Hometown Horrors

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By Sommer Schneller, Samara McCallum, Trento Von Lindenberg, and Natalie Nankervis What does home mean to you? Does it bring back warm memories? A sense of comfort? Or maybe even a wave of nostalgia? What if I told you that your hometown was hiding something? That tucked just underneath the covers… was something terrifying? Gruesome accidents, untold stories, and even… murders. True crime is defined as the examining and retelling of actual crimes with details of the actions of real people. In recent years, this genre has become exceptionally popular. Audiences love to listen to retellings of everything from gruesome murders to strange disappearances. We thought it would be pretty cool to figure out how true crime could tie to the ways we live our everyday lives. How do we talk about it? How do we react to it? What does our interest in it say about us? To answer some of these questions we found some people directly affected by two very different “true crime” experiences. One witnessed a gruesome accident and the other… grew up with the daughter of a serial killer. Stay tuned to hear more. Welcome, to Hometown Horrors. Sunrise Highway is a local hub for traffic and travel near Long Island, New York. We hear how the tragedy of a pedestrian car accident on this highway ripples through the community and how it impacted bystanders. Michaella Sullivan’s mother Almeda Sullivan is not the obvious portrait of a drug dealing murderer. The language used to describe her in the media often stresses her motherly feminine roles and she is described in several articles and news reels as a former teachers aid. Hosted By: Natalie Nankervis, Sommer Schneller, Samara McCallum, and Trento Von Lindenberg Guests: Sydney Mayer and Stephen Hummel Music from https://filmmusic.io "Dark Walk" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io "Oppressive Gloom" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io "Nervous" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io "Awkward Meeting" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Music from https://filmmusic.io "Comfortable Mystery 2" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Royalty free music from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

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