Two suspicious deaths at the Dudgeon Swamp in White Cloud, Michigan resulted in some of the most sensational national headlines of the 1920s. Amid rumors of incest, murder, and buried secrets, the Dudgeon family was persecuted by the town, as well as by the backwoods legal system of Stump Country. But were they really a family of killers? Or simply the victims of small-town gossip gone horribly wrong?
Case: The Dudgeon Swamp Murders
Theme Song: "Crowd Hammer" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Produced By: Ben Goldman
RESOURCES:
Ruin Road: Incest, Murder and Ghosts
John Robinson’s Haunted Michigan: Ghosts, Murder and Insanity at Dudgeon Swamp
The David and Romie Hodell Murders, Lee Keippel
theoctoberproject.com
Looking Back: Meda Hodell (Dave LeMieux, MLive, 8/2/2010)
The Detroit Free Press, Elden Smalls (April 1923)
Wikipedia
findagrave.com
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