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Monday Jan 13, 2020
Monday Jan 13, 2020
On this episode I speak with author Dale Perelman.
In the summer of 1978, a mother and her four-year-old were stabbed to death in the quiet town of New Castle. Police suspected the husband, Lou Kadunce, but were unable to find either a weapon or a motive. Sitting in a Lawrence County jail in 1981, convicted serial killer Michael Atkinson accused Frank Costal—a carny, petty thief and Satanist—of having an affair with the Kadunce husband and participating in the murder. A series of intense trials ensued as Costal was convicted of the homicides and a jury found the husband not guilty. Questions surrounding the case gripped the region and grabbed headlines in the Pittsburgh Press. Author Dale Richard Perelman tells this tragic story.
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And there’s some theories on what they were looking for too. One that I just recently heard. But either way, they took two innocent lives that day.
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Beverly Withers and Robert Withers were my grandparents. I was going to share some of the details, but it will only let we type so many words on here, but basically it was that group of guys. One of them confessed on their death bed to their mom and she talked them into confessing to the detective some summers back, but it must of never happened. The motive was they were looking for something that was in the house that night that belonged to the girls parents that my Grandmother was babysitting
Tuesday May 03, 2022
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