled ramblings of the letter writer. lol What if people all over town started writing letters to out their neighbors while Paul was in jail! (I could go on)
I got that feeling too... I think its her.
It was a woman. It was Mary.
Someone who knows it all and has a conscious of some type... Search the church.
So was Mary and Karen sisters?? Ron and Paul were brother in laws. So I'm assuming either Ron and Karen were siblings or Mary and Karen were. It wouldn't make since that Karen would move to Mary's if they weren't siblings??
Maybe they had been childhood friends, or just became close after marrying into each other's families.
Ron's sister Karen was married to Paul. They & his sister were the 3 initially engaged by Ron & Mary to help out with the problem. Mary & Karen both wanted their partners gone; one way or another. Mary, because she was having an affair & Karen because she wanted the spoils of divorce.