Rachel Workman owns Ghosts of Davidson, a ghost tour located in Davidson, North Carolina, just a few miles outside of Lake Norman. She’s lived in the area with her husband Chris and their three kids for more than 20 years, and when the opportunity to take over Ghosts of Davidson fell into their laps, they took it. Ghosts of Davidson is a 90-minute stroll through downtown Davidson, a small and charming town that is full of local legends,...
October is the designated month for bringing awareness to Domestic Violence, but it is a topic I believe we should be talking about year round, as it still remains a prevalent issue in our society. I’ve discussed several cases tied to domestic violence in this podcast, including Nancy Cooper, from Episode 18, Missing runners in North Carolina, Patty Jo Pulley from Episode 45, Across State Lines, Maryann and Elaine Boczkowski in Episode 48,...
On April 4, 2015, 28-year-old Ashley Pegram, who was the mother of three small children, went missing after making plans to spend the evening with a man she’d met on a dating app, specifically on one called “Meet Me.” Pegram had been devastated after losing her boyfriend in a car accident a few months earlier, and was lonely and looking for someone to talk to online. She’d begun corresponding with a man named Edward Bonilla a few weeks...
In February of 2008, the roommate of 52-year-old Bonnie Lou Irvine, a Cornelius resident, reported the woman missing. Investigators with the Cornelius Police Department looked at her phone and e-mail records and noticed her last communication was with a man named Bernard Lamp, who was going by the name George Lamp. She’d responded to an ad he’d placed on Craigslist earlier in the month. Irvine had also sent Lamp a link to a different...
On April 30, 1992 Joseph Mannino, a fourth-year medical student at the University of North Carolina living in northwest Raleigh, called 911 to report one of his roommates, 23-year-old Michael Hunter, was deceased in his bedroom. Mannino at first told police that he gave Hunter an injection of Benadryl and Vistaril—both antihistimines—for help with a migraine. But when the medical examiner took a close look at the whole picture, a puzzling...
This week marks National Suicide Prevention Week, which is an annual campaign designed to educate the general public about suicide prevention and the warning signs of suicide. This is a topic that resonates with so many of us. Chances are, you have a close friend or family member who has died by suicide or has had to receive counseling for their mental health. Nathaniel and Irene Witherspoon On January 4, 2024, residents in Franklin, North...
Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Appalachian State University is a four-year-college that also has a satellite campus in Hickory. The school was founded 125 years ago when Dr. B.B. Dougherty, his brother D.D. Dougherty, and D.D.’s wife, Lillie began dreaming of a way to help children in the state participate in educational opportunities in the heart of the mountains. App State began as Watauga Academy, progressed to the...
A listener recently e-mailed me an article link about a cold case out of Catawba County. When I started reading about the unsolved murder of 13-year-old Isis Dee Dee Dawkins, I realized there was a connected story about a series of murders and suspicious deaths that took place during the summer of 1992, and it resulted in one man residing in a bus at a local junkyard being convicted of murder, and another local man being convicted of two...
In the 1980s, an evangelical couple named Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker were literally everywhere, preaching the gospel through their own broadcasting network, living a lavish lifestyle, and building a grandiose Christian-theme park and accompanying on-site hotel in Ft. Mill, South Carolina. It didn’t matter what faith was, there was no way you didn’t know who Jim and Tammy Faye were. Today, we’ll take a look at how they Faye met and were led...
Around 4 a.m. on May 31, 2003, 21-year-old rookie police officer Jeff Postell was making a second run patrolling the area behind the Valley Village shopping center in the town of Murphy, which at the time had under 2,000 residents, when he noticed a man ducking behind some milk crates at the Sav-A-Lot. Postell took a closer look because he thought he had interrupted a burglary in progress. When he noticed the man had a black object in his hand,...
