The Welcome to Grusam, your horrific true crime podcast. I am Meg and my dear friend Conster Energy Drink, Connie, is going to tell us all about

Stephen D Richards Richards. Richards.

Of the way you said that, because it fits the whole vibe.

I took it back this week, like way back to like the 1800s.

We are heading to the wild, wild Midwest, not quite the wild, wild west.

You know I love a historical case though.

I know, I was thinking about you when I was looking through cases. I was like, hmm.

Stephen D. Richards was born on March 18, 1856 in Wheeling, West Virginia.

When Stephen was six, his parents moved to Monroe County, Ohio.

He moved around with his family a couple of times

before they settled in Mount Pleasant, Ohio in Jefferson

County.

Richard didn't attend school regularly growing up, and he didn't attend school after the age of

15, and that was the year that his mom

died after his mom died he spent a couple of years doing you know odds and ends jobs

so like growing up he was never considered a bad kid. He was never considered

antisocial. He had friends. He went to dances. There wasn't any like significant

abuse in his family,

his parents loved him, his dad was a farmer,

so he was gone a lot, he spent a lot of time just with his mom.

He was, you know, pretty, the 1800s,

like a pretty normal kid and I want to for the 1800s and I want to add that some of these

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