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True Crime Chronicles

An Arrest in Appalachia | 140

True Crime Chronicles

VAULT Studios

True Crime, News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In June of 2021 WBIR reporters Leslie Ackerson and John North covered a 2014 unsolved murder on their podcast series, Appalachian Unsolved. Earlier this year, they learned about a surprising development. For more on this case, visit https://www.wbir.com/appalachian-unsolved To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is of all studios production.

0:05.0

I'm Reed Redmond.

0:06.0

I'm Will Johnson.

0:07.0

The show contains graphic material and is meant for mature audiences.

0:11.0

This week on True Crime Chronicles.

0:13.0

If you do any investigative work in crime for any amount of time,

0:17.0

it becomes pretty apparent that the circumstances tell a story pretty quickly.

0:22.0

I thought that was kind of interesting that they were really making a plea for that

0:26.0

specifically just any little tiny details.

0:29.0

And some people talk after years have gone by.

0:32.0

I felt like I was the one that was in jail,

0:34.0

because I was having to live this every minute,

0:38.0

every day in the frustration, anger, and just all these emotions.

0:49.0

My name is Leslie Ackerson.

0:51.0

I'm a reporter and an anchor at WBIR Channel 10 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

0:57.0

Leslie Ackerson is also the host of a TV and podcast series called Appalachian Unsolved.

1:02.0

Which focuses on cold cases, missing persons, Jane and John Doe's enaiment.

1:07.0

Her co-host is WBIR Senior Investigative Journalist, John North.

1:11.0

I do a little of everything from investigative stuff to long form stuff.

1:15.0

I mentor, I supervise, I vacuum, I do whatever is needed.

1:20.0

Last summer, Leslie and John decided to look into an unsolved case from 2014.

1:25.0

The murder of a young man named Thomas Thrasher,

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