After his brother was killed in the first battle of Ramadi, Anthony Dang joined the Marines in hope of getting revenge. But, as he found out for himself in the second battle of Ramadi, there is no satisfaction in killing, only in living.
In this special early-release two-part PLUS Episode, we go back to further examine the strange case of the death of Natalie Bollinger (first covered in S&S Episodes 109 & 110). The bizarre events surrounding this case are just as curious and interesting as the social media madness that followed, with amateur WebSleuths taking to the internet in droves to try and solve a case with little to no information. At the center of it all was a disheveled homeless man by the name of Shawn Shwartz, who Natalie Bollinger had sought a protection order against and who posted dozens of angry rambling videos talking about his uncontrollable panic attacks. After a year of silence, Shawn has reemerged, multiple videos a day attacking the victim, the victim's friends and family, anyone who has ever assisted him, along with the host of this show.
Anchorage, Alaska can be a cold and dark city. In the summer of 2016, it was clear this coming winter would be one of the coldest and darkest winters yet. By June there were 11 murders, putting them on track for one of the deadliest years in decades. In the month of July, 9 more people died and by August the community was worried that a serial killer had made the scenic bike paths and parks their personal hunting ground at night. Dead bodies were piling up but local James Dale Ritchie wasn’t afraid. He was used to the cold and no stranger to the darkness either but even he would find this winter to be particularly dreary.
Eagle Scout Heath Stocks was shaped into the man he is today at the hands of his Scout Troop Leader and mentor Jack Walls III. Jack took a lot of young Boy Scouts under his wing, like Josh Aukes and Jack’s nephew, Wade Knox. Jack was voted Man of the Year by the Lonoke, AR Chamber of Commerce because of his work with young boys. In January of 1997, the murder of Heath’s family sets into motion a series of events that shakes the foundation of the small farming town. They uncover decades of abuse and realize Jack isn’t the man he says he is.
David Grunwald was a stellar student, a respectful teenager, and always punctual. When he didn’t come home one night his parents immediately began to worry, after all, it was November and they lived in Alaska. The community rallied together to assist in the search, and his parents never gave up hope of finding him. But then they discovered the dangers of the Alaskan wilderness in winter didn’t compare to the savagery of people or the stupidity of youth. David fell victim to corrupting influences and the wrong crowd, but then again boys will be boys.
22 year old Brandi Montgomery’s charred body was found in her parents’ burning home on a January morning in 2006. Her husband called 911 claiming to have seen Brandi being attacked by an unknown perpetrator, and the tiny town was in a frenzy, being that this was the first death ruled a homicide since the 1960’s. In many cases, we don’t ever have the luxury of finding out what truly happened, but we do in this story.
In this special early-release two-part PLUS Episode, we go back to further examine the strange case of the death of Natalie Bollinger (first covered in S&S Episodes 109 & 110). The bizarre events surrounding this case are just as curious and interesting as the social media madness that followed, with amateur WebSleuths taking to the internet in droves to try and solve a case with little to no information. At the center of it all was a disheveled homeless man by the name of Shawn Shwartz, who Natalie Bollinger had sought a protection order against and who posted dozens of angry rambling videos talking about his uncontrollable panic attacks. After a year of silence, Shawn has reemerged, multiple videos a day attacking the victim, the victim's friends and family, anyone who has ever assisted him, along with the host of this show.
If you haven't heard the first part of this story, you can find it here...
Episode 109:
http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-109/
Episode 110:
http://swordandscale.com/sword-and-scale-episode-110/
PLUS Episode 46:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/sword-and-scale-26401697
On the evening of March 3rd, 2015, two individuals in their car were stopped by a young man stumbling into the roadway of Magazine Street in Boston. The young man, identified as 17-year-old Luis Rodriguez, was bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound to his head.
When investigators asked Luis who shot him, the only words he could get out were “Rev”. Who was “Rev” and what connection did he have to Luis? What were the events that led to the senseless attack on this teenager? The only Reverend that had any connection to Luis was the well-known Reverend Shaun Harrison, Dean of Academics at Boston’s English High School. Further investigation would show Shaun had another side of his life that only few were aware of…
Throughout the day of October 17th, none of 27-year-old Sasha Samsudean's friends couldn't reach her. Obviously concerned, they phoned 911. When police arrived at Sasha’s apartment, there was no answer to their knocks. Eventually they were able to get inside and found the young woman’s lifeless body, battered and wrapped in a comforter. Bleach had been poured on certain areas of her body and it had been determined through an autopsy that Sasha had been strangled to death.
When 19 year old Stephen McAfee went missing in his home town of McComb, Michigan on March 10, 2016, no one could have predicted that it would take more than a year to get a solid lead on his whereabouts. When a young woman went to investigators claiming to know what happened to Stephen, her accusations were dumbfounding. The truth that McComb County police would begin to uncover was more shocking than anyone could have imagined.