PODCAST · true crime
Trace of the Devastation
by Scott Thomas Anderson
When the unimaginable happens not once, but twice, in the same isolated ranching community, its dazed people feel a cloud settling over their towns and backroads. After time passes and questions deepen, a newspaper crime reporter returns home to meet up with a homicide detective and a pair of songwriters to make sense of what took place here. He learns that the shadows of the past bleed into crimes of the present.
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Chapter 6: Home to the Killing Quiet
There is always an aftermath. As a community continues to reckon with the toll that dozens of serial murders took on its destiny, two of the killers responsible get a new future, while two different men return home to cold and bitter revelations.
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Chapter 5: Though Taken in Darkness
A new investigation begins in an old place of disaster; and two rivers with no confluence find a connection through tragic memory.
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Chapter 4 The Gravity of Hidden Graves
The truth of what happened in the hills after sundown comes to light. Yet as the next generation of detectives confront the legacy of bloodshed, one part of the enigma remains buried.
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Chapter 3: Hunter's Moon
Not all histories repeat themselves, but they can 'rhyme' in ways more brutal and desolating than anyone could imagine. The fall season of 1985 puts Calaveras County on a course for being more notorious than ever; deciphering how it all happened in the current day proves to be a painful journey.
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Chapter 2: What Only the Owls See
A festival is being held in the woods near the site of an infamous killing ground. Those who can't forget are digging up the past. Can they uncover the truth of the men who changed their community forever? Or come to terms with the hopelessness and personal disintegration that still carries on in their wake?
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Chapter 1: 'The Unicorn Man' & start of Leonard Lake's obsessions
A small corner of California's rural cattle land wins its first unholy lottery - but not its last one. Years later, retracing the history and shape of the original nightmare leads across the north state to a half-hidden commune where people once dreamed of making mythical creatures a reality.
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When the unimaginable happens not once, but twice, in the same isolated ranching community, its dazed people feel a cloud settling over their towns and backroads. After time passes and questions deepen, a newspaper crime reporter returns home to meet up with a homicide detective and a pair of songwriters to make sense of what took place here. He learns that the shadows of the past bleed into crimes of the present.
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Scott Thomas Anderson
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