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Ep. 44: The Colorado Hammer Killer

July 03, 2024 Jess and Hannah Season 1 Episode 44
Ep. 44: The Colorado Hammer Killer
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Ep. 44: The Colorado Hammer Killer
Jul 03, 2024 Season 1 Episode 44
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Join us as we recount the chilling true crime saga of the Colorado Hammer Killer. Experience the terrifying narrative of the brutal attacks on Jim and Kim Haubenschild Patricia Smith, and the Bennett family, with a heart-wrenching focus on the lone survivor's lifelong struggle. Our detailed recounting of these events, coupled with the community's efforts to support the survivor, paints a vivid picture of resilience amid unimaginable horror.

We then examine the crimes of Alex Ewing, a man whose violent spree spanned several states, leaving investigators stumped for decades. Hear about the challenges faced by law enforcement and the relentless violence that marked Ewing's brief yet devastating period on the run. As we wrap up this riveting episode, we extend our heartfelt thanks to our listeners, encouraging you to stay curious, keep exploring, and always keep on wandering with us.

Sources:
https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/blame/alex-ewing-court-outburst/73-48434654-4760-4daf-a260-c8bcd84e3e47

https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/Arapahoe/Cases_of_Interest/Ewing%20DA%20Motion%202%20Complaint%20and%20Information%20Redacted.pdf

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/07/alex-ewing-hammer-killer-guilty-patricia-smith/amp/

People Investigates: Colorado Hammer Killer season 6 episode 5

https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/a-timeline-of-the-january-1984-hammer-attacks-in-the-denver-area/73-583980475

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Join us as we recount the chilling true crime saga of the Colorado Hammer Killer. Experience the terrifying narrative of the brutal attacks on Jim and Kim Haubenschild Patricia Smith, and the Bennett family, with a heart-wrenching focus on the lone survivor's lifelong struggle. Our detailed recounting of these events, coupled with the community's efforts to support the survivor, paints a vivid picture of resilience amid unimaginable horror.

We then examine the crimes of Alex Ewing, a man whose violent spree spanned several states, leaving investigators stumped for decades. Hear about the challenges faced by law enforcement and the relentless violence that marked Ewing's brief yet devastating period on the run. As we wrap up this riveting episode, we extend our heartfelt thanks to our listeners, encouraging you to stay curious, keep exploring, and always keep on wandering with us.

Sources:
https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/blame/alex-ewing-court-outburst/73-48434654-4760-4daf-a260-c8bcd84e3e47

https://www.courts.state.co.us/userfiles/file/Court_Probation/18th_Judicial_District/Arapahoe/Cases_of_Interest/Ewing%20DA%20Motion%202%20Complaint%20and%20Information%20Redacted.pdf

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/04/07/alex-ewing-hammer-killer-guilty-patricia-smith/amp/

People Investigates: Colorado Hammer Killer season 6 episode 5

https://www.9news.com/article/news/investigations/a-timeline-of-the-january-1984-hammer-attacks-in-the-denver-area/73-583980475

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I've seen Spaceballs.

Rob:

Oh, there we go.

Jess:

We're surrounded by assholes.

Rob:

Which they're coming out with a part two for Spaceballs.

Hannah:

No, and who's the?

Rob:

director Mel Brooks. Mel Brooks, and he has nothing to do with the second one, but he gave the A-OK for it to come out.

Jess:

Well then it's not going to be funny Frankenstein. Oh, chef's kiss, or Franken whatever Young Frankenstein Chef's Kiss Young.

Hannah:

Frankenstein. What's Gray's?

Rob:

and.

Hannah:

Hawker's, it's not Igor it's I-gor.

Rob:

Abby Normal.

Jess:

Walk this.

Rob:

Way. What's that? One from Scotland. Outlander no no, the one in that same one. We went to the castle.

Hannah:

Mighty Python. That's completely different though.

Rob:

Isn't that something? Mel Brooks? No? Oh yeah, mighty python, mighty python.

Hannah:

That's completely different, though that's not a mel brooks, no no but that is a classic that I I could watch over and over again.

Jess:

It's so funny so that lots of good one-liners yeah what's the uh castle called dune dune?

Rob:

castle dune castle.

Hannah:

They actually sell coconuts there because of the movie because of the movie I bought them for my youngest brother when we went and then they also sell stuff for outlander because they film there.

Rob:

I actually believe the, the whipping scene nope, that was the castle on the.

Hannah:

Technically really well, it was a castle but it had the rockiness to it. It was on the water. I can't remember the name, but dune castle, I believe, was where they did the whole sex scene.

Rob:

That was really rough. I knew, I knew there was something. The wedding night.

Jess:

You're right no, the one that happened with oh, captain randall, yeah, I only watched that once and yeah, we've not been able to, you know I've never watched it I left the room and I still haven't watched it.

Hannah:

I don't know if I can so it was a tour through your headphones, but the woman that was running the gift shop said that they showed us where they were doing those scenes and it was only the director, sam hewan, and whatever the actor is that place or what's his butt yeah, it was only the three people in there I do remember that there was only, there was very limited people. Yeah, there's only three people, but I still haven't watched it. I have no desire to watch it.

Jess:

There's just yeah. It's yeah. I've only watched it once. I've re-watched the wedding episode like multiple times.

Hannah:

Oh my God, we had our girls night right. The six of us were sitting around just watching his ass on the screen. Oh my God, okay.

Jess:

Hi, I'm Jess and I'm Hannah. Join us as we delve into true crime, paranormal encounters and all things spooky.

Hannah:

So grab your flashlight and get ready to wander into the darkness with us.

Jess:

This is Wicked Wanderings. Hello Hannah, hello Jessicaica, how's it going? It's going, are you sure? I'm good? I'm good, I am excited to talk about this case. Okay, I'm excited to hear it because this happened close to where I lived in colorado a lot of shit happened to you wherever you lived. I know right it follows you. This was literally two miles from where I lived, like one of them was.

Hannah:

And was it recent enough where you would have known about it?

Jess:

I was two years old when it happened. Oh, but my parents remember when this happened. Oh yeah, so we'll get into it. Interesting. I am going to tell you the story of the colorado hammer killer. Oh, that sounds brutal. Yeah, it was.

Jess:

It really was blood everywhere in all of these cases yeah, on january 4th 1984 at approximately 1 am, jim Hobbinshield had joined his wife Kim in bed for the night. He was up making some tapes and for those youngins out there who don't know what that means, he was putting music on cassette tapes and, sadly, if you don't know the excitement of rushing to the radio to hit record when your favorite song came on, you have not lived. Granted, I think what he was doing was a little more high-tech than that, but you know, he probably had the big stereo system with like multiple subwoofers.

Hannah:

My parents had one of those with like the glass door on it yeah, super fancy.

Jess:

Like the glass door on it yeah, super fancy. About an hour and a half later, around 2.30, kim woke up with pain in her head and she saw a figure standing at the end of her bed. She sat up and the figure lifted his arm and she started screaming. He then threw the hammer at her and fled the house. Jim took off after him and Kim called the police. When the police arrived, they found that both Kim and Jim oh Ouch. While the couple was in the hospital, the police investigation started. They discovered that the intruder had made it into the house through their open garage. They found footprints in the snow leading to the neighbor's house, but then continued on and the police followed and found Kim's purse dumped with all the contents all over, as the attacker dropped it when he was running from the scene. The Hoppenshields had just moved to that home, not even a year before, and homes around there were still being running from the scene. The Hoppin' Shields had just moved to that home, not even a year before, and homes around there were still being built in the neighborhood and it was considered a good neighborhood at the time, and it was a time where people left their doors unlocked and garage doors open, because stuff like this didn't happen.

Jess:

Six days later, on January 10th, the hammer-yielding douche would strike again. Patricia Smith and her daughter, sherry, with her two kids, had moved into a townhome in a new development in Lakewood, colorado Forgot to mention that the Hobbinshields lived in Aurora, colorado, and this was Lakewood. I think they were like a 25-mile distance. Patricia was an interior designer and on her way to work she would drop Sherry off at the park and ride so Sherry could take the bus to work At the end of the workday. Sherry arrived back at the park and ride and her mom was nowhere to be found. She waited around for a while. Maybe her mom was running late, but she ended up calling her cousin to come pick her up because she had to pick up her kids at the daycare. They eventually arrived home at 6 pm and Sherry walked in with the kids, where they saw Patricia lying within six feet of the door laying in a pool of blood. And what's sad about this is that one of the kids' Winnie the Pooh blankets was over her face. Sherry grabbed the kids and ran to the neighbor's house to call 911.

Jess:

When police arrived, they discovered Patricia laying on her back with the blanket covering her face. She was partially clothed and there was a bloody hammer right next to her head. There was blood by the front door and it seemed like the assailant had attacked her right as she walked in. There was no sign of forced entry and Sherry did notice that the garage was open. When she arrived home, patricia received 17 wounds to the head and there was evidence of sexual assault. Patricia's cause of death was blunt force trauma.

Jess:

On the same day, january 10th, 25 miles back to aurora, a frontier airlines flight attendant, donna home, was getting home from work when she pulled into her garage. She opened her door and she was hit in the temple. She was pulled out of the car and attacked in the garage and she spent hours bleeding on the garage floor. There was blood in her car and all over the floor and there was a blood trail from the garage through the front door up to the stairs. To donna and her boyfriend at the time, who they ended up getting married. So she survives.

Hannah:

So there's a little good news.

Jess:

Yes and um to her bedroom, where donna was found 24 hours later by her boyfriend rob when he got home from work. She was a flight attendant and I think he was a pilot for frontier. Oh, donna was still alive somehow in bed, covered in blood and incoherent. She was rushed to the hospital and put in icu and like I said, she would survive her injuries. She experienced traumatic damage to her head and experienced short-term memory loss, and she still doesn't remember the full attack as.

Jess:

As of the People Investigates episode on this case, which is the main source that I used for this episode.

Hannah:

Do we think that has to do with the physical brain trauma or do you think it's the brain protecting?

Jess:

I think it's the physical brain trauma Because she had.

Hannah:

I think she had to have surgery, I can't remember, but in the episode it shows her a picture of her after and her whole head was covered in bandages and everything and I you know this is going back a little bit, but forensic wise, I'm always curious how they know how many times somebody was stabbed or hit with something like 17 times, like. How do you determine that? Yeah, I mean do you know?

Jess:

I don't know, I'm just. I'm assuming it's the wounds in the skull.

Hannah:

Yeah, because I'd imagine an impact wound would be different than like a shattering or you know it's true, because I guess if you hit this person the same time in the same spot three times, obviously it looks different three times.

Jess:

But I was, I'm curious you know, my, my sister-in-law has a friend who's a forensic pathologist hello, come visit us here.

Hannah:

We're wondering.

Jess:

Yes, please are weird questions. The police found a ball-peen hammer in the driver's side of Donna's car and there was also evidence of sexual assault. Oh again, Mm-hmm, Once again. Six days later, On January 16, 1984, the worst was about to come, and this one was the one that was within two miles of my house that I grew up in. Bruce and Deborah Bennett had failed to show up to work at the family's business. Bruce's mom goes over to their house and she finds the garage door open with both cards inside. Deborah's purse is dumped outside the garage door, contents laying nearby. She walks into the house from the door in the garage and finds Bruce lying nearby, not moving, in a pile of blood.

Jess:

The attacker first attacked Bruce at the top of the stairs and they fought. I can imagine Bruce fighting for his life, trying to protect his family. You see, it wasn't just Bruce and Debra in the house. They had two daughters as well, Eight-year-old Melissa and three-year-old Vanessa. Bruce fought like hell and there was blood everywhere. They had fallen down the stairs where Bruce eventually found his end. Not only was he hit with a hammer, but his throat was also slit.

Hannah:

Is he changing his MO mo?

Jess:

I think it was because bruce fought him so much, because all the other ones he was able to incapacitate him like right away, and bruce put up a fight and so, like the original case that you talked about, where he just threw the hammer and fled, it was because they woke up yeah, they were in bed when he attacked they were asleep so obviously the police were contacted and they arrived to begin their investigation.

Jess:

They look further into the house and in the master bedroom they find Deborah Bennett lying next to the bed with massive trauma to her head. Half of the bed, as well as the floor, obviously covered in blood. Deborah is tangled up in bedding and is partially clothed. There is an outline of a bloody hammer on the floor and the police think that she was pulled to the end of the bed where she was struck in the head multiple times. The attacker also pulled out the drawers and ransacked them, looking for any valuables.

Hannah:

So do you get into like? Why Like? Is the purpose to rob or is it just both? I want to say it's both, and there is evidence for that later and it are you talking about, if it's like just an opportunity type thing, or is he targeting these?

Jess:

people. I think he's picking people at random based on, like, if the garage door is open. To be honest right yeah. Next, the investigators went into the girls room, which seems to be the worst part of the crime. Oh fuck me eight-year-old melissa was lying on her back, with her hands above her head, on the floor between the two beds, on top of a blood-soaked comforter, and there were clear signs of sexual assault come on, yeah, this guy was a dick like I was literally hoping that he wouldn't touch the kids like any of that.

Hannah:

Any of it's wrong.

Jess:

But freaking kids, man, it just. It just puts a different spin on it when children are involved. It totally does it doesn't help.

Hannah:

That mean both of us work with children in some capacity, so pisses me off.

Jess:

Vanessa was found between her bed and the wall and there were blood on the wall, the blankets and even her teddy bear. But three-year-old Vanessa was still alive, despite having multiple injuries to her head, and she was rushed to the hospital and she also had evidence of sexual assault. This guy needs his dick cut off, is all I'm saying.

Hannah:

Dick balls everything he should piss into a bag for the rest of his life.

Jess:

Or just not even a bag. He's forced to let it drip down his leg for the rest of his life. Yeah, seriously, what is sad about this story? I mean the entire thing is sad. But the night before they had celebrated Melissa's birthday at a house, and Bruce's brothers who were at the party had told police that when they left at 9 pm the garage door was still open. After searching the crime scene, the police found a box cutter in the house that I think was used in attempt to incapacitate Bruce. But they also found a butcher knife dropped in the snow in the front yard with Bruce's blood on it. The knife was from the family's kitchen, so in this sense they were crime of, you know, weapons of opportunity, Right?

Hannah:

So before he took his own like pocket knife or whatever.

Jess:

Well, he would take his own hammer and they talk about later on the weapons being low threshold weapons, because it was something that was easily accessible, that's cheap, that you can't really track and it was easy to hide.

Hannah:

Right, but you had. There was another one where the their throats were slit, so was that? It was just Bruce's? The other one I thought there was, there was kids that had their throats cut. Okay, all right, never mind the kids were hit in the head with the hammer.

Jess:

When the news spread that Vanessa had survived the attack, the community rallied together to pay for her medical bills, which is awesome. She was raised by her grandparents and she had to learn how to walk and talk and do everything all over again grandparents and she had to learn how to walk and talk and do everything all over again. What is really sad, but honestly kind of understandable, is that Vanessa would go on to struggle for the rest of her life. She eventually got into drugs and lived on the street for a time and she was actually interviewed on the People Investigates episode of this case. So it's kind of interesting to watch and it kind of gives more of her story and how she dealt with her entire family being killed. Do you recommend, yeah, the episode. It's really interesting, yeah for sure, and I like that. It interviews the people that were there, you know, and they do interview the police, the detectives that worked the case, and they just talked about how hard it was, especially the Bennett family, to investigate that crime scene In all of these cases. So we got Patricia, who passed away, the Hobbinshields that survived, donna, who survived, and then the Bennetts. There were hardly any leads and the police had no suspects and no answers, were hardly any leads and the police had no suspects and no answers. The attacker struck the victims immediately and would use, like I said, low-value threshold weapons like hammers that were readily available, hard to trace, and these cases would eventually go cold.

Jess:

Meanwhile, 11 days later, in Kingman, arizona, roy Williams woke up with a pain in his head. He sat up and saw a figure at the foot of his bed holding a 25-pound rock up over his head. People in Investigates interviewed him and I hate to make light of what happened, but I kind of chuckled at how he said what he said, because Roy was like he said to the attacker oh man, why'd you do that? I didn't do anything to you. I mean, I think, like how he said it, it was just so calm. If it were me, I'd be pissing my pants and screaming my head off. But no, oh man, why'd you do that? I didn't do anything to you.

Jess:

However, this did prompt the attacker to run from the house. Roy called 911 and was taken to the hospital where the gash in his head received 85 stitches. Ouch Police started investigating and they found shoe prints in the dirt and they tried to follow him, but they lost the trail. But the following morning an officer spotted a drifter looking for a ride and the officer stops and talks to the man and he asks to see his shoes and notices that they look just like the ones at the crime scene. The officer asks the man for, and he asks to see his shoes and notices that they look just like the ones at the crime scene. The officer asks the man for his license and the man takes off. The drifter is eventually arrested for the attack on Roy and the man's name is Alex Ewing ewing how do you?

Hannah:

spell that e w I n g oh okay, ewing, you mean he is a big ill?

Jess:

yeah, he is a big ill on february 2nd 1984 he was indicted on one account of attempted first degree murder and first degree burglary for the attack of roy williams. He is eventually housed in a jail in st george utah as the mojave county jail in arizona was George Utah, as the Mojave County Jail in Arizona was overcrowded. However, after six months of being in jail, on August 9, 1984, ewing, along with several inmates, are being transferred to Kingman, arizona, for a court hearing. The two sheriff deputies in charge of the transport stopped at a gas station to let the prisoners use the restroom. Ewing is standing in line waiting to use the bathroom. He's not cuffed or restrained and he bolts get the fuck out. I mean, it's shocking to me that a man who has been charged with attempted first degree murder yeah, there's no nothing keeping him there and ran from the police was not handcuffed or restrained as utah for you.

Jess:

It's fine. You can talk shit on utah, it's fine you're just gonna die for it.

Hannah:

They'll pray for my soul with the baptismal font. I'm sure repent and thou shalt be saved anyway.

Jess:

Ewing evades, capture and this asshole can't even go 24 hours without doing something else I mean at least ted bundy when he escaped.

Hannah:

I don't think he committed any crimes, he just hid in the woods. So yeah, but this is pretty bold.

Jess:

Yeah, so this douche obviously didn't wait that long. At 10 pm that night, two separate people call the police to reporta strange man in their neighborhood knocking on the door, trying to get access to their house. Just after 11 pm, a 24-year-old woman calls 911 to report that she and her husband had been attacked by a man who surprised them in their home after they've gone to bed. Sounds familiar. The intruder, who, big surprise, was Alex Ewing, beat them with an axe handle, leaving the couple with critical injuries before fleeing the house.

Hannah:

So he changed his weapon of choice?

Jess:

Yeah, Based off of the house probably yeah, and because he had been in prison, so he didn't have anything on him Right right, right, true, true, true yeah.

Jess:

Two days later. This is like one of the coolest stories, I think, in my opinion. Two days later, on august 11th, an operator received a request for a collect call for those youngins. Just kidding, the operator had stayed on the line a little longer than normal, apparently because he overheard a conversation between a man and his brother, knowing that there was a manhunt that was going on in the area, and based on what he had overheard, he had contacted police to let them know which pay phone that the caller was at and was thinking it was the person they were looking for.

Hannah:

Someone's using their noggin Right.

Jess:

It was Alex Ewing calling his brother for help. He had been running through the Nevada desert for two days in nothing but shorts and sneakers and was out of options and needed help. He was arrested and charged with two more charges of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of battery with a weapon and two counts of burglary and escape. So it seems like most of these he was trying to steal stuff and incapacitate or murder. Ewing was found guilty on those charges on April 19, 1985, and is sentenced to 110 years for the attack of the Henderson-Nevada couple. So we are in 1985. Ewing is in prison for the rest of his life and at this time the Colorado murders are still unsolved and police have no freaking clue who did it, all the while, unbeknownst to them, that dick is rotting in a Nevada prison.

Jess:

So did they not know or they didn't have evidence. They didn't know they had no idea, and I remember they didn't have evidence. They didn't know they had no idea, and I remember they didn't know they were connected. No, and I'll get to that part, and I talked to my mom about this. I mean, because this was the 80s, I don't think police stations talked, you know yeah, there was that much connectivity and I.

Jess:

I talked to my mom about this this morning and she remembers that after this happened, everyone just being scared and should have had mom call in.

Hannah:

I know she would have loved it. I mean she can call in right now, it's fine, are you sure?

Jess:

Yeah, okay, but she said that everyone was just scared because they didn't know who it was for a very long time.

Jess:

And I guess gun sales went up at that time Understandably so and people would wear helmets to bed because they were worried. But it also kind of makes sense to me, because my dad was always like did you lock the doors, especially the one from the garage into the house? And I'm wondering if this had a little something to do with that. So as time goes on, every couple of years there's some movement in the case. In 1989, police reviewed evidence in the Bennett case and they discovered that the comforter that was under Melissa, as well as the testing, and they finally sent it to a forensic examiner in Richmond, california, in 1990. April of that year, a partial DNA profile is found, but DNA testing is still in its infancy, so they had to wait for technology to catch up. Nine years later, in 1999, cbi investigators find additional DNA on the comforter and carpeting, and that was used with the new technology, but it's still slow. But they finally extract a full DNA profile in March of 2001. Holy shit, yeah, so yay, case solved right? Probably not.

Jess:

Nope, it wasn't until May 17th 2010, that they were able to link DNA from the Bennett family to the Patricia Smith crime scene. Wow, so it had been that long before they I mean the Colorado crimes. I think they were thinking they were connected because of the MO, but they had no idea about Arizonarizona and the nevada ones. So yeah, isn't that crazy? Not linked until 2010. So now a true crime fanatic such as myself would ask well, ewing is already in prison. Why wouldn't there be a match if they put the dna in codice? You would think that, but, however, after that law was passed that all inmates had to provide a DNA sample that had to be entered in CODIS, the prison system was backlogged. It wasn't until July of 2018 that Alex Ewing's DNA was finally uploaded. A week later, his DNA is matched to Patricia Smith's crime scene. Authorities from Colorado head down to Nevada to question Ewing about his involvement. Being the douche canoe that he is, he denies it.

Hannah:

Of course he does. He already has what? 114 years, 110 years.

Jess:

Yeah, but what is awesome about this timing is that Ewing was actually going to be up for parole for his attack. He got parole. Yeah, well, I think it was like 110 years with the possibility of parole.

Hannah:

He should not have had any possibility of parole.

Jess:

I agree, and he actually thought he was getting out, even though he had escaped from police custody and attacked another man in Arizona.

Jess:

He was never getting parole, but I guess a man can dream. They take a new DNA sample from Ewing and it is eventually matched to the Bennett crime scene. He tried to fight extradition to Colorado, but he was denied and finally went on trial for the Bennett murders in 2021 and was found guilty and sentenced to three consecutive life sentences Whoop, whoop. What is also cool about life sentences is it's life with the possibility of parole, but because of them being consecutive, even if he was up for parole, he wouldn't get it because he has two more sentences he has to serve. He's dying in jail, yeah. And then he did go on trial in 2022 for the murder of patricia smith as well, and found guilty. So, needless to say, he will be rotting in prison for the rest of his pathetic life in nevada, colorado colorado and will hopefully burn in hell after that.

Hannah:

There you go. The only time I want there to be a hell.

Jess:

And that, my dear friends and wanderers, is the story of the Colorado Hammer Killer.

Hannah:

Well, Mr Ewing is, yeah, pretty much a douche canoe in my book.

Jess:

Yeah, so there's been recent news as recent as 2022. Isn't that crazy.

Hannah:

That is nuts. Yeah, yeah for crimes that committed in the 80s.

Jess:

It is crazy I have another case that I think I'm gonna do next about an even colder case that was recently solved, as of yesterday, yeah, and my dad went to high school with the person.

Hannah:

I swear there's a lot of stuff around me yeah, we need to get you cleansed, like give us a message, the power of god compels you.

Jess:

Yeah, it's wow interesting stuff.

Hannah:

Well, thank you for bringing that story to our attention and talking about the victims and justice was served.

Jess:

Yeah well, his dick hasn't been cut off yet, so I'm not quite all right, we could probably get someone to do that for us.

Jess:

I'm just kidding we don't know anybody. Pick a card, any card, we've got ace of diamonds. Anthony calucci. The victim was last seen in pittsfield on july 4th 2005 using his mother's green 1997 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck. The truck was located four days later near Shermer Horn Road in October Mountain State Forest in Washington. Wow, that's Wait. Or is that Washington Massachusetts? His body was recovered 13 days later and the victim had been stabbed. Oh, that's sad. Yeah, maybe it was Washington Massachusetts, I don't know.

Hannah:

I didn't know there was Washington Massachusetts.

Jess:

Yes.

Hannah:

Is that near North?

Jess:

Hamhams then. It's kind of by. It's kind of by Pittsfield Okay yeah, South of Pittsfield.

Rob:

It's in the Berkshires. Yeah, so October Mountain State Forest in Washington. The Appalachian Trail actually goes through there and there's a shelter on October Mountain. It's called October Mountain Shelter.

Jess:

I mean, and I've stayed there before.

Jess:

Was it in 2005? No, I'm going to call that number and tell them you were in that area. If you have any information about this case, please call 1-855-MA-SOLVE. Information about this case? Please call 1-855-MA-SOLVE. Also, this reminds me to do our update. My sister-in-law sent me an article about them searching again for one of the victims of Lewis Lent. Yes, so she said that they once a year they do a new search in areas where they think they might have found the bodies or might hopefully find the bodies.

Hannah:

I also thought of you this week just because William Phelps that we both read books on. He has a show from years past called Dark Minds and he actually has two episodes on Israel Keys, really. Yeah, it's on Discovery Plus. If anyone hasn't, I haven't watched them yet, but the show is from like 2015-2016. So it was interesting. So I saw Israel Keys and I thought of you, so I know you did a case on them.

Jess:

Yeah, I did so, thanks.

Hannah:

Wanderers. Thank you, Jess, for doing such a great job as always. Thanks Hannah and thanks Rob.

Rob:

Have a good night.

Jess:

Bye.

Hannah:

Thanks for listening today, wicked Wanderings is hosted by Hannah Fitzpatrick and me, jess.

Jess:

Goonan.

Rob:

And it's produced by Rob Fitzpatrick.

Jess:

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Hannah:

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Jess:

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Jess:

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Hannah:

Keep exploring and always remember to keep on wandering.

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